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Purcell grew up in a musical family. As a boy he attended the Chapel Royal church choir. His talent earned him training as an organist. In 1677, the 18-year-old became "composer for the violins" at the English court. Two years later he took up the position of organist at Westminster Abbey. Purcell thus took over the post from John Blow, one of his organist teachers, which he held until his death. In 1682 he became organist of the Chapel Royal and a year later, royal instrument manager. During this time he primarily composed sacred music and works for celebratory occasions, including the celebratory compositions "I was glad" and "My heart is inditing" from 1685.
Two years later the music for the tragedy "Tyrannick Love" by John Dryden was created. In 1689, Purcell's first opera, Dido and Aeneas, was performed. The following year he created songs for Shakespeare's "The Tempest" based on an adaptation by John Dryden and for his comedy title "Amphitryon". In 1691 and the following year the baroque operas "King Arthur" and "The Fairy Queen" were written. Purcell composed the titles "Te Deum" and "Jubilate" on the occasion of St. Cecilia's Day in 1694. They are both considered masterpieces. In the same year he wrote an anthem, a choral piece with sacred text, for the memorial service on the occasion of the death of Queen Mary II of England. This piece in particular shows the lasting impact of Purcell's musical work up to modern times: it was electronically edited by Wendy Carlos for the theme music of Stanley Kubrick's film "A Clockwork Orange".
Purcell was only 36 years old, but he was very productive in his musical life. His work includes around 40 masterpieces, stage works, plays, odes, songs, cantatas, chamber music, church choir and piano works. With his three- to five-part sonatas and fantasies for string instruments, he continued the older English consort music, which gained recognition for its artistic polyphony, highly cromatic and dissonant harmony of the modern style. His other semi-operas also include the titles "The prophetess, or the history of Dioclesian" (1690) and "The Indian Queen" (1695).
Henry Purcell died in London on November 21, 1695.- Soundtrack
Irish poet Joseph Medlicott Scriven was born on September 10, 1819 at Ballymoney Lodge in County Down, Northern Ireland. His parents were Captain John Scriven and Jane Medlicott. Joseph graduated with a B.A. degree from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland and embraced the teachings of the Plymouth Brethren. In 1845 his fiancée drowned on the night before they were to be married. A grief-stricken Scriven moved to Canada where he settled in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada and worked as a private tutor for local families. Joseph fell in love with a local woman who suddenly fell ill with pneumonia and subsequently died. Known by people in the Port Hope area as an eccentric, Scriven was nonetheless a born philanthropist and devoutly religious man who freely gave away what little money and clothing he had to impoverished people in great need. In 1855 he wrote a poem called "Pray Without Ceasing" to comfort his ailing mother. This poem was later set to music by attorney and songwriter Charles Crozat Coverse and retitled "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" has since gone on to become a well-regarded classic gospel hymn that's been covered by many artists throughout the world. Joseph died at age 66 on August 10, 1886 in Pope Hope, Ontario, Canada.- Victor Betzonich was born on 10 September 1864 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Capital Execution (1903). He died on 29 November 1901.
- Joseph Wheeler was born on 10 September 1836 in Augusta, Georgia, USA. He died on 25 January 1906 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- He was born in 10 September 1867 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (Russia). He was a Russian ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer, founder of character dance in Russian ballet who served at the Mariinsky Theatre, and also a pioneering animation director who is credited with invention of stop motion animation.
At the age of nine Alexander entered the Saint Petersburg Imperial Theatrical School where he studied under Marius Petipa, Pavel Gerdt, Platon Karsavin and Lev Ivanov. He graduated in 1885 and in a year became a member of the Mariinsky Theatre troupe. Shiryaev quickly rose to fame. During the studies he already managed to learn almost the entire repertoire of Mariinka, thus he easily substituted solo performers, both in classical and character roles. Shiryaev's musical talent and extraordinary visual memory gained him a place of Marius Petipa's assistant and tutor. He easily recollected all movements, reconstructing and finishing ballets after his teacher. He helped to stage The Seasons, Harlequinade, The Trial of Damis, among others. As a ballet master he helped Petipa to bring back such ballets as Coppélia, The Little Humpbacked, The Pharaoh's Daughter, Tsar Kandavl or Le Roi Candaule and Giselle.
Around the same time he became deeply interested in character dance. In 1891 Shiryaev, aged 24, opened and headed the first character class under the Theatrical School. He studied and implemented elements of Russian, Hungarian, Spanish and other national dances into his ballets.
He was the first performer of the Buffoon part in The Nutcracker (the role was edited out from later productions) which he also staged, gaining praise from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky himself. He also performed the buffoon dance from Mlada, Russian dance from Dubrovsky, dance of jesters and skomorokhs from The Merchant Kalashnikov and other operas directed by Lev Ivanov. Some of his famous ballet performances include Carabosse in The Sleeping Beauty, Ivanushka in The Little Humpbacked Horse, Quasimodo in La Esmeralda, Harlequin in Harlequinade, Dr. Coppélius in Coppélia and Abderakhman in Raymonda.
In 1905 a new director of Imperial Theatres made Shiryaev leave the theatre. After that Shiryaev spent a lot of time touring around Europe. He also opened a training school in London; his students later joined the troupe led by Anna Pavlova. After the October revolution he worked both as a dancer and a pedagogue in the Mariinsky and Alexandrinsky Theatres, restoring forgotten ballets. In 1921 he left the stage and became a teacher at the Leningrad Choreographic Institute where he had worked for the rest of his life. Among his students were such acclaimed artists as Mikhail Fokin, Fyodor Lopukhov, Pyotr Gusev, Galina Ulanova.
During his 1904-1905 visits to London Shiryav acquired a 17.5 mm film Biokam camera and started filming ballets, as well as making home movies involving his family, comedy and trick films. His suggestion to film primary dancers of the Mariinka for free was rejected by the theatre management.
After that he built an improvised studio at his apartment where he carefully recreated various ballets by staging them using hand-made dolls which he created from either clay or papier-mâché; they were 20-25 centimeters tall, and their body parts were connected by thin wire which provided plasticity. He then filmed them on camera, frame by frame. In the process he also made thousands of sketches, catching every movement, also turning them into a filming reel so that one could watch the entire dance in form of a cartoon.
From 1906 to 1909 Shiryav produced a number of pioneering stop motion and traditionally animated films. This happened at least several years before Wladyslaw Starewicz - another influential Russian animator who had been long credited with invention of stop motion animation - produced his first films. Although Shiryav didn't hold much interest in animation as an art form, but rather saw it as an instrument in studying human plastics, using his films for educational purposes.
During the Soviet period those films were mostly forgotten, although Fyodor Lopukhov and some other memoirists mentioned his animation experiments in their books. Ninel Yultyeva described how Shiryaev produced around 1700 drawings and filmed them just to demonstrate one complex dance to his students. For a Hindu dance from La Bayadère he prepared clay figures and made them repeat every movement on camera; his film was later used during the restoration of Marius Petipa's ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre.
In 1995 a Russian documentarist and ballet historian Victor Bocharov started researching information on Shiryaev's animation experiments. He was soon contacted by Daniil Savelyev, a ballet photographer who personally knew the family. He got hold of the entire archive from the last wife of Alexander Shiryaev's son and kept it safe. Bocharov spent many years trying to get financing from Roskino in order to restore the films and produce a documentary.
In 2003 he finally released the one-hour movie entitled A Belated Premiere (2004) which included fragments of different films by Shiryaev. Around 2008 Bocharov finally managed to get fundings from the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in order to restore the negatives. Around the same time he got in contact with Aardman Animations who also became involved in restoration and digitizing process. The films were subsequently shown at various international film festivals. - Writer
- Soundtrack
Albert Vanloo was born on 10 September 1846 in Ixelles, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Véronique (1950), Airs de France (1955) and The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955). He died on 4 March 1920 in Paris, France.- Dora Pejacevic was born on 10 September 1885 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. She was a composer, known for Kontesa Dora (1993) and DORA - Flucht in die Musik (2022). She died on 5 March 1923 in Munich, Germany.
- John E. Eckerlein was born on 10 September 1884 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Little Old New York (1923). He died on 9 September 1926 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Writer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Jeppe Aakjær was born on 10 September 1866 in Aakjær, Denmark. He was a writer, known for The People of the Hogbo Farm (1939), Livet paa Hegnsgaard (1938) and Facing the Truth (2002). He was married to Nanna Krogh and Marie Bregendahl. He died on 22 April 1930 in Jenle, Denmark.- Vladimir Arsenev was born on 10 September 1872 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a writer, known for Dersu Uzala (1975) and Dersu Uzala (1961). He died on 4 September 1930 in Vladivostok, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Primorsky Krai, Russia].
- Actor
- Costume Designer
Barbier was born on 10 September 1882 in Nantes, France. He was an actor and costume designer, known for Monsieur Beaucaire (1924), Le tournoi (1928) and Missing Husbands (1921). He died on 16 March 1932 in Paris, France.- Thomas Jefferson was born on 10 September 1856 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Tarzan of the Apes (1918), The Missing Links (1916) and Rip Van Winkle (1914). He was married to Daisy Jefferson and Eugenia Paul. He died on 2 April 1932 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- The first 'Rin Tin Tin', who along with his heirs starred in numerous films and television series, was discovered during World War I, September 15, 1918, by US Air Corporal Lee Duncan and his battalion in Lorraine, France. At a bombed out dog kennel, Duncan found a mother Shepherd Dog and her scrawny litter of five pups. Duncan chose two of the dogs, a male and female, while members of his group took the mother and the others back to camp. The only survivors over the next few months were the two pups Duncan had claimed, naming them 'Rin Tin Tin' and 'Nannette' after tiny French puppets the French children would give to the American soldiers for good luck. When the war ended, Duncan made special arrangements to take his pups back to his home in Los Angeles, but during the Atlantic crossing, Nannette became ill and died, shortly after arriving in America. In 1922, Duncan and Rin Tin Tin attended an LA dog show, with 'Rinty' performing for the crowd by jumping 13 ½ feet. Following the show, producer Darryl Zanuck asked Duncan if he could try out his new 'moving pictures' camera on the dog and paid $350 to film Rinty in action. Contacting every studio in Hollywood with a Rin Tin Tin -starring script "Where The North Begins", Duncan unexpectedly stumbled onto a low-budget, Warner Bros (Vitaphone) film crew having difficulty shooting an exterior scene with a wolf. Duncan quickly approached the director and told them that Rinty could do the scene in one take. True to his word, Duncan's 'wonder' dog did the scene in one take and both were hired for the entire shoot of "Man From Hells River". The film was a hit and Rin Tin Tin was a sensation, making 26 pictures for Warners while starring in his own live 1930s radio show "The Wonder Dog". At the peak of his popularity, Warners maintained 18 trained stand-ins to reduce any stress on their dog star, while providing Rinty with a private chef who prepared daily lunches of tenderloin steak (consumed as live classical music was played to help ease the dog's digestion.) Rin Tin Tin died in 1932 at the age of 14, returned to his birthplace in France, and interred in "The Cimetière des Chiens (et Autres Animaux Exotiques)" in the suburb of Asnieres. Today, Rin Tin Tin's continuous bloodline carries on at a Texas kennel, where a litter of 8-11 pups are born each year.
- Ranjitsinhji was born on 10 September 1872 in Sarodar, Kathiawar, British India. He died on 2 April 1933 in Jamnagar Palace, British India.
- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Edmund Edel was born on 10 September 1863 in Stolp, Pomerania, Germany [now Slupsk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was a writer and director, known for Sein süßes Mädel (1916), Die Börsenkönigin (1918) and Die falsche Zaza (1914). He was married to Anna Hinz and Anna Reiberstorfer. He died on 4 May 1934 in Berlin, Germany.- Irene Dalton was born on September 10, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from high school she started working as a stenographer. She got her first acting job when she answered an ad in a local newspaper. Irene was signed by Christie studios in August of 1920. She costarred with Earl Rodney in Three Jokers and with Laura La Plante in His Four Fathers. The petite actress was just five feet tall and had jet black hair. She was Lloyd Hamilton's leading lady in numerous comedies including The Vagrant, Rolling Stones, and Poor Boy. In 1923 she had a supporting roles in the films Children Of Jazz and Bluebeard's 8th Wife.. Irene had a brief romance with actor Lew Cody. She also had a long affair with John Raymond Owens, a married millionaire sportsman. When his wife filed for divorce she named Irene as the other woman. John and Irene were both arrested in October of 1924 and charged with violating the Mann Act. They were accused of crossing state lines for illicit fornication. Irene claimed they were both innocent and the charges were eventually dropped.
She quit making movies and started living with Charles Meehan, a real estate broker and bootlegger. In March of 1927 Charles, Irene, and Lloyd Hamilton were involved in a drunken nightclub fight that left stuntman Eddie Diggins dead. Charles was arrested on suspicion of murder and Irene was questioned by the police. The scandalous story made headlines all over the country. After a brief investigation Charles was released and the police decided not to charge anyone in Eddie Diggins death. Irene married her former costar Lloyd Hamilton on June 19, 1927. Unfortunately he was an alcoholic and became abusive. The couple split up after just eight months of marriage. She returned to Chicago and moved in with her parents. Tragically Irene died suddenly on August 15, 1934 at the age of thirty-four. She was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Evanston, Illinois. Although some sources claim Irene was actress Dorothy Dalton's younger sister the two women were not related. - Bassett Roe was born on 10 September 1860 in Folkestone, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Nance (1920) and Damaged Goods (1919). He was married to Asia Agnus Dorothy Clarke (actress). He died on 2 November 1934 in Beckenham, Kent, England, UK.
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Caro Roma was born on 10 September 1866 in Oakland, California, USA. Caro died on 23 September 1937 in Oakland, California, USA.- Writer
- Additional Crew
Austin Parker was born on 10 September 1892 in Great Falls, Montana, USA. He was a writer, known for The Girl on the Front Page (1936), Love in a Bungalow (1937) and Something to Sing About (1937). He was married to Miriam Hopkins and Phyllis Duganne. He died on 20 March 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Isa Bluette, stage name of Teresa Ferrero was a theater actress, singer and Italian showgirl revue theater of the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century. She begins very young to the stage of the café-chantant as a chanteuse, becoming noted in particular for its good looks and her strong sensual charge on stage. Quickly becomes a headliner and first lady of a number of magazines and operettas of success throughout Italy. Import from Paris the famous "bridge"; she also has to submit first the scene of the soubrette surrounded by a large number of elegant men. In the twenties her shows, characterized by great pomp and sensuality, have considerable success throughout Italy; with her company, Isa Bluette launches at that time those who will eventually become the most important comedians of the Italian theater: on all Erminio Macario (1925) and Toto (since 1928). "Gatte di lusso", "Donne, ventagli e fiori", "Madama Follia", "Il Paradiso delle donne", "Mille e una donna", are some of the titles of this period. In 1926 leading to a considerable success the "Creola" song Ripp (Luigi Miaglia), among others dedicated to her. Starting from the thirties she'll always dedicate more to operetta, continuing always to have a good success. "Poesia senza veli", "Il ratto delle cubane", continue to sell out throughout Italy. In 1939, shortly before her death, she married the actor Nuto Navarrini. She is buried in the Monumental Cemetery of Turin.
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Nyrki Tapiovara (1911-1940) is considered the first film theoretician in Finland.During a repressive period in the 1930s when his country was dominated by the Lapua (Fascist) movement, he was a prominent member of the short lived Projektio film society where aspiring artists could learn about the latest techniques and intellectualize about the medium. Projektio before it was closed by state police in 1936 was coming under the influence of Modernism and the experimental avant garde. Tapiovara's work was socially conscious in content and impressionist in style.If it had not been for his mysterious death fighting with a ski patrol behind Russian lines during the 1940 Winter War, he might have gone on to put Finnish cinema more visibly on the international map. Several of his films which had not previously been shown in the US were exhibited as part of a series, Baby It's Cold Outside, in the spring of 1998 at New York City's prestigious Museum of Modern Art.- Music Department
- Actor
Imre Magyari was born on 10 September 1894 in Debrecen, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Halló Budapest! (1935), Rakoczi March (1933) and Rozmaring (1938). He died on 27 April 1940 in Budapest, Hungary.- E. Isaacson Hallows was born on 10 September 1906 in Peckham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Inquest (1939). He died on 30 October 1940 in Otterburn, Northumberland, England, UK.
- Ken Johnson was born on 10 September 1914 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He was an actor, known for The Torso Murder Mystery (1939). He died on 8 March 1941 in London, England, UK.
- Ken 'Snakehips' Johnson was born on 10 September 1914 in British Guiana [now Guyana]. He was an actor. He died on 8 March 1941 in London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Frank McCormack was born on 10 September 1873 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Motherhood (1917), Brothers (1930) and The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930). He died on 21 May 1941 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA.- Cinematographer
Tony Kornman was born on 10 September 1884 in Louisiana, USA. Tony was a cinematographer, known for Cameron of the Royal Mounted (1921) and The Ridin' Streak (1925). Tony died on 21 December 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Mieczyslaw Myszkiewicz was born on 10 September 1892 in Ziewanice, Poland, Russian Empire [now Ziewanice, Lódzkie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Krzyk w nocy (1922) and Dziewczyna szuka milosci (1938). He died on 26 March 1943 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Actress
Irma Lányi was born on 10 September 1869 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for Pókháló (1936), Mámi (1937) and Jehova (1918). She was married to József Ferenczy. She died on 11 January 1945 in Budapest, Hungary.- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
Adam Charles Hayman was born on 10 September 1883 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor. He was married to Marie Desbecker. He died on 10 July 1945 in Niagara Falls, New York, USA.- Gyula Toronyi was born on 10 September 1872 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Ágyú és harang (1915). He died on 27 July 1945 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Franz Werfel was born on 10 September 1890 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Juarez (1939), The Song of Bernadette (1943) and Me and the Colonel (1958). He was married to Alma Mahler-Werfel. He died on 26 August 1945 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ruth King was born on 10 September 1898 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for He Who Gets Slapped (1924), For the Soul of Rafael (1920) and Alias Miss Dodd (1920). She was married to Ward Roy Hamilton. She died on 27 February 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Songwriter ("Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"), composer and pianist, educated at the Auditorium School of Music with Herman Froehlich and also a student of Clarence Adler. He was a staff pianist with the Remick Company, and on staff with Donaldson, Douglas and Gumble (his brother), and he wrote special material for McIntyre and Heath. During World War I, he entertained at debarkation centers. Joining ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, his chief musical collaborators included Jack Yellen, B.G. De Sylva, and Al Bryan, and his other popular-song compositions include "Are You Sincere?", "How's Every Little Thing in Dixie?" and "You'll Do the Same Thing Over Again".
- Pat Daly was born on 10 September 1891 in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for A Slight Case of Murder (1938). He was married to Genevieve ?. He died on 19 November 1947 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- Beautiful slim brunette comedienne Vivian Edwards was born in Los Angeles in 1896. Entered the movies as an extra then made her mark as one of the Goo Goo Sisters in The Property Man (1914) starring Charles Chaplin in 1914. Vivian, also known as Viva Edwards, starred and supported in at least 50 Keystone comedies between 1914-16, often appeared with Chaplin, including The Masquerader (1914), Dough and Dynamite (1914), and Those Love Pangs (1914), and also play Mack Swain's wife Pansy Ambrose in the 'Willful Ambrose (1915)' comedies in 1915-16. She left Keystone at the end of 1916 and moved to the Triangle Film Co in early 1917 often starring opposite Harry McCoy in many short comedies. Married film director Bryan Foy in 1926 until her death in 1949 age 53.
- Emilia Márkus was born on 10 September 1860 in Szombathely, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Az aranyhajú szfinksz (1915), A névtelen asszony (1918) and A Magyar Nemzeti Színház múltja, jelene és jövöje (1928). She was married to Oszkár Párdány and Károly Pulszky. She died on 24 December 1949 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Felix Irwin was born on 10 September 1893 in Tynan, County Armagh, Ireland. He was an actor, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), The Strange Case of Blondie White (1947) and Truant in Park Lane (1947). He died on 30 November 1950 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Ira M. Lowry was born on 10 September 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Ira M. was a director and writer, known for For the Freedom of the East (1918), Speedy Meade (1919) and The Road Called Straight (1919). Ira M. was married to Emily Lowry. Ira M. died on 31 July 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Victor Barnowsky was born on 10 September 1875 in Berlin, Germany. Victor was a director and writer, known for Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod (1919) and Peer Gynt (1919). Victor died on 9 August 1952 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Thérèse Reignier was born on 10 September 1891. She was an actress, known for Le baiser qui tue (1928), La servante (1930) and La terre qui meurt (1927). She died on 16 October 1952 in Paris, France.
- Director
- Actor
- Producer
Jack Raymond was born on 10 September 1891 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England, UK. He was a director and actor, known for The Frog (1937), The Speckled Band (1931) and Tilly of Bloomsbury (1931). He was married to Claire Pridelle and Leonora Buckland. He died on 20 March 1953 in Westminster, London, England, UK.- Tom Shale was born on 10 September 1867 in Birmingham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Good Companions (1933) and The Night Porter (1930). He was married to Esther Ann Lehmon. He died on 24 June 1953 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.
- Actor
- Stunts
Ralph Gomez was born on 10 September 1896 in Texas, USA. He was an actor. He died on 18 April 1954 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Paul Harvey was born on 10 September 1882 in Sandwich, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Spellbound (1945), Calamity Jane (1953) and Algiers (1938). He was married to Merle Stanton and Ottye Henrietta Cramer (actress). He died on 15 December 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Sound Department
Charles Lang was born on 10 September 1908 in North Dakota, USA. Charles is known for Sergeant Murphy (1938), A Star Is Born (1954) and The Woman in White (1948). Charles died on 16 March 1956 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Writer
- Director
- Editor
Aleksandr Dovzhenko was born on 10 September 1894 in Vyunishche, Sosnitsa Ueyzd, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sosnitsa, Sosnitsa Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer and director, known for Earth (1930), Shors (1939) and Life in Bloom (1949). He was married to Yuliya Solntseva. He died on 25 November 1956 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("Are You Lonesome Tonight?"), composer and pianist. He toured in vaudeville in Australia, and served in the US Army during World War I, then was a pianist for music-publishing firms and accompanied vaudeville singers. Joining ASCAP in 1923, his chief musical collaborator was Irving Fields, and his other popular-song compositions include "Give Me a Smile and a Kiss", "My Sweetie Went Away", "I Can't Get the One I Want", "I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston", "What Good Would It Do?", "Is My Baby Blue Tonight?", "No Nothing", "Me and the Moon", "Was It Rain?", "Don't Ever Change", "Baby Me", "Blue", and "Puddin' Head Jones".- Actress
Mary Angus was born on 10 September 1903 in Texas, USA. She was an actress. She died on 7 January 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Toivo Pekkanen was born on 10 September 1902 in Kotka, Finland. He was a writer, known for Syyllisiäkö? (1938), Ja alla oli tulinen järvi (1937) and Pretty Good for a Human (1977). He was married to Aino Halonen. He died on 30 May 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark.