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- Paul-Émile Botta (6 December 1802 - 29 March 1870) was an Italian-born French scientist who served as Consul in Mosul (then in the Ottoman Empire, now in Iraq) from 1842, and who discovered the ruins of the ancient Assyrian capital of Dur-Sharrukin. Botta was selected to be naturalist on a voyage around the world. Although he had no formal medical training, he also served as the ship surgeon. Le Heros under Captain Auguste Bernard Duhaut-Cilly (1790-1849) left Le Havre April 8, 1826 and sailed south through the Atlantic Ocean, stopping in Rio DE Janeiro and around Cape Horn. They traveled up the coast stopping at Callao, Mexico, and Alta California. Jean Baptiste Rives (1793-1833), the former secretary of the Kingdom of Hawaii, had convinced investors from the family of Jacques Laffitte to finance the voyage to promote trade to California and Hawaii, but Rives disappeared along with some of the cargo.
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Author and poet ("Trees"), educated at Rutgers College and Columbia
University (BA). He was the editorial assistant for the Funk & Wagnalls
Standard Dictionary, the literary editor of 'The Churchman', the poetry
editor of the 'Literary Digest', and a contributor to the New York
Times Sunday Magazine and the Warner's Library of the World's Best
Literature. He also lectured at the New York University School of
Journalism. During World War I he served in the 165th Infantry, US Army
(69th NY), and was killed in action. His works were entered into ASCAP
membership in 1950. His poems that were set to music include "Trees",
"Roofs", "Memorial Day", "Slender Your Hands", "The House With Nobody
In It", "Christmas Eve", "Gates and Doors", "Stars", "The Peacemaker",
"Lullaby for a Baby Fairy", "The Constant Lamp", "When the 69th Gets
Back", and "Fairy Hills of Dream".- R.L. Conrick was born on 6 December 1884 in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. He was an actor, known for Richard III (1911). He died on 23 August 1918 in Arras, France.
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Manuel Klein was born on 6 December 1876 in London, England, UK. Manuel is known for America (1914), Pierre of the Plains (1914) and Paid in Full (1914). Manuel was married to Helen Kaplan. Manuel died on 1 June 1919 in Yonkers, New York, USA.- Adolf Jensen was born on 6 December 1854 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Fyrstindens skæbne (1916), Manden, der sejrede (1920) and A Friend of the People (1918). He died on 7 March 1920.
- Aenderly Lebius was born on 6 December 1867 in Tilsit, East Prussia, Prussia [now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Die Gespensteruhr (1916), Jettatore (1919) and Vergiftetes Blut (1921). He died on 5 March 1921 in Berlin, Germany.
- Cora Williams was born on 6 December 1870 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for The Great Mail Robbery (1927), Temptations of a Shop Girl (1927) and His Parisian Wife (1919). She was married to A.H. Busby and Leon Williams Schnitzer. She died on 1 December 1927 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Birger Sjöberg was born on 6 December 1885 in Vänersborg, Sweden. He was a writer, known for Fridas visor (1930), Kvartetten som sprängdes (1936) and Kvartetten som sprängdes (1950). He died on 30 April 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden.- Marian Tatarkiewicz was born on 6 December 1875. Marian was a writer, known for Dzieje grzechu (1911). Marian died on 17 December 1929.
- Leopold Krenn was born on 6 December 1850 in Vienna, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. He was a writer, known for Spitzenhöschen und Schusterpech (1928), Die Tragödie auf Schloss Rottersheim (1916) and Die Landstreicher (1916). He died on 2 October 1930 in Vienna, Austria.
- E.H. Sothern was born on 6 December 1859 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Chattel (1916), The Man of Mystery (1917) and An Enemy to the King (1916). He was married to Julia Marlowe and Virginia Harned. He died on 28 October 1933 in New York City, New York, USA.
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- Writer
Millard Webb was born on 6 December 1893 in Clay City, Kentucky, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for Glorifying the American Girl (1929), My Wife and I (1925) and The Love Thrill (1927). He was married to Mary Eaton and Lydia Stocking. He died on 21 April 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Rudolf Stratz was born on 6 December 1864 in Heidelberg, Germany. He was a writer, known for Schloß Vogelöd (1936), The Haunted Castle (1921) and Das Paradies im Schnee (1923). He died on 19 October 1936 in Bernau am Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany.
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- Editor
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Eve Unsell was born on 6 December 1888 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a writer and editor, known for Melodía prohibida (1933), The Spirit of Youth (1929) and The Ancient Mariner (1925). She was married to Lester Blankfield. She died on 6 July 1937 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Carl Hillebrandt was born on 6 December 1883. He was an actor, known for Don Quixote (1926), Leaves From Satan's Book (1920) and Moderens Øjne (1917). He died on 13 July 1937.
- Velma Whitman was born on 6 December 1885 in Findlay, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Some Boy (1917), The Book Agent (1917) and Melting Millions (1917). She was married to Jack Roseleigh. She died on 18 July 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Nikolai Petrovich Batalov was born on December 6, 1899, in Moscow,
Russia, into the family of a clerk. From 1910-1915 he studied at the
Moscow Mercantile School named after the Czar Aleksander III. His
interest in theatre and literature was supported by his grandmother,
who encouraged his voracious reading. In 1916, he started his acting
career at the Moscow Art Theatre under Konstantin Stanislavski and
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.
At the same time he worked at the MKhAT-2, where his partner and
artistic director was Michael Chekhov.
Nikolai Batalov's first stage work was the role of 'Petia-the
bookbinder' in the play 'Zelenoe Koltso' (The Green Ring 1916) by
Zinaida Gippius. His best remembered
stage work was the title role in the Moscow Art Theatre's classic
production 'Zhenitba Figaro', where Susanna was brilliantly played by
his wife Olga Androvskaya.
He made his film debut in silent film as Gusev in
Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924) directed by
Yakov Protazanov, then as Pavel Vlasov
in Mother (1926) directed by
Vsevolod Pudovkin, an adaptation of
the eponymous book by Maxim Gorky. His
leading role in the notable silent film-comedy 'Tretya meshchanskaya'
(1927) by writer-director Abram Room had a
significant critical and public success. At that time Batalov suffered
from the onset of progressive form of tuberculosis, which interrupted
his stage career, but he still worked in film. His best known film role
was Nikolai Sergeiev in
Road to Life (1931) directed
by the Latvian writer/director Nikolai Ekk,
who won the Most Convincing Director Award at the Venice Film Festival
(1932). The film was produced under the leadership of
Osip Brik, who introduced Nikolay Batalov to
the prototype of his film character, the head of the real Russian
juvenile correction colony Pogrebinsky. After this role Nikolay Batalov
was awarded and received the title of the Honorable Actor of Russia in
1933.
Nikolai Batlov was suffering from the progressive form of tuberculosis.
The disease limited his mobility and affected his acting career in the
mid 1930s. He was undergoing the best treatment available then; he was
sent to convalesce at the Russian Black Sea resort for patients with
tuberculosis, but doctors still recommended that he should be treated
in Europe, where tuberculosis was treated with better results. The
rigid Soviet system did not allow Batalov to go abroad for the foreign
medical help. He died on November 19, 1937, in Moscow.
Batalov was married to actress
Olga Androvskaya (nee Schulz). She was
the leading actress of the Moscow Art Theatre and also a stage partner
of Batalov, and a distinguished film actress. They had a daughter,
Svetlana Nikolaevna Batalova, who also became an actress of the Moscow
Art Theatre (MKhAT). - Harry Lonsdale was born on 6 December 1862 in Worcester, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Ne'er Do Well (1915), Rebecca the Jewess (1913) and The Garden of Allah (1916). He was married to Alice Lonnon [Perkins] (stage actress). He died on 8 February 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Lotte Lorring was born on 6 December 1893 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Kaiserwalzer (1933), Johannisnacht (1933) and Karriere (1930). She died on 20 March 1939 in Berlin, Germany.
- Al Hart was born on 6 December 1875 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for As No Man Has Loved (1925), The Power and the Glory (1918) and The Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds (1918). He was married to Rose ?. He died on 10 January 1940 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Takitarô Minakami was born on 6 December 1887 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a writer, known for An Inn at Osaka (1954). He died on 23 March 1940 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Bruno Lessing was born on 6 December 1870 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Scarlet Road (1916), The Faith of Her Fathers (1915) and The Hunchback's Romance (1915). He died on 29 April 1940 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Ed Brady was born on 6 December 1889 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Son of Kong (1933), Law of the West (1932) and Fires of Rebellion (1917). He was married to Lillian West. He died on 31 March 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
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Victor Schamoni was born on 6 December 1901 in Hamm, Westphalia, Germany. Victor was a director and producer, known for Wir bauen am Reich (1932), Oberammergau - Das Dorf der Schauspieler des großen Passionsspiels (1930) and Stammhirn und Psyche (1939). Victor was married to Maria Schamoni. Victor died on 13 April 1942 in Woronow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Tom Miller was born on 6 December 1872 in Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Old Fashioned Way (1934). He died on 6 December 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Rudolf Herzog was born on 6 December 1869 in Barmen, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for Der Abenteurer (1926), Hanseaten (1925) and Die Wiskottens (1926). He was married to Emma Elisabeth Lux and Minna Seiler. He died on 3 February 1943 in Rheinbreitbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Florence Oberle was born on 6 December 1869 in Tarrytown, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Skinner's Dress Suit (1917), Vultures of Society (1916) and The Prince of Graustark (1916). She died on 10 July 1943 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Don Merrifield was born on 6 December 1872 in Union City, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for The Proof of Innocence (1922) and The Black Panther's Cub (1921). He died on 27 July 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Douglas Cosgrove was born on 6 December 1895 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Winds of the Wasteland (1936), Fog Over Frisco (1934) and Lady Killer (1933). He died on 22 November 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Hargrave Pawson was born on 6 December 1902 in Bayswater, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The First Mrs. Fraser (1932). He was married to Irene Russell. He died on 26 January 1945 in Bloomsbury, London, England, UK.
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Gideon Klein was born on 6 December 1919 in Prerov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. Gideon was a composer, known for The Music of Terezin (1994) and Painting Daddy (2009). Gideon died on 27 January 1945 in Fürstengrube Concentration Camp, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Wesola, Myslowice, Poland].- Fred Whitman was born on 6 December 1887 in Findlay, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for A Branded Soul (1917), Should a Wife Forgive? (1915) and The Red Circle (1915). He died on 11 October 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- August von Mackensen was born on 6 December 1849 in Haus Leipnitz, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia [now Saxony, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Totenkopfreiter (1917), Hearst-Selig News Pictorial, No. 28 (1915) and Pathé News, No. 100 (1916). He died on 8 November 1945 in Habighorst [now Lower Saxony], Germany.
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A storybook hero, the original screen cowboy, ever forthright and
honest, even when (as was often the case) he played a villain, William
S. Hart lived for a while in the Dakota Territory, then worked as a
postal clerk in New York City. In 1888 he began to study acting. In
1899 he created the role of Messala in "Ben-Hur", and received
excellent reviews for his lead part in "The Virginian" (1907). His
first film was a two-reeler,
His Hour of Manhood (1914).
In 1915 he signed a contract with
Thomas H. Ince and joined Ince's Triangle
Film Company. Two years later he followed Ince to Famous Players-Lasky
and received a very lucrative contract from
Adolph Zukor. His career began to dwindle
in the early 1920s due to the publicity surrounding a paternity suit
against him, which was eventually dismissed. He made his last film,
Tumbleweeds (1925), for United
Artists and retired to a ranch in Newhall, CA. By that time audiences
were more interested in the antics of a Tom Mix
or Hoot Gibson than the Victorian moralizing
of Hart. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, NY.- Tony Lazzeri was born on 6 December 1903 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927). He was married to Maye Janes Lazzeri. He died on 6 August 1946 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Abem Finkel was born on 6 December 1889 in New York City, New York, USA. Abem was a writer, known for Sergeant York (1941), Jezebel (1938) and God Is My Co-Pilot (1945). Abem was married to Ruth. Abem died on 10 March 1948 in San Diego, California, USA.
- German-born art director, a U.S. citizen from 1920, who enjoyed a
successful career as an architect in the 1920's. He designed a number
of significant buildings in and around Los Angeles, including the Brown
Derby Restaurant, the Hollywood Boulevard Building and the Hollywood
Palace Theatre. Weyl joined Warner Brothers, under contract from 1934
to 1947, where he worked on two of the most famous films directed by
Michael Curtiz:
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
and Casablanca (1942). He won his only
Academy Award for
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938),
his overall design inspired by the romanticised illustrations of Howard
Pyle's 1883 novel "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown,
in Nottinghamshire". - Actress
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Elissa Landi was born in Venice, Italy on December 6, 1904. From an early age, she
wanted to be an actress and writer. Her acting career started at the Oxford Repertory
Company and on London's West End performing with actors such as Laurence Olivier
and John Gielgud. She played Desdemona in "Othello" and appeared in plays with and
by Noel Coward (most notably "Blithe Spirit, in which she was forced to enter through
the fireplace when the door jammed). She made her London debut in "The Storm," which
lasted for five months and for which she received rave reviews for her performances.
That led to meaty leads in "Lavendar Ladies" and other plays. European film producers
took notice of the photogenic beauty, and Elissa starred in eight films over the next
two years. Her first film was the German-made Synd (1928). Her career didn't
impress critics, though, until she played Anthea Dane in
The Price of Things (1930). She felt that she would make more headway in the U.S., so she went
to New York in 1931 to star in the stage version of "A Farewell to Arms." Although the
play made no huge impression, Hollywood sat up and took notice, and she soon
appeared in
Body and Soul (1931) opposite
Charles Farrell. However, it
wasn't until Cecil B. DeMille's
biblical epic
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
that many moviegoers got their first glimpse of Elissa, and they were
enthralled, although she was among such heavyweight stars as
Claudette Colbert,
Fredric March,
Charles Laughton, and
Vivian Tobin. Completed in under eight weeks, the film was a
smash hit. After
A Passport to Hell (1932) and
Devil's Lottery (1932), Elissa
scored again in
The Warrior's Husband (1933),
a film about the intrigues and intricacies of the old Roman Empire that
starred Marjorie Rambeau and
Ernest Truex. In 1934 Elissa co-starred
with Robert Donat in the classic
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934).
The next year saw Elissa as world-class singer Lisa Robbia, (singing voice dubbed by Nina
Koshetz) in
Enter Madame! (1934) with
Cary Grant, the era's greatest leading man.
In Cary Grant's biography, he mentions seeing Elissa at a typewriter, pursuing her other
passion, writing, between takes throughout the filming process. After a mediocre role in
Mad Holiday (1936),
Elissa had a better part as the tormented Selma Landis in the hit
After the Thin Man (1936), the
second film in the series. She appeared in only three movies after that, the last being
the low-budget
Corregidor (1943) for
bottom-of-the-barrel Producers Releasing Corporation. When that picture
was completed, Elissa left films behind and concentrated on writing; she produced six
novels and poetry volumes. After Hollywood she concentrated on Broadway, regional
theater, and summer stock near Kingston, New York, where she lived with her husband
Curtis Thomas and their daughter.
Elissa succumbed to cancer on October 21, 1948 at just 43 years old.- Actor
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William Thompson Hay was probably one of the most versatile of
entertainers. He was not only a character comedian of the first rank,
but was also an astronomer of high repute - he discovered the spot on
the planet Saturn in 1933 - and a fully qualified air pilot; he was
once an engineer. Born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham in 1888, he became
interested in astronomy at school and carried on his research work in
this direction after he had finished his nightly stage entertainments.
He was first "on the air" in 1922 and his then comedy sketches of "St.
Michaels School" (of which he was the headmaster) proved to be one of
the most popular comedy characters on radio at that time. This
character was transferred to film and became equally successful. He
worked at Elstree Studios, then Gainsborough, then Ealing; the
Gainsborough period was the most consistently successfully,
particularly when he worked with the team of Marcel Varnel (director),
Val Guest and Marriott Edgar (writers), and Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt (supporting
cast). By the time he made his first film, he was in his mid forties
and his last role came less than a decade later. Between 1934 and 1943,
he was a prolific and popular film comedian. He was credited on several
films as a writer or co-ordinator, and was arguably the dominant
'author' of all the films in which he appeared, in that they were built
around his persona and depended on the character and routines he had
developed over years on the stage.- Mieczyslaw Dowmunt was born on 6 December 1880 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Czaty (1920) and Usmiech losu (1927). He died on 1 May 1949 in Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland.
- Eugen Neufeld was born on 6 December 1882 in Goeding, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Hodonin, Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1923), Gullivers Reisen (1924) and Leibfiaker Bratfisch (1925). He died on 18 October 1950 in Vienna, Austria.
- Frank Melton was born on 6 December 1907 in Pineapple, Alabama, USA. He was an actor, known for State Fair (1933), Pot o' Gold (1941) and The Buccaneer (1938). He died on 19 March 1951 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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- Music Department
Tatu Pekkarinen was born on 6 December 1892. He was a writer and composer, known for Kaunis Veera eli ballaadi Saimaalta (1950), On lautalla pienoinen kahvila (1952) and Herra johtajan 'harha-askel' (1940). He died on 4 July 1951.- Eric Ansell was born on 6 December 1876 in Hoxton, London, UK. Eric died on 1 May 1952 in East Melbourne, Australia.
- Clara Lipman Mann was an American actress and a playwright. She began
her acting career in the late 1880s with the A.M. Palmer Theatrical Co.
in New York. By the early 1890s she was appearing regularly on stage
with comedian Louis Mann. It was
probably around this time that the couple married. By around the turn
of the 20th century she began writing and appearing in her own plays.
She went on to author a total of 22 plays, 12 in collaboration with
Samuel Shipman. Clara Lipman
retired from the stage in 1927. In 1940 she made a brief comeback,
appearing in the play "It's a Girl".
Clara's younger sister, Mattie Lipman Marum (1874-1932), was at one
time a well known lieder singer. - József Kishonti was born on 6 December 1905 in Baja, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Márciusi mese (1934) and Szent Péter esernyöje (1935). He died on 28 July 1952 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Adabelle Driver was born on 6 December 1875 in Settle, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Twisted Rails (1934), The Dream Melody (1929) and The Fighting Terror (1929). She was married to Major William Driver. She died on 23 October 1952 in South San Gabriel, California, USA.
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- Soundtrack
Václav Mírovský was born on 6 December 1902 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer and actor, known for S vyloucením verejnosti (1933), Duvod k rozvodu (1937) and U svatého Antonícka (1933). He died on 16 February 1953 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Music Department
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Mort Glickman was born on 6 December 1898 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a composer, known for The Crimson Ghost (1946), Captain America (1944) and The Trespasser (1947). He died on 27 February 1953 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.- Sound Department
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George Hamer was born on 6 December 1904 in Illinois, USA. George died on 26 May 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.