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Ann, born Dorothy Gatley, spent most of her childhood as an "army brat" constantly moving around before the family finally settled in New York. Ann first appeared on the stage while she spent a year attending Bryn Mawr College. She became a clerk and freelance script reader with a film company before she made her stage debut in Greenwich Village. From there she went to Broadway, and when pictures needed actors who could walk and talk, she went to Hollywood. She was signed by Pathe and made her debut, with Fredric March in Paris Bound (1929). She became a leading lady, and the roles that she played were always the same, but her co-stars changed. She was the gentle, refined heroine as in The Animal Kingdom (1932), wherein she played Daisy, the rejected fiancée of Leslie Howard. By 1933, her popularity started to decline as she appeared in a parade of tearjerkers as someone always ready to sacrifice herself for the good of others. She quit films in 1937 when she married conductor Werner Janssen, but she could not stay away. She came back five years later in Eyes in the Night (1942). Her roles after that were mature character roles for the next five years. Another break, another three films, and then in 1956 she appeared once again with Fredric March, the man with whom she started her career in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956). She continued to appear sporadically on TV in the 1960s and died at age 79 in 1981.- Writer
- Art Department
- Production Designer
After graduating from high school, Speer studied architecture in Karlsruhe, Munich and later in Berlin. Speer then became assistant to Heinrich Tessenow in Berlin. There he also had his first contacts with National Socialist groups. In 1931 he joined the NSDAP. Speer successfully translated National Socialist ideas into an architectural aesthetic, which enabled him to quickly make a career within the party. Supported by his personal and close friendship with Adolf Hitler, Speer became the most popular and successful architect in the Reich from 1933 onward. Speer's early work included the parade ground in Nuremberg, where the NSDAP held its party conference from 1934 onward.
Furthermore, numerous monumental buildings were built on behalf of the Reich in the style of National Socialist ideology. Speer also proved to be a great organizer in organizing major events and mass rallies. For example, he was the responsible leader of the "Light Dome" at the party conference in 1934. In Speer, Hitler found a friend who was able to build and inspire him like no other. Therefore, in October 1934 he appointed him "The Führer's Architect" and in 1937 "General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital Berlin" (Germania). Between 1938 and 1939 Speer built the new Reich Chancellery in Berlin. This was already integrated into the planned "North-South Project", which consisted of the Reich Chancellery, the Great Hall and the "Führerpalais". In this context, Speer was directly responsible for the "de-rentalization" of Berlin's Jewish population and their transport to concentration camps.
After the start of the Second World War, Speer was appointed "Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition" and "Inspector General for Fortifications, Roads, Water and Energy". In 1943 Speer was appointed Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production. In this role he was responsible for the exploitation and destruction of thousands of forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners, with whose help he sought to achieve the war and armament goals. However, shortly before Hitler's suicide in March 1945, Speer refused to allow the Führer to carry out the order to destroy the entire German infrastructure ("Operation: Scorched Earth"). After the end of the Second World War, Speer managed to largely erase the traces of his guilt.
Speer was able to convince the public that he knew nothing about the extermination of the Jews. Speer was arrested in 1946, but then sentenced by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg to only 20 years in prison, which he served in the war crimes prison in Berlin-Spandau. After his release from prison in 1966, Speer continued to construct the legend of his guiltlessness on a literary and film level. He was unintentionally supported by the historian Joachim Fest, who made a biographical documentary film with Speer in 1969. On the publisher's side, Speer received involuntary support in the construction of his embellished life story from Wolf Jobst Siedler, who published his books: "Memories" were published in 1969 and "The Slave State - My Confrontation with the SS" in 1981.
Albert Speer died on September 1, 1981 in London. It was only after his death that a younger generation of historians managed to reveal Speer's true involvement with the Holocaust.
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a multi-part biographical film adaptation of Albert Speer's life was broadcast on ARD in May 2005. The director Heinrich Breloer was able to document that, contrary to his protestations, Hitler's architect did know about "Auschwitz".- Actor
- Additional Crew
Lucian Tiger was born on 8 January 1917 in Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor. He died on 1 September 1981 in Bristow, Oklahoma, USA.- Will Stampe was born on 7 October 1920 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Reluctant Bandit (1965), Softly Softly (1966) and Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971). He was married to Julie May. He died on 1 September 1981 in Rickmansworth, Herts, England, UK.
- Writer
- Director
- Additional Crew
Antonio Petrucci was born on 1 January 1907 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Parma città d'oro (1956), Il matrimonio (1954) and Cortile (1955). He died on 1 September 1981 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Art Director
- Art Department
Walter McKeegan was born on 15 July 1904 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He was an art director, known for Petticoat Junction (1963), Bearcats! (1971) and Wicked, Wicked (1973). He died on 1 September 1981 in Coronado, California, USA.- Larry McDonald was born on 1 April 1935 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He died on 1 September 1981 in Sea of Japan.
- Martha Lasso Rentería was an actress, known for Grave Robbers (1966) and The Diabolical Axe (1965). She died on 1 September 1981 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
- Jacques Sablon was born on 18 May 1920 in Nogent-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France. He was an actor, known for Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966), Les mystères de Paris (1962) and If All the Guys in the World... (1956). He died on 1 September 1981 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Editor
- Editorial Department
Nevenka Crnobori was born on 2 April 1920 in Banjole kod Pule, Istria, Italy [now Croatia]. She was an editor, known for The Girl and the Oak (1955), Sasa (1962) and Koncert (1954). She died on 1 September 1981 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia.- Antoni Jaholkowski was born on 1 July 1931 in Radom, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Guests Are Coming (1962), Akropolis (1969) and Apocalypsis cum figuris (1979). He died on 1 September 1981 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland.