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Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef was born on December 28, 1925 in Ulm, Germany. In 1940, she began to study acting. Even before the fall of the Third Reich, she appeared in several films, but most of them were only released after the war. To avoid being raped by Soviet soldiers, she dressed like a young man and was sent to a camp for prisoners of war. She escaped and returned to war-shattered Berlin, where she played her first parts on stage. The first German movie after World War II, Murderers Among Us (1946), made her a star. David O. Selznick invited her to Hollywood and offered her a contract--with two conditions: Hildegard Knef should change her name to Gilda Christian, and she should pretend to be Austrian instead of German. She refused both and returned to Germany. In 1951 she provoked one of the greatest scandals in German film history when she appeared naked in the film The Sinner (1951). The Roman Catholic Church protested vehemently against that film, but Hildegard just commented: "I can't understand all that tumult--five years after Auschwitz!"
With the support of her first husband, the American Kurt Hirsch, she tried a second time to launch a Hollywood career and changed her surname from Knef to Neff (Americans could not pronounce Knef), but the only worthwhile part she got was a supporting role in the Hemingway adaptation of The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952). She became a leading lady in German, French, and British films. Finally, America offered her another chance, this time on the stage. She achieved a kind of stardom as Ninotchka in the very popular Broadway play "Silk Stockings".
In 1963 she began a new career as a singer, surprising audiences with her typical, deep, smoky voice and the fact that she wrote many of her own song lyrics. In 1970, she wrote the autobiographical bestseller "Der Geschenkte Gaul". She got sympathy from all over the world for her fight against cancer, which she defeated several times.
After the German reunification, Hildegarde Knef moved back to Berlin and died at age 76 of a lung infection on February 1, 2002.- Irish McCalla was born on 25 December 1928 in Pawnee City, Nebraska, USA. She was an actress, known for She Demons (1958), Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1955) and The Beat Generation (1959). She was married to Patrick Horgan and Patrick H. McIntyre. She died on 1 February 2002 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
- Earl Rowe was born on 21 August 1920 in Riverside, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Blob (1958), Kojak (1973) and The Doctors (1963). He died on 1 February 2002 in Moorestown, New Jersey, USA.
- Raimund Gensel was born on 22 June 1940 in Gera, Thuringia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Die Wache (1994) and Der Fahnder (1984). He died on 1 February 2002 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany.
- Jerry Sullivan was born on 20 March 1932 in Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Heaven's Gate (1980). He was married to Lois Sullivan. He died on 1 February 2002 in Bigfork, Montana, USA.
- Danielle Van Dam was born on 22 September 1994 in Texas, USA. She died on 1 February 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Alfred Solyanov was born on 28 March 1930 in Pyatigorsk, Stavropolskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980). He died on 1 February 2002 in Moscow, Russia.
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Viktoriya Ivanova is Soviet and Russian singer (lyric soprano). Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Viktoriya was born in one of the oldest historical districts of Moscow - Lefortovo, in a family of physicians Nikolay and Lidiya Ivanovs. Her father, who served as a military doctor in the Lefortovo Hospital, died when Viktoriya was 3 years old. The deceased father loved music and therefore, noticing the natural data of her daughter, the mother strongly promoted her musical development. Viktoriya graduated from music school in piano. Then she studied vocal with O. Slavinskaya-Fedorovskaya - first at the school, then at the institute and graduate school of the Gnesins Institute of Music. After graduating with honors GMPI of Gnesins in 1951, she became a soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic (until 1998). Viktoriya married a classmate Yuriy Matusov.
Back in the years of study (from 1946), Viktoriya Ivanova began recording on the radio and in the 1960s gained wide popularity as a chamber and pop singer with a transparent, delicate timbre, with free and natural vocalization. Ivanova's repertoire consisted of music from different eras: classical, romantic, baroque. Victoriya Ivanova also recorded songs for movies and animated films.