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Titian-haired Margaret 'Maggie' Hayes was born Florette Regina Ottenheimer in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Jacob 'Jack' Louis Ottenheimer (1882-1943) and Clara Bussy (1877-1966). While still at high school she worked with a local stock company to get into acting. She then studied for two years at John Hopkins University, briefly entertaining the notion of becoming a nurse. Before long, however, she had joined The Barnstormers troupe of performers to become their first ever female member. A trip to New York and a night at the Stork Club resulted in a chance encounter with several prominent newspaper columnists who were also in attendance, among them Walter Winchell. Winchell decided to change her name to 'Dana Dale'. Using this moniker, she did some modelling and auditioned unsuccessfully for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939). At this time, she was featured in several cigarette, automobile and fashion advertisements.
After a brief stint at Warner Brothers, and having finally settled on the stage name Maggie Hayes, she made her Broadway debut in 1940 and was signed by Paramount the following year. On screen, Maggie tended to be cast as second leads, often as 'the other woman', but was never quite fulfilled in her profession. Instead, she pursued diverse other career paths outside of acting, both in between performing and after her retirement in 1962: as fashion designer, model, owner of a boutique in Palm Beach and designing/selling jewelry in New York. She even worked for a while as a public relations executive for luxury goods department store Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. In the late 1940s, she became fashion editor for 'Life Magazine', before returning to the New York stage and acting in television where she had some of her best roles.
Maggie Hayes was married (and divorced) three times. Her second husband was the actor Leif Erickson (of The High Chaparral (1967) fame), her third the producer Herbert B. Swope Jr..- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Laurence Merrick was born on 22 April 1926 in Petah Tiova, Israel. Laurence was a director and writer, known for Black Angels (1970), Manson (1973) and Guess What Happened to Count Dracula? (1971). Laurence was married to Joan Huntington. Laurence died on 26 January 1977 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Writer
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Michael Hogan was born on 17 September 1893 in Kensington, London, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Rebecca (1940), Arabian Nights (1942) and Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950). He was married to Madge Saunders. He died on 26 January 1977 in Bournemouth, England, UK.- Gail Arnold was born on 1 July 1911 in Arizona, USA. She was an actress, known for Free Rent (1936) and The Super Snooper (1937). She died on 26 January 1977 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Jan-Olof Rydqvist was born on 26 January 1930 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was an actor and writer, known for Stöten (1961). He died on 26 January 1977 in Stockholm, Sweden.- Producer
- Production Manager
- Editor
Filopoimin Finos was one of the biggest producers of the Greek cinema during the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s. His father was a farmer, but Finos loved cinema from his childhood, so when he came of age he sold everything that he owned in order to make reality out of his dreams. His last movie was produced in the 70s, and it starred Dionysis Papagiannopoulosin Giannis Dalianidis's film O kyr' Giorgis ekpaidevetai (1977). It was a big flop, and the company that he had created back in the 40s named Finos Film was bankrupted. During the previous 3 decades he produced the biggest successes of the Greek cinema, but he was always under criticism because of the lack of quality in some of them. On the other hand some of his films like Lily of the Harbor (1952), I Aliki sto Naftiko (1961), Madalena (1960), Oi kyries tis avlis (1966) , Stefania (1966), Barrel Piano, Poverty and Carnations (1957), The Auntie from Chicago (1957) and many many others, are considered as classic and perfect portrait of mid-class Greece of the 50s and 60s. He produced many films, and he created major stars out of them, like Aliki Vougiouklaki, Rena Vlahopoulou, Alekos Alexandrakis, Martha Karagianni, Jenny Karezi Dimitris Papamichael, Dinos Iliopoulos, Georgia Vasileiadou and many many more. He even pushed the career of the great Irene Papas, but he never thought of Melina Mercouri as a movie star because of her big mouth, so he missed the opportunity to expand and become an international company, when he refused to co-produce Never on Sunday (1960).
His only attempt to make an international film, was with Aliki Vougiouklaki in 1962 and Rudolph Maté. The film was Aliki My Love (1963) and it was a miserable flop, that cost many million drachmas to Finos. During the last years of his life he failed to gain the respect of the critics and the love and popularity of the Greeks. He died never working on the TV, which he never liked and accepted. But F. Finos has gained immortality...his films are constantly shown in the Greek TV channels, with great rating. The Greek Cinema, although now creating films of quality and high ideals, never regained the popularity that had when he was producing films.- Art Department
George Peckham was born on 21 June 1912 in Nebraska, USA. He died on 26 January 1977 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Pavol Feigler was born on 2 February 1923 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He was an actor, known for Pripad pre obhájcu (1964), Piesen o sivom holubovi (1961) and The Bells Toll for the Barefooted (1965). He died on 26 January 1977.