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- E.M. Forster was born on 1 January 1879 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Howards End (1992), A Room with a View (1985) and The Machine Stops (2009). He died on 7 June 1970 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK.
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Paul Porcasi was born on 1 January 1879 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He was an actor, known for Red-Haired Alibi (1932), The Kid from Spain (1932) and Morocco (1930). He died on 8 August 1946 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Mieczyslawa Cwiklinska was a Polish actress, comedienne and singer. For more than 50 years on the stage, she was one of Poland's most outstanding comedic actors and singers.
She appeared on both stage and in film, and did operettas and the classics. She received numerous awards including commendations from the Polish national government. She was a member of her country's National Theatre.
On April 25, 1950, she celebrated the golden jubilee of her career in the theatre and was awarded highest honours by the Polish government. - Actor
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Edward Dillon was born on 1 January 1879 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Dice Woman (1926), Help! Help! Police! (1919) and The Winning Stroke (1919). He was married to Frances. He died on 11 July 1933 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Fritz Greiner was born on 1 January 1879 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Andreas Hofer (1929), Nathan der Weise (1922) and Wallenstein, 2. Teil - Wallensteins Tod (1925). He died in November 1933 in Munich, Germany.
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Starting at the age 8 he had a series of jobs before starting his own business in 1900, which was sold to buy a Brooklyn nickelodeon in 1904. As the new owner with an empty house, Fox hired a coin manipulator and a barker to attract patrons into the dark 146-seat theatre. Once audiences adequately understood what moving pictures were, live acts were dispensed with. More nickelodeons were opened and he became a successful film exhibitor. He then won a long legal battle against Thomas Edison's Motion Pictures Patent Company, ending the film trust and allowing him to start his own production company in 1913. Operations were consolidated into the Fox Film Corporation in 1915. Theda Bara and Tom Mix starred in successful pictures made at the Fox Hollywood studios and the profits from them, and from the 1000 house Fox theatre chain, paid for "artistic" projects like Sunrise (1926), for awards and critical acclaim. In 1927, Fox acquired the American patent rights to the sound-on-film process developed by a Swiss firm. Fox pioneered the widescreen film with The Big Trail (1930). Poised for the future of talkies, he attempted to buy MGM just in time for 1929s stock market crash. In 1930 Fox was forced out of his company after a federal anti-trust investigation. His version is told in 1933 Upton Sinclair's book, 'Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox.' In 1936, a year after Darryl F. Zanuck's 20th Century Pictures merged with Fox Films, Fox bribed a judge during the liquidation of his holdings in bankruptcy proceedings. His sentence, a year in prison, began in 1941. Paroled in 1943, he was a pariah in Hollywood. Though secure from his many patent holdings, the industry for which he had been so visionary was closed to him. A virtual pariah at the time of his death, no industry representative came to eulogize at his funeral.- Ben L. Reitman was born on 1 January 1879 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Ben L. was a writer, known for Boxcar Bertha (1972). Ben L. was married to Medina Rivets Oliver, Anna Martindale and May Schwartz. Ben L. died on 16 November 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Georges Vinter was born on 1 January 1879 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. He was an actor and director, known for La boucle énigmatique (1920), Nick Winter et la parure d'opale (1915) and Nick Winter et ses aventures (1921). He died on 19 July 1945 in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France.- Writer
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T. Shelley Sutton was born on 1 January 1879 in California, USA. T. Shelley was a writer and director, known for All for Gold (1918), The End of the Run (1917) and A Perilous Leap (1917). T. Shelley died on 10 February 1946 in Orange, California, USA.- Ernest Jones was born on 1 January 1879 in Gowerton, Wales. He died on 11 February 1958 in London, England, UK.
- Madrona Hicks was born on 1 January 1879 in California, USA. She was an actress, known for Snakeville's Home Guard (1914), Snakeville's Weak Women (1915) and The Night That Sophie Graduated (1915). She was married to Orlando Hicks. She died on 4 July 1954 in Alameda County, California, USA.
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Sydney Baynes was born on 2 January 1879 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Elstree Calling (1930), I Spy (1934) and The Outcast (1934). He died on 9 March 1938 in England, UK.- Szeréna Sziklay was born on 2 January 1879 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Dunaparti randevú (1936), Lovagias ügy (1937) and Tomi (1936). She was married to Aurél Föld. She died on 26 March 1949 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Grace Coolidge was born on 3 January 1879 in Burlington, Vermont, USA. She was married to Calvin Coolidge. She died on 8 July 1957 in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.
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Lina Abarbanell was born on 3 January 1879 in Berlin, Germany. She is known for Carmen Jones (1954) and Animated Weekly, No. 47 (1913). She was married to Eduard Goldbeck. She died on 6 January 1963 in New York City, New York, USA.- Gertrud Berry was born on 4 January 1879 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She is known for Die Flucht durch Flammen (1920) and Anna, die Perle (1916).
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Jack Norworth was born on 5 January 1879 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Frequency (2000), The Fan (1996) and The Princess Bride (1987). He was married to Amy B. Archer Swor, Dorothy Adelphi, Mary Johnson, Nora Bayes and Louise Dresser. He died on 1 September 1959 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Nina Vavra was born on 5 January 1879 in Krizevci, Croatia. She was an actress, known for Matija Gubec (1919) and Vragoljanka (1919). She was married to Josip Bach. She died on 21 September 1942 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia.
- Joseph Medill Patterson was born on 6 January 1879 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Dope (1914), A Little Brother of the Rich (1915) and The Fourth Estate (1916). He was married to Mary King and Alice Higinbotham. He died on 26 May 1946 in New York City, New York, USA.
- George Bronson Howard was born on 7 January 1879 in Relay, Maryland, USA. George Bronson was a writer and director, known for Perils of the Secret Service (1917), The Last Cigarette (1917) and The Crimson Blade (1917). George Bronson was married to Dos Skinner, Margaret Sackville and Jean ?. George Bronson died on 20 November 1922 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Charles Bryant was born on 8 January 1879 in Hartford, Cheshire, England, UK(undisclosed). He was an actor and writer, known for Revelation (1918), Stronger Than Death (1920) and Salomé (1922). He was married to Marjorie Gilhooley. He died on 7 August 1948 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA.- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Winifred Ritchie was born on 8 January 1879 in England. Winifred was married to Billie Ritchie. Winifred died on 9 February 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
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Emil Leyde was born on 8 January 1879 in Kassel, Germany. He is known for Die Czardasfürstin (1919), Alpentragödie (1920) and Der Sonnwendhof (1918).- Actress
Edith Barker Bennett was born on 10 January 1879 in Walmer, Kent, England, UK. She was an actress. She died on 5 March 1954 in Oxted, Surrey, England, UK.- Elfie Virginia Fay was born on January 11, 1879 in New York City. Her father was vaudeville star Hugh Faye. She began performing on stage at the age of fifteen. Elfie made her Broadway debut in February of 1900 starring in Mamselle 'Awkins. Over the next few years she appeared in the hit shows The Belle Of New York and The Southerners. Her habit of making odd facial expressions on stage made her a sensation. The vivacious red-head was nicknamed "The Belle Of Avenue A". She made headlines in 1902 when she got engaged to Sir Thomas Lipton, a wealthy British sportsman. Elfie was also engaged to Sir George Lionel Prescott, a British Lieutenant, and Ensign Leslie B. Anderson, a Naval officer. She said "A woman can fall in love as often as she encounters a man who is able by superior qualities of heart and mind to inspire such love." Elfie filed for bankruptcy in 1910 and spent the next several years performing in Europe and Asia.
In 1913 she married Eugene Rosenblatt in England. They divorced three years later. She returned to New York City and started performing in vaudeville. Elfie married Samuel Armstrong Benner, a steel executive, on December 21, 1920. Tragically he died just three months after their wedding. Although her husband was wealthy she only inherited $500 from his estate. She moved to California to live with her brother, actor Hugh Fay. Elfie made her film debut in the 1924 comedy A Movie Mad Maid. She also had small parts in Trouble Chaser, His Day Off, and A Perfect Day. Elfie was devastated when her brother died in 1926. During the summer of 1927 she entered a sanitarium suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. She died on September 16, 1927 at the age of forty-eight. Elfie was buried in an unmarked grave at Grand View Memorial Park in Glendale, California. - Arnostka Záhoríková was born on 12 January 1879 in Brno, Morava, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Melchiad Koloman (1920), Babicka (1922) and Kam s ním? (1924). She died in 1956 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Ray Harroun was born on 12 January 1879 in Spartansburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 19 January 1968 in Anderson, Indiana, USA.
- Hansi Führer was born on 12 January 1879 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Lerchenfelder Sonntagskinder (1925). She died on 1 April 1955 in Wien, Austria.
- Elaine Inescourt was born on 13 January 1879 in St George Hanover Square, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for An Arabian Knight (1920), Androcles and the Lion (1946) and Anna Karenina (1961). She was married to Harry Willes Darell de Windt and John Wightman. She died on 7 July 1964 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.
- Lionel Groulx was born on 13 January 1879 in Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada. He was a writer, known for Le chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien (1960), Les adieux de la Grise (2013) and Reportage (1956). He died on 23 May 1967 in Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada.
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Allan K. Foster was born on 14 January 1879 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Allan K. is known for Main Street Follies (1935), Syncopated City (1934) and The Love Department (1935). Allan K. died on 2 November 1937 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Although he made nearly 60 films in a 50-year acting career, it is for the two he made with director James Whale that Ernest Thesiger will be best remembered. Born Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger in London on January 15, 1879, he was the grandson of the first Baron of Chelmsford. Educated at Marlbrough college and the Slade, he originally hoped to become a great painter. Greatness proved elusive, however (though he remained an accomplished watercolour artist), and he quickly turned to the theatre, making his first appearance on stage in a production of "Colonel Smith" in 1909. He put his career on hold when, in 1914, he enlisted as a private in the British army when World War I broke out (he originally hoped to join a Scottish regiment because he wanted to wear a kilt). He did see some action in the trenches but had to be sent home after being wounded (he was quoted afterwards as saying of these experiences, "My dear, the noise! And the people!"). He made his first film appearance in 1916 with The Real Thing at Last (1916) and then returned to the theatre with "A Little Bit of Fluff",' which ran for over 1200 performances and led to him appearing in a film adaptation (A Little Bit of Fluff (1919)).
In 1925 he appeared in Noël Coward's production of "On With the Dance", in which he got to show off his knack for camp performances by playing one of two elderly women sharing a boarding house. In the early 1930s his old friend, actor-turned-director James Whale (who had moved to Hollywood and was enjoying huge success with Frankenstein (1931)), requested that his friend join him there to play the role of Horace Femm in Whale's upcoming production of The Old Dark House (1932). Thesiger agreed and, along with co-star Eva Moore, stole the film, which became a huge success. He returned to Britain to make The Ghoul (1933) with Boris Karloff. Whale requested Thesiger's services in Hollywood again, this time to appear in his sequel to Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Thesiger was given the role of the sinister Dr. Pretorious, after Whale had refused the studio's suggestion of Claude Rains for the role. With help from Whale's direction, some classic dialogue ("Have some gin. It's my only weakness . . .", "To a new world of gods and monsters") and expert camera work (which helped accentuate his skeletal frame), Thesiger stole the show once more. He returned to Britain and, unfortunately, never worked with Whale again. He appeared in the Alexander Korda-produced The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) and had a memorable role in the thriller They Drive by Night (1938). He appeared with Will Hay in My Learned Friend (1943) and Don't Take It to Heart! (1944). His other notable films of the 1940s include Henry V (1944) and The Winslow Boy (1948). He returned briefly to America to appear in "As You Like It" on Broadway and afterwards divided his time between theatre and film. Notable later films include Last Holiday (1950) (as Sir Trevor Lampington, discoverer and eponym of Lampington's disease), Laughter in Paradise (1951), A Christmas Carol (1951) and The Man in the White Suit (1951) (as an elderly industry magnate). He made his last film appearance in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) and his last stage performance, opposite Sirs Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, in a production of "The Last Joke". He passed away shortly afterwards, on the eve of his 82nd birthday, at his home on Gloucester Road in Kensington, London. - Mazo de la Roche was born on 15 January 1879 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. Mazo was a writer, known for Matinee Theatre (1955), Jalna (1935) and The Whiteoaks of Jalna (1972). Mazo died on 12 July 1961 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Nell Spaugh was born on 15 January 1879 in Grand Cote, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Four Hearts (1922). She died on 17 August 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Perc Teeple was born on 16 January 1879 in Oakland, California, USA. He was an actor. He died on 6 September 1954 in Duarte, California, USA.- Additional Crew
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Karger was married to Ann Conley of the "Ann & Effie Conley Sisters" Vaudeville Act. He was one of the original founders and the general manager of Metro Pictures in New York before they moved to Hollywood and merged with Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer to form MGM Pictures. His son Fred Karger was a composer and a vocal coach at Columbia Pictures. Romantically involved with a young Marilyn Monroe from 1948-1949, Fred broke with Monroe, and eventually married Jane Wyman in 1952.- Director
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Romeo Bosetti was born on 18 January 1879 in Chiari, Lombardy, Italy. He was a director and actor, known for Le cambriolé récalcitrant (1911), Fidèle jusqu'à la mort (1911) and Il ne faut pas courir deux lièvres à la fois (1914). He died on 27 October 1948 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Henri Giraud was born on 18 January 1879 in Paris, France. He died on 11 March 1949 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France.
- Vessie Farrell was born on 19 January 1879 in Monroe City, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Twenty Dollars a Week (1935), Among the Missing (1934) and The Healer (1935). She died on 30 September 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Harry Adnes was born on 19 January 1879 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Self Made Lady (1932), Rose of Tralee (1937) and When London Sleeps (1932). He died in 1958 in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England, UK.
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Bernard Dudley was born on 21 January 1879 in Poplar, London, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Love in the Welsh Hills (1921), Armchair Theatre (1956) and Making Paper Money (1922). He died on 13 September 1964 in Lambeth, London, England, UK.- Writer
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Eduardo Marquina was born on 21 January 1879 in Barcelona, Spain. He was a writer, known for Rosa de Francia (1935), The Nail (1944) and Un solo corazón o Los muertos viven (1914). He was married to Mercedes Pichot. He died on 21 November 1946 in New York, USA.- Darcy Kelway was born on 21 January 1879 in Portsea, Hampshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Spur of the Moment (1931), His Royal Highness (1932) and Isle of Intrigue (1931). He died on 7 September 1940 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Francis Picabia, one of the founders of Dada movement who owned a massive collection of vintage cars and yachts, was known for his witty art, absurdist humour, and made innovative artworks that are now selling for as much as $1,600,000.
He was born François Marie Martinez Picabia on January 22, 1879, in Paris, France, of a Cuban diplomat father, and a French mother. From 1895-1897 he studied art at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He evolved to painting in the Impressionist style of Alfred Sisley and exhibited his works at the Salon des Independantes of 1903, along with the works of, Paul Gauguin, and Paul Cezanne among other post-impressionists.
He found inspiration in the works of Henri Matisse and changed his manner of painting to Fauvism. By 1911, Picabia developed his highly personal fusion of Fauvism and Cubism. At that time he became a friend of Guillaume Apollinaire, who introduced him to Marcel Duchamp and Fernand Léger. They had meetings at the studio of Jacques Villon in the village of Puteaux, near Paris, and became known as the Puteaux Group. Picabia also developed a more lyrical variation of Cubism which was named Orphism by Guillaume Apollinaire. From 1913-1920 Picabia and Duchamp with Man Ray were involved with the Dadaist movement. They instigated and participated in Dada shows in New York, Barcelona, Zurich, Berlin, Cologne, and Paris, creating scandals to promote their art. In 1918 a Dada show was attended by André Breton, Paul Éluard, and Louis Aragon, starting another round of cross-influence among several highly creative people. At that time Picabia was making hard, brassy pictures and picture-objects, proposing the machine as a model of human behavior. He humorously associated mechanistic forms with sexual allusions to produce shocking satires of bourgeois values.
In 1921, Picabia finally quit Dada and returned to figurative art. He remained a highly individualistic figure in the art world of the 1920's. Picabia laughed at the Surrealist Manifesto by 'Andre Breton' and the Surrealists in the last issue of 391, a Dada magazine that he published until 1924. He quit publishing the magazine because for him, new technologies of cinema, the moving images, had opened an illusion-producing tool with a greater power than a still image. With the declaration of 'Instantaneism' Picabia transfered the spirit of Dada into another phase of artistic production involving the concepts of the machine, the speed, and the "now" as ways to change the norms and codes of social conventions.
During the 1930s Picabia developed a close friendship with Gertrude Stein. At that time he was writing poetry and painted in an abstract style. He left Paris during the occupation in the Second World War, and lived in the south of France. By the end of WWII, he returned to Paris, and resumed painting and writing poetry. In 1949, he had a retrospective show of his works in Paris. Francis Picabia was known for his inventiveness, absurdist humour, and dis-concerning changes of style. He died on November 30, 1953, in Paris. A Picabia painting was recently sold for as much as $1.6 million.
Francis Picabia claimed to prefer machines to the old world of sentiment. He inherited wealth, which bought him a major collection of automobiles and yachts. He owned as many as 160 vintage and rare cars. He was also involved in making exotic car designs and used some of his cars in films. In René Clair's Dada film Entr'acte (1924), Picabia is squeezed into a tiny Citroen together with composer Erik Satie.- Director
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Harry A. Pollard was born on 23 January 1879 in Republic City, Kansas, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Quest (1915), Tonight at Twelve (1929) and Sporting Youth (1924). He was married to Margarita Fischer. He died on 6 July 1934 in Pasadena, California, USA.- Director
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Vin Moore was born on 23 January 1879 in Mayville, New York, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Drag-Net (1936), Topa Topa (1938) and Young Eagles (1934). He died on 5 December 1949 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Additional Crew
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Robert W. Priest was born on 23 January 1879 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Robert W. is known for Hidden Charms (1921), Wild Women (1921) and Jimmy's Last Night Out (1921).- Leopolda Dostalová was born on 23 January 1879 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Bílá jachta ve Splitu (1939), Psohlavci (1931) and The Magic House (1939). She died on 17 June 1972 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Stanislav Lyudkevich was born on 24 January 1879 in Jaroslaw, Podkarpackie, Poland. He died on 10 September 1979 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine].
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Boris Glagolin was born on 24 January 1879 in Saratov, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and actor, known for Kira Kiralina (1928), Doch Albiona. Bezzakonie (1914) and Khishchniki sletelis (1916). He died on 12 December 1948 in Hollywood, California, USA.