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Somewhat forgotten nowadays, Georges Milton was a tremendously popular light singer and actor for three decades. Born in the Parisian suburbs in 1886, Milton's breezy attitude and cheeky, parigot accent was adored by the average French people firstly because he was like them and secondly because he reflected a highly positive image of them, always resourceful and always in a good mood. This small chubby man with a big head nicknamed Bouboule ("Fatty") by his friend Maurice Chevalier (who helped boost his career), was a regular elixir of optimism, helping Mr. Everyman to put up with the difficulties of life. Laughter, sometimes a little vulgar but always good-natured, was his (winning) trademark. His songs could be outright silly ("Pouêt Pouêt", "Totor, t'as tort", "Emilienne") or a little subtler ("C'est pour mon papa"), but they were always irresistibly catchy. Also an operetta star ("Le Comte Obligado", "L'Auberge du Cheval blanc"), Georges Milton started a very successful movie career, most often playing Bouboule, the joyous Nobody who gets out of any situation by laughing... and free riding. A series of films which, as Jean Tulard in his "Dictionnaire des Acteurs" puts it, do not cause any metaphysical anguish nor break new ground in the art of filming. It should however be noted, which Tulard also mentions, that Abel Gance ("Napoléon") hired him to play the role of a fraud in "Jérôme Perreau", an ambitious reconstruction of the uprising in Paris against Mazarin. Georges Milton worked until the late forties. By the age of sixty he decided it was time to retire. He made an exception for Jean-Christophe Averty, the famous TV director, for whom he appeared in his show "Mi figue mi raisin" in 1963. He died in 1970, in a country still named France but which retained little in common with the France of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s that he entertained with such verve.- Actress
Considered in her day to be one of the screen's great beauties, Vola Vale was born born Violet Smith in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Rochester. As a youngster she appeared in amateur stage productions in Rochester, and at age 15 made her film debut under her real name (she didn't use Vola Vale until 1916). Under contract to Biograph, she appeared in a wide variety of films. She left that studio in 1916 and joined Universal Pictures, where she appeared in a long series of comedy and dramatic shorts before making her feature debut in 1917. She worked not only for Universal but for many independent companies, and made several films with veteran western star William S. Hart. Her popularity soared in the 1917-1918 period as she turned out a slew of films for many different studios. In 1918 she married director Albert Russell, who specialized in westerns, and began making westerns herself. After she and Russell divorced, she abandoned westerns and began turning out "society" dramas. Her popularity began to decline in 1923, and she began appearing in more and more undistinguished, low-budget independent fodder for the states-rights market. She met director John Gorman in 1926 while appearing in one of his films and they were married later that year. She retired from the screen in 1927. She and Gorman divorced, and she later married Lawrence McDougal, and that lasted until he died in 1970. Several months later, in October of 1970, she herself died of heart disease and diabetes.- Pierre Laporte was born on 27 February 1921 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was married to Françoise Laporte. He died on 17 October 1970 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- Waclawa Szczuka-Wawa was born on 28 September 1910. She was an actress, known for Zimowy zmierzch (1957) and Papa sie zeni (1936). She died on 17 October 1970.