Inuzuka Minoru 9But Getting Farther Off-Topic)

[Mark R. Harris]

Further research reveals that Frenke may be dead after all. There is a
lively discussion going on about this at The Blackboard, a film noir board.
The 1993 *New York Times* obituary for actress Anna Sten, who had been
married to Frenke, contains this observation:

"A friend, William Hughes, an actor, said yesterday that her first marriage,
to a Russian-born film director, Fedor Ozep, ended in divorce, and that her
second husband, Eugene Frenke, a film director and producer to whom she was
married in the 1930's, died about five years ago."

Interestingly. Frenke's first production credit in 1931 was on a film that
Ozep co-directed and that Sten starred in (the German version of *The
Brothers Karamazov*). The IMDB has Sten and Ozep divorcing in 1931 and Sten
and Frenke marrying in 1932, so I detect a juicy behind-the-scenes story.
However, since I've wandered rather far off topic, I'll leave the matter
there.

Best,
Mark


On 12/21/07, Mark R. Harris <brokerharris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good catch, Alex! I hadn't thought about Delannoy in a while, although I
> have him in a list of very old cultural figures, including the composer
> Elliot Carter (99), the artist Dorothea Tanning (97), the actress Luise
> Rainer (97), the singer Magda Olivero (97), the radio writer Norman Corwin
> (97), the novelist Julien Gracq (97), the historian Jacques Barzun (100),
> the mystery novelist Phyllis Whitney (104), the architect Oscar Niemeyer
> (100), the film producer Run Run Shaw (100), the novelist Edward Upward
> (104), the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (99), and the cartoonist Boris
> Efimov (107), among others. Another on the list, the choreographer Igor
> Moiseyev, just died on November 2 at the age of 101.
>
> Best,
> Mark
>



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