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Effective light comedian of '30s and '40s films and '50s and '60s TV series, Robert Cummings was renowned for his eternally youthful looks (which he attributed to a strict vitamin and health-food diet). He was educated at Carnegie Tech and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Deciding that Broadway producers would be more interested in an upper-crust Englishman than a kid from Joplin, Missouri, Cummings passed himself off as Blade Stanhope Conway, British actor. The ploy was successful. Cummings decided that if it worked on Broadway, it would work in Hollywood, so he journeyed west and assumed the identity of a rich Texan named Bruce Hutchens. The plan worked once more, and he began securing small parts in films. He soon reverted to his real name and became a popular leading man in light comedies, usually playing well-meaning, pleasant but somewhat bumbling young men. He achieved much more success, however, in his own television series in the '50s, The Bob Cummings Show (1955) and My Living Doll (1964).- Music Department
- Composer
- Writer
Aaron Copland is an Academy Award-winning composer (The Heiress (1949)), author, conductor, lecturer and educator. He was educated at public schools and was a music student of his sister and later Leopold Wolfson, Victor Wittgenstein, Clarence Adler, Rubin Goldmark and Nadia Boulanger. In 1925, he received the first Guggenheim fellowship awarded to a composer. He was a lecturer for ten years at the New School for Social Research, a guest lecturer at Harvard University between 1935 and 1944, and Dean of the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood from 1946. With Roger Sessions, he organized the Copland-Sessions concert series for young American composers, and he founded the American Festival of Contemporary Music, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York. He was a conductor in the United States and abroad. As a guest conductor for the Boston Symphony, he toured with Charles Münch throughout the Far East in 1960. His memberships included the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal, and the US Medal of Freedom.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Paul Hoffmann was born on 25 March 1902 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Fanny Elssler (1937), Hedda Gabler (1963) and Die Entlassung (1942). He died on 2 December 1990 in Vienna, Austria.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Production Manager
- Art Department
Fred R. Simpson was born on 2 November 1913. He was an assistant director and production manager, known for Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Cleopatra (1963) and Earthquake (1974). He died on 2 December 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Richard Benner was born in 1943 in Sterling, Illinois, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Monsters (1988), Happy Birthday, Gemini (1980) and Outrageous! (1977). He died on 2 December 1990 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Descended from French naval officers, Simone Melchior married Jacques-Yves Cousteau in Paris on 12 July 1937. She was an integral part of the many expeditions of film-making and oceanography that made Cousteau famous. She spent years living about Calypso, the converted WWII minesweeper that Cousteau outfitted as an oceanographic vessel. Her two sons, Jean-Michel Cousteau (b. 1938) and Philippe Cousteau (b. 1940 d. 1979) were also active in film-making and marine exploration and conservation.- Composer
- Soundtrack
Georges Alloo was born on 29 May 1930 in Avignon, Vaucluse, France. He was a composer, known for Les canailles (1960). He died on 2 December 1990 in Lagny-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France.- Director
- Writer
Georg Wildhagen was born on 15 September 1920 in Hanover, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for The Marriage of Figaro (1949), Die Dubarry (1951) and The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950). He died on 2 December 1990 in Mattsee, Salzburg, Austria.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Giorgi Chelidze was born on 24 October 1922. He was a cinematographer, known for Maia Tskneteli (1959), The Right Hand of the Grand Master (1969) and The First Swallow (1975). He died on 2 December 1990.