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Born as Bobby Wayne Pearson in Seminole, Oklahoma, on August 18, 1930, singer and comedian Jesse Pearson broke into films in 1963 with a hit, but his success was too ephemeral. After recording two singles on Decca Records that had little airplay, Pearson joined the national company of the stage musical "Bye Bye Birdie", and took the role of American rock idol Conrad Birdie who is drafted by the Army at the peak of his popularity, echoing Elvis Presley's story. After a year travelling with the show all over the United States, producer Fred Kohlmar liked Jesse's performance enough to have him repeat the Birdie part in the 1963 film version. This was followed by another funny role as Corporal Silas Geary in George Marshall's comedy western "Advance to the Rear" (1964), but as he had no more film offers, Pearson turned to television, appearing in shows such as "The Great Adventure", "McHale's Navy", "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Death Valley Days", "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Bonanza".
Between acting jobs Pearson worked as composer Rod McKuen's assistant. When the musician was casting a voice for his album "The Sea" (1967), he felt the actor's presence and intimate vocal quality was just what the project needed, and it became the first in a string of albums narrated by Jesse Pearson. After he won a Gold Record for the million-selling "The Sea", Pearson recorded three more albums for McKuen: "Home to the Sea" (1968), and two recordings based on poems by Walt Whitman, "The Body Electric" and "The Body Electric-2", released in the early 1970s. Billed as Jess Pearson, he also narrated the tribute album to songwriter-singer Woody Guthrie "We Ain't Down Yet" and Bolivian composer Jaime Mendoza-Nava's religious LPs "And Jesus Said..." and "Meditation in Psalms", all in 1976. Pearson also recorded the album "The Glory of Love" for RCA Victor, which remains unreleased to this day.
Back to motion pictures in 1978, Pearson narrated the Viking saga "The Norseman", starring Lee Majors and Cornel Wilde and, as the decade allowed movies with more explicit sexual representation in cinemas, he wrote and directed the adult film "The Legend of Lady Blue" (1978) and wrote "Pro-Ball Cheerleader" (1979), under the name A. Fabritzi. But by then he was diagnosed with cancer, and moved to Monroe, Louisiana with his partner, to be close to his mother. Jesse Pearson died on December 5, 1979.- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
Lesley Selander's film career, which lasted more than 40 years, started in the early 1920s as a teenager when he got a job at a studio as a lab technician. He soon managed to work his way into the production end of the business and secured employment as a camera operator, then an assistant director, with several side trips as a director of two-reel shorts. He directed his first feature in 1936, a western--a genre in which he would not only excel but one where he would spend much of the rest of his career.
Although Selander couldn't be considered an "A"-list director, his films had a professionalism and a verve that many of those made by his fellow B directors lacked. His sense of pacing was such that his films could be counted on to move quickly and smoothly, and not just his westerns. He also made detective thrillers, action/adventure pictures and even a horror film or two. One standout that is seldom seen nowadays, however, is Return from the Sea (1954), a sentimental and lyrical story of a cynical, embittered merchant seaman and the equally disillusioned waitress he meets in a dingy diner in the waterfront section of town. It's a surprisingly sensitive work for a man who spent his career making tough, macho shoot-'em-ups, and even more of a surprise are the outstanding performances by an unlikely cast: tough-guy Neville Brand as the sailor, perennial gun moll Jan Sterling as the waitress, and a terrific job by veteran heavy John Doucette as a garrulous, happy-go-lucky cab driver determined to bring the two together. With this little jewel Selander proved he was capable of much more than cattle stampedes, Indian attacks and gangster shootouts, but unfortunately he never made another one like it.
As the market for B westerns died out, Selander--like so many of his fellow B directors--turned to television. The last few feature films he made, in the mid- and late 1960s, were a string of what's come to be known as "geezer westerns" churned out by producer A.C. Lyles, embarrassing efforts made on the cheap that were meant to give employment to aging cowboy stars; the less said about them, the better.
Lesley Selander retired from the business in 1968, and died in 1979.- Robert Moore was born on 16 December 1932 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. He was married to Sheila Chewoolker and Darlene Johnson. He died on 5 December 1979 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- JoAnne Gaylord was born on 27 September 1909 in New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Cyborg 2087 (1966), Official Detective (1957) and Hazel (1961). She died on 5 December 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Costume Designer
- Art Director
- Set Decorator
Delacroix studied at the Paris Academy and was a student of Pierre Narcisse Guérin, who taught him classicist painting. But Delacroix was an admirer of the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, whose style he mainly embraced in his own work. He also took his cue from the work of the French painter and graphic artist Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault or from Venetian painters and English plein air painters such as John Constable and Richard Parkes Bonington. Delacroix visited the English landscape painter John Constable in England in 1825. Delacroix maintained friendships with the Polish composer and pianist Frederic Chopin and with the French novelist George Sand. The artist often drew his motifs from literature. Authors such as Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sir Walter Scott and George Gordon Noël Byron were influential for him in this regard.
In 1827, lithographs for Goethe's "Faust" were created. Or he was inspired by the history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. His early major work entitled "Dante and Virgil in Hell" was written in 1822 and is now kept in the Louvre. It was presented and celebrated to the public at the Paris Art Salon in the same year. On the other hand, his painting entitled "The Massacre of Chios", created in 1824, sparked controversial discussions. Critics and audiences were bothered by Delacroix's bright colors and his free and dramatic style of expression, which went against the classical French painting tradition. Delacroix's most famous painting is entitled "Freedom Leads the People to the Barricade" and was created in 1831. In it, the artist processed his impressions of the July Revolution. In 1832 he went on a long journey to North Africa. The experiences and impressions there expanded his motivations, from which he benefited for the rest of his life.
Delaunay-Terk studied in Saint Petersburg, Karlsruhe and Paris. She settled in the French art metropolis for a year. There she married the art dealer Wilhelm Uhde in 1908. But the marriage didn't last long and divorce followed. Not long afterwards, in 1910, she married the French painter, theater decorator and leading representative of Orphism Robert Delaunay. This connection resulted in a fruitful artistic collaboration. In 1913 she collaborated with the French poet Blaise Cendrars. Together they wrote the first simultaneous book entitled "Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France".
Sonia Delaunay-Terk and her husband created light and color paintings. She was inspired to do this by the works of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and the French painter Paul Gaugin. She also dealt intensively with the color aesthetic theories of the French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul. Sonia Delaunay-Terk developed the idea of simultaneousism, which she also implemented and further developed in her works. In this way the title "Prismes électriques" was created in 1914. In 1961, an untitled color lithograph was created showing semicircles and squares. In the same year she created a gouache on wove paper as a composition of squares. This artistic idea was then also used in her designer works of theater decorations and costumes.
In 1968, among other things, she designed the ballet "Danses Concertantes" by the Russian composer Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky. Sonia Delaunay-Terk also creates fabric designs, for example for the French actor and author Jean Poiret. With her style, Sonia Delaunay-Terk pioneered the movement of geometric abstraction. She was one of the important representatives of abstract painting in France. In 1975 she was awarded membership in the French Legion of Honor. The following year she generously donated her graphic work to the Center Georges Pompidou. Her works also include the painting "Bal Bullier", "Costume Studies" and the color lithograph "Grande Icone I.".- Michael Conroy was born on 14 December 1920 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for First Offenders (1939) and What's My Line? (1950). He died on 5 December 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Joan Gaylord was an actress, known for Happy Days (1929) and Red Heads (1930). She died on 5 December 1979.
- Rosaleen Norton was born on 2 October 1917 in Dunedin, New Zealand. She died on 5 December 1979 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.