What happened to The White Masai? Relationship, Parents

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Fact	Served in the United States Coast Guard during the war.

The White Masai (German: Die weiße Massai) is a 2005 German film directed by Hermine Huntgeburth. It is based on the autobiographical book of the same name by Corinne Hofmann.

The film tells the true story of a young Swiss woman, Corinne, who falls in love with a Kenyan warrior, Lketinga, and moves to live with him in his remote village in the African bush. Despite the differences in their cultures and lifestyles, the two are determined to make their relationship work.

However, when Corinne becomes pregnant, she realizes that she can no longer live in Lketinga’s world and decides to return to her own life in Switzerland. The film explores the challenges and difficulties of intercultural relationships, as well as the strength and resilience of the human spirit.

Corinne Hofmann was born in 1961 in Bern, Switzerland. She grew up in a middle-class family with two sisters. Her father was a bank manager and her mother was a housewife.

Hofmann’s early education was in Switzerland. She later studied languages and literature at the University of Zurich.

In 1980, at the age of 19, Hofmann traveled to Kenya on a study abroad program. It was there that she met Lketinga, a young Maasai warrior. The two fell in love and decided to get married.

Hofmann moved to live with Lketinga in his remote village in the African bush. The couple had two children together.

Despite the challenges of living in a foreign culture, Hofmann remained in Kenya for several years. However, when she became pregnant with her third child, she realized that she could no longer live in Lketinga’s world and decided to return to her own life in Switzerland.

The film explores the challenges and difficulties of intercultural relationships, as well as the strength and resilience of the human spirit.

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Facts

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1	Contract director at Columbia in 1948. He left Columbia for three years, then came back in 1951 and stayed there until 1960.
2	Father, with Barbara Bushman, of daughters Katherine Quine and Victoria Quine.
3	He reportedly killed himself because he was not able to make the kind of light comedy films he wanted to make.
4	Met fellow MGM contract player Susan Peters on the set of the film Tish (1942). They became engaged during the filming of their second movie together, Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942).
5	Young, earnest MGM actor during WWII who started in vaudeville as a child and was a young radio singer for a time.
6	Served in the United States Coast Guard during the war.
7	On New Year's Day, 1945, he and wife Susan Peters embarked on a duck hunting trip with Richard's cousin, Tom Quine, and his wife, in the Cuyamaca Mountains near San Diego. Susan accidentally dropped her .22-caliber rifle, and as she bent over to pick it up off the ground it went off. She was left paralyzed from the waist down.
8	He and wife Susan Peters adopted a baby boy, Timothy Richard Quine (aka Richard Quine), a little more than a year after Susan's tragic hunting accident. They divorced two years later.
9	Abandoned acting and turned to producing and directing after getting a taste of it assistant directing the film Leather Gloves (1948).

Pictures

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Movies

Director

Title	Year	Status
McCoy	1975	TV Series 2 episodes
The Specialists	1975	TV Movie
W	1974
Hec Ramsey	1974	TV Series 1 episode
Columbo	1972-1973	TV Series 3 episodes
Catch-22	1973	TV Movie
The Moonshine War	1970
A Talent for Loving	1969
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad	1967
Hotel	1967
The Jean Arthur Show	1966	TV Series 2 episodes
Synanon	1965
How to Murder Your Wife	1965
Sex and the Single Girl	1964
Paris When It Sizzles	1964
The Notorious Landlady	1962
The World of Suzie Wong	1960
Strangers When We Meet	1960
It Happened to Jane	1959
Bell Book and Candle	1958
Operation Mad Ball	1957
Full of Life	1956
The Solid Gold Cadillac	1956
My Sister Eileen	1955
So This Is Paris	1954
The Mickey Rooney Show	1954	TV Series 1 episode
Pushover	1954
The Ford Television Theatre	1952-1954	TV Series 3 episodes
Drive a Crooked Road	1954
General Electric Theater	1953	TV Series 1 episode
Cruisin' Down the River	1953
Siren of Bagdad	1953
All Ashore	1953
Castle in the Air	1952
Sound Off	1952
Purple Heart Diary	1951
Sunny Side of the Street	1951
Woo-Woo Blues	1951	Short
The Awful Sleuth	1951	Short
Foy Meets Girl	1950	Short
A Slip and a Miss	1950	Short
Leather Gloves	1948
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu	1980	uncredited
The Prisoner of Zenda	1979
Project U.F.O.	1978	TV Series 1 episode

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Original: Do Not Project	1972		Father Dimension
The Wackiest Ship in the Army	1960		Narrator (uncredited)
Castle in the Air	1952		Opening Narrator / Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited)
The Flying Missile	1950		Amn. Hank Weber (uncredited)
He's a Cockeyed Wonder	1950		Actor in Drive-In Movie (uncredited)
Rookie Fireman	1950		Johnny Truitt
No Sad Songs for Me	1950		Brownie
The Clay Pigeon	1949		Ted Niles
Command Decision	1948		Major George Rockton
Words and Music	1948		Ben Feiner Jr.
The Cockeyed Miracle	1946		Howard Bankson
We've Never Been Licked	1943		Brad Craig
The Rear Gunner	1943	Short	Pilot with Sun Glasses (uncredited)
Stand by for Action	1942		Ensign Lindsay
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant	1942		Dr. Dennis Lindsey
For Me and My Gal	1942		Danny Hayden (uncredited)
My Sister Eileen	1942		Frank Lippincott
Tish	1942		Theodore 'Ted' Bowser
Babes on Broadway	1941		Morton Hammond
King of the Underworld	1939		Medical Student (uncredited)
Dinky	1935		Jackie Shaw
A Dog of Flanders	1935		Pieter Vanderkloot
Life Returns	1935		Mickey
Little Men	1934		Ned
Wednesday's Child	1934		Bobby's Antagonistic Buddy (uncredited)
Dames	1934	unconfirmed
Jane Eyre	1934		John Reed
Counsellor at Law	1933		Richard Dwight Jr.
The World Changes	1933		Richard, as a Boy (uncredited)
Cavalcade	1933	uncredited

Writer

Title	Year	Status
He Laughed Last	1956	story
My Sister Eileen	1955	screenplay
Bring Your Smile Along	1955	story
The Mickey Rooney Show		TV Series based on characters created by - 11 episodes, 1954 - 1955 characters - 7 episodes, 1954 writer - 2 episodes, 1954
Drive a Crooked Road	1954	adaptation
Cruisin' Down the River	1953	writer
All Ashore	1953	writer
Castle in the Air	1952
Sound Off	1952

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status
Sex and the Single Girl	1964	"Sex And The Single Girl"
Paris When It Sizzles	1964	lyrics: "The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower"
Don't Knock the Twist	1962	writer: "Going Steady With a Dream", "Strangers When We Meet" - uncredited
Strangers When We Meet	1960	lyrics: "Strangers When We Meet"
It Happened to Jane	1959	lyrics: "Be Prepared"
Juke Box Rhythm	1959	writer: "Juke Box Jamboree"
Gunman's Walk	1958	"I'm A Runaway"
Going Steady	1958	lyrics: "Going Steady with a Dream"
Operation Mad Ball	1957	lyrics: "Mad Ball"
Babes on Broadway	1941	performer: "Anything Can Happen in New York", "Bombshell from Brazil" - uncredited

Producer

Title	Year	Status
The Jean Arthur Show	1966	TV Series executive producer - 1 episode
Synanon	1965	producer
Paris When It Sizzles	1964	producer
The Notorious Landlady	1962	producer
Strangers When We Meet	1960	producer
It Happened to Jane	1959	producer
Leather Gloves	1948	producer