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Ann Sheridan won the "Search for Beauty" contest which carried with it a Paramount screen test. Signed to a contract at 18, she was put into a number of small roles under her real name of Clara Lou Sheridan. As she got better, her name was changed to Ann. In 1936, after two dozen films, she went to Warner Brothers, which billed her as the "Oomph Girl," a name she despised -- although she certainly looked the part. She was allowed to mature into a leading star who could be the girl next door or the tough-as-nails dame. She was in a lot of comedies and a number of forgettable movies, but the public liked her, and her career flourished. She also gave great performances such as the singer in Torrid Zone (1940) and the waitress in They Drive by Night (1940). In 1948, she was dropped by Warner Bros., but came back in Howard Hawks' comedy I Was a Male War Bride (1949) with Cary Grant. She continued to make films into the 1950s but retired before the end of the decade. She starred in the soap opera Another World (1964) and the western series Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1966). Unfortunately, just as her career was reviving with this series, she died of cancer.- Actor
- Director
- Cinematographer
Francisco Jambrina was born on 3 December 1902 in La Rioja, Spain. He was an actor and director, known for The Young and the Damned (1950), Abismos de amor (1961) and The Great Madcap (1949). He was married to Consuelo Jiménez and Margot Erbeya. He died on 21 January 1967 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Michael Paryla was born in 1935 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor, known for Hamlet (1960), Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte (1959) and Die Schatten werden länger (1961). He died on 21 January 1967 in Hamburg, West Germany.
- Writer
- Producer
Martin Mooney came into the film business in 1935 as a screenwriter after years of working in New York City as a playwright, newspaper reporter, columnist and press agent. In 1943 he joined PRC Pictures, where, in addition to screenwriting, he was in charge of advertising and publicity. Mooney's background in the rough-and-tumble New York City newspaper world was the impetus for PRC's specializing in the gritty urban crime dramas it was known for. The film for which Mooney will probably be best remembered is Edgar G. Ulmer's "film noir" masterpiece, Detour (1945).- Liza Chapman appeared on television and the stage, served as a lieutenant in the Women's Army Corps from 1948 to 1952 and was reported to be the youngest commissioned officer in the corps at the time.
A veteran of television melodrama, Miss Chapman was known to daytime viewers for her portrayal of Janet Mathews on NBC's "Another World." She also appeared in two episodes of CBS's "The Secret Storm" in a minor role as Barbara Bradford.
Her husband, pianist and conductor Andrew Heath, served as chairman of the music department at Fairfield University. Both studied at Yale University from 1953 to 1955, when he was working on a master's degree in music and she was taking courses in the drama school.
Mrs. Heath, a student of Eva Le Gallienne at the White Barn in Westport in 1957, conducted story-telling hours at the Hans Christian Anderson statue in New York's Central Park early in her acting career. Her brilliance in story telling led to an invitation by the Baroness Alma Dahlerup of the Danish Arts Council for her to conduct story telling hours in New York.
She appeared in the New York production of "Lysistrata" and off Broadway in "Paris Impromptu" and a revival of "Anna Christie." A graduate of Yale Drama School, she portrayed Regina in the world premiere of Miss Le Gallienne's translation of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts," which was produced by Lucille Lortel at the White Barn theater. Mrs. Heath also appeared many times on the same stage with her husband, doing narratives as he played the piano. She occasionally accompanied her husband on European concert tours.
A drama student from New Haven, the then Liza Chapman first met her future husband when he gave a concert at Quinnipiac College. He was a Harvard undergraduate at the time. They continued their friendship in the summers of 1947 and 1948 at Tanglewood, Mass., where Mr. Heath was a student at the music center and Miss Chapman was director of a summer stock theatrical group. Following several years at Harvard and abroad, Mr. Heath entered the Army in 1951. He and Miss Chapman were reunited in New York where she was serving as a lieutenant in the WACs. They were married in New Haven. After release from military service, the couple spent several years studying at Yale and then settled in Westport, Connecticut.
Liza Chapman Heath was buried with military honors in Arlington National Cemetery following services in Connecticut in 1967. Andrew Heath died on February 15, 2005 in New Haven, Connecticut and is buried alongside his wife at Arlington. The couple had three sons, Dana, Duncan and David, and a daughter, Honor. - Sound Department
Oliver S. Garretson was born on 10 June 1900 in New York City, New York, USA. Oliver S. is known for To Have and Have Not (1944), Mildred Pierce (1945) and Dial M for Murder (1954). Oliver S. died on 21 January 1967 in Laguna Hills, California, USA.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Animation Department
Ivan Belyakov was born on 26 June 1897 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a cinematographer, known for Boyevoy kinosbornik 5 (1941), Klyatva molodykh (1944) and The Sixth Part of the World (1926). He died on 21 January 1967 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].