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(Please replace entire biography because it is incorrect) Lorenz Hart was born in Harlem in New York City and attended Columbia University. He met Richard Rodgers in 1918, who was to write the music for songs, musicals, and films with him for the next 25 years. They produced such stage hits as 'Pal Joey," "On Your Toes," "The Boys From Syracuse." and "Jumbo, all of which were made into movies. They also wrote songs for such film musicals as "The Hot Heiress," "Love Me Tonight," which starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, and "Mississippi," which starred Bing Crosby. Hart also supplied the English lyrics for a film version of "The Merry Widow" with music by Franz Lehar. Although their show "I'd Rather Be Right was never filmed, the song "Off the Record," which was sung by George M. Cohan on Broadway, was performed by James Cagney playing Cohan in 1942's Yankee Doodle Dandy. Hart's alcoholism, short stature, and repressed guilt about his homosexuality led to problems in his reliability in his collaboration with Rodgers. In 1943, Rodgers began a collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II with the musical Oklahoma. Hart died of pneumonia shortly after Oklahoma's premiere.- Alexander Bonnyman Jr. was born on 2 May 1910 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He died on 22 November 1943 in Tarawa, Gilbert Islands.
- Jesús Ojeda was born on 26 December 1879 in Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico. He was an actor, known for La madrina del diablo (1937), El capitán Centellas (1941) and Guadalajara (1937). He was married to Emma Roldan and Carmen Vargas. He died on 22 November 1943 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
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Pietro Yon was born on 8 August 1886 in Settimo Vittone, Piedmont, Italy. He was a composer, known for The Eternal Gift (1941), A Christmas Special with Luciano Pavarotti (1980) and Occasionally (2016). He was married to Francesca Pesagno. He died on 22 November 1943 in Huntington, New York, USA.- American author, playwright and screen writer Frederic Arnold Kummer was born on 5 August, 1873 at Cantonsville, Maryland, to Arnold and Mary Morris Kummer. His father, who had emigrated from Germany in 1859 and had fought in the American Civil War, was part owner of Kummer & Becker, a banking and brokerage house in Baltimore that also acted as agents for the North German Lloyd Steamship Line.
Before Kummer turned to writing full time in 1907, he had been the chief engineer for the American Wood Preserving Company and later general manager of the Eastern Paving Block Company. Kummer was an 1894 graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he had earned a degree in civil engineering. In 1901 he was awarded the Collingwood prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for a paper he wrote on wood block paving techniques.
Not long after embarking on his writing career Kummer found success with stories like: "Mr. Buttles" (1908), "The Choice" (1909), "Are You a Suffragette?" (1911), "The Other Woman" (1911), "A Song of Sixpence" (1913), "The Painted Woman" (1913), "One Million Dollars" (1913) and "The Brute" (1914). His most popular book was probably "Ladies in Hades" (1928).
Kummer had also found some success as a painter before turning to writing. Two of his marinescapes were displayed at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts.
Frederic Arnold Kummer married Clare Rodman Beecher (Clare Kummer) on 16 October, 1895 at Nutley, New Jersey. Before divorcing in 1903, the couple had two daughters, Marjorie and Frederica. Marjorie would later become the wife of actor Roland Young. On 14 June, 1907, he married Marion J. McLean of Norfolk, Virginia. Their union would produce a daughter and two sons, Marion, Frederick Jr. (or Frederic Jr.) and Joseph Talbot Tennant Kummer.
After a battling a two year illness, Frederic Arnold Kummer passed away on 22 November, 1943, at Baltimore, Maryland. He was survived by his second wife and all five offspring.