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Biography of Colleen Moore (excerpt)
Colleen Moore (born Kathleen Morrison; August 19, 1899 – January 25, 1988) was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era. Moore became one of the most fashionable (and highly-paid) stars of the era and helped popularize the bobbed haircut.
Biography of Wanda Jakubowska (excerpt)
Wanda Jakubowska (10 October (source: her Wikipedia page in Polish) 1907 – 25 February 1998) was a Polish film director. Although she directed as many as 15 films over 50 years, Jakubowska is best known for her work on the Holocaust.
Biography of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (excerpt)
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen, (20 August 1913 in Strasbourg – 23 June 1957 in Zurich) was a French schoolmaster, officer, journalist, broadcaster and poet. He was an early supporter of a European Common Market and adviser to Jean Monnet. Publications Jonas, Gallimard, 1962. Goethe en Alsace with commentary by Denis de Rougemont, François Mauriac and Baptiste-Marrey.
Biography of Carl Ebert (excerpt)
Carl Anton Charles Ebert (20 February 1887 – 14 May 1980), was an actor, stage director and arts administrator. Ebert's early career was as an actor, training under Max Reinhardt and becoming one of the leading actors in his native Germany during the 1920s.
Biography of Hans Kammler (excerpt)
Hans Kammler (26 August 1901 – 1945 ) was an SS-Obergruppenführer responsible for Nazi civil engineering projects and its top secret weapons programmes. He oversaw the construction of various Nazi concentration camps before being put in charge of the V-2 rocket and jet programmes towards the end of World War II.
Biography of Madame d'Ora (excerpt)
Dora Philippine Kallmus (20 March 1881 – 28 October 1963), also known as Madame D'Ora or Madame d'Ora, was an Austrian fashion and portrait photographer. In 1907, she established her own studio with Arthur Benda in Vienna called the Atelier d’Ora or Madame D'Ora-Benda.
Biography of Ludwig Rubiner (excerpt)
Ludwig Rubiner (12 June 1881 - 27 February 1920) was a German poet, literary critic and essayist, generally seen as a representative of the expressionist movement that originated in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. His most important works include a manifesto entitled, "Der Dichter greift in die Politik" ("The poet engages in politics", 1912) and a stage-drama, "Die Gewaltlosen" ("Men of non-violence", 1919), which he dedicated to "dem Kameraden, meiner Frau Frida" (loosely, "My comrade wife Frida").
Biography of Henri Delaunay (excerpt)
Henri Delaunay (15 June 1883 – 9 November 1955) was a French football administrator. After playing for the Paris team Étoile des Deux Lacs, he became a referee. He retired following an incident during a match between AF Garenne-Doves and ES Benevolence, when he swallowed his whistle and broke two teeth on being struck full in the face by the ball.
Biography of Pierre Chateau-Jobert (excerpt)
Pierre Yvon Alexandre Jean Chateau-Jobert (alias Conan) is a senior officer of the French army, fighter of the Second World War (and as such, companion of the Liberation) and the wars of Indochina and Algeria, born in Morlaix on February 3, 1912, and died in Caumont-l'Éventé in Calvados on December 29, 2005 at the age of 93.
Biography of Georges Pitoëff (excerpt)
Georges Pitoëff was born on 4 September 1884 in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia), then in Russia, and died on 17 September 1939 in Bellevue, near Geneva, Switzerland. Russian-born of Armenian origins, he was the son of the Director of the Tiflis Theatre.
Biography of Smaranda Braescu (excerpt)
Smaranda Brăescu (May 21, 1897 – February 2, 1948) was a Romanian parachuting and aviation pioneer, former multiple world record holder. Her achievements earned her the nickname "Queen of the Heights". In 1928, she became the first Romanian woman to ever obtain a parachuting license (receiving it in Berlin, Germany), and one of the first women in the world to do so.
Biography of Yvonne Jospa (excerpt)
Yvonne Jospa (née Have Groisman, February 3, 1910 in Poputi, Bessarabia (now Moldavia) – January 20, 2000 in Brussels) was a cofounder and leading organizer of the Comité de Défense des Juifs in September 1942 with her husband Hertz Jospa, which saved over 3,000 Jewish children from deportation and death.
Biography of Simone Barbier (excerpt)
Simone Barbier (born 19 January 1903) was a French tennis player. She reached the doubles final at the 1930 French Championships with compatriot Simonne Mathieu in which they lost in straight sets to Elizabeth Ryan and Helen Wills Moody. In 1929 and 1930 she competed in the Wimbledon Championships, reaching the second round in singles, the quarterfinal in doubles with Mathieu and the second round in mixed doubles partnering Jacques Grandguillot.
Biography of Dora Schaul (excerpt)
Dora Schaul (born Dora Davidsohn, 21 September 1913 – 8 August 1999) was a German woman noted particularly for her undercover work at official offices in German-occupied France during World War II. She passed on significant information to the French Resistance.
Biography of Clotilde von Derp (excerpt)
Clotilde Margarete Anna Edle von der Planitz (5 November 1892 – 11 January 1974), known professionally as Clotilde von Derp, was a German expressionist dancer, an early exponent of modern dance. Her career was spent essentially dancing together with her husband Alexander Sakharoff with whom she enjoyed a long-lasting relationship.
Biography of Jean Amila (excerpt)
Jean Amila (Paris, 24 November 1910 – 6 March 1995) was a French author and screenwriter who also wrote under the names John Amila, Jean Mekert, or Jean Meckert. He also published other popular novels under the pseudonyms of Édouard, Edmond or Guy Duret, Albert Duvivier, Mariodile and Marcel Pivert.
Biography of Francesco von Mendelssohn (excerpt)
Francesco von Mendelssohn (born Franz von Mendelssohn; 6 September 1901 – 22 September 1972) was a German cellist and art collector. He also became known during the 1920s as a stage actor and theater director. He acquired additional notability with a lifestyle that some found eccentric.
Biography of Pierre Bonny (excerpt)
Pierre Bonny (25 January 1895 – 26 December 1944) was a corrupt French police officer. As an inspector, he was the investigating officer in the 1923 Seznec case, and was accused of falsifying the evidence. He was once praised as one of the most talented police officers in the country, and helped to solve the notorious Stavisky financial scandal in 1934.
Biography of Pierrette Caillol (excerpt)
Pierrette Emmanuelle Caillol is a French actress, born in Marseille on July 17, 1898 and died in Nice on June 8, 1991. She is the sister of actress Paulette Ray (1902-1987). Filmography (selection) 1947 : Une mort sans importance d'Yvan Noé 1948 : Bagarres d'Henri Calef : Mme Leroux
Biography of Maurice Chevance (excerpt)
Maurice Chevance, known as Barrioz-Bertin, born March 6, 1910 in Nanteuil-le-Haudouin (Oise) and died June 17, 1996 in Paris, is a French politician and resistance fighter, Companion of the Liberation by decree of November 17, 1945.
Biography of Charlotte von Pazatka (excerpt)
Charlotte Margarethe von Pazatka-Lipinski, married Baluschek (November 18, 1878 in Berlin - April 28, 1969 there) was a German theater actress.
Biography of Joan McCracken (excerpt)
Joan Hume McCracken (December 31, 1917 – November 1, 1961) was an American dancer, actress, and comedian who became famous for her role as Sylvie ("The Girl Who Falls Down") in the original 1943 production of Oklahoma! She also was noted for her performances in the Broadway shows Bloomer Girl (1944), Billion Dollar Baby (1945) and Dance Me a Song (1950), and the films Hollywood Canteen (1945) and Good News (1947).
Biography of John Heartfield (excerpt)
John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld; 19 June 1891 – 26 April 1968) was a German visual artist who pioneered the use of art as a political weapon. Some of his most famous photomontages were anti-Nazi and anti-fascist statements. Heartfield also created book jackets for book authors, such as Upton Sinclair, as well as stage sets for contemporary playwrights, such as Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator.
Biography of Angèle Laval (excerpt)
The Raven affair is a French criminal case which has as its starting point a news item that occurred in Tulle. From 1917 to 1922, the inhabitants of the city were victims of a wave of anonymous letters signed "Tiger's Eye" and denouncing the actions of each other.
Biography of Yvonne Chollet (excerpt)
Yvonne Chollet (1897–1945) was a teacher in Vendôme, France, who surveilled the movement of German equipment on behalf of the French Resistance and reported her findings to Allied forces during World War II. Arrested by the Gestapo in May 1943, she was imprisoned at Blois, Orléans, Romainville, and Compiègne before being deported to the Nazi concentration camp near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel) in northern Germany, where she survived barely a year.
Biography of Ferdinand, Duke of Montpensier (excerpt)
Ferdinand d'Orléans, Duke of Montpensier (French: Ferdinand François Philippe Marie Laurent d'Orléans, Duc de Montpensier) (9 September 1884 – 30 January 1924) was a member of the House of Orléans and a Prince of France. Career The Duke lived in England for many years, until "his reported indiscretions with regard to his recollections of Queen Victoria made it somewhat uncomfortable for him when in London.
Biography of Georges Chevalier (artist) (excerpt)
Georges Chevalier, born July 12, 1894 in Ivry-sur-Seine, died in 1987, was a French artist, designer of glassware. He was notably artistic director at Baccarat.
Biography of Irina Sebrova (excerpt)
Irina Fyodorovna Sebrova (Russian: Ирина Фёдоровна Себрова; 25 December 1914 – 5 April 2000) was a flight commander in the all-female Night Witches during the Second World War. She was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 23 February 1945 for her first 825 bombing missions.
Biography of Jean Bertin (engineer) (excerpt)
Jean Henri Bertin (5 December 1917 (Wikipedia is incorrect) – 21 December 1975) was a French scientist, engineer and inventor. He was born in Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, both French communes. He is best known as the lead engineer for the French experimental Aérotrain mass transit system.
Biography of Lewis Grassic Gibbon (excerpt)
Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer. He was best known for his trilogy A Scots Quair, set in the north-east of Scotland in early years of the 20th century.
Biography of Jean de Milleret (excerpt)
Jean de Milleret, known as "Carnot" (but also "Marnac", "Martel", "Jacomy"), born March 19, 1908 in Montauban, died January 10, 1980 in Buenos Aires, is a French soldier and resistance fighter, historian and biographer.
Biography of Doris Humphrey (excerpt)
Doris Batcheller Humphrey (October 17, 1895 – December 29, 1958) was an American dancer and choreographer of the early twentieth century. Along with her contemporaries Martha Graham and Katherine Dunham, Humphrey was one of the second generation modern dance pioneers who followed their forerunners – including Isadora Duncan, Ruth St.
Biography of Anthony Caillot (excerpt)
Anthony Louis Léon Caillot, born March 14, 1908 in Valognes (Manche), died February 5, 1994 in Regnéville-sur-Mer (Manche), was a French Catholic bishop, titular bishop of Bononia and coadjutor of Évreux from 1962 to 1964 , then Bishop of Évreux from 1964 to 1972, and Bishop Emeritus of Évreux from 1972 to 1994.
Biography of Émilie Schindler (excerpt)
Emilie Schindler (née Pelzl; 22 October 1907 – 5 October 2001) was a Sudeten German-born woman who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II by employing them in his enamelware and munitions factories, providing them immunity from the Nazis.
Biography of Taos Amrouche (excerpt)
Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche (born 4 March 1913 in Tunis, Tunisia; died 2 April 1976 in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, France) was an Algerian writer and singer. In 1947, she became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel. She was born to a family of Kabyle Roman Catholic converts, the only daughter in a family of six sons.
Biography of Orso Mario Corbino (excerpt)
Orso Mario Corbino (30 April 1876, Augusta – 23 January 1937, Rome) was an Italian physicist and politician. He served as the minister for education in 1921 and as the minister for economy in 1921. He also served as professor in Messina (1905) and in Rome (1908).
Biography of Léon Spilliaert (excerpt)
Léon Spilliaert (also Leon Spilliaert; 28 July 1881 – 23 November 1946) was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist. Spilliaert was born in Ostend, the oldest of seven children of Léonard-Hubert Spilliaert, a perfumer, and his wife Léonie (née Jonckheere). From childhood, he displayed an interest in art and drawing.
Biography of Vera Leigh (excerpt)
Vera Leigh (17 March 1903 – 6 July 1944) was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive during World War II. Leigh was a member of the SOE's Donkeyman circuit and Inventor sub-circuit in occupied France until she was arrested by the Gestapo.
Biography of Aurora Bertrana (excerpt)
Aurora Bertrana i Salazar (October 29, 1892 in Girona – September 3, 1974 in Berga, Barcelona) was a Catalan cellist and writer, notable for her exotic stories and novels. Early years Born in Girona in 1892, she was the daughter of the modernist writer, Prudenci Bertrana.
Biography of Léon Bernard (excerpt)
Léon-Constant-Jean Bernard is a French actor born February 26, 1877 in the 1st arrondissement of Paris and died in the 5th arrondissement of Paris on November 20, 1935.
Biography of Tadd Dameron (excerpt)
Tadley Ewing Peake Dameron (February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965) was an American jazz composer, arranger, and pianist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Dameron was the most influential arranger of the bebop era, but also wrote charts for swing and hard bop players.
Biography of Maria Rentmeister (excerpt)
Maria Rentmeister (27 January 1905 – 10 May 1996) was a German political activist who became an anti-government resistance activist after 1933. She spent much of the time during the twelve Nazi years abroad or, later, in state detention. In 1945 she relocated to what now became the Soviet occupation zone (after October 1949 East Germany) where she became the first General Secretary of the politically important Democratic Women's League ("Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands" / DFD).
Biography of Erich Mühsam (excerpt)
Erich Mühsam (6 April 1878 – 10 July 1934) was a German-Jewish antimilitarist anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic, for which he served 5 years in prison.
Biography of Alexandre Ughetto (excerpt)
Alexandre Ughetto, born December 6, 1910 in Lauris in the Vaucluse, executed in Digne on January 24, 1930 at the age of 19, is a French murderer. He had been convicted of having, with the help of an accomplice named Mucha Stephan, known as Joseph Witkowski, aged sixteen, born in Poland on January 14, 1912, committed a quadruple murder on October 5, 1928 at the Courelys farm, located one thousand nine hundred meters from Valensole. »
Biography of Maria Kotarba (excerpt)
Maria Kotarba (4 September 1907 — 30 December 1956) was a courier in the Polish resistance movement, smuggling clandestine messages and supplies among the local partisan groups. She was arrested, tortured and interrogated by the Gestapo as a political prisoner before being imprisoned in Tarnów and then deported to Auschwitz on January 6, 1943.
Biography of Pierre Bertaux (excerpt)
Pierre Bertaux, born October 8, 1907 in Lyon (Rhône) and died August 14, 1986 in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine), is a German scholar, French resistance fighter and politician. He is the author of a major thesis on Hölderlin in 1936. Member of several left-wing government cabinets, appointed Commissioner of the Republic for the Liberation of Toulouse, he was notably made Officer of the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre, and Companion of the Liberation.
Biography of Erwin Anton Gutkind (excerpt)
Erwin Anton Gutkind (May 20, 1886, Berlin – 7 August 1968, Philadelphia), was a German-Jewish architect and city planner, who left Berlin in 1935 for Paris, London and then Philadelphia, where he became a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.
Biography of Mona Louise Parsons (excerpt)
Mona Louise Parsons (February 17, 1901 – November 28, 1976) was a Canadian actress, nurse, and member of an informal Dutch resistance network in the Netherlands from 1940 to 1941 during the Nazi occupation. She became the only Canadian female civilian to be imprisoned by the Nazis and one of the first and few women to be tried by a Nazi military tribunal in the Netherlands.
Biography of Sophie Maslow (excerpt)
Sophie Maslow (March 22, 1911 – June 25, 2006) was an American choreographer, modern dancer and teacher, and founding member of New Dance Group. She was a first cousin of the American sculptor Leonard Baskin. Born in New York City in 1911 by Russian American parents, Sophie Maslow began her dance training with Blanche Talmud at the Neighborhood Playhouse School.
Biography of Lothar Müthel (excerpt)
Lothar Müthel (né Lothar Max Lütcke; 18 February 1896 – 4 September 1964) was a German stage and film actor and director. Müthel was born in Berlin, where he attended the acting school of Max Reinhardt, Schauspielschule, Berlin. Following the Anchluss of Austria to Nazi Germany, Müthel was appointed as director of the Burgtheater in Vienna. |
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