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- Harrison, who was born on a plantation, also came from a distinguished family of planters and politicians. His father, Benjamin Harrison, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. He was governor of Virginia between 1781 and 1784. William Harrison initially studied at college and at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1792 he joined the army. In 1794 he was used against the Indians in Ohio. A year later, Harrison married Anna Tuthill Symmes, an Ohio girl. In 1798, Harrison left the army as a captain. Harrison was then elected as a representative in the US Congress. In 1801, President John Adams made him governor of Indiana. During his 12 years in office, Harrison proved himself in the fight against the Indians, who had come together to form a federation under the leadership of Tecumseh.
During the war with Great Britain from 1812 to 1814, he secured American rule over Indiana and the Northwest. Returning to Ohio, William Harrison was elected to the House of Representatives in 1816, where he was represented until 1819. In 1825 he was elected to the US Senate, where William Harrison was active until 1828. In 1828, President John Quincy Adams sent Harrison as an envoy to Colombia, but he was recalled the following year. After a temporary withdrawal from politics, Harrison was considered a candidate in the presidential election in 1836, which was won by Martin van Buren. In the following election campaign in 1840, Harrison was able to garner the majority of votes. In March 1841 he took office as the ninth President of the USA.
William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia in Washington just one month later, on April 4, 1841. He was succeeded by John Tyler. - Writer
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Vasili Zhukovsky was born on 9 February 1783 in Mishenskoe, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tula Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for The Fair Barbara (1970), Ryska snuvan (1937) and Elena's Destiny, a Russian Saga (2007). He was married to Elisabeth von Reutern. He died on 24 April 1852 in Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany].- Avqsenti Tsagareli was born on 9 February 1857 in Digomi, Georgia, Russian Empire. Avqsenti was a writer, known for Khanuma (1926), Keto and Kote (1948) and Rats ginakhavs, vegar nakhav (1965). Avqsenti died on 12 August 1902 in Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia].
- Felix Dahn was born on 9 February 1834 in Hamburg, Germany. He was a writer, known for The Last Roman (1968) and Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat (1969). He was married to Therese Freiin Droste zu Hülshoff and Sophie Fries. He died on 3 February 1912 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland].
- Sôseki Natsume was born on 9 February 1867 in Edo, Japan [now Tokyo, Japan]. He was a writer, known for Botchan (1953), Botchan (1935) and I Am a Cat (1936). He was married to Nakane Kyoko. He died on 9 December 1916 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Sabra de Shon was born on 9 February 1850 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for Lure of the West (1915). She died on 20 September 1917 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- H. Keroul was born on 9 February 1854 in Corte, Corsica, France. H. was a writer, known for Une nuit de noces (1920), Le billet de logement (1932) and Une nuit de noces (1935). H. died on 14 April 1921 in Paris, France.
- Orme Caldara was born on 9 February 1875 in Empire City, Oregon, USA. He was an actor, known for The Spreading Dawn (1917). He was married to Julia Dean. He died on 21 October 1925 in Saranac Lake, New York, USA.
- Jefferson Gore was born on 9 February 1882 in Westminster, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Gold Cure (1925). He died on 1 June 1926 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
- Clémence Valpreux was born on 9 February 1895 in Paris, France. She died on 20 November 1926 in Paris, France.
- Stanley Forde was born on 9 February 1878 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Great White Way (1924). He was married to Mrs. Helen Hilton Story. He died on 28 January 1929 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Dan Mason was born on 9 February 1853 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Scarlet Letter (1917), The Valley of the Giants (1927) and The Wall Street Whiz (1925). He was married to Millicent La Fonte (aka Millie La Fonte). He died on 6 July 1929 in Baersville, New York, USA.- Duncan Penwarden was born on 9 February 1880 in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Lady Lies (1929), The Woman God Sent (1920) and The Imp (1919). He died on 13 September 1930 in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, New York, USA.
- Prince Leopold of Bavaria was born on 9 February 1846 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria [now Bavaria, Germany]. He was married to Archduchess Gisela of Austria. He died on 28 September 1930 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- British novelist/playwright Anthony Hope was born Anthony Hope Hawkins on 2/9/1863, in London. His father was the headmaster of the St. Johns Foundation School for the Sons of Poor Clergy. He was educated at Marlborough School and Baliol College, Oxford, obtaining an M.A. with honors in 1885. He studied to become a lawyer, and was admitted to the bar in 1887. He set up his own practice, but clients were few and far between, and he spent the periods in between cases by writing novels. When he couldn't find a publisher for his first novel, he published it himself. It became a hit, coincidentally at the same time his law practice began to take off. When it got to the point where he had to choose between his law practice and writing, he chose writing.
He published two successful novels in 1894--"The Dolly Dialogues", which was fairly successful but is little remembered today, and the now-classic "The Prisoner of Zenda". "Zenda" is generally credited as the first--and the best--of what came to be known as "Ruritanian" novels, stories set in a small fictional European principality involving intrigue, double-crossing, power grabs and forbidden romance at the royal court (Richard Harding Davis, among others, took up that particular genre with his "Graustark" series), and "Zenda" has been made into film and television productions at least ten times. In 1898 Hope wrote a sequel of sorts, "Rupert of Hentzau", using the villainous character of "Zenda".
He first toured the US in 1897, and made several subsequent trips there. On one of them he met an American woman named Elizabeth Somerville Sheldon, and they married in 1903. The marriage produced two sons and a daughter. Hope was knighted in 1918 and bought a country estate at Tadworth in Surrey, where he spent the rest of his life. He wrote more books and several plays. He died in 1933 at age 70. - Albert Karnatz was born on 9 February 1905 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He died on 15 July 1934 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- Grace Duffie Boylan was on 9 February, 1861, at Kalamazoo, Michigan, one of eleven children born to Phelix K. and Juliette Duffie. Her father, who had emigrated from Ireland, owned the Dollar House Hotel in Kalamazoo. During the American Civil War he served for eighteen months as a Captain in the 19th Michigan Infantry, Company K. Boylan attended the "Harvard Annex," (now part of Radcliffe College) and the Northeastern Conservatory of Music in Boston. After graduation she worked as a journalist in Chicago. Duffie had worked as a art critic for the Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean and wrote a column called "One-Minute Romances from Real Life" for The Chicago Journal.
Boylan published her "Kids of Many Colors" series of children's books in 1901. Theses stories were about children of diverse races and cultures and came with titles like: "Our Little Cuban Kiddies", "Our Little Eskimo Kiddies", "Our Little Hawaiian Kiddies" "Our little Indian Kiddies", "Our Little Canadian Kiddies" and "Our Little Philippine Kiddies". Boylan also authored several works of juvenile fiction, "Yama Yama Land" and "Young Folks' Uncle Tom's Cabin" (not to be confused with the Harriet Beecher Stowe book), to name a couple.
She was well known as a writer of dialect poetry and patriotic verse with works like, "If Tam O'Shanter 'd Had a Wheel, and Other Poems and Sketches", "When Mary Looks at Me.", "Who Goes There?", "The Star of Christmas Morn" and "At Christmas Time", "When the Band Played and other readings and recitations", "Hosanna and Huzzah" and "In the Transvaal".
Books by Boylan include: "The Little White Cross", "Kiss of Glory", "The Supplanter", "The Pipes of Clovis; a Fairy Romance of the Twelfth Century", "The Old House", "Steps to Nowhere", "John of Joy", "Love Finds a Way", "Conquerors" and "When Geronimo Rode" (with Forrestine C. Hooker).
In 1918 Grace Duffie Boylan wrote, "Thy Son Liveth: Messages from a soldier to his mother", and had it initially published anonymously. The book told the story of an American soldier who after he was killed on a battlefield in France was able to send his grieving mother comforting messages through Morse code and automatic writing, assuring her that whilst his body had been destroyed, his soul was alive and vigorous. Boylan would later insist that her story was true and that she was the dead soldier's mother. Years later, 'Peter O'Fallon' would base his film A Rumor of Angels (2000) on Boylan's touching story.
Boylan was married several times. In the early 1890s she published works under the name Grace Duffie Roe, a surname that her daughter Clover also used. She had at least one child with husband Robert J. Boylan (1862-1934), a well known newspaper reporter and horse racing expert. Her third husband, St. George Kempson, whom she married on 20 December, 1905, was the editor of the New York Insurance Journal. Kempson died on 12 August, 1907, after an emergency appendectomy. She married next Louis Napoleon Geldert in March of 1909. Geldert was the owner of the respected publication, The Insurance Herald of Louisville, Kentucky. He would go to be an executive officer in the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers Association and found the industry magazine, Cotton Oil Press. In 1906 he published "The Eagle Fire Company of New York: A History of Its First Century (1806-1906)" and in 1916 compiled and edited for the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, "Facts about Georgia: a state rich in resources and opulent in opportunities".
Grace Duffie Boylan died of heart disease on 24 March, 1935, at Memphis, Tennessee. She was survived by her husband, a daughter, Clover Roscoe and son, Malcolm Stuart Boylan. She had been a member of the Arts Club of Washington (DC), Authors League of America, Poetry Society of America and past president of the National League of Pen Women. - Edward Carson was born on 9 February 1854 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. He was married to Annette Kirwan and Ruby Frewen . He died on 22 October 1935 in Minster, Kent, England, UK.
- Charles Kingsford Smith was born on 9 February 1897 in Hamilton, Queensland, Australia. He died on 8 November 1935 in at sea en route to Australia.
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Alban Maria Johannes Berg was born on February 9, 1885, in Vienna, Austria. He was the third of four children in the upper-class family of Conrad Berg and his wife Johanna, nee Braun. He was trained for a career in accounting, but his father died in 1900, causing him a depression and the onset of asthma. He started composing music, and moved with his mother to their estate near the Palace of Schonbrunn. Young Berg was stimulated by the cultural milieu in Vienna, where Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, and rising Arnold Schönberg were extending aesthetic boundaries with their music.
Berg became a student of Arnold Schönberg in 1904, having little formal education. His intellect was open and free of any dogma. His artistic freedom was complemented with the twelve-tone (dodecafonic) system, discovered and professed by his teacher. Lessons were free, Berg was the special apprentice, just like Schoenberg was to Mahler. In 1907 his music had first public performance. Berg composed five piano sonatas and 'Seven Early Songs' under the tutelage of Schoenberg. Lessons ended in 1911, when Schoenberg's teacher Mahler died, and Schoenberg moved from Vienna to Berlin. At that time Berg married Helene Nahowski. In 1913 Berg invited his teacher to conduct the performance of his newly composed "Altenberger Lieder". The concert was interrupted by the rioting public. Schoenbrg, who traveled from Berlin for the occasion, was somewhat critical of the music of his pupil. Still the teacher and his apprentice maintained their special ties.
Berg interrupted composition during his military service in WWI. But his creative thinking never stopped. His impressions from the play 'Wozzeck', by Georg Buchner, seen in Vienna in 1914, inspired Berg on making it into an opera. He wrote sketches for several years, until the work was completed in 1921. It's three parts were premiered in Frankfurt in 1924, under the baton of Hermann Scherchen. In 1925 the whole opera was premiered at the Berlin State Opera under Erich Kleiber. In 1927 Berg made a trip to Leningrad, Russia for the successful performance of 'Wozzeck' by the Leningrad Opera. It had several performances at the Mariinsky (former Imperial) Opera House, the best Russian opera company. 'Wozzeck' was in the Marrinsky repertoire after the 'Love for Three Oranges' by Sergei Prokofiev, with both composers in attendance. Both operas were soon banned by the rigid Soviet censorship. In 1930 'Wozzeck' had it's premiere at the Vienna State Opera, a success, and in 1931 it had the American premiere in Philadelphia.
Berg's second opera 'Lulu' was strongly condemned by the Nazi ideologists after it's Symphonic premiere in Berliner Staatsoper under Erich Kleiber in November of 1934. Two months later Erich Kleiber emigrated. Berg's music was banned in Germany and even the favorable critics were officially condemned. Berg interrupted his work on the opera, and composed the Violin Concerto, dedicated to Alma Mahler's daughter. He died of blood poisoning, caused by the insect bite, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1935. The Nazi control extended to Austria after the "Anschluss" in 1938 and brought the ban on all music from the 'New Viennese School'.- Rahel Zansara was born on 9 February 1894 in Jena, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach [now Thuringia], Germany. She was an actress, known for Der Fall Routt...! (1917). She was married to Walter Davidsohn. She died on 8 February 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
- George Allan England was born on 9 February 1877 in Fort McPherson, Nebraska, USA. George Allan was a writer, known for The Devil Within (1921), The Brass Check (1918) and The Alibi (1916). George Allan was married to Blanche. George Allan died on 26 June 1936 in Concord, New Hampshire, USA.
- Sometimes the early tragic death of a Hollywood actor can lead to immortality, as in the cases of icons James Dean and Marilyn Monroe--and, to a somewhat lesser extent, little Bobby Driscoll, who died a Skid Row bum in the streets, a victim of drug addiction. Not so for actor James Murray, whose death occurred in a similar fashion to Driscoll. Long forgotten, the young and highly insecure Murray was plucked from obscurity and given the chance of a lifetime, only to crumble ever so quickly.
He was born on February 9, 1901, in the Bronx, NY. After appearing in The Pilgrims (1924), a three-reeler made at Yale University in 1923 in which he played John Alden, he trekked 3000 miles to Hollywood to pursue that elusive Hollywood dream. On the road west, he lived a simple, rather nomadic existence as a dishwasher, coal-shoveler and boxcar rider. John started off as most do in L.A.--taking bit parts and extra work, waiting for that big break. Director King Vidor was looking to cast the somber hero of his next silent picture, The Crowd (1928). He spotted Murray, who was working as an extra at MGM, near the studio casting office and arranged a meeting with him. Murray didn't show up, either not taking the director seriously or not believing that Vidor was, in fact, King Vidor. Murray was hunted down, given a screen test and the novice actor was hired on the spot, considered by both Vidor and MGM executive Irving Thalberg to be one of the best natural actors they had ever had the good fortune to encounter. As John Sims, a common everyday kind of family man just trying to survive the game of life, Murray was frighteningly real and heart-wrenching, carrying the hugely demanding role without a hitch. He so invested himself in the part that many feel he never shook off the depressing character. The film was judged too heavy and raw for audiences to escape in, but the critics were enamored of the film and, especially Murray, and today it is considered a major masterpiece.
Murray managed to turn in solid work in the next few years, never matching his excellence in "The Crowd" but certainly turning in credible performances. Such films as The Big City (1928) with Lon Chaney, Thunder (1929)--also with Chaney--The Shakedown (1929), Bachelor Mother (1932) and Heroes for Sale (1933) served him well.
Too much too soon, perhaps, for he was ill-prepared to handle the daily pressures of stardom and his inner demons quickly took over. He turned to the bottle for solace and release. By the early 1930s he was a chronic alcoholic who could barely hold down an acting job. He turned into a derelict, living on the streets and begging for change.
By coincidence, he tried to panhandle Vidor in 1934, who offered him an acting job in his next film, Our Daily Bread (1934), but the actor vehemently refused to accept any charity. In 1936 Murray's body was fished out of the Hudson River, having drowned after either jumping from, falling from--or being thrown off of--a pier. He was only 35. Vidor was so haunted by Murray's tragic death that it provided the basis for a script he wrote which the director hoped would turn into a film called "The Actor" in 1979. Unfortunately, the project never got off the ground. - Alberto Novión was born on 9 February 1881 in Bayona, France. He was a writer, known for El baisano Jalil (1942), En un burro tres baturros (1939) and Bendita seas (1956). He died on 25 November 1937 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Edna Aug was born on 9 February 1877 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Where D'Ye Get That Stuff? (1916). She died on 30 November 1938 in Willow, New York, USA.
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Vsevolod Meyerhold was born Karl Theodor Kazimir Emil Meyerhold in 1874, in Penza, Russia, into the Russian-German family of Emil Meyerhold. He converted to Orthodox Christianity on his 21st birthday and took the name of Vsevolod in memory of the Russian writer Vsevolod Garshin. After conversion Meyerhold married Olga Mikhailovna (nee Munt) and the couple had three daughters. Vsevolod Meyerhold dropped out of Moscow University Law School to become an actor and director. He studied acting under Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko and worked for him at the Moscow Art Theater from 1898 to 1902.
Meyerhold moved to St. Petersburg, where he became the leading advocate of Symbolism. He introduced new experimental staging methods into classical plays. After a successful gig as a chief producer at the Vera Komissarzhevskaya theatre, he was invited to the Imperial Directorship of Thatres. Meyerhold worked for Imperial Theatres in 1907-1917, staging both plays and operas. He published a book on innovations in theatrical productions, titled "On Theatre" (1913), that also included his theory of 'conditional theatre'. His acting method was different from that of Stanislavsky's. Meyerhold focused on gestures, poses, and movements in expressing the outward emotions. He argued that physical feel and looks will automatically cause emotional expression. His casting approach was applied by the Russian film directors Sergei Eisenstein, Sergey Gerasimov, Mikhail Romm. For portrayal of the Bolshevik revolutionaries they would cast athletic and attractive actors, while the bourgeois capitalists were played by obese and unattractive actors. Actors from the Meyerhold's theatre were in demand by film directors.
Meyerhold accepted the Russian revolution and joined the Bolshevik Party. But he strongly opposed to Socialist realism and was against censorship and political control of art. His famous productions included "The Dead Souls" (1926) by Nikolay Gogol and "The Bedbug" (1929) by Vladimir Mayakovsky. In 1930s Joseph Stalin started the Great Terror of brutal repressions against intellectuals and experimental artists. Vladimir Mayakovsky was found dead of a gunshot wound. Meyerhold was proclaimed "alien to the Soviet people". He was arrested and imprisoned on false accusations. His theatre was closed down in 1938 and actors became unemployed. His wife, actress Zinaida Raikh was mysteriously murdered in their Moscow apartment in 1939. His neighbors Vitali Golovin and Dmitri Golovin were exiled to Siberian prison-camps. His friends Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturyan, Anna Akhmatova and many others were banned from publications and performances.
Meyerhold was executed by the firing squad in February of 1940 (the exact date of his death is still unclear). He was rehabilitated posthumously by the Soviet government order that cleared him of all charges, 15 years after his execution.- Actress
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Mrs. Patrick Campbell was born on 9 February 1865 in Kensington, London, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Crime and Punishment (1935), Riptide (1934) and One More River (1934). She was married to George Cornwallis-West and Patrick Campbell. She died on 9 April 1940 in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.- Wilmer Walter was born on 9 February 1881 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fair Pretender (1918). He was married to Alice Perry. He died on 23 August 1941 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
- J.S. Stembridge was born on 9 February 1869 in Milledgeville, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1923) and The Law and the Woman (1922). He died on 31 October 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Earl 'Hap' Hogan was born on 9 February 1880 in Zanesville, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924). He died on 14 October 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Dolores Casey was born Margaret Dolores Katherine Casey in Brooklyn, New York. She was educated at Sacred Heart Academy. Then she studied journalism at Columbia University and started modeling. A talent scout spotted her and signed the nineteen year old to a contract at United Artists Studio. She spent a year at the studio but never made a single film. In 1933 producer Samuel Goldwyn hired her to be one of his "Goldwyn Girls" dancers. Dolores made her film debut in the musical Roman Scandals with Lucille Ball. Soon after she signed a lucrative contract at Paramount. The dark haired beauty had small parts in the films Dames, Big Brown Eyes, and The Case Against Mrs. Ames.
She developed a severe case of tuberculosis in 1936 and was hospitalized for several months. Her Hollywood friend, including William Frawley and director Ray McCarey, helped pay for her medical bills. Dolores returned to acting in 1938 with a role in Doctor Rhythym. She dated Arthur Tracy and was briefly engaged to director Bob Linden. Sadly her tuberculosis returned and she was forced to quit making movies. Her final film was the 1939 drama King Of Chinatown. On July 5, 1943 she married Lee Wynne, a doctor. The couple lived a quiet life in Los Angeles but her health quickly deteriorated. Tragically on May 11, 1945 she died from tuberculosis. Dolores was only thirty-two years old. She was buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York. - Actor
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Cyril Scott was born on 9 February 1866 in Bambridge, County Down, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Arizona (1913), Not Guilty (1915) and The Lords of High Decision (1916). He was married to Louise J. Eissing. He died on 16 August 1945 in Flushing, New York, USA.- V. Talbot Henderson was born on 9 February 1879 in Phelps Mills, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Bachelor's Club (1929). He died on 24 May 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- William Welsh was born on 9 February 1870 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Bull's Eye (1917), With Stanley in Africa (1922) and Burning Words (1923). He died on 16 July 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Ibolya Nagy was born on 9 February 1864 in Szentes, Hungary. She was an actress, known for A becsapott újságíró (1915), Örház a Kárpátokban (1914) and A megbüvöltek (1921). She died on 22 August 1946 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Carlo Minello was born on 9 February 1918 in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Se non son matti non li vogliamo (1941), La danza del fuoco (1943) and La zia di Carlo (1943). He was married to Maria Pia Arcangeli. He died on 27 July 1947 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
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Edwin Maxwell was born on 9 February 1886 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Scarface (1932), The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and His Girl Friday (1940). He was married to Betty Alden. He died on 13 August 1948 in Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA.- Ida Larsen was born on 9 February 1878 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Storstadens Hyæne (1912) and Københavnerliv (1911). She died on 1 February 1949.
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Monroe Bennett began his career in 1913 in front of the camera and progressed to behind the scenes. He was editing "Johnny Belinda" at Warner Brothers, 1949, and died unexpectedly while on the operating table. Editing of the film was still in progress. Never received credit. Worked at Warner Brothers for many years. Worked at Pathe for a while. Worked as an extra for J. W. Griffith in many films shot in the Silver Lake/Echo Park area of Los Angeles.- Édith Jéhanne was born on 9 February 1899 in Châteauroux, Indre, France. She was an actress, known for The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927), Tarakanova (1930) and The Chess Player (1927). She died on 14 June 1949 in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, Ille-et-Vilaine, France.
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Fyodor Otsep was born on 9 February 1895 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Adventures of the Three Reporters (1926), Amok (1934) and Pique Dame (1937). He was married to Anna Sten. He died on 20 June 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Howard Hickman was born on 9 February 1880 in Columbia, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Gone with the Wind (1939), Kitty Kelly, M.D. (1919) and Nobody's Kid (1921). He was married to Bessie Barriscale. He died on 31 December 1949 in San Anselmo, California, USA.- Eduard Thöny was born on 9 February 1866 in Brixen, Tyrol, Austria-Hungary. He was married to Rosa Vierthaler. He died on 26 July 1950 in Holzhausen am Ammersee, Bavaria, Germany.
- James Stephens was born on 9 February 1880 in Dublin, Ireland, UK. James was a writer, known for The Unforeseen (1958). James died on 26 December 1950 in London, England, UK.
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Joe King was born on 9 February 1883 in Austin, Texas, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Smashing the Money Ring (1939), Special Agent (1935) and Her Bitter Cup (1916). He was married to Hazel Buckham. He died on 11 April 1951 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Jules Berry was born on 9 February 1883 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He was an actor, known for Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942), Aventure à Paris (1936) and Le Jour Se Leve (1939). He was married to Josseline Gaël. He died on 23 April 1951 in Paris, France.- Jean Croué was born on 9 February 1878 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for La chanson du feu (1917), Le vol suprême (1917) and Zyte (1916). He died on 6 February 1952 in Gif-sur-Yvette, Essonne, France.
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A former stage actor and director in his native Denmark, Sven Gade began making films there in 1916. He traveled to Germany a few years later to direct a film version of Hamlet (Hamlet (1921)), then journeyed to Hollywood the next year. He designed sets for other directors' films and directed several of his own, but returned to Denmark in 1928. His career was unable to survive the transition to sound films, and he returned to the stage, where he remained until his retirement.- Actor
Dan Maxwell was born on 9 February 1881 in Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. He was an actor. He died on 2 July 1952 in Riverside, California, USA.- Actress
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Renée Héribel was born on 9 February 1903 in Caen, Calvados, France. She was an actress, known for Le prince Jean (1928), Everyone Has Their Chance (1930) and Les nuits de Port Said (1932). She died on 25 July 1952 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.