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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 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 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 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 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 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 Serge Ravanel (excerpt)
Serge Ravanel, born Serge Asher on May 12, 1920 in Paris where he died on April 27, 2009, was a French resistance fighter. Awards Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor Companion of the Liberation, by decree of January 18, 1946 Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with palm
Biography of Antonio Basurto (excerpt)
Antonio Basurto (Lecce, August 28, 1917 - Rome, December 20, 2007) was an Italian singer.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Eddie Vinson (excerpt)
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L. Vinson Jr., December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was accidentally destroyed by lye contained in a hair straightening product, necessitating shaving it off; enamoured of the look, Vinson maintained a shaved head thereafter.
Biography of Agnes de Mille (excerpt)
Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer. Career De Mille arrived in New York in 1938 and later began her association with the fledgling American Ballet Theatre (then called the Ballet Theatre) in 1939.
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 Lena Christ (excerpt)
Lena Christ (née Magdalena Pichler; 30 October 1881 – 30 June 1920) was a German writer. In 1913 she wrote the book Lausdirndlgeschichten (naughty girl stories), also composed of memories from her childhood. Thoma criticized her for it and saw it as a rip-off of his Lausbubengeschichten (naughty boy stories).
Biography of Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert (excerpt)
Joseph Jean de Goislard de Monsabert (Libourne 30 September 1887 – Dax, 13 June 1981), was a French general who served during the Second World War. Monument to the memory of General Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert dedicated on 8 July 1985, in the Place des Martyrs de la Résistance, Bordeaux, France
Biography of Robert Fabre (excerpt)
Robert Fabre, born December 21, 1915 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue (Aveyron) and died December 23, 2006 in the same city, was a French pharmacist and politician. He was named the third man to have signed with François Mitterrand and Georges Marchais, as president of the Mouvement des radicals de gauche, the program of Union de la Gauche, on November 27, 1973.
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 Richard Huelsenbeck (excerpt)
Carl Wilhelm Richard Hülsenbeck (23 April 1892 – 20 April 1974) was a German writer, poet, and psychoanalyst born in Frankenau, Hessen-Nassau. Huelsenbeck was a medical student on the eve of World War I. He was invalided out of the army and emigrated to Zürich, Switzerland in February 1916, where he fell in with the Cabaret Voltaire.
Biography of William Goyen (excerpt)
Charles William Goyen (April 24, 1915 – August 30, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, editor, and teacher. Born in a small town in East Texas, these roots would influence his work for his entire life. In World War II he served as an officer aboard an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific, where he began work on one of his most important and critically acclaimed books, The House of Breath.
Biography of José Corti (excerpt)
José Corti is a book shop and publishing house located in Paris, France, and was founded in 1925. It is named after its founder, José Corticchiato (15 January (Wikipedia gives 14 January by mistake) 1895 – 25 December 1984). José Corticchiato started his business by publishing the work of his surrealist friends, including André Breton, Paul Éluard, and Louis Aragon.
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 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 Paul Citroen (excerpt)
Roelof Paul Citroen (15 December 1896 – 13 March 1983) was a German-born Dutch artist, art educator and co-founder of the New Art Academy in Amsterdam. Among his best-known works are the photo-montage Metropolis and the 1949 Dutch postage stamps. Early life
Biography of Ruth Page (ballerina) (excerpt)
Ruth Page (March 22, 1899 – April 7, 1991) was an American ballerina and choreographer, who created innovative works on American themes. Born in Indianapolis in 1899, Ruth Page undertook professional studies with Jan Zalewski, Adolph Bolm, Enrico Cecchetti, Harald Kreutzberg and Mary Wigman.
Biography of Isaac Babel (excerpt)
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (13 July (Gregorian calendar) 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories—stories from the life of Jewish gangsters from Odessa led by Benya Krik (prototype – Mishka Yaponchik).
Biography of Jean de Bazelaire de Ruppierre (excerpt)
Jean Marie Joseph de Bazelaire de Ruppierre (October 18, 1916 - October 22, 1943) is a French officer of the colonial troops, captain, who served during the Second World War. He was Companion of the Liberation (1942) 1, and died for France (1943).
Biography of Marcel Taillandier (excerpt)
Marcel Taillandier, born March 25, 1911 in Condat-en-Combraille in Puy-de-Dôme, and died July 11, 1944, in Saint-Martin-du-Touch, is the creator and host of one of the most important counter-espionage networks of the French Resistance during the Second World War: the Morhange Network. |
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