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Robby Müller was born on 4 April 1940 in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Breaking the Waves (1996), Paris, Texas (1984) and Repo Man (1984). He died on 3 July 2018 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.- Patricia Highsmith was born on 19 January 1921 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. She was a writer, known for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Strangers on a Train (1951) and Carol (2015). She died on 4 February 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland.
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Virtuoso fiddler Vassar Clements was a true musician's musician. Vassar was born on April 25, 1928 in Kinard, Florida and grew up in Kissimmee, Florida. Clements taught himself how to play the fiddle at age seven. He started playing for bluegrass legend Bill Monroe when he was only fourteen and still in school. Vassar became a regular Bluegrass Boy with Monroe in 1949 and was with him through 1956. From 1957 to 1961 Clements performed with bluegrass stalwarts Jim and Jesse McReynolds. In 1962 he took leave from music to pursue other interests, but returned to music full time when he decided to make Nashville, Tennessee his home in January, 1967. Vassar participated in recording sessions and played tenor banjo in Nashville's "Dixieland Landing" Club until October, 1969. Clements started touring with Faron Young and did occasional solo dates when time permitted. In February, 1971 he joined John Hartford and his Dobrolic Plectral Society. One of the most respected and sought after session musicians in Nashville, Vassar performed and/or recorded with a huge array of artists who include Jerry Garcia, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Johnny Cash, David Grisman, Dickey Betts, Paul McCartney, Linda Ronstadt, The Del McCoury Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Jimmy Buffett, The Grateful Dead, J.J. Cale, The Byrds, Hank Williams, Earl Scruggs, and The Allman Brothers. He recorded twenty-seven solo albums and played on over 200 albums throughout his long and impressive career. Vassar appeared as himself in Robert Altman's acclaimed movie "Nashville." Besides the fiddle, other instruments Clements played were the viola, cello, bass, guitar, banjo, and mandolin. Moreover, his musical work encompassed such genres as blues, country, swing, jazz, bluegrass, and even waltzes. Vassar was married twice and had five children. Clements died at age 77 from lung cancer on August 16, 2005 in Goodlettsville, Tennessee.- Actress
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Susan Ker Weld was born on August 27, 1943 (Friday), in New York City. When her father, Lathrop Motley Weld, died three years later at the age of 49, the cute little girl, whose name by then had somehow been transmogrified into "Tuesday", took over the role of the family breadwinner. She became a successful child model, posing for advertisements and mail-order catalogs. Her work and the burden of responsibility estranged her from her mother Aileen, her two elder siblings, and catapulted the preteen girl into adulthood. At nine years of age, she suffered a nervous breakdown; at ten, she started heavy drinking; one year later, she began to have love affairs, all of which led to a suicide attempt at age twelve. In 1956 she debuted in the low-budget exploitation movie Rock Rock Rock! (1956) and decided to become an actress. After numerous TV appearances in New York she went to Hollywood in 1958 and was cast for Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958), something of a breakthrough for her. Over the next few years Tuesday became Hollywood's queen of teen, playing mainly precocious sex kittens. Her wild private life added to the entertainment of her fans. Critics acknowledged her talent, directors approved of her professionalism, and in the mid-1970s she even managed to grow out of her child/woman image and find more demanding roles - she had been "sweet little 16" for about 16 years. However, Tuesday Weld didn't achieve first-magnitude stardom. Maybe she was just unlucky with her selection of jobs (she turned down Lolita (1962), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), True Grit (1969), Cactus Flower (1969), among others); maybe her independence-loving mind made her instinctively shrink back from the restraints of super stardom. In any case, she kept on performing well in films that had either not much flair or not much success. From the early '80s on she focused more and more on made-for-TV movies, which was ironic in that the best (Once Upon a Time in America (1984)) and the most successful (Falling Down (1993)) films that came her way happened as her big-screen career was already petering out.- Writer
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At age 17, Samuel Fuller was the youngest reporter ever to be in charge of the events section of the New York Journal. After having participated in the European battle theater in World War II, he directed some minor action productions for which he mostly wrote the scripts himself and which he also produced (e.g. The Baron of Arizona (1950)). His masterpiece was Pickup on South Street (1953) for 20th Century Fox, but at the end of the 1950s, he regained his independence from the production company and filmed many other movies of note, including the controversial White Dog (1982).- Writer
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Joan Didion was born on 5 December 1934 in Sacramento, California, USA. She was a writer, known for A Star Is Born (2018), A Star Is Born (1976) and Up Close & Personal (1996). She was married to John Gregory Dunne. She died on 23 December 2021 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.