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23 Aug, 6 tweets, 5 min read
#BOTD 1912 – 1996 #GeneKelly, Aged 83, US dancer, actor, singer, choreographer, director.

The original Pal Joey before beginning his spectacular film career. His film debut with #JudyGarland For Me and My Gal (1942) #LucilleBall in Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) Cover Girl (1944)
#BOTD 1912 – 1996 Gene Kelly, 83, US dancer, actor, singer, choreographer, director.

Anchors Aweigh (1945 OscarNom) The Pirate * On the Town (1949 directorial debut) Summer Stock * American in Paris * Singin' in the Rain * Brigadoon * It's Always Fair Weather * Les Girls (1957)
#BOTD 1912 – 1996 Gene Kelly, 83, US dancer, actor, singer, choreographer, director.

Singin' in the Rain song, lyrics Arthur Freed, music Nacio Herb Brown, first featured in The Hollywood Revue of 1929, released in the first year of sound films.

Singin' in the Rain (1952)
#BOTD 1912 – 1996 Gene Kelly, 83, US dancer, actor, singer, choreographer, director.

A talented actor, he appeared in Cross of Lorraine, Marjorie Morningstar, Inherit the Wind. After the demise of Hollywood musicals he starred in French musical Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
#BOTD 1912 – 1996 #GeneKelly, US dancer, actor.

Stars real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac, with Gene Kelly, Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli, Danielle Darrieux, George Chakiris, and Grover Dale. Choreography Norman Maen.

The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
#BOTD 1912 – 1996 Gene Kelly, 83, US dancer, actor, singer, choreographer, director.

He directed A Guide for Married Man (1967) Hello, Dolly! (1969 OscarNom) and later in life hosted popular compilations: That's Entertainment! I//II/III (1974, 1976, 1994), That's Dancing (1985)

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22 Aug
#BOTD 1893 – 1967 #DorothyParker, 73, US poet, author, critic, satirist, blacklisted screenwriter.
"What if there were a list? What if it meant, our finest actors weren't allowed to act, our best writers weren't allowed to write, our funniest comedians weren't allowed to make us laugh ..?"

#JohnGarfield 1913 - 1952 (aged 39) #DorothyParker 1893 - 1967 #LucilleBall 1911 - 1989
"Harry Morgan, was an ordinary working man until the Depression. Economic forces drove him into the black-market, a runner between Cuba and Florida. But it ain't easy money." Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not (originally film 1944)

The Breaking Point (1950) #JohnGarfield
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21 Aug
#BOTD 1893 – 1967 Dorothy Parker, 73, US poet, author, critic, satirist, blacklisted screenwriter.

Screenplay co-writer: A Star is Born (1937) Sweethearts * Trade Winds * Week-End for Three * #Hitchcock Saboteur * Smash-Up Story of a Woman * The Fan (1949 Lady Windermere's Fan)
#BOTD 1893 – 1967 Dorothy Parker, 73, US poet, author, critic, satirist, blacklisted screenwriter.

"Story of a rising nightclub singer who marries another singer. As his career takes off, she falls into alcoholism, giving up her career for him."

Smash-Up Story of a Woman (1947)
#BOTD 1893 – 1967 Dorothy Parker, 73, US poet, author, critic, satirist, blacklisted screenwriter.

When a young actress arrives in Hollywood a chance encounter places her under the wing of older actor Norman Maine.

The original non musical drama. (1937)
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21 Aug
#BOTD 1890 – 1973 Cecil Kellaway, Aged 82, SA born English-US actor.

Film debut Hayseeds (1933) * The Tarnished Angel (1938) * Wuthering Heights (as Mr Earnshaw 1939) * Intermezzo * The Invisible Man Returns * The Mummy's Hand * The Letter * Burma Convoy * Birth of Blues (1941)
#BOTD 1890 – 1973 Cecil Kellaway, SA born English-US actor.

Mrs Parkington * The Postman Always Rings Twice (as Nick) * The Luck of the Irish (OscarNom) * Joan of Arc * A Portrait of Jennie * And Now Tomorrow * Harvey * Kim * Young Bess * The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
#BOTD 1890 – 1973 Cecil Kellaway, SA born English-US actor.

Female on Beach * The Proud Rebel * The Shaggy Dog * Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte * Elvis Presley's Spinout * Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967 OscarNom) * Getting Straight (1970 final film)
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21 Aug
#OTD 1977 – Sebastian Cabot, Aged 59, English actor and Disney voice actor (b. 1918) Gentleman's gentleman TV's Family Affair (1966–71)

Film debut 1935 * First credit Tehran (1946) * They Made Me a Fugitive * The Spider and the Fly * Ivanhoe * The Love Lottery * Romeo and Juliet
#OTD 1977 – Sebastian Cabot, Aged 59, English actor and Disney voice actor (b. 1918)

Kismet * Westward Ho the Wagons! * Dragoon Wells Massacre * Johnny Tremain * Omar Khayyam * Terror in a Texas Town * The Angry Hills * Time Machine * Miracle on 34th Street (1973 Kris Kringle)
#OTD 1977 – Sebastian Cabot, Aged 59, English actor and Disney voice actor (b. 1918)

Voice actor The Sword in the Stone (1963 as Lord Ector / Narrator) * The Jungle Book (1967 as Bagheera / Narrator) * The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977 as Narrator - final film role)
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#BOTD 1953 – 2015 James Horner, 61, (Plane Crash), US composer.

OscarNom: Aliens (1987) * Glory (Golden Globe nom) * Somewhere Out There (American Tail) * Field of Dreams * Apollo 13 * Braveheart * Titanic (and Song - Oscar) * Beautiful Mind * House of Sand + Fog * Avatar (2009)
#BOTD 1953 – James Horner, US composer. (d. 2015)

A white officer, Robert Shaw, faces opposition from his fellow officers, and ire from enemy soldiers for leading a battalion of black soldiers of 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in Civil War.

Glory (1989 Golden Globe nom)
#BOTD 1953 – James Horner, Aged 61, (Plane Crash), US composer. (d. 2015)

Other Films: The Lady in Red (1979) * The Dresser * Gorky Park * Cocoon 1/2 * The Name of the Rose * Hocus Pocus * The Perfect Storm * Enemy at the Gates * Troy * Apocalypto * Magnificent Seven (2016)
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#OTD 1956 – Bertolt Brecht, Aged 58, German poet, playwright, director. (b. 1898)

He moved to US to escape Nazis, wrote one Hollywood screenplay (Fritz Lang, Hangmen Also Die 1943), came under investigation by HUAC, testified, then left for East Germany, before being deported.
#OTD 1956 – Bertolt Brecht, 58, German poet, playwright. (b. 1898)

Life of Galileo * Mother Courage + Her Children * Good Person of Szechwan * Caucasian Chalk Circle * Mr Puntila + his Man Matti * Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

(1929 based John Gay's Beggar's [Threepenny] Opera)
"Brecht’s testimony is legendary. Asked did he write “Forward We’ve Not Forgotten” (from his play Decision), read in English translation, he responds, “No, I wrote a German poem, but that is very different from this thing,” provoking laughter in audience."
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