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Vanessa Brown
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Vanessa Brown (March 24, 1928 – May 21, 1999) was an Austrian actress who was successful in American radio, film, theater and television. Born Smylla Brynd in Vienna, Austria to Jewish parents, Brown and her family fled to Paris, France in 1937 to escape persecution with the rise of National Socialism.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Vanessa Brown, who made her Broadway debut at 13 and played ingenue roles in films of the 1940s and '50s before becoming a journalist, died of cancer Friday. She was 71. She made her first movie at 16, 1944's ``Youth Runs Wild,'' and her other films of the 1940s and 1950s included ``Margie,'' ``The Ghost and Mrs. Muir'' and ``The Bad and the Beautiful.'' Born Smylla Brind in 1928 in Vienna, her family fled the Nazis when she was 9, moving first to France and then America. She heard that the producer of the play ``Watch on the Rhine'' was looking for a girl with a German accent. She went to the play's author, Lillian Hellman, got an understudy part and by the end of the Broadway run was a regular cast member. A year later, at 14, Ms. Brown joined ``The Quiz Kids'' radio show.
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Vanessa Brown, a native of Ithaca, New York, earned her BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. Brown met Jeff Louviere in Savannah, Georgia, where he earned an MFA from the renowned Savannah College of Art and Design. They returned to Louviere’s hometown of New Orleans in 1998 where they have remained since developing their signature surrealistic and textured style, initially based on tableaux scenes of New Orleans activities.
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Within a few years the family had settled in America and Brown auditioned for Lillian Hellman for a role in Watch on the Rhine. Fluent in several languages, Brown impressed Hellman with her presence and authentic Teutonic accent, and she was signed as understudy to Ann Blyth, eventually doing the role of Babette on Broadway and in the touring production. In high school she wrote and directed school plays.
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Vanessa Brown (Houston, TX/Elsik H.S.) led the University of Texas-Pan American men's and women's track and field teams at the Rice Twilight on Thursday (Apr. 26) at Rice University when she set a new program record in the 400-meter dash.
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The Leo Enos Landscaping Angels saw another first time winner, Vanessa Brown. Brown inherited the lead with two laps remaining when then leader, Miranda Gervais and runner-up Kate Demar got together. Gervais ended up on her roof over the top of turn one. This ended both drivers night, as they were relegated to the final two places in the final rundown. Following Brown to victory lane were Traci Nelson, Lindsy Rexford, Dayna Randall and Michelle Tierney.
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