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Stanley Donen was born on April 13, 1924, in Columbia, South Carolina to Mordecai Moses Donen, a dress-shop manager, and Helen (Cohen), the daughter of a jewelry salesman. [4]: 4–6 His younger sister Carla Donen Davis was born in August 1937. [4]: 14 Born to Jewish parents, Donen became an atheist in his youth.
Moses Cohen Mordecai (1804–1888) was an American businessman, politician, and parnas (synagogue administrator). He was the owner of the Mordecai Steamship Line, which he used to import fruit, sugar, tobacco, and coffee. He also served as a member of the South Carolina Senate. He became "the most prominent Jewish Charlestonian of the 1850s and ...
Donen at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2010. Stanley Donen was an American film director and choreographer. He is known for his innovative musicals of the golden age of Hollywood which include Singin' in the Rain (1952), On the Town (1949), Funny Face (1957), It's Always Fair Weather (1955), as well as the romance films Charade (1963), Indiscreet (1958), and Two for the Road (1967).
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Donen in 2010. Stanley Donen (/ ˈ d ɒ n ə n / DON-ən; [1] April 13, 1924 – February 21, 2019) was an American film director and choreographer, and occasionally worked in the American theater. He has directed 28 feature films and worked on various other films or television projects, often as a choreographer.
Kohen and Eva had five sons: Solomon, Mordecai, Moses, Judah, and Benjamin. [2] Ferdinand, King of Bohemia banished Jews from Bohemia in September 1541, requiring them to leave by 11 November 1541. Kohen was one of the rare individuals to receive a geleitbrief, a letter of safe conduct, to give them more time to arrange their affairs to leave ...
In 1777, just after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, the following Jews agreed to accept the colonial paper money sanctioned by the king in lieu of gold and silver: Solomon Aaron, Joseph Solomon Kohn, Solomon Marache, Moses Mordecai, Barnard Soliman, and David Franks. Of these, Moses Mordecai and David Franks had signed the Non ...
Moses Mordecai Juwel (Yiddish: משׁה מרדכי יאוועל, romanized: Moshe Mordekhai Yovel; 1798–1851) was a Galician Jewish scholar, who lived in Brody in the first half of the nineteenth century.