Shemp Howard (March 11, 1895 – November 22, 1955) was an American actor and comedian. Born Samuel Horwitz, he was called "Shemp" because "Sam" came out that way in his mother's thick Litvak accent. He is best known today for his role as the third stooge in the Three Stooges, a role he first portrayed at the beginning of the act in the early 1920s (1923-1932) while the act was still associated with Ted Healy and known as "Ted Healy and his Stooges," and again from 1947 until his death in 1955. Between his times with the Stooges, Shemp had a successful film career as a solo comedian.
Personal life
In September 1925, Shemp (at age 30) married Gertrude Frank, a fellow New Yorker. They had one child, Morton (1926–1972).
Shemp used his somewhat homely appearance for comic effect, often mugging grotesquely or allowing his hair to fall in disarray. He even played along with a publicity stunt that named him "The Ugliest Man in Hollywood." ("I'm hideous," he explained to reporters.)
Notoriously phobic, his fears included airplanes, automobiles, dogs and water.
According to Moe's autobiography, Shemp was involved in a driving accident as a teenager and never obtained a driver's license.
Death
On November 22, 1955, Shemp went out with his friends Al Winston and Bobby Silverman to a boxing match (one of Shemp's favorite pastimes), at the old Hollywood Legion Stadium (at North El Centro Avenue and Selma Avenue), located just one block above the Hollywood Palladium. While returning home in a taxicab that evening, he died of a sudden massive cerebral hemorrhage, at the age of 60. He was leaning back and lighting a cigar after telling a joke, when he suddenly slumped over on his friend Al Winston's lap. Al thought Shemp was playing a joke, since Shemp was laughing moments earlier, but realizing he was actually dead.
Moe's autobiography gives a death date of November 23, 1955, as do most subsequent accounts, because of Moe's book. But much of that book was finished posthumously by his daughter and son-in-law, and some specific details were confused as a result. The Los Angeles county coroner's death certificate states that Shemp Howard died on Tuesday, November 22, 1955, at 11:00 [PM] PST; confirming that, Shemp's obituary appeared in the November 23 afternoon editions of L.A. newspapers, establishing the night of November 22 as the date of death. According to former daughter-in-law Geri Greenbaum, Shemp's death happened just as their cab came over the rise on Barham Boulevard (heading to his Toluca Lake home).
He was interred in a crypt at the Home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles. Shemp's younger brother Curly is also interred in an outdoor tomb in the Western Jewish Institute section, there, as well as his parents Solomon and Jennie Horowitz, and older brother Benjamin "Jacob/Jack."
Johnny "Mack" Brown (September 1, 1904 – November 14, 1974) was an American college football player and film actor[1] originally billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career.
Early Life and Sports
Born and raised in Dothan, Alabama, Brown was a star of the high school football team, earning a football scholarship to the University of Alabama. His little brother Tolbert "Red" Brown played with "Mack" in 1925. While at the University of Alabama, Brown became an initiated member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. Brown was a prominent halfback on his university's Crimson Tide football team, coached by Wallace Wade. He earned the nickname "The Dothan Antelope" and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. The 1924 team lost only to Centre. Brown starred in the defeat of Georgia Tech. Brown helped his team to become the 1925 NCAA Division I-A national football champions. In that year's Rose Bowl Game, he earned Most Valuable Player honors after scoring two of his team's three touchdowns in an upset win over the heavily favored Washington Huskies. The 1926 Crimson Tide was thus the first southern team to ever win a Rose Bowl. The game is commonly referred to as "the game that changed the south."[3] Brown was selected All-Southern.[4]
Film Career
Johnny Mack Brown's good looks and powerful physique saw him portrayed on Wheaties cereal boxes and in 1927, brought an offer for motion picture screen tests that resulted in a long and successful career in Hollywood.
Brown played in A Woman of Affairs (1928) with Greta Garbo (above) and as silent film star Mary Pickford's love interest in her first talkie, Coquette (1929), for which Pickford won an Oscar.
Brown played with Joan Crawford in Our Darling Daughters (1928) (above) and Montana Moon (1930).
He appeared in minor roles until 1930 when he was cast as the star in a Western entitled Billy the Kid (below) and directed by King Vidor. An early widescreen film (along with Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail with John Wayne, produced the same year), the movie also features Wallace Beery as Pat Garrett. Brown was billed over Beery, who would become MGM's highest paid actor within the next three years.
Brown went on to make several more top-flight movies under the name John Mack Brown, including The Secret Six (1931) with Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, and Clark Gable and the legendary Lost Generation celebration of alcohol, The Last Flight (1931).
Brown was being groomed by MGM as a leading man until being abruptly replaced on Laughing Sinners in 1931, with all his scenes reshot, substituting rising star Clark Gable in his place. MGM and director Woody Van Dyke screen tested him for the lead role of Tarzan the Ape Man but Van Dyke didn't feel he was tall enough [5]
Rechristened "Johnny Mack Brown" in the wake of this extremely serious career downturn, he made low-budget westerns for independent producers. Eventually he became one of the screen's top B-movie cowboys, and became a popular star at Universal Pictures in 1937. A fan of Mexican music, he showcased the talents of guitarist Francisco Mayorga and The Guadalajara Trio in films like Boss of Bullion City and The Masked Rider. Brown also starred in four serials for Universal (Rustlers of Red Dog, Wild West Days, Flaming Frontiers and The Oregon Trail) and was a hero to millions of young children at movie theaters and on their television screens.
Brown moved to Monogram Pictures in 1943 to replace that studio's cowboy star Buck Jones, who had died months before. Brown's Monogram series was immediately successful and he starred in more than 60 westerns over the next 10 years, often playing "Nevada Jack McKenzie" opposite Buck Jones's old sidekick Raymond Hatton. Brown was also featured in two higher-budgeted dramas, Forever Yours and Flame of the West, both released by Monogram in 1945 and both billing the actor under his former "dramatic" name, John Mack Brown.
When Monogram abandoned its brand name in 1952 (in favor of its deluxe division, Allied Artists), Johnny Mack Brown retired from the screen. He returned more than 10 years later to appear in secondary roles in a few Western films. Altogether, Brown appeared in more than 160 movies between 1927 and 1966, as well as a smattering of television shows, in a career spanning almost 40 years.
Personal life
Brown was married to Cornelia "Connie" Foster from 1926 to his death in 1974, and they had four children.
Awards
In recognition of his contribution to the motion picture industry, Brown was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6101 Hollywood Blvd. In 1969, Brown was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.
Death
Brown died in Woodland Hills, California of heart failure at the age of 70. His cremated remains are interred in an outdoor Columbarium, in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
References
1. Obituary Variety, November 20, 1974.
2. Sol Metzger (November 16, 1926). "Mack Brown Was Expert Dodger". The Pantagraph.
3. "The Football Game That Changed the South". The University of Alabama.
4. "All Southern Grid Team Compiled By The Associated Press". Kingsport Times. November 30, 1925.
5. Weissmuller Jr., Johnny Tarzan, My Father ECW Press, 1 Feb 2008
Marie Callender (March 26, 1907 - November 11, 1995), entrepreneur and restaurateur, is inurned at the former Crystal Cathedral Cemetery, now called the Cathedral Memorial Gardens.
Entrepreneur. South Dakota native Marie Callender, literally embraced the old axiom, "Life begins at forty." In 1948, her family grown and with their help, sold her new car and used the money as operating capitol. With her son Don, spearheading the venture, rented a small World War II army Quonset hut in Long Beach, California, purchased a baking oven, refrigerator and a few implements and named the venture after his mother, "Marie Callender Pies." With Marie's recipes and guidance, the family began baking pies to be sold to area restaurants. A converted 1936 ford sedan was used to make deliveries. Two years later, from an initial order of ten pies, the family was making 200 a day. Fifteen years later, they went solo with the opening of an outlet in Orange called the Marie Callender Pie Shop. At first, only pies were served, mainly take out, but gradually it became a full fledged restaurant and pies shared the spotlight with Cornbread. Other locations were added around Southern California and their standard restaurants featured a fully stocked bar called a saloon and also a complete soup-salad bar. The interiors of the now chain of restaurants were decorated with antiques had a decorating decor reminiscent of Victorian England as well as early America. Marie retired, lived in Laguna Hills where she died from cancer at age 87. She was cremated and a memorial service was held at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove. Her urn rests in a niche in the Columbarium Room located on the church grounds. Legacy... The family owned Marie Callender chain was sold to a giant food corporation and today consist of some 160 restaurants located in the western United States and Mexico. They are still known as "Marie Callender's Pies" and still the signature item served is the created from scratch pie, originated by Marie. Marie Callender's also markets a line of frozen foods found in super markets across the country.
-- Find A Grave bio by Donald Greyfield
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Lucille Theresa Bliss (March 31, 1916 – November 8, 2012) was an American actress and voice artist,[3] known in the Bay Area and in Hollywood as the Girl With a Thousand Voices.[4]
A New York City native, Bliss lent her voice to numerous television characters, including the title character of the very first made-for-television cartoon, Crusader Rabbit, Smurfette on the popular 1980s cartoon The Smurfs and Ms. Bitters on the Nickelodeon animated series Invader ZIM. In addition to her television roles, she was known for her work as a voice actor in feature films.
Life and career
Family
Bliss' parents were James Francis Bliss and Frieda Simmons Bliss, "a classically trained pianist who wanted Bliss to train as an opera singer."[5] Her father's death in 1928 prompted Mrs. Bliss and Lucille to move to San Francisco.[5]
Radio
Bliss was active in old-time radio, having roles in Pat Novak, for Hire, Candy Matson, and The Charlie McCarthy Show.[6]
Film
Bliss' first voice work was the role of the wicked stepsister Anastasia Tremaine in Walt Disney's 1950 feature film Cinderella,[7] for which she was honored 50 years later by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award in March 2000.[8]
Television
In the early years of television, Bliss acted in Harbor Command and The Lineup.[4] From 1950 to 1957, Bliss was "Auntie Lou" on San Francisco, California's KRON-TV's The Happy Birthday To You Show, also known as Birthday Party Show, which had guests from adults, to children, to animals. The program included use of Disney cartoon characters, as Bliss "picked up exclusive rights in northern California for the right to use Disney clips on her new show."[9] At the same time, she did voices for Hanna-Barbera while they were working for MGM – as Tuffy in Robin Hoodwinked, as Leprechaun in Droopy Leprechaun and later was Hugo on an episode of The Flintstones. She was also the narrator on three stories from the Disney album "Peter Cottontail and Other Funny Bunnies," "Story of Thumper," Story of the White Rabbit," and "Story of Grandpa Bunny." Bliss was also a voice-over performer for Airborne radio spots in 2004.
Volunteer efforts
Bliss produced and directed talent shows for the Embarcadero Armed Services YMCA in San Francisco. Some service personnel launched professional careers from those shows.[4]
Death
Bliss died from natural causes on November 8, 2012 at the age of 96.[2][10] She had no immediate survivors[5] and is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Filmography
Cinderella (1950) - Anastasia Tremaine
Crusader Rabbit (1950–1952) - Crusader Rabbit
Alice in Wonderland (1951) - Sunflower and Tulip
A Kiddies Kitty (1955) - Suzanne
The Waggily Tale (1958) - Little Girl/Mama
Robin Hoodwinked (1958) - Tuffy
Droopy Leprechaun (1958) - Leprechaun
The Flintstones (1960) - Hugo (episode "The Good Scout")
101 Dalmatians (1961) - TV Commercial Singer
Space Kidettes (1966) - Snoopy
Funnyman (1967) - Girl of 1000 voices
The Tiny Tree (1975)
The Flintstones' Christmas (1977) - Bamm-Bamm Rubble
The Flintstones: Little Big League (1978) - Dusty
Casper the Friendly Ghost: He Ain't Scary, He's Our Brother (1979)
Hug Me (1981)
The Smurfs (1981–1989) - Smurfette
The Secret of NIMH (1982) - Mrs. Beth Fitzgibbons
The Great Bear Scare (1983) - Miss Witch
Rainbow Brite: San Diego Zoo Adventure (1983) - Narrator
Strong Kids, Safe Kids (1984) - Smurfette
Star Wars: Ewoks (1986)
Assassination (1987) - Crone
The Night Before (1988) - Gal Baby
Miracle Mile (1988) - Old Woman in Diner
Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery (1989)
Asterix and the Big Fight (1989) - Impedimenta (aka Bonnemine)
Tales of the City (1993) - Cable Car Lady
Space Quest VI: The Spinal Frontier (1995) - Sharpei/Waitron (video game)
Wacked (1997) - Jane Katz
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (2002) - Rozatta (video game)
Battlestar Galactica (2003) - Shaden
Blue
Harvest Days (2005) - Bear Brat
Robots (2005) - Pigeon Lady
Avatar: The Last Airbender (2004) - Yugoda
Invader
ZIM (2001–2002 and 2006) - Ms. Bitters
Up-In-Down Town (2007) - Quinby
I'm Just a Pill (2010) - Young Honey
Unwrap An Expletive (2012) - Santa's Elf
References
Notes
1. "Lucille Bliss Interview". Archive of American Television. August 26, 2005.
2. Lucille Bliss dies at 96; voice of Crusader Rabbit and Smurfette Los Angeles Times.
3. "Lucille Bliss Dies". Contactmusic.com.
4. "Lucille Bliss To Guide Y Talent Show". Daily Independent Journal. November 14, 1958. p. 29.
5. "Lucille Bliss, Voice of Smurfette, Dies at 96". The Hollywood Reporter. November 15, 2012.
6. "Necrology for 2012". Nostalgia Digest 39 (2): 24–31. Spring 2013.
7. "How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life" Pat Williams, James Denney, and Jim Denney. (HCI, 2004)
8. "21st Annual Young Artist Awards". YoungArtistAwards.org.
9. "Disney to Local TV". The Times. February 20, 1954. p. 6.
10. "Lucille Bliss: 1916-2012". Behind The Voice Actors. 1916-03-31.
Aneta Louise Corsaut (November 3, 1933 – November 6, 1995) was an American actress and writer. She is best known for playing Helen Crump on The Andy Griffith Show (1963–1968).
Early life and career
Born in Hutchinson, Kansas,[1] Corsaut was the daughter of Jesse Harrison and Opal J. (née Swarens) Corsaut. She majored in drama at Northwestern University and studied acting with Lee Strasberg.[2] During her junior year, Corsaut dropped out to pursue a career in acting, although during the run of The Andy Griffith Show, Corsaut took courses at UCLA with plans to earn her degree.[3]
She began her acting career in New York in the mid-1950s.[4] In 1958, Corsaut and Steve McQueen made their film debuts in the independent cult horror film, The Blob.[5]
Corsaut first appeared on the long-running Griffith show in 1963 as schoolteacher Helen Crump, who later became the Mayberry sheriff's wife on the first episode of the spinoff Mayberry R.F.D.
Corsaut played "Nurse Morgan" in the Leonard Nimoy COLUMBO episode "A Stitch In Time." Corsaut also had a continuing role as policeman Bumper Morgan's pawn shop owner friend on the series The Blue Knight and as Irma Howell in the short-lived series Mrs. G. Goes to College. [4] In the TV series Adam-12, Corsaut portrayed Officer Pete Malloy's girlfriend, Judy. She had a supporting role as Head Nurse Bradley in the 1980s sitcom House Calls, and also appeared in several episodes of Matlock with star Andy Griffith.[6] In addition, Corsaut played the role of nurse Jesse Brewer in 1977 on the long-running ABC soap opera General Hospital when long-time portrayer Emily McLaughlin was too ill to work.[7]
She returned to the role of Helen Crump in two reunion shows, Return to Mayberry in 1986 and The Andy Griffith Show Reunion in 1993.[4]
As a writer, she co-authored The Mystery Reader's Quiz Book.[4][8]
Death
On November 6, 1995, Corsaut died of cancer in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, just three days after her 62nd birthday.[1][4] She is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, Los Angeles.[9]
References
1. Lentz, Harris M. (1995). Obituaries in the Performing Arts. McFarland and Company. p. 42. ISBN 0-786-40253-9.
2. Kaplan (1986). Variety: Who's Who In Show Business. Taylor and Francis. p. 95.
3. Witbeck, Charles (May 29, 1967). "One More Year For Andy Griffith". Toledo Blade. p. 31.
4. "Aneta Corsaut; Helen Crump on 'Andy Griffith Show'". latimes.com. November 10, 1995.
5. Murdico, Suzanne J. (2004). Meet the Blob. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 22.
6. Murdico 2004 p.23
7. Reed, Jon-Michael (February 3, 1977). "Actress Does a 'Double' Take". Ocala Star-Banner. p. 9A.
8. Corsaut, Aneta; Singer, Muff; Wagner, Robert, The Mystery Reader's Quiz Book, M Evans and Co (December 1981), 0871313510
9. Ellenberger, Allan R. (2001). Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory. McFarland and Company Incorporated. p. 202. ISBN 0-786-40983-5.
Yma Súmac (September 13, 1922[1] or September 10, 1923[2] - November 1, 2008) was a Peruvian-American soprano. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous proponents of exotica music.
She became an international success based on her extreme vocal range, which was said to be "well over five octaves"[3] or otherwise was claimed to span over five octaves, at the peak of her singing career.[4][5] Yma Súmac recorded an extraordinarily wide vocal range of 5 octaves, 3 notes and a semitone ranging from E2 to B♭7 (approximately 107 Hz to 3.7 kHz).[6] In one live recording of "Chuncho," she sings a range of over four and a half octaves, from B1 to F#7. She was able to sing notes in the low baritone register as well as notes above the range of an ordinary soprano and notes in the Whistle Register. Both low and high extremes can be heard in the song Chuncho (The Forest Creatures) (1953). She was also apparently able to sing in an eerie "double voice."[7]
In 1954, classical composer Virgil Thomson described her voice as "very low and warm, very high and birdlike," noting that her range "is very close to five octaves, but is in no way inhuman or outlandish in sound."[8] In 2012, audio recording restoration expert John H. Haley favorably compared Súmac's tone to opera singers Isabella Colbra.n Maria Malibran and Pauline Viardot. He described Súmac's voice as not having the "bright penetrating peal of a true coloratura soprano," but having in its place "an alluring sweet darkness ... virtually unique in our time."[9]
Early life
Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo was born on either September 13, 1922,[10] or September 10, 1923[2] most likely in Callao, a seacoast city in Peru.[1][11][12] Her parents were Sixto Chávarri and Emilia Castillo. Her father was born in Cajamarca and her mother was born in Pallasca. Stories published in the 1950s claimed that she was an Incan princess, directly descended from Atahualpa. The government of Peru in 1946 formally supported her claim to be descended from Atahualpa, the last Incan emperor."[8]
She was the subject of a series of publicity campaigns designed to shroud her origins in mystery: was she an Inca princess, one of the chosen 'Golden Virgins?' Whatever her heritage, what was abundantly genuine was Sumac's four octave range, ascending from 'female baritone, through lyric soprano, to high coloratura.' Chávarri adopted the stage name of Imma Sumack (also spelled Ymma Sumack and Ima Sumack) before she left South America to go to the United States. The stage name was based on her mother's name, which was derived from Ima Shumaq, Quechua for "how beautiful!" although in interviews she claimed it meant "beautiful flower" or "beautiful girl."[13]
Career
Yma Súmac first appeared on radio in 1942. She recorded at least 18 tracks[14] of Peruvian folk songs in Argentina in 1943. These early recordings for the Odeon label featured Moisés Vivanco's group, Compañía Peruana de Arte, a group of 46 Indian dancers, singers, and musicians.
Súmac married composer and bandleader Moisés Vivanco on June 6, 1942.[15] She had a son, Charles, in 1949. In 1946, Sumac and Vivanco moved to New York City, where they performed as the Inka Taky Trio, Sumac singing soprano, Vivanco on guitar, and her cousin Cholita Rivero singing contralto and dancing. She was signed by Capitol Records in 1950, at which time her stage name became Yma Súmac. Her first album Voice of the Xtabay launched a period of fame that included performances at the Hollywood Bowl[16] and Carnegie Hall. More than one million copies of the album were sold that year. In 1952 she made her first tour to Europe and Africa, and debuted at the Royal Albert Hall in London and the Royal Festival Hall before the Queen. She presented more than 80 concerts in London alone and 16 concerts in Paris. A second tour took her to travel to the Far East: Persia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Burma, Thailand, Sumatra, the Philippines, and Australia. Her fame in countries like Greece, Israel and Russia made her change her two weeks stay to six months offering fabulous concerts. The opening shows during her concert in the Mikado Theater in Japan were Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich and Ballet Lido from Paris.
During the 1950s, Yma Súmac produced a series of lounge music recordings featuring Hollywood-style versions of Incan and South American folk songs, working with the likes of Les Baxter and Billy May. The combination of her extraordinary voice, exotic looks, and stage personality made her a hit with American audiences. Súmac appeared in a Broadway musical, Flahooley, in 1951, as a foreign princess who brings Aladdin's lamp to an American toy factory to have it repaired. The show's score was by Sammy Fain and E. Y. "Yip" Harburg, but Súmac's three numbers were the work of Vivanco with one co-written by Vivanco and Fain. During the '50s Súmac continued to be popular, playing Carnegie Hall, the Roxy Theatre with Danny Kaye, Las Vegas nightclubs and concert tours of South America and Europe. She put out a number of hit albums, such as Mambo! (1954) and Fuego del Ande (1959).
Capitol Records, Súmac's label, recorded the show. Flahooley closed quickly, but the recording continues as a cult classic, in part because it also marked the Broadway debut of Barbara Cook. During the height of Súmac's popularity, she appeared in the films Secret of the Incas (1954) with Charlton Heston and Robert Young and Omar Khayyam (1957) and in Mexico she acted alongside Edith Piaf and Libertad Lamarque.
She became a U.S. citizen on July 22, 1955. In 1959 she performed Jorge Bravo de Rueda's classic song "Vírgenes del Sol" on her album Fuego del Ande. In 1957, Súmac and Vivanco divorced, as Vivanco had had twins with another woman. They remarried that same year, but a second divorce followed in 1965. Súmac and Vivanco had one son, Charles. Apparently due to financial difficulties, Yma Súmac and the original Inka Taky Trio went on a world tour in 1961, which lasted for five years. They performed in 40 cities in the Soviet Union, and afterward throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Their performance in Bucharest, Romania, was recorded as the album Recital, her only "live in concert" record. Yma Sumac spent the rest of the 1960s performing sporadically.
Later career
In 1971 she released a rock album, Miracles. She performed in concert from time to time during the 1970s in Peru and later in New York at the Chateau Madrid and Town Hall. In the 1980s she resumed her career under the management of Alan Eichler and had a number of concerts both in the United States and abroad, including the Hollywood Roosevelt's Cinegrill, New York's Ballroom in 1987 (where she was held-over for seven weeks to SRO crowds) and several San Francisco shows at the Theatre on the Square among others. In 1987, she also recorded the song "I Wonder" from the Disney film Sleeping Beauty for Stay Awake, an album of songs from Disney movies, produced by Hal Willner. She sang "Ataypura" during a March 19, 1987 appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. She recorded a new German "techno" dance record, "Mambo ConFusion."
In 1989 she sang once again at the Ballroom in New York and returned to Europe for the first time in 30 years to headline the BRT's "Gala van de Gouden Bertjes" New Year's Eve TV special in Brussels as well as the "Etoile Palace" program in Paris hosted by Frederic Mitterrand. In March 1990, she played the role of Heidi in Stephen Sondheim's Follies, in Long Beach, California, her first attempt at serious theater since Flahooley in 1951. She also gave several concerts in the summer of 1996 in San Francisco and Hollywood as well as two more in Montreal, Canada, in July 1997 as part of the Montreal International Jazz Festival.
In 1992 appeared a documentary for German television entitled Yma Súmac – Hollywoods Inkaprinzessin (Yma Súmac – Hollywood's Inca Princess). With the resurgence of lounge music in the late 1990s, Sumac's profile rose again when the song "Ataypura" was featured in the Coen Brothers film, The Big Lebowski. Her song "Bo Mambo" appeared in a commercial for Kahlúa liquor and was sampled for the song "Hands Up" by The Black Eyed Peas. The song "Gopher Mambo" was used in the films Ordinary Decent Criminal, Dead Husbands, Spy Games, and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. "Gopher Mambo" was also used in an act of the Cirque Du Soleil show Quidam. The songs "Goomba Boomba" and "Malambo No. 1" appeared in Death to Smoochy. A sample from "Malambo No.1" was used in Robin Thicke's "Everything I Can't Have". Yma Súmac is also mentioned in the lyrics of the 1980s song "Joe le taxi" by Vanessa Paradis, and her album Mambo is the record that Belinda Carlisle pulls out of its jacket in the video for "Mad About You."[17]
On May 6, 2006, Súmac flew to Lima, where she was presented the Orden del Sol award by Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo and the Jorge Basadre medal by the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.[18]
Yma Súmac died on November 1, 2008 at an assisted-living home in Los Angeles, California, nine months after being diagnosed with colon cancer. She was interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood in the "Sanctuary of Memories" section.
Discography
Albums
Voice of the Xtabay (1950)
Legend of the Sun Virgin (1952)
Inca Taqui (1953)
Mambo! (1954)
Legend of the Jivaro (1957)
Fuego Del Ande (1959)
Recital (1961)
Miracles (1971)
Compilations
The Spell of Yma Sumac (1987)
Amor Indio (1994)
Shou Condor (1997)
Yma Rocks (1998)
The Ultimate Yma Sumac Collection (2000)
Virgin Of The Sun God (2002)
The Exotic Sounds Of Yma Sumac (2002)
Queen of Exotica (2005)
Filmography
1954 Secret of the Incas with Charlton Heston and Robert Young
1957 Omar Khayyam as Karina
In Mexico she acted alongside Edith Piaf and Libertad Lamarque
References
1. Yma Súmac Birth Certificate
2. Petition for Naturalization as a United States Citizen for Emperatriz Chavarri de Vivanco (#176380), filed October 8, 1954, indicates she was born on September 10, 1923 at Ichocan, Cajamarca, Peru, ancestry.com
3. Ellen Highstein: 'Yma Súmac (Chavarri, Emperatriz)' Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy.
4. Clarke Fountain, "Yma Súmac: Hollywood's Inca Princess (review). Allmovie, reproduced in The New York Times. 1992. [1]
5. David Richards, "The Trill of a Lifetime; Exotic Singer Yma Súmac Meets a New Wave of Fans". The Washington Post, March 2, 1987, Style; p. B1
6. Suits, B.H. "Frequencies for equal-tempered scale". Michigan Tech Physics.
7. Secret Museum of the Air, October 6, 2002 program (5:15–5:57)
8. Martin, Douglas (November 4, 2008), "Yma Súmac, Vocalist of the Exotic, Dies at 86", The New York Times,
9. Haley, John H. (Fall 2012). "A Re-evaluation of the artistry of Yma Súmac Based on Live Recordings". ARSC Journal (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) 43 (2): 163–195.
10. Yma Súmac biography
11. Peruvian Magazine Batuta N°3 Yma Sumac "my mother gave birth in Callao". [3]
12. Alvarez-Russi, Raul (January 26, 2010). "Yma Sumac de regreso al Callao" (in Spanish). Callao.org.
13. Cusihuaman 2001: pp. 47, 103
14. Argentina Session 1943
15. Moisés Vivanco
16. Yma Sumac, August 8, 1950. Malibu, Hollywood Bowl, Recording Studio, Residence (90 photos), by Peter Stackpole for LIFE magazine
17. Video on YouTube
18. "Yma Súmac Receives Highest Peruvian Honor", sunvirgin.com
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