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- Ravishing redhead Elaine Stewart came onto the film scene in the early 1950s and decorated a number of eastern and western films as well as crimers as a second-tier MGM star. Her striking, shapely beauty and "come hither" sensuality was on full display throughout the decade, often as a temptress or schemer. By the early 1960s, however, she had faded from view, prompted by her 1963 marriage to a game show producer. She then came out of her Beverly Hills retirement in the early 1970s made a modest return to TV in the 70s charming daytime audiences on the game show circuit.
Elaine was born Elsy Henrietta Maria Steinberg on May 31, 1930 in Montclair, N.J., the daughter of German immigrants, Maria Hedwig (Hänssler) and Ulrich Ernst Steinberg, a police sergeant, who was of Frisian background. A one-time usherette and cashier at her hometown movie theatre. Elaine developed very quickly into a beautiful young woman. After a brief stint as a medical assistant, and while still a teen, she was eventually taken on by the Conover Modeling Agency. Changing her name to the more glamorous-sounding Elaine Stewart, her whistle-worthy portfolio and beauty awards eventually caught the attention of Hollywood executives.
Movie mogul Hal B. Wallis offered the wannabe starlet the small, unbilled role of a nurse in the Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis slapstick comedy Sailor Beware (1952). MGM subsequently signed the glamour girl to a contract with the intention of building her up as a dark-haired Marilyn Monroe type. The build-up was gradual with window-dressing bits as a chorine, stewardess and the like in such MGM films as Hát Dưới Mưa (1952), You for Me (1952) and Everything I Have Is Yours (1952). She then moved up the movie ladder to more visible parts in Sky Full of Moon (1952) and, most pointedly, as Lila, the sexy lush and opportunist who has a marvelous "descending staircase" bit in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). During this time, she became a popular pin-up and made the cover of Life Magazine. She later appeared nude on the Playboy Magazine pages (September, 1959).
She hit sultry "B" co-star status the following year in the semi-documentary-styled police drama Code Two (1953) opposite Ralph Meeker, appeared briefly as the ill-fated queen "Anne Boleyn", mother to "Queen Elizabeth" in the Jean Simmons starrer Young Bess (1953); provided lovely distraction in the macho war film Take the High Ground! (1953) alongside Richard Widmark; played a princess-in-peril in The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954) and, co-starring with Gene Kelly and Van Johnson, glamoured up the musical Brigadoon (1954). She left MGM around 1956, and finished off the decade with the films Night Passage (1957), The Tattered Dress (1957) and Escort West (1959). In the early 1960s, she made a couple of films both here and abroad and her standard sultry allure could be witnessed on such TV dramas as Burke's Law (1963) and Perry Mason (1957).
Briefly married to actor Bill Carter in the early 1960s, she later wed Emmy Award-winning game show creator Merrill Heatter and left her career to raise two children. In 1972, she became a co-hostess of the Heatter-Quigley game show Gambit (1972) with perennial game show emcee Wink Martindale and later partnered in the dice-rolling gamer High Rollers (1975) with Alex Trebek.
Following an extended illness, the actress died in Beverly Hills at the age of 81 in June of 2011. She was survived by her second husband Merrill Heatter, son Stewart Heatter and daughter Gabrielle Heatter. - Producer
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Basant Nayak was born on 16 January 1937 in Cuttack, Orissa, India. Basant was a producer and writer, known for Naga Phasa (1977), Danda Balunga (1980) and Mo Kola To Jhulana (2001). Basant died on 27 June 2011 in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India.- Jet McDonald was born on 25 October 1927 in Ashland, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Shannon (1961), Studio One (1948) and Gunsmoke (1955). She was married to Adam Lazarre and Bill Johnson. She died on 27 June 2011 in Prescott, Arizona, USA.
- Cassandra Hodges was born on 3 January 1983 in Dallas, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Evangelion: 2.0 (Không Thể) Tiến Lên (2009), Hagane no renkinjutsushi: Tobenai tenshi (2003) and Cang Giả Kim Thuật Sư: Tình Anh Em (2009). She died on 27 June 2011 in Lake Lewisville, Texas, USA.
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Gustavo Dahl was born on 8 October 1938 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and editor, known for Uirá, Um Índio em Busca de Deus (1973), Tensão no Rio (1982) and O Bravo Guerreiro (1968). He was married to Maria Lúcia Dahl. He died on 27 June 2011 in Trancoso, State of Bahia, Brazil.- Aleksei Cherstvov was born on 13 February 1967. He was an actor, known for A u nas byla tishina... (1978), Podranki (1977) and Poshekhonskaya starina (1977). He died on 27 June 2011.
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Born Jan Maciej Zembaty in Tarnów, Poland. Studied in the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw and in the National Film School in Lódz, but didn't graduate from either. Became popular as a translator and performer of Leonard Cohen's songs. He wrote television and film scripts, the best known of which was for the mini-series Siedem zyczen (1986). He also voice-acted as the talking cat Rademenes in the series. He died because of heart attack on June 27, 2011 in Warsaw.- Additional Crew
Mary Donaldson was born on 9 August 1917 in West Newton, Pennsylvania, USA. Mary is known for The Willies (1990). Mary was married to John D. Donaldson. Mary died on 27 June 2011 in San Diego, California, USA.- Miroslav Vrba was born on 17 December 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Kajínek (2010), Dnes neordinuji (1948) and Katapult (1984). He died on 27 June 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic.
- Stuart Appelle was born on 3 April 1946 in the USA. He died on 27 June 2011 in Brighton, New York, USA.
- Anni Aschoff was born on 27 April 1923. She died on 27 June 2011.
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Mary Ffolkes was born on 15 March 1930 in Marion, Ohio, USA. Mary was married to David Ffolkes. Mary died on 27 June 2011 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Betty Callaway was born on 22 March 1928 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK. She died on 27 June 2011 in Seer Green, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
- Lorenzo Charles was born on 25 November 1963 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He died on 27 June 2011 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.