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Director Stuart Heisler began his film-industry career as a prop man in 1913, joining Mack Sennett at Keystone the following year. He worked as an editor for Samuel Goldwyn at United Artists from 1924-25 and again from 1929-34 and at Paramount from 1935-36. He graduated to second-unit director with John Ford's The Hurricane (1937). He started his directorial career at Paramount in 1940 and stayed there until 1942, turning out mostly "B"-grade films but was occasionally given an "A" picture. The majority of his output was routine but he did turn out several first-rate films, his best-known probably being the sleeper hit The Biscuit Eater (1940), a small film about a boy and a dog that became an unexpected financial and critical success, garnering Heisler the best reviews of his career. After leaving Paramount he free-lanced. He directed Bette Davis in The Star (1952) and did a bang-up job with Ginger Rogers and Ronald Reagan in the hard-hitting anti-Klan drama Storm Warning (1950). He made his last film, the underwhelming Hitler (1962), in 1962. He had begun directing for television in 1960 and after Hitler (1962) he went into it full time, retiring in 1964.- Wolfgang Penz was born on 21 March 1950 in Chemnitz, Germany. He was an actor, known for Addio, piccola mia (1979), Ein Schneemann für Afrika (1977) and Die unverbesserliche Barbara (1977). He died on 21 August 1979 in Königs Wusterhausen, German Democratic Republic.
- Giuseppe Meazza was born on 23 August 1910 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor, known for Milano miliardaria (1951). He died on 21 August 1979 in Rapallo, Liguria, Italy.
- Carol Hazell was born on 6 February 1948. She was an actress, known for Intimate Strangers (1974), Mandog (1972) and Love Story (1963). She died on 21 August 1979 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.