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As a successful director working both inside and outside the Hollywood studio system, Joan Micklin Silver was a true lamplighter. Garnering a steady stream of awards and box office successes, she proved herself time and again as one of the most important woman directors to come out of the United States, and demonstrated that films about Jewish topics can succeed with both Jews and non-Jews alike.
Based in New York, where she lived for many decades, Joan Micklin was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1935. She was the daughter of Maurice David and Doris (Shoshone) Micklin, Russian Jewish immigrants who came separately to the United States before the upheavals of the Russian Revolution. Her father later founded the Micklin Lumber Company. Her deep love for the movies was first nurtured during her earliest days in pre-television Omaha, where she attended the local cinema religiously. She attended Temple Israel Synagogue and graduated from Central High School in 1952 and often wrote sketches for school plays.
Fresh after graduating Sarah Lawrence College in 1956, she married Raphael D. Silver, son of the famous Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland. The Silvers lived in Cleveland from 1956 to 1967 and raised three daughters there: Dina (born 1958), Marisa (born 1960), and Claudia (born 1963). While in Cleveland, Silver taught music and wrote plays, two of which were performed at local Cleveland theaters. In 1967, the Silvers moved to New York, where she worked briefly for the Village Voice and was then hired to adapt Lois Gould's 1970 novel Such Good Friends for legendary director Otto Preminger (she was replaced by a long line of others that included Joan Didion and Elaine May). Her first original screenplay, Limbo, about the wives of prisoners of war in Vietnam, was purchased by Universal Pictures and made into a film directed by Mark Robson. When Silver clashed with the director over her vision for the film, she was fired and replaced by James Bridges, though she received story and co-scripting credit in the final film.
The Learning Corporation of America then commissioned her to write and direct a series of short films, among them The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey (1972), which went on to win several awards. When her success as a screenwriter and director of short films failed to score her a break in directing feature films, and when a studio executive actually told her that "women directors were another problem the studios didn't need," Silver's husband agreed to raise the money for her debut feature and serve as its producer. The film became Hester Street (1975), adapted by Silver from the 1890s novella Yekl by Abraham Cahan, the founder of the Jewish Daily Forward. Turned down by every major studio as an "ethnic oddity" with a limited audience appeal, Hester Street was independently distributed by the Silvers, with the guidance of John Cassavetes. Joan and Ray formed the production and distribution company Midwest Films, through which the film was seen worldwide and admired by Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. Hester Street became one of the earliest independent films to be nominated for Academy Awards, securing a Best Actress nod for lead Carol Kane. The following year, she adapted F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice Bobs Her Hair (starring Shelley Duvall, Bud Cort and Veronica Cartwright) as part of a series of median-length features taken from classic American short stories.
Despite the critical and surprise commercial success of Hester Street, major studios still would not back Silver's next film. Her second feature, Between the Lines (1977), about a group of people who work for an alternative newspaper in Boston, was once again produced by her husband. That comedy feature an ensemble cast of now-famous faces, including Jeff Goldblum, John Heard and Stephen Collins. Her third feature, Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979), based on the novel by Ann Beattie, marked Silver's first experience working with a major Hollywood studio, namely United Artists. Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne selected the film for inclusion in a special festival recognizing pictures that were "woefully overlooked and under-appreciated," then later programmed the film for his "night of favorites" on TCM in 2007. In November 2014, Chilly Scenes of Winter played to a sold-out crowd at New York City's IFC Center.
After years of directing stage productions, including the well-received A...My Name is Alice (1983), she returned to features in 1985 with the comedy-drama Finnegan Begin Again, starring Robert Preston, Mary Tyler Moore and Sam Waterston. The first effort produced by the fledgling HBO Premiere Films, the film won the Silver Leopard's Eye at the Locarno Film Festival. Her next film with a Jewish subject, the beloved Crossing Delancey, a hit romantic comedy about an assimilated Jewish Manhattanite (played by Amy Irving) and her Lower East Side pickle-salesman suitor (played by Peter Riegert), was produced for Warner Brothers and released in 1988. Her other theatrical releases include Loverboy (1989) for Tri-Star and Stepkids (a.k.a. Big Girls Don't Cry...They Get Even) (1992) for New Line.
Silver's other theater works include A...My Name Is Still Alice (1992), Album (1980), and Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong (1982). She has directed several films for television, among them Parole Board (1990), A Private Matter (1992), Invisible Child (1999) and Hunger Point (2003). In 2002, she directed independent film acting legend Gena Rowlands in Charms for the Easy Life (2002) for Showtime.
In 1995, Silver proved her versatility when she directed a series for National Public Radio called Great Jewish Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond, which was co-produced by the National Yiddish Book Center. In 1983, she also directed Wallace Shawn and Hermione Gingold in How to Be a Perfect Person in Just 3 Days.
Joan Micklin Silver died at her Manhattan home on December 31, 2020. She was 85.- Actor
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- Director
The son of orchestra conductor André Hossein, Paris-born Robert Hossein was trained at René Simon's acting school. Hossein labored away as actor/director with the legendary Theatre Grand Guignol in Montmartre, then spent several years on the "legitimate" stage. In films from 1955's Rififi (Rififi (1955)), he has been generally cast as jaded villains. Making his movie directorial debut with The Wicked Go to Hell (1955) The Wicked Go to Hell (1955)), Hossein went on to call the shots on such Film Noir fare as Toi... le venin (1958) and J'ai tué Raspoutine (1967). In the 1960s, Robert Hossein appeared regularly as Jeoffrey de Peyrac in the soft-core Angélique films. He also worked as director.
As he was one of the most prominent leading men in French cinema, he was the screen partner of leading ladies like Brigitte Bardot, Michèle Mercier, Marina Vlady, Stéphane Audran, Claude Jade or the Italian beauty Sophia Loren, and more recently with Audrey Tautou in Venus Beauty Institute (1999).- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Sherrie Wills was born on 6 March 1967 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Heathers (1988), The Exorcist III (1990) and If Things Were Different (1980). She died on 31 December 2020 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Gary Howard Klar was born on 24 March 1947 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Day of the Dead (1985), Big (1988) and Hackers (1995). He died on 31 December 2020.
- Actor
- Stunts
- Transportation Department
Versatile and underrated B-movie Renaissance man John "Bud" Cardos was born in 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri. His family has interesting roots in the entertainment industry: his cousin Spyros Skouras worked at Twentieth Century-Fox and his father and uncle managed the lavish Graumann's Egyptian and Chinese theaters. Cardos began his lengthy and extensive show business career as a child actor in Hal Roach's 1940s "Our Gang" comedies. He was a rodeo rider in his teen years, and worked as an animal wrangler and bird handler on Alfred Hitchcock's outstanding killer animal classic The Birds (1963). Cardos achieved his greatest cult popularity acting in several entertainingly trashy exploitation features for legendary Grade-Z schlockmeister Al Adamson: he's especially memorable as Mohawk-sporting Native American biker Firewater in the splendidly sleazy Satan's Sadists (1969) and as crazed half-breed Joe Lightfoot in the gritty (and often incoherent) western Five Bloody Graves (1969). He got into stunt work, and among the films Cardos performed stunts in are Nightmare in Wax (1969), the trippy hippie gem Psych-Out (1968), The Savage Seven (1968), The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971), and Jud (1971). Cardos tackled second unit director chores for Sam Peckinpah's magnificent landmark western The Wild Bunch (1969). He was a production manager on many movies; they include the creepy Dead of Night (1974), Killers Three (1968), The Rebel Rousers (1970), Lash of Lust (1972), Hell's Bloody Devils (1970), and Deadwood '76 (1965).
Cardos made his directorial debut with the blaxploitation item The Red, White, and Black (1970). His other directorial efforts include the superior revolt-of-nature horror winner Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), the not-half-bad sci-fi/horror opus The Dark (1979), and the nifty zombie flick Forbidden World (1982). Outside of his substantial film work, Cardos also did Western art. He died at age 91 on December 31, 2020 in Acton, California.- Actor
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Jeremy Burnham was an English actor-writer. Born in Yorkshire and educated at Stowe School, he went on to train at the Old Vic Theatre School in London. He appeared in many West End plays, including 'Hippo Dancing' by Robert Morley, E. M Forser's 'A Passage to India' and the anonymously published 'The Rehearsal'. He was the only person to have both appeared in and written for the cult TV series The Avengers (1961). He also wrote for many other British TV series, including When the Boat Comes In (1976), Minder (1979) and Inspector Morse (1987). He is perhaps best known as the co-author of 'Children of the Stones', another cult TV series in the nineteen-seventies. A sequel, 'Return to the Stones' was published in 2013. Jeremy Burnham died on 31 December 2020.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Taran Kootenhayoo was born on 18 September 1993 in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor and director, known for Bella Ciao! (2018), D.I.Y (2019) and Outside (2014). He died on 31 December 2020 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.- Narsing Yadav was born in 1968 in India. He was an actor, known for Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Aithe (2003) and Daud: Fun on the Run (1997). He was married to Chitra Yadav. He died on 31 December 2020 in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
- Dick Thornburgh was born on 16 July 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Virginia Walton Judson and Virginia Kendall Hooton. He died on 31 December 2020 in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Jean Louis was an actor, known for Ramon the Mexican (1966), C'era una volta questo pazzo, pazzo, pazzo West (1973) and Buckaroo: The Winchester Does Not Forgive (1967). He died on 31 December 2020.- Tommy Docherty was born on 24 April 1928 in Gorbals, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Gift (1991), Making Out (1989) and The Play on One (1988). He was married to Mary Brown and Agnes Docherty. He died on 31 December 2020 in England, UK.
- Actor
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Dusan Jovanovic was born on 1 October 1939 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor and writer, known for The Liberation of Skopje (2016), Odpadnik (1988) and The Lion Is Coming (1972). He was married to Milena Zupancic and Vido Zei. He died on 31 December 2020 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.- Maxine Cheshire was born on 5 April 1930 in Harlan, Kentucky, USA. She was married to Jasper Warren and Herbert Cheshire. She died on 31 December 2020 in McAllen, Texas, USA.
- Olivier Royant was born on 16 July 1962 in Rostrenen, Côtes-d'Armor, France. He was married to Delphine Royant. He died on 31 December 2020 in France.
- Daniel Clavero was born on 23 February 1929 in Catalonia, Spain. He was an actor, known for Estefanía (1979), Bodas de papel (1979) and Sangre azul (1979). He was married to Karla Luzbel. He died on 31 December 2020 in Coro, Falcón, Venezuela.
- Karl-Maria Steffens was born on 8 December 1928 in Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He was an actor, known for Police Call 110 (1971), Rita von Falkenhain (1989) and Leichensache Zernik (1972). He died on 31 December 2020 in Bad Münstereifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Szczepan Szczykno was a director and actor, known for Teatr Polskiego Radia (2004) and Szalency (2007). He died on 31 December 2020.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ronald Florance was born on 22 July 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an assistant director, known for The Honeymoon Machine (1961) and Naked City (1958). He was married to Elaine Sheldrake. He died on 31 December 2020 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA.- Tom Lankford was born on 20 September 1935 in Piedmont, Alabama, USA. He was married to Sherry Dean Murray and Chalermporn "Tan" Changseang. He died on 31 December 2020 in Gadsden, Alabama, USA.
- Additional Crew
Charles Pye was born on 18 August 1952 in New York City, New York, USA. Charles is known for Independent Lens (1999). Charles died on 31 December 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.- Actress
- Producer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
A wholesome beauty with comedic appeal, Dawn Elberta Wells was born on October 18, 1938 in Reno, Nevada. Wells' childhood was a happy and healthy one. She and her mother grew their own fruits and vegetables in their gardens and Dawn rode horses. In her high school years, she was the class treasurer, President of the debate team and an honor roll student. Dawn was on her way to becoming a ballerina, but bad knees prevented her from realizing the dream. She was Miss Nevada in 1959 and went on to the 1960 Miss America Pageant. Dawn had wanted to be a doctor, and enrolled in the elite Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri to study medicine, but then she discovered the Drama Club. She then transferred to the University of Washington, which was known for their Theatre Department, and she graduated with a Degree in Theatre.
Dawn moved to Hollywood and was cast as Mary Ann Summers on CBS's Gilligan's Island (1964). The rest is history. However, there was much more to Dawn than her simple Mary Ann character. Wells refused to be an unemployed actor after the show ended and was never out of work since the show decades ago. She performed in over 66 theatrical productions, including the National Touring Company of "They're Playing Our Song!" She did countless voice-overs, commercials and talk shows. She worked for the Australian news show "Midday" and interviewed such talents as Julia Roberts, Eddie Murphy and Tom Hanks, to name a few. Dawn has also had great success as a producer and has a number of television movies to her credit. After years of touring and performing in dramas, comedies, and musical theatre, Dawn slowed down a little. In 1998, she founded the Dawn Wells' Film Actors Boot Camp in Driggs, Idaho. The camp is for the already trained actor looking to make the transition from the amateur to the professional actor.
Wells managed the camp for many years. She has been in a popular commercial for Western Union, capitalizing on her character Mary Ann Summers. In 2003, Dawn did tours of the plays "Love Letters" with Adam West and Eve Ensler's Award Winning "The Vagina Monologues." In early 2004, Dawn established and founded The Spud Film Institute in Idaho and Wyoming, and held the first ever Spud Drive in Film and Music Festival in the summer of 2004. She was also the artistic director of the festival. If that is not enough, Ms. Wells also had her own clothing line for the physically challenged called "Wishing Wells Collections" and she recently launched her own skin care line, Classic Beauty. Dawn Wells continued to contribute to the business she loved so much and constantly gave back to the acting community. She mentored young actors and traveled to colleges all across the United States to teach Master Classes. She served as Artist in Residence at several Universities. Dawn was in constant demand for personal appearances and speaking engagements, yet never forgot to give back to the Artistic community. She will surely be remembered for all her good work. Wells passed away on December 30, 2020 at age 82. You can get information about all of Dawn's organizations at her website, dawn-wells.com.- Casting Director
- Producer
- Casting Department
Mike Fenton was born on 29 January 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a casting director and producer, known for Aliens (1986), Back to the Future (1985) and Blade Runner (1982). He was married to Janet Monfort and Irene. He died on 30 December 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Margitta Scherr was born on 15 August 1943 in Chemnitz, Germany. She was an actress, known for Our Man in Jamaica (1965), Holiday in St. Tropez (1964) and Die Post geht ab (1962). She was married to Karl-Heinz Vogelmann. She died on 30 December 2020 in Munich, Germany.
- Peter Craze was born on 27 August 1946 in Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Doctor Who (1963), Nana (1968) and The Bill (1984). He was married to Illona Linthwaite. He died on 30 December 2020.
- Actress
- Music Department
Farah Maria was born on 7 December 1944 in Havana, Cuba. She was an actress, known for Ciplak (2006), Verde verde (2012) and Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight (2018). She died on 30 December 2020 in Havana, Cuba.- Lois Sasson was born on 28 April 1940 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was a producer, known for You Don't Own Me: Lesley Gore and the Song That Said It All and Bella! (2023). She died on 30 December 2020 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Martha Navarro was born on 27 December 1937 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She was an actress, known for The Passion of Berenice (1976), Esmeralda Comes by Night (1997) and Rosa de dos aromas (1989). She died on 30 December 2020.
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Eugene Wright was born on 29 May 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Pretty Woman (1990), Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate (1967) and Närvarande (2003). He was married to Phyllis Lycett Wright and Jacquueline Waters. He died on 30 December 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Animation Department
- Art Department
Brenda Banks was born on 19 July 1948 in the USA. She is known for The Lord of the Rings (1978), Wizards (1977) and Fire and Ice (1983). She died on 30 December 2020 in Burbank, California, USA.- Simeon Holloway was born on 15 December 1920 in Gary, Indiana. He was an actor, known for Trouble Man (1972), Hill Street Blues (1981) and Skag (1980). He died on 30 December 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- Aldo Andretti was born on 28 February 1940 in Montona, Italy. He died on 30 December 2020 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
- Allen Fife was born on 5 September 1935 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Pajama Party (1964), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966). He died on 30 December 2020 in Pahrump, Nevada, USA.
- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Additional Crew
Mark Talbot-Butler was born on 2 April 1965 in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, UK. He was an editor, known for Cloverfield (2008), Exam (2009) and The Runner (1992). He died on 30 December 2020 in Reading, England, UK.- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
Alto Reed was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Santorini Blue (2013), Super Sucker (2002) and Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001). He was married to Monica. He died on 30 December 2020 in the USA.- Samuel Little was born on 7 June 1940 in Reynolds, Georgia, USA. He died on 30 December 2020 in Lancaster, California, USA.
- Walther Troger was born on 4 February 1929 in Wunsiedel, Bavaria, Germany. He was married to Almut. He died on 30 December 2020 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
- Nikolai Penkov was born on 26 August 1934 in Buzuluk, Srednevolzhskiy krai, RSFSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Zhenitba (1978), Ostavit sled (1983) and Bolshoy kapkan, ili solo dlya koshki pri polnoy lune (1992). He died on 30 December 2020.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Bobby Tamayo was born on 20 November 1963 in the Philippines. He was an actor, known for ANi (2019), Heneral Luna (2015) and A Thief, a Kid & a Killer (2014). He died on 30 December 2020 in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan, Philippines.- Endre Frankó was born on 2 September 1923 in Eger, Hungary. He died on 30 December 2020 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Sándor Sólyom-Nagy was born on 21 December 1941 in Siklós, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1984), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1999) and Bánk bán (2002). He died on 30 December 2020 in Budapest, Hungary.- Frank Kimbrough was born on 2 November 1956 in Roxboro, North Carolina, USA. He was married to Maryanne de Prophetis. He died on 30 December 2020 in Long Island City, Queens, New York City, New York, USA.
- Actress
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Jessica Campbell was born on 30 October 1982 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Election (1999), In the Best Interest of the Children (1992) and Junk (2002). She was married to Daniel Papkin. She died on 29 December 2020 in Portland, Oregon, USA.- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Director
Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quinones was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He moved to the west coast (Los Angeles) in the early 70s. He's one of the forefathers of hip-hop dancing, "The Original Lockers" and was an Original Soul Train Gang member in the 70s and early 80s. The Lockers are famously known for pioneering "Locking." Shabba-Doo also starred in the 80s classic dance films "Breakin', and Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo, and the 1990 film Lambada. He's an award-winning musical theater choreographer, and director. He's choreographed for Lionel Richie, Madonna, Luther Vandross, and Jamie Kennedy's MTV show, "Blowin' Up" to name a few. He also served as the associate choreographer and lead dancer for the 78th Annual Academy Awards, performing with first time Oscar winners, "Three Six Mafia" and Taraji P. Henson for their performance of, "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp."
The ever-evolving Shabba-Doo has set his sights on new horizons. He has several projects in development including a theatrical feature dance film, Battle for the Streets, a reality-dance competition television series, and "Planet Dance," a reality series focused on global dance. Shabba-Doo's recent choreography projects include the Yari Film Group production "Kickin' It Old Skool," starring Jamie Kennedy, now on DVD, and headlining two instructional dance films and two accompanying music videos for On Q Media Group. He currently serves as a member of the Artifacts, Exhibits and Preservation Committee for the Hip Hop Hall of Fame set to open in the Bronx in 2020. Shabba-Doo is writing his autobiography, The King of Crenshaw: Rise of Shabba-Doo the Dance Forefather of Hip Hop which will look at the history of Hip Hop through the lens of his career.- Director
- Actor
Hatem Ali was born on 2 June 1962 in Golan Heights. He was a director and actor, known for The Long Night (2009), Salah Al-deen Al-Ayyobi (2001) and Saqr Qoraish (2002). He was married to Dala' Al Rahabi. He died on 29 December 2020 in Cairo, Egypt.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Leonidas Zegarra was born in the Northern Peruvian highland. His family moved to the coast, to the city known as Trujillo, when he was a child, with his parents and several older siblings. He was an excellent student who was bullied by his classmates. He used to go to the movies with his mother, and this is the way he fell in love with the medium. Encouraged by his grandmother and mother, he studied how to make cartoons when he was 9-year-old. At 12, his grandmother gave him a film camera as a gift. His family moved again, this time to Lima, the Peruvian capital, because his brothers wanted to study engineering. For a brief time he studied engineering too, but very soon he realized that his true passion was filmmaking, an impossible dream in Peru in the 1960's. Anyway, at the time, a university located in Lima opened a 3-year program devoted to directing for film and television. His father didn't approved his vocation at all, disagreed with him, and stated that he wouldn't support such a project from a financial perspective . Due to the fact that one of his brothers shared the ownership of a socks factory with his father in Lima, Leonidas Zegarra had his studies financed because this brother understood what the desires of his heart really were. Before following studies in the university, Leonidas Zegarra had already made several shorts and a couple of feature films. These movies were made for an organization devoted to the practice of philosophical doctrines. Because he was considered too young to take the title of "film director," the leaders of the organization attributed to themselves the making of the movies. Finishing his studies in the Universidad de Lima at the end of the year 1970, Leonidas Zegarra had already made a short that he would transform into a full length feature film that would become his first one, officially. "De nuevo a la vida" ('Alive again') was released in 1973. Due to the extreme influence of the political left, mainly of Marxist tendency, Peru was experiencing social convulsions since decades before. New exhibition rules, new taxes, and plain censorship disrupted the destiny of what was being a box-office hit. The Marxists in the area of film criticism as well as in other cultural areas decided that movies like the one made by Leonidas Zegarra would not be tolerated. After several decades, the same "intellectuals" continued their sabotage, writing all kind of nonsense about his films. Since 2010, scholars and artists who belong to a new generation have developed homages and curatorial activities intended to preserve Mr. Zegarra's artwork. His movies are being analyzed from theoretical perspectives different than the Marxist one, showing how they express a lively Weltanschauung. Also, a Leonidas Zegarra Museum (in Spanish "Casa Museo Leonidas Zegarra") is under development.- Josefina Echánove was born on 21 July 1928 in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Beyond the Limit (1983), Rubí (2004) and High Risk (1981). She was married to Alonso Echánove Aznar. She died on 29 December 2020 in Guanajuato, Mexico.
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
- Costume Designer
- Producer
Pierre Cardin was born on July 7, 1922, near Venice, Italy, to the parents of French origin. His father was a wine maker and was preparing his son to take over the family trade. Young Cardin was fond of ballet and theatre, he was dreaming of an acting career, and was also fascinated with the beauty of costumes and stage designs. In 1936, at the age of 14, he started as a tailor's assistant. In 1945 Cardin moved to Paris, France. There he studied architecture and worked with Paquin, then with Schiaparelli.
In 1945 Cardin met Jean Cocteau and Christian Berard with whom he made numerous costumes and masks for several films, such as 'Beauty and the Beast' (1946). In 1947 he began to work for 'Christian Dior'. In 1950 Cardin created his own fashion house on Rue Richepanse in Paris. He presented his first collection in 1953, and a year later his "bubble dresses" triumphed throughout the world. At that time Cardin opened his first boutiques in Paris: EVE, then ADAM. In 1957 he made his first trip to Japan and taught there, becoming the first couturier to turn to Japan as a high fashion market. Since 1962 the Pierre Cardin Prize has been awarded to the world's best designer of the year. Also that year Cardin started distribution of Men's Ready-to-Wear, following with the same for women in 1963. From 1989-1994 a retrospective covering 40 years of Cardin's designs was presented in London, Montreal, Mexico, and Kyoto. In 1991 Cardin presented a fashion show in Moscow before a crowd of 200,000. In 1997 a retrospective exhibit of 50 years of Cardin opened in Paris, then moved to Tokyo and Florence. Some of his designs were influenced by the art of his friends, such as Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso among others.
Pierre Cardin has been a French fashion industry icon since his earliest collections of the 50's and 60's. He became known for his bold, "cosmic", futuristic designs. He was among the first to create a designer line that promoted environmental issues, called "Environmental art." An astute international businessman, Cardin has never borrowed from a bank. He auto-financed everything and reinvested his profits in property. Pierre Cardin's name is on hundreds of products, including men's wear, perfumes, watches, floor tiles, furniture, and others. His business empire extends to more than one hundred countries and indirectly provides employment to almost 200,000 people in hundreds of factories. Cardin's products are consumed by 150 million people across the world and make his business empire about 12 billion dollars in annual sales. Cardin holds over 500 patents in design, architecture, advertisement, and entertainment. He collaborated with director Mark Zakharov and ballerina Maya Plisetskaya in stage and film productions in Moscow, Russia. In 1998 Cardin created the "Chekhov's women" collection in commemoration of the Centennial anniversary of the Moscow Art Theatre.
Cardin's legendary personal modesty has been complementing his graceful generosity. He was appointed UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 1991. He continuously supported World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention programs of UNESCO. Mr. Cardin has initiated numerous humanitarian projects such as campaign for the benefit of victims of Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He designed the CHERNOBYL medal and jewelery for the benefit of UNESCO. He is a global traveler with a mission to spread the message of brotherhood and unity across the world. In 1995, the Year of Tolerance, Cardin created six flags that were raised over the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
Pierre Cardin is internationally regarded as a visionary and leader in art, business, and public diplomacy. He received three "De d'Or" by Cartier for French Haut Couture, in 1977, 1979, and 1982. Mr. Cardin is the elected member of Institut de France and Officer of the Legion of Honor. He is the owner of Maxim's and Espace Cardin Gallery on Champs-Elysees in Paris. He is living in Paris, France.- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Claude Bolling was born on 10 April 1930 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France. He was a composer and actor, known for The Holiday (2006), Joker (2019) and He Died with His Eyes Open (1985). He was married to Irène Dervize-Sadyker. He died on 29 December 2020 in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Phyllis McGuire was born on 14 February 1931 in Middletown, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The White River Kid (1999), Come Blow Your Horn (1963) and Rosenthal and Jones (1975). She was married to Cornelius (Neal) Anthony Burke Van Ells. She died on 29 December 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.- Brendan McKane was an actor, known for Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), MASK (1985) and Hard Time on Planet Earth (1989). He was married to Sharon Noble. He died on 29 December 2020 in Santa Monica, California, USA.