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John Bunyan was born on 28 November 1628 in Harrowden, Northamptonshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Life of John Bunyan (1912), Pilgrim's Progress (1912) and Dangerous Journey (1961). He died on 31 August 1688 in London, England, UK.- Music Department
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Jean-Baptiste Lully was born on 28 November 1632 in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany [now Tuscany, Italy]. He was a composer, known for The Brothers Grimm (2005), Quills (2000) and The BFG (2016). He died on 22 March 1687 in Paris, France.- Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve was a French author, best known for writing the original version of the fairy tale "La Belle et la Bête", or "Beauty and the Beast" in English. Born to Jean Barbot, squire, lord of Romagné and Mothais, councilor of the King at the Presidial of La Rochelle, and of Dame Suzanne Allaire, her original name was Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot, lady of Romagné and Mothais. Barbot was born and died in Paris, France, but belonged to a powerful Protestant family from La Rochelle. In 1706, Barbot married Jean-Baptiste Gaalon de Barzay, knight, lord of Villeneuve, a member of an aristocratic family from Poitou and lieutenant-colonel of infantry at the Berville Regiment. Gabrielle-Suzanne became a widow at the age of 26 and progressively lost her family fortune and was forced to seek a means of employment to support herself.
Eventually, she made her way to Paris where she embarked on her literary career. There, she met Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, or Crébillon, père, whom she lived with until her death.
Her tale, Beauty and the Beast was published in La Jeune Américaine, et les Contes marins in 1740. Barbot de Villeneuve may have heard this tale from a maid while she was traveling to America. After her death, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont re-wrote the tale in an abridged form and published it in 1756 in her Magasin des enfants to teach young English girls a moral lesson. Beaumont's edition is more well-known than this original version. In fact, Barbot de Villeneuve was not credited in Leprince de Beaumont's publication. - Writer
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William Blake (28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and print-maker. Largely unrecognized during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God" or "human existence itself".- Writer
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Carl Jonas Love Almqvist was born on 28 November 1793 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was a writer, known for Tintomara (1970), Natten den 19 november (1978) and Drottningens juvelsmycke (1967). He died on 26 September 1866 in Bremen, Germany.- Soundtrack
Edwin Pearce Christy was an American composer, actor and stage producer, most famous for founding the most successful black-face minstrel show of the 19th century, Christy's Minstrels. Born in Philadelphia, his career as a minstrel and singer began in Buffalo, New York, where he performed singing in the Edwin Dean Company in 1836. By 1843, the group was growing in popularity and began touring in and around upstate New York until 1846, when Christy took over management of the group. As Christy's Minstrels, they began performing in New York City at Palmo's Opera House. After performing at an 1847 benefit in Cincinnati for young songwriter Stephen Foster, the group began to specialize in performances of Foster's works and were instrumental in spreading the popularity of the songs of America's first professional songwriter. Foster even sold his song, Old Folks at Home (aka Swanee River) to Christy for his exclusive use, although this was done most likely due to Foster's ongoing financial difficulties due to the lack of enforcement of music copyrights back then. In the early to mid-1850's, Christy's Minstrels were one of the top stage attractions in New York City. Christy himself retired as a performer in 1855 but continued in entertainment, running a chain of theaters called Christy's Opera House in several cities, while his stepson George continued with the minstrel group. However, due to marriage and other personal problems, and afraid of the financial damage he was suffering due to the effects of the Civil War, on May 20, 1862, Christy committed suicide by throwing himself from a window at his residence at 78 East 18th Street in Manhattan. He died the next day from his injuries and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.- He was a German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, together with Karl Marx.
In 1845 he published "The Condition of the Working Class in England", based on personal observations and research in Manchester.
In 1848 he co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with Karl Marx, and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write "Das Kapital".
After Marx's death, Engels edited the second and third volumes. Additionally, Engels organized Marx's notes on the "Theories of Surplus Value," which he later published as the 'fourth volume' of "Das Kapital".
He has also made important contributions to family economics. - Leslie Stephen was born on 28 November 1832 in Kensington Gore, London, England, UK. He was married to Harriet Marian Thackeray and Julia Prinsep Jackson. He died on 22 February 1904 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
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Pál Gozsdu was born on 28 November 1849 in Ercsi, Hungary. He was a writer, known for Köd (1994). He died on 26 May 1919 in Temesvár, Hungary.- Patrick O'Donnell was born on 28 November 1856 in Glenties, County Donegal, Ireland. He died on 22 October 1927 in Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland.
- Viktoria Pohl-Meiser was born on 28 November 1858 in Munich, Germany. She was an actress, known for Der Meineidbauer (1915), Das vierte Gebot (1920) and Ssanin (1924). She died on 17 June 1936 in Mödling, Lower Austria, Austria.
- Edgar Jepson was born on 28 November 1863 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Polly Redhead (1917), The Loudwater Mystery (1921) and Her Winning Way (1921). He died on 11 April 1938 in London, England, UK.
- Lindley M. Garrison was born on 28 November 1864 in Camden, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Million Dollar Mystery (1914), Mutual Weekly, No. 21 (1913) and Pathé's Weekly, No. 26 (1913). He died on 19 October 1932 in Sea Bright, New Jersey, USA.
- John Barrett was born on 28 November 1866 in Grafton, Windham County, Vermont, USA. He died on 17 October 1938 in Bellows Falls, Vermont, USA.
- David Warfield was born on 28 November 1866 in San Francisco, California, USA. He died on 27 July 1951 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Henry K. Chambers was born on 28 November 1867 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Henry K. was a writer, known for An American Widow (1917). Henry K. was married to Maria Cristina Mena and Mary Williams. Henry K. died on 5 September 1935 in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Marta Golden was born on 28 November 1868 in Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Revenge (1928), A Janitor's Wife's Temptation (1915) and All Stuck Up (1915). She was married to John Arthur Raynes. She died on 15 July 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Alfredo Sainati was born on 28 November 1868 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was an actor, known for La sonata a Kreutzer (1920), L'unico peccato (1922) and Maestro Landi (1935). He was married to Bella Starace Sainati. He died on 10 January 1936 in Bertinoro, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Maiju Lassila was born on 28 November 1868 in Tohmajärvi, Finland. He was a writer, known for Tulitikkuja lainaamassa (1938), Za spichkami (1980) and Nuori mylläri (1958). He was married to Therese Marie Johanna Küstring. He died on 21 May 1918 in Helsinki, Finland.
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Bill Mead was born on 28 November 1869 in Ohio, USA. He died on 22 April 1941 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Frederick Victor was born on 28 November 1869 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Little Lord Fauntleroy (1957), Tower of Strength (1919) and Great Expectations (1959). He died on 24 October 1962 in Finsbury, London, England, UK.
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Carlo Lombardo was born on 28 November 1869 in Naples, Italy. He was a writer, known for The Island Monster (1954), La duchessa del Bal Tabarin (1917) and Frou-frou del tabarin (1976). He died on 19 December 1959 in Milan, Italy.- Writer
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Andrzej Strug was born on 28 November 1871 in Lublin, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Mocny czlowiek (1929), Grzeszna milosc (1929) and Przedwiosnie (1928). He died on 9 December 1937 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Émilienne Dux was born on 28 November 1874 in Loire, France. She was an actress, known for Nelly (1919), Irène (1920) and Le roman d'un spahi (1914). She died on 9 March 1950 in Paris, France.
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Karl Meinhardt was born on 28 November 1875 in Iglau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Jihlava, Czech Republic]. He was an actor and writer, known for Trenck - Der Roman einer großen Liebe (1932), Hochzeitsreise zu dritt (1932) and Voyage de noces (1932). He was married to Ebba von Fock, Ludmilla Hell and Rosa Klaus. He died on 12 February 1949 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Károly Ferenczy was born on 28 November 1876 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for A Kormánybiztos (1919), The Eternal Secret (1938) and Maga talán beteg (1908). He died in 1945 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Born in O'Porto, where his father, Spanish engineer Nicolau de Caldevilla, married Josefa Garcia de Caldevilla, and was working in 1878. He was brought up with a strict education, completed college (Curso Superior de Comércio), and at 26-years-old, was appointed by Portugal as deputy-consul to Cadiz (1904), in Spain. Subsequently he worked as commercial agent for the union of producers of O'Porto Wine, for practically all the Latin American countries, Marrocco, Egypt, and the Middle East.
He started a an advertising business at Buenos Aires, Argentina, and became know for his creative methods, sometimes spectacular. In Paris, France, he attended the École de Hautes Études de Commerce, taking the lessons from Octave-Jacques Guérin.
He wrote humor and general interest chronicles for newspapers, was a stage amateur actor, translated one comedy by the brothers Quintero, "Castelos no Ar", and wrote four plays himself. As a publicist, he wrote a number of specialized booklets.
In 30 December 1916, he founded the society Raul de Caldevilla & Cia. Lda., Oporto, Portugal, a Production company better known as Caldevilla Film with other local businessmen, such as Eduardo Kendall, João Manuel Lopes de Oliveira and António de Oliveira Calém. He was the sole manager until May 1922, when Raul Lopes de Oliveira took over the cinematographic section of the company, and Caldevilla presented his contract termination the 24 March 1923.
He was a member of Société des Amis d'O.J. Gérin, O'Porto's Association of Journalists and Writers, and the distinguished Geographical Society of Lisbon. He was given the Colars of Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, Cruce Roja (Spain), and Ordem Militar de Cristo (Portugal).- Additional Crew
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Jesse D. Hampton was born on 28 November 1879 in Galesburg, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The Drifters (1919), What Every Woman Wants (1919) and A Woman of Pleasure (1919). He died on 1 June 1968 in Monterey, California, USA.- Estella Hickman was born on 28 November 1879 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for No Luck (1923). She died on 12 September 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Here he grew up in the educated Jewish middle class, together with his brother Alfred. The Zweig family was not religious. He passed his high school diploma at the Wasagymnasium in Vienna. Zweig wrote his first poems here. At that time he was influenced by writers such as Hugo von Hofmannstahl and Rainer Maria Rilke. In 1901, Stefan Zweig's first volume of poetry entitled "Silberne Saiten" was published. He also began translating works by French writers at this time. In 1904 he completed his doctorate in German and Romance studies. Until 1910 he traveled extensively through Europe. The focus here was on exchanges with other writers and artists, with whom he mostly maintained friendship through intensive correspondence. By 1911, works such as "Tersites", "The House by the Sea" and "Burning Secret" as well as his first biography "Émile Verhaeren" had been created.
With his work "First Experience. Four Stories from Kinderland," Zweig approached an intuitive psychological style. At the beginning of the First World War, Stefan Zweig signed up as a volunteer. Here he was employed in the war press quarters until 1917. To demonstrate against war in any form, he wrote the drama "Jeremiah", which premiered in Zurich in 1918. From 1918 onwards, Zweig also worked as a journalist and correspondent for the Swiss newspaper "Neue Freie Presse". He also uses this medium to publish his non-partisan views. After the end of the war he settled in Salzburg. His idea was to found a spiritually, holistically and humanistically motivated alliance in Europe. So he began, initially in numerous lectures and essays, to warn against radicalization through nationalism and to call for calm, diplomacy and patience.
In 1920, Zweig published the writings "Fear", "The Compulsion" and, from 1920, three essays about master builders of the world: "Three Masters", in 1925 "The Fight with the Demon" and in 1928 "Three Poets of Their Life". Zweig enjoyed great stage success in 1926 with his adaptation of Ben Jonson's "Volpone". The publication of the book "Star Hours of Humanity" in 1927 was equally successful. In 1928 he traveled to the Soviet Union, where his books were also published in Russian at the instigation of Maxim Gorki, with whom he corresponded. After the NSDAP came to power in Germany, Stefan Zweig fled to London for fear of persecution. The book "Impatience of the Heart" was written here. From 1934 onwards, his works were no longer published in Germany and with the annexation of Austria to the Third Reich in 1938, production in his homeland also stopped. In 1935, Zweig wrote the libretto for the opera "Die schweigsame Frau" for Richard Strauss.
In 1936 the NSDAP immediately banned the sale of all of his works. His first marriage ended in divorce in 1938, and his second marriage was to Charlotte Altmann in 1939. In 1940 he received English citizenship from Great Britain. Nevertheless, he left Europe and traveled on to New York. In 1942 his chess novella and the monograph Brazil were published. After a short stay he visited Argentina and Paraguay. He then settled in Brazil. Here Stefan Zweig fell into deep sadness and depression.
Stefan Zweig committed suicide on February 22, 1942 in Petrópolis, near Rio de Janeiro. In 1944 his autobiography was published posthumously under the title "The World of Yesterday".- Costume Designer
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Brymer was born on 28 November 1881 in Kansas, USA. Brymer was a costume designer, known for The Invisible Ray (1935), Moonlight and Pretzels (1933) and Make a Wish (1937). Brymer was married to Earl Brymer. Brymer died on 28 March 1970 in Riverside, California, USA.- Sam Patterson was born on 28 November 1881 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Harlem After Midnight (1934) and God's Step Children (1938). He died on 16 May 1955 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Marie Svimberská was born on 28 November 1882 in Horní Redice, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Turbina (1941), Modrý závoj (1943) and Minulost Jany Kosinové (1940). She died on 18 April 1944 in Chrudim, Protektorát Cechy a Morava.
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Jacques Bizeul was born on 28 November 1882 in Blain, Loire-Atlantique, France. Jacques was a cinematographer, known for The Marriage Price (1919), The Ordeal of Rosetta (1918) and Eyes of the Soul (1919). Jacques died on 23 June 1925 in Paris, France.- Arthur Stone was born on 28 November 1883 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Burning Daylight (1928), The Vagabond King (1930) and On the Level (1930). He was married to Dorothy Westmore. He died on 4 September 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Harry Levette was born on 28 November 1883 in Bridgeport, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for While Thousands Cheer (1940), Gang Smashers (1938) and Take My Life (1942). He died on 3 October 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- In his sketches, popular French comedian'Fernand Raynaud' was often bullied by a self-righteous sharp-tongued spinster called Mademoiselle Lelongbec, the parish organist. Tall, lean and unattractive, Maximilenne (born Henriette Genty in 1884) seemed born to play the part and she WAS the obvious choice for director Robert Darène when, in 1958, he prepared to film a Fernand Raynaud's vehicle entitled "Houla Houla". Donning the attire of Mlle Lelongbec Maximilenne had the distinguished opportunity to nag poor Fernand, on the big screen this time around. A role that epitomizes a long screen career, spanning the three decades between the advent of the sound period and the birth of the French New Wave. During this time, she embodied innumerable female authority figures such as a mother superior ("La route enchantée"), a school mistress ("Simplet"), the headmistress of a reform school("Prison sans barreaux"), a Salvation Army general ("L'armoire volante") or a princess ("Le disque 1413"). She was rarely married in her films, most of the time she was the narrow-minded old maid. She was at her best as such in the role of one of the boarding house guests in Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1942 masterpiece "L'assassin habite au 21". And when she had indeed married in a movie, she was usually a widow: her late husband had chosen to leave life prematurely to escape her! Occasionally one of the old maids and aunts she was given to play were affectionate, notably in Fritz Lang's "Liliom " (1933). But whether her characters were good or bad, Maximilienne had been one of those colorful character actors and actresses the French cinema of the classic era could not do without. And she will be fondly remembered for that.
- Rùzena Nasková was born on 28 November 1884 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Prague, Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Príklady táhnou (1939), Ahasver (1915) and Teticka (1941). She died on 17 June 1960 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Prague, Czech Republic].
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John Willard was born on 28 November 1885 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Cat Creeps (1930), The Cat and the Canary (1939) and The Cat and the Canary (1927). He was married to Roberta Arnold. He died on 30 August 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Cornelius van Oyen was born on 28 November 1886. He died on 19 January 1954.
- Born in Munich in 1887, Ernst Röhm joined the German army as a teenager and served in World War I. He became acquainted with Adolf Hitler in 1919. Hitler shrewdly took note of Röhm's intensely militaristic nature, his experience in the war and the fact that he was the leader of an extreme right-wing paramilitary organization called the Frontbann--one of many such units, called "freikorps", that existed in Germany at the time--and he persuaded Röhm to join his fledgling Nazi party.
Röhm, along with Hitler, was among the Nazi participants in the abortive "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich in 1923, and within a few years he took on a major role in the development of the Nazi party. He formed a group called the Sturmabteilung, or SA--the notorious "Storm Troopers", comprised mainly of street thugs, brawlers, ex-convicts and fanatical right-wing German nationalists. Röhm turned them into a tough, disciplined military unit, fanatically devoted to Hitler and Naziism. The SA took part in many violent clashes with Nazi opponents on both the left and the right, and were responsible for the deaths of quite a few, whether as the result of street fights or outright political murders. The unit soon gained a fearsome reputation, which eventually proved to be Röhm's undoing.
As the SA began to become more widely known and feared, Röhm wanted it to be independent of the Nazi party's political arm and also wanted to be able to act on his own. Hitler, in his desire to exercise complete control over all facets of the party's structure, expressly forbade this, and soon began to suspect Röhm of plotting a coup against him, especially when he discovered that most of the senior SA leadership was more devoted to Röhm than they were to him. Hitler also had instructed Röhm to tone down the increasingly radical behavior of his "brownshirts", which were beginning to give the Nazi party a bad name (one of the reasons the party usually did so poorly in elections was the public's revulsion at and distrust of the SA's tactics). The situation resulted in Röhm's resigning from the party and taking a job in South America training the Bolivian army. However, although Hitler placed men more to his liking in charge of the SA, the unit began getting more and more out of control, finally incurring the enmity of the German army, which demanded that Hitler clamp down on the SA or it would do so. Desperate to avoid any confrontation with the army--whose support he knew he would need when it came time for him to grab power--Hitler re-installed Röhm as head of the SA to bring it back under control. However, not only did the SA grow even more violent and unpredictable under Röhm, but he managed to mollify the army and even secured use of military facilities at which to train his men, whose numbers were now increased by Röhm's absorption of several independent paramilitary groups into the SA. By this time the Nazi party was beginning to accumulate some political power in Germany, and the SA's continuing violence and brutal tactics were threatening to undermine that power. By 1934 it had grown to more than two million members--more than 20 times the strength of the regular German army, which now looked upon it in alarm as both a rival for power and a threat to Germany itself. In addition, Röhm's ardent socialism alienated many of the wealthy businessmen and industrialists who bankrolled the Nazi party, and his blatant homosexuality--and that of many of the SA's top leaders--were beginning to cost Hitler support among conservative religious and political groups, which up to then had backed him strongly. Hitler also again suspected that Röhm and the SA were planning a coup against him now that they believed they were stronger than Hitler and his colleagues.
On the night of June 29, 1934, the leadership of the SA held an important meeting in Munich, which Hitler promised to attend. Instead, he sent several carloads of SS troops there, and they arrested Röhm and the other top leaders of the SA. Other arrests of SA leaders took place in cities around the country, and many others were simply shot as soon as they were located. Röhm and much of the SA leadership were thrown into prison, and Röhm himself was shot by two SS executioners in his cell when he refused to commit suicide. It is estimated that several hundred SA officials were killed that night and in the following several days, a period that has become known as the "Night of the Long Knives", although the real numbers will never be known. The SA was disbanded, with some of its members being absorbed into the SS, and one more threat to Hitler's grab for absolute power in Germany was eliminated. - Writer
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Songwriter ("Hello, Frisco, Hello"), composer and publisher, one of the nine founders of ASCAP in 1914 and an ASCAP director between 1917 and 1924. He was educated at the City College of New York and the Stern Academy in Berlin (with Rafael Joseffy). His career began as a staff pianist with the Gus Edwards, and Shapiro & Bernstein music companies, and later he wrote songs for the Lew Dockstader Minstrels. Between 1912 and 1914 he was a staff composer for the Shubert brothers, and he wrote the Broadway stage scores for "He Came from Milwaukee", "Revue of Revues", "Vera Violeta", "Passing Show of 1912", "Ziegfeld Follies" (four editions), "Going Up", "The Rainbow Girl", "Oh, My Dear", "See Saw", "Mary", "The O'Brien Girl", "Greenwich Follies" (1922 and 1923), and "Betty Lee". He was in partnership with the Victoria Publishing Company,and his chief musical collaborators included Otto Harbach, Edward Madden, Irving Caesar, Harold Atteridge and Gene Buck. His other popular-song compositions include "'Neath the Southern Moon" (also titled "'Neath the South Sea Moon"), "The Tickle Toe", "The Gaby Glide", "Always Together", "Garden of Your Dreams", "Hold Me in Your Loving Arms", "Going Up", "My Sumurum Girl", "Mary", "Love Is Like a Red Red Rose", "When I Found You", "Beautiful Island of Girls", "My Rambler Rose", "The Love Nest", "I Am Thinking of You", and "Annabel Lee".- Jeanne Provost was born on 28 November 1887 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for The Queen's Necklace (1912), Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938) and Portrait of a Woman (1942). She died on 24 November 1980 in Meaux, France.
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S.A. Baldridge was born on 28 November 1887 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for The Hellion (1919), Yvonne from Paris (1919) and Their Mutual Child (1920). He died on 14 July 1979 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Charles Racey was born on 28 November 1887 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is known for Vultures of Society (1916), Twice Into the Light (1915) and The River of Romance (1915).
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Gladys Percey was born on 28 November 1887 in Pasadena, California, USA. She is known for The Ten Commandments (1956), The Buccaneer (1958) and Samson and Delilah (1949). She died on 26 July 1970 in Pasadena, California, USA.- Bobby Watson's acting career began in the late 19th Century, in Springfield, Illinois. At age 10 he had the peanut concession on Saturday afternoons at Springfield's only dance hall, the Olympic Theatre. By age 12 he graduated to the evening concession, and joyously studied the travelling variety acts that came through the town. When he was 15, the theatre manager offered him a chance to show what he had learned from watching all the acts. His first performance consisted of two comedic impressions, the first was a blackface act and the second was a drunken Irishman. Bobby was immediately put on the Olympic payroll. A travelling medicine show, called "Kickapoo Remedies Show" (a name W.C. Fields might have used with good effect), came through Springfield and the owner of the Kickapoo medicine show took Watson out of Springfield to perform with him all over the mid west. Apparently unafraid of criticism, Watson performed the female role "Rosalind" by William Shakespeare, and the comedy mold was cast. From then on, Watson was often, but not exclusively, cast as an effeminate or unathletic character. While in Chicago, he was offered a job with Gus Edwards' shows in New York's Martinique Hotel and Coney Island, Brooklyn. While entertaining the crowds at Coney Island, the Broadway producers Cohan and Harris hired him to replace Frank Craven in the 1918 musical "Going Up." From that point on, he was destined to remain as one of the worthwhile "finds" of the theatre, and subsequently, films. A big break came in 1919 in the form of an original musical "Irene" (songs by Joseph McCarthy & Harry Tierney) with Edith Day. Watson became one of the most beloved characters in the show, portraying a popular male modiste (dressmaker) nicknamed "Madame Lucy." The show was a huge success, and a few years later he appeared in a revival of it with Irene Dunne, with whom he would be reunited in the film "The Awful Truth" (1937). He appeared in another Cohan musical show, "The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly" in 1923, and shortly thereafter he was approached with film offers. Bobby Watson is one of those versatile actors every filmgoer has seen many times playing memorable character parts. Beginning in 1942, Watson was cast as Adolf Hitler in more films than any other actor. The list of titles includes "Hitler: Dead or Alive," "The Hitler Gang," "Miracle of Morgan's Creek" and "That Nazty Nuisance." Since his earliest films, he portrayed all kinds of roles; interior decorator, radio announcer, hotel manager, a dance director, a band leader, dress maker, detective, and even a diction coach (uncredited) in "Singin' in the Rain."
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Jane Crowley was born on 28 November 1888 in Urbana, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for A Son of the Plains (1931) and Headin' North (1930). She died on 7 August 1970 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Starting out as the breadwinner for her family, Nina Wilcox Putnam made many sacrifices to succeed. Although she is most known today by her connection to the 1932 classic, "The Mummy", throughout her long life Nina had many claims to fame. In her early career as an accountant she is attached to the origins of the 1040 tax form. Her name made headlines as the wife of Robert Faulkner Putnam, the publisher. In the world of comic books, she had the series, "Sunny Funny Bunny". Beginning in 1929 Nina invaded the land of the comic strip with, "Witty Kitty". However, the career she stayed the longest with was as a novelist. Her most popular work, based on the many editions printed throughout the years, is the children's book, "Sunny Bunny". It didn't hurt that the illustrator was Johnny Gruelle ("Raggedy Ann & Andy"). Her other books include: "Paris Love", "Believe You Me", "Tomorrow We Diet", Winkle Twinkle and "Lollypop". The film Golden Harvest (1933) was based on a play she had written. She was also known as an avid traveler.
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Mishka Egan was born on 28 November 1888 in Russia. He was an actor. He died on 15 February 1964 in Hollywood, California, USA.