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- Octave Feuillet was born on 11 August 1821 in St. Lô, France. He was a writer, known for A Parisian Romance (1932), A Parisian Romance (1916) and Der Schloßherr von Hohenstein (1917). He was married to Valérie Dubois (writer). He died on 29 December 1890 in Paris, France.
- Teddy Royce was born on 11 August 1841 in Eversholt, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Tansy (1921). He died on 24 January 1926 in Clapham Park, London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Director
William S. Rising was born on 11 August 1852 in Lancaster, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Kleptomaniac (1905), The Wife's Sacrifice (1910) and Born Again (1914). He died on 5 October 1930 in New York City, New York, USA.- Julie Abich was born on 11 August 1852 in Ischl [now Bad Ischl], Upper Austria, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Arme Thea (1919) and Das Gelübde (1921). She died on 18 March 1928 in Berlin, Germany.
- Actor
- Producer
George A. Williams was born on 11 August 1854 in Kinnikinnic, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Super Speed (1925), Thundering Romance (1924) and Lucky Dan (1922). He died on 21 February 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Augustin Berger was born on 11 August 1861 in Boskovice, Moravia, Austria [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Únos bankére Fuxe (1923) and Snezenka z Tater (1919). He died on 1 June 1945 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("I Love You Truly", "A Perfect Day"), composer, author and publisher who sang at the White House for President Theodore Roosevelt. She formed The Bond Shop in 1894 to publish her music. She appeared in vaudeville, and gave concerts in Army Camps during WW I. In 1941, she was selected by the General Federation of Women Composers as one of two composers who represented the progress of women over the previous half-century. Her autobiography is titled "The Roads of Melody". Joining ASCAP in 1925, her song compositions include "Just A-Wearyin' For You", "God Remembers When the World Forgets", "I've Done My Work", "His Lullaby", "Roses Are in Bloom", "A Little Pink Rose", "A Little Bit O' Honey", and "Because of the Light".- Georges Grand was born on 11 August 1864 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Legion of Honor (1913), The Escape from the Tuileries (1910) and Pour l'honneur (1910). He was married to Colonna Romano. He died on 30 March 1921 in Paris, France.
- T. Daniel Frawley was born on 11 August 1864 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was married to Lilla Campbell (actress). He died on 26 April 1936 in New York, New York, USA.
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- Director
- Writer
Hobart Bosworth--pioneering movie director, writer, producer and actor--was born Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth on August 11, 1867, in Marietta, OH. He was a direct descendant of Miles Standish and John and Priscilla Alden on his father's side and of New York's Van Zandt family, the first Dutch settlers to land in the New World, on his mother's side. Bosworth was always proud of his lineage.
After his mother died his father remarried and the young Hobart took a dislike to his stepmother. Convinced that he was "ill used and cruelly treated," as he told an interviewer in 1914, he ran away from home for to New York City. He signed on as a cabin boy on the clipper ship "Sovereign of the Seas" and was soon out at sea.
After his first voyage, a five-month affair that took him from New York to San Francisco, he spent his wages on candy. Sleeping it off on a bench in the park in back of Trinity Church, the young boy did not know that the organ music he was listening to as he dozed was being played by his very own uncle. A Captain Roberts, who found stevedore work for the lad, told him of his uncle's presence in San Francisco. He continued as a sailor, as the sea was in his family's blood, eventually spending three years at sea. "All my people were of the sea and my father was a naval officer," he told an interviewer. He spent 11 months on an old-fashioned whaler plying the Arctic region, then was employed doing odd jobs in San Francisco. After turns as a semi-professional boxer and wrestler, Bosworth tried ranching in Southern California and Mexico, where he learned to become an expert horseman. Finally, his interest in art led him to the stage.
Thinking he'd like to become a landscape painter, a friend suggested that Bosworth work as a stage manager to raise the money to study art. Acting on his friend's advice, Bosworth obtained a job with McKee Rankin as a stage manager at the California Theatre in San Francisco. With the money he made, he undertook the study of painting. Eventually he was pressed into duty as an actor with a small part with three lines. Though he botched the lines, he was given other small roles. Bosworth was 18 years old and on the cusp of a life in the theater.
He signed on with Louis Morrison to be part of a road company for a season as both an actor and as Morrison's dresser, playing William Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" and "Measure for Measure" (during his time with the company, Hobarth and another writer wrote a version of "Faust" that Morrison used for 20 years in repertory). By 1887 he was acting at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco, and became proficient enough on stage to give Shakespearean recitals in costume the following year. He had acted almost all of the famous characters in the Shakespearean canon by the time he was 21 years old, though he admitted that he was the worst Macbeth ever.
Bosworth eventually wound up in Park City, UT, where he was forced to work in a mine, pushing an ore wagon in order to raise money. He escaped the pits to tour with magician Hermann the Great as the conjurer's assistant for a tour through Mexico. For the first time in eleven years, the 21-year-old Bosworth met his father. Hobarth recalled, "[H]e looked at me and said 'Hum! I couldn't lick you now, son.'" They never met again.
Bosworth arrived back in New York in December 1888, and was hired by Augustin Daly to play Charles the Wrestler in "As You Like It." He did so well in the role that Daly kept him on. Bosworth remained with Daly's company for 10 years, in which he played mostly minor parts. Seven times while he was with the company it made foreign tours, playing in Berlin, Cologne, London, Paris and other European cities.
Eventually, being kept in small parts eroded his confidence, and Bosworth left Daly to sign on with Julia Marlowe, who cast him in leads in Shakespearean plays. Just as Bosworth began to taste stage stardom in New York, he was struck down with tuberculosis, a very serious ailment in the 19th century. Bosworth was forced to give up the stage, as he was not allowed to toil indoors. Though he made a rapid recovery, he returned to the stage too quickly and suffered a relapse. For the rest of his working life he had to balance his acting with periods of rest so as to keep his T.B. under control.
Bosworth re-established himself as a lead actor on the New York stage, appearing opposite the famous actress Minnie Maddern Fiske (Mary Augusta Davey) in the 1903 Boradway revival of Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler." He also appeared that year on the Great White Way as the lead in "Marta of the Lowlands," which was produced by Harrison Grey Fiske, Mrs. Fiske's husband. The role propelled him to Broadway stardom. However, he was forced again to give up the stage when he lost 70 pounds in ten weeks.
Moving to Tempe, AZ, to partake of the salubrious climate improved his chances of battling T.B., and eventually he got the disease under control. While he was not actually an invalid, he was forced to live like one and remain in a warm climate lest he suffer a relapse. The T.B. robbed him of his voice, but since he was no longer on stage, it didn't matter. There was a new medium for actors: motion pictures. Bosworth moved to San Diego, which had a reputation of having the most perfect climate in the continental United States, and in 1908 was contracted to make a film by the Selig Polyscope Co. Shooting was to be down in the outdoors, and he did not have to use his voice, which was in a poor condition. The arrangement was perfect for him. "I believe, after all, that it is the motion pictures that have saved my life," he recounted less than a decade later. "How could I have lived on and on, without being able to carry out any of my cherished ambitions? What would my life have meant? Here, in pictures, I am realizing my biggest hopes." Signing with Selig, Bosworth eventually spearheaded the movie company's move to Los Angeles. He is widely credited with being the star of the first movie made on the West Coast. Due to his role in pioneering California for the film industry, Bosworth often was referred to as the "Dean of Hollywood." He wrote the scenarios for the second and third pictures he acted in, and directed the third. According to his own count, he eventually wrote 112 scenarios and produced 84 pictures for Selig. Bosworth was attracted to Jack London's work due to his out-of-doors filming experience and the requirements of his health, which obviated acting in studios. "In all my reading I have never come across better material for motion picture plays than Jack London's stories, and I hope to go right through the whole lot."
In 1913 he formed his own company, Hobart Bosworth Productions Co., to produce a series of Jack London melodramas. He produced, directed and starred in the company's first picture, playing Wolf Larsen in The Sea Wolf (1913), with London himself appearing as a sailor. The movie was released in the U.S. by W.W. Hodkinson Corp. D.W. Griffith also released a Jack London picture earlier that year, Two Men of the Desert (1913), but Bosworth followed up "The Sea Wolf" with The Chechako (1914), with Jack Conway playing the lead as Smoke Bellew, the title character of the eponymous London novel the movie is based on. "The Chechako" and some of the subsequent Boswoth-London pictures were distributed through Paramount, the releasing arm of Famous Players-Lasky.
Conway also starred in the Bosworth-directed follow-up The Valley of the Moon (1914), in which Bosworth had a supporting role. He also appeared as an actor in John Barleycorn (1914), which he co-directed with J. Charles Haydon. He produced, directed, wrote and acted in Martin Eden (1914) and An Odyssey of the North (1914), playing the lead in the latter, which was released by Paramount. He finished up the series by producing, directing and playing the lead in the two-part "Burning Daylight" series: Burning Daylight: The Adventures of 'Burning Daylight' in Alaska (1914) and Burning Daylight: The Adventures of 'Burning Daylight' in Civilization (1914), both of which were released by Paramount.
Bosworth hooked up with the Oliver Morosco Photoplay Co., making its Los Angeles facility on North Occidental Boulevard his headquarters. Subsequently Bosworth Inc. and Oliver Morosco Photoplay were absorbed by Paramount in 1916. Between 1913 and 1921 Hobart Bosworth Productions produced a total of 31 pictures, most of which starred Bosworth. The company ceased operations after producing The Sea Lion (1921).
The merger with Paramount ended the period in Bosworth's creative life where he was a major force in the motion picture industry, which was undergoing changes as the industry matured and solidified. He directed his last picture even before the merger, The White Scar (1915), which he also wrote and starred in for Universal Film Manufacturing Co. After his own production company wound up, Hobart Bosworth began playing supporting roles as an actor. He divorced his first wife, Adele Farrington, in 1919, the year after their son George was born.
He survived the transition to sound. Aside from appearing in Warner Bros.' showcase film Show of Shows (1929), his talking picture debut proper was in the short subject A Man of Peace (1928) for Vitaphone, while his first sound feature was Vitaphone's Ruritania drama General Crack (1929), starring John Barrymore.
Though he appeared in small roles in A-list films, including some classics, Bosworth primarily made his living as a prominently billed character actor in "B" westerns and serials churned out by Poverty Row studios. In his roles in A and B pictures, he typically was typecast as a fatherly type, such as dads, clergymen, judges, governors and the like, though occasionally he got to play a heavy. His most memorable roles included playing John Gilbert's father in both King Vidor's classic The Big Parade (1925) and Clarence Brown's A Woman of Affairs (1928), and Conrad Nagel's father in Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930). He also appeared in the Al Jolson vehicle Mammy (1930), directed by Michael Curtiz, and in the Little Rascals' only feature film, General Spanky (1936) (a flop).
In addition to Vidor, Brown and Curtiz, Bosworth worked with other great directors, including Ernst Lubitsch (in support of John Barrymore in Eternal Love (1929)), D.W. Griffith (playing Gen. Robert E. Lee in Abraham Lincoln (1930)), 'Frank Capra' (in Dirigible (1931)) and Lady for a Day (1933)) and John Ford (headlining Hearts of Oak (1924), starring in Hangman's House (1928) and playing the Chaplain in support of Will Rogers in Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)).
Bosworth had a featured role in the early science-fiction movie Just Imagine (1930) and played Chingachgook in support of star Harry Carey's Hawkeye in Mascot Pictures' serial The Last of the Mohicans (1932). As the sound era wore on, he was reduced to bit parts, frequently uncredited, in such A-pictures as the W.C. Fields comedy Million Dollar Legs (1932) and the Errol Flynn western They Died with Their Boots On (1941). He kept working until the year before his death, appearing in six films in 1942, including an uncredited bit role as a clergyman in support of Barbara Stanwyck in The Gay Sisters (1942), his penultimate picture. His last film was Universal Pictures' western Sin Town (1942), starring Constance Bennett and Broderick Crawford, which was advertised with the intriguing tagline "The Glory Hole of the Booming Oil Towns!"
Altogether, Hobart Bosworth acted in over 250 movies from 1908 to 1942, directed 44 known pictures from 1911 to 1915, and wrote 27 & produced 11 known pictures from 1911 to 1921. His actual count might be hundreds more.
Hobart Bosworth, the "Dean of Hollywood," died on December 30, 1943 of pneumonia in Glendale, CA. He was 76 years old. He was survived by his second wife, Cecile, and his son George.- Actor
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Joe Weber was born on 11 August 1867 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Friendly Enemies (1925), Two Flaming Youths (1927) and Mike and Meyer Go Fishing (1915). He was married to Lillian Friedman. He died on 10 May 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Animation Department
Ashley Miller was born on 11 August 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Ashley was a director and writer, known for The Moral Code (1917), Infidelity (1917) and The Quest of Life (1916). Ashley was married to Ethel Browning. Ashley died on 19 November 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Edgar Norton was born on 11 August 1868 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Son of Frankenstein (1939) and The Runaway Bride (1930). He was married to Lillian Mabel Hubbard. He died on 6 February 1953 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Writer
Viktor Senger was born on 11 August 1870 in Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Scenen og livet (1913), Die Insel der Glücklichen (1919) and The Last Waltz (1934). He died on 25 June 1942 in Berlin, Germany.- Connie Ediss was born on 11 August 1871 in Brighton, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Temperance Fete (1932), A Warm Corner (1930) and Night of the Garter (1933). She died on 18 April 1934 in London, England, UK.
- Writer
- Actor
- Music Department
He studied law, and became a journalist, but he was a poet and writer too. He was a theatre director (Vígszínház), and he was a director of Athenaeum print factory. In 1892 he published his first book of poems, the Modern dalok. He liked Budapest, the Hungarian capital, and many of his works take place there. He had done some translations too. He used first the "mozi" word, which is a short word for the cinema in Hungary. Many of his works have been adapted to film.- Music Department
- Actor
- Writer
J. Rosamond Johnson was born on 11 August 1873 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Infinite (2021), Do the Right Thing (1989) and Antebellum (2020). He was married to Nora Ethel Floyd. He died on 11 November 1954 in New York City, New York, USA.- May Wilson Preston was born on 11 August 1873 in New York, USA. She died on 18 May 1949 in East Hampton, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Satchel McVea was born on 11 August 1873 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Legion of the Condemned (1928) and The Delicious Little Devil (1919). He died on 9 July 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Jalmari Finne was born on 11 August 1874 in Kangasala, Finland. He was a writer and director, known for Kiljusen pojat koulussa (1921), Sysmäläinen (1938) and Rakuuna Kalle Kollola (1939). He died on 3 January 1938 in Helsinki, Finland.- Blanche Denège was born on 11 August 1876 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. She was an actress, known for The Dreamy Mouth (1932), Chacun son tour (1951) and Sans fortune (1922). She died on 16 November 1957 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
- Karla Valentová was born on 11 August 1876 in Prelouc, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Lucerna (1938), Nemá barikáda (1949) and Srdce v celofánu (1939). She died in 1949 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Edmund Østerby was born on 11 August 1876 in Taarnby, Amager, Denmark. He was an actor, known for The Engagement Ring (1910), Den vanartede Søn (1909) and Arvingen til Kragsholm (1909). He died on 20 June 1962.
- Axel de la Motte was born on 11 August 1879 in Kristianstad, Skåne län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Fänrik Ståls sägner (1910) and Värmlänningarne (1910). He died on 19 November 1937 in Kristianstad, Skåne län, Sweden.
- Jimmy Godden was born on 11 August 1879 in Maidstone, England, UK. He was an actor, known for My Wife''s Family (1931), Someone at the Door (1936) and My Song Goes Round the World (1934). He died on 5 March 1955 in Balham, London, England, UK.
- T. Roy Barnes was born on 11 August 1880 in Lincolnshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for It's a Gift (1934), Scratch My Back (1920) and Sally (1929). He was married to Blanche Berner, Mamie McNab and Bessie Crawford (actress). He died on 30 March 1937 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Josef Wenter was born on 11 August 1880 in Meran, Tyrol, Austria-Hungary [now Merano, Alto Adige, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Romanze (1936). He died on 5 July 1947 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria.
- Rodolfo Graziani was born on 11 August 1882 in Filettino, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Historias de Cronopios y de Famas (2014). He was married to Ines Chionetti. He died on 11 January 1955 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Axel Bruun was born on 11 August 1882 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Axel was an art director and production designer, known for A Trip to Mars (1918), The End of the World (1916) and Atlantis (1913). Axel died on 25 October 1955.- Harry Kahn was born on 11 August 1883 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He was a writer, known for L'homme qui assassina (1931), El hombre que asesinó (1932) and Stamboul (1931). He was married to Martha-Maria Gehrke and Alice Meyer. He died on 18 July 1970 in Massagno, Ticino, Switzerland.
- Actor
- Director
Edmond Van Daële was born on 11 August 1884 in Paris, France. He was an actor and director, known for Three Musketeers (1932), Six et demi onze (1927) and Cagliostro - Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers (1929). He died on 11 March 1960 in Grez-Neuville, Maine-et-Loire, France.- Fritz Reck-Malleczewen was born on 11 August 1884 in Gut Malleczewen, East Prussia, Germany [now Maleczewo, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Bombs Over Monte Carlo (1931), Monte Carlo Madness (1932) and Hangmen, Women and Soldiers (1935). He was married to Irmgard Parnemann and Anna Louise Büttner. He died on 17 February 1945 in Dachau, Germany.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Hermann Wlach was born on 11 August 1884 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor and director, known for Aussage verweigert (1916), Sein schwierigster Fall (1915) and Der Perlenmacher von Madrid (1921). He died on 28 January 1962 in Zollikon, Switzerland.- Lidiya Koreneva was born on 11 August 1885 in Tambov, Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tambov Oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Her Sister's Rival (1916), Korol Parizha (1917) and Na dalnem vostoke (1937). She died on 2 July 1982 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Adrian Gil-Spear was born on 11 August 1885 in Camden, New Jersey, USA. Adrian was a writer, known for The Auction Block (1917), Little Miss Hoover (1918) and Polly of the Circus (1917). Adrian was married to Devah Woillard, Patsy and Virginia. Adrian died in February 1965 in New Jersey, USA.
- Jessie Winter was born on 11 August 1886 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Man of Affairs (1936), The Twelve Pound Look (1920) and Mary Girl (1917). She was married to Austin Melford. She died on 8 August 1971 in Denville Hall, Northwood, London, England, UK.
- Muhmmad Kamal El-Masri was born on 11 August 1886 in Cairo, Egypt. He was an actor, known for Safeer gohannam (1945), Makhazane el ochak (1932) and Kulluh illa keda (1937). He died on 25 October 1966 in Cairo, Egypt.
- Martin H. Kennelly was born on 11 August 1887 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He died on 29 November 1961 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Owen Nares was born on 11 August 1888 in Maiden Erlegh, Berks, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Faithful Heart (1922), There Goes the Bride (1932) and The Love Contract (1932). He was married to Marie Polini (actress). He died on 30 July 1943 in Brecon, Wales, UK.- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Actor
Tamás Emöd was born on 11 August 1888 in Berekböszörmény, Hungary. He was a writer and actor, known for A harapós férj (1938), Fizessen, nagysád! (1937) and Tetemrehívás (1915). He died on 22 September 1938 in Oradea, Romania.- Frank Oliveras was born on 11 August 1890 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is known for The Sea Pirate (1966), Il grande colpo di Surcouf (1966) and Seven Magnificent Guns (1966).
- Actor
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Franco Pesce was born on 11 August 1890 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for The Charterhouse of Parma (1948), A... For Assassin (1966) and L'amor mio non muore (1921). He died on 6 December 1975.- Producer
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- Additional Crew
Samuel Bischoff, a Connecticut-born graduate of Boston University and Northwestern College, was trained as a Certified Public Accountant and naturally viewed the film industry from a financial, rather than artistic, perspective. In 1922, he formed his own production and distribution company, which, for six years, released short comedies made on shoe-string budgets, including the early Stan Laurel effort Mixed Nuts (1922), and a series of twelve two-reelers for Mack Sennett, starring Eddie Gribbon and Mildred June.
From 1926, Bischoff turned out feature films for Poverty Row studios like Mascot and Tiffany, where his budget-conscious methodology sufficiently impressed the ever-frugal Columbia boss Harry Cohn to hire him as supervising producer. In 1932, he moved on to work at Warner Brothers, primarily as associate producer for the B-unit. In that capacity, his only credited A-grade features were the gangster melodramas The Roaring Twenties (1939) and Castle on the Hudson (1940). Having acquired the taste for more ambitious projects, Bischoff produced a string of popular escapist films for Columbia and RKO between 1941 and 1956. These included the lavish musical You'll Never Get Rich (1941), the mystery-comedy A Night to Remember (1942), the tongue-in-cheek fairy-tale adventure A Thousand and One Nights (1945) and the Robert Mitchum - Jane Russell film noir Macao (1952). His final six films were released under the banner of his short-lived Bischoff-Diamond Corporation, the last being the Alfred Hitchcock wannabe The Strangler (1964).- Inez Buck was born on 11 August 1890 in Oelrichs, South Dakota, USA. She was an actress, known for The Gods of Fate (1916), Love's Toll (1916) and Sorrows of Happiness (1916). She was married to Arthur G. Robinson. She died on 6 September 1957 in Oakland, California, USA.
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- Soundtrack
Helen Broderick was a deliciously funny character comedienne with vaudeville and stage experience, a close friend of Jeanne Eagels. The story goes that, at the age of 14, she ran away from home because her mother (who featured in operatic comedy) was totally obsessed by the theatre. Ironically, all the people she met turned out to be performers, and Helen (who needed to make a living, after all) ended up where she hadn't wanted to be -- on the stage.
Helen started out as a chorus girl in the first Ziegfeld Follies in 1907. Her talent for comedy was discovered quite by accident. In 1911, she was understudy to the actress Ina Claire in the Broadway play 'Jumping Jupiter'. One night, Claire was unable to perform and Helen Broderick stood in as the romantic lead. She soon had the audience in stitches, trampling about the stage like an elephant, rolling her big saucer eyes and attempting to croon 'Cuddle Near Me All Day Long' in her rather unique voice. The romance was no more and instead turned into a popular farce with Helen now permanently installed in the lead role. For a while, Helen partnered her husband Lester Crawford in vaudeville. In the 1920's, she enjoyed success on Broadway, most notably in 'Fifty Million Frenchmen' (a role she took to Hollywood in 1931). Her best parts in the movies were as the perennial friend or chaperone of the heroine (the type of role subsequently associated with Eve Arden), delivering acidic wisecracks in her inimitable dead-pan manner. On several occasions, Helen co-starred with Victor Moore, one of her previous acting partners on Broadway. However, these efforts were decidedly bottom-of-the-bill. She reserved her amusing best enlivening some of RKO's prestige musicals, especially Top Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Another good part came her way in The Rage of Paris (1938) (with Danielle Darrieux). Helen retired from films in 1946 and died thirteen years later at Beverly Hills Doctor's Hospital at the age of 68.- Katharine Haviland-Taylor was born on 11 August 1891 in Mankato, Minnesota, USA. She was a writer, known for A Man to Remember (1938), Cecilia of the Pink Roses (1918) and One Man's Journey (1933). She died on 28 November 1941 in St. Cloud, Florida, USA.
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- Producer
Fabio Franchini was born on 11 August 1891 in Verona, Verona, Veneto, Italy. He is known for Bionda sotto chiave (1939), La storia di una capinera (1943) and L'ultimo dei Bergerac (1934).- Eiji Yoshikawa was born on 11 August 1892 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He was a writer, known for Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954), Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) and Oatsurae Jirôkichi kôshi (1931). He was married to Fumiko Ikedo and Yasu Akazawa. He died on 7 September 1962 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Wladyslaw Anders was born on 11 August 1892 in Blonie, Krosniewice, Poland, Russian Empire [now Krosniewice, Lódzkie, Poland]. He was married to Irena Anders and Irana Maria Anders neé Jordan-Krakowska. He died on 12 May 1970 in London, England, UK.
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Petra Djuurhuus was born on 11 August 1892 in Nólsoy, Faroe Islands, Denmark. She is known for Tro, håb og trolddom (1960). She died on 1 December 1975.