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www.pal-item.com Arts, Entertainment and Sports Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010 Palladium-Item Page D3 Item CELEBRATES YEARS OF WAYNE COUNTY This coverage of Wayne County's Bicentennial is made possible by the generosity of our sponsors: WEST End Reid Hospital WE BANK. Health Care Services Entertainers leave impressions on big screen Francis Jenkins: He patented a camera called The Phantoscope and used the prototype project to provide a select Richmond audience with one of the first moving picture exhibitions in the world at his brother's Main Street jewelry store on Oct. 29, 1895. A plaque marks the site today.

Jenkins and his co-inventor had a falling out. He sold his interest in the machine and his co-inventor sold it to Thomas Edison. He went on to be instrumental in developing television and operated on an experimental station in Wheaton, Md. At his death in 1934, he had more than 400 patents. Polly Bergen (Nellie Paulina Burgin): Bergen, who changed her name and its spelling for Hollywood, moved to Richmond as an elementary school student and remained through one year of high school before POLLY BERGEN moving to California.

She took dance lessons from Kathryn Myers. She POLLY BERGEN sang in the high school choral group and on local radio stations and her music led her tofilm and television. Among her early movies were "That's My Boy" (1951) and "The Stooge" (1953), which starred Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. In 1953, when she visited family in Richmond, she was greeted at the train by fans, friends and family. On television, she had her own show, "The Polly Bergen Show" (1957-1958).

She was nominated for three PANAVISION Supplied photo Larry Blanford handles the main unit photography on the set of "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer." Emmys and in 2001 was nominated for a Tony in the Broadway revival of Steven Sondheim's "Follies." Larry Blanford: The 1977 Richmond High School graduate has developed his cinematography career since doing aerial film work for "Top Gun." He was second unit director of photography for "Night at the Museum," and director of photography for "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer." He has worked on many other films and commercials. George Duning: The Richmond native, born in 1908 and died in 2000, wrote film and television musical arrangements nearly everyone has heard. His best known works were from Academy Awardnominated films "Picnic" and "From Here to Eterni- been translated to the stage as well. Ned Rorem: The composer was born in Richmond in 1923 and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for the orchestral suite "Air Music." NED ROREM a ty" and TV shows such as "Star Trek," "Mannix" and "The Big Valley." ily in his hometown throughout his life. In 1996, he returned to Richmond for a musical tribute by the Richmond Symphony Orchestra.

He got his break in radio and after World War II service, gothis startonfilms.He was nominated for Academy Awards for best scoring of a musical for "Jolson Sings Again" (1949) and "The Eddy Duchin Story" (1956), and for best scoring of a dramatic picture for "No Sad Sons for Me" (1950), "From Here to Eternity" (1953) and "Pic- Duning lived in Richmond until about age 9 and continued GEORGE DUNING to visit fam- nic" (1955). He Norman ter was born NORMAN FOSTER died in 2000. Foster: Fosin Richmond in 1900 as Norman Hoeffer. He changed his last name to Foster, which was his father's middle name (Charles Foster Hoeffer). He graduated from Morton High School in 1922, having had many leads in high school plays.

Hoeffer went on to work on the New York stage, married actress Claudette Colbert and they made their way to Hollywood. The couple came to Richmond for the opening of the Leland Hotel. Orson Welles asked Foster and writer John Fante to join him in forming Mercury Productions in 1939. Welles directed and starred in "Citizen Kane," which was produced in 1941. Because Foster and Welles were friends, evidence suggests the character name Charles Foster Kane was inspired by Foster's father.

Foster starred in "The Hoosier Schoolmaster" and directed many early Disney TV shows including" "Zorro" and "Davy Crockett," plus episodes of "Batman" and "The Green Hornet" in the 1960s. He also directed more than a dozen Charlie Chan films. He died in 1976. -Charles Bruce Millholland: Millholland was born in 1903 in Economy, Ind. His scripts, based on his experiences on the Twentieth Century Limited train, became the 1934 classic film "Twentieth Century," starring Carole Lombard and John Barrymore.

The story has Grammy nominee, he has done compositions for film and television. In early 2006, Rorem debuted his opera "Our Town," based on Thornton Wilder's quintessential American drama, at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. a Clifford Smith: Smith, born in Richmond in 1894, directed more than 85 films in Hollywood between 1915 and 1937, including "Wild West Days," "Secret Agent X-9," "Jungle Jim," and "Ace Drummond." He also did writing and acting. He died in 1937 in California. Hunter Covington: The 1996 Centerville High School graduate worked as script coordinator and as a writer for the popular TV show "My Name is Earl." He is now working on the TV show "100 Questions." Bonnie Lynn Fields: Fields was an infant when her family moved to Richmond and growing up, she took dance lessons from Marcella Newland, attended Starr and Westview schools and was active in Girl Scouts.

At age 9, she and her family moved to California, where she auditioned to be a guest artists with the "Mickey Mouse Club." She was soon offered the role of a regular Mouseketeer. She Please see Screen, Page D5.