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Born to a huge, poor family in Soho in London's West End, Jessie Matthews became a big stage star in the late 1920s and 1930s, enjoying some crossover success in musical films. Her career never quite relaunched after the war, though, but she staged a comeback when she replaced the lead actress in the radio soap "Mrs Dale's Diary" in the 1960s. Her life was blighted by breakdowns of relationships and her own struggles with bad health and insecurity, and she wound up, amazingly, buried in an unmarked grave (only rectified after a TV documentary in the late 1980s brought this to light--beg, steal or borrow a copy of BBC's Timewatch (1982) documentary series episode "Catch A Fallen Star"). An amazing life.- Director
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Vladimir Fetin was born on 14 November 1925 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Virineya (1969), Don Tale (1964) and Otkrytaya kniga (1974). He died on 19 August 1981 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].- This beautiful girl with auburn hair, long eyelashes and blue-green eyes was born in Casteljaloux, in Gascony. She studied in a Bordeaux high school, graduating at the age of seventeen. She then went to the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, where she was taught music by Marthe Despoulos and drama by Kléber Halpin. She debuted on stage by a mere chance. Indeed Fernand Ledoux was unable to come to Bordeaux to play George Feydeau's "Boubouroche" unless a replacement of his female partner (who had got ill) could be found locally. Spurred by Harpin she embarked on the adventure and came out of it with flying colors. It was not long before she got another part, this time at the Trianon Theater, in André Barde's operetta "Le Comte Obligado". After which she started singing in nightclubs and galas. Encouraged by such a good start, Claude Godard decided to make it in Paris and she immediately enrolled at the famous Cours René Simon. While she was studying she was contacted to represent Gascony at the Miss France beauty contest and she won the title. Selected for the Miss Universe contest she went to the USA in 1952. Although she was not elected this time she decided to stay in the States and work there. She soon appeared on the stage of the only theater of Hollywood and was also in a TV program titled "Bachelors' Paradise". To be sure to obtain a green card she even contracted an unconsummated marriage with a complaisant American citizen. Back in France in 1954 she started a film career which would happen to be rather disappointing. She played in twelve movies in five years before disappearing from the screen, none of these films being of any interest.
- Witold Zatorski was born on 8 July 1937 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was a writer, known for Provincial Actors (1979). He died on 19 August 1981 in Wadowice, Malopolskie, Poland.