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Kai Løvring was born on 9 February 1931 in Fyn, Denmark. He was an actor and writer, known for Tango for tre (1994), Revykøbing kalder (1973) and Taxa (1997). He died on 15 November 2002 in Herlev, Denmark.- Actress
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Betty Burgess was born Elizabeth Burgess on February 15, 1917, in Los Angeles, California. Her father worked for the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra. She began taking voice lessons and sang on the radio when she was just seven years old. Betty also studied tap dancing and learned how to play the guitar. She dreamed of being on the stage so she enrolled in a dramatic school. At the age of eighteen she was discovered by a talent agent and started appearing in local plays. The pretty blonde was just over five feet tall and weighed 100 pounds. In 1935 she beat out forty other actresses to land the lead role in the musical Coronado. Her performance in the film got rave reviews. Then she got supporting roles in the drama Tough To Handle and I Demand Payment.
Betty married comedian Sonny Lamont in 1938 and had a son. The couple toured vaudeville together and costarred in the 1939 western The Adventures Of The Masked Phantom. It would be Betty's final film. She quit show business to devote herself to being a mother. After leaving Sonny she married thirty-nine year old Donald Johansen in 1941. They had a daughter named Rebecca but divorced soon after. On January 5, 1960 Betty married professional wrestler George Zaharias. They split up just just six months later. She married her fourth husband, Dr. Charles E. Magner, in 1962 and moved to Montana. She spent her time painting and collecting antiques. Betty divorced Charles and returned to California. She died on November 15, 2002 at the age of eighty-five. She was buried at Oak Park Cemetery in Claremont, California.- Champion long distance runner Kee-chung Sohn was born into poverty on August 29, 1912 in Sinuiju, North Pyongan, Japanese Korea. Sohn studied at Yangjeong High School in Seoul, South Korea and attended Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan (he graduated from said university in 1940). Kee-chung's athletic career took off after he won an 8-mile race in October, 1933; he went on to run in twelve marathons between the years 1933 and 1936 in which he finished within the first three places of each marathon and won nine of those races altogether. Although he was forced to participate under his Japanese of Son Kitei as a member of the Japanese delegation, Sohn nonetheless still won the gold medal in the men's marathon at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, Germany. Hailed as a national hero in his native Korea, Kee-chung in the wake of his triumph at the Olympics embarked on a successful career as a coach for various champion runners who include 1947 Boston Marathon winner Suh Yun-Bak, 1950 Boston Marathon winner Ham Kee-Young, and 1992 Olympic Gold Medalist Hwang Young-Cho. Moreover, Sohn had the honor of carrying the Olympic torch into the stadium for the opening ceremony of the 1988 Summer Olympic games in Seoul, South Korea. Kee-chung died from kidney failure at age 90 on November 15, 2002. In the wake of his death the Sohn Kee-chung Memorial Park in Seoul was established in his honor. In addition, Sohn was also posthumously made a Grand Cordon (Blue Dragon) of the Sport Merit.
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New York-born television pioneer Bert Granet graduated with a B.A. from Yale University. He began in the film industry in 1934, and, a decade later, was working as writer-producer under contract at RKO (1944-48). He set up his own short-lived production company, Kaladore Corporation, under which banner he released just one feature film (a rather obscure item, entitled The Torch (1950), set in revolutionary Mexico, with an all-Mexican cast -- the single exception being star Paulette Goddard). In the mid-50's, Granet joined Desilu Productions to produce light, unpretentious entertainment like The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957) and the weekly anthology series Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958). Reputedly 'a hard-nosed realist', Granet's success in the medium stemmed from vowing audiences through signing top movie actors and acquiring scripts from well-established and respected writers. One of these turned out to be the genial Rod Serling -- introduced to Granet via a mutual friend, the director Robert Parrish. At considerable cost and having to overcome strong objections by the sponsor's ad agency, McCann-Erickson (who had script approval and hated 'ambiguous endings'), Granet purchased a story from CBS ("The Time Element"). This was aired with great success as an episode of 'Playhouse' and ultimately persuaded CBS to take on The Twilight Zone (1959), the show which -- according to Serling himself -- "no one wanted to buy". The rest is history. Granet later served as producer of 'Twilight Zone' during seasons four and five.- Lynda Van Devanter was born on 27 May 1947 in Arlington, Virginia, USA. She is known for Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987). She was married to Tom Buckley. She died on 15 November 2002 in Herndon, Virginia, USA.
- Miomir 'Mikan' Sekulic was born on 3 April 1920 in Sremski Karlovci, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Ljubav na starinski nacin (1969). He died on 15 November 2002 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia.