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- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Jessica Savitch was born on February 1, 1947 in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Her father suddenly died when she was just 12 years old. It was he that encouraged her for a career in broadcast journalism. Jessica first considered a career in broadcasting while in high school. A friend then got her a job part-time reading the local news on the radio. When Jessica decided to major in communications at Ithaca College in New York, her faculty adviser bluntly told her that she was not part of broadcasting because she is a woman. His sexist words gave Jessica even more determination to prove him wrong. After graduation, Jessica became an all-around assistant for CBS-Radio in New York City. In 1971, she landed a job at KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas. Three months later, she enjoyed the distinction of becoming the first woman in the South to anchor a broadcast. In 1972, Jessica accepted a job to anchor the weekend newscast in Philadelphia. Over the next few years, Jessica slowly worked her way up and fought hard to be treated fairly in comparison to the other male anchors and correspondents. In 1977, Jessica signed a contract with New York's NBC station to anchor their Sunday evening broadcast, NBC Nightly News. She was then appointed co-anchor of Prime Time Sunday later that year. Jessica's rise to stardom inspired resentment among her colleagues who felt she hadn't paid her dues by first working as a network correspondent. However Jessica's rise to fame apparently came with a price as rumors about drug use and instability dogged her. Things came to a head on October 3, 1983 when, during a live news update, Jessica appeared incoherent in which her speech was slurred, she deviated from her copy and ad-libbed her report. She at first explained that her monitor had malfunctioned. But her agent inadvertently contradicted her alibi by saying that she was under medication from a head injury several weeks earlier. A short while later, Jessica seemed to get back on track for her contract at NBC was extended and she was ranked high on the list of replacements for Jane Pauley who was scheduled to take a maternity leave. But things came suddenly to an end when on Sunday, October 23, 1983, Jessica and her boyfriend, New York Post executive Martin Fischbein, drove to New Hope, Pennsylvania when they leisurely shopped for antiques. That evening, they ate dinner at the Chez Odette, a restaurant along the Delaware Canal. A fierce rainstorm set in and the couple became anxious to return to New York. Fischbein drove and Jessica sat in the back seat with her dog Chewy, a Siberian husky. The weather conditions made the driving difficult. Fischbein apparently mistook a dirt road for an exit and in a matter of seconds the car flipped off the road and plunged into the canal sinking almost instantly. Seven hours later, the bodies of 36-year-old Jessica Savitch and Martin Fischbein were pulled from the canal.- Director
- Actor
Jean Lenauer was born on 9 August 1904 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a director and actor, known for My Dinner with Andre (1981), Perspective (1955) and Coal at the Crossroads (1955). He was married to Lora Hays. He died on 23 October 1983 in New York City, New York, USA.- Dimos Starenios was born on 15 September 1909 in Cairo, Egypt. He was an actor, known for The 300 Spartans (1962), Frenitis (1971) and The Dawn of Victory (1971). He was married to Nina Starenjou. He died on 23 October 1983 in Athens, Greece.
- Tamara Shayne was born on 25 November 1902 in Perm, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Confidential Report (1955), The Jolson Story (1946) and It Happened in Brooklyn (1947). She was married to Akim Tamiroff. She died on 23 October 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
José Carlos Burle was born on 19 July 1910 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Depois Eu Conto (1956), É com Este Que Eu Vou (1948) and O Gol da Vitória (1945). He died on 23 October 1983 in Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil.- He was the son of a litographer. He studied music and singing in Zurich and later in Paris. Then he got engagements in Breslau, Hamburg, the Berlin and Vienna operas, the German Festival Plays at the Theatre Pigalle in Paris, and sang Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail as a guest in Barcelona and in many other venues. He spent most of his career in his country : Zurich, Basilea, Geneva, Luzern, Saint Gallen and mainly Bern.
He was trained in the Italian lyric style as a tenor, and also played intermediate voice parts and performed as Heldentenor, both in stage operas and in concert. He sang Italian, German, French and Slavic repertoire. He was keen on many sports, and agile as an interpreter, which added effective acting to his singing.
After World War II was over, he combined singing with directing, and staged many operas in Bern, becoming sound engineer and director for Radio Bern between 1947 and 1966. It was also in that city that he gave his last bow on stage in 1960 with Haydn's Il mondo della luna. Then he stayed as teacher at the Bern Music Academy (Konservatorium für Musik) from 1960 until 1981.
He married twice, to actress Käthe Gold (their son died shortly after birth) and to Annemarie Düsterdieck.
He also occasionally went into pictures for the Swiss cinema post-war industry, like Matura-Reise (1943) or Frühlingslied (1954). - Stuart Jerome was born on 18 August 1918 in New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Everglades! (1961), Sea Hunt (1958) and Target (1958). He died on 23 October 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA.