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The men and women are interred at Mount Hope Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York.
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- Dion Boucicault was born on 26 December 1822 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. Dion was a writer, known for Conn, the Shaughraun (1912), Arrah-Na-Pogue (1911) and Kathleen Mavourneen (1919). Dion was married to Louise Thorndyke, Agnes Robertson and Anne Guiot. Dion died on 18 September 1890 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Ernie Bushmiller was born on 23 August 1905 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for School Daze (1942), Doing Their Bit (1942) and Archie's TV Funnies (1971). He was married to Abby Bohnet. He died on 15 August 1982 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.
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Before he became "The Poet of the Piano", classically-trained Cavallaro had enjoyed a modestly successful earlier career as a soloist in society dance bands led by Al Kavelin, Abe Lyman and Enric Madriguera (at the time he was simply billed as 'Carmen'). In 1939, he fronted his own orchestra which made its debut at the Statler Hotel in St. Louis. This eventually blossomed into a 14-piece organisation which featured the future musical comedy and night club entertainer Larry Douglas on vocals and was built around Carmen's flashy piano solos (notable, especially, for the scintillating speed of his octave playing). There were, unusually, no trombones. The band generally consisted of three trumpets, four saxes, a four to five-piece string section (featuring a viola and/or cello) and a rhythm section comprising drums, bass and guitar. Carmen's theme song was "My Sentimental Heart". With its lush sound and Cavallaro's distinctive style of showmanship, the band reached the peak of its popularity in the mid-40s, especially with aficionados of sweet 'society-style' dance music. It worked the hotel and club circuits, headlining at top venues like New York's Paramount Theatre, the Waldorf-Astoria, the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, the Mark Hopkins in San Francisco and Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook. Cavallaro made prolific recordings for the Decca label and broadcast live on the Sheaffer Parade which was aired nationwide every Sunday afternoon. He also appeared as himself in several motion pictures including Hollywood Canteen (1944) and Diamond Horseshoe (1945). A massive popular hit was his recording of the piano soundtrack for The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) a year before joining ASCAP. In the 1950s, Cavallaro relinquished the orchestra and began leading smaller combos. He continued to turn out numerous best-selling records ("Cavallaro Plays Ellington", "For Latin Lovers", "Stairway to the Stars", etc.) as well as pursuing a solo career in night clubs and on radio. His own song compositions have included "While the Nightwind Sings", "Wanda" and "Masquerade Waltz". Among his other best-selling hits were popular versions of Chopin's "Polonaise", "Warsaw Concerto, "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12", "Fascination", "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart", "I Didn't Know What Time it Was" and "Just One of Those Things".- Frederic Dannay was born on 20 October 1905 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1958), The Mandarin Mystery (1936) and Ellery Queen (1975). He died on 3 September 1982 in White Plains, New York, USA.
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Alfred Harvey was born on 6 October 1913 in New York City, New York, USA. Alfred was a producer, known for The New Casper Cartoon Show (1963). Alfred died on 4 July 1994 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.Plot: Larchmont Temple Section- Actress
Rose Scott is known for Exposure (2004).- Director
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Gloria Sachs is known for Attention to Detail (1977), The Site in the Sea (1970) and The Hostellers (1965).- Producer
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Bill Todman was born on 31 July 1916 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Tattletales (1974), Call My Bluff (1965) and Password (1973). He was married to Frances Burson. He died on 29 July 1979 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actress
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Unsmiling character player Lucile Watson was one of Hollywood's most indomitable mothers of the 1930s and 1940s...and you can take that both ways. The archetypal matriarch who enhanced scores of plush, soapy, Victorian-styled drama, her prickly pears could be insufferable indeed and heaven help anyone who gathered up the courage to take them on. A fiercely protective mother usually to everyone's detriment, her narrow-minded characters were overt and opinionated, customarily equipped with a withering look and slivered tongue as weapons. Having no trouble whatsoever situating themselves into any and all's business, Lucile played imperious mother to filmdom's top stars including James Stewart and Robert Taylor, and often stole a bit of the thunder from under them.
She was born on May 27, 1879 in Quebec, Canada and trained at New York's Academy of Dramatic Arts, making her first professional stage appearance in "The Wisdom of the Wise" in 1902 at the age of 23. For the next three decades plus, she played, in stark contrast to her later stereotype, frothy ladies in witty, sparkling comedy. Her superlative performance on Broadway in "The City" in 1909 guaranteed her position as a stage star. Playwright Clyde Fitch went on to use her quite frequently in his productions. Other stage successes over the years included "Under Cover" (1913), "Heartbreak House" (1920), "Ghosts" (1926), The Importance of Being Earnest (1926), "No More Ladies" (1934), "Pride and Prejudice" (1935) and "Yes, My Darling Daughter" (1936). She blossomed in both chic lead and support roles.
It took her longer, however, to bloom on film... and it was not as a leading lady. She didn't make her film bow until age 55 in the Helen Hayes vehicle What Every Woman Knows (1934). She then slowly moved up the credits list after playing minor servile roles at first. Her first noticeable support was as Norma Shearer's advice-spouting mom in the classic Clare Boothe Luce film adaptation of The Women (1939) in which she expounds on the inescapable infidelities of husbands and the importance of saving face in high society. Better yet was her thorny, smothering mother to James Stewart in Made for Each Other (1939) in which she squares off with Carole Lombard who poses a threat as a possible daughter-in-law. So too was her cool-as-ice matriarch in Waterloo Bridge (1940) as she tries to separate son Robert Taylor from Vivien Leigh's fiancé with a sordid past.
Lucile reached the apex of her adult career with Lillian Hellman's anti-fascist war drama "Watch on the Rhine" (1941) starring Paul Lukas on Broadway. Two years later she and Lukas preserved their brilliance on film. Co-starring Bette Davis, Watch on the Rhine (1943) won Lukas the Academy Award for "best actor" and Lucile was acknowledged for her matriarchal supporting turn, but lost to Katina Paxinou for her work in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943).
Lucile continued to set a pattern of excellence in the post-war years with arch supports in such films as My Reputation (1946) as Barbara Stanwyck iron-willed mom, the class Disney film Song of the South (1946) and cranky Aunt March in the MGM remake of Little Women (1949). She wound up her film career wreaking havoc in the musical Let's Dance (1950) as Betty Hutton's maligning mother-in-law and in the overly melodramatic My Forbidden Past (1951) as newly-rich Ava Gardner's scheming great aunt. Following a return to the stage and some scattered work in television anthologies, Lucile retired in 1954 at the age of 75 to live out her last years in New York.
Lucile's first marriage somewhere around 1910 to actor Rockliffe Fellowes was brief. She subsequently married playwright Louis Evan Shipman in 1928, a union that lasted until his death in 1933. The character veteran passed away on June 25, 1962, after suffering a heart attack at age 83.