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- Georg Friedrich Treitschke was born on 29 August 1776 in Leipzig, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire [now Germany]. He was a writer, known for Fidelio (1968), The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977) and Beethoven: Fidelio (2020). He died on 4 June 1842 in Vienna, Austrian Empire [now Austria].
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Hippolyte Bis was born on 29 August 1789 in Douai, France. He was a writer, known for Match Point (2005), Guillaume Tell: Royal Opera, London 2015 (2015) and Guillaume Tell (2013). He died on 3 March 1855 in Paris, France.- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was born on 29 August 1780 in Montauban, France. Jean-Auguste-Dominique died on 17 January 1867 in Paris, France.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr was an American jurist and legal scholar who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. He is one of the most widely cited U.S. Supreme Court justices and most influential American common law judges in history, noted for his long service, concise, and pithy opinions-particularly for opinions on civil liberties and American constitutional democracy-and deference to the decisions of elected legislatures. Holmes retired from the court at the age of 90, an unbeaten record for oldest justice on the Supreme Court. He previously served as a Brevet Colonel in the American Civil War, in which he was wounded three times, as an associate justice and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and as Weld Professor of Law at his Alma mater, Harvard Law School. His positions, distinctive personality, and writing style made him a popular figure, especially with American progressives.
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Hermann Löns was born on 29 August 1866 in Culm, West Prussia, Germany [now Chelmno, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for The Heath Is Green (1932), Rot ist die Liebe (1957) and Wenn die Heide blüht (1960). He was married to Lisa Hausmann and Elisabeth Erbeck. He died on 26 September 1914 in Reims, Marne, France.- Writer
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Hedwig Lachmann was born on 29 August 1865 in Stolp, Pomerania, Germany. She was a writer, known for Salome (2019), Salome (2012) and NBC Television Opera Theatre (1949). She was married to Gustav Landauer. She died on 21 February 1918 in Krumbach, Schwaben, Bavaria, Germany.- Ugo Sivocci was born on 29 August 1885 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. He died on 8 September 1923 in Monza, Italy.
- Samuel Cooper Seale was born to John Cooper and Sara Yates Seale in Waiohinu, Kau, Hawaii. He met Cecil B. DeMille on the beach at Waikiki in 1915, and took his advice to go to Hollywood where he appeared in at least two of DeMille's movies. He enlisted in the Army with the outbreak of World War I and was shipped to France. He received an injury and was medically discharged and returned to the United States before the war's end. He may have been slightly injured while tied to a stake being carried by an elephant during the filming of The Son of Tarzan in 1920. For years rumors persisted that he died shortly after the film was completed from injuries received during the filming. In 1921 Searle gave up acting to become a sculptor and painter. His career as an artist was cut short by disease. He died of cancer at the age of 33 in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 14, 1924.
- Pell Trenton was born on 29 August 1883 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Fair and Warmer (1919), The Joyous Liar (1919) and The Adventurer (1917). He died on 3 March 1924 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Maurice Level was born on 29 August 1875 in France. He was a writer, known for Barrabas (1919), À minuit, le 7 (1937) and The Roadhouse Murder (1932). He died on 15 April 1926 in France.
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Varick Frissell was born on 29 August 1903 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Viking (1931), Ceux du viking (1932) and The Great Arctic Seal Hunt (1928). He died on 15 March 1931 in near Horse Island, Newfoundland, Canada.- Actor
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Fred Huntley was born on 29 August 1862 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for The Ne'er Do Well (1915), What Every Woman Knows (1921) and Fighting Blood (1916). He was married to Laura. He died on 1 November 1931 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Edward M. Favor was born on 29 August 1856 in the USA. He was an actor, known for The Soap Girl (1918), Cy Whittaker's Ward (1917) and Peck's Bad Girl (1918). He was married to Edith Sinclair. He died on 10 January 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
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Svyatoslav Belyayev was born on 29 August 1903. He was a cinematographer, known for Mishka Zvonov (1925), Minaret Smerti (1924) and Order na zhizn (1927). He died on 22 February 1942.- Charles Dalton was born on 29 August 1864 in Rochester, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Eternal Magdalene (1919), Fighting Odds (1917) and The Wakefield Case (1921). He was married to Rita Walton. He died on 11 June 1942 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.
- Anna Letenská was born on 29 August 1904 in Nürschan, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Nyrany, Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Cekanky (1940), Babichka (1940) and Umlcené rty (1938). She died on 24 October 1942 in Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria.
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Owen Francis was born on 29 August 1898 in Point Marion, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for 20, 000 Men a Year (1939), Man from Montreal (1939) and Bill Cracks Down (1937). He died on 25 April 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ann Brody was born on 29 August 1884 in Poland. She was an actress, known for High Gear (1933), A Fool and His Money (1920) and Playing Around (1930). She died on 16 July 1944 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Henry MacRae was born on 29 August 1876 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a director and producer, known for Detective Lloyd (1932), Danger Island (1931) and The Lost Special (1932). He was married to Mary O'Neill and Margaret Oswald. He died on 2 October 1944 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Karen Langberg was born on 29 August 1904 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Hendes naade, dragonen (1925). She died on 29 June 1945 in Denmark.
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Fred Leslie was born on 29 August 1880 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sporting Love (1936), For the Love of Mike (1932) and So You Won't Talk (1935). He died on 1 August 1945 in England, UK.- Fumiko Katsuragi was born on 29 August 1878 in Toyko, Japan. She was an actress, known for No Blood Relation (1932), Onna keizu (1934) and Seidon (1933). She died on 19 August 1945.
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Mrs. Wilfrid North was born on 29 August 1887 in Hudson, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Wilfrid North. She died on 19 August 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Gus Glassmire was born on 29 August 1879 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Living Ghost (1942), The Secret Code (1942) and I Give My Love (1934). He died on 23 July 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
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Manuel Machado was born on 29 August 1874 in Sevilla, Spain. He was a writer, known for La Lola se va a los puertos (1947), Inês de Castro (1944) and La duquesa de Benamejí (1949). He was married to Eulalia Cáceres Sierra. He died on 19 January 1947 in Madrid, Spain.- Actor
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Actor/director John Ince was born in 1878 in New York City to a pair of vaudeville performers. His two younger brothers, Ralph Ince and Thomas H. Ince, were also in show business, with Thomas being the most well-known of the three, having been a pioneering producer/director who built the first complete movie studio, containing everything from sound stages to processing labs to standing permanent sets, known as Inceville. Ralph also became an actor/director (many contemporary critics believed him to be a better director than Thomas and a better actor than John), but his reputation off-screen tended to overshadow his on-screen accomplishments.
In addition to being an actor, John directed quite a few two-reels for his brother Thomas' studio, in addition to a lesser number of features, and acted in many of his own films. One of his more bizarre productions was Thomas H. Ince, a drama based on a real-life murder, in which the actual murderer, Clara Smith Hamon, played herself!
His brother Thomas died in 1924, under somewhat mysterious circumstances (supposedly he was on a party on a yacht owned by wealthy newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst). the story is that Hearst found his mistress, Marion Davies, in bed with actor Charles Chaplin and, enraged, pulled a gun and fired at Chaplin, missing him but hitting and killing Ince. John opened up his own studio. That lasted until 1929, when a confluence of negative factors, including his divorce from his wife, the famous Wall Street stock market crash in which he lost all his money, and a fire that burned down his studio, pretty much killed his career. He managed to get a few supporting roles in modest "B" pictures, but by the mid-'30s his career consisted of one- or two-line speaking roles and uncredited extra work. He had a small part in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) as a guard at Frederic March's bank. He made his final film in 1947, uncredited appearance, and died that year. He appeared posthumously in Gun Cargo (1949), but that film was shot in the late 1930s and not released until 1949.- Lucy Cotton was born on 29 August 1895 in Houston, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Life Without Soul (1915), The Miracle of Love (1919) and Blind Love (1920). She was married to Prince Vladimir Eristavi-Tchitcherine, W. F. Magraw, Charles Hann Jr., Col. Lytton Gray Ament and Edward Russell Thomas. She died on 12 December 1948 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
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Maeterlinck was a revolutionary symbolist playwright from Belgium. His influence on modern drama is vast and he was one of the best known figures in Europe in the early twentieth century, both for his plays and his philosophical writings. Best known today for his fantasy play "The Blue Bird", which has been adapted into a number of films, but most of his work was darker and even horrifying. Death was a frequent character in his plays, and his use of rythmic repepetive dialogue gave his plays a mesmeric quality. His best plays are probably "The Sightless" and "Pelleas and Melisande".- Templar Powell was born on 29 August 1873 in Oregon, USA. He was an actor, known for Beach of Dreams (1921), Behold My Wife (1920) and Monsieur Beaucaire (1924). He died on 29 June 1949 in Glenn, California, USA.
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E. Kenneth Martin was born on 29 August 1898 in Colorado, USA. E. Kenneth died on 21 February 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Additional Crew
Harry Losee was born on 29 August 1901 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He is known for Thin Ice (1937), Shall We Dance (1937) and Ice Capades Revue (1942). He died on 16 December 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Carla Müller was born on 29 August 1886 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Storstadens Hyæne (1912), Slægten (1912) and Manden med Klumpfoden (1916). She died on 12 April 1954 in the USA.
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S. Taryan was born on 29 August 1899 in Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. S. was an art director, known for Gikor (1934), Kurds-Yezidis (1933) and Kikos (1931). S. died on 20 May 1954 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Armenia].- Actor
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Lucien Muratore was a French tenor who was an operatic star for thirty years at the beginning of the twentieth century. He performed in Paris, Boston, Chicago and Buenos Aires, where he took part in works by Massenet, Fauré and Saint-Saëns. Muratore also appeared on several occasions on movie screens, notably with his second wife, Italian soprano Lina Cavalieri. In his first film, produced in the USA, he is The Chevalier Des Grieux.- Music Department
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Charles Christopher Parker Jr. was born on August 29, 1920, in a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, to Charles Parker Sr. and his 18-year-old wife Addie. His father ran out on the family when Charlie was just a little boy. When he was 11 his mother bought him an alto saxophone for his birthday. By the time he was 15 Charlie was working as a musician in the flourishing Kansas City jazz scene. He also began drinking heavily and using drugs, which were also a part of the KC jazz scene, as were illegal after-hours gambling casinos.
Charlie became more experienced by playing with various bands, including those of Lawrence Keyes and Harlan Leonard, before joining Jay McShann's band in 1940. The band was widely heard on radio across the country, so Charlie's saxophone playing became well known, even though people didn't know his name, so he became known as the Yardbird, or just The Bird. While still in Kansas City, Charlie reached a breakthrough: tired of playing solo with the same scales, he discovered that if he used a higher interval of the chords from a popular song or melody line, with a pianist or guitarist adding the appropriate new chords, he finally could play the sound he always had been hearing in his head. Essentially turning the melody line inside out, he began experimenting with this new style, which became known as "bebop".
Charlie played with McShann in New York City until 1942, when he left for brief stints with the bands of pianist Earl 'Fatha' Hines and singer Billy Eckstine. The association with the Hines Orchestra was a significant one because of the other musicians, who included trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. By 1945 Charlie was back in New York and leading his own small groups. He got married, but continued to live like a nomad, traveling from place to place and spending almost every other night in a hotel or boarding house. He also became a drug addict, and as his addiction increased so did his appetite, and he began putting on weight.
Charlie took part in the first bebop recording session in 1945. With Gillespie and Miles Davis, he recorded songs like "Billie's Bounce" and "Koko" for Savoy Records. Not long afterward, he recorded such classic songs as "A Night in Tunisia" and "Yardbird Suite" for another small label, Dial Records. In the late 1940s Charlie toured Europe, where he was received like visiting royalty. He made several tours of Cuba, where he began experimenting with large string sections and Afro-Cuban rhythms. After a few years of relative stability, however, Charlie began a downward slide. He got hooked back on drugs again (heroin was his favorite), he began nodding out on bandstands, getting into fistfights and pawning his saxophones for drug money. Aware of the effects of drug use, he chastised younger sax players who emulated his heroin use.
By the early 1950s Charlie's drinking and drug use made him gray and prematurely lined. His self-abuse began to infringe on his musical ability. During this time, Charlie was befriended by a wealthy European baroness who was living in New York, loved his jazz music and helped him out when he needed it. In early 1955, on his way to a gig in Boston, Charlie stopped by her apartment for a visit. Alarmed by his obvious ill health, she had her personal doctor examine him, which revealed that he had stomach ulcers and many other health problems, the result of his years of drinking and drug use. The doctor recommended hospitalization, but the stubborn Charlie refused to consider it. The baroness got him to rest at her place for a few days.
On March 12, 1955, the baroness found Charlie Parker dead, slumped over in an easy chair in front of the TV set in her apartment. He was 34 years old. An autopsy revealed such damage to the inside of his body that the doctor who performed the autopsy thought Charlie was a man at least 50 years old. Charlie Parker's legend grew even larger after his death. Fans scrawled "Bird Lives!" on walls of jazz clubs from New York, to Los Angeles, to Paris, France. To this day, more than 40 years after his death, Bird remains jazz's single most venerated figure.- Joseph R. Tozer was born on 29 August 1881 in Birmingham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Merchant of Venice (1916), The Brass Bottle (1914) and The Greek Interpreter (1922). He died on 3 May 1955 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
- Michael Chekhov was a Russian actor in the Moscow Art Theatre who emigrated to America and made a career in Hollywood, earning himself an Oscar nomination.
He was born Mikhail Aleksandrovich Chekhov in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1891. His mother, Natalya Golden, was Jewish, and his father, Aleksandr Chekhov, was a brother of writer Anton Chekhov. Anton wrote of his four-year-old nephew in 1895, "I believe that he has a growing talent." From 1907-11 he studied classic drama and comedy at Suvorin Theater School in St. Petersburg, graduating with honors as actor. In St. Petersburg he met Konstantin Stanislavski who invited him to join the Moscow Art Theater. The two became good friends and partners in propelling the Moscow Art Theater to international fame. Later Stanislavsky wrote that Michael Chekhov was a genius.
His film career began in 1913 with a role in 'Tryokhsotletie tsarstvovaniya doma Romanovykh (1913)' (aka Tercentenary of the Romanov Dynasty), followed by a few more roles in Russian silent films. It was during the Russian Revolution of 1917 that his beloved first wife, Olga Tschechowa, divorced him. He was devastated and suffered from depression and alcoholism for the rest of his life.
Between 1922 and 1928 he led the second Moscow Art Theater, earning himself a reputation as teacher, actor and director who brought innovations experimenting with symbolism and acmeist poetry. Chekhov updated the Stanislavsky's acting method, by blending it with yoga, theosophy, psychology and physiology, and adding his own ideas of transformation of actor's consciousness through psychological gesture and movement techniques for entering a special state of subconscious creativity. His idea of using an actor's own intuition and creative imagination was a departure from the original method of his teacher, Stanislavsky.
Chekhov ignored the communist regime and was attacked by the Soviets for joining the Anthroposophic Society. In 1928 he was fired from the Moscow Art Theatre and eventually left Russia. In Europe, he taught his acting method and also made a big success in German films, co-starring with his ex-wife Olga Tschechowa, who was then living in Germany with her second husband. In 1931 he founded the Chekhov Theatre, with support from Rachmaninov, Bohner and Morgenstern, and in 1935 he brought the Chekhov Theatre on tour to New York. He taught acting in France, Austria, Latvia, Lithuania, and in England before WWII. In 1938 he moved to the United States, where he started his own school, and also successfully directed Dostoyevsky's "Demons" on Broadway. Then he was introduced to Hollywood by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
In 1945 Chekhov played his best known film role, psychiatrist Brulov in Spellbound (1945). He received an Academy Award nomination for the role and became a member of the American Film Academy in 1946. At that time, he taught his acting method in Hollywood. In 1953 he published a book about his method, "To The Actor", with preface written by Yul Brynner. His students included Gregory Peck, Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Jack Palance, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Elia Kazan, Clint Eastwood, Yul Brynner and many other Hollywood actors and directors.
At the end of his life Chekhov reunited with his daughter Ada Tschechowa in California. He died in 1955 in Beverly Hills, and was laid to rest in the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles. - Marquis James was born on 29 August 1891 in Oklahoma, USA. Marquis was a writer, known for Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950). Marquis died on 19 November 1955 in Rye, New York, USA.
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Robert M. Savini was born on 29 August 1886 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was a producer, known for The Road to Hollywood (1947), Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947) and Beware (1946). He was married to Irene. He died on 29 April 1956 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
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Tefft Johnson was born on 29 August 1871 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Sonny Boy at the Bat (1916), The Love Net (1918) and Sonny Jim at the Mardi Gras (1915). He died on 15 October 1956.- Valérie Larbaud was born on 29 August 1881 in Vichy, France. She was a writer, known for Les maris, les femmes, les amants (1989). She died on 2 February 1957 in Vichy, France.
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Dina Romano was born on 29 August 1888 in Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for Ecco la felicità (1940), The Serpent's Fang (1935) and L'albergo degli assenti (1939). She was married to Giuseppe Romano. She died on 7 November 1957 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Cinematographer
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Mihály Paulovits was born on 29 August 1896 in Izsa, Austria-Hungary [now Iza, Slovakia]. Mihály was a cinematographer and editor, known for Taken by the Flood (1941), Hungarian Eagles (1944) and Tata, a tavak városa (1939). Mihály died on 27 April 1959 in Budapest, Hungary.- Wilhelm P. Krüger was born on 29 August 1883. He was an actor, known for Krach um Jolanthe (1934), Goal in the Clouds (1939) and The Divine Jetta (1937). He died on 12 July 1959 in Hörnum, Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Preston Sturges' own life is as unlikely as some of the plots of his best work. He was born into a wealthy family. As a boy he helped out on stage productions for his mother's friend, Isadora Duncan (the scarf that strangled her was made by his mother's company, Maison Desti). He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during WWI. Upon his return to Maison Desti, he invented a kissproof lipstick, Red-Red Rouge, in 1920. Shortly after his first marriage, his mother demanded that he return control of the company to her. Kicked out of Maison Desti, he turned to inventing. A tickertape machine, an intaglio photo-etching process, an automobile and an airplane were among his some of his commercially unsuccessful inventions. He began writing stories and, while recovering from an appendectomy in 1929, wrote his first play, "The Guinea Pig". In financial trouble over producing his plays, he moved to Hollywood in 1932 to make money. It wasn't long before he became frustrated by the lack of control he had over his work and wanted to direct the scripts he wrote. Paramount gave him this chance as part of a deal for selling his script for The Great McGinty (1940), at a cheap price. The film's success launched his career as writer/director and he had several hits over the next four years. That success emboldened him to become an independent filmmaker, but that did not last long--he had a string of commercial failures and acquired a reputation as an expensive perfectionist. He moved to France to make what turned out to be his last movie, The French, They Are a Funny Race (1955). He died at the Algonquin Hotel, New York City, in 1959.- Viktor Ganshin was born on 29 August 1903 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Vasiliy Surikov (1959) and Lenin in October (1937). He died on 8 September 1959 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
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Alexander Saxelin was born on 29 August 1899 in Viipuri, Finland. He was an actor, known for Aktivistit (1939), Kuisma ja Helinä (1951) and 'Herra ja ylhäisyys' (1944). He was married to Marina Pronin. He died on 9 October 1959.- George V. Denny Jr. was born on 29 August 1899 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was married to Jeanne Sarasy and Mary Traill Yellott. He died on 11 November 1959 in Sherman, Connecticut, USA.
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Ralph Burdick was born on 29 August 1877 in Iowa, USA. He is known for The Patriot (1928) and Beau Sabreur (1928). He died on 10 May 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Alan Stacey was born on 29 August 1933 in Broomfield, England, United Kingdom. He died on 19 June 1960 in Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Liège, Belgium.