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LeRoi Antoine was born on 1 January 1903 in Port Margo, Haiti. He was an actor, known for City Beneath the Sea (1953). He was married to Laura Bowman. He died on 21 December 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Alice Caroline Jorgens was born on March 28, 1896 in Anaconda, Montana. Her mother, Carrie Jorgens, was from Denmark and her father, Hans Jorgens, was from Germany. The family moved to Kettle Falls, Washington when she was a child. In 1916 she signed a contract with producer Thomas Ince and made her film debut in the comedy Safety First With Ambrose. The following year she costarred with Harry Gribbon in Caught With The Goods. Unfortunately Alice never made another film. She married Abel Byres in 1918 but they divorced a few years later. In 1924 she married Horace Willard Cutler. This marriage also ended in divorce. She married thirty-four old Louis Evans Graner in May of 1934. The couple lived in San Berndardino. Alice passed away on December 21, 1990 at the age of ninety-four. She is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
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Renee Furst was one of New York's premier film publicists who helped launch such films as "Cousin Cousine", "Breaker Morant" and "The Gods Must Be Crazy" in America.
Her early experience was as an actress, followed by a stint at Modern Camera doing promotion. She later worked on distribution of '50s films ranging from the Boulting Brothers' "Private's Progress" to the Japanese monster picture "Rodan".
In 1959 she married radio journalist and commentator Peter Furst. That year she got a cram course in he business as account executive at Diener-Hauser-Bates for Don Rugoff's Cinema 5.
As an independent publicist, she helped promote Lou & Gloria Sher's 1969 3-D hit "The Stewardesses". During the '70s she built her reputation as a leading promoter of foreign films, working on the sleepers "Cousin Cousine" and "Bread and Chocolate". Furst became a fixture at the Cannes Film Festival and orchestrated numerous Oscar campaigns, resulting in victories for Hungary's "Mephisto" and Argentina's "The Official Story", among others.
Among the American films she worked on were Jeremy Paul Kagan's "The Chosen"; Luis Mandoki's "Gaby"; Costa-Gavras' "Missing"; and Pia Zadora's starring debut "Butterfly". For Paul Bartel's "Eating Raoul", Furst concocted eye-catching promotions like cookies inscribed "Raoul" for the press screenings and ushers dressed in leather at the premieres.
Distributor Paul Cohen, who released "Mephisto" and "Butterfly", says Furst was "one of the first publicists who brought concept to the publicity campaign". For Alan Clarke's borstal boys drama "Scum", guests were served prison-style food on trays at a trendy downtown club.
She also fought advertising discrimination involving the X rating in a well-publicized protest anent the U.S. release of Jeremy Thomas & Nicolas Roeg's British film "Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession".
She did pioneering work in establishing Australian pictures in the U.S. market, notably launching Bruce Beresford's "Breaker Morant". Many filmmakers from around the world became her friends and brought her additions to her collection of toy turtles. Among these are directors Francis Coppola, Costa-Gavras, Carlos Saura, Istvan Szabo, Barbet Schroede, Volker Schlondorff and the late Francois Truffaut.
She was the U.S. representative for the Berlin Film Festival and staged annual press get-togethers for its director, Moritz de Hadeln, in New York.
She died Dec. 21, 1990 in New York of cancer, survived by her husband; sister Sheila Saunders; and stepson Peter Furst Jr.- Kelly Johnson was born in 1910 in Ishpeming, Michigan, USA. He died on 21 December 1990.
- Clarence Johnson was born on 27 February 1910 in Ishpeming, Michigan, USA. He died on 21 December 1990 in the USA.
- Ursula Hughes was born on 18 June 1898 in Ilford, Essex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Inheritance (1920). She died on 21 December 1990 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK.
- Svyatoslav Astafyev was born on 5 December 1907. He was an actor, known for Nashestvie (1945). He died on 21 December 1990.