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Alessandro Scarlatti was born on 2 May 1660 in Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies [now Sicily, Italy]. Alessandro was a composer, known for The Brand New Testament (2015), Farinelli (1994) and Our Children (2012). Alessandro died on 22 October 1725 in Naples, Kingdom of Naples [now Campania, Italy].- Catherine II was born on 2 May 1729 in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. She was married to Peter the Great. She died on 17 November 1796 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia].
- Novalis was born on 2 May 1772 in Schloss Oberwiederstedt, Harz Mountains, Saxony [now Germany]. Novalis was a writer, known for Die Nacht (1985), Karanliga Övgüler (2016) and Novalis - Walzer (1983). Novalis died on 25 March 1801 in Weißenfels, Saxony [now Germany].
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H.C. Lumbye was born on 2 May 1810 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a composer, known for Dorian Gray (2009) and Champagnegaloppen (1938). He was married to Georgine. He died on 20 March 1874 in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Music Department
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Hans Christian Lumbye was born on 2 May 1810 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is known for En flicka för mej (1943), På spåret (1987) and Luftens vagabond (1933). He was married to Anna Helene Jønsson and Georgine Marie Hansine Hoff. He died on 20 March 1874 in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Jens Andreas Friis was born on 2 May 1821 in Sogndal, Norway. Jens Andreas was a writer, known for Laila (1929), Laila (1937) and Make Way for Lila (1958). Jens Andreas died on 16 February 1896 in Kristiania, Norway.
- Emma Hardinge Britten was born on 2 May 1823 in London, England. He died on 2 October 1899 in Manchester, England, UK.
- Born into an upper-class family in Elmira, NY, the son of an army officer and an indulging socialite, Clyde Fitch would become the first major American playwright, ending European-sourced dominance of the American stage (somewhat ironic, seeing that many of his plays were set abroad). His career would barely span 20 years, but he proved extremely prolific, writing 36 original plays and 24 adaptations from other works.
Fitch graduated from Amherst College in 1886, rejecting a career in business. He spent the next four years, supported by his mother, learning the craft of writing. At 25 he enjoyed his first great success with his very first play, set in England, "Beau Brummell" (1890), which became the trademark role for actor Richard Mansfield, who would continue in the title role for the remainder of his life. For Broadway's #1 producer Charles Frohman, Fitch's "Masked Ball" (1892) paired star Maude Adams with John Drew Jr., making them the most popular acting duo of the decade. Interestingly, Fitch's "Barbara Frietchie" (1899) led later to Ruby Catherine Stevens changing her surname to Barbara (Barbara Stanwyck, her last name being lifted from British actress Joan Stanwyck). Fitch's big hit, "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines" (1900), made Ethel Barrymore a major star.
Fitch's personal life involved constant socializing; a gregarious homosexual, he thoroughly enjoyed the notoriety he was achieving on both continents and the enormous wealth that came with it. His health, however, did not stand up to his raconteur lifestyle. He had long suffered from intense abdominal troubles and, against the advice of his personal physician, sought out non-surgical alternatives to his, as it turned out, appendicitis in Europe. He died in Châlons-sur-Marne, France on September 4, 1909 at age 44 from blood poisoning after emergency surgery. After several moves over a period of time, his body was finally cremated and his ashes were installed in a special Tuscan-style sarcophagus commissioned by his mother. - Actor
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Vernon Castle and his wife Irene Castle were the best known ballroom dancers of the early 20th Century. Beginning about 1914 they operated several clubs and studios in the New York City area, toured the country dancing, and were able to charge as much as a thousand dollars an hour for lessons.
From 1906 through 1913 he appeared in nine Broadway musicals: "The Sunshine Girl", "The Lady of the Slipper", "The Hen-Pecks", "The Summer Widowers", "Old Dutch", "The Midnight Sons", "The Mimic World", "The Girl Behind the Counter", and "About Town." In 1914, he appeared with Irene in the Irving Berlin musical "Watch Your Step." Vernon (as a military flying instructor) was killed in an airplane accident shortly before the end or World War I.
Vernon and Irene were the subjects of the movie The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939).- Born in 1892 in Breslau, Silesia (now Wroclaw, Poland) Richthofen was the son of a hereditary baron. A daredevil for life, he was an avid hunter and mountain climber. With Germany's entrance into WW1 in 1914, Richthofen mobilized in a Silesian cavalry unit, and survived the first battle of Verdun in 1915. Soon after, he transferred to the Luftwaffe (Imperial German Air Force) as a bombardier. By 1916, however, he was tapped for training in the then-new art of fighter combat, flying an Albatros D.2 in March, 1916. By the end of 1916, Richthofen was a certified ace, having downed over 20 aircraft, including the number one British ace up to that time, Maj. Lanoe Hawker. Due to his tally, Richthofen earned the medal "Pour le Merite" (yes, the official name's in French) in December 1916. Throughout the rest of the war, the legend of the Red Baron continued to grow, as did his kill tally, officially reaching 80 kills in April 1918. On April 21 of that year, Richthofen led a routine strafing mission against the British trenches in the Somme region and was killed with a single .303 bullet to the chest, most likely fired from the ground.
- William L. Abingdon was born on 2 May 1859 in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Manon Lescaut (1914), The Kiss of Hate (1916) and Panthea (1917). He was married to Bijou Fernandez and Rachel de Solla. He died on 17 May 1918 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Eduard von Keyserling was born on 2 May 1855 in Tels-Paddern, Kurland, Russia. He was a writer, known for The Treehouse, Comédie d'été (1989) and Die Galgenbrücke (1989). He died on 28 September 1918 in Munich, Germany.
- Aurélia Delorme was born on 2 May 1866 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Pega na Chaleira (1909), O Garimpeiro (1920) and Um Cavalheiro Deveras Obsequioso (1909). She died on 4 October 1920 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Stanislaw Jarninski was born on 2 May 1884 in Siedlce, Poland, Russian Empire [now Siedlce, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Tajemnica pokoju nr 100 (1914), Die Nebenbuhler (1920) and The Rival (1916). He was married to Amelia Rotter-Jarninska. He died on 17 January 1921 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Bertus Onstee was born on 2 May 1864 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for Pro domo (1918) and Onschuldig Veroordeeld (1912). He died on 14 December 1921 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
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Carl Michael Ziehrer was born on 2 May 1843 in Vienna, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. He was a composer, known for Der Traum eines österreischischen Reservisten (1928), Young Girls of Vienna (1949) and Der Traum des österreichischen Reservisten (1915). He was married to Marianne Edelmann. He died on 14 November 1922 in Vienna, Austria.- Antal Váradi was born on 2 May 1854 in Závod, Hungary. Antal was a writer, known for Musical TV Theater (1970). Antal died on 5 March 1923 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Charles Greene was born on 2 May 1872 in Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923). He died on 7 July 1925 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Erzsi B. Marton was born on 2 May 1885 in Újfehértó, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Az utolsó hajnal (1917), Farsangi mámor (1921) and Tavasz a télben (1918). She was married to Kálmán Balla. She died on 20 August 1925 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Jane Connelly was born on 2 May 1883 in Port Huron, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for The Man from Beyond (1922). She was married to Erwin Connelly. She died on 25 October 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Helen Howard was born on 2 May 1903 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Captain Blood (1924), The Midnight Trail (1918) and The Sea Master (1917). She died on 14 March 1927 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Born in Walsall, Staffordshire, in 1859, son of an unsuccessful ironmonger. Raised in London, and educated at Marylebone Grammar School. Started work as railway clerk at fourteen, and later worked as schoolmaster, actor and journalist. Two volumes of humorous essays preceded "Three Men In A Boat" (1889), which saw immediate and enormous success. This enabled him to become one of the founders of the humorous magazine "The Idler", which featured work by Bret Harte and Mark Twain, amongst others. Wrote a number of plays in a similar style to his friend J.M. Barrie. The most memorable of these is probably "The Passing Of The Third Floor Back".
- Marie Verstraete was born on 2 May 1853 in Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. She was an actress, known for De storm des levens (1920) and Mooi Juultje van Volendam (1924). She was married to Ludovic Johannes De Graef. She died on 27 January 1928 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
- Ferdinando Paolieri was born on 2 May 1878 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was a writer, known for Savitri Satyavan (1923), Merchant of Slaves (1942) and Anita o il romanzo d'amore dell'eroe dei due mondi (1927). He died on 10 May 1928 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
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Mary MacLane was born on 2 May 1881 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She was a writer and actress, known for Men Who Have Made Love to Me (1918), Haus Kummerveldt (2023) and Between My Flesh and the World Fingers (2018). She died on 6 August 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.- Frederick Tyrone Power was born in London, England, the son of concert pianist Harold Littledale Power and stage actress Ethel Lavenu, and the grandson of famed Irish actor Tyrone Power (1795-1841). He was educated at Dulwich College. His family emigrated to the U.S. and he was sent to Florida to work as a citrus farmer. However, he hated farming, having always wanted to be an actor, so he abandoned the citrus ranch and made his stage debut in 'The Private Secretary' in 1886. He toured the U.S., Britain, and Australia in theatrical tours, becoming a famed matinee idol and calling himself Tyrone Power II and Tyrone Power the Younger. In 1912, he was acclaimed for his Brutus in 'Julius Caesar'. In 1914, he entered films and played leading roles until age moved him into often villainous character roles. At home one night after shooting on the film 'The Miracle Man' in 1931, Power suffered a massive heart attack and died literally in the arms of his 17-year-old son, Tyrone Power (Tyrone Edmund Power Jr., as he was legally named).
- Victor Kutschera was born on 2 May 1863 in Vienna, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Die Würghand (1920), Parema - Das Wesen aus der Sternenwelt (1922) and Der Schlüssel zur Macht (1921). He was married to Elsa Sedlmayr. He died on 20 January 1933 in Vienna, Austria.
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Lewis J. Selznick, one of the pioneers of studio film production and the father of Oscar-winning Gone with the Wind (1939) producer David O. Selznick, was born Lewis Zeleznik in Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire, into a poor Jewish family with 18 children. Selznick migrated to London at the age of 12, and then to the US, eventually winding up as a small-time jeweler in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Fate intervened in Selznick's life in the guise of John P. Harris, who opened up the first dedicated cinema in Pittsburgh in 1905 (Pennsylvania officials claim that Harris' nickelodeon was the country's first, but there were dedicated theaters in the US for at least three years before Harris' theater--a dedicated cinema had opened in Los Angeles in 1902). Harris called his new theater, which he opened with a 20-minute, one-reel film from Lumiere, a "nickel-odeon," even though his admission price was ten cents ("odeon" is the Greek word for "theater," and "melodeon" had been a name given to music halls), which raises doubts over his claim to have invented the word, as well as the concept. Before the nickelodeon, movies had been shown in makeshift auditoriums and between variety acts in vaudeville houses as "chasers"--they were shown in order to chase lingering patrons out of the theaters to make room for paying customers for the next show. Two merchants with shops near Harris' nickelodeon became intrigued with the potential of the new industry--Harry Warner and Selznick. Both would go on to be the founders of major studios.
"Time" magazine, in a story about his son David in its July 1, 1935 issue, claimed that Lewis became a producer by walking into the headquarters of Universal Film Manufacturing in 1917, commandeering an abandoned desk and putting a sign labeled "General Manager" over it. The truth may be more mundane, but it is nonetheless fascinating and elucidates the evolution of the motion picture industry.
Selznick became general manager of the East Coast Universal Film Exchange, and eventually started Equitable Pictures with financial backing from Chicago mail-order magnate Arthur Spiegel and a Wall Street investment firm. In a familiar pattern of that time, Selznick created Equitable with the aim of raiding Vitagraph for Clara Kimball Young, a huge draw at the box office. Selznick was one of the investors behind World Pictures, headquartered in Ft. Lee, NJ, the first American movie capital. World had been created in 1914 to import foreign-made features and to distribute the movies of several newly established feature-film companies, including Selznick's Equitable Pictures. Selznick then merged his company with Shubert Pictures, which was the movie production arm of Shubert Theatrical Co., and Peerless Pictures, the movie production company created by motion picture raw film stock magnate Jules Brulatour.
World Pictures, now under the effective control of Selznick, released movies produced by Equitable, Peerless and Shubert Pictures, as well as those produced by independent companies, including the California Motion Picture Corp. of San Francisco. Movie production was centered at the Peerless Studio in Fort Lee, which had been built by Brulatour in 1914, and at the Paragon Studio, which was built in 1916. Gradually World Pictures began to dominate the companies whose movies it distributed. World Film Corp. was incorporated in February 1915, with Arthur Spiegel as president and Selznick as vice president and general manager.
"Photoplay" Magazine reported in 1915 that World Film was a large feature film company, both producing and distributing movies through its own exchanges. Its market capitalization totaled $2 million in stock--with a per-share value of $5.00--of which approximately $1.5 million was outstanding. For the fiscal year ending June 27, 1915, World Film reported a net profit of $329,000, equivalent to return of a little over 20% on the outstanding stock. At the time of the Photoplay article World Film had yet to pay a dividend, and its stock was active on the New York Curb Market at prices both above and below its par value.
World Film's market staples were traditional romances, comedies and dramas, starring the likes of Lillian Russell, Alice Brady, Marie Dressler and Lew Fields. Maurice Tourneur, who came over from Éclair America, proved to be World's top filmmaker. Other World Film employees who went on to greater careers included Josef von Sternberg, who worked as a film cutter, and Frances Marion, the future Oscar-winning screenwriter. Famed Broadway caricaturist Al Hirschfeld was appointed head of the art department by Selznick when he was still in his teens.
Lewis Selznick was ousted as general manager of World Film in 1916. Three years later he left World, taking Clara Kimball Young with him, and formed his own production company, the Clara Kimball Young Film Corp. The company leased studios from the Solax Co., which had been founded in Fort Lee by 'Alice Guy Blache' and her husband, Herbert Blaché (Alice Blanche was not only one of the first women movie executives but one of the first women directors as well). Selznick's company also released movies produced by the Schenck brothers, Joseph M. Schenck and Nicholas Schenck, who were partners with theater-owner Marcus Loew in his chain of movie houses, as well as in the Palisades Amusement Park in the Fort Lee/Cliffside Park area.
The early days of the film studios saw a constant spate of mergers and acquisitions as the industry underwent consolidation, and individual moguls jockeyed for position. Samuel Goldfish was ousted from two companies he co-founded in the 1910s, Famous Players-Lasky and Goldwyn Pictures (from which he took his name, being forever known as independent producer Samuel Goldwyn). Selznick merged with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Pictures in 1917, creating Select Pictures, later reorganized as Selznick Film Co. Selzlnick eventually bought out Zukor and merged his two companies into Selznick-Select, then acquired World Pictures' film exchanges, which he renamed Republic Distributing Corp. He shifted his operation to California, completing the move in 1920, where he again linked up with Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky's Paramount-Artcraft, the successor to Famous Players-Lasky.
Colorful and flamboyant, a quote of Selznick's became one of the most famous aphorisms about the motion picture industry: "There's no business in the world in which a man needs so little brains as in the movies." He also showed a wicked sense of humor. As a Jew growing up in Czarist Russia, a land famous for its anti-Semitic pogroms, Selznick suffered persecution before he emigrated to England. When Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown in the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917, Selznick sent a cable to him: "When I was a poor boy in Kiev some of your policemen were not kind to me and my people stop I came to America and prospered stop Now hear with regret you are out of a job over there stop Feel no ill will what your policemen did so if you will come New York can give you fine position acting in pictures stop Salary no object stop Reply my expense stop Regards you and family".
Unlike most of the other moguls, Lewis J. Selznick didn't take the movie business too seriously. The other magnates were outraged by his cavalier attitude toward the industry and the moguls themselves. Among the immigrant businessmen who created Hollywood and the American motion picture industry, it was the cultured and introspective ones who failed. Selznick had a self-deprecating cynicism that eventually diluted his ambition. It was said in the early 1920s that Selznick would rather stay at home surrounded by his ojects d'art. Apparently, he eschewed schmoozing with other industry insiders at their favorite haunts, the track, the polo grounds, the skeet range, and the speakeasies. Lacking their tastes and world view, Selznick wound up distrusted by the other movie magnates.
When Lewis J. Selznick Production, Inc., became financially troubled during the production glut of 1923 that roiled the industry, he had no one to turn to. His company went bankrupt in 1923 due to overexpansion, done in by the machinations of a vengeful Zukor. He never produced another movie, or as he'd prefer it, his days as a "presenter" were through (Lewis J. Selznick Productions' pictures were opened with a title card that read: "Selznick Presents." The slogan "Selznick Pictures Make Happy Hours" was, by the end of the second decade of the new 20th century, the best-known slogan in the entertainment industry).
His son David learned the ropes as a young man at Lewis J. Selznick Productions. As an independent producer, David later surpassed Lewis J., winning back-to-back Oscars for "Gone with the Wind" and Rebecca (1940). After his father went bankrupt, David quit Columbia and moved to California to get back into the industry without any help from his father. getting a proofreader's job at MGM. Famous for his facility with words and his writing ability, David quickly worked his way up to story editor, then became an assistant producer in producer Harry Rapf's unit. He began a secret romance with Irene Mayer, daughter of MGM boss Louis B. Mayer, and he eventually decided to quit and take a lower-paying job with better prospects at Paramount.
When he became betrothed to Irene L.B. was skeptical due to Selznick's being a "traitor" by leaving MGM. Actually, he respected David for striking out on his own and avoiding charges of nepotism. Mayer's real objection, it seemed, was rooted in his hatred of David's dad, a renegade who had tried to horn in on the original Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), claiming he had rights to the stage play. David apologized for his father, admitting it wasn't right for Lewis to have pulled such a con, and the two healed their rift, with David eventually working for his father-in-law after the death of Mayer's right-hand man Irving Thalberg (the news of the elevation of David to supervising producer at MGM was the source of the famous newspaper headline, "The Son-in-Law Also Rises.")
Lewis J. Selznick died on January 25, 1933, in Los Angeles, California. World Film and Lewis J. Selznick Productions Inc. no longer exist, and many of the films he produced are lost or forgotten, so his son David's output of great motion pictures remains Lewis J.'s Hollywood legacy. For it was at World Film Corp. that the banner "Quality Not Quantity" had first been unfurled.- Actor
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Walter Percival was born on 2 May 1887 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Lights of New York (1928), Someone Must Pay (1919) and Someone in the House (1920). He was married to Kate Campbell and Regina M. Wedin. He died on 28 January 1934 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Dion Clayton Calthrop was born on 2 May 1878 in London, England, UK. Dion Clayton was a writer, known for A Southern Maid (1934), The Old Country (1921) and Out to Win (1923). Dion Clayton was married to Mary Violet Marsden. Dion Clayton died on 7 March 1937 in England, UK.
- Antonín Marek was born on 2 May 1862 in Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Ukrizovaná (1921), Otrávené svetlo (1921) and Príbeh jednoho dne (1926). He died on 9 November 1938 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Morgan Davis was born on 2 May 1890 in Ethel, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Bandit Chaser (1928), The Cowboy and the Flapper (1924) and On the Go (1925). He died on 2 September 1941 in Riverside, California, USA.
- Minnie Rayner was born on 2 May 1869 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour (1931), Gaslight (1940) and The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935). She was married to Frederick Horatio Wilcock Jaques (aka Frederic Jacques). She died on 13 December 1941 in London, England, UK.
- Teddie Gerard was born on 2 May 1892 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for The Cave Girl (1921), The Seventh Day (1922) and Billy's Spanish Love Spasm (1915). She was married to Joe Raymond. She died on 31 August 1942 in London, England, UK.
- Conway Washburne was born on 2 May 1907 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Counsellor at Law (1933) and Street Scene (1931). He died on 7 September 1942 in New York City, New York, USA.
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(Please replace entire biography because it is incorrect) Lorenz Hart was born in Harlem in New York City and attended Columbia University. He met Richard Rodgers in 1918, who was to write the music for songs, musicals, and films with him for the next 25 years. They produced such stage hits as 'Pal Joey," "On Your Toes," "The Boys From Syracuse." and "Jumbo, all of which were made into movies. They also wrote songs for such film musicals as "The Hot Heiress," "Love Me Tonight," which starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, and "Mississippi," which starred Bing Crosby. Hart also supplied the English lyrics for a film version of "The Merry Widow" with music by Franz Lehar. Although their show "I'd Rather Be Right was never filmed, the song "Off the Record," which was sung by George M. Cohan on Broadway, was performed by James Cagney playing Cohan in 1942's Yankee Doodle Dandy. Hart's alcoholism, short stature, and repressed guilt about his homosexuality led to problems in his reliability in his collaboration with Rodgers. In 1943, Rodgers began a collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II with the musical Oklahoma. Hart died of pneumonia shortly after Oklahoma's premiere.- Alexander Bonnyman Jr. was born on 2 May 1910 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He died on 22 November 1943 in Tarawa, Gilbert Islands.
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Gangly and rugged stage and screen character star Otto Hoffman was born in New York in 1879. Began as a stage performer in the 1890's. Made his movie debut under the direction of Stuart Paton in The White Terror (1915) starring Hobart Henley for the IMP Film Company. Otto directed only one film, The Secret of Black Mountain (1917) made in 1917 starring Vola Vale, afterwards he just concentrated on acting he was much better at it. He most often played cadaverous, crafty, menacing characters in more than 200 movies, such as The Kaiser's Shadow (1918), The Eagle (1925), The Valley of the Giants (1927), The Terror (1928), and Noah's Ark (1928). His ethnic range in many talkies include The Desert Song (1929), Abraham Lincoln (1930), Cimarron (1931), Eddie Cantor's Kid Millions (1934), Girl Loves Boy (1937), W.C. Fields' My Little Chickadee (1940), and his last film just before he died was as Oscar in This Is the Life (1944). Married Laura King and has a daughter Eugenie Hoffman.- Actor
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Warren Ellsworth was born on 2 May 1888 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Sheriff of Plumas (1916), Life's Blind Alley (1916) and Secret Love (1916). He died on 25 November 1945 in Sacramento, California, USA.- Special Effects
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Vernon L. Walker was born on 2 May 1894 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Notorious (1946), Suspicion (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). He was married to Lottie J. Walker. He died on 14 March 1948 in Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California, USA.- Director
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Pierre Marodon was born on 2 May 1873 in Paris, France. He was a director and actor, known for Buridan, le héros de la Tour de Nesle (1923), Le château des fantômes (1923) and Qui a tué? (1919). He died on 5 April 1949 in Ain Témouchent, Oran, France [now Algeria].- Jack McCredie was born on 2 May 1878 in Ireland [now Northern Ireland], UK. He was an actor, known for Mystery Pilot (1926), Me und Gott (1918) and The Spirit of '76 (1917). He died on 8 June 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Albert Kenyon was born on 2 May 1885 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a writer, known for The Monster (1925), Pals in Paradise (1926) and The Girl in the Dark (1918). He died on 20 January 1950 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Elizabeth Sifton was born on 2 May 1915 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Flight Angels (1940). She died on 24 February 1950 in Canada.
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Oszkár Dénes was born on 2 May 1891 in Magyarkeszi, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Victoria and Her Hussar (1931), Ben Kolumbusz (1921) and Farsangi mámor (1921). He was married to Rosy Barsony. He died on 2 July 1950 in Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.- Eddie Collins was born on 2 May 1887 in Millerton, New York, USA. He died on 25 March 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Walter Pallman was born on 2 May 1892 in California, USA. He is known for Mare Nostrum (1926) and The Iron Mask (1929). He died on 1 January 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- May Hengler was born on 2 May 1880 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She died on 15 March 1952 in New York, USA.
- John Farrell was born on 2 May 1885 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Lights Out (1946), Suspense (1949) and Schlitz Playhouse (1951). He was married to Josephine Saxton. He died on 8 July 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
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Ernst Legal was born on 2 May 1881 in Schlieben, Germany. He was an actor, known for Hundert Tage (1935), Karriere in Paris (1952) and Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend (1923). He was married to Helene Werner. He died on 29 June 1955 in West Berlin, West Germany.