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- Film, TV and stage actress Georgann Johnson was a product of Decorah High School, Luther College and Northwestern University. Her father, George, was a local plumbing contractor and an amateur actor. Georgann's specialization has been in the portrayal of the all-American girl/housewife and/or the young comic's sweetheart. She met her husband, Stanley Prager, in 1953 when both were appearing briefly as replacements in the Broadway stage revival of "Room Service". In 1954, she appeared with Mike Wallace in the stage comedy, "Reclining Figure", a spoof of the art world. Her recurring role as the menacing "Princess Arura" in the noted DuMont Television Network series, Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949), widened her acceptance as a strong dramatic artist. Georgann has been notably critical of what she terms the false glamor of the stage.
- A native of Decorah, Iowa, Mark Pinter attended Iowa State University, where he received a BA in Theatre Arts; and Wayne State University in Detroit, receiving his Master of Fine Arts in acting from the prestigious Hilberry Repertory Theatre.
Pinter has portrayed memorable and long-running characters on daytime television for all of the major networks, including "Roger Smythe" on All My Children (1970) and "Grant Harrison" in Another World (1964), for which he received the coveted Best Villain Award from Soap Opera Digest in 1996. In addition, he has guest-starred on countless primetime television series including NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), Cold Case (2003), Law & Order (1990), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), Charlie's Angels (1976), The Love Boat (1977), Hart to Hart (1979) and Hunter (1984).
Pinter made his motion picture debut in Norman Jewison's Other People's Money (1991) and starred in the highly controversial picture, The Eden Myth (1999) for Hollywood Films. He had a featured role in Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky (2001), and can be seen in Eric Perlmutter's indy feature, Season of Youth (2003) and the short film, Play (2010).
On stage, Pinter has performed on regional theatre stages throughout the country including "Becky's New Car" for North Coast Rep, "The Price" for Northern Stage, "Book of Days" for ArenaStage, "Hamlet" for the Old Globe, "Charley's Aunt" for Carter CenterStage, "Equus", "Black Comedy" and "The Shadow Box" for Arizona Theatre Company, "Victor/Victoria" for North Shore Music Theatre, "The Sound of Music" for Syracuse Stage, "Hello, Dolly!" for Bucks County Playhouse, "Follies" for Little Theatre on the Square and the world premiere of "Courting the Muse" for the White Barn Theatre, starring opposite Tony Award-winner, Lillias White. Off-Broadway, he starred as "Stanford White" in the New York premiere of Don Nigro's "My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon" for the Hypothetical Theatre Company, as well as the American premiere of Carl Djerassi's "Three on a Couch", at the Soho Playhouse in New York City.
Pinter directed the off-Broadway world premiere of Jonathan Bell's "Portraits", starring Roberta Maxwell and the late Dana Reeve, to much critical acclaim. He also directed Charles Keating and Patrick Horgan in a memorable revival of David Storey's "Home" for the Wilton Playshop.
Pinter was married to actress Colleen Zenk, who portrayed the role of "Barbara Ryan" for 30 years on the long-running CBS daytime series, As the World Turns (1956). - Actress
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Addalyn Pollitt was born on 5 June 1906 in Decorah, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Eegah (1962) and The Sadist (1963). She was married to Arch Hall Sr.. She died on 11 June 1998 in Port St. Lucie, Florida, USA.- Producer
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Scott Douglas Robbe (February 16, 1955 - November 21, 2021) was an American film, television, and theater producer/director, and veteran activist. He was a prominent founding member of both ACT UP and Queer Nation. In 2009 he founded his production company, Feed Your Head Productions. He produced for Broadway, films, and television.- Marguerite Ann Abrahamson is an Actress, Singer, and Model living in Phoenix, Arizona. Marguerite was raised in a small town in Minnesota, where she grew up performing in stage theater and training in opera. During college she toured world-wide with the Nordic Choir, studied abroad in the Canary Islands, and graduated from Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) in 2010.
Marguerite claims roles in non-union short films, commercial projects, and independent productions throughout the Southwest Region. She enjoys writing, hiking, traveling, and playing outdoors. - Camera and Electrical Department
Melbourne Spurr arrived in Hollywood around 1917 and worked for the noted photographer Fred Hartsook taking portraits of the early stars. Spurr photographed Mary Pickford while working at the Hartsook studio and so impressed her that she personally helped launch his career as a Hollywood portrait photographer. By the mid 1920s he was one of the premier celebrity portraitists in the world.
By this time, though, the major movie studios were mandating that their stars could only be photographed by their own photographers. Spurr chose to keep his own studio, and was eventually shut out in favor of men like George Hurrell, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Eugene Robert Richee and others who worked for the big motion picture studios.
Spurr shined in Hollywood for one glorious decade - the "Roaring 20s" - but then moved on to photographing other notables like US presidents, artists, authors and dancers.