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Biography of Jeanne Provost (excerpt)
Jeanne Provost (28 November 1887 – 24 November 1980) was a French stage and film actress. She was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1907 to 1912. In 1928 she appeared in the original cast of Marcel Pagnol's play Topaze. Selected filmography
Biography of Lao She (excerpt)
Shu Qingchun (3 February 1899 – 24 August 1966), known by his pen name Lao She, was a Manchu novelist and dramatist. He was a writer of 20th-century Chinese literature, known for his novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse (茶馆). He was of Manchu ethnicity, and his works are known for their vivid use of the Beijing dialect.
Biography of Alice Duer Miller (excerpt)
Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion.Her feminist verses influenced political opinion during the American suffrage movement, and her verse novel The White Cliffs influenced political thought during the U.S.'s entry into World War II.
Biography of A.-M. Julien (excerpt)
A.-M.Julien, real name Aman-Julien Maistre, (24 July 1903 – 15 January 2001) was a French actor, singer and theatre manager. He was François Maistre's father. Life Born in Toulon (Var), Julien joined the troupe of the Copiaus founded by Jacques Copeau in the 1920s and which became the Compagnie des Quinze (1930-1932) in 1929 when it was installed at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris.
Biography of Giovanni Gronchi (excerpt)
Giovanni Gronchi, OMCA (10 September 1887 – 17 October 1978) was an Italian politician from Christian Democracy who served as the president of Italy from 1955 to 1962 and was marked by a controversial and failed attempt to bring about an "opening to the left" in Italian politics.
Biography of Alice Voinescu (excerpt)
Alice Voinescu (10 February 1885 – 4 June 1961) was a Romanian writer, essayist, university professor, theatre critic, and translator. She was the first Romanian woman to become a Doctor of Philosophy, which she did at the Sorbonne in 1913 in Paris.
Biography of Anna Hofman-Uddgren (excerpt)
Anna Maria Viktoria Hofman-Uddgren (23 February 1868 – 1 June 1947) née Hammarström; also known as Hoffman and Hofmann, was a Swedish actress, cabaret singer, music hall and revue artist, theatre director, and film director. Until 2016, she was referred to as the first woman to become a film director in Sweden.
Biography of Rodolfo Graziani (excerpt)
Rodolfo Graziani (11 August 1882 – 11 January 1955) was a notable Italian military officer and a committed fascist. He was influential in Italy's colonial campaigns in Libya and Ethiopia, where he gained notoriety for using brutal repressive measures including concentration camps and mass executions.
Biography of Émile Aubrun (excerpt)
Émile Eugène Aubrun, born August 25, 1881 in Brunoy and died November 14, 1967 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, was a French aviation pioneer, who particularly distinguished himself during the 1910 season.
Biography of Paul Stewart (actor) (excerpt)
Paul Stewart (born Paul Sternberg; March 13, 1908 – February 17, 1986) was an American character actor, director and producer who worked in theatre, radio, films and television.He frequently portrayed cynical and sinister characters throughout his career. A friend and associate of Orson Welles for many years, Stewart helped Welles get his first job in radio and was associate producer of the celebrated radio program "The War of the Worlds", in which he also performed.
Biography of Juvencio Valle (excerpt)
Juvencio Valle, also known by the pseudonym Gilberto Concha Riffo (November 6, 1900 – February 12, 1999), was a noted Chilean poet. He is a recipient of the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile, a National Prize awarded to poets of high reputation.
Biography of Maitreyi Devi (excerpt)
Maitreyi Devi (1 September 1914 - 29 January 1989) was an Indian poet and novelist, best known for her Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel, "Na Hanyate" ('It Does Not Die'). Her birth time was provided by her. Daughter of philosopher Surendranath Dasgupta and protégée of poet Rabindranath Tagore, she graduated from the University of Calcutta.
Biography of Noël Delberghe (excerpt)
Noël Delberghe, born December 25, 1897, in Tourcoing and died September 17, 1965, in Paris, was a French water polo player. Noël Delberghe was a member of the Enfants de Neptune of Tourcoing. He won the Olympic gold medal in water polo at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and earned a silver medal at the 1927 European Championships in Bologna.
Biography of Jean Carmen (excerpt)
Jean Carmen, born Jean Carmean on April 7, 1913, was an American actress known for her work in film, stage, and radio. She used the stage name Julia Thayer at times. Carmen starred on Broadway in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" and had notable roles in 1930s films, including the 1937 western serial "The Painted Stallion."
Biography of Andrei Platonov (excerpt)
Andrei Platonovich Platonov (born Klimentov (Russian: Климе́нтов); 28 August (O.S.16 August) 1899 – 5 January 1951) was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, engineer, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agriculture (1929–1940) and other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form infused with existentialism.
Biography of Óscar Esplá (excerpt)
Óscar Esplá y Triay (August 5, 1886 – January 6, 1976) was a renowned Spanish composer.The Conservatorio Superior de Música in Alicante is named in his honor, and since 1955, the city of Alicante has awarded the Óscar Esplá international prize for composition.
Biography of Raoul Breton (excerpt)
Raoul Breton, born on August 26, 1896, in Vierzon and died at sea on April 23, 1959, was a French music publisher. Initially a dancer, he ventured into music publishing in 1933, discovering talents like Damia, Mireille, and Jean Nohain. His pivotal encounter with Charles Trenet propelled Trenet to international fame.
Biography of Ewan Forbes (excerpt)
Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, MBChB (September 6, 1912 – September 12, 1991), was a Scottish nobleman, general practitioner, and farmer, who was a trans man. Originally christened Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill and registered as a daughter, he transitioned to male in the 1930s after medical treatments in Germany and officially changed his registration to male in 1952.
Biography of Alexandra Tolstaya (excerpt)
Countess Alexandra (Sasha) Lvovna Tolstaya (18 June 1884 (30 June, Gregorian calendar) – 26 September 1979) was the youngest daughter and secretary of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. He time of birth comes from her autobiography "My Life" by Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya (University of Ottawa Press, 2011).
Biography of Carlos Torre Repetto (excerpt)
Carlos Torre Repetto (November 23, 1904 or 1905 – March 19, 1978, in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico) was a great Mexican chess grandmaster. Chess Career Torre won the Louisiana Championship in New Orleans in 1923. He finished first in Detroit in 1924, ahead of Samuel Factor, Hahlbohm, Norman Whitaker, Samuel Reshevsky, and others, and also in Rochester the same year.
Biography of Maria Silva Cruz (excerpt)
Maria Silva Cruz (April 20, 1915 – August 23, 1936), an Andalusian anarchist known as "La Libertaria," was a hero of the Casas Viejas Uprising in Spain. Born in Cádiz, her parents were day laborers, and her father and uncle were members of the CNT, an anarchist group.
Biography of Joan Woodbury (excerpt)
Joan Woodbury, an American actress born in Los Angeles in 1915, began her career in the 1930s, thriving into the 1960s. She grew up in a prominent family, with her mother a former Rose Queen and in vaudeville. Woodbury discovered acting early, leading to roles in films like "Eight Girls in a Boat." Her career rose significantly by 1936, showcasing her ethnic versatility in various roles.
Biography of Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia (excerpt)
Infante Jaime of Spain, Duke of Segovia (Spanish: Don Jaime Leopoldo Isabelino Enrique Alejandro Alberto Alfonso Víctor Acacio Pedro Pablo María de Borbón-Segovia y Battenberg; French: Jacques Léopold Isabellin Henri Alexandre Albért Alphonse Victor Acace Pierre Paul Marie de Bourbon; 23 June 1908 – 20 March 1975) was the second son of Alfonso XIII, King of Spain and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.
Biography of Yelizaveta Chaikina (excerpt)
Yelizaveta Ivanovna Chaikina (Russian: Елизавета Чайкина; 28 August 1918 – 23 November 1941) often referred to as Liza Chaikina, was the Secretary of the Kalinin Komsomol Penovsky underground committee, a Soviet partisan detachment organizer and posthumous Heroine of the Soviet Union.
Biography of Léon Bourjade (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Léon Bourjade (Montauban, May 25, 1889 – Papua New Guinea, October 22, 1924) was a French aviation ace and missionary. Tributes A few years after his death, the famous aviator Jean Mermoz, during one of his crossings of the South Atlantic by plane, had a serious oil leak which assured him of perdition at sea; although an atheist, he addressed a “prayer” to his pilot colleague Léon Bourjade and landed in extremis on a beach in Senegal, the propeller “flagged”.
Biography of Art Lund (excerpt)
Arthur Lund (1915-1990) was an American baritone singer and actor.A graduate in aerological engineering, he began his career as a high school math teacher and musician, eventually working with Benny Goodman and Harry James. His solo hit "Mam'selle" topped the Billboard chart in 1947.
Biography of Delphin (French actor) (excerpt)
Delphin Sirvaux, better known as Delphin, was a French dwarf actor born on October 12, 1882, in Les Fessey (Haute-Saône) and died by suicide on May 6, 1938, in Paris. Encouraged by Auguste Lamboley, another dwarf from the region, he moved to Paris and gained recognition at the 1900 Exposition and in Montmartre cabarets.
Biography of Richard Gaines (excerpt)
Richard Houston Gaines (July 23, 1904 – July 20, 1975) was an American actor.He appeared in over 75 film and television productions between 1940 and 1962. Early years Gaines was born in Indian Territory and grew up in Texas, learning "to handle the ax, the plough, and the lariat".
Biography of Dolores Costello (excerpt)
Dolores Costello (September 17, 1903 – March 1, 1979) was an American actress best known for her work in silent films. Nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen" by her first husband, John Barrymore, she was the mother of John Drew Barrymore and grandmother of Drew Barrymore.
Biography of Karlis Skalbe (excerpt)
Kārlis Skalbe (November 7 (O.S. October 26) 1879 — 1945 April 14) was a Latvian writer, poet, and activist. He is best known for his 72 fairy tales which are really written for adults. He has been called the 'King of Fairytales', and his words, Tēvzemei un Brīvībai (For Fatherland and Freedom), are inscribed on the Monument of Freedom in Riga.
Biography of Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (excerpt)
Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (22 October 1859 – 23 November 1949) was a member of the Bavarian House of Wittelsbach and a General of Cavalry. He married Infanta María de la Paz of Spain and was also made an Infante of Spain.
Biography of Pol Neveux (excerpt)
Pol Neveux, born on August 25, 1865, in Reims (Marne), and died on March 26, 1939, in Garches (then in Seine-et-Oise, now in Hauts-de-Seine), was a French writer and librarian. He served as the Inspector General of the Libraries of France and was a member of the Académie Goncourt.
Biography of Hugh Ramsay (excerpt)
Hugh Ramsay (25 May 1877 – 5 March 1906) was an Australian artist. Early life and education Miss Nellie Patterson (1903), daughter of Ambrose Patterson, niece of Nellie Melba Ramsay was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 25 May 1877, the son of John Ramsay.
Biography of Leda Gloria (excerpt)
Leda Gloria (30 August 1908 – 16 March 1997) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 66 films between 1929 and 1965. During the expansion of Italian cinema of the Fascist era of the 1930s and early 1940s she appeared in starring roles, later transitioning into character parts after the Second World War.
Biography of Jacques Vaché (excerpt)
Jacques Vaché (7 September 1895 – 6 January 1919) was a friend of André Breton, an artist and author. Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement. As Breton said: "En littérature, je me suis successivement épris de Rimbaud, de Jarry, d'Apollinaire, de Nouveau, de Lautréamont, mais c'est à Jacques Vaché que je dois le plus"
Biography of Cecilia Miranda de Carvalho (excerpt)
Cecilia Miranda de Carvalho (née da Cunha; 20 October 1913 – 21 May 2011) was a Brazilian singer. She was Carmen Miranda and Aurora Miranda's sister. Cecilia Miranda da Cunha was born in Rio de Janeiro on October 20, 1913. She was the fourth daughter of the Portuguese marriage José Pinto da Cunha (1887–1938) and Maria Emilia Miranda (1886–1971).
Biography of Mary Nolan (excerpt)
Mary Nolan (born Mariam Imogene Robertson; December 18, 1902 – October 31, 1948) was an American stage and film actress, singer and dancer.She began her career as a Ziegfeld girl in the 1920s performing under the stage name Imogene "Bubbles" Wilson.
Biography of Marcel Rouff (excerpt)
Marcel Rouff (May 4,1877 in Geneva – February 3, 1936 in Paris) was a prolific novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, historian, and gastronomic writer.With Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) he wrote the multi-volume work La France gastronomique, guide des merveilles culinaires et des bonnes auberges françaises (Gastronomic France: Guide to the culinary marvels and the good inns of France).
Biography of Grete Weil (excerpt)
Grete Weil (18 July 1906 – 14 May 1999) was a German writer. She was born Margarete Elisabeth Dispeker, the daughter of a prominent lawyer in Munich. She studied German literature in Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, and Paris. In 1932, she began writing her dissertation, and also completed her first story, "Erlebnis einer Reise" (Experience of a trip).
Biography of Marie Reynoard (excerpt)
Marie Reynoard, born in Bastia (Haute-Corse) on October 28, 1897, and died in Ravensbrück (Germany) on January 30, 1945, was a heroine of the Grenoble Resistance during the Second World War. Biography A brilliant student, she joined the prestigious École normale supérieure de jeunes filles (Sèvres); in 1921, she taught in Cahors and then in Marseilles, before being appointed in 1936 to the Lycée Stendhal in Grenoble.
Biography of Gustav Waldau (excerpt)
Gustav Waldau (27 February 1871 – 25 May 1958) was a German actor.He appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1955. Life and Work Born Gustav Freiherr von Rummel joined the Bavarian Cadet Corps at age 14.He was promoted to officer in the Infantry-Leib-Regiment.
Biography of Louella Parsons (excerpt)
Louella Rose Oettinger, (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) known professionally as Louella Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and a screenwriter.At her peak, her columns were read by 20 million people in 700 newspapers worldwide. She was the first writer of a dedicated column on motion pictures in the United States, writing one in 1914 for the Chicago Record-Herald.
Biography of Jaime Sabartes (excerpt)
Jaume Sabartés i Gual (Catalan: Jaume Sabartés i Gual, Spanish: Jaime Sabartés y Gual, born in Barcelona, 10 June 1881 - died in Paris, 12 February 1968), was a Catalan Spanish artist, poet and writer.He was a close friend of Pablo Picasso and later became his secretary/administrator.
Biography of Germaine Rouer (excerpt)
Germaine Joséphine Rouer, born on November 2, 1897, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, where she also passed away on December 26, 1994, in the 4th arrondissement, was a French actress and an honorary member of the Comédie-Française. From her first marriage on December 11, 1926, to the director Pierre Marodon, she had a daughter, Thérèse, who would become an actress known as Thérèse Marney.
Biography of Gordon Chung-Hoon (excerpt)
Gordon Paiʻea Chung-Hoon (July 25, 1910 – July 24, 1979) was an admiral in the United States Navy, who served during World War II and was the first Asian American flag officer. He received the Navy Cross and Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary heroism as commanding officer of USS Sigsbee from May 1944 to October 1945.
Biography of Christian Kittilsen (excerpt)
Christian Kittilsen (born 1907 in Oslo, died 1977 in Austbygde i Tinn) was a Norwegian cartoonist, draftsman, painter and illustrator. Kittilsen studied medicine from 1926 to 1931, but interrupted his studies and chose art instead.He completed a short painting course with Carl von Hanno, but was otherwise self-taught.
Biography of Roger Mompezat (excerpt)
Roger Georges Mompezat was born in Bordeaux on April 3, 1899 and died on March 21, 1958 in Toulouse. With Henri Sevenet, member of S.O.E (F), he founded the Corps franc de la Montagne Noire. From the start of the war, he took an active part in the Resistance and was a member of several resistance networks.
Biography of Fred M. Wilcox (excerpt)
Fred McLeod Wilcox (December 22, 1907 – September 23, 1964) was an American motion picture director. He worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for many years and is best remembered for directing Lassie Come Home (1943) and Forbidden Planet (1956). These films were entered in the National Film Preservation Board's National Film Registry in 1993 and 2013 respectively.
Biography of Wah Chang (designer) (excerpt)
Wah Ming Chang (August 2, 1917 – December 22, 2003) was an American designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adoptive father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews.
Biography of Hussain Ahmed Madani (excerpt)
Hussain Ahmad Madani (6 October 1879 – 5 December 1957) was an Indian Islamic scholar, serving as the principal of Darul Uloom Deoband. He was among the first recipients of the civilian honour of Padma Bhushan in 1954. His time of birth comes from his autobiography A Biography and Memoirs of Shaykh Husain Ahmad Madani by Shaykh Husain Ahmad Madani (Turath Publishing, 1 March 2023). |
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