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- Ralph Ball was born on 19 December 1925 in Camberwell, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Internecine Project (1974), The Avengers (1961) and Dixon of Dock Green (1955). He died on 15 January 2003 in London, England, UK.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("You Always Hurt the One You Love", "Tampico", "Put the Blame on Mame", "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall"), composer, singer and author, educated at Juilliard. Her first song hit was in 1938 ("Tutti Frutti", with Slim Gaillard), and in 1940 "Whispering Grass", written with her father Fred Fisher, became an early hit for the Ink Spots.
She joined ASCAP in 1941, and her musical collaborators included Fred Fisher, Arthur Gershwin, and Allan Roberts. She sang with the Eddy Duchin orchestra in 1943, and made records with her own group "Penny Wise and Her Wise Guys". In 1944 alone her songs were recorded by Louis Prima ("Angelina [the Waitress at the Pizzeria]"), Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters ("Good, Good, Good"), Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots ("Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall"), Ella Mae Morse and Harry James ("Invitation to the Blues"), Billie Holiday ("That Ole Devil Called Love"), and the Mills Brothers (and later, Spike Jones, "You Always Hurt the One You Love").
Coming to Hollywood under contract to Columbia with lyricist Allan Roberts in 1945, she wrote film music for only two years until retiring from show business after marrying real estate developer Charles Gershenson. She then became an authority on American furniture, architecture and design. In fact, it was she who helped furnish the White House during the Kennedy administration.
Her other popular-song compositions include "Amado Mio", "You Can't See the Sun When You're Crying", "Tired", "I Wish", "Either It's Love or It Isn't", "They Can't Convince Me", "Gee, It's Good to Hold You", "Fla-Ga-La-Pa" and "Courage Was the Fashion Then" (for the Detroit Bicentennial).- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Harry Purdue was born on 26 July 1966. He was a cinematographer and producer, known for 81 (1996), No Tears (2002) and What Where (2000). He died on 15 January 2003 in Dublin, Ireland.- Mae Babitz was born on 1 November 1911 in Crowley, Acadia, Louisiana, USA. Mae was married to Sol Babitz. Mae died on 15 January 2003 in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Walter Notheis Sr. was born on 31 May 1921. He died on 15 January 2003 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Premysl Kocí was born on 1 June 1917 in Rychvald u Karviné, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor and director, known for Rusalka (1977), Paganini (1982) and Eugene Onegin (1988). He died on 15 January 2003 in Prague, Czech Republic.- Zoltán Godányi was born on 10 October 1919 in Szabadka, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Izdanci iz opaljenog grma (1972). He died on 15 January 2003 in Serbia and Montenegro.
- Jeannette Campbell was born on 8 March 1916 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France. She died on 15 January 2003 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Ludek Svábenský was born on 19 January 1944 in Brno, Protektorát Cechy a Morava [now Czech Republic]. He died on 15 January 2003.
- Gato Alquinta was born on 22 January 1945 in Valparaíso, Valparaíso Region, Chile. He was an actor, known for Los Jaivas: Hijos de la tierra (1995), Festival de Viña del Mar (1963) and Hecho en Chile (1997). He was married to Mónica Monsalve and Verónica Ross. He died on 15 January 2003 in Coquimbo, Coquimbo Region, Chile.