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- Christina Ehlers left Germany in 1933 when Hitler came to power. She was the daughter of well-known harpsichordist, Alice Ehlers. Her father, Alfred Ehlers was an artist, lithographer and architect. Christina followed him to Mallorca, Spain, where he had intended to build a safe haven for his Jewish family and friends. In 1938, during the Spanish Civil War, Alfred Ehlers, Christina and her four-year old son, fled to England. Alice Ehlers had already left Germany and gone to the US where she had settled in Los Angeles. Christina followed her there. Her father remained in England.
Once in the US, Christina had another bit role in the 1940 film, Escape with Robert Taylor. She then had no further roles in film.
She later married Hampden Wentworth and had four more children. She worked with her husband in a family-owned aircraft company (Longren Aircraft) and also had her own vitamin business.
Christina and her husband perished in a private plane crash in Reserve, New Mexico in 1960. They left behind four young children and Christina's adult son. All of her children are still living and reside in Northern California. - Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Turin-born Ferdinando Buscaglione (nicknamed Fred) had musical talent since childhood. He was a professional musician in and around Turin while still in his teens, playing several different instruments in nightclubs around the city. World War II interrupted his musical career, but he eventually joined the Allied Radio Orchestra based on the island of Sardinia, where he learned to play and sing more modern American-style "swing" music. After the war he developed his own singing "character", that of a Clark Gable-type ladies man and hard-drinking tough guy with a pencil mustache like Gable wore. His style caught on and he became a popular singing star in Italy in the 1950s. His talents weren't limited to singing, however. He turned into a very savvy businessman, making many appearances on TV variety shows and endorsing and appearing in ads for a variety of products. He also appeared in almost a dozen movies.
On May 3, 1960, he was killed in a traffic accident in Rome when his Ford Thundrbird plowed into a truck.- Mustachioed, serious-countenanced, bald with a remaining crown of hair, with an imposing round figure, André Alerme became for two decades the quintessential dignitary of French cinema. Indeed, between 1930 and 1950, the popular character actor divided his performances between the Army, the Church and the Nobility. In the seventy-odd films he was in, he was in turns, captain (once in the army, the other time in the navy), the commander of a dragoon company, a colonel ; a baron (twice), a viscount, a count, a marquis, the King's tax collector and even, in the forgettable Aloha, le chant des îles (1937) , a Scottish lord (not his best role!) ; a priest, and even Saint Peter! He could also easily portray officials or people with an influential role in society : a doctor (twice), a politician, managers of various kinds, industrialists (he was already one in his first and only silent Amour et carburateur (1925), mayors, a financier, a couturier... His roundness could have suggested gentleness, but it is rather Monsieur Prudhomme, Henry Monnier's famous caricature character, that producers saw in him, the prototype of the plump, conformist, sententious, selfish bourgeois. For most of the characters played by Alerme are either unpleasant or ridiculous or both. The role epitomizing this type of character was the unforgettable pompous but cowardly mayor of a Flemish city in Jacques Feyder's classic Carnival in Flanders (1935). Alerme, although nearly always very good, has never been better than in this unparalleled masterpiece.
André Alerme had been born in Dieppe in 1877 and started studying medicine and sculpture, but irresistibly attracted by theater, he soon appeared on the Paris theater scene. It did not take long before he met with success in plays by Henri Bernstein, Alfred Savoir, 'Edouard Bourdet', Jean Anouilh, Marcel Achard and many others. His passage from the boards to the studio spotlights was marked by the role of Georges Samoy he played in Sacha Guitry's Le blanc et le noir (1931) and reprised in Robert Florey's film version. Combining stage and cinema work in the early thirties, André Alerme tended to privilege the seventh art after 1936. Most of the films he participated in were just commercial but a few remain, signed by Jacques Feyder, Julien Duvivier, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Abel Gance, Claude Autant-Lara, Edmond T. Gréville. A great actor, Alerme will forever remain Joseph Prudhomme, complete with pomp and wicked foolishness. - Composer
- Music Department
Jenö Huszka was born on 24 April 1875 in Szeged, Hungary. He was a composer, known for Zenélö malom (1943), Gül Baba (1940) and Gábor diák (1956). He died on 2 February 1960 in Budapest, Hungary.- Actor
- Writer
Stefan Letz was born on 19 November 1900 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor and writer, known for Jánosik (1936) and Milan Rastislav Stefánik (1935). He died on 2 February 1960 in Rajecké Teplice, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia].- Actress
Babette Barker was born on 26 September 1907 in England. She was an actress. She was married to Ray E Layne. She died on 2 February 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Elemér Muharay was born on 20 October 1901 in Hajtapuszta, Hungary. He was an actor, known for A bor (1933). He died on 2 February 1960 in Budapest, Hungary.