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British director Charles Frend started his film career as an editor, and worked on several Alfred Hitchcock films, including Secret Agent (1936) and Young and Innocent (1937). He later worked for MGM at Elstree Studios, where he edited such films as A Yank at Oxford (1938) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939). He made his directorial debut in 1942 and turned out several low-budget dramas and documentaries. After the war he directed several critically acclaimed dramas, including The Cruel Sea (1953) and Scott of the Antarctic (1948). His final film as director was The Sky-Bike (1967) and the film on which he ended his career was Ryan's Daughter (1970), on which he worked as a second-unit director.- Music Department
- Actor
- Composer
Songwriter ("Some Sunday Morning"), composer and publisher, educated in high school and in private music study. While in high school, he was a vaudeville pianist and accompanist in film theatres, then became a staff pianist for Waterson, Berlin and Snyder. He came to Hollywood in 1929, and wrote theme songs for early film musicals, staying under contract to Warner Brothers for eighteen years. In 1911 he founded his own music publishing firm in New York. Joining ASCAP in 1920, his chief musical collaborators included Ted Koehler, Joe Young, Sam Lewis and Jack Scholl, and his other popular-song compositions include "Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight", "Old Pal Why Don't You Answer Me?", "San Antonio", "Bright Eyes", "Dream Kisses", "Thru the Courtesy of Love", "My Little Buckaroo", "The Old Apple Tree", "You, You Darlin", "Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart", "The Wish That I Wish Tonight", "Would You Believe Me?", "Bombardier Song", "Mary Dear", and "It's Victory Day" (awarded a Treasury Department Silver Medal).- Myles Eason was born on 7 May 1915 in Tatura, Victoria, Australia. He was an actor, known for Saraband (1948), Portrait of a Sinner (1959) and Camera Three (1955). He was married to Kathleen T. Young. He died on 8 January 1977 in Grand Cayman Island, Cayman Islands.
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Earl Leas was born on 20 April 1898 in Illinois, USA. He is known for Face to Face (1952), Guilty of Treason (1950) and This Man Dawson (1959). He died on 8 January 1977 in San Bernardino, California, USA.- Music Department
- Composer
Adolf Fritz Guhl was born on 29 March 1917 in Wittenberge, Germany. He was a composer, known for Chingachgook, die grosse Schlange (1967), Lissy (1957) and Zwischenfall in Benderath (1956). He died on 8 January 1977.