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- Hans Sachs was born on 5 November 1494 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire [now Bavaria, Germany]. Hans was a writer, known for Aufruhr im Schlaraffenland (1957) and Katzen können kratzen (1989). Hans died on 19 January 1576 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire [now Bavaria, Germany].
- Martins Pena was born on 5 November 1815 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a writer, known for O Grande Desbum... (1978), O Noviço (1975) and O Namorador (1978). He died on 7 December 1848 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Sandro Camasio was born on 5 November 1886 in Isola della Scala, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for T'ho ancor baciato, or muoio lieta! (1912), La zingara (1912) and Addio giovinezza! (1913). He died on 23 May 1913 in Turin, Italy.
- British poet and dramatist James Elroy Flecker was born Herman Elroy Flecker in London, England, in 1884. His father, Rev. W.H. Flecker, was appointed headmaster of the Dean Close School in Cheltenham, England. The family lived on campus, and young Herman spent most of his youth there. He came to writing poetry at an early age (13), and at age 16 he was sent to Uppingham and from there to Trinity College, Oxford (where he changed his first name from Herman to James), which he attended from 1902 to 1906.
At Oxford he achieved average grades, but that was due mainly to his obsession with French poetry, to which he devoted much of the time he should have spent studying the school's classical curriculum. It was also at Oxford that, despite the strict evangelical Protestant upbringing by his father, he rejected Christianity and became an agnostic.
Upon graduation from Oxford he secured a job teaching at a private school in Hempstead at the end of 1906. He had decided that he wanted to become an interpreter in the consular service, so he set about learning as many languages as he could. He already spoke French and German, and to those he added Italian, Spanish and modern Greek. In 1908 he passed the consular service examination, and then began a two-year course in modern languages at Cambridge.
In June of 1910 he was posted by the consular service to Constantinople, Turkey, but shortly afterwards he was discovered to have tuberculosis and was returned to England to recover at a sanitarium in the Cotswolds, where he stayed for three months. He had already published two books of verse, "The Bridge of Fire" and "Thirty-Six Poems", and it was at the sanitarium that he wrote the play "Don Juan". When he left the sanitarium he traveled to London and Paris, then back to Constantinople and from there to Beirut, Lebanon, where he was vice-consul and where he married a Greek woman, Helle Skiadaressi. In May of 1913 he began to have major health problems--tuberculosis again--and was taken to a sanitarium in Switzerland. He spent the last few years of his life in a variety of sanitariums in that country. It was during that period that he re-converted to Christianity.
James Elroy Flecker died in Davos, Switzerland, on January 3, 1915. - Anna Edwards was born in India in 1834, the daughter of a cabinetmaker who died three months before her birth. Her mother then remarried to officer in the Engineers who sent Anna and her sister, Eliza, to a school in England. The girls returned to India as teenagers and Anna escaped her stepfather's plans to marry her to a man twice her age by accompanying Rev.Percy Badger on a tour of the Middle East. She married a clerk, Thomas Leon Owens, and they had two children, a daughter Avis and a son, Louis. Her husband had trouble keeping a job, and moved his family a great deal; for some unknown reason, he also changed his name to Thomas Leonowens. After her husband died of apoplexy in Penang, Malaya, Anna moved to Singapore, where she received an invitation to teach English to the children of the Siamese King. She later embellished her memoirs of this time (changing her place of birth to Wales, and taking three years off her age; making her husband a major in the British army instead of a lowly clerk; and adding the tale of a concubine's brutal death, which never happened) which became famous. Anna herself retired to Canada, where she became a suffragist before her death. Her sister, Eliza, was the grandmother of the famous actor Boris Karloff.
- Francis Worcester Doughty was born on 5 November 1850 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Francis Worcester was a writer, known for Zudora (1914), Stanley's Search for the Hidden City (1915) and Hook and Hand (1914). Francis Worcester died on 30 October 1917 in Cresskill, New Jersey, USA.
- Carlo Møller was born on 5 November 1891 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Min Svigerinde fra Amerika (1917). He died on 24 December 1918 in Randers, Denmark.
- Famous American poet and author. She wrote numerous poems starting when she was 7 years old. She would go on to write poems such as The Price He Paid, Inherited Passions, The Beautiful Lie and The Belle of the Season amoung other. In her later years she went to the battle fields in France during World War 1 to lecture to the soldiers, and assist with the Red Cross. While in France Ella became ill and was taken back to the United States where she died of Cancer at her Short Beach estate. She was cremated and sealed in a vault with her husbands ashes on the property.
- Samuel A. Derieux was born on 5 November 1881 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He was a writer, known for A Boy and His Dog (1946). He died on 27 February 1922 in New York, New York, USA.
- Rui Barbosa was born on 5 November 1849 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. He was an actor, known for Parafernália o Dia de Caça (1970). He died on 1 March 1923 in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Director
- Writer
Ulysses Davis was born on 5 November 1872 in South Amboy, New Jersey, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The White Scar (1915), Tainted Money (1915) and The Soul's Cycle (1916). He died on 1 October 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.- Eugene V. Debs was born on 5 November 1855 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. He was married to Kate Metzel. He died on 20 October 1926 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA.
- Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev was born on 5 November 1878 in Dobroslavovka, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sumy Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Der Fall des Staatsanwalts M... (1928) and Ssanin (1924). He died on 3 March 1927 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Edwin Denison was born on 5 November 1864 in Williamstown, Vermont, USA. He was an actor, known for The Seven Swans (1917), The Town That Forgot God (1922) and The Black Circle (1919). He was married to Gertrude Marsh. He died on 26 January 1928 in White Plains, New York, USA.
- Richard Mensík was born on 5 November 1882 in Staré Mésto u Uherského Hradisté, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Nocní des (1914). He died on 6 April 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Nicholas Longworth was born on 5 November 1869 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was married to Alice Roosevelt Longworth. He died on 9 April 1931 in Aiken, South Carolina, USA.
- Joseph Tabrar was born on 5 November 1857. Joseph died on 22 August 1931.
- Pete Mauer was born on 5 November 1894 in Mount Angel, Oregon, USA. He was an actor, known for Ship of Souls (1925). He died on 21 August 1932 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
- Norbert Falk was born on 5 November 1872 in Weißkirchen, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Hranice na Morave, Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Rosita (1923), Passion (1919) and The White Slave (1927). He died on 16 September 1932 in Berlin, Germany.
- Kazimierz Kijowski was born on 5 November 1897 in Stryj, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for District Attorney (1933) and Córka generala Pankratowa (1934). He died on 20 April 1935 in Stanislawów, Stanislawowskie, Poland [now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine].
- Actress
Else Berna was born on 5 November 1886 in Dresden, Germany. She was an actress, known for Satanas (1919), Der Galeerensträfling (1919) and Freie Liebe (1919). She died on 20 May 1935 in Berlin, Germany.- Charles Mintz was born on 5 November 1889 in York, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer, known for Holiday Land (1934), The Little Match Girl (1937) and The Elegy (1927). He was married to M.J. Winkler. He died on 30 December 1939 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
- Frédéric Boutet was born on 5 November 1874 in Bourges, Cher, France. He was a writer, known for Le mystère Imberger (1935), Le passager (1928) and Sextette (1948). He died on 3 February 1941 in Arcachon, Gironde, France.
- Wilson Collison was born on 5 November 1893 in Glouster, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for Swing Shift Maisie (1943), Undercover Maisie (1947) and Red Dust (1932). He was married to Anzonetta May (Moore) Lloyd and Emma Lucile Kuhn. He died on 24 May 1941 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
- Míla Holeková was born on 5 November 1888 in Jaromér, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Divoká Maryna (1919) and Sachta pohrbených ideí (1922). She died on 9 October 1942 in Prague, Protektorát Cechy a Morava [now Czech Republic].
- Herbie Kaye was born on 5 November 1904 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was married to Dorothy Lamour. He died on 11 May 1944 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Jessie Ralph was a sailor's daughter, who first came to the stage at the age of 16, performing with a stock company in either Boston, Massachusetts, or Providence, Rhode Island (accounts differ). The year was 1880, and it took Jessie another 26 years to make her debut on the Great White Way in "The Kreutzer Sonata". Already a seasoned actress, she enjoying third billing. Her screen career started with one and two reelers as early as 1915, but her proper entry into Hollywood did not come about until 1933.
For more than 20 years, plump, down-to-earth Jessie made her reputation as a character actress on Broadway playing an assortment of nurses, maids and aunts. She was used in musicals by George M. Cohan and acted in Shakespearean roles, from "Twelfth Night" to "Romeo and Juliet". She was nurse to Jane Cowl's Juliet in the 1923 play which ran for an unprecedented 174 performances and co-starred Eva Le Gallienne and Katharine Cornell (amazing, when considering that the star was already 39 years old!). Like other successful actresses of the stage, Jessie was brought to Hollywood to reprise a Broadway hit role, in this case her Aunt Minnie in Child of Manhattan (1933).
After half a lifetime in the theatre, Jessie's sojourn in Hollywood was relatively brief but marked by a series of memorable performances. She was the definitive incarnation of the endearing nurse Peggotty in David Copperfield (1935) and played Greta Garbo's loyal maid Nanine in Camille (1936). She was the matriarch of the Whiteoaks of Jalna (1935), an adaptable society matron in San Francisco (1936) and harridan of a mother-in-law to W.C. Fields, Hermisillo Brunch, in The Bank Dick (1940). Whether in comedy or drama, as a Chinese aunt in both stage and screen versions of The Good Earth (1937), or a kindly sorceress in The Blue Bird (1940), Jessie gave consistently good value for money. The New York Times review of October 12, 1935, wrote of her performance in I Live My Life (1935): "Jessie Ralph as the tyrannical head of the family, proves again that she is the best of the screen grandmothers".
Jessie retired from acting in 1941 after having a leg amputated and died three years later.- Actor
- Director
He was one of the great actors of the era depicting characters. From 1901 to 1939 he was a teacher at the School for Dramatic Arts, a pedagogue with great ability. He wrote theatre plays (Leszámolás, Arad, 1917) and opera librettos (Vezeklõk, Bp., 1894). He filmed in the period of the silent picture. His name is associated with one of the most important pieces of the twenties, A megbûvöltek (1921), which he adapted from the story of Dostoievski. His work was characterised by a high artistic standard, a strength to create atmosphere and to carefully select the players.- Born, Maida Vale, Middlesex, London, England, 5 November 1878, sixth child and fifth daughter of Conrad Tulloch and Kate Tulloch (née Rose). When a child spoken-word performer with her sisters in musical ensemble "The Misses Tulloch", performing from early 1890s in London and on UK tours. Became stage actor, 1897, understudying Sydney Fairbrother as "Micah Dow" in J.M. Barrie's "The Little Minister" in London, 1898 and played the character on UK provincial tour, 1898. Adopted stage name "Dora Senior", 1899, first when acted with Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1899 "King John" London stage production and in King John (1899) film. Last acting role as "Dora Senior" "Bertha" in Gerhart Hauptmann 's "The Weavers", London, May 1901. Married Clement Salaman in July 1901 and retired from professional performing. Five children. Moved with family to Somerset, England, 1909x1910. 1919, moved to Treborough Lodge, Treborough, Somerset. Known as "Dora (Clement) Salaman". Involved in Amateur Theatre, locally (Somerset), regionally (West England) and nationally (England) as actor, writer, producer and adjudicator, particularly from beginning of 1930s until her death. Published playwright, 1930 onwards. Lecturer on Drama, English Literature, Housecraft and other subjects. Also occupied in county (Somerset) affairs (Parish and District Councils, Magistracy, Women's Institute, etc.). Widowed, 10 August 1935. Member of several local wartime organisations, 1939-1945. Died 30 December 1945, Treborough Lodge. Buried, St Peter's Church, Treborough, 3 January 1946.
- Grace Marvin was born on 5 November 1883 in Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Second Hand Rose (1922), The Gray Dawn (1922) and Eternal Love (1917). She died on 10 July 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Harry Hervey was born on 5 November 1900 in Beaumont, Texas, USA. He was a writer, known for Peking Express (1951), Shanghai Express (1932) and Road to Singapore (1940). He died on 12 August 1951 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Oskar Krabbe was born on 5 November 1871 in Hämeenlinna, Finland. He was an actor, known for Verettömät (1913), Nuori luotsi (1913) and Kesä (1915). He died on 11 December 1951.
- Princess Hilda of Nassau was born on 5 November 1864 in Wiesbaden, Duchy of Nassau, German Confederation [now Hesse, Germany]. She was married to Grand Duke of Baden Frederick II. She died on 8 February 1952 in Badenweiler, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
American producer of 1930s and 1940s Westerns whose chief claim to fame is introduction of the character Hopalong Cassidy to the screen. Sherman was originally an exhibitor. In 1914, he distributed the film The Birth of a Nation (1915) in the western United States and parlayed the connections he made into a position as a studio producer. In 1935, he formed Harry Sherman Productions to produce films based on Clarence Mulford's Hopalong Cassidy character. He made over fifty of the sixty six Cassidy films, as well as dozens of other pictures, most of them Westerns as well. Like John Ford, Sherman had his own stock company of players, many of whom graduated to real stardom from their beginnings with Pop Sherman. Among them: George 'Gabby' Hayes, Victor Jory, Lee J. Cobb, Richard Dix, George Reeves, Robert Mitchum, and Albert Dekker. Sherman managed to produce his high quality films on a reasonable budget, then released them through prestigious companies such as United Artists and Paramount Pictures. After leaving the Cassidy films (which were taken over and henceforth produced by star William Boyd), Sherman produced a couple of larger budgeted Westerns before his death following surgery in 1952. His daughters Lynn Sherman and Teddi Sherman were actors in his films, and Teddi Sherman went on to a respected career as a screenwriter, mainly of Westerns.- Director
- Sound Department
- Producer
Moacyr Fenelon was born on 5 November 1903 in Muriaé, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He was a director and producer, known for Obrigado, Doutor (1948), Fantasma Por Acaso (1946) and Gente Honesta (1944). He died on 14 August 1953 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Josef Oliak was born on 5 November 1870 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Batalion (1927), Dívka v modrém (1940) and Jindra, hrabenka Ostrovínová (1934). He died on 3 November 1953 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Additional Crew
First President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association of America, Will H. Hays had a distinguished career as a politician before that, most notably as Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1918-21) and as U.S. Postmaster General under Warren Harding (1921-22). As Postmaster General, he was an outspoken opponant of sending obscene materials through the mails. Thus, when Hollywood's producers and studio heads decided to form their own watchdog organization after several major scandals during the early 1920's (Arbuckle, Wallace Reed), they felt that Hays was the perfect man for the job. Beginning in 1922, and for more than two decades thereafter, it was a job that Hays took very seriously, and it reached its apex with the adoption of the so-called, highly restrictive Hays Code in 1934. By the late 1940's, however, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that films were protected under the First Amendment, and Hays felt his power starting to slip. As American films went in new and different directions, the various restrictions in the Hays Code began to erode under Hays and his immediate successors, Joseph Breen, Eric Johnson, and Jack Valenti, the latter of whom essentially scrapped the Hays Code in 1967 in favor of the present-day rating system. For good or ill, Will Hays was a force to be reckoned with in the history of American films, and his influence is still being felt, and debated, today.- Henry Hall was born on 5 November 1876 in Washington Township, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Hot Curves (1930), The Ape Man (1943) and Feet First (1930). He was married to Emma S.. He died on 11 December 1954 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- If Dorothy Vaughan appeared in 143 movies or episodes of TV series, it was certainly not by accident. Actually the reason why this lively stout lady was in such demand is that she was the spitting image of the woman next door, of the hospital nurse who took care of your son after he broke his arm falling off his bike, of the midwife who helped your wife to give birth to that wonderful baby boy ... whose girlfriend you dislike so much now that he is almost grown up. Dorothy Vaughan was everybody's ma, John Doe's Granny, your boss's charwoman. There can be no other reasons why she was in so many films in so little time. Of course her roles were often brief, just like when you come across an ordinary person you barely notice in everyday life. But she could occasionally get more meaty roles, like in "Trail to San Antone" (1947) in which she portrayed the bossy 'Commodore' with obvious relish.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Borrah Minevitch was born on 5 November 1902 in Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was an actor and director, known for Rascals (1938), Love Under Fire (1937) and Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942). He was married to Lucille Little Taylor and Betty B. Henry. He died on 26 June 1955 in Paris, France.- John Turnbull was born on 5 November 1880 in Dunbar, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950), Lord Edgware Dies (1934) and Murder at the Baskervilles (1937). He was married to Eve Marchew and Beatrice Alice Scott (actress). He died on 22 February 1956 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers out there are starving!" When Patrick Dennis's fictional Auntie Mame uttered this pithy observation, she could have been speaking of Charles MacArthur. Charlie never shied away from the feast, and he certainly never went hungry. Arriving in November 1895 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Charlie was the second youngest of seven children born to stern evangelist William Telfer MacArthur and Georgiana Welsted MacArthur. His early life was dominated by his father's ministry, leading the family to travel cross country wherever the elder MacArthur's calling took them. Charlie spent much of his time during those years hiding in the bathroom -- the only place offering even a modicum of privacy for a member of such a large family -- reading virtually anything he could get his hands on. He developed a passion for the written word that would last him to his dying day. Resisting Reverend MacArthur's insistent urging that his son follow him into the ministry, young Charlie left the family's rural New York home soon after finishing high school. Heading off to the Midwest, he took a reporter's job at The Oak Leaves, a suburban Chicago newspaper owned by two of his older brothers and run by his older sister. His first professional taste of crafting something for others to read whetted his appetite for even more. Intently determined to pursue a calling which for him was as strong as the calling his father had heard, Charlie went to the City News Bureau of Chicago as the first step in his journey toward life as a journalist. Though only 19, the irreverent sense of humor and dislike for mindless authoritarianism for which he would later be so well known was already quite evident in the application he filled out for the job. In the space entitled "Tell us in exactly seventy-five words why you wish to become a reporter," Charlie wrote: "I want to become a reporter more because I like the work than for any other reason. I feel that even if I should branch off in another profession, the experience obtained in getting up on your toes after news would be valuable. These are my reasons. More words would be useless." The excitement of working in brash and brawling pre-1920s Chicago didn't quite satisfy Charlie's hunger for something more, however, and he soon hooked up with General "Black Jack" Pershing, galloping off to Mexico to join in the hunt for the infamous Pancho Villa. When World War I broke out, Charlie joined the Army's 149th Field Artillery, part of the Rainbow Division. During his time in France, he and his battery mate shot down a German plane with nothing more than a machine gun. Later in the war, Charlie sustained a mild shrapnel wound. In 1919 he penned his only book, A Bug's Eye View of the War (later republished in 1929 by Harper Collins as War Bugs) about his unit's adventures and misadventures during some of the most brutal and bloodiest fighting in history. Returning to Chicago just in time for Prohibition, the Roaring 20s, and Al Capone, Charlie became one of Chicago's most well-known and widely read reporters. He authored some of the most enduring pieces ever printed in the pages of the Chicago Tribune and Daily News. His style was inventive, charming, and witty. Readers couldn't get enough. Once, when writing about a dentist accused of sexually molesting his female patients, Charlie chose the headline "Dentist Fills Wrong Cavity". He also wrote several short stories, two of which, "Hang It All" (1921) and "Rope" (1923), were published in H.L. Mencken's The Smart Set magazine. His star continued to rise, and he eventually headed off to the greener pastures of New York City. Once settled in the Big Apple, he began to shift his efforts toward playwrighting. His first true Broadway success was in 1926 with the play "Lulu Belle", written in collaboration with Edward Sheldon. It would later be remade into a 1948 movie starring Dorothy Lamour and George Montgomery. His next play, "Salvation", written in collaboration with Sidney Howard, enjoyed a moderate Broadway run. During the summer of 1927, Charlie and long-time friend and collaborator, Ben Hecht, rented the premises of the Nyack Girl's Academy as a haven from which they could create their own special brand of playwrighting. Helen Hayes (the future Mrs. Charles MacArthur) would tell friends of times when she or Rose Hecht would visit to bring in food or other supplies for their men, and the building would be positively filled with shouts of laughter and merriment. The result of this seclusion was the 1928 Broadway debut of "The Front Page". The phenomenal stage success of "The Front Page" prompted Charlie to head to Hollywood and screenplay work. Having already developed such works as The Girl Said No (1930), Billy the Kid (1930) and The Unholy Garden (1931), he hit the jackpot in 1931, first with the movie version of The Front Page (1931) (again collaborating with Ben Hecht), which won Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director (Lewis Milestone), and Best Actor (Adolphe Menjou), and then, with the release of The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), which netted a 1932 Best Actress Oscar for its star, Helen Hayes. The film also won awards at that year's Venice Film Festival for both its leading lady and its director, Edgar Selwyn. Charlie's screenplay for Rasputin and the Empress (1932), the only movie ever to feature siblings John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore together in the same film, gained him his own first Academy Award nomination (in 1934, for Best Original Story). Even though their efforts had turned mostly to filmmaking by this point, it was also during this period that Hecht and MacArthur produced their second smash theatrical effort, "Twentieth Century", which debuted on Broadway in December 1932, and was later made into the well-received 1934 movie starring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard. Unhappy with the machinations of Hollywood's fledgling film industry, however, MacArthur and Hecht decided to set up their own shop in Astoria, New York, producing, writing, directing, and even making uncredited onscreen appearances in a series of films such as The Scoundrel (1935) (poking fun at themselves by playing downtrodden patrons of a charity flop house) and Crime Without Passion (1934) (in which they portrayed -- what else? -- newspaper reporters). Their work earned much critical acclaim, culminating in the 1936 Best Writing (Original Story) Academy Award for The Scoundrel (1935). Their 1939 collaboration to turn Rudyard Kipling's epic poem into the movie Gunga Din (1939), starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., was recognized in 1999 by the National Film Registry, and their adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1939) garnered the two yet another Academy Award Best Writing (Screenplay) nomination in 1940. That year also saw the remake of "The Front Page" into the popular movie, His Girl Friday (1940), starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant. The advent of World War II prompted Charlie to interrupt his writing career and sign on in his country's service once again. He began his second stint of service years as a Major in the Chemical Warfare Service, returning home at the war's conclusion a Lt. Colonel. By now, the father of two children, Mary and James MacArthur, and husband to "The First Lady of the American Theatre", Charlie had amassed a considerable amount of fame in his own right, yet was still looking for something different. Resuming his theatrical and film work, he also took on the duties of editing and publishing the foundering Theatre World magazine, but left after little more than a year, dissatisfied with the politics and constraints of working in a corporate atmosphere. The tragic loss of his 19-year-old daughter to polio in 1949 was a blow from which Charlie would never quite recover. Though he continued to work on screenplays and movie scripts up until his death in 1956, some of which enjoyed a modicum of success, he would never again completely recapture the freewheeling enthusiasm of his earlier days. When his son grew old enough to begin considering a career of his own, his father advised, "Do anything you like, son, but never become a playwright. It's a death worse than fate!" Charles MacArthur left behind a lasting imprint upon both those who knew him personally and those who knew him only through his published works. Supremely disdainful of anything even remotely false or affected, Charlie nevertheless did follow the path his father wished him to take, albeit in his own inimical fashion. His words carried a truth and sincerity few writers have been able to achieve. His unique mix of subtle irony, gentle sarcasm, and poignant pathos reached as deeply into his audience at least as well as any fiery sermon from a pulpit ever could. As Ben Hecht said in the eulogy he delivered at his friend's memorial service (and later expanded upon in his 1957 book, "Charlie: The Improbable Life and Times of Charles MacArthur"), "Charlie was more than a man of talent. He was himself a great piece of writing. His gaiety, wildness and kindness, his love for his bride Helen, and his two children, and for his clan of brothers and sisters -- his wit and his adventures will live a long, long while".- Albert Duquesne was born on 5 November 1890 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Les lumières de ma ville (1950), Le père Chopin (1945) and Farm Electrification (1946). He was married to Marthe Thierry. He died on 20 May 1956 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Conductor. He studied music in Wroclaw, Berlin and Stuttgart. From 1916 he was a soloist tutor at the Grand Theater in Warsaw, then music director and conductor at the Polish Theater. In 1920-21 he worked as a conductor at the Qui Pro Quo theater, 1921-23 at the New Theater in Kraków, in 1923-29 he was the music director and conductor at the Juliusz Slowacki's Therater in Kraków. After World War II, he was initially the music director of the State Dramatic Theaters in Kraków, and in 1952-54 at the Groteska Theater there. For many years he was also a professor of music schools in Kraków.
- Music Department
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Walter Gieseking was born on 5 November 1895 in Lyons, France. He was an actor, known for A Corte do Norte (2008), Liberty Loves Reason (2018) and Finale (1948). He was married to Anni Haake. He died on 26 October 1956 in London, England, UK.- Louis Rosier was born on 5 November 1905 in Chapdes-Beaufort, France. He died on 29 October 1956 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, Ile-de-France.
- Mary Brandon was born on 5 November 1901 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for The Bashful Suitor (1921). She was married to Simeon Brooks Chapin, Jr. and Robert E. Sherwood. She died on 30 January 1958 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Guy Bennett was born on 5 November 1902 in Arizona, USA. He is known for A Dangerous Woman (1929), My Own True Love (1949) and The Right to Love (1930). He died on 7 April 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Sofía Bozán was born on 5 November 1904 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Las luces de Buenos Aires (1931), Muchachas que estudian (1939) and Los muchachos se divierten (1941). She died on 9 July 1958 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Allan Bohlin was born on 5 November 1907 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Valfångare (1939), Prästen som slog knockout (1943) and Se opp för spioner! (1944). He was married to Ulla Sorbon. He died on 23 January 1959.