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Her parents, Mr. & Mrs. C. N. Ford, managed the Tennessee Hotel in Clarksville, Tennessee, in 1943. At that time, she reported to the local newspaper in Clarksville that she had a daughter named Shelley, age 2. Also, Orson Welles is her godfather. Prior to her Hollywood experience, she was in Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre plays before he left for the coast and was playing summer stock when noticed by a Hollywood playwright. He set Columbia Pictures on her trail to sign her up and since that time she has been with them and Warner Brothers. She posed for Harpers' Magazine and for the Paris and London issues of "Vogue" and "Harpers"; also appeared in "Town and Country" and "Mademoiselle." She even appeared in the local newspaper, "The Leaf-Chronicle" showing her modeling a pair of black stockings. She said that "(her) Mother and Daddy noticed it by chance and the next day it was on the front page."- Actor
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Les Paul was born on 9 June 1915 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Speed Racer (2008), Casino (1995) and Carol (2015). He was married to Mary Ford and Virginia Webb. He died on 12 August 2009 in White Plains, New York, USA.- Actor
- Director
Shingo Yamashiro was born on 10 November 1938 in Kyoto, Japan. He was an actor and director, known for 13 Assassins (1963), She Cat (1983) and Gemini Woman (1984). He was married to Hiromi Hanazono. He died on 12 August 2009 in Machida, Tokyo, Japan.- Producer
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Clive Parsons was born on 15 April 1942 in Woking, Surrey, England, UK. He was a producer, known for The Giblet Boys (2005), Half Light (2006) and Scum (1979). He was married to Margaret Parsons. He died on 12 August 2009 in London, England, UK.- Stephen MacDonald was born on 5 May 1933 in Birmingham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sapphire & Steel (1979), Witch Wood (1964) and Angels (1975). He died on 12 August 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Gladys Gillem was born on 6 January 1920 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She died on 12 August 2009 in Pensacola, Florida, USA.
- Rashied Ali was born on 1 July 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Jazz Is Our Religion (1972), Rising Tones Cross (1985) and Off the Road (2001). He was married to Patricia Bea Wyatt. He died on 12 August 2009 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Mantee Murphy was born in Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005), Talk to Me (2007) and Puck Hogs (2009). He died on 12 August 2009 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- New London-Rabbi Isidore Greengrass, 96, most recently of Tampa Florida, but a long time resident of Park Street, New London died on Wednesday, August 12, 2009, at Melech Hospice House in Tampa, Florida.
Born in Lomza, Poland, on December 12, 1912, he was the son of the late Moshe Greengrass. His mother, Rachel Greengrass, died when he was a toddler. He received his rabbinical education in Ostrow, Kletsk, and Lomza, Poland. He married his first wife, Sara Libie in Lomza and had a daughter Rachel. His wife and daughter were killed upon their arrival at the concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Rabbi Greengrass was enslaved for two years. He managed to survive the concentration camps and death marches at the end of the war. He was instrumental in saving his cousin Mark Lichtenstein, who he met in the camps. He was a major leader in organizing the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in Regensburg, Germany, shortly after his liberation by the American Third Army. He met his second wife, Frieda, while residing in Regensburg, awaiting visas to either the United State or what was then Palestine.
Upon arrival in the United States, Rabbi Greengrass resided in New York prior to serving congregation in Troy, New York, and Hazelton, Pennsylvania. He then served a congregation in Norwich, Connecticut, for three years, prior to moving to New London where he served Congregation Beth El for over fifty years. Towards the end of his life, he wintered in Aventura, Florida, while spending the rest of the year in New London. He was instrumental in maintaining Temple Israel on Park Street in New London. His life story and details of his years in the Holocaust are chronicled in his book, Judaism Is Indestructible.
Surviving are sons, Martin Greengrass and wife Judy of Lutz, FL., and Roy Greengrass, and wife, June Hardy, of Byron, CA. He has two grandchildren, Rabbi Rachel Greengrass and her husband, John Crary, of Miami, Florida, and Sara Greengrass, who is with the American Consulate in Jerusalem, Israel. He was predeceased by his loving wife, Frieda Greengrass