Gloria Dea

Gloria Metzner (25 ga Agusta, 1922 - 18 ga Maris, 2023), wacce aka fi sani da Gloria Dea / ˈdeɪ / DAY, 'yar wasan kwaikwayo ce ta Amurka, mai rawa, mai fasaha, kuma mai sihiri. An san Dea da kasancewa masihirci na farko da ya yi wasa a Las Vegas Strip, da kuma fitowa a fina-finai a lokacin Zamanin Zinare na Hollywood .

Rayuwa da aiki

Gloria Metzner tana da shekaru 11, a 1934

Rayuwar farko da aiki a matsayin mai sihiri

An haifi Gloria Metzner a Oakland, California, Amurka, a ranar 25 ga Agusta, 1922, [1] [2] [3] ga Martha (née Heyman) da Leo Metzner. [4] A Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya, Leo Metzner ya yi aiki a Rundunar Sojoji ta 363 na Sashen 91, sannan ya koma gida ya zama mai sayar da fenti kuma mai mallakar wasu shagunan fenti. [4] Ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin mai sihiri a cikin da'irori na gida a ƙarƙashin sunan "The Great Leo".

Gloria Metzner ta fara yin dabarun zamani tun tana da shekaru huɗu kuma, kafin ta cika shekaru bakwai, an san ta a matsayin "masu sihiri mafi ƙaranci a duniya". Ta ƙware a cikin dabarun kwalliya, inda ta cire aladu biyu na dabbobinta da kuma tattabara ɗaya. Tana da shekaru 11, tana ɗaya daga cikin ƙananan mambobi na Ƙungiyar Masu Sihiri ta Tekun Pacific, kuma tana da shekaru 12 ta sami lambar yabo daga ƙungiyar saboda mafi kyawun aiki da dabbobi a gasa. Metzner ta yi wasa a matsayin mai sihiri a El Rancho Vegas a ranar 14 ga Mayu, 1941, wanda hakan ya sa ta zama mai sihiri na farko da ta yi wasa a Las Vegas Strip .

Miji Jack Shulem, hagu, tare da Gloria Dea Shulem, a ƙasa, a shekarar 1956

Yayin da aikinta na wasan kwaikwayo ya ƙare, ta ƙaura zuwa Kudancin California kuma ta zama 'yar wasan kwaikwayo a fina-finan Hollywood daga tsakiyar shekarun 1940 zuwa ƙarshen shekarun 1950, ta ɗauki sunan wasan kwaikwayo Gloria Dea. A mafi yawan lokacin, Dea ta yi kwangila da Columbia Pictures . A lokacin ɗaukar fim ɗin Delightfully Dangerous na 1944, wanda Dea ta yi rawa a matsayin mai rawa, furodusa Charles R. Rogers ya dakatar da yin fim na tsawon mintuna ashirin don Dea ta auri saurayinta, shugaban ƙungiyar makaɗa Jack Statham. Ma'auratan ba su iya yin aure a baya ba saboda karo da lokaci da jadawalin aikinsu. Zuwa Maris 1945, Dea da Statham sun rabu. Aure na biyu na Dea ya kasance da Hal Borne, wanda aka san shi da kasancewa mai yin piano na Fred Astaire . An yi aurensu a Los Angeles a watan Afrilun 1946. A shekarar 1952, Dea ta ɗauki matsayinta mafi shahara, inda ta taka rawar gani a matsayin 'yar asalin ƙasar Princess Pha a cikin fim ɗin King of the Congo na 1952, inda ta fito a fim ɗin tare da Buster Crabbe . Sauran fina-finanta sun haɗa da Mexicana (1945) da Plan 9 daga Outer Space (1957).

Mother Martha Day, hagu, da Gloria Dea, a wani bikin sutura don amfanin Hadassah a shekarar 1952

A shekarar 1954, Dea ta wakilci American Guild of Variety Artists a matsayin memba na kwamitin kafa Majalisar Gudanar da Ma'aikata ta San Fernando, ƙungiyar ma'aikata ta yankin San Fernando Valley wadda ta kasance kafin haɗewar AFL-CIO . An bai wa Jack Shulem, daga Ƙungiyar Mawallafa ta Duniya, yabo kan kafa Majalisar. A shekarar 1956, sun yi aure, kuma tana amfani da sunan Gloria Dea Shulem yayin da take ci gaba da zama a kwamitin Majalisar.

Ma'auratan sun zauna a Burbank, California, a cikin wani gida da Dea ta yi wa ado da allolin Girkawa waɗanda ta zana ta amfani da gawayi, fenti mai, da ganyen zinare, da labule waɗanda ta samu kulawar ƙasa, an yi musu ado da zane-zane da lu'ulu'u masu manne. Baya ga aiki da fasaha, Dea ta kasance mai himma a cikin ƙungiyoyin al'umma na Burbank, tana shugabantar Nunin Hobby, kuma memba ce a Majalisar Mata, B'nai Brith, Kwamitin Kyau, da Hadassah, sau da yawa tana tare da mahaifiyarta. An zaɓe Dea a matsayin shugabar Burbank Hadassah a 1957, kuma ta lashe kyautar hidimar Majalisar Mata a 1964.

Rayuwa daga baya

Bayan ta bar masana'antar nishaɗi, Dea ta sayar da inshora, sannan ta sayar da sabbin motoci da aka yi amfani da su ga dillalin Chevrolet a San Fernando Valley . Daga baya ta koma Las Vegas a shekarar 1980, tana zaune a cikin al'ummar Paradise Palms tare da mijinta, Sam Anzalone, dillalin mota abokin hulɗarta da ta haɗu da shi a dillalin Chevrolet. Anzalone ta mutu a watan Janairun 2022, kuma Dea ta cika shekaru 100 a watan Agusta. Ta yi bikin bikin a Westgate Las Vegas tare da wasu masu sihiri, ciki har da David Copperfield . Dea ta kan yi wasu dabarun sihiri a gidan da ke zaune a Las Vegas inda take zaune.

Dea ta mutu sakamakon cutar jijiyoyin zuciya a gidanta da ke Las Vegas a ranar 18 ga Maris, 2023, tana da shekaru 100.