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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 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 Doris Duranti (excerpt)
Doris Duranti (25 April 1917 – 10 March 1995) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1935 and 1975. She had a years-long affair with Alessandro Pavolini, a Fascist politician who in 1945 was executed by Italian partisans; his body was then hung with that of Benito Mussolini.
Biography of M. Vasalis (excerpt)
M. Vasalis, pseudonym for Margaretha (Kiekie) Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans (13 February 1909 in The Hague – 16 October 1998 in Roden) was a Dutch poet and psychiatrist. The pseudonym 'Vasalis' is a Latinization of her last name 'Leenmans'. The 'M' does not stand for 'Maria' as is sometimes incorrectly reported.
Biography of André Billy (excerpt)
André Billy (13 December 1882 – 11 April 1971) was a French writer. He was born in Saint-Quentin, Aisne. After completing secondary studies at the Collège de la Providence in Amiens, he studied under the Jesuits at Saint-Dizier. He began writing in 1907, occasionally using the pseudonym Jean de l'Escritoire.
Biography of Yiannis Ritsos (excerpt)
Yiannis Ritsos (Greek: Γιάννης Ρίτσος; 1 May 1909 – 11 November 1990) was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. While he disliked being regarded as a political poet, he has been called "the great poet of the Greek left".
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 Karl Kraus (writer) (excerpt)
Karl Kraus (28 April 1874 – 12 June 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
Biography of Luisa Ferida (excerpt)
Luisa Ferida (18 March 1914 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian stage and film actress. Career Born Luigia Manfrini Frané in Bologna, Ferida started as a stage actress. In 1935 she made her first appearance in film with a supporting role in La Freccia d'oro.
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 Jacques Beauvallet (excerpt)
Jacques Beauvallet, born September 13, 1909 in Dieppe and died January 16, 2000 in Nancy, is a French general. Polytechnique graduate of 1929, he opted for the artillery weapon. Captain in Indochina during World War II, he was captured and tortured by the Japanese in 1945.
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 Milena Jesenská (excerpt)
Milena Jesenská (10 August 1896 – 17 May 1944) was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. Milena Jesenská, coming from a Bohemian aristocratic family, lost her mother at the age of thirteen and had a distant relationship with her father, a renowned surgeon.
Biography of Virginia Dale (excerpt)
Virginia Dale (born Virginia Paxton; July 1, 1917 – October 3, 1994) was an American actress and dancer. While working with her sister, Frances, to form the dancing Paxton Sisters in New York City, she was discovered by Darryl F. Zanuck who signed her to a contract with 20th Century Fox.
Biography of Clara Viebig (excerpt)
Clara Emma Amalia Viebig (17 July 1860 (for her time of birth, two sources exist, 10:00 pm and 9:00 pm) – 31 July 1952) was a German author. Life Viebig was born in the German city of Trier, the daughter of a Prussian civil servant.
Biography of Maria Skobtsova (excerpt)
Maria Skobtsova (20 (8 Old Calendar) December 1891 – 31 March 1945), known as Mother Maria (Russian: Мать Мария), Saint Mary (or Mother Maria) of Paris, born Elizaveta Yurievna Pilenko (Елизавета Юрьевна Пиленко), Kuzmina-Karavayeva (Кузьмина-Караваева) by her first marriage, Skobtsova (Скобцова) by her second marriage, was a Russian noblewoman, poet, nun, and member of the French Resistance during World War II.
Biography of Pierre Cartier (jeweller) (excerpt)
Pierre Camille Cartier was born March 10, 1878 and died October 27, 1964. Grandson of Louis-François Cartier, he is the founder of the London and New York branches of the Cartier house. Family Pierre is the son of Alfred Cartier (1841-1925) and the grandson of Louis-François Cartier (1819-1904).
Biography of Gerda Taro (excerpt)
Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war.
Biography of Maurice Marinot (excerpt)
Maurice Marinot (born 20 March 1882 in Troyes, France, died 1960, Troyes) was a French artist. He was a painter considered a member of Les Fauves, and then a major artist in glass. Marinot's father was a bonnet maker. Maurice did poorly in school, but convinced his parents to send him to the École des Beaux-Arts in 1901 to train as a painter under French painter, Fernand Cormon.
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.
Biography of Reginald Denny (actor) (excerpt)
Reginald Leigh Dugmore (20 November 1891 – 16 June 1967), known professionally as Reginald Denny, was an English actor, aviator, and UAV pioneer. Denny was a well-known actor in silent films, and with the advent of talkies he became a character actor.
Biography of Faustina Kowalska (excerpt)
Maria Faustyna Kowalska, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938), also known as Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled "Faustina", had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of "Secretary of Divine Mercy".
Biography of Jessie Matthews (excerpt)
Jessie Margaret Matthews OBE (11 March 1907 – 19 August 1981) was an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1920s and 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period. After a string of hit stage musicals and films in the mid-1930s, Matthews developed a following in the USA, where she was dubbed "The Dancing Divinity".
Biography of Roland Caillaux (excerpt)
Roland Raymond Ferdinand Caillaud (January 5, 1905 – December 3, 1977) – known professionally as Roland Caillaux, and sometimes using the pseudonym Roland Caipland – was a French actor and artist. He is known for acting in several French films in the 1920s and 1930s, and for producing and publishing homoerotic illustrations in the mid 20th century.
Biography of Pierre Le Flaouter (excerpt)
Pierre Le Flaouter, born March 17, 1884 in Lorient (Morbihan), died June 1, 1981 in Vertou (Loire-Atlantique), was a postman, worker, bookseller, showman, trade unionist, and French anarchist. He was one of the protagonists of the Philippe Daudet affair which, in 1923-1925, hit the headlines.
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 André Pommiès (excerpt)
André Pommiès, born June 9, 1904 in Bordeaux, died September 16, 1972 in Arbus near Pau, is a French military hero of the Resistance. After the invasion of the southern zone in November 1942, he secretly set up a Pyrenean Free Corps (CFP) which would later be called the Pommiès Franc Corps.
Biography of Paule Andral (excerpt)
Paule Andral (14 September 1879 – 28 March 1956) was a French actress. Andral was born Paule Roucole in Paris and died in Nice in 1956. Selected filmography Tarakanova (1930) David Golder (1931) The Rebel (1931) The Beautiful Adventure (1932) Imperial Violets (1932) The Star of Valencia (1933) The Little King (1933)
Biography of Charlotte Delbo (excerpt)
Charlotte Delbo (10 August 1913 – 1 March 1985) was a French writer chiefly known for her haunting memoirs of her time as a prisoner in Auschwitz, where she was sent for her activities as a member of the French resistance.
Biography of Henriëtte Pimentel (excerpt)
Henriëtte Henriquez Pimentel (17 April 1876 – 17 September 1943) was a Dutch teacher and trained nurse who during the Second World War headed a crèche in Amsterdam which cared for small children while their parents were otherwise occupied. Together with Walter Süskind and Johan van Hulst, from around October 1942 she helped to save the lives of hundreds of Jewish infants by smuggling them into the homes of sympathetic host families.
Biography of Israel Joshua Singer (excerpt)
Israel Joshua Singer ( November 30, 1893, Biłgoraj, Congress Poland — February 10, 1944 New York) was a Polish-Jewish novelist who wrote in Yiddish. He was born Yisruel Yehoyshye Zinger, the son of Pinchas Mendl Zynger, a rabbi and author of rabbinic commentaries, and Basheva Zylberman.
Biography of Georgie Raoul-Duval (excerpt)
Jeannie Urquhart or Georgie Raoul–Duval (3 July 1866 – 3 November 1913) was an American writer, playwright, and socialite. She is mainly remembered for having been in a ménage-a-trois with Colette and Colette's husband Henry Gauthier–Villars. Early life Urquhart was born in the 16th arrondissement in Paris, France during one of the frequent travels of American merchant David Urquhart and his wife Augusta (née Slocomb).
Biography of Max Pallenberg (excerpt)
Max Pallenberg (born 18 December 1877 in Vienna as Max Pollack – 26 June 1934 in Karlovy Vary) was an Austrian singer, actor and comedian. Although Pallenberg's career started in 1904 it wasn't until 1909 that he joined Theater an der Wien and (as of 1911) Vienna's Deutsches Volkstheater.
Biography of Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (excerpt)
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (11 July 1893, in Frankfurt-am-Main – 7 January 1965, in Allambie Heights, in Sydney) was a German-born Australian artist. His formative education was 1912–1914 at Debschitz art school in Munich. He studied at the Bauhaus from 1919–24 and remained working there until 1926 where, along with Kurt Schwerdtfeger, he further developed the Farblichtspiele ('coloured-light-plays'), which used a projection device to produced moving colours on a transparent screen accompanied by music composed by Hirschfeld Mack.
Biography of Yvonne Vallée (excerpt)
Yvonne Vallée (February 21, 1899 – June 15, 1996) was a French actress and singer. Career Before their marriage, Yvonne Vallée was Chevalier's music hall dancing partner. She performed operetta often alongside Chevalier and was in the ensemble for the Paris debut of Belle of New York.
Biography of Ferdinand Béghin (excerpt)
Ferdinand Béghin, born January 21, 1902 in Thumeries and died April 18, 1994 in Friborg (Switzerland), is a French industrialist and businessman, in the sugar, cardboard, paper, press and publishing.
Biography of Henriette Roland Holst (excerpt)
Henriette Goverdine Anna "Jet" Roland Holst-van der Schalk (24 December 1869 – 21 November 1952) was a Dutch poet and communist. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The poet Adriaan Roland Holst (1888–1976), nicknamed "the Dutch Prince of Poets", was the nephew of her husband.
Biography of La Argentina (dancer) (excerpt)
Antonia Mercé y Luque (September 4, 1890 – July 18, 1936), stage name La Argentina, was an Argentine-born Spanish dancer known for her creation of the neoclassical style of Spanish dance as a theatrical art. She was one of the major influences on Japanese butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno.
Biography of Grace Bradley (excerpt)
Grace Bradley (September 21, 1913 – September 21, 2010) was an American film actress who was active in Hollywood during the 1930s. Hollywood Although she made one film in 1932, her film career did not gather steam until she starred in the film Too Much Harmony (1933), which provided her "first film credit".
Biography of Chung Ling Soo (excerpt)
William Ellsworth Robinson (April 2, 1861 – March 24, 1918) was an American magician who went by the stage name Chung Ling Soo. He is mostly remembered today for his accidental death due to a failed bullet catch trick. Soo's most famous illusion, partly because of his death while performing it, was called "Condemned to Death by the Boxers".
Biography of Paul Gilson (excerpt)
Paul Gilson, born January 31, 1904 in Paris and died May 26, 1963 in the same city, was a French writer and radio broadcaster. His work includes poems, stories, essays, plays, films, but he is best known for his many activities on the radio.
Biography of Daniel Carasso (excerpt)
Daniel Carasso (December 16, 1905 – May 17, 2009) was a French American member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family and the son of Isaac Carasso, founder of the (now) multinational Danone. Carasso, son of Isaac Carasso, was born in Salonica, Ottoman Empire (modern Thessaloniki, Greece), where his family had lived for four hundred years following Spain's expulsion of its Jews.
Biography of Albert Naud (excerpt)
Albert Léopold Naud, born May 8, 1904 in Graves (Charente) and died February 20, 1977 in Paris 13th arrondissement, is a journalist, a political activist, an assize lawyer and a French resistance fighter. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Académie française, twice, in 1968 and 1975-1976.
Biography of Paul Wegener (acteur) (excerpt)
Paul Wegener (11 December 1874 (there is probably an error from Taeger)) – 13 September 1948) was a German actor, writer, and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema. Stage and early film career At the age of 20, Wegener decided to end his law studies and concentrate on acting, touring the provinces before joining Max Reinhardt's acting troupe in 1906.
Biography of Fazil Küçük (excerpt)
Fazil Küçük (14 March 1906 – 15 January 1984) was a Turkish Cypriot politician who served as the first Vice President of the Republic of Cyprus.
Biography of Victor Iturria (excerpt)
Victor Iturria (Bassussarry, October 22, 1914 - Died for France1 in Gâvre on August 25, 1944) is a French soldier, Companion of the Liberation posthumously by decree of December 29, 1944. During the Second World War, he distinguished himself from the Battle of France during which he was wounded.
Biography of Israël Querido (excerpt)
Israël Querido (1 October 1872, Amsterdam – 5 August 1932, Amsterdam) was a Dutch naturalist novelist. His novels are sympathetic to workers and the Socialist movement.
Biography of Jane Winton (excerpt)
Jane Winton (October 10, 1905 – September 22, 1959) was an American film actress, dancer, opera soprano, writer, and painter. Actress During the 1920s, she began her stage career as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies. After coming to the West Coast, Winton became known as "the green-eyed goddess of Hollywood".
Biography of Marie-Thérèse Walter (excerpt)
Marie-Thérèse Walter (13 July 1909 – 20 October 1977) was a French model and lover of Pablo Picasso from 1927 to about 1935 and the mother of their daughter Maya Widmaier-Picasso. Their relationship began when she was seventeen years old; he was 45 and married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova.
Biography of Georges Lacombe (director) (excerpt)
Georges Lacombe (1902 – 1990) was a French film director. Filmography 1928: La Zone (short) 1931: Boule de gomme 1932: Ce cochon de Morin 1933: La Femme invisible 1933: Un jour d'été 1934: Youth 1935: Épousez ma femme 1935: La Route heureuse 1936: Le cœur dispose 1938: Café de Paris 1939: Behind the Facade |
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