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- James Cook FRS (7 November 1728- 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
- Susan Coolidge was born on 29 January 1835 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was a writer, known for Katy (1976), How Does It End? (1952) and Katy (1962). She died on 9 April 1905 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Effie Ellsler was born on 17 September 1855 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Daddy Long Legs (1931), The Actress (1928) and The Lady of Scandal (1930). She was married to Frank Weston. She died on 8 October 1942 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Charles W. Chesnutt was born on 20 June 1858 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for Veiled Aristocrats (1932), The Conjure Woman (1926) and The House Behind the Cedars (1927). He died on 15 November 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- Alberta Lee was born on 21 March 1860 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Little Minister (1922), The Little Orphans (1915) and Reggie Mixes In (1916). She was married to John T. Huntignton and William Davis. She died on 12 November 1928 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Riley Hatch was born on 2 September 1862 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Conquest of Canaan (1921), The Plunderer (1915) and Night Life of New York (1925). He was married to Florence Estelle Wiesner. He died on 6 September 1925 in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Frank Beal was born on 11 September 1862 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Big Diamond Robbery (1929), The Inside of the White Slave Traffic (1913) and The Devil, the Servant and the Man (1912). He was married to Louise Lester. He died on 20 December 1934 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Charles T. Aldrich was born on 30 September 1867 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Magic Toy Maker (1915). He was married to Elizabeth M. Smalley and Gloria Gordon. He died on 20 November 1953 in Howell, New Jersey, USA.
- Vivia Ogden was born on 21 March 1869 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Way Down East (1920), Lovey Mary (1926) and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1919). She died on 22 December 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Harrison Rhodes was born on 2 June 1871 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for The Willow Tree (1920). He died on 20 September 1929 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK.
- Harrison Garfield Rhodes was born on 2 June 1871 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Harrison Garfield was a writer, known for An Adventure in Hearts (1919) and A Gentleman from Mississippi (1914). Harrison Garfield died on 21 September 1929 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK.
- Most fans of popular--and prolific--western novelist B.M. Bower would probably be shocked to find out that the "B.M." stood for "Bertha Muzzie", for B.M. Bower was indeed a woman. Born in Cleveland, MN, in 1871, her family moved to Montana when she was a small child and she grew up there, where she loved to jump on a horse and roam the open ranges, hanging out with real cowboys and absorbing as much western lore and history as she could. She married Clayton J. Bower when she was 19 (she married three times altogether). By 1904 she had published her most famous--and many consider her best--novel, "Chip of the Flying U". It sold very well and was brought to the screen three times--with Tom Mix (Chip of the Flying U (1914)), Hoot Gibson (Chip of the Flying U (1926)) and Johnny Mack Brown (Chip of the Flying U (1939)). She wrote several sequels to "Chip" among her prolific output. She eventually left Montana and moved to Oregon for a while, but then moved to Los Angeles, CA, where she died in 1940.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Composer, conductor and violinist. He studied for five years with Anton
Dvorak in Prague, then returned to America as violinist and
concertmaster with Victor Herbert in the Pittsburgh Symphony. He became
the musical director at the Hippodrome Theater in Cleveland, a
vaudeville house that became a movie palace. He published a vast
collection of music for scoring English and American silent films,
using at least fourteen pseudonyms. Moved to Hollywood in 1924, the
year he joined ASCAP. His popular-song compositions include among
others "Neapolitan Nights", "Out of the Dusk to You", "Indian Dawn",
"One Fleeting Hour", "Aloha Sunset Land", "My Paradise", "Spirit of
America", and "I'm A-Longin' fo' You".- Mary Foy was born on 9 August 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The House of Mystery (1934), Slightly Married (1932) and The White Rose (1923). She was married to Patrick Foy. She died on 18 June 1956 in New York, New York, USA.
- Vaughan Glaser was born on 17 November 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Saboteur (1942), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and Meet John Doe (1941). He was married to Lois Landon. He died on 23 November 1958 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- F.J. Godsol was born on 11 July 1873 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a producer, known for Sherlock Holmes (1922). He was married to Constance Elise de Vere. He died on 4 December 1934 in Switzerland.
- Stannard Mears was born on 5 August 1873 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for Seventeen (1940). He was married to Edna. He died on 27 January 1952 in Cliffside, New Jersey, USA.
- Writer
- Actor
- Composer
Frederick (or Frederic) Chapin had two careers: he was the composer who
wrote the score for L. Frank Baum's 1905
stage musical "The Woggle-Bug" and a number of other shows in that era,
including "The Storks" (1902), "Pussy in a Corner" (1904), "The
Forbidden Land" (1904), "The American Girl" (1906) and "The Maid and
the Millionaire" (1907). For the last of these, Chapin wrote the book
and lyrics as well as the music--an expansion from music to words that
would mark his later career as Hollywood screenwriter, although he
returned to composing music in 1938 for the nudist romance
Unashamed: A Romance (1938). In 1938, he took up
stand-in work using the name Fred Fuller (cf. New York Post, Feb 8,
1938).- John D. Rockefeller Jr. was born on 29 January 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was married to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. He died on 11 May 1960 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
- Virgil Williams was born on 29 April 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is known for The Brute (1920) and In the Depths of Our Hearts (1920).
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Contrary to his familiar image, Clarence Kolb started out as one half
of a vaudeville comedy act, Kolb and Dill. He made a few shorts in 1916
and a feature in 1917, but went back to vaudeville and the stage
immediately thereafter, and did not return to films until the late
1930s. His stern, authoritarian looks and booming voice fit the
irascible, bombastic politicians and businessmen--usually crooked to a
greater or lesser degree--he played so well. Best remembered as the
fast-talking, corrupt mayor in the classic His Girl Friday (1940) and Mr. Honeywell,
Vern Albright's boss, in the TV series My Little Margie (1952).- Ed McFarland was born on 3 August 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He died on 28 November 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- Writer
- Actor
- Director
Eugene Walter was born on 27 November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Sealed Hearts (1919), Woman Trap (1936) and The Knife (1918). He was married to Mary Kissel and Charlotte Walker. He died on 26 September 1941 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Madlaine Traverse was born in Cleveland, Ohio with the birth name of
Madlaine Businsky. SHe was a silent film actress who began her career
in 1913 with the production of LEAH KLESCHNA. She would be in an
average of one film per year for the next six years. However, in 1919,
Madlaine appeared in seven feature productions. After five more in
1920, Madlaine left films after the filming of THE IRON HEART. She died
in the city of her birth on January 7, 1964. - Actor
Forrest Huff was born on 22 August 1876 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor. He was married to Elfrieda Busing (aka Fritzi von Busing, actress). He died on 21 August 1947 in New York City, New York, USA.- Max Dill was born on 15 September 1876 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Glory (1917), Peck o' Pickles (1916) and Lonesome Town (1916). He died on 21 November 1949 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Entering the film industry almost at its beginning, Oscar Apfel began
his career in 1911 as a director. He hit the big leagues in 1914 when
he was given many prestigious assignments for Paramount Pictures, often
in collaboration with Cecil B. DeMille. In 1916, he switched to Fox, and then
freelanced for many smaller studios. His directing career began to
fizzle out in the 1920s, and he wound up churning out low-budget
features for minor studios. He retired from directing in 1927 and began
a new career as a character actor, often cast as a senior government
official, banker, businessman or other type of authority
figure.- Composer
- Soundtrack
Composer of familiar Irish songs ("When Irish Eyes are Smiling",
"Mother Machree", "A Little Bit of Heaven") and pianist, educated at
the Cleveland Conservatory. He was a staff composer for a music
publishing company from 1907 to 1927, and a vaudeville pianist
throughout the USA. He joined ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, and
wrote the stage scores for Broadway musicals including "The Heart of
Paddy Whack", and "Macushla". His chief musical collaborators included
New York Mayor James J. Walker, Chauncey Olcott, George Graff, Darl
MacBoyle, J. Kiern Brennan, Annelu Burns, and Arthur Penn, and David
Reed. His other popular-song compositions include "Will You Love Me in
December As You Do In May?"; "Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold";
""Love Me and the World Is Mine"; "Saloon; "Dear Little Boy of Mine";
"I'll Forget You"; "Let the Rest of the World Go By"; "In the Garden of
My Heart"; "My Dear"; "Who Knows?"; "Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless
You"; "Turn Back the Universe"; "I Love the Name of Mary"; "To the End
of the World With You"; "West of the Great Divide"; "Ireland is Ireland
to Me"; "She's the Daughter of Mother Machree"; "To Have, To Hold, To
Love"; "Mother of Pearl"; "For the Sake of Auld Lang Syne"; and "You
Planted a Rose".- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Arthur Hopkins was born on 4 October 1878 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for His Double Life (1933), Swing High, Swing Low (1937) and Redemption (1930). He was married to Eva O'Brien MacDonald and Nancy Iva Marshall. He died on 22 March 1950 in New York City, New York, USA.- Scott was born on 18 November 1879 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Take Off That Hat (1938), Kentucky Minstrels (1934) and On the Air (1934). He died on 22 June 1947 in Balham, London, England, UK.
- Actress
- Production Manager
Mrs. Medill McCormick was born on 27 March 1880 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress and production manager, known for Your Girl and Mine: A Woman Suffrage Play (1914) and Helen's Stratagem (1913). She died on 31 December 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.- S.J. Bingham was born on 28 April 1880 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for A Midnight Bell (1921), Thru the Flames (1923) and When Romance Rides (1922). He died on 9 January 1962 in Riverside, California, USA.
- Costume Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Guy S. Duty was born on 4 August 1880 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Guy S. was a costume designer, known for Young America (1932), Over the Hill (1931) and Good Sport (1931). Guy S. died in December 1973 in Bronx, New York, USA.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Jack Grey was born on 11 October 1880 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for So Long Letty (1929), Alias Mary Smith (1932) and Sunshine Alley (1917). He died on 12 April 1956 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Jack Harvey was born on 16 September 1881 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Getting 'Em Right (1925), Kaiser's Finish (1918) and Unknown Island (1948). He was married to Beulah Susan Riley. He died on 9 November 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Mrs. Rupert Hughes was born on 7 May 1882 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Mrs. Rupert was a writer, known for Gloria's Romance (1916) and Gimme (1923). Mrs. Rupert was married to Rupert Hughes and George Bissell. Mrs. Rupert died on 4 December 1923 in Haiphong, China.
- American playwright, many of whose plays were filmed. The leading light
of early twentieth-century light comedy and farce and one of the most
commercially successful playwrights of his era, Hopwood, a native of
Cleveland, Ohio, graduated from the University of Michigan, which would
later be the beneficiary of much of his substantial estate. He began a
career as a journalist for a Cleveland newspaper as its New York
correspondent, but within a year had one of his plays, "Clothes,"
produced on Broadway. Thereafter followed a string of hits written
solely or in collaboration, among them "Getting Gertie's Garter," "The
Bat," and "Seven Days." His plays were looked upon at the time as
extremely risqué and one of them, "The Demi-Virgin," which featured
suggestive subject matter and near-nude actresses, led to a Supreme
Court determination over its alleged obscenity. (The court ruled in
Hopwood's favor.) His Prohibition-era plays of flappers, bathtub gin,
and jazz were iconic for his age, and his own life was reflected in
aspects of his plays. He was a heavy drug and alcohol user, and he kept
his homosexuality tightly concealed. Despite making millions of dollars
a year in royalties, he was known as a tightwad. An inveterate
proponent of night life, he died while vacationing on the Riviera under
somewhat mysterious circumstances. Ultimately it was ruled that he had
drowned, though bruises on his body and the simultaneous presence in
the vicinity of an angry ex-lover who had reportedly threatened him
have kept suspicion alive. The University of Michigan established the
Hopwood Prize with his bequest, providing funds and education for many
future leading lights of the American theatre. - Eddie Foyer was born on 13 March 1883 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Big House (1930) and One Day to Live (1930). He died on 15 June 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Margaret Joslin was born on 6 August 1883 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for A Snakeville Courtship (1913), Sophie's New Foreman (1913) and Sophie's Hero (1913). She was married to Harry Todd. She died on 14 October 1956 in Glendale, California, USA.
- Walter Shumway was born on 26 October 1884 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and director, known for What Becomes of the Children? (1918), What Becomes of the Children? (1936) and Catch-As-Catch-Can (1927). He was married to Corra Beach. He died on 13 January 1965 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Roland West was born in Cleveland, OH, and became an actor in the
theater and on the vaudeville stage. He got his start in the film
industry in New York City around 1915, forming several production
companies to shoot films there. He later worked as general manager of
production for producer
Joseph M. Schenck, and
directed several comedies and dramas.
He gained a reputation for moody,
atmospheric horror films in
The Monster (1925),
The Bat (1926) and
The Bat Whispers (1930). his last film as director was Corsair (1931),
after which he retired and went into business with actresses
Jewel Carmen (his ex-wife) and
Thelma Todd (his girlfriend at the time) in a
restaurant/bar on the Santa Monica (CA) beach called Thelma Todd's
Sidewalk Cafe. The popular establishment also gained a reputation as a
hangout for a variety of shady underworld characters, and there were
rumors of Todd and West being pressured by mob figures to use the place
as a front to enable them to get their wealthy Hollywood friends
drunk and in compromising positions so they could be blackmailed. In
1935 Todd was found slumped over the steering wheel of her car, with
the engine still running, in the adjacent apartment building's garage,
the victim of "accidental carbon monoxide poisoning", although many in
her circle believed she was murdered by gangsters because she wouldn't
let them use her restaurant for their activities. Others believed she
was killed by West himself, who was known to have a violent temper and
to have fought with Todd on numerous occasions. Her murder is still
listed as unsolved.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Frank Kesson was born on 27 August 1885 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for One Stolen Night (1929), The Sea Beast (1926) and While London Sleeps (1926). He died on 29 September 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.- Rube Marquard was born on 9 October 1886 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Rube Marquard Marries (1912), Rube Marquard Wins (1912) and The Baseball Revue of 1917 (1917). He was married to Blossom Seeley. He died on 1 June 1980 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- Calvin Reisland was born on 18 December 1886 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Burglar and the Lady (1914) and The Lass o' Killikrankie (1914). He died on 28 August 1974 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Frank Moran was born on 18 March 1887 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Sullivan's Travels (1941), Battle of Broadway (1938) and No More Women (1934). He died on 14 December 1967 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Inez Wallace was born on 25 June 1888 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA. She was a writer, known for I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Ritual (2002) and Cineficción Radio (2019). She died on 28 June 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- Marguerite Namara was born on 19 November 1888 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Carmen (1931), Stolen Moments (1920) and Thirty Day Princess (1934). She was married to George Hoy, Guy Bolton and Frederick H. Toye. She died on 3 November 1974 in Marbella, Spain.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Harry Woods was born on 5 May 1889 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Viking (1928), Monkey Business (1931) and Colorado Territory (1949). He was married to Helen P. Hookenberry. He died on 28 December 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Art Department
- Location Management
Bert Jackson was born on 6 September 1889 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was married to Ruth L. Meyers McDonald and Mary Meyers. He died on 16 February 1964 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Jimmy Johnston was born on 10 December 1889 in Cleveland, Tennessee, USA. He died on 14 February 1967 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.