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Ms. Blaine is most noted for having portrayed Miss Adelaide, the long-suffering, perpetually engaged chorus girl, in the Broadway and film versions of Guys and Dolls (1955). She originated the role in 1950 on Broadway and stopped the show each night with her rendition of "Adelaide's Lament," in which she complains about having a bad cold because of her long engagement to gambler Nathan Detroit. Ms. Blaine also originated roles on Broadway in "Say Darling" and "Enter Laughing." She also starred on Broadway in "Hatful of Rain," "Company," and, briefly, in "Zorba." She starred in many national tours, including "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Don't Drink the Water," "Hello Dolly," and "Gypsy." Before going to Broadway, Ms. Blaine was a starlet at 20th Century-Fox, appearing in many musical comedy films, including Jitterbugs (1943), Greenwich Village (1944), and State Fair (1945). In the mid 1950s, Ms. Blaine reprised her role as Adelaide in the film version of Guys and Dolls (1955) with Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando. After her Broadway appearance in "Company" in 1972, she appeared on national television at the 25th Tony anniversary special. This led to a revival of her TV career, and she continued to appear in guest roles on TV and in independent films and theater until her retirement in 1984.- Actor
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Benny Lee was born on 11 August 1916 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Are You Being Served? (1972), Night of the Prowler (1962) and Mahler (1974). He died on 9 December 1995 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK.- Writer
- Actress
Ms. Bambara was an accomplished African-American short story writer, scriptwriter, and documentary filmmaker. In 1970 she put together an anthology of African-American women's writing in "The Black Woman, a Collection of Essays". She also wrote the novel "The Salt Eaters" and collaborated on the documentary films 'The Bombing of Osage Avenue' and 'WEB DuBois-A Biography in Four Voices'. At the time of her death, she was working on a manuscript for a book on murdered children in Atlanta and had just finished a new collection of short stories.- Actor
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Douglas Corrigan became internationally famous when in 1938 he set out for a flight in his second-hand plane from New York to California and instead wound up in Ireland, earning himself the nickname he would carry for the rest of his life: "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
Flying in a 1929 Curtiss Robin monoplane, on July 17, 1938 he loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (enough for 40 hours) into the tiny, single-engine plane. He had announced he was heading west to Long Beach, but when he took off from Floyd Bennett Field, the plane's nose was heading east. He was previously denied permission to fly the Atlantic by the Department of Commerce because of the condition of his plane. Nearly 29 hours later he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He returned to the US a hero and the ticker-tape parade for him in New York was larger than Charles A. Lindbergh's. He even starred in a movie about his flight (The Flying Irishman (1939). A shy, private man, Corrigan became a test pilot for Douglass Aircraft during World War II. He later grew oranges in Santa Monica, CA, where he had lived since 1951.- Actor
- Writer
Bonvi was born on 31 March 1941 in Modena, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Sturmtruppen (1976), Sturmtruppen 2 (tutti al fronte) (1982) and Come rubammo la bomba atomica (1967). He died on 9 December 1995 in Bologna, Italy.