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birth charts with Zeus in CancerYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Zeus in Cancer. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in ![]()
Biography of Ruth McKenney (excerpt)
Ruth Marguerite McKenney (November 18, 1911 – July 25, 1972) was an American author and journalist, best known for My Sister Eileen, a memoir based on her youth in Ohio and her move to Greenwich Village with her sister. First published as short stories in The New Yorker, the book achieved wide success and was adapted for stage, radio, film, and television.
Biography of Roy Huggins (excerpt)
Roy Huggins (July 18, 1914 – April 3, 2002) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and producer who became one of the most influential creators of character driven television series.He created or helped create popular shows such as Maverick, The Fugitive, Hunter, and The Rockford Files.
Biography of Arthur Knight (film critic) (excerpt)
Arthur Knight, born September 3, 1916 and died July 25, 1991, was an American film critic, historian, professor, and television host.He is best known for his book The Liveliest Art (1957), a widely used academic reference on film history. After graduating from the City College of New York in 1940, he began his career as an assistant film curator at the Museum of Modern Art and later served in the U.S.
Biography of Carmen D'Antonio (excerpt)
Nicoletta Carmen D'Antonio (November 28, 1911 – February 9, 1986) was an American actress and dancer, born in Philadelphia to an Italian American family.She cultivated a mysterious image, sometimes altering details of her background to enhance her exotic appeal. As a nightclub dancer, she became known for her “exotic” performances, particularly in Hollywood venues, where her bold style drew attention.
Biography of David Goodis (excerpt)
David Loeb Goodis (March 2, 1917 – January 7, 1967) was an American crime fiction writer known for his noir novels and short stories, often focused on outsiders and troubled lives. Born in Philadelphia, he divided his time between that city, New York, and Hollywood.
Biography of Lavinia Williams (excerpt)
Lavinia Williams (July 2, 1916 – July 19, 1989), sometimes known as Lavinia Williams Yarborough, was an American dancer and dance educator.She is known for founding national dance schools in several Caribbean countries. Born in Philadelphia to a family of West Indian descent, she trained in New York and began her career in dance companies.
Biography of Jane Flory (excerpt)
Jane Flory (June 29, 1917 – November 25, 2005) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.Born Jane Trescott in Pennsylvania, she studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, graduating in 1939. She published her first children’s book, Snooty, the Pig Who Was Proud, in 1944, beginning a prolific career.
Biography of Ardel Wray (excerpt)
Ardel Wray, born Mockbee on October 28, 1907 and died October 14, 1983, was an American screenwriter and story editor. She is best known for her work on Val Lewton’s classic horror films of the 1940s. Her screenplay credits from that period include I Walked with a Zombie, The Leopard Man, and Isle of the Dead, which later became notable works in the horror genre.
Biography of Sijtje Aafjes (excerpt)
Sijtje Antje Agatha Johanna Aafjes (born August 22, 1893, in Amsterdam, died April 16, 1972, in Rotterdam) was a Dutch painter, draftswoman, and illustrator, best known for her work in children’s literature. She began her professional life as a kindergarten teacher around the age of twenty.
Biography of Otto Kraigher-Mlczoch (excerpt)
Otto Kraigher-Mlczoch (*22 August 1886 in Klagenfurt, Carinthia; † 4 October 1951 in Klagenfurt) was a Moravian Carinthian artist.Born into a family with roots in Moravia and Carinthia, he spent his youth between Carinthia, Olomouc, and Brno before moving to Vienna around 1900.
Biography of Anne-Marcelle Kahn (excerpt)
Anne-Marcelle Kahn (née Schrameck, 4 June 1896 – 28 June 1965) was a French engineer and the first woman to graduate as an engineer from a French grande école.In 1917, she became the first woman admitted to the École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne, where she studied from 1917 to 1919.
Biography of Antonia Matos (excerpt)
Antonia Matos (November 21, 1902 – June 22, 1994) was a Guatemalan painter.She took part in the art competition at the 1932 Olympic Games with her painting La Carrera de Piraguas and is best known for her nude works. She studied painting at private academies at an early age and later joined the newly founded National Academy of Painting in 1920.
Biography of Patrick McGeehan (excerpt)
Patrick Joseph McGeehan (March 4, 1907 – January 3, 1988) was an American actor born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He left home at age 14 to go to sea, later working in vaudeville and as a tightrope walker’s assistant with the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Biography of Sam Savitt (excerpt)
Sam Savitt (March 22, 1917 – December 25, 2000) was an American equine artist, author, teacher, and prolific illustrator.He illustrated over 130 books and wrote 16 of his own, becoming a leading figure in equine art. In 1958, he was named the official illustrator of the United States Equestrian Team, reflecting his recognized expertise.
Biography of Josef Friedrich Perkonig (excerpt)
Josef Friedrich Perkonig (3 August 1890 – 8 February 1959) was an Austrian writer, dramatist, and film producer from Carinthia.The son of a gunsmith and engraver, he did not serve as a soldier in World War I due to health issues, but instead acted as a journalist and propagandist advocating German interests in the region.
Biography of Ysabel MacCloskey (excerpt)
Ysabel MacCloskey (January 20, 1915 – March 11, 1981) was an American character actress active on stage, in film, and on television.After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, she began her career in theater and appeared in several productions at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Biography of Gwen Pharis Ringwood (excerpt)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood (August 13, 1910 Anatone, Washington – May 24, 1984 Williams Lake, British Columbia) was a Canadian playwright. Although born in the United States, she built her career in Canada and became an important figure in twentieth century Canadian theatre.
Biography of Bill Kenny (singer) (excerpt)
Bill Kenny, born June 12, 1914 and died March 23, 1978, was an American vocalist with an exceptional four-octave range. Widely regarded as one of the most influential high-tenor singers, he was noted for his remarkable vocal clarity and precise diction.
Biography of Walter Feilchenfeldt (excerpt)
Walter Feilchenfeldt (born January 21, 1894, in Berlin; died December 9, 1953, in Zurich) was a German art dealer and publisher. The son of a physician, he began working in 1919 for the renowned art dealer and publisher Paul Cassirer and became a partner in the Cassirer gallery in 1924.
Biography of Ann Baker (singer) (excerpt)
Ann Baker (August 21, 1915 – August 29, 1999) was an American jazz singer. Discovered by Louis Armstrong, she performed with his band on Broadway and became best known as a member of Billy Eckstine’s “Dream Band,” alongside major figures such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Art Blakey.
Biography of Suzanne Veil (excerpt)
Suzanne Zélie Pauline Veil (28 April 1886 – 24 February 1956) was a French chemist. She studied under Marie Curie from 1912 to 1918 at the Curie laboratory on rue Cuvier and later at the Institut du Radium. She then joined the laboratory of Georges Urbain at the École supérieure de chimie, continuing her work in chemistry.
Biography of Retta Scott (excerpt)
Retta Scott (February 23, 1916 – August 26, 1990) was an American animator and artist who became the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios.She is recognized as a pioneering female figure during the golden age of American animation.
Biography of Tommy Conlon (excerpt)
Tommy Conlon, born June 21, 1917 in Philadelphia and died January 8, 2000 in Huntington Beach, was an American actor known as a child performer in early 1930s cinema.He achieved early recognition before gradually leaving the entertainment industry. The son of a stage actor, he was introduced to acting at a young age.
Biography of Denise Albe-Fessard (excerpt)
Denise Albe-Fessard (born May 31, 1916, in Paris, died May 7, 2003, in La Verrière) was a French neurophysiologist known for her fundamental research on pain pathways in the central nervous system. Her work established a distinction between lateral and medial thalamic processing of pain, significantly advancing the scientific understanding of nociception.
Biography of Ann Wyeth McCoy (excerpt)
Ann Wyeth McCoy, born on March 15, 1915, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and died on November 10, 2005, was an American composer, pianist, and painter. She was the youngest daughter of artist-illustrator N. C. Wyeth and the fourth of his five children.
Biography of Wilma Baker (excerpt)
Wilma Baker, born Wilma June McAlister on June 24, 1917 and died September 4, 2016, was an American animation artist who worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios. Over a long career she contributed to several well-known Disney films and later received a Golden Award from the Animation Guild for lifetime achievement.
Biography of Jeanie Tomaini (excerpt)
Bernice Evelyn “Jeanie” Smith Tomaini (August 23, 1916 in Jefferson, Indiana – August 10, 1999 in Gibsonton, Florida) was an American sideshow performer. Born without legs due to a congenital condition, she was exhibited from a very young age as the “Half-Girl” or “Acrobatic Half-Girl.”
Biography of Tom Glazer (excerpt)
Thomas Zachariah Glazer (September 2, 1914 – February 21, 2003) was an American folk singer and songwriter, best known for his socially conscious ballads and children’s songs. He wrote pieces such as “Because All Men Are Brothers,” “Talking Inflation Blues,” and the widely popular “On Top of Spaghetti.”
Biography of Zoa Sherburne (excerpt)
Zoa Sherburne (September 30, 1912 – October 10, 1995) was an American author best known for her young adult fiction. Born in Seattle, she began writing at an early age and started composing stories while still in elementary school. By the age of ten she was publishing poetry in the local newspaper Ballard Tribune.
Biography of Eugène Maës (excerpt)
Eugène Maës, born 15 September 1890 in Paris and deceased in deportation between March and early April 1945, was a French international footballer who played as a forward.His official death certificate, dated June 4, 1946, wrongly records the date as March 30, 1945 at the Dora-Mittelbau camp in Ellrich.
Biography of Paul Kassecker (excerpt)
Paul Leopold Kassecker, born June 5, 1903 in Villach and died July 22, 1992 in Aflenz Kurort, was an Austrian sculptor, painter and graphic artist. He studied from 1922 to 1926 at the School of Applied Arts in Graz and later continued his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
Biography of Alice Rahon (excerpt)
Alice Rahon, born Alice Phillipot (June 8, 1904 – September 1987), was a French-born Mexican poet and artist who contributed to the emergence of abstract expression in Mexico. She began her career in Europe as a surrealist poet before moving to Mexico, where she turned to painting and developed a significant artistic body of work beginning in the late 1940s.
Biography of Jack Mercer (excerpt)
Jack Mercer, born Winfield Bennett Mercer (January 31, 1910 – December 7, 1984), was an American voice actor best known for voicing the cartoon characters Popeye the Sailor and Felix the Cat. The son of vaudeville and Broadway performers, he began working at Fleischer Studios as an apprentice animator.
Biography of Frank P. Keller (excerpt)
Frank P.Keller Jr., born February 4, 1913, and died December 25, 1977, was an American film editor.He is best known for his collaboration with director Peter Yates and for his work on Bullitt (1968). His career began during World War II, when he worked on cataloging combat footage shot in Europe.
Biography of George Gordon (animator) (excerpt)
George Gordon, born September 2, 1906 and died May 24, 1986, was an American animator and director of animated films and television productions. Beginning his career in film in the 1930s, he later transitioned to television, contributing to hundreds of cartoons over several decades.
Biography of Norman Lloyd (composer) (excerpt)
Norman Lloyd (November 8, 1909 – July 31, 1980) was an American pianist, composer, educator, author, and supporter of the arts.He composed works for modern dance, documentary film, and classical chamber music. As an influential teacher, notably at Juilliard, he had a lasting impact on the teaching of music theory.
Biography of Felix Esterl (excerpt)
Felix Esterl (born June 22, 1894, in Klagenfurt, died June 13, 1931, in the same city) was an Austrian painter. He grew up in a prosperous family environment and lost his mother at the age of ten, while his father held a senior position in regional administration.
Biography of Leon Carr (excerpt)
Leon Carr, born June 12, 1910 (Wikipedia has June 10 in error) in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and died March 27, 1976 in New York City, was an American songwriter, composer, pianist, arranger, and conductor. He is especially known for his famous advertising jingles.
Biography of Martha Settle Putney (excerpt)
Martha Settle Putney (November 9, 1916 – December 11, 2008) was an American historian and educator who specialized in documenting the role of African Americans in the armed forces. She was among the first Black women to serve in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II.
Biography of Abe Lincoln (musician) (excerpt)
Abram Lincoln (March 29, 1907 – June 8, 2000) was an American jazz trombonist.He was primarily active as a sideman, recording extensively but never leading his own sessions. Born in Pennsylvania into a musical family, he began playing trombone at a young age under the guidance of his father.
Biography of Marianne Breslauer (excerpt)
Marianne Breslauer (20 November 1909 – 7 February 2001) was a German photographer and photojournalist, regarded as a pioneer of street photography during the Weimar Republic. Trained in Berlin in the late 1920s, she was influenced by Frieda Riess, André Kertész, and briefly by Man Ray during her time in Paris.
Biography of Joan Vatsek (excerpt)
Joan Vatsek (May 6, 1916 – November 25, 1996) was an American writer best known for her novel This Fiery Night (1959), set in Egypt during the pre-Nasser period, which became a Literary Guild Main Selection. The daughter of a diplomat, she spent much of her life abroad, particularly in Egypt, where she worked as a teacher in Alexandria and Cairo.
Biography of Marthe Condat (excerpt)
Marthe Louise Lydie Condat (born July 19, 1886, in Graulhet, died October 24, 1939, in Toulouse) was a French physician specializing in therapeutics and pediatrics. Her time of birth is indicated on her Wikipedia page. In 1923, she became the first woman in France to pass the agrégation in medicine, marking a significant milestone in the advancement of women within academic medicine.
Biography of Theodore Wassmer (excerpt)
Theodore Milton Wassmer (February 23, 1910 – November 26, 2006) was an American painter who created over 2,000 works, including paintings, watercolors, and sketches exhibited in museums around the world.Drawn to art from childhood, he decided to become an artist after the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair and later served in the U.S.
Biography of Matt Dennis (excerpt)
Matthew Loveland Dennis, born February 11, 1914 in Seattle and died June 21, 2002 in Riverside, California, was an American singer, pianist, band leader, and composer of popular songs. Raised in a vaudeville family of musicians, he was exposed to music from an early age.
Biography of Patricia Harper (screenwriter) (excerpt)
Patricia Harper (born Frances Persotia Harper, February 21, 1908 – April 15, 1979) was an American screenwriter and actress, known for writing B-Westerns in the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Indiana and raised in Oklahoma City, she moved to Hollywood after studying art.
Biography of Bessie Love (excerpt)
Bessie Love, born Juanita Horton on September 10, 1898 in Midland, Texas, and died on April 26, 1986 in London, was an American-British actress. She became known in silent and early sound films, often playing innocent young women and wholesome leading ladies.
Biography of Florence M. Montgomery (excerpt)
Florence Mellowes Montgomery (22 juillet 1914 – 20 janvier 1998) est une historienne de l’art, muséologue et conservatrice américaine, spécialisée dans les textiles. Elle travaille notamment au Winterthur Museum et publie deux ouvrages majeurs devenus des références dans ce domaine. Formée aux États-Unis et en Europe, elle occupe des postes au Art Institute of Chicago, au Metropolitan Museum of Art et au Rhode Island School of Design Museum avant de s’installer au Winterthur Museum, où elle contribue à la formation et à l’enseignement en histoire de l’art.
Biography of Franc Pribosek (excerpt)
Franc Pribošek, born January 14, 1917 and died in January 1981, was a Yugoslav ski jumper.He competed in two editions of the Winter Olympic Games during his sporting career. He first participated in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, finishing 39th in the normal hill competition.
Biography of Dorothy Claire (excerpt)
Dorothy Claire (born Marietta Wright, June 5, 1920 in La Porte, Indiana – died September 4, 1982) was an American singer and radio personality. She began singing at the age of four, performing with her sisters in a trio that appeared at local events and on WSBT radio in South Bend. |
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