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- Joel Fluellen was born on 1 December 1907 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Porgy and Bess (1959), The Chase (1966) and A Raisin in the Sun (1961). He died on 2 February 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Nazi swine "par excellence" Hans Schumm was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1896. He was an experienced stage actor in his native Germany when he emigrated to the US in 1927. He played small parts in American films--even showing up in a few musicals!--but he hit his stride in the late 1930s when America became aware of the Nazi menace in Europe. Schumm was a huge man, and his powerful build, deep voice, piercing eyes and menacing scowl were tailor-made to personify the Nazi brutes he played so well. Whether as an SS officer, Gestapo agent, treacherous spy, brutal soldier or suspicious policeman, the sight of the towering Schumm glaring at you in his black Nazi uniform with his Luger pointed at your head while barking "Hände hoch!" was guaranteed to make even the toughest screen hero stop in his tracks. He had a small but memorable part in Sahara (1943) as a fanatical Nazi soldier captured by Humphrey Bogart's men during an attack on their desert position, who is sent back to the German lines with a message from Bogart but on the way back murders a fellow German soldier who gave up information in exchange for some water. He had a somewhat bigger-than-usual part as Nazi spy-ring leader "The Mask" in the terrific Republic serial Spy Smasher (1942), and even did a turn as a slapstick villain who gets conked on the head with a coconut in the Bud Abbott and Lou Costello comedy Pardon My Sarong (1942).
After the war there was less of a call for Nazi villains in Hollywood, and Schumm returned several times to make films in Germany. His final film was the made-in-Germany fantasy Captain Sindbad (1963) with Guy Williams. He died of heart failure in Los Angeles, CA, on Feb. 2, 1990, at age 93. - Costume and Wardrobe Department
- Costume Designer
Although born in Valencia, Pedro Rodríguez grew up in Barcelona where his family moved in search of better opportunities when he was barely four years old.
At age 10 he began an internship in a tailor shop where he learned the basics of sewing most especially men's formal wear and business suits. In time he became more interested in women fashions and by 1914 he had landed a job in a designer shop and it was probably there he met Ana Maria, a seamstress herself, who would soon become his wife.
In 1919 Pedro and Ana Maria open their own couture house where Pedro's designs began attracting ladies from the city's high society circles. However he achieved national and international attention in 1929 with his exhibit at Barcelona's Exhibición Internacional, an important high fashion event. In the 1930s he maintained his reputation as a top designer and enjoyed an intimate, mutual admiration friendship with Cristobal Balenciaga another Spanish fashion leader of the era.
In 1936 the Civil War broke out and Pedro closed his shop and moved with his family to Rome, later to Paris and finally to London. He received several offers to settle in those countries where his work was extremely popular but he decided to return to Spain in 1937 opening a haute couture enclave in San Sebastian.
When the war was over he reopened his home and couture shop in Barcelona and a few months later he inaugurated another fashion house in Madrid. In 1940 he founded and served as first president of the Spanish Cooperative Couture, an endeavor that would serve to promote Spanish fashions in Europe and America. The Spanish film industry, greatly influenced by Hollywood glamour, asked Pedro to be the costume designer for a few of the greatest productions of the time and he did an splendid job in films like "Tuvo la culpa Adán" (1944) and "Pequeñeces" (1950) but he was more interested in his haute couture activities which soon made him one of the world's top designers with over 700 employees under him at the height of his career. For years he was a favorite with the most powerful ladies of his country like the Duchess of Alba, Carmen Polo de Franco, the Countess of Barcelona, etc. He also dressed international beauties like Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, etc.
With the rising importance of pret-á-porter fashions, Pedro Rodriguez refused to launch an alternative ready-to-wear economical line of his designs like Channel, Dior, Saint Laurent, etc. had done. He just couldn't understand what was happening in the world of fashions and by 1979 he was forced to close all his shops and retire. He led a very quite existence until his death at age 94. He has not been forgotten in the fashion world and it is said that his legacy has been taken up by designers such as Miguel Elola, Robert Dalmau, Andrés Andreu, Peter Aedo, Marcelo Scarxell, Joaquín Verdú among others.- Elmer Fain was born on 29 June 1905 in Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Round-Up Time in Texas (1937). He died on 2 February 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Music Department
- Actor
Mel Lewis was born on 10 May 1929 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Johnny Staccato (1959), People, People, People (1976) and Kein Kommentar (1974). He died on 2 February 1990 in New York City, New York, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Karel Hejsek was born on 15 January 1935. He was an actor, known for Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966), Vanoce s Alzbetou (1968) and Ulysses and the Stars (1976). He died on 2 February 1990.- Heikki Hannula was born on 13 May 1919 in Turku, Finland. He was an actor, known for Wienervalssin tarinoita (1965) and Havis Amanda: The Beauty of Helsinki (1982). He was married to Anita Seitava and Eila Leisiö. He died on 2 February 1990 in Helsinki, Finland.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa was born on 3 May 1910 in Ulvik, Norway. He was an actor, known for Høvdingen (1984), Med lisens til å sende (2008) and U (1991). He died on 2 February 1990.