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Lillian Diana Gish was born on October 14, 1893, in Springfield, Ohio. Her father, James Lee Gish, was an alcoholic who caroused, was rarely at home, and left the family to, more or less, fend for themselves. To help make ends meet, Lillian, her sister Dorothy Gish, and their mother, Mary Gish, a.k.a. Mary Robinson McConnell, tried their hand at acting in local productions. Lillian was six years old when she first appeared in front of an audience. For the next 13 years, she and Dorothy appeared before stage audiences with great success. Had she not made her way into films, Lillian quite possibly could have been one of the great stage actresses of all time; however, she found her way onto the big screen when, in 1912, she met famed director D.W. Griffith. Impressed with what he saw, he immediately cast her in her first film, An Unseen Enemy (1912), followed by The One She Loved (1912) and My Baby (1912). She would make 12 films for Griffith in 1912. With 25 films in the next two years, Lillian's exposure to the public was so great that she fast became one of the top stars in the industry, right alongside Mary Pickford, "America's Sweetheart".
In 1915, Lillian starred as Elsie Stoneman in Griffith's most ambitious project to date, The Birth of a Nation (1915). She was not making the large number of films that she had been in the beginning because she was successful and popular enough to be able to pick and choose the right films to appear in. The following year, she appeared in another Griffith classic, Intolerance (1916). By the early 1920s, her career was on its way down. As with anything else, be it sports or politics, new faces appeared on the scene to replace the "old", and Lillian was no different. In fact, she did not appear at all on the screen in 1922, 1925 or 1929. However, 1926 was her busiest year of the decade with roles in La Bohème (1926) and The Scarlet Letter (1926). As the decade wound to a close, "talkies" were replacing silent films. However, Lillian was not idle during her time away from the screen. She appeared in stage productions, to the acclaim of the public and critics alike. In 1933, she filmed His Double Life (1933), but did not make another film for nine years.
When she returned in 1943, she appeared in two big-budget pictures, Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) and Top Man (1943). Although these roles did not bring her the attention she had had in her early career, Lillian still proved she could hold her own with the best of them. She earned an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role of Laura Belle McCanles in Duel in the Sun (1946), but lost to Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge (1946).
One of the most critically acclaimed roles of her career came in the thriller The Night of the Hunter (1955), also notable as the only film directed by actor Charles Laughton. In 1969, she published her autobiography, "The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me". In 1987, she made what was to be her last motion picture, The Whales of August (1987), a box-office success that exposed her to a new generation of fans. Her 75-year career is almost unbeatable in any field, let alone the film industry. On February 27, 1993, at age 99, Lillian Gish died peacefully in her sleep at her Manhattan apartment in New York City. She never married.- Composer, author, producer and director who wrote all the songs for Jimmy Durante since 1949, including Jimmy's closing theme "Goodnight, Goodnight, Goodnight". Jack was educated at New York University. He wrote, produced and directed the Las Vegas nightclub shows "Newcomers of 1928" and "Playgirls", and wrote special material for television and nightclub comedians. He also produced several Warner Brothers record albums. Joining ASCAP in 1950, his chief musical collaborator was 'Sammy Fain'. His popular-song compositions also include "I Love You, I Do"; "A Real Piano Player"; "Mustapha"; "Look Ahead, Little Girl"; and "In The Other Fellow's Yard".
- Born in Bruxelles, as Marica Pop, of a Romanian father and a Spanish mother. Working in 1965 as a translator in Bucharest, Romania, meet and marry Romanian actor Radu Beligan. Both parents were killed in a car crush in 1966. Mother of actress Lamia Beligan. Died of cancer in Bucharest in 1993.
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Dennis Castle was born on 16 August 1914 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Kaleidoscope (1946), Life at Stake (1957) and Sing Along with Me (1952). He was married to Marie E. Goodliff. He died on 27 February 1993 in Brinsworth House, Twickenham, England, UK.- Editor
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Ray DeVally was born on 7 April 1914 in Belgium. Ray was an editor and assistant director, known for Official Detective (1957), Laramie (1959) and Markham (1959). Ray died on 27 February 1993 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.- Jose Duvall was born on 23 December 1919 in Cuba. He was an actor, known for Badge 373 (1973) and Coronet Blue (1967). He died on 27 February 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Edith Arundel was born on 12 June 1901 in Fulham, London, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Green Fingers (1947). She died on 27 February 1993 in Islington, London, England, UK.
- Margeris Zarins was born on 24 May 1910 in Jaunpiebalga, Wenden uyezd, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire [now Jaunpiebalga Municipality, Latvia]. He was a composer, known for Naves ena (1971), Pie bagatas kundzes (1969) and Nauris (1958). He was married to Jolanta Dzene. He died on 27 February 1993 in Riga, Latvia.