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Producer, Gene Markey, was born Eugene Willford Markey on Dec 11, 1895 in Jackson, MI. Markey died at the age of 84 on May 1, 1980 in Miami Beach, FL and was laid to rest in Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, KY.

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Won the Bronze Star for leading a reconaissance mission in the Solomon Islands - 1942. Also won the Legion of Merit, the Unit Comendation Medal, the Legion of Honor (France), and the Star of Solidarity (Italy).

During World War II, he became good friends with Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

His 1946 wedding to Myrna Loy was a full dress military affair at San Pedro Naval Station near Los Angeles, California. Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey was his best man and noted film director, John Huston, gave the bride away.

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