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- Mary Anne Evans was born on 22 November 1819 at South Farm, Arbury Hall near Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Her parents were Robert Evans, the manager of Arbury Hall, and Christina Evans. She had four siblings: Robert, Fanny, Chrissy and Isaac. Mary was always considered a serious child and she always had free access to books. She soon became a great literature admirer. She had a special fall for Greek Literature and she would include many elements of Greek tragedy on her books. She also had a strong influence of social issues and religion. This latter was probably due to the Baptist education she would receive later.
Mary Anne attended Miss Latham's boarding school and then (in 1828) Mrs. Wallington's Boarding School at Nuneaton. At this second school she met Maria Lewis who was the governess of the school and had strong evangelical believes. Mary Anne then moved to Miss Franklin's school at Coventry. At this third school she developed her knowledge in literature and also studied French and the piano.
When her mother died in 1838 Mary had to leave school and come back to her father, but she never gave up studying. Her father bought her books and paid private tutor for her. She had Italian and German lessons too.
Some time after, Mary and her father moved to Foleshill where she later met many intellectuals and thinkers and these people may have had strong influence on her later work. She stopped going to the church, what made the relation with her father and close friendship with Maria Lewis unstable. In 1844 she begun working on the translation of "Das Leben Jusu" written in German by theologian David Strauss (1808 - 1874).
When her father died she traveled with the Brays (her friends) to Switzerland in order to refresh her mind. In 1850 she moved to London and then became friend of John Chapman, a publisher and bookseller. In 1851 Chapman bought "Westminister Reviwe" and hired Mary Anne, who was then calling herself Marian Evans, as the editor. With Mary, the journal became a success.
Marian then met George Lewes and they became close friends. George's marriage to Agnes Jervis had been over and he and Mary started dating and. In 1854 they started living together, but George was still legally married to Agnes. This had a very negative impact onto the London society and many people stopped talking to the couple.
In 1856 she published "Scenes of Clerical Life" under the male name of George Eliot - because she believed it would make her job more respected. In 1859 another work came out, "Adam Bede", a great success. When "The Mill of the Floss", was published, the real identity of George Eliot was not a secret anymore, but the book was successful.
She published other successful books later: "Silas Marner" (1861) and "Romola"(1863). It took her three more years until "Felix Holt, the Radical" came out. After the serious publication of "Middelmarch"(1871- 1872), she became even more famous and rich. Unfortunately her health
George Lewes died in 1878 and Mary Anne became alone. In 1880 she married John Cross, a close friend she and George had. However, seven months after their marriage, Mary Anne died. - Johanne Louise Heiberg was born on 22 November 1821 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Johanne Louise was a writer, known for En søndag på Amager (1941), Thorkild Roose (1949) and En søndag på Amager (1962). Johanne Louise died on 21 December 1890 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- George Gissing was born on 22 November 1857 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK. George was a writer, known for Why Men Forget (1921) and Your Favorite Story (1953). George was married to Edith Underwood, Marianne Helen 'Nell' Harrison and Nell Harrison. George died on 28 December 1903 in Ispoure, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.
- Actress
- Writer
Florence Barker was born on November 22, 1891 in Los Angeles, California. Her father, Norman Barker, was a farmer and she had four siblings. When she was a teenager she began acting with stock companies. She fell in love with actor Joe De Grasse, who was 18 years her senior; they moved in together and he helped guide her career. In 1908 she made her film debut in D.W. Griffith's "An Awful Moment." Over the next three years she appeared in more than 50 films, including "The Course of True Love," "The Diamond Star," and "The Newlyweds" with Mary Pickford. She became one of the first American actresses to make films in Europe. About acting she said "I love the work and would advise any actress to make a try for the pictures. The work is arduous to be sure. No one ever attained success unless it was accomplished by close and concerted application." The talented young actress was signed by Powers Players in 1912. She was given leading roles in the comedies "Her Yesterday" and "The Petticoat Detective." Her performances got good reviews and her future seemed bright. She also wrote the script for her 1912 comedy "Priscilla's Comedy." While visiting her mother in early 1913 she became ill. Tragically, on February 15, 1913 she died from pneumonia at only 21 years old. She was cremated and her ashes were buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.- Mihály Papp was born on 22 November 1875 in Makó, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Sárga liliom (1914). He died on 20 September 1915 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary].
- Grand Duke Michael was born on 22 November 1878 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was married to Natasha Wulfert. He died on 13 June 1918 in Perm, Russia.
- Endre Ady was born on 22 November 1877 in Érmindszent, Austria-Hungary [now Ady Endre, Romania]. He was a writer, known for A bor lelke (1999), Esti Tánc (2017) and Aranyoskáim (1996). He was married to Berta Boncza. He died on 27 January 1919 in Budapest, Hungary.
- California Truman was born on 22 November 1848 in California, USA. He was an actor, known for Who Cares? (1919). He died on 5 April 1922 in California, USA.
- Pablo Podestá was born on 22 November 1875 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was an actor, known for Mariano Moreno y la revolución de Mayo (1915) and Tierra baja (1912). He died on 26 April 1923 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Courtenay Foote was born on 22 November 1878 in England. He was an actor, known for Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1924), Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924) and Little Old New York (1923). He died on 4 May 1925 in Italy.
- Joe Moore was born on 22 November 1894 in County Meath, Ireland. He was an actor, known for The Golden Web (1926), Goat Getter (1925) and Love's Battle (1920). He was married to Grace Cunard. He died on 22 August 1926 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Pietro Bordino was born on 22 November 1887 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He died on 15 April 1928 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy.
- George Tulley was born on 22 November 1876 in Balla, County Mayo, Ireland. He was an actor, known for The Woman Who Was Nothing (1917), The Divine Gift (1918) and Jimmy (1916). He was married to Blanche Massey. He died on 2 July 1930 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.
- I.C. Christensen was born on 22 November 1856 in Påbøl, Hoven, Tarm, Denmark. He died on 19 December 1930 in Ringkøbing, Denmark.
- Soundtrack
John Hughes was born on 22 November 1873 in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, UK. John died on 14 May 1932 in Llantwit Fardre, Pontypridd, Wales, UK.- Writer
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Jose Corazon de Jesus was born on 22 November 1894 in Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines. He was a writer and actor, known for Squatters (1953), Ikaw ang buhay ko (1954) and Arista ang aking asawa (1968). He died on 26 May 1932.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Actor
- Writer
James Ewens was born on 22 November 1889 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an assistant director and actor, known for Emergency Call (1933), Omar the Tentmaker (1922) and A Perfect Crime (1921). He died on 28 July 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- W.O. McGeehan was born on 22 November 1879 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a writer, known for The Quarterback (1926). He died on 29 November 1933 in Brunswick, Georgia, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Charles Mack was born on 22 November 1887 in White Cloud, Kansas, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Why Bring That Up? (1929), Anybody's War (1930) and Hypnotized (1932). He was married to Myrtle Buckley and Marian Robinson. He died on 11 January 1934 in Mesa, Arizona, USA.- George A. Billings was born on 22 November 1870 in Preston, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924), Hands Up! (1926) and As No Man Has Loved (1925). He died on 15 April 1934 in West Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Director
Achille Vitti was born on 22 November 1866 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was an actor and director, known for Giovanni Episcopo (1916), Lo scoglio della morte (1916) and La vergine delle ginestre (1915). He died on 1 January 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Wiley Hardeman Post (1898-1935) was interested in aviation from his boyhood days in Texas, and became a parachute jumper with an aerial-exhibition team. After an oil-field accident in which he lost an eye, he purchased an airplane and learned to fly it in 1927. He than became a 'barnstormer." After becoming a pilot for an Oklahoma oil man, Wiley Post flew the monoplane "Winnie Mae" to victory in the Cross-Country Derby of the 1930 National Air Races. In 1931, he and Harold Getty made a record-setting flight around the world in the "Winnie Mae." He then made the first around-the-world solo flight in 1933 in the "Winnie Mae," specially equipped with a new automatic-pilot and a radio direction finder, in 7 days, 18 hours and forty-nine and one-half minutes. Prior to that, in the early 1930s, he became intensely interested is the possibilities of long-distance, high speed flight in the stratosphere. Later he conceived and helped to design, make, and test the first fully pressurized flying suit and helmet. In 1934, wearing this outfit, he reached altitudes of 50,000 feet in the supercharged "Winnie Mae" and there discovered the jet streams. Later, he made four attempts to set a new transcontinental speed record by using his pressurized suit-and-helmet and the specially-modified "Winnie Mae" to fly in the jet streams of the stratosphere. Tragically, he and Will Rogers were killed during a vacation flight in 1935, near Point Barrow, Alaska. He was posthumously inducted into the Aviation National Hall of Fame, in Dayton, Ohio, on December 17, 1969 at the Sheraton-Dayton Hotel. The award was presented by Will Rogers Jr. and his widow, Winnie Post, of Ralls, Texas, accepted the award. A presentation film was narrated by Lowell Thomas, and his Hall of Fame portrait was done by Milton Caniff, creator of the "Terry and the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon" comic strips. (The aircraft "Winnie Mae" was named for the daughter of the Oklahoma oil man who owned the ship, and was not named after his wife, whom he met in Sweetwater, Texas while barnstorming.)
His Hall of Fame plaque reads: To Wiley Hardeman Post, for outstanding contributions to aviation by his flights around the world that demonstrated the practicality of new flight-related equipment, and for conceiving and proving the feasibility of the fully pressurized flying suit, this award is most solemnly and respectfully dedicated." His 'flying-suit' is on display at the Smithsonian. - Writer
- Actor
Daniel Jarrett was born on 22 November 1886 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Windjammer (1937), The Mine with the Iron Door (1936) and Park Avenue Logger (1937). He was married to Dorothy H. Vogel. He died on 13 March 1938 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Tasaburo Matsumoto was born on 22 November 1899 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Ranma (1927), Tsumi no onna (1927) and Kôhan to Sôshichi (1927). He died on 8 September 1939.
- Fusajiro Yamauchi was born on 22 November 1859. Fusajiro died on 1 January 1940.
- Writer
- Director
- Actor
John Monk Saunders was born on 22 November 1895 in Hinckley, Minnesota, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Dawn Patrol (1930), Wings (1927) and Devil Dogs of the Air (1935). He was married to Fay Wray and Avis Bissell (Hughes). He died on 11 March 1940 in Ft. Myers, Florida, USA.- Thomas Beer was born on 22 November 1889 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA. He was a writer, known for Little Eva Ascends (1922). He died on 18 April 1940 in New York, New York, USA.
- Jack Winn was born on 22 November 1886 in Springfield, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924), Blood and Sand (1922) and Slightly Honorable (1939). He was married to Meta B. Hughes. He died on 21 September 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Melbourne MacDowell was born on 22 November 1856 in South River, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Speed Mad (1925), Feel My Pulse (1928) and Savages of the Sea (1925). He was married to Mrs. Caroline Wells Neff, Wilhelmina Marie Strauss, Fanny Davenport (d. 1898) (first), Virginia Drew Trescott and Nellie Irving. He died on 18 February 1941 in Oakland, California, USA.
- Hans Karl Gottschalk was born on 22 November 1891 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was a cinematographer, known for Liebe und Leben, 2. Teil - Die Tochter des Senators (1918), Liebesopfer (1918) and Liebe und Leben, 1. Teil - Die Seele des Kindes (1918). He died on 27 May 1941 in North Atlantic Ocean.
- Emanuel Feuermann was born on 22 November 1902 in Kolomyja, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He died on 25 May 1942 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Max Dearly was born on 22 November 1874 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Madame Bovary (1934), La vie parisienne (1935) and Le dernier milliardaire (1934). He was married to Jeanne Saint-Bonnet and Isabelle Fusier. He died on 2 June 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Oskar Messter was born on 22 November 1866 in Berlin, Germany. He was a producer and director, known for Rapunzel (1897), Das wandernde Licht (1916) and Tanz der Salome (1906). He was married to Antonie König and Margarete Wittmann. He died on 7 December 1943 in Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany.- Writer
- Additional Crew
Kay Clement was born on 22 November 1876 in Missouri, USA. Kay was a writer, known for Ain't Love Funny? (1927). Kay was married to Thomas Peddell. Kay died on 14 March 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Francis Sayles was born on 22 November 1891 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Shadow (1937), Home on the Range (1935) and Public Enemies (1941). He died on 19 March 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Edwin Stanley was a bespectacled, white haired, distinguished-looking actor who was trained in live theater and who, except a few silent pictures, stayed in that medium until he reached the age of 51. In 1932, he made his screen debut in talking pictures in "Virtue". Thereafter, Stanley appeared in over 200 movies, specializing in officials such as doctors, lawyers, judges, producers, etc. Stanley appeared in several serials, including those featuring Dick Tracy and Flash Gordon. Stanley worked up until his death in 1944.- Although born in New York, Raoul Fauconnier Whitfield's early life was shaped by his father's transfer to the Philippines, where he led the privilege life as the dependent of a Territorial Government bureaucrat. Young Whitfield would later travel through China and Japan, and his memory of Asia would prove to serve him well. Back in the US the teenager aspired to motion pictures, where his rugged good looks graced the silent cinema. If it weren't for America's entry into the Great War in 1917 we might know him as an actor, but Whitfield enlisted in the Army and was initially assigned to the ambulance corps. Desiring action, he sought and won a commission as a pilot and saw duty on the German front as a combat pilot. After the Armistice he spurned his steel business-based family's desires, married his first wife Prudence and landed a job with the Pittsburgh Post as a reporter. Prudence encouraged his long-held desires to write pulp fiction stories. His writing drew upon his childhood travels in the Far East (his "Jo Gar, Island Detective" character was based in Manila) along with his more recent wartime exploits. He succeeded in selling stories for "Boy's Life", "War Stories" and "Battle Stories" (under the pseudonym Temple Field), but he's especially notable for his contributions to Black Mask, the creme of the pulps. His "Crime Buster" Black Mask stories were so popular they were amalgamated into his first novel, "Green Ice" (published in 1930). earning the praise of none other than the genre master, Dashiell Hammett, with its hard-as-nails emphasis on action. Whitfield had a total of nine books published during the depths of the Great Depression. The speed in which he ground out work was amazing, but it also drew criticism; his lesser stories were spurned as hack work. Whitfield often wrote under the pseudonym Ramon Dacolta, who ironically proved a heady rival in readership popularity. Many of his 1927-33 stories easily rank with the best authors of pulp fiction. Whitfield's screenwriting career began in earnest after his divorce from Prudence and he relocated from Florida to Los Angeles in 1933. He landed a job as a writer for Paramount Pictures and, on a whirlwind trip to New York City, met and married the wealthy and unstable Emily Davies Vanderbilt Thayer (with emphasis on the Vanderbilt). Life was good for a short period; the couple purchased a large ranch outside Las Vegas, Nevada, and Whitfield's writing productivity slowed to a trickle. The Whitfields' marriage was wobbly, however, masked by partying. Emily experienced bouts of manic depression and the couple separated in early 1935. Her mental state was far more fragile than anyone had imagined; she committed suicide at the Nevada ranch that May. Whitfield was inconsolable over his wife's death and he was utterly destroyed. Contracting TB in his 40s, he died at a military hospital in California in 1944.
- Heber Jeddy Grant was the 7th president of the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints. He served for 27 years as church president from 1918 to his death in 1945. He was raised by his widowed mother Rachel Ridgeway Ivins Grant who was widowed by his father Jedediah Morgan Grant who died just weeks after his birth on December 1, 1856. His father was the mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah. By the time he was 15 he had begun a very successful business career and had been ordained to the office as a Seventy. Ten years later,He was called to the Quorum Of The Twelve Apostles where he served for 37 years. After becoming church president on November 23, 1918 he dedicated three new temples,developed the church welfare program and helped the Latter Day Saints cope with the tragedy of World War II. His business experience enabled him to modernize church organizations and procedures. His missionary efforts including extensive speaking engagements and friendships with national leaders brought the church to the attention of the World. He was the secretary to the first church president Joseph Smith. He helped develop the Avenues area of Salt Lake City. He also served a term as a representative to the Utah Territorial Legislature. He died of old age on May 14, 1945 in Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of 88 years old and was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery on May 18, 1945.
- Olivia Norrie was born on 22 November 1869 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Den svarte doktorn (1911), Loppen (1913) and Axel Breidahls Lotterigevinst (1913). She died on 7 November 1945.
- Additional Crew
Joseph Danilowatz was born on 22 November 1877 in Vienna. Joseph is known for Woman in the Moon (1929). Joseph died on 20 November 1945 in Vienna.- Actor
- Director
Buck Connors was born on 22 November 1880 in Streator, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Duke of Chimney Butte (1921), The Radio Detective (1926) and Straight Shootin' (1927). He was married to Hazel Powell. He died on 4 February 1947 in Yuma, Arizona, USA.- Vitaliy Perezhogin was born on 22 November 1889. He was an actor, known for Kara-bugaz (1935) and Sorochynskyi yarmarok (1939). He died on 22 May 1947.
- Jacques Leclerc was born on 22 November 1902 in Belloy-Saint-Leonard, Somme, France. He died on 28 November 1947 in Colomb-Bechar, Algeria.
- Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque was born on 22 November 1902 in Belloy Saint Léonard, Somme, France. He died on 28 November 1947 in Colomb-Bechar, Algeria.
- Esther Grenen was born on 22 November 1895 in Vienna, Austria. She was a writer, known for Det sägs på stan (1941). She died on 30 March 1948.
- Writer
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Vincent Valentini was born on 22 November 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Sepia Cinderella (1947), Paradise in Harlem (1939) and Convict's Code (1930). He died on 15 April 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.- Karin Alexandersson was born on 22 November 1878 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Fröken Julie (1912), För sin kärleks skull (1914) and Saints and Sorrows (1914). She died on 21 November 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Stunts
Steve Clemente was born on 22 November 1882 in Tonichi, Sonora, Mexico. He was an actor, known for King Kong (1933), The Most Dangerous Game (1932) and The Sideshow (1928). He was married to Cuca Arebalo. He died on 7 May 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Frank Graham was born on 22 November 1914 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Cosmo Jones in the Crime Smasher (1943), The Three Caballeros (1944) and Horton Hatches the Egg (1942). He died on 2 September 1950 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Writer
- Actor
- Producer
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide was born on November 22, 1869, in Paris, France. His father, named Paul Gide, was a professor of law at the University of Paris, he was a descendant from Cevennes Huhuenots. His mother, named Juliette Rondeaux, was a devoted Calvinist. He received an excellent private education at home, then at the Ecole Alsacienne.
At the age of 18 Gide started writing. His first book 'Les Cahiers d'Andre Walter' (The Notebooks of Andre Walter, 1891) was well received by his friend Stéphane Mallarmé. In 1893 and 1894 Gide made voyages to North Africa, where he learned different moral and sexual conventions. In Algiers he met Oscar Wilde and the two became close friends. Gide's early collection of prose and poetry 'Les nourritues terrestres' (Fruits of the Earth, 1897), gained popularity, influencing Guillaume Apollinaire, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as a generation of young writers. His serious illness and a near-death experience there, gave him material for his "twin" psychological novels 'l'immoraliste' (The Immoralist, 1902) and 'La porte etroite' (Strait is the Gate, 1909). In dialogues between the inner narrator and the outer narrator Gide tackled the Shakesperian question, reformulated as "to be free" vs "to get freedom."
In his 'La symphonie pastorale' (The Pastoral Symphony, 1919) Gide revealed the hypocrisy behind the mask of a pastor, who adopted a blind orphan girl. Pastor seduces the girl on the eve of her eye surgery; she opens her eyes only to see the ugly truth about people, then commits suicide. In 'Les faux-monnayeurs' and 'Le journal des feux-monnayeurs' (The Couterfreiters, 1926) he exposed the self-deception and counterfeit personality of the protagonist, Edouard, who falls in love with his nephew. Gide was alluding to his own relationship with his adopted son Marc Allegret, with whom he eloped to London in 1916. In 1923 Gide conceived a daughter named Catherine with his girlfriend Elisabeth van Rysselberghe. Gide's wife Madeleine died in 1938 after an unconsummated marriage.
Andre Gide was an admirer of Fyodor Dostoevsky from his youth. In 1923 he published a collection of his lectures on Dostoyevsky, in which he reconstitutes the writer's personality through the traits of the characters of his books. At that time Gide prepared the first public release of his 'Corydon', which was initially published privately in 1911. It received widespread condemnation, but was considered by Gide his most important work. He was praised by his friends, such as Marcel Proust, Paul Claudel, Paul Valéry and others; their correspondence was published in 1948. Gide collaborated with Sergei Diaghilev on a ballet production for the "Seasons Russes" in Paris. He was a regular member of 'literary Fridays' and developed a good friendship with Gertrude Stein.
Gide briefly associated with French communists, but he repudiated the Soviet communism after his 1936 voyage to the Soviet Union. His disillusionment with the communist doctrine was expressed in his contribution to 'The God That Failed' (1949). During the Second World War he lived in Tunis. Gide was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1947). He died on February 19, 1951. A fine literary biography of Andre Gide was written by André Maurois.