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- Duane Thompson was born on 28 July 1903 in Red Oak, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Husband Hunters (1927), April Fool (1926) and The Lodge in the Wilderness (1926). She died on 15 August 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Herbert M. Dawley was born on 15 March 1880. He was a producer and writer, known for Beauty and the Beast (1924), Jack and the Beanstalk (1924) and Silliettes (1923). He was married to LaVerne. He died on 15 August 1970 in New Providence, New Jersey, USA.- Joe Castagna was born on 7 October 1933 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for The Wild Wild West (1965), That Tender Touch (1969) and How's Your Love Life? (1971). He was married to Regina Parton and Nancy A. Morgan. He died on 15 August 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Ivan Soeldner was a versatile publicist. Journalist, film critic, photographer, dramaturg, screenwriter and director. He was born on the run from the advancing German army on November 18, 1939 in Belgrade. His father was arrested by the Nazis for activities in the resistance and executed in May 1942. Ivan spent the rest of the war with his mother in Palestine. After graduating from high school in Karlovy Vary he graduated from the Department of Film and Television Science in Prague. He ended it in 1963. During his studies interrupted for political reasons, he completed compulsory military service. For the second year in the Studio of Czechoslovak Army Film as an assistant director on the two-part editing film Testimony. After graduation, he worked as an editor of the press department of the Film Institute. From September 1963 as a dramaturge at the Documentary Film Studio, later as a dramaturge for News Film and from October 1969 as a director of Short Film
Since his secondary school studies, he has devoted himself to journalism. He accompanied his texts on important personalities of culture, especially filmmakers from home and abroad, with his own photos. In addition to film, he was also interested in music and theater. He has worked with a number of magazines and newspapers. Czechoslovak, Polish and German. Soeldner's reportage from film and music festivals in Venice, Canes, Midem and Karlovy Vary, where he photographed not only Claudia Cardinal, Alain Delon, Federico Fellini or Marcello Mastroianni, accompanied by analysis of films, still provide valuable evidence of a new wave of Czechoslovak film. During normalization, however, he could only publish film reviews and interviews under a pseudonym.
He originally wrote only short comments on short films. Later, however, he shot a number of them, including classic film weeklies for domestic cinemas. Fever (1964) focused on the beginning beat band, Olympic. Hallo Satchmo (b. 1965) was about the stay of legendary trumpeter Louis Armstrong in Prague (working with director Jan Spata). The stripper (1967) brought an open confession to a young woman from Düsseldorf who had been a stripper in West German bars for ten years. This author's short film quickly ended up locked in a vault. The same fate was met by the medium-length Czechoslovak Spring 68 (1968) or the films Dubcek (1968) and the Sixth President on Ludvik Svoboda (1968), which he worked with director Bohuslav Musil. In addition, Ivan Soeldner made short films Czechoslovakia in Pictures (1968), Top Manager (1970) and Czech Puppets (1970). And as author and director, he has made portraits of foreign singers, Mireille Mathieu (1967) or Ivo Robic from Yugoslavia (1967).
He was in the News Film at all important events of the Prague Spring and subsequent occupation. Together with cameraman Holomek, on August 21, 1968, they made the very first film evidence of the occupation of Prague by Warsaw Pact troops, headed by the Soviet Army. He composed so-called occupation weeklies (he also wrote accompanying texts), which were not warmed up in cinemas for a long time. By order from above, most copies were withdrawn and discarded. As a dramaturge of the News Film, he compiled a unique documentary called Look Man, which captured the closing speech of the infamous Communist Prosecutor Josef Urvalek in a fabricated trial that ended in the death penalty for the former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Rudolf Slansky. The footage of the never-published documentary appeared again in the public after the Velvet Revolution, and subsequently in new programs about the dark time of the 1950s.
The most extensive work of Ivan Soeldner was a television series from the history of Czech popular music, Grandsupertingltangl, which includes in fourteen episodes song production from shoppers, through Hasler, Friml, RA Dvorsky, tramp song, folk music, movie melodies, musical comedy, Jezek, Voskovec and Werich, swing, conductor Karel Vlach, mass song and theater Semafor. The guide was Soeldner's phenomenal cousin, the legendary Czech actor, poet and co-founder of the famous Semafor theater, Jiri Suchy. The day after the last episode, on August 15, 1970, on his way to Olomouc to see his wife and little son, Ivan Soeldner tragically died in a car accident. After the Velvet Revolution he received from the Union of Film and Television Artists posthumously Moral Rehabilitation for the injustices caused by the Communist regime. And director Rudolf Krejcik made one of his most recent film weekends for domestic cinemas entitled Under the Brand Soe (1990).- Costume Designer
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Eugen Probst was born on 14 December 1873 in Basel, Kanton Basel Stadt, Switzerland. Eugen was a costume designer and production designer, known for William Tell (1924). Eugen died on 15 August 1970 in Zürich, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland.