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Aeronca Ad - October 1943 1939: RAF reconnaissance planes shoots down a German flying boat over the North Sea. 1939: The American cargo ship 'City of Flint' and its crew are captured by a German warship, despite the fact that the United States and Germany are not at war. The American sailors are eventually freed when the Germans are forced to dock in Norway. 1939: An SS unit executes 20 Poles in the Jewish cemetery in Swiecie.Virna Lisi 1940: The RAF attacks Berlin. Churchill makes statement to Commons claiming that bombing casualties are falling.
1940: Churchill makes statement to Commons and claims that the Germans have the capability to 'throw 500,000 men onto salt water or into it'. Virna Lisi 1940: Another heavily escorted supply convoy sets sail for Malta from Alexandria. However, bad weather stops the Italian fleet from putting to sea and the convoy arrives safely.
Only the escorts return trip to Alexandria, they are attacked by a force of Italian Destroyers and Torpedo boats. No casualties are suffered by the Royal Navy, but the Italians lose 2 destroyers and 2 Torpedo boats sunk and 1 Destroyer damaged. 1940: Churchill makes statement to Commons that the Burma Road is to be reopened. Bristol-Myers Ad - October 1944 1941: In a letter to Stalin, President Roosevelt promises U.S. Military aid to the Soviet Union.
1942: The final 'Torch' (invasion of NW Africa) plans are issued. 1942: Strong Japanese rearguard action against the Australians at Templeton Crossing on the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea.
Virna Lisi 1944: Units of the U.S. Ninth Army reach the outskirts of Aachen on the German border. Virna Lisi 1945: Rudolph Hess is flown from England to Germany to stand trial. 1945: President Harry S. Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada. Virna Lisi. Italian goddess Virni Lisi was merely one of a plethora of European movie beauties who proved over the course of their long careers, that they were capable of more than just visual performances.
Born on 8 November 1936 as Virna Lisa Pieralisi in Jesi, Province of Ancona, Italy, she began her film career as a teenager in 1953. Cast more for her looks than talent at the onset, her early pictures included 'The Doll That Took the Town' (1956), 'Don't Tempt the Devil' (1962) and the Italian-made spectacle 'Duel of the Titans' (1961). The pert and sexy star also made a decorative dent in Hollywood comedy as a tempting blue-eyed blonde starring opposite Jack Lemmon in 'How to Murder Your Wife' (1965), and appearing with Tony Curtis in 'Not with My Wife, You Don't!' Confined to the same type of glamour roles here, she returned to Europe within a couple of years but hardly fared better in such mediocre movies as 'Arabella' (1967). In later decades, however, a career renaissance occurred for Virna. She began to be perceived as more than just a tasty dish, giving a wide variety of mature, award-winning performances. It all culminated in the role of a lifetime with the film 'Queen Margot' (1994), in which she played a marvelously malevolent Catherine de Medici and captured both the Cesar and Cannes Film Festival awards, not to mention the Italian version of the 'Oscar.'
She has since reigned supreme as a character lead and support player. TRIVIA: Measurements: 34C' - 24' - 35' Height: 5' 5' (1.65 m) Spouse: Franco Pesci (25 April 1960 - present) 1 child Was cast in the title role in Barbarella (1968), but she turned it down and returned to Italy. Defoe Shipbuilding Company Ad - October 1944.
Allison Aircraft Engines Ad - October 1942 1939: After a 2 day battle against Soviet tanks and planes and then a 5-day fight against the Germans. The last remaining Polish troops (17,000 men) surrender to German forces at Kock and Lublin. 1939: Hitler in a speech to the Reichstag announces the victorious conclusion of the Polish campaign and calls upon Britain and France to cease hostilities and come to terms with Germany. This is rejected by both the British and French government's.
1939: Proclamation by Hitler on the isolation of Jews.Myrna Loy 1941: Churchill gives a personal undertaking to Stalin to send a convoy every ten days to Russia's northern ports. 1942: The setting up of a UN commission to investigate war crimes is announced in Washington.
Myrna Loy 1942: The III Panzer Corps captures Malgobek at the bend of the Terek river in the Caucasus. 1942: Montgomery issues the final plan to senior commanders for the Second battle of El Alamein.
Allison Aircraft Engines Ad - October 1943 1943: The U.S. Fifth Army takes Capua and Caserta.
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1943: Two Russian armies take Nevel on the boundary between Army Groups North and Centre. Myrna Loy 1944: The Canadian 3rd Division attacks the Breskena Pocket, South of the Scheldt.
1944: A Russian offensive by 64 divisions, 750 tanks and 1,100 aircraft commences near Arad in Hungary, with the aim of destroying Army Group South. Myrna Loy 1945: General George Patton prepares to turn over command of the Third Army to General Lucian K. Patton is relieved of the command because he is believed to be favorably inclined toward the Germans, as well as anti-Semitic. Patton later claims he was 'done to death by slanderous tongues'. Myrna Loy. Myrna Williams, later to become Myrna Loy, was born on August 2, 1905 in Radersburg, Montana.
Her father was the youngest person ever elected to the Montana State legislature. Later on her family moved to Helena where she spent her youth. At the age of 13, Myrna's father died of influenza and the rest of the family moved to Los Angeles. She was educated in L.A. And the Westlake School for Girls where she caught the acting bug. She started at the age of 15 when she appeared in local stage productions in order to help support her family. Some of the stage plays were held in the now famous Grauman's Theater in Hollywood.
Rudolph Valentino happened to be in the audience one night who managed to pull some strings to get Myrna some parts in the motion picture industry. Her first film was a small part in the production of 'What Price Beauty?' Later she appeared the same year in 'Pretty Ladies' (1925) along with Joan Crawford. She was one of the few stars that would start in the silent movies and make a successful transition into the sound era. In the silent films, Myrna would appear as an exotic femme fatale. Later in the sound era, she would become a refined, wholesome character. Unable to land a contract with MGM, she continued to appear in small, bit roles, nothing that one could really call acting.
In 1926, Myrna appeared in the Warner Brothers film called 'Satan in Sables' (1925) which, at long last, landed her a contract. Her first appearance as a contract player was 'The Caveman' (1926) where she played a maid. Although she was typecast over and over again as a vamp, Myrna continued to stay busy with small parts.
Finally, in 1927, she received star billing in 'Bitter Apples' (1927). The excitement was short lived as she returned to the usual smaller roles afterward. Myrna would take any role that would give her exposure and showcase the talent she felt was being wasted. It seemed that she would play one vamp after another. She wanted something better. Finally her contract ran out with warner and she signed with MGM where she got two meaty roles.
One was in the 'The Prizefighter and the Lady' (1933), and the other as Nora Charles in 'The Thin Man' (1934) with William Powell. Most agreed that the Thin Man series would never have been successful without Myrna. Her witty perception of situations gave her the image that one could not pull a fast one over on the no-nonsense Mrs. After 'The Thin Man' (1934), Myrna would appear in five more in the series. Myrna was a big box-office draw. She was popular enough that, in 1936, she was named Queen of the Movies and Clark Gable the king in a nationwide poll of movie goers. Her popularity was at its zenith.
In the summer of 1939 Myrna and Arthur Hornblow went to Europe for 3 weeks. There they found the threat of war over everywhere they went. When war broke out, Myrna took an active part in the money raising activities that Hollywood held for War Relief, and The Red Cross, amongst others. Myrna Loy The bombing of Pearl Harbor increased the war effort in Hollywood. California was felt to be vulnerable and the airport and studios were painted with camouflage paint. Myrna Loy donned a uniform when she joined the Hollywood Chapter of 'Bundles for Bluejackets' - helping to run a Naval Auxiliary Canteen and going on fund raising tours.
Myrna set up entertainment programs for military hospitals in the Eastern United States, visiting many hospitals herself, where she was very moved by the plight of the soldiers she saw there. Myrna Loy She continued to make films through the 40s and 50s but the roles were fewer and fewer. By the 1960's the parts had all but dried up as producers and directors looked elsewhere for talent.
In 1960 she appeared in 'Midnight Lace' (1960) and was not in another until 1969 in 'The April Fools' (1969). The 1970s found her in TV movies, not theatrical productions. Her last film was in 1981 called 'Summer Solstice' (1981) (TV). Loy had two mastectomies in 1975 and 1979 for breast cancer.
By the time Myrna passed away during surgery, on December 14, 1993, in New York City, New York at the age of 88, she had appeared in a phenomenal 129 motion pictures. She was buried in Helena, Montana.
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TRIVIA: Nickname: Queen of Hollywood The Perfect Wife Queen of the Movies Minnie Measurements: 35 1/2-26 1/2-33 1/2 (from MGM's designer Adrian), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Height: 5' 6' (1.68 m) Spouse: Howland H. Sargeant (1 June 1951 - 31 May 1960) (divorced) Gene Markey (3 January 1946 - 21 August 1950) (divorced) John Hertz Jr.
(6 June 1942 - 21 August 1944) (divorced) Arthur Hornblow Jr. (27 June 1936 - 1 June 1942) (divorced) Outspoken against Adolf Hitler in the War, Myrna appeared on his blacklist. Was supposedly the favorite star of famed outlaw John Dillinger. He came out of hiding to see Manhattan Melodrama (1934), in which she starred, and was gunned down by police upon leaving the theater. Allison Aircraft Engines Ad - October 1944. Winchester Ad - October 1942 1939: Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.Susan Cabot 1940: Mussolini and Hitler meet at the Brenner Pass.
1940: Admiralty announces recent sinking of seven German and two Italian submarines. Susan Cabot 1942: A Commando raid on Occupied Sark, in Channel Islands capture's one German soldier. 1942: The fourth German offensive begins in Stalingrad as the XIV Panzer Corps launches an attack in force to capture the Tractor Factory in the northern part of the city. Susan Cabot 1943: Organized British resistance ends on Kos. The French complete their take over of Corsica. 1943: Himmler talks openly about the Final Solution at Posen. Winchester Ad - October 1943 1944: German minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels tells the German public that the Allies are launching an offensive in an attempt to end the war before the November election.
The Germans, he says, must use guerrilla tactics, if necessary, to resist their enemies. Susan Cabot 1944: The Russian 46th Army is within 10 miles of Belgrade. 1944: The British launch Operation 'Manna', and intervene in Greece, with 2nd Airborne Brigade landing at Patras. Other landings take on Crete and other Islands in the Aegean.
Susan Cabot. Born Harriet Shapiro on July 9, 1927 to a Russian Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, Cabot's early life was one of turmoil, and she was raised in eight different foster homes. She completed her education in New York, New York, and found employment as an illustrator. She supplemented her income by working as a singer, and also worked in theater.
She attended high school in Manhattan, where she took an interest in dramatics and joined the school dramatic club. Later, while trying to decide between a career in music or art, she illustrated children's books during the day and sang at Manhattan's Village Barn at night. It was at this same time that she made her film debut as an extra in Fox's New York-made 'Kiss of Death' (1947) and worked in New York-based television. Max Arnow, a casting director for Columbia Pictures, spotted Cabot at the Village Barn, and a co-starring role in that studio's B-grade South Seas drama 'On the Isle of Samoa' (1950) resulted. While in Hollywood, Cabot was also signed for the role of an Indian maiden in Universal's 'Tomahawk' (1951) with Van Heflin.
Subsequently signed to an exclusive contract by Universal, Cabot co-starred in a long string of films opposite leading men like John Lund, Tony Curtis and Audie Murphy. Inevitably, she became fed up with the succession of Western and Arabian Nights roles, asked for a release from her Universal pact, and accepted an offer from Harold Robbins to star in his play 'A Stone for Danny Fisher' in New York. Roger Corman lured her back to Hollywood to play the lead in the melodramatic rock'n'roller 'Carnival Rock' (1957) and she stayed on to star in five more films for the enterprising young producer-director. After a highly publicized 1959 fling with Jordan's King Hussein, Cabot divided her time between TV work and roles in stage plays and musicals. She was invited to return to Hollywood and appeared in a few more films, including 'The Wasp Woman' in 1960, her final film role. Susan Cabot Cabot first married in 1944 to Martin Sacker.
They divorced in 1951. In 1959, she began a relationship with King Hussein of Jordan. The couple was engaged, but broke up after King Hussein discovered that Cabot was Jewish. In 1968, she married second husband Michael Roman with whom she had one son, Timothy Scott Roman, before divorcing in 1983. On December 10, 1986, Cabot's son, Timothy Scott Roman, who suffered from dwarfism and psychological problems. He bludgeoned her to death while she slept with a weight-lifting bar in the bedroom of her Encino home. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter but cited years of mental and physical abuse by her as his defense.
He received a three-year suspended sentence and was placed on probation for the crime. TRIVIA: Height: 5' 2' (1.57 m) Married at the age of 17 in order to escape her sad and transient childhood, which included eight different foster homes. In 1968, she married her second husband, actor Michael Roman, but the marriage broke up in the early 1980s, in part due to Cabot's increasing mental fragility and paranoia.
Cabot had reportedly been taking a growth hormone prescribed for her son, possibly a factor in heightening her mental illness. Western Cartridge Company Ad - October 1943. Philco Corporation Ad - October 1942 1940: U.S. Army adopts airborne, or parachute, soldiers. Airborne troops were later used in World War II for landing troops in combat and infiltrating agents into enemy territory.
1940: Chamberlain resigns as Lord President of the Council through ill health, and cabinet is reshuffled with Sir Kingsley Wood, the Chancellor, and Ernie Bevin, Minister of Labour joining War Cabinet. 1940: Vichy France passes its own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws.Donna Martell 1941: Charles Lindbergh warns an America First audience that President Roosevelt wants to 'prevent freedom of speech' and might go so far as to cancel congressional elections in 1942. 1941: British road deaths in the second year of war up 65% on the pre-war figure. 1941: Hitler tells the German people that Russian 'has already been broken and will never rise again'. Troops of Army Group Centre capture Orel. Black & White Scotch Ad - October 1942 1941: General Cunningham's plan for 'Operation Crusader' is approved by General Auchinleck to be launched on the 11th November. The aim is for XXX Corps, which includes the bulk of the British Armour to draw the 15th and 21st Panzer Division into combat and destroy their tank strength.
Then, XIII Corps, having contained the axis forces on the frontier, would envelop them from the south and advance on Tobruk, whose garrison would break out at an opportune moment and link up. While all this was happening, a smaller element called 'Oasis Force' would advance further west in to Libya than the main force, in order to deceive Rommel as to where the main effort was to be made. Further smaller operations were to be mounted by the SAS on Axis airfields in Libya in an attempt to destroy aircraft on the ground. 1941: Australian Independents vote with the Labour to defeat McFadden government. Donna Martell 1942: Germany conducts the first successful test flight of a V-2 missile, which flies perfectly over a 118-mile course.
1942: The 6th Army continues to push the decimated Soviet 62nd Army back toward the Volga, but with heavy losses to both sides. Crown Zipper Ad - October 1943 1943: The Germans invade Kos with the assistance of massive air support. 1943: Japanese forces launch the successful 'rice' offensive in Central China. 1944: The allies begin a 60-hour truce at Dunkirk to allow the evacuation of civilians. Third Army resumes its attack on Fort Driant, Metz for the next 10 days. Donna Martell. Born Irene De Mario on 24 December 1927, a native of Los Angeles, Donna Martell was first 'spotted' at L.A.
City College by a fellow student who worked for a Hollywood talent scout. Just 17, she made her motion picture debut (acting under the name Donna DeMario) in the Republic Western 'Apache Rose' (1947) with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, her first of over two dozen movie credits. In addition to 'Apache Rose', Donna's western film credits include: 'Hills of Utah (1951) and 'Twilight on the Rio Grande' (1947) with Gene Autry, 'Ten Wanted Men' (1954) with Randolph Scott, 'Last of the Desperadoes' (1956) with James Craig, and 'Robin Hood of Monterey' with Gilbert Roland (as the Cisco Kid). Donna was offered a contract at Republic, but opted to sign with Universal.
During the late 1940s - early 1950s, she appeared in a variety of female leads, supporting roles and bits - she was at Monogram with Johnny Sheffield in 'Bomba and the Elephant Stampede' (1951). With Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in 'Mexican Hayride' (1948) and 'Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff' (1949).
With western singer/musician Tex Williams at Universal in 'South of Santa Fe' (1949). At 20th Century Fox as the sister to Jennifer Jones in the big budget 'Love Is a Many Splendored Thing' (1955). And as the female lead in the low budget sci-fi 'Project Moon Base' (1953).
Donna Martell in 'Project Moon Base' Later placed under contract by Universal-International, Martell acted in many of the studio's shorts and features before turning freelancer and establishing herself on television. Always busier on television (especially Western series) than in features, work in dozens of TV shows of the 1950s through early 1960s period, where she seemed to be one of the more prolific female performers. She did work with Gene Barry in 'Bat Masterson', Jock Mahoney in 'The Range Rider', Clint Walker in 'Cheyenne', Efrem Zimbalist on '77 Sunset Strip'. And lots more. Donna was married to baseball player Gene Corso. In later years, she did a variety of TV commercials.
Martell dropped from acting in the 1960s, but has recently discovered 'the convention circuit.' Philco Corporation Ad - October 1943. The latest headlines.
Hamilton Watch Ad - September 1943 1938: Under German threats of war, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign an accord permitting Germany to take control of Sudetenland-a region of Czechoslovakia inhabited by a German-speaking minority. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain boasts, 'I believe it is peace in our time.' 1939: Graf Spee sinks the British steamship Clement off Pernambuco, Brazil.Allison Hayes 1939: Polish government-in-exile set up in Paris. 1939: The French Army is called back into France from its invasion of Germany. The attack, code named Operation Saar, only penetrated five miles. Allison Hayes 1940: British civilian casualties for the month September announced: 6,954 dead, 10,615 injured.
1941: Newcastle bombed, but only the second serious raid on Britain in a month with September's casualties listed as 217 killed. 1941: The guard at a detention centre in Peel on the Isle of Man is strengthened after disturbances, which results with 20 British fascists being moved to Liverpool. Allison Hayes 1941: As part of operation 'Typhoon' Guderian's Panzer Group 2 opens its offensive against Moscow, 2 days ahead of the rest of Army Group Centre and makes 50-miles in its advance towards Orel. 1942: Top-scoring Luftwaffe ace and Diamonds winner Hans-Joachim Marseille (158 British aircraft) of 3./JG 27 is killed in a flying accident.
Vinco Ad - September 1943 1943: The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps becomes the Women's Army Corps, a regular contingent of the U.S. Army with the same status as other army service corps. 1943: The British announce that 5,211 casualties were suffered at Salerno.
Allison Hayes 1943: The Russians make Dnieper River crossings on a 300-mile front. 1943: On the eve of the Jewish New Year, the Gestapo and Danish Nazis begin rounding up all Danish Jews. Allison Hayes 1944: Rejoicing in the streets of Dover at the announcement that the last of the German cross-channel guns, which have pounded the southeast coast of Britain for three years, have been silenced.
1944: The 7,500 strong Calais garrison surrenders to the Canadians.1946: An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes. Allison Hayes.
Born Mary Jane Hayes in Charleston, West Virginia, on March 6, 1930, Allison Hayes grew up to become Miss Washington D.C. Hayes took jobs in early television in Washington before moving to California in 1953 to begin an acting career. Allison Hayes acted in a string of B movies, along with a few 'A' films, from 1954 to 1965. One of her earliest films was the Universal series entry 'Francis Joins the WACS' (1954; with Mamie Van Doren). She counted among her friends Raymond Burr and Nancy Kulp; she worked with Burr numerous times on his Perry Mason series. In addition, Hayes made many guest appearances on popular TV programs in the 1950s and 1960s. Allison Hayes Always in demand, Hayes' busiest period came in the late 1950s when she was cast in numerous B film roles, such as 'Gunslinger' (1956; with Beverly Garland and John Ireland), 'The Unearthly' (1957; with Tor Johnson and Sally Todd), 'The Disembodied' (1957; with Paul Burke); 'Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman' (1958; with Yvette Vickers), and 'The High Powered Rifle' (1960).
After 1960, Hayes began taking on more television roles and made films only sporadically thereafter. Allison was a versatile actress; she did drama very well, as when she guest starred on 'The Untouchables' TV series in the highly-rated episode: 'The Rusty Heller Story.' Allison had a flair for comedy, which she demonstrated when she appeared in the Dean Martin film 'Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?' In her last film, she appeared alongside Elvis Presley in 'Tickle Me' (1965; with Merry Anders and Julie Adams). Hayes is featured in the beginning of 'Tickle Me' as a drunken bar patron who lunges as Elvis as he performs. Viewers will note that she looks thin and gaunt in this, her only scene in the film. She made her final appearances in a guest role on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Allison Hayes As her acting career declined, she began to experience severe health problems, and was unable to walk without a cane. In severe pain, her usually good natured personality began to change and she became emotional and volatile, making it difficult for her to secure acting work. For years, Hayes had taken a doctor-prescribed calcium supplement with extreme levels of lead-so extreme that she contracted lead poisoning. After the onset of her illness in the mid 1960s, she was simply too ill to work and was housebound for long periods of time.
Hayes later said that the pain of her illness caused her to contemplate suicide, and that her symptoms were not taken seriously by doctors. Reading a medical book about the metal poisoning of factory workers, Hayes recognized the symptoms described as being similar to her own. Hayes began to question the ingredients of a calcium supplement she had been taking for a long time and when she employed a toxicologist to test a sample of the product, he determined that it had an extremely high content of lead and concluded that Hayes was most likely suffering from lead poisoning.
Hayes mounted a campaign to have the FDA ban the import or sale of the food supplement, finally achieving success in 1976 when they advised her that amendments were being made to the laws governing the importation of nutritional supplements, largely as a result of her situation. An invalid, Hayes moved to San Clemente, California and her health continued to deteriorate. In 1976, she was diagnosed with leukemia and was treated regularly at La Jolla. While at the hospital receiving a blood transfusion, her condition unexpectedly and rapidly deteriorated as she experienced chills, flu-like symptoms and intense pain. She was transferred to the University of California Medical Center in San Diego where she died the following day, on February 27, 1977 (aged 46).
TRIVIA: Measurements: 37-23-36 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Height: 5' 7' (1.70 m) Was the 1949 Washington D.C. Entry into the Miss America pageant. Westinghouse Ad - September 1943. The Day the Music Died, dubbed so by Don McLean's song 'American Pie', was an aviation accident that occurred on February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J. 'The Big Bopper' Richardson, and the pilot, Roger Peterson. After terminating his partnership with The Crickets, Buddy Holly assembled a new band consisting of Waylon Jennings, Tommy Allsup, and Carl Bunch, to play on the 'Winter Dance Party' tour. The tour also featured rising artist Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, who were promoting their own recordings as well.
The tour was to cover 24 Midwestern cities in three weeks. The distance between venues and the conditions prevalent aboard the poorly equipped tour buses adversely affected the performers. Cases of flu spread among the band members, and Holly's drummer was hospitalized due to frostbite.
Frustrated by the conditions, Holly decided to charter a plane when they stopped for their performance in the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, to reach their next venue in Moorhead, Minnesota. Carroll Anderson, owner of the Surf Ballroom, chartered the plane from the Dwyer Flying Service. Richardson, who was affected by the flu, swapped places with Waylon Jennings, taking the latter's place on the plane, while Tommy Allsup lost his place to Ritchie Valens on a coin toss. Dion DiMucci (of Dion and the Belmonts fame) decided not to board the plane for the $36 fee.
Don't worry about frostbite now. They have real good heaters on the local bus that you can ride with your Senior Discount! You can take the bus to the Memorial at the crash site!
