She was born in Auckland, New Zealand. At age sixteen, she worked as a model in Europe and with Ford Models, New York in the United States. In 1999, she married Olympic swimmer Scott Miller. The couple divorced in 2000.
Dawson committed suicide by hanging on the morning of 22 February 2014 at her home in Woolloomooloo, Sydney, New South Wales. She was 47 years old. Police said they were called to the home at 11:18 a.m. and that there were no suspicious circumstances to the death. She had a long history of depression. She tried to commit suicide in August 2012, after a much publicised battle with Twitter trolls.
Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key said he was "shocked" and "saddened" by her death.
Dale Gardner
Dale Allan Gardner (November 8, 1948 – February 19, 2014) was an American NASA astronaut. He flew two Space Shuttle missions during the early 1980s. He was born in Fairmont, Minnesota.
Gardner died from a brain hemorrhage on February 19, 2014 in his Colorado home. He was aged 65. He was outlived by his two children.
Cape Colony
The Cape Colony () was the name of a colony based around the Cape of Good Hope, in southern Africa. It was first established in 1652 by Jan van Riebeeck as a governorate of the Dutch East India Company. It was captured by the British in 1795 and returned to the Dutch in 1802. In 1806 it was again captured by the British. It united with three other British colonies in 1910 to form the Union of South Africa when it was renamed the "Cape Province". Its capital was Cape Town, the modern-day legislative capital of the Republic of South Africa.
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Sakis Boulas
Athanasios "Sakis" Boulas (; 11 March 1954 – 21 February 2014) was a Greek singer, songwriter and actor. He made several studio albums and wrote songs for other musicians. He starred in several television shows and movies. His career has lasted for over 35 years. His career began in 1979.
Boulas was born in Kilkis, Greece on 11 March 1954. He was raised in Piraeus. Boulas died of cancer in Athens, aged 59.
Shep Houghton
George Shephard "Shep" Houghton (June 4, 1914 - December 15, 2016) was an American actor and dancer. He is known for his role in "Gone with the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz". At the time of his death Houghton was the oldest surviving crew member from both movies.
Houghton was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 4, 1914. He was born to a family of farmers. His parents were George Henry Houghton (1883-1958) and Mabell Viola Shephard (1883-1972). His family moved to Hollywood for business reasons in 1927.
They settled not far from Paramount Pictures' studios. In 1927, Shep made his first movie. It was the "Underworld". It was a silent movie. Houghton was a dancer during his early career. He once taught actress Greta Garbo how to waltz for a role in "Conquest".
In 1939, Houghton appeared in two movie classics, first as Ozmite and a Winkie Guard in the "Wizard of Oz" and as a Southern dandy in "Gone with the Wind".
Houghton acted in many recurring roles, beginning with the "Jack Benny Program" in 1950. He worked on the program until 1965. He appeared in "", in which he appeared in only the first three episodes. In addition to these productions, he worked on the "I Love Lucy" show from 1951 to 1957. He also appeared on "Wagon Train", "Perry Mason", "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour", "Mr. Lucky", "The Untouchables", and "The Twilight Zone".
The 1960s, he appeared in "My Three Sons", "The Andy Griffith Show", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", and "The Loretta Young Show". In movies, Houghton appeared as a slave in "Spartacus" and as a dancer in "Hello, Dolly!".
In the 1970s, he worked on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". His last role was as a juror in the final episodes of "Ellery Queen". He retired from acting later that year.
In 1935 he married Jane Rosily Kellogg. The couple divorced in 1945. He married actress Geraldine Farnum in 1946, but they divorced in 1948. Shep had two children.
In the early 1950s he worked for television, mostly as a dancer. He married Mel Carter in 1975.
He died on December 15, 2016 in Hoodsport, Washington.
Fay McKenzie
Fay McKenzie (February 19, 1918 – April 16, 2019) was an American actress. She was best known for her leading lady roles. She appeared in two movies with Gene Autry in 1941 and 1942.
McKenzie was the daughter of the actor Robert McKenzie and actress Eva McKenzie. One of her first roles was at the age of six in "The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln" (1924) where she played Sarah Lincoln. She married screenwriter Tom Waldman.
McKenzie was born on February 19, 1918, in Hollywood, California. She died on April 16, 2019 in Los Angeles, at the age of 101.
Lassie Lou Ahern
Lassie Lou Ahern (June 25, 1920 – February 15, 2018) was an American former child actress and television actress. She was known for her role in "Uncle Tom's Cabin". She made some guest appearances on television shows such as "The Odd Couple".
Ahern was born on June 25, 1920 in Los Angeles, California. She died of complications from influenza in Prescott, Arizona on February 15, 2018 at the age of 97.
Hanna Maron
Hanna Maron (; 22 November 1923 – 30 May 2014) was an Israeli actress and stage actress. Maron was known for her stage roles in "Pygmalion", "The Glass Menagerie" and "Hello, Dolly!", as well as several plays by Nathan Alterman.
Hanna (Meierzak) Maron was born in Berlin, Germany.
Mildred Kornman
Mildred Kornman (born July 10, 1925), also known as Ricki VanDusen, is a former American child actress.
Mildred was the leading lady of the silent movie "Our Gang" series. She was featured as a regular in the series from 1926–1928 and made more appearances from 1929 until 1935. She had no speaking roles and appeared when many children.
Dickie Moore (actor)
John Richard "Dickie" Moore, Jr. (September 12, 1925 – September 10, 2015) was a former American child actor. He was known for his roles in "Oliver Twist", "Blonde Venus", and in "Miss Annie Rooney".
Moore was born on September 12, 1925 in Los Angeles, California.
Loni Nest
Loni Nest (born Eleonore Nest; August 4, 1915 - October 2, 1990) was a German actress.
She was born in Berlin to American parents. At the early age of four weeks, she was first featured in a movie. She used the name Loni Nest instead of Eleonore Nest. Between 1918 and 1933, she starred in 41 movies, opposite such actors as Charles Boyer, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Fritz Feld.
After more than 40 movies, she ended her movie career in 1928 at the early age of 13. In 1933 she played in one last movie in France.
Her whereabouts after 1933 remained unknown for several decades.
She died at the age of 75 on October 2, 1990 in the French town Nice.
In 2014, the website "Forever missed" published an obituary that ostensibly revealed that Nest had died on Hawaii in 2014 at the old age of 98. It also described details of Nest's life after she left Germany and moved to America. Various websites including the Internet Movie Database quickly adopted this information. However it was soon discovered, that both the time and location of her death as well as the details about her later life were completely made up.
According to the German newspaper Die Welt, German film historian Toni Schieck had discovered years before that Nest's sister Ursula had moved to the USA and died in Florida in 2007. Through her family, Schieck discovered that Nest had married and taken the last name Arnault. She moved to France where she died at the age of 75 in Nice.
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Helen Rowland
Helen Rowland, sometimes known as Baby Helen Rowland (born October 23, 1919) was an American child actress. She appeared in nine movies between 1922 and 1927. She was known for her role in "Timothy's Quest".
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