Marion Gering
Marion Gering (June 9, 1901, Rostov-on-Don – April 19, 1977, New York City) was a Russian-born American stage producer and director. He moved to the United States in 1924 as a member of a Soviet trade commission in trading Siberian furs. He became involved in the theatrical community in Chicago, founding the Chicago Play Producing Company.
His production of Georg Kaiser's "Gas", which was presented at the Goodman Theatre on January 28, 1926 was particularly successful. In 1927 he began producing plays in New York City, and married actress Dorothy Libaire in 1930.
Gering became a Hollywood film director for Paramount Pictures in 1931, directing Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard in I Take This Woman on his debut. In 1932 he directed Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, and a young Cary Grant in Devil and the Deep. He collaborated several times with producer Albert Lewis, producing films together like Ready for Love and later stage productions like The Walking Gentleman at the Playhouse Theatre. In 1935 he directed George Raft and Carole Lombard in the film Rumba, inspired by the success of Bolero the previous year, but it wasn't as successful. Gering's stint with Paramount came to an end in 1936, and he then joined Columbia Pictures between 1937 and 1939, and directed the 1937 British picture Thunder in the City for the Atlantic Film Company. His film career came to a halt by the end of the decade. He tried in the subsequent period, albeit in vain, to build on his previous accomplishments as a theatre producer and to pursue film directing in Europe.
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Marion (band)
Marion are an English indie rock band, formed in 1993 in Macclesfield, Cheshire.
They released two studio album before splitting up in 1999, due to lead singer Jaime Harding's drug addiction which saw him stop turning up to rehearse with the band that year.
In 2006, Jaime Harding and Phil Cunningham recruited a new set of musicians and reformed the band. They started working on new material, having played their first live gig together as Marion in more than seven years on 1 April 2006 in Bath. They followed this up with sold-out shows in Manchester and London in September 2006.
The original lineup of the band reformed in September 2011. In Summer 2015, it was revealed that Harding was continuing with the band with himself as the sole original member of the band involved.
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Pre-history
Jamie Harding and Phil Cunningham had played together in various bands since their school daying, including Cloud, Push The King and The Shags. After leaving school, Harding was immediately forced into work by his mother, taking a job in a garage.
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