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William Roberts was born on 18 December 1921 in Yolo County, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Woman-Wise (1937), The Yanks Are Coming (1942) and Lady in the Lake (1946). He was married to Betty Jaynes. He died on 9 April 1997 in Waldport, Oregon, USA.- Growing up during the depression in Philadelphia, she was in a family that lived for the theater - her father was a shirt salesman who took the family to plays every week. All she ever wanted to do was to be a playwright. She could only afford a year of college, but all her life continued to learn as an avid reader. She left Philadelphia for New York, and through the 1940s wrote over 20 plays, none ever produced. She supported herself precariously by writing television scripts and children's books. And she read - one wall of her studio apartment was filled with books, almost all from the London antiquarian bookshop Marks & Co. It was that bookshop and her connection with it that brought her fame. She started a correspondence with the shop, and in particular with Frank Doel, the shop's chief buyer. This correspondence, carried on for 20 years from 1949 to 1969, was published in 1970, and was the basis for a British play, then Broadway, and the movie 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) with Anne Bancroft, as Helene and Anthony Hopkins as Frank Doel. Twenty years of hand-to-mouth writing, with an overflowing ashtray and a near-by gin bottle - repeated pleas from Marks & Co. and Frank to visit them in London could only be realised after the success of the book. By then it was too late - the bookshop was boarded up and Frank was dead of peritonitis. There is a brass plaque on the site of the former shop, in memorial to a remarkable correspondence between two remarkable people.
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Mae Boren Axton was born on 14 September 1914 in Bardwell, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for True Romance (1993), Cast Away (2000) and The Client (1994). She was married to John T. Axton. She died on 9 April 1997 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.- Actor
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Eugene L. Eubank was born on 2 December 1892 in Mangum, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Bombardier (1943). He died on 9 April 1997 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.- Cinematographer
Matthew Bowers was born on 16 September 1969 in England, UK. Matthew was a cinematographer, known for Raw Spice (2001). Matthew died on 9 April 1997 in England, UK.- Soundtrack
One doesn't usually associate a mandolin with a blues musician, but that's what Yank Rachell played, and he played it with such legendary blues artists as John Estes (aka Sleepy John Estes) and Hambone Willie Newbern.
James "Yank" Rachell was born in 1910 in Brownsville, TX, and learned to play the mandolin as a child. As a youngster he played at events such as fish fries and house parties in the Brownsville area, where he began to accompany Newbern, and in the 1920s he met Estes and began a friendship that lasted until Estes' death in 1977. He left the music business full-time to tend to his farm in Brownsville shortly after the Depression hit in 1929, but didn't completely give up music, playing occasionally in the Brownsville area, and in 1930 he made some records with several blues legends, such as Sonny Boy Williamson and Elijah Jones.
In 1958 he and his wife moved to Indianapolis, IN, and he put his music career on hold. After his wife died in 1961 be re-entered the business, hooking up with Estes again to play not only in blues clubs but also in coffee houses, at colleges and in both blues and folk festivals. He played on several of Estes' records and even made a few of his own. When Estes died in 1977 he all but retired from the music industry, although he did play at the 1993 Chicago Blues Festival.- Josef Bambach was born on 3 June 1906 in Maitland, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for The Cheaters (1930) and Haunted Barn (1931). He died on 9 April 1997 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Jank Rachell was born on 16 March 1910 in Brownsville, Tennessee, USA. He died on 9 April 1997 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
- Johnny Hicks was born on 19 May 1918 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Jump (1971) and Free, White and 21 (1963). He died on 9 April 1997 in Carmel, California, USA.
- Stevo Teodosievski was born on 16 April 1924 in Kocani, Macedonia, Yugoslavia. He was a composer, known for Zapej Makedonijo (1968). He was married to Esma Redzepova. He died on 9 April 1997 in Skopje, Macedonia.
- Galina Kalinovskaya was born on 13 April 1917 in Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russia [now Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Yegor Bulychyov i drugiye (1969), Moya sudba (1974) and Den za dnyom (1972). She died on 9 April 1997 in Moscow, Russia.