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Director, producer, screenwriter, and actor Ronald William Howard's father was Harold Rance Beckenholdt Howard (1928 - 2017), a director, writer, and actor, and his mother was Jean Frances Speegle (1927 - 2000), an actress. Father Harold took the surname Howard as a stage name, his original surname was Beckenholdt. Ron had a younger brother, Clint, who was also an actor. On June 7, 1975, Ron married his high school sweetheart, Cheryl Alley. They had four children: actress Bryce, twins Jocelyn and Paige, and son Reed. Ron's career has spanned decades in Hollywood, both in television and films See Ron Howard, actor and director for a partial list of his credits.

Frances May (Sherman) Doss was born on January 24, 1922 in Illinois United States. She was married to Desmond Thomas Doss in 1993, and they were together until Desmond's death on March 23, 2006. Frances Doss died at age 87 years old on February 3, 2009 in Piedmont, AL. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Frances May (Sherman) Doss .

Dorothy Pauline (Schutte) Doss was the daughter of Fredrick G Schutte (1892 - 1937) and Elsie J Brewster (1898 - 1989). While her parents were both born in Virginia, she was born in Philadelphia and had siblings Thomas, Ralph, Leslie, Barbara, Gloria, and Harold Schutte. By 1930 the family lived in Manchester, Chesterfield County Virginia, and then moved to New York between 1935-1940. Dorothy married Desmond Thomas Doss (1919 -2006) on August 17th 1942 in Richmond Virginia. They were married for 49 years and had one son Desmond Doss Jr. Tragically, she lost her life when her husband Desmond lost control of their car while he was driving her to her breast cancer treatment and they crashed. He believes that she died instantly. The experiences of her husband Desmond in WW2 are portrayed in the movie "Hacksaw Ridge". For additional information about her husband, see Desmond Doss The Real Life Hero of Hacksaw Ridge. See Sticking by her husband’s side for additional insight into their relationship.

Bryce Dallas Howard was born on March 2, 1981 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Bryce Dallas Howard.

Magda Rosenberg was born in 1936, and died at age 8 years old in 1944 at Auschwitz-Birkenau II 20 Więźniów Oświęcimia, in Oświęcim, oświęcimski County, Małopolskie Poland. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Magda Rosenberg.

February 3, 1996 Gene Kelly, Dancer of Vigor and Grace, Dies By ALBIN KREBS Gene Kelly, the dancer, actor, director and choreographer who brought a vigorous athleticism, casual grace and an earthy masculinity to the high romance of lavish Hollywood musicals, died yesterday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 83. Mr. Kelly's highly developed sense of the possibilities of dance on film invigorated classic musicals like "Anchors Aweigh," "On the Town," "An American in Paris" and "Singin' in the Rain." A gifted dancer with his own vibrant style, he also flourished as an innovative choreographer and director in the 1940's and 50's, the heyday of the big, splashy Hollywood musical. Mr. Kelly, who could also put over a song in a high, thin voice, brought to his films an inventive technique that enabled him to create unusual and imaginative dance routines that usually arose directly out of a plot or script situation. Thus millions of moviegoers remember Mr. Kelly dancing merrily in a downpour in "Singin' in the Rain," hoofing with an animated mouse, Jerry, in "Anchors Aweigh," hopping over garbage cans in a sequence in "It's Always Fair Weather" and, with the aid of special process photography, dancing with himself in the "alter ego" number from "Cover Girl." In addition to his movies, which included "The Pirate," "Brigadoon" and the drama "Inherit the Wind," Mr. Kelly was also a star on Broadway, where he created the title role of the heel as hero in "Pal Joey," choreographed "Best Foot Forward" and directed Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Flower Drum Song." "I don't really know why I clicked," Mr. Kelly said many years later. "I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally. "In the 1930's, when I started, Martha Graham was the only dancer doing anything modern, but she did it all to classical music. I couldn't see myself doing 'Swan Lake' every night, and I wanted to develop a truly American style. The only dancer in the movies at that time with any success was Fred Astaire, but he did very small, elegant steps in a top hat, white tie and tails. I was too big physically for that kind of dancing, and I looked better in a sweatshirt and loafers anyway. It wasn't elegant, but it was me." Eugene Curran Kelly was born on Aug. 23, 1912, in Pittsburgh. His mother insisted that all five of the Kelly children take music and dance lessons, and in high school Mr. Kelly continued dance lessons while also playing on the football and hockey teams. His education at Pennsylvania State College was interrupted by the Depression, and his first job was teaching gymnastics at a summer camp for boys. He was later able to major in economics at the University of Pittsburgh and received a degree in 1933, but jobs were scarce and he went to work for a dancing school partly owned by his mother. Two years later, the school was renamed the Gene Kelly Studio of the Dance and soon a successful branch was opened in Johnstown. Meanwhile, Mr. Kelly directed plays produced locally and formed a dance act with his brother Fred, with whom he performed in a theater for children at the Chicago World's Fair in 1934. In the mid-1930's Mr. Kelly also redirected vaudeville acts that passed through Pittsburgh. Mr. Kelly did not decide to try his luck in New York until 1938, when he was 27 years old. His first job was as a Broadway chorus boy in 1938's "Leave It to Me," dancing while Mary Martin sang "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," but the next year he won critical acclaim for his featured role as the comic hoofer in William Saroyan's play "The Time of Your Life." That success led to his being cast in "Pal Joey," the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical, in which he played the unscrupulous central character so convincingly that John Martin, a critic for The New York Times, said, "He is not only glib-footed, but he has a feeling for comment and content that give his dancing personal distinction and raise it several notches as a dancing art." Mr. Kelly's ability to meld singing and dancing with characterization and the demands of the play's plot attracted so much notice that David O. Selznick signed him to an exclusive Hollywood contract. At the time, Mr. Kelly was appearing in "Pal Joey" at night and by day choreographing the Broadway musical hit "Best Foot Forward." In 1941, he left for Hollywood, where he was to bring a new vitality to dance on film and help change the whole concept of movie musicals. Mr. Selznick had no musicals planned, however, and lent Mr. Kelly to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio most noted for lavish musicals. His first film, in 1942, was "For Me and My Gal," in which he starred as a small-time vaudeville hoofer opposite Judy Garland. It was a huge success, but MGM, after buying the new star's contract from Mr. Selznick, relegated him to relatively minor parts in "DuBarry Was a Lady," "Thousands Cheer," and the wartime drama "Cross of Lorraine." In "Cover Girl," co-starring with Rita Hayworth in 1944 on loan to Columbia Pictures, Mr. Kelly's career took off. With the aid of Stanley Donen, with whom he was to direct and choreograph several movies in years to follow, Mr. Kelly developed the celebrated "alter ego" solo dance with his ectoplasmic self, the character's conscience. Photographed separately, then combined on a single strip of film, the two Kelly images seemed to pursue each other up and down flights of steps, to threaten each other and leap over each other's heads. "For once, a dance on the screen is not merely a specialty but actually develops character and advances plot," wrote a New York Times critic. Mr. Kelly's choreographic inventiveness was credited with the success of the trail-blazing live-dance-with-animation sequence in "Anchors Aweigh" in 1945. He had a hard time persuading MGM officials that they should spend $100,000 and two months shooting an eight-minute number, in which he would dance with Jerry the mouse from the "Tom and Jerry" cartoon series. Simple live action and animation went back to silent-film days, but Mr. Kelly's idea involved color and intricate dance steps for himself and the cartoon characters, and required complex laboratory and processing work. For the charming sequence, Mr. Kelly first danced against a plain blue background, then animators filmed the mouse song-and-dance portion. What audiences saw was a composite picture made from the two separate films, with man and mouse happily dancing and singing. The procedure is common now, even in television commercials, but in the mid-1940's it was hailed as a cinematic breakthrough. After the war, Mr. Kelly's first big picture was "The Pirate," a 1948 spoof of swashbuckling adventures in which he again starred with Judy Garland, with whom he sang the rousing "Be a Clown." James Agee, the critic, found Mr. Kelly's performance "very ambitious, painfully misguided, by John Barrymore out of the elder Douglas Fairbanks." In "The Three Musketeers" (1948), Mr. Kelly did not dance, but as D'Artagnan he used his balletic skills to burlesque some fencing scenes. One of Mr. Kelly's most memorable dance performances came in the seven-minute "Slaughter on 10th Avenue" ballet sequence in "Words and Music," a 1948 movie that was only subliminally based on the lives of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Most critics agreed that about the only thing to cheer about the film was the Rodgers ballet, in which Mr. Kelly was partnered with Vera-Ellen. In 1949, Mr. Kelly made two films with Frank Sinatra, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and one of his all-time hits, "On the Town," which he directed and choreographed with Mr. Donen and filmed mostly on location in New York City. Mr. Kelly, whose co-stars included Betty Garrett, Ann Miller and Vera-Ellen, turned the film into an exhilarating, joyful experience that began with the brassy "New York, New York (It's a Helluva Town)" opening number and never let up in its mood of pervasive effervescence. "This film was a milestone," he said in 1977. "It was the first musical to be shot on location. We took the musical off the sound stage and showed that it could be realistic. But some of Mr. Kelly's most popular and artistically successful films were yet to come. In 1951, "An American in Paris," in which he received sole star billing, won eight Academy Awards, including best picture of the year, and a special Oscar for Mr. Kelly for his contributions to screen choreography. An integral part of the film was a 17-minute ballet conceived by Mr. Kelly and the director, Vincente Minnelli, as a means of showing the impact Paris has on the hero. Costumes, sets and dance movements for the ballet were borrowed from the styles of such artists as Dufy, Renoir, Utrillo, Rousseau, van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec and the music danced to by Mr. Kelly and Leslie Caron was George Gershwin's "American in Paris" suite."Singin' in the Rain," released in 1952, was one of the last of the big MGM musicals and it was, said Vincent Canby, film critic of The New York Times, in a 1975 appraisal, "a movie masterpiece." Again teaming with Mr. Donen, Mr. Kelly helped to direct and choreograph the affectionate spoof of the start of the talkies era in movies. The movie made splendid use of such Arthur Freed-Nacio Herb Brown songs as "You Were Meant for Me," "You Are My Lucky Star" and "All I Do Is Dream of You." In the title number, a love-struck Mr. Kelly, with an umbrella as his principal prop, sang and splashed ecstatically and obliviously through a downpour on an all-but-deserted street. The sequence is widely regarded as a classic piece of cinematic choreography.

Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Massachusetts to Daniel Anthony and Lucy Read. She was the second eldest of seven siblings. Her father was a Quaker and her mother was a Methodist. Susan did not receive a middle name at birth, but she and her sisters chose middle initials during their youth due to the popular trend of having middle initials. Susan chose the initial "B" for Brownell, her aunt's married surname, but she never used it as part of her official name, which remained as "Susan Anthony" or "Susan B. Anthony". Throughout her life, Susan was deeply involved in the fight for civil rights and women's suffrage. She was inspired by her family's Quaker background, and most of her siblings became involved in social activism, with one of her brothers fighting alongside John Brown. In 1848, the Anthony family joined a Quaker organization called "Congregational Friends", which led to Susan's friendship and partnership with ex-slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglas. Susan never married, but she formed a close friendship with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was married with seven children. The two women became inseparable and worked together towards their common goal of women's suffrage and civil rights. Susan B. Anthony was a leader in several organizations dedicated to the cause of civil rights and women's suffrage, including the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Anti-Slavery Society. She dedicated her life to the cause, giving speeches and organizing events to raise awareness and gain support. Despite facing opposition and arrests for her activism, Susan continued to fight for the rights of women and minorities. She died on March 13, 1906, at the age of 86 from heart failure and pneumonia in her home in Rochester, New York. Her legacy lives on, as she is remembered as a pioneering figure in the fight for women's suffrage and civil rights. For further information about her life, see March 13, 1906 Obituary New York Times.

Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 at W 37th St in New York, New York USA. She was married to Franklin Delano Roosevelt on March 17, 1945 in United States, and they were together until Franklin's death on April 12, 1945 in United States. She had children Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Jr., James Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., Elliot Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., and John Aspinwall Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt died at age 78 years old on November 7, 1962 in New York, and was buried on November 10, 1962 at Hyde Park, New York - family plot.