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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.
- Alfred Henry Lewis, noted journalist and author, was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1855, the son of Isaac Lewis, a carpenter. When Lewis was quite young his family moved to Painesville, Ohio. Alfred H. Lewis married in Richfield, Ohio in 1879 to Miss Alice Ewing, the daughter of Dr. A. E. Ewing.
Lewis was educated as a lawyer and began to practice in Cleveland. From 1879 to 1881 he was a police prosecutor in that city. While still a lawyer, Lewis began to dabble in newspaper work as a Cleveland police reporter. About 1882, he moved west to Kansas City, and from there traveled in the southwest collecting frontier lore from the colorful characters of Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. The cowboys and miners Lewis met in his western travels became the dominant figures in his books. His first western sketches were printed in Kansas City newspapers. They were stories of the "Old Cattleman," signed "Dan Quin," his pseudonym.
Lewis was a prodigious worker. In 15 years he produced 18 works, many of which were widely popular. He specialized in western stories and tales of the New York underworld. Among his most popular books were the "Wolfville" series, "The Sunset Trail", Episodes of Cowboy Life", "Peggy O'Neil", and "The Boss".
By 1890, Lewis was an established journalist, a writer of political articles, by which he established a reputation as one of the foremost political writers of the country.
In the newspaper field Lewis was best known as Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times and New York Journal. He was a regular contributor to Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan and other magazines. In 1896 Lewis became the Washington correspondent for the Hearst newspapers and held that position for two years. He then became editor of "The Verdict," a humorous weekly, but soon turned his attention again to fiction and political writing for the Hearst newspapers.
In his later years, he was described as a short, squatty man with a square chin. He was noted for the prodigious amounts of coffee he drank each day.
Two of his brothers, Irving and William, controlled the publication of the New York Morning Telegraph, a theatrical daily newspaper.
He died at the age of 59 from an intestinal disorder on December 23, 1914 in Manhattan, New York. He was survived by his wife, Alice and his two brothers.
Like Bret Harte and Mark Twain, he first came into prominence through his stories of the west. It is probable he caught the spirit and vernacular of the latter-day West more accurately than any writer of his era. He had a host of imitators, but it was he that set the pace in rich humor and measured pathos and simple human nature. - 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.
- Lois Scott was born on 2 June 1900 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Virgin (1924), The White Panther (1924) and Berlin Via America (1918). She was married to Mulford, Alfred A.. She died on 2 September 1924 in 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.
- 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".- Elita Proctor Otis was born in 1851 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909), Oliver Twist (1909) and Under Northern Lights (1920). She was married to William Carpenter Camp (NY broker) and Charles Howard Johnson (artist). She died on 10 August 1927 in Pelham, New York, USA.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.- 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.- 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.- 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.
- 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.- 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.- Actor
- Writer
George Rogers was born on 5 January 1898 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Swinging the Lead (1934), Never a Dull Moment (1943) and Mardi Gras (1943). He died on 10 December 1942 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- 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.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Evelyn Thawl was born on 28 August 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Out Where the Stars Begin (1938). She was married to David Fridmann. She died on 13 September 1945 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.- Edwin Forsberg was born in 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Rapids (1922), Forgiven; or, the Jack of Diamonds (1914) and The Silent Witness (1917). He was married to Helen Courtney. He died on 11 May 1947 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Writer
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Jim Tully was born on 3 June 1891 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Laughter in Hell (1933), Beggars of Life (1928) and Way for a Sailor (1930). He was married to Myrtle Zwetow, Marna and Florence Bushnell. He died on 22 June 1947 in Hollywood, California, 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.
- 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.- Manart Kippen was born on 20 March 1892 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Jungle Siren (1942), The Corsican Brothers (1941) and Flame of Barbary Coast (1945). He died on 12 October 1947 in Claremore, Oklahoma, 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).- Marie Wells was born on 20 February 1894 in Cleveland, Mississippi, USA. She was an actress, known for The Conquest of Canaan (1916), Silas Marner (1922) and The Desert Song (1929). She died on 3 July 1949 in Hollywood, California, 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.
- 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.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Paolo William Tamburella was born in 1910 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a director and writer, known for High Time (1950), The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue (1951) and Sambo (1950). He died on 9 December 1951 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Costume Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Gile Steele was born on 24 September 1908 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a costume designer, known for The Heiress (1949), The Merry Widow (1952) and Kind Lady (1951). He died on 16 January 1952 in Culver City, California, USA.- 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.
- 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.- 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.
- 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".- 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.
- Jay Strong was born on 30 December 1896 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Doing Their Bit (1918) and The Moonshine Trail (1919). He died on 1 December 1953 in New York City, New York, 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.- 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.- Leon Duray was born on 30 April 1894 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is known for 1923 Indianapolis 500 (1923), 1928 Indianapolis 500 (1928) and 1927 Indianapolis 500 (1927). He died on 12 May 1956 in San Bernardino, California, USA.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gloria Ann Simpson was born on 25 April 1900 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Heart Within (1957), The Man Called X (1956) and The Mickey Rooney Show (1954). She was married to George Henry Simpson. She died on 21 October 1956 in Los Angeles, California, 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.
- Ed McFarland was born on 3 August 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He died on 28 November 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- 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.