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- Frederick Marryat was born on 10 July 1792 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Jafet, der søger sig en Fader I-IV (1922), Midshipman Easy (1935) and The Little Savage (1959). He was married to Catherine (Kate). He died on 9 August 1848 in Norfolk, England, UK.
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Henryk Wieniawski was born on 10 July 1835 in Lublin, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland]. He was a composer, known for Prometheus (2012), The Help (2011) and Sightseers (2012). He was married to Isabella Hampton. He died on 31 March 1880 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia].- Ruzena Svobodova was born on 10 July 1868 in Mikulovice, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was a writer, known for Cerní myslivci (1921) and Cerni myslivci (1945). She died on 1 January 1920 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
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Ned Finley was born on 10 July 1870 in Virginia, USA. He was an actor and director, known for O'Garry of the Royal Mounted (1915), The Leading Lady (1913) and The Gang (1914). He died on 27 September 1920 in New York City, New York, USA.- Writer
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Marcel Proust was a French intellectual, author and critic, best known for his seven-volume fiction 'In search of Lost Time'. He coined the term "involuntary memory", which became also known as "Proust effect" in modern psychology.
He was born Valentin Louis Georges Eugéne Marcel Proust, on July 10, 1871, in Paris, France. His father, Achille Proust, was a famous doctor. His mother, Jeanne Weil, was from a rich and cultured Jewish family. Proust's interests in art and literature were encouraged by his mother, who read and spoke English. He was fond of Carlyle, Emerson and John Ruskin, whose two works he also translated into French. From age 9 Proust suffered from severe allergy and asthma attacks, and eventually developed a chronic lung disease which caused his disability and affected his career and mobility. He was lucky to survive such a life threatening condition due to professional help from his doctor father. Proust's physical disability imposed serious restrictions on his lifestyle, and he expressed himself in writing. He was blessed with talent and imagination and also with a very large inheritance, that allowed him to write without any pressure. During the most years of his adult life Proust was confined to his cork-wood paneled bedroom, where he was attended mostly by his close friend, pianist and composer Reynaldo Hahn.
Proust's main work, 'A la recherche du temps perdu' was begun in 1909 and finished in 1922, just before the author's death. It also became known in English as 'In Search of Lost Time' (aka.. Remembrance of Things Past). The novel's life-like complexity and delicate fabric of language is influenced by his reading of Lev Tolstoy, especially by 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina', and it bears some structural and contentual resemblance of Tolstoy's major novels. It is spanning over 3000 pages in seven volumes and teeming with more than 2000 names. Proust's novel is set in the fictional town of Combray, near Paris, and covers all aspects of life of the upper class; nobility, sexuality, women, men, art and culture. It was praised from Graham Greene, W. Somerset Maugham and Ernest Hemingway, as being the greatest fiction of their time.
Marcel Proust died at age 51, of complications related to pneumonia and his chronic health condition, on November 18, 1922, and was laid to rest in Cimetiére du Pére-Lachaise, Paris, France. The town of Illiers, which became the model for imaginary town of Combray in the novel, was renamed Illiers-Combray in commemoration of the Proust's masterpiece.- Petar Dobrinovic was born on 10 July 1853 in Belgrade, Serbia. He was a director, known for Tragedija nase dece (1922). He died on 22 December 1923 in Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
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A.S. Stecker was born on 10 July 1892 in Hancock, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for A Monkey Hero (1921), Between Man and Beast (1917) and Terrors of the Jungle (1913). He was married to Ethel Leona Spurgin. He died on 18 June 1924 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Lorenz Bätz was born on 10 July 1889 in Munich, Germany. He was a director, known for Harry Hill, der Herr der Welt (1923), Die Rächerin (1919) and Der Goldfasan (1919). He died on 24 February 1926 in Berlin, Germany.
- Frank Norcross was born on 10 July 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Beating the Odds (1919), King of the Pack (1926) and The Magic Toy Maker (1915). He died on 13 September 1926 in Glendale, California, USA.
- Marie Ring was born on 10 July 1855 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Den glade løjtnant (1912). She died on 2 January 1929.
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- Writer
Aristide Demetriade was born on 10 July 1872 in Valea Ratei, Romania. He was a director and actor, known for The Independence of Romania (1912), Însir'te margarite (1911) and Otelul razbuna (1913). He died on 21 February 1930 in Bucharest, Romania.- Director
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Karl Heiland was born on 10 July 1876 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Rebellenliebe (1919), Hapura, die tote Stadt - 2. Teil: Der Streit um die Ruinen (1922) and Der Schatz der Azteken (1921). He died on 10 October 1932 in Berlin, Germany.- James T. Kelley was born on 10 July 1854 in Castlebar, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. He was an actor, known for Among Those Present (1921), The Rink (1916) and The Fireman (1916). He died on 12 November 1933 in New York City, New York, USA.
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- Soundtrack
Ernesto Ponzio was born on 10 July 1885 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Tango Bar (1987) and ¡Tango! (1933). He died on 21 October 1934 in Banfield, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Actor
- Writer
Harald Bredow was born on 10 July 1898 in Hamburg-Altona, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Symphonie des Todes (1921), Der Meisterschuß (1920) and Das Kussverbot (1920). He died on 5 November 1934 in Berlin, Germany.- Actor
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- Director
John Gilbert was born into a show-business family - his father was a comic with the Pringle Stock Company. By 1915 John was an extra with Thomas H. Ince's company and a lead player by 1917. In those days he was assistant director, actor or screenwriter. He also tried his hand at directing. By 1919 he was being noticed in films and getting better roles. In 1921 he signed a three-year contract with Fox Films. His popularity continued to soar and he was turning from villain to leading man. In 1924 he signed with MGM which put him into His Hour (1924). In 1925 he appeared in the very successful The Big Parade (1925) and was, by now, as popular as Rudolph Valentino. Lillian Gish, who had a new contract with MGM, picked Gilbert to co-star with her in La Bohème (1926). With the death of Valentino, his only competition, John was on top of the world. Then came Greta Garbo, who starred with him in Love (1927), Flesh and the Devil (1926) and A Woman of Affairs (1928). The screen chemistry between these two was incredible and led to a torrid off-screen affair. The studio publicity department worked overtime to publicize the romance between the two, but when it came time to marry, John was left at the altar. His performances after that were devoid of the sparkle that he once had and he began to drink heavily. Added to that, the whole industry was moving towards sound, and while his voice was not as bad as some had thought, it did not match the image that he portrayed on the screen. Even his characters had changed, in such films as Redemption (1930) and Way for a Sailor (1930). He was no longer the person that bad things happened to, but he now was the cause of bad things which happen. MGM did little to help John adjust to the new sound medium, as studio chief Louis B. Mayer and Gilbert had a fierce and nasty confrontation over Garbo. John was still under contract to MGM for a very large salary, but the money meant little to him. His contract ran out in 1933 after he appeared in Fast Workers (1933) as a riveter.
Garbo tried to restore some of his image when she insisted that he play opposite her in Queen Christina (1933), but by then it was too late. He appeared in only one more film and died of a heart attack in January 1936.- Actor
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Clyde McClary was born on 10 July 1888 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Speedy Spurs (1926), Range Riders (1934) and Paradise Valley (1934). He died on 30 June 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
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- Producer
William Marien Conselman was at the time of his death one of Hollywood's best-paid writers. Like many others, he came from the ranks of newspaper writers, having worked on papers in both Los Angeles and New York. In 1925 Conselman, along with artist Charles Plumb, started the daily comic strip "Ella Cinders", a modern version of the Cinderella story. The strip would stay in syndication until 1961. Conselman's entrance into the film industry as a gag writer came as a result of work he did in the mid-20s for a Hollywood studio publicity department.
Conselman was the oldest of three children born to Henry and Marian Connely Conselman. His father was originally from Pennsylvania, where his parents settled after arriving from Germany. Henry was employed in the theater districts in New York as a carpenter. Marian was born in Ireland and came to America at an early age.
Conselman and his wife Mina were both collectors. He loved to cook and had a large collection of dishes, while her passion was acquiring sculptured hands. They had two children: daughter Diedre was, for a while, married to tennis champion Don Budge and son William Conselman Jr. who would also have a career in Hollywood. William Marien Conselman died at home after a month's illness. His early death at the age of 43 was attributed to a liver ailment.- Rex Storey was born on 10 July 1895 in Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for That's the Spirit (1945). He died on 19 January 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Graham McNamee was born on 10 July 1888 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was an actor, known for Oh, Baby! (1926), Wings in the Dark (1935) and Knockout Reilly (1927). He died on 9 May 1942 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Dorothy Tennant was born on 10 July 1865 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Night Club (1929). She died on 3 July 1942 in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
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C.M. Woolf was born on 10 July 1879 in London, England, UK. He was a producer, known for The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), The First Born (1928) and Easy Virtue (1927). He died on 31 December 1942 in London, England, UK.- Nikola Tesla (28 June 1856 - 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree, gaining practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. His alternating current (AC) induction motor and related poly-phase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the poly-phase system which that company eventually marketed.
Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wireless-controlled boat, one of the first-ever exhibited. Tesla became well known as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to celebrities and wealthy patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried to put these ideas to practical use in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project, an intercontinental wireless communication and power transmitter, but ran out of funding before he could complete it.
After Wardenclyffe, Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943. Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity following his death, until 1960, when the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the SI unit of magnetic flux density the Tesla in his honor. There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s. - Actor
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Frank J. Carroll was born on 10 July 1879 in Maryland, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Scarlet West (1925), The Cavell Case (1918) and The Scapegoat (1912). He was married to Martha Douglas aka Martha Francis. He died on 5 June 1944 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Actor
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George Bellamy was born on 10 July 1866 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Lorna Doone (1920), The Christian (1915) and Little Dorrit (1920). He died on 26 December 1944 in London, England, UK.- Actor
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Louis Goodrich was born on 10 July 1872 in Yorktown, Camberley, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Ann and Harold (1938), Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour (1931) and The Old and the Young (1938). He was married to Beatrice Catherine Agnes Huggins (1882-1965) and Helen Isobel Morse. He died on 27 January 1945 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK.- Actor
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Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1892, rustic-looking George "Slim" Summerville possessed one of those malleable mugs that made you laugh even before he opened his mouth. Young Slim ran away from home as a youth and lived a rather wanderlust life until a chance meeting with Mack Sennett through his comedian friend Edgar Kennedy changed everything.
Slim broke into silent films at age nineteen as one of Sennett's pie-hurling Keystone Kops and became part of the stock company of players. Making an unbilled appearance in Keystone's first feature film Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), Summerville's gangly build and naive innocence, not to mention his potato-like nose, mournful mug, and slim, curling upper lip, helped set him apart -- so much so that Summerville eventually branched out into his own short vehicles.
Much more comfortable in rumpled clothes and overalls than a suit and tie, he later learned the ropes of directing and in the 1920s helmed a string of short films for both Fox and Universal studios. He refocused on acting come the advent of sound and made a rather easy transition, standing out in a number of commercial films, both comedic and dramatic, including the mammoth war epic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), the landmark musical film King of Jazz (1930), Hecht-MacArthur's classic The Front Page (1931), the Shirley Temple vehicles Captain January (1936) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), and John Ford's Tobacco Road (1941). In addition, Slim scored in a series of short comedies opposite Zasu Pitts, and a slew of supports in Hoot Gibson westerns.
Usually playing much older than he was, the sleepy-eyed, slow-drawling Summerville played his last role in The Hoodlum Saint (1946), before dying of a stroke on January 5, 1946, at the not-so-old age of 53. He left a strong enough legacy, however, to be remembered as one of the screen's more reliable comedians. He was survived by his wife Eleanor and son Elliot.- Writer
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Helene Schjerfbeck was born on 10 July 1862 in Helsinki, Finland. She was a writer, known for Nuori Suomi (1992) and Nästa söndag ska jag måla en svart prick bättre (1988). She died on 28 January 1946 in Saltsjöbaden, Stockholms län, Sweden.- Astrid Engelbrecht was born on 10 July 1878 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for The Springtime of Life (1912). She died on 7 May 1946 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Marcel Krols was born on 10 July 1925 in Wortel, Flanders, Belgium. He was an actor, known for Merijntje Gijzen's Jeugd (1936). He died on 24 December 1946.
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Harold Dean Carsey was born on 10 July 1886 in Tennessee, USA. Harold Dean is known for The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927). Harold Dean died on 10 January 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
Jenaro Pina was born on 10 July 1879 in Mexico. He was an actor. He died on 31 January 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Kurt Felden was born on 10 July 1878 in Kiel, Germany. He was an actor, known for Trouble Backstairs (1935), Great Freedom No. 7 (1944) and Bal paré (1940). He died on 15 September 1947 in Berlin, Germany.
- Johannes Blaskowitz was born on 10 July 1883 in Paterswalde, East Prussia, Germany [now Bolshaya Polyana, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]. He died on 5 February 1948 in Nuremberg, Germany.
- Ivan Sadovskiy was born on 10 July 1876 in Zhitomir, Zhitomir uyezd, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire [now Zhytomyr, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for The Self-Seeker (1929) and Makar Nechay (1940). He died on 1 April 1948 in Vinnitsa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Vinnytsia, Ukraine].
- Octave Crémieux was born on 10 July 1872 in Montpellier, Hérault, France. He died on 7 July 1949 in Paris, France.
- Riccardo Pick Mangiagalli was born on 10 July 1882 in Strakonice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Strakonice, Jihocesky Kraj, Czech Republic]. He was a composer, known for T'amerò sempre (1933), Scandalo per bene (1940) and The Singing Princess (1949). He died on 8 July 1949 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
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Following a two-year apprenticeship under Cecil B. DeMille as assistant director, Samuel Grosvenor Wood had the good fortune to have assigned to him two of the biggest stars at Paramount during their heyday: Wallace Reid (between 1919 and 1920) and Gloria Swanson (from 1921 to 1923). By the time his seven-year contract with Paramount expired, the former real estate dealer had established himself as one of Hollywood's most reliable (if not individualistic) feature directors. Not bad for a former real estate broker and small-time theatrical thesp. In 1927, Wood joined MGM and remained under contract there until 1939. During this tenure he was very much in sync with the studio's prevalent style of production, reliably turning out between two and three films a year (of which the majority were routine subjects).
Most of his films in the 1920s were standard fare and it was not until he directed two gems with The Marx Brothers, A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937) that his career picked up again. Looking at the finished product it is difficult to reconcile this to Groucho Marx finding Wood "rigid and humorless". Maybe, this assessment was due to Wood being vociferously right-wing in his personal views which would not have sat well with the famous comedian. His testimonies in 1947 before the House Un-American Activities Committee certainly gained Wood more enemies than friends within the industry.
Regardless of his personality or his habitually having to shoot each scene twenty times over, Wood turned out some very powerful dramatic films during the last ten years of his life, beginning with Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939). This popular melodrama earned him his first Academy Award nomination. At RKO, he coaxed an Oscar-winning performance out of Ginger Rogers (and was again nominated himself) for Kitty Foyle (1940). Ronald Reagan gave, arguably, his best performance in Kings Row (1942) under Wood's direction. His most expensive (and longest, at 170 minutes) assignment took him back to Paramount. This was Ernest Hemingway's Spanish Civil War drama For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), bought for $150,000 (De Mille was originally slated as director). In spite of editorial incongruities and the relatively uneven pace, the picture turned out to be the biggest (and last) hit of Wood's career.
Sam Wood died of a heart attack on September 22 1949. He has a star on the Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard.- Actress
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Ivie Anderson was born on 10 July 1904 in Gilroy, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Hit Parade (1937), A Day at the Races (1937) and Corrina, Corrina (1994). She was married to Walter Collins and Marque Nea. She died on 28 December 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Louis Bertijn was born on 10 July 1868 in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium. He was an actor, known for De storm des levens (1920). He was married to Helene Bertrijn-De Dapper. He died on 11 October 1950 in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium.
- Arnold Flögl was born on 10 July 1885 in Kroméríz, Morava, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Pytlákova schovanka aneb Slechetný milionár (1949), Capek's Tales (1947) and Beware! (1947). He died on 20 November 1950 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia].
- Sammy Brooks a very short comic performers born Samuel Rockenberg in New York in 1891, began his career in the vaudeville in the early 1910's, appeared as a character or bit parts in many comedy films, first working for Hal Roach in the Lonesome Luke comedies starring Harold Lloyd in 1916-17, also appeared in many westerns. minor roles in talkies last seen working as a film extra in Laurel and Hardy comedies until 1938. Died in Los Angeles in 1951 age 60.
- Blanche Bayliss was born on 10 July 1878 in Lexington, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Miss Jerry (1894). She died on 19 August 1951 in Forest Hills, New York, USA.
- Harry Allen was born on 10 July 1883 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for California Straight Ahead! (1937), Bombay Mail (1934) and The Silent Hero (1927). He died on 4 December 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Hugo Raudsepp was born on 10 July 1883 in Tartumaa, Estonia. Hugo was a writer, known for Teatterituokio (1962) and Mikumärdissä on kesä (1964). Hugo died on 16 September 1952 in Siberia, USSR.
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Mark Magidson was born on 10 July 1901 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a cinematographer, known for Povest o nastoyashchem cheloveke (1948), Zagovor obrechyonnykh (1950) and Salamander (1928). He died on 14 June 1954 in Moscow Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Armando Falconi was born on 10 July 1871 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for L'elisir d'amore (1941), The Spirit and the Flesh (1941) and The King's Jester (1936). He was married to Elisabetta Svoboda and Tina Di Lorenzo. He died on 4 September 1954 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
- Miroslav Rutte was born on 10 July 1889 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republik]. He was a writer, known for U peti veverek (1944), Dvaasedmdesátka (1953) and Macoun the Tramp (1939). He died on 24 November 1954 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Leopold Zbucki was born on 10 July 1886 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Dwie brygady (1950) and Young Chopin (1952). He died on 16 March 1955 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.
- Mary McLeod Bethune was born on 10 July 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina, USA. She was married to Albertus Bethune. She died on 18 May 1955 in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.