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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
Fred H. Dresch was born on 8 September 1950. He was an assistant director and director, known for Glory (1989), My Samurai (1992) and The Hungry Bachelors Club (1999). He died on 18 June 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Jean-Jacques Vierne was born on 31 January 1921 in Courbevoie, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France], France. He was a director and assistant director, known for Rififi (1955), No Time for Ecstasy (1961) and A nous deux, Paris! (1966). He died on 18 June 2003 in France.- Director
- Producer
Anne Belle was born on 10 June 1935 in Santiago, Chile. She was a director and producer, known for Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse (1996), Dancing for Mr. B: Six Balanchine Ballerinas (1989) and Reflections of a Dancer: Alexandra Danilova (1980). She was married to John Belle. She died on 18 June 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Additional Crew
- Music Department
Native of Kansas, Phillip Moore during his high school years participated with his parents, two brothers and sister in the Chautauqua circuit as "The Musical Moore's", traveling as far west as California, and states west of the Mississippi River. In 1924, Phil entered Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas but decided that music was the life for him, got a job in Oklahoma City at the Huckins Hotel on Broadway playing in a band which lasted four years which included a trip with some buddies and band members, Goof Moyer and Babe Hildeman on sax and flute to California, earning money playing the saxophone in speakeasies during the prohibition. Moore taught music at Kansas Chetopa and at Hill City High Schools, before relocating to Colorado teaching at Limon High School for several years. This is where he started his first marching band under his direction, amazing everyone by winning first place in the state wide band competition. Then it was back to Kansas to teach music at Saint Francis High where his choral group won high honors. Wanting to get back to band work, he took a position teaching music at Walsenburg, Colorado.
By 1942 he decided to move the family to California to fulfill his dream of living there, becoming part owner of the Moore Livingston Music Stores in Huntington Park and Downey. Huntington Park was a huge store with several teaching studios, famous for its extensive sheet music selection.
Phil also started the unique and famous Huntington Park Youth Band, which played in the Pasadena Rose Bowl Parade, intermission at Rams football games, opening day at Disneyland, returning regularly. Several trips north to Banff and the Calgary, Canada Stampede celebration where they performed before the Queen of England, and traveling as far as Washington D.C. performing at the Worlds Fair and Yankee Stadium. Their fame came not only from their excellent playing, but mainly from the unique idea of having his band do dance steps as they played to such tunes as "Jada", "Darktown Strutter's Ball", and "The Irish Washer Woman". The band members also played in The Ambassadors Dance Band and German Band playing polka music. Phil invented an ingenious visual teaching device device with revolving arrows that move up and down on a musical staff, which greatly aided his band members and other students to learn rhythm. This led his students to refer to him later as the down up man.- Larry Doby, the 7-time All-Star and 2-time American League home run leader, became the first African American to play in the A.L. when he made his debut on July 5, 1947. Doby's first appearance occurred less than three months after Jackie Robinson had become the first African American major leaguer in the 20th Century when he debuted with the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, breaking the ban on black players dating back to 1889. Doby's first season lasted but 29 games, but when he returned to the Big Leagues in 1948, it was for good and for real: batting 301 with 14 home runs and 66 runs batted in, the rookie's 83 runs scored helped the Cleveland Indians win the American League pennant and the 1948 World Series against the Boston Braves after they beat the Boston Red Sox in a one-game playoff at the end of the regular season.
Doby played in an era when the Yankees won the American League pennant every year, and the World Series almost as often, giving rise to the 1954 book by Douglas Wallop "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant", which required none other than a Washington Senators fan selling his soul to the devil. (The book was the basis of the smash-hit musical "Damn Yankees (1958)", which was not then an epithet used solely by Southerners but by all baseball fans who weren't American League affiliated New Yorkers.) Between 1947 and 1964, only teams that Doby played on (Cleveland Indians, 1948 & '54) and the Chicago White Sox (1959) beat the hated Yankees for the A.L. pennant. (Unfortunately, Doby -- then at the end of his career -- did not appear with the ChiSox in the '59 World Series, a loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, having been released in June).
In 1954, the year Doby's Indians once again won the American League pennant, Doby hit .272 and tied his career best with 32 dingers while driving in 126 and scoring 94 runs, leading the A.L. in home runs and R.B.I. Inevitably, it seems, Doby lost the M.V.P. award to the Yankees' Yogi Berra, who had already won the award in 1951 and who would win it again the following year.
During his Major League career, Larry Doby batted in 100 runs five times. He also played in the Negro Leagues before being signed by the Indians, and was twice an All-Star for the Newark Eagles, which must be considered a team between Triple-A minor league ball and the major leagues, just as the Pacific Coast League was before expansion.
In 1943, Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck, the son of a former Chicago Cubs executive, had made an attempt to buy the floundering Philadelphia Phillies. It was Veeck's idea to stock the team with Negro League All-Stars such as 'Leroy 'Satchel' Paige' and disputed baseball home run king 'Josh Gibson' ("The Black Babe Ruth", who might have hit as many as 84 dingers in a season, but Negro League records are spotty) in order to take the place of departed white major leaguers, doing time in the military service. However, that plan was vetoed by Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis and by owners who made more money from the income derived from renting their stadia to Negro League teams, who frequently outdrew the white Major League clubs. When Veeck finally got his hands on a team, he did integrate it, first with Doby and then by realizing his dream of bringing up Satchel Paige to the Indians in 1948, the oldest rookie ever to play in the Bigs.
Most of the credit for integrating Major League Baseball has accrued to Jackie Robinson, as he was the first in 1947, played a full season, won Rookie of the Year honors and a Most Valuable Player award two years later on a team that while he was on it, nearly rivaled the Yankees in terms of its dominance of its league. However, Larry Doby's accomplishment in integrating the American League was not forgotten, and he justly was enshrined in the Hall of Fame in 1998. - Additional Crew
- Writer
Robin Riordan was born on 15 April 1965 in San Diego, California, USA. Robin was a writer, known for The Wonder Years (1988), Kim Possible (2002) and Sibs (1991). Robin died on 18 June 2003.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Marcella Pobbe was born on 13 July 1921 in Montegalda, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. She was an actress, known for Omnibus (1952), Joan of Arc at the Stake (1954) and Francesca da Rimini (1959). She died on 18 June 2003 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Eira Soriola was born on 27 November 1935 in Helsinki, Finland. She was an actress, known for Verinen lyhty (1964), Auringon lapset (1978) and Tartuffe (1976). She was married to Harri Tirkkonen. She died on 18 June 2003 in Helsinki, Finland.- Emmett Groover was born on 28 March 1931 in Lake Worth, Florida, USA. He was an actor, known for Navigators of the Space (1993). He died on 18 June 2003 in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Vladimir Chernyshyov was born on 16 June 1927 in Koktebel, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. He was a composer, known for Moscow: Cassiopea (1974), Perestupi porog (1970) and Kometa (1984). He was married to Yuliana Bugaeva. He died on 18 June 2003 in Moscow, Russia.