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- Irén Biller was born on 27 January 1897 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Lila akác (1934), The Man Who Dared (1933) and Biller Irén mulat (1929). She was married to Ödön Faragó. She died on 8 June 1989 in Monterey County, California, USA.
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Not to be confused with the classical singer of the same name, screen-writer Robert Getchell was born in 1936 in Kansas City, Missouri and studied English at the University of Missouri in Columbia, graduating in 1965. After working as a free-lance writer and reviewer,he penned his first screen-play, 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore', which garnered him an Oscar nomination for best original screen-play of 1974 and gained him a British Film Academy award. He was also instrumental in turning the basic theme into a TV series, 'Alice', which ran intermittently from 1976 to 1981 with Linda Lavin as Alice and Diane Ladd reprising her role as Flo in later episodes. Flo went on to have her own series, also created by Getchell, with Polly Holliday taking over from Ladd. Getchell's recurrent theme in most of his films is the relationship between a parent or parent substitute and a child or young person in trying or dangerous situations, the exceptions being his biopics of country singers 'Bound For Glory', also Oscar-nominated, and 'Sweet Dreams'. His output has not been prolific due to his 'day job.' Since the mid-1990s he has been a teacher of Literature at the University of Missouri and the University of Miami, Ohio.- Leo Willis was born on 5 January 1890 in Wapanucka, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for The Big Killing (1928), The Timber Queen (1922) and The Bull's Eye (1917). He was married to May Frances Hennessy. He died on 10 April 1952 in Monterey County, California, USA.
- Frederick McKay Godwin had a brief film career in the late-1920s and then returned to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California to manage the La Playa Hotel which he and his brother Harrison inherited from their mother's aunt in 1924. Fred later bought out Harrison, who in 1940 bought the Pine Inn at Carmel-by-the-Sea. The Godwin brothers were successful businessmen and popular entertainers in Carmel for most of their lives.
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Roswell Rogers was born on 8 October 1910 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. He was a writer, known for Father Knows Best (1954), Window on Main Street (1961) and Two Weeks to Live (1943). He died on 6 August 1998 in Monterey County, California, USA.- Set Decorator
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Ray Molyneaux was born on 25 November 1926. He was a set decorator, known for Rocky (1976), Jeremiah Johnson (1972) and The Wild Wild West (1965). He died on 15 June 1993 in Monterey County, California, USA.- Rae Kidd was born on 15 June 1917 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for Unashamed: A Romance (1938). She was married to Rosslynn John Cowen Jr.. She died on 2 April 1962 in Salinas, Monterey County, California, USA.
- Ruth Marion was born on 7 July 1901 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for Servants' Entrance (1934), The Old Fashioned Way (1934) and My Three Sons (1960). She died on 20 January 1984 in Monterey County, California, USA.
- Frederic R. Bechdolt was born on 27 July 1873 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for The Hard Rock Breed (1918), Thieves' Gold (1918) and The Pot o' Gold (1917). He died on 21 April 1950 in Monterey County, California, USA.
- Thames (Thomas) Ross Williamson was born on 7 February, 1894 at Genesee, Idaho, not far from the Nez Perce Indian Reservation. He was one of five children born to B. F. and Eugina M. Williamson. He grew up in Genesee, where is father worked as a stock drover and his mother earned extra income by taking in sewing.
Williamson graduated from the University of Iowa in 1917 and later attended Harvard, where earned his MA in 1918. In the early 1920s he taught economics for a year or so at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
On 9 November, 1927, he married Sarah Storer Smith in Bristol Maine. In the New York Times announcement of their marriage, he was described as an author, traveler and teacher. Another paper called him a globe trotting lecturer on economics.
Williamson was not only a prolific novelist and screenwriter; he also penned text books on economics and political science and published juvenile fiction under the pseudonym Waldo Fleming.
Williamson's novel, "Woods Colt" (1933), was, at least by Time Magazine, thought to be worthy of the Pulitzer Prize. In 1956 it was widely announced that Audie Murphy would star in a film adaptation of the novel and that Marion Hargrove would write the screenplay. Producer Paul Short had originally purchased the screen rights back in 1949 with Murphy in mind. For some reason the project never saw fruition.
Thames Ross Williamson passed away on 5 May 1961, in Monterey County, California. He was survived by his wife and a son. He is interned at the El Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, California.