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Actress, singer, comedienne and dancer. Gladys Blake left home at age 14 to join a stock company in Reading, Pennsylvania, and after two years she had developed her own vaudeville act, Gresham and Blake, with Lee Gresham. Coming to California, they were booked into the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles where she was spotted by film agent Edward Small. Her first small film roles were mostly for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Director Richard Thorpe personally offered Gladys her small role in "The Earl of Chicago" in which only her legs were seen.- Kenneth Clark was born on 13 July 1903 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Civilisation (1969), Carved in Ivory (1976) and The Lively Arts (1969). He was married to Nolwen de Janzé and Elizabeth Macgregor Martin. He died on 21 May 1983 in Hythe, Kent, England, UK.
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Boris Pavlovich Stepantsev is Soviet animator, artist, illustrator of books and filmstrips. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1972). Artistic director of the Multitefilm studio of the Ekran creative association (1980-1983). Member of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in the section "Artistic Animation".
Boris Stepantsev was born and raised in Moscow. Even before the war, he became addicted to cartoons, which he watched in the cinema on Strastnoy Boulevard, and decided to connect his life with comedy animation. In 1946 he graduated from the Moscow Art School and courses of animators at the Soyuzmultfilm movie studio. During his studies, he watched many trophy films, including Disney cartoons, which had a great influence on him. From 1947 to 1949 he worked as a cartoon artist. After five years of service as a sailor in the Navy of the USSR, he returned to the studio, and in parallel entered the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. In 1954 he made his debut as a director, staging one of the first post-war puppet cartoons, The Villain with a Sticky Label (1954). Then he became interested in hand-drawn cinema. From 1956 to 1962 he shot a number of comedy tapes together with director Evgeniy Raykovskiy and production designer Anatoliy Savchenko, his regular partner not only in most films, but also filmstrips and book illustrations. Stepantsev liked the genre of a modern fairy tale, in which, in particular, Petia and Little Red Riding Hood (1958) was performed, awarded the Laurel Wreath at the VII International Festival of Animated Films in Annecy (France). In 1960, Stepantsev and Raykovskiy staged Murzilka on the Satellite (1960), the first widescreen cartoon in the USSR. For this film, they received the 1st prize at the 12th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In the period from 1965 to 1970 Stepantsev shot three of his most famous works: Vovka in a Far Far Away Kingdom (1965) (another modern fairy tale), Junior and Karlson (1968) and Karlson Returns (1970). From 1966 to 1973, he directed a number of dramatic cartoons based on Russian classical music. From 1980 until the end of his life, Stepantsev was the art director of the Multitefilm studio of the Ekran creative association. There he also shot his latest project, the full-length animated-game film Assol (1982) based on the story Scarlet Sails.- Actress
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Marcia Moreto was born on 18 July 1946 in Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Lamento (1977), Tam Tam (1976) and Puntos suspensivos o Esperando a los bárbaros (1971). She died on 21 May 1983 in Paris, France.- Actress
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American circus star Margaret Nearing was 4 when she sang for the troops in WWI. At 7, she and her sister Rose (9), without benefit of poles or umbrella's, were the youngest and only "song and dance" tight wire act in the world. The Davies Sisters grew up on the road, working circuses, rodeos, theaters and State Fair's across the country and in Hawai'i. While in San Francisco in 1930, and now known as the Nearing Sisters, they had their own show on radio KFWI, sang and danced tap and soft shoe at the Casino Theater, and appeared on opening night at the new Fox Theater. In 1933, the beautiful, blue eyed, curly haired, platinum blonde soprano started working the major movie studios where she was known as "The little lady with the big voice". In 1935, she sang in the first coast to coast radio broadcast (San Francisco to New York). In 1936, she moved to Hawai'i and married famed hula dancer, legislator and Real Estate Broker Kenneth Olds (a descendant of the royal houses of Tahiti and Hawai'i). They have four children, Nalani-Alua Napoleon, Kenneth Olds Jr., Francine McLaughlin and Mauliola Aspelund. Nearing spent the rest of her life in Lanikai on the Island of O'ahu where in 1961 she co-founded the "Mortgage Players" which she directed, choreographed, and costumed until 1983 when she died of throat and lung cancer at the age of 70.- Eric Hoffer was born on 25 July 1902 in New York City, New York, USA. He died on 21 May 1983 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Chi Chou was an actor, known for The Story of a Discharged Prisoner (1967), Xuan wo (1978) and Hei mei gui (1965). He died on 21 May 1983 in Hong Kong, China.
- Whitney North Seymour was born on 4 January 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was married to Lola Vickers. He died on 21 May 1983 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Marie Schlei was born on 26 November 1919 in Reetz, Kreis Arnswalde, Germany. She was married to Willi Schlei and Alfred. She died on 21 May 1983 in Berlin, Germany.