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- Actor
- Producer
A.B. Imeson was born on 21 December 1874 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Dicky Monteith (1922), Tense Moments from Opera (1922) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916). He was married to Ann Stephenson. He died on 28 February 1944 in Epsom, Surrey, England, UK.- A.V. Fric was born on 8 September 1882 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Proc se nesmejes (1923) and Josef Kajetán Tyl (1926). He died on 4 December 1944 in Prague, Protektorát Cechy a Morava [now Czech Republic].
- Actor
A.W. Sweatt was born in 1922 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor. He died on 11 January 1944.- Aage Hertel was born on 17 October 1873 in Denmark. He was an actor, known for Hamlet (1911), Manden med de ni Fingre III (1916) and Manden med de ni Fingre IV (1916). He died on 3 January 1944 in Denmark.
- Ada Guildford was born on 12 December 1870 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She was an actress, known for The Mutiny of the Bounty (1916) and Angel of His Dreams (1912). She was married to George Cross, William Julius Francis Mount and Robert Caldwell Bishop. She died on 19 December 1944 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Ada Kosmowska was born on 19 December 1871 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Huragan (1928). She died on 27 July 1944 in Wieliczka, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Adam von Trott zu Solz was born on 9 August 1909 in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia [now Brandenburg], Germany. He was married to Clarita Tiefenbacher. He died on 26 August 1944 in Plötzensee, Berlin, Germany.
- Adele Garavaglia was born on 15 April 1869 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. She was an actress, known for Il fu Mattia Pascal (1937), Piccolo mondo antico (1941) and Ecco la radio! (1940). She was married to Ferruccio Garavaglia. She died on 11 March 1944 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Adolf Abter was born on 1 December 1887 in Hanover, Germany. Adolf was a director and producer, known for Die Nacht und der Leichnam (1920), Zwei schwarze Laternen (1921) and Der goldene Skorpion (1921). Adolf died on 5 July 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Adolf E. Licho was born on 13 September 1876 in Kremenchug, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor and director, known for Kaddisch (1924), Kinder der Zeit (1922) and 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand (1931). He died on 11 October 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Adolf Wagner was born on 1 October 1890 in Algringen, Lorraine, Germany [now Algrange, Moselle, France]. He was an actor, known for Triumph of the Will (1935). He died on 12 April 1944 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Adolfo Bernáldez was born on 13 January 1874 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Las de Méndez (1927), En tiempos de Don Porfirio (1940) and Corazón, o La vida de una modista (1925). He was married to Alfonsina Guerrier. He died on 28 April 1944 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Agustín Barrios was born on 5 May 1885 in San Bautista de las Misiones, Paraguay. He was a composer, known for In Paraguay (2008), Requiem (2002) and Peter von Bagh (2016). He died on 7 August 1944 in San Salvador, El Salvador.- Agustín J. Fink was born on 7 July 1901 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was a producer and writer, known for Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon! (1941), Maria Candelaria (1944) and Cuando viajan las estrellas (1942). He died on 1 May 1944 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
- Agustín Sen was born on 24 June 1886 in Zaragoza, Spain. He was an actor, known for El secreto de la solterona (1945), El espectro de la novia (1943) and El deseo (1948). He was married to Matilde Palou and Ángela Torrijos. He died on 27 December 1944 in Mexico City, Mexico.
- Actress
Born Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy on her family's farm near Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, she was raised a Methodist, her father James's faith. Her mother Mildred worked for the Salvation Army.
In December 1907, she attended a local "tent revival" on a whim, and fell in love with its Irish-born preacher, Robert Semple. They married on August 12, 1908 in a Salvation Army ceremony. They moved to Chicago to join Pentecostal preacher's William Howard Durham's Full Gospel Assembly, where Aimee discovered her gift as a faith-healer and "speaking in tongues".
While in China on missionary work, Aimee and Robert contracted malaria, probably due to eating food grown in soil fertilized with human feces (a wide-spread practice). He died of dysentery on August 17, 1910 in Hong Kong; 29 days later, she gave birth to their daughter, Roberta. On Robert's headstone, Aimee had inscribed: "He led me to Christ".
She made her way to New York City, where Mildred secured her a job with the Salvation Army. There, she met accountant Harold McPherson. They married on February 5, 1912, and moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where their son Rolf was born the following year. She tried to be the dutiful housewife he expected, but the pull of missionary work was too-great. With the children in tow, she returned to Canada to begin her ministry. She and the children, joined by Mildred, spent the next 7 years traveling North America, spreading the Good News, living from hand-to-mouth. Harold tracked Aimee down to Florida to take her back to Rhode Island, only to join her, even doing some preaching himself. But he soon longed for his former life of stability and predictably, and returned to Providence. He filed for divorce, citing desertion; it was granted in 1921.
In 1918, Aimee sent Mildred to Los Angeles to rent the largest hall she could find for her sermons, reasoning that the city's rampant growth made it the perfect home base for the ministry. She was an overnight sensation; people waited for hours to get into the 3,500-seat Philharmonic Auditorium, which was standing room only. On January 1, 1923, the world's first "megachurch", Angelus Temple, was dedicated, built by Aimee with funds raised by her followers, donations of building materials, and volunteer labor - "by faith", as she put it - intending it as a place where people of every Christian denomination could gather. Angelus Temple was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 27, 1992.
On May 18, 1926, she and her secretary went to Lompoc's Ocean Beach Park for a swim. Soon after arriving, Aimee went missing. A search, complete with deep-sea divers, was organized as the media went into a frenzy, reporting "sightings" from Canada to Mexico. It fell to 15-year old Roberta to take to the pulpit at Angelus Temple, and deliver the "altar call" made famous by her mother as parishioners wept, convinced that the woman they affectionately called "Sister" had drowned.
In the pre-dawn hours of June 23, Aimee showed up at the Agua Prieta, Mexico home of Ramón González. She told González and his wife a wild tale: she had been approached by a couple who begged her to come to their car to pray for their sick child, but was shoved into the car and taken to a shack in the desert, where "Steve", "Mexicali Rose", and another man drugged and tortured her. She escaped and walked, by her estimation, 20 miles in the broiling heat. Agua Prieta mayor Ernesto Boubion arranged for his police to transfer her to the Douglas, AZ police, who took her to a hospital.
While most of the 50,000 people who greeted her at Union Station were more-than-willing to believe her, civic leaders - who had initially welcomed Aimee, but were now convinced that her over-the-top brand of Old Time Religion was turning their fair city into a laughingstock - were not. Over the objections of her mother and the Temple's lawyers, she went to court to clear her name. In three grand jury inquiries, she could not prove she had been kidnapped. However, District Attorney Asa Keyes could not prove she had NOT been kidnapped. Conflicting testimonies, missing evidence, and a lawsuit against Boubion for attempted extortion muddied the waters further. But the damage to her reputation in the "court" of public opinion - spurred by media speculation that she concocted the story to hide a secret tryst with a former employee, a married man - had been done. Hundreds of followers, disillusioned and heartbroken, left Angelus Temple.
Those who stayed to help with the herculean task of rebuilding the ministry were shaken to their core when Aimee married on September 13, 1931, as convention at the time held that divorcées did not remarry. It also didn't help that David Hutton, an actor and musician, took full advantage of being "Mr. Aimee", and had a string of highly-publicized scandals. They divorced in 1934.
Lost amid the roller-coaster that was Aimee's life was her charity work. She personally spearheaded relief efforts when an earthquake struck Santa Barbara in 1925, when the St. Francis Dam broke in 1928, and when an earthquake struck Long Beach in 1933. In 1928, she opened a commissary which operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, providing food, clothes, medical, and dental care to the needy, regardless or religion, race, ethnicity or national origin. Companies and individuals who would otherwise have had nothing to do with her found themselves donating food, supplies, money, or labor. A 1936 survey indicated that Angelus Temple was assisting more families than any other public or private institution in Los Angeles.
On September 26, 1944, Aimee traveled to Oakland for a series of revivals. Rolf found her unconscious in her hotel room the next morning; an hour later, she was dead. While the autopsy did not determine the cause of death, the coroner stated it most-likely an accidental overdose, compounded by kidney failure. Forty-five thousand people filed past her casket as she lay in state at Angelus Temple. She was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale in a marble sarcophagus flanked by two angels. Rolf took over the ministry, which he ran for 44 years, and has grown to over 7 million members worldwide. Roberta - who had a falling-out with Aimee over church management - and her second husband, Harry Salter, created the game show "Name That Tune".- Aino Ackté was born on 23 July 1876 in Helsinki, Finland. She was a writer, known for Juha (1979). She was married to Bruno Jalander and Heikki Renvall. She died on 8 August 1944 in Vihti, Finland.
- Aino Bergo was born on 13 January 1915 in Sweden. She was an actress, known for Thistledown (1938) and Women's Paradise (1936). She died on 2 July 1944 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Al Smith is an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for President in 1928.
Smith was the foremost urban leader of the Efficiency Movement in the United States and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War veteran father, he was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bridge, where he resided for his entire life. - Actor
- Additional Crew
Tall, heavy-set character actor Alan Dinehart dropped out of school to join a repertory company. He had extensive stage experience (including some 27 appearances on Broadway) and, by the time he was signed by Fox in 1931, he had worked not only as an actor but as a stage manager and writer. On screen he appeared for the most part in "B" pictures, notable exceptions being the MGM musical blockbuster Born to Dance (1936) and the 20th Century-Fox classic family drama Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938). Dinehart specialized in portraying blustering or shifty businessmen, crooked politicians or racketeers. While he is usually described as a supporting player, he actually started out in the early 1930s playing leading roles opposite some of the major female stars of the period.
However, Dinehart's characters were rarely sympathetic. In Street of Women (1932) he essayed an architect who, bored with his society wife, indiscreetly keeps a mistress (Kay Francis) on the side. In Supernatural (1933) he was true to form as the phony spiritualist fleecing a wealthy socialite, played by Carole Lombard; and in Jimmy the Gent (1934) he was an urbane con artist in competition with James Cagney. On rarer occasions Alan found gainful employment as more benevolent characters, point in case his theatrical impressario Theodore von Eltz in Dance, Girl, Dance (1933). All of these performances attracted good reviews from Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times, ranging from "excellent" to "bearing up valiantly".
In unlikely contrast to his self-styled image of "Hollywood's most versatile villain", Dinehart had strong comedic inclinations, co-authoring several comedy plays towards the later stages of his career. The last and most successful of these, "Separate Rooms" (1940-1941), with Dinehart top-billed alongside Glenda Farrell and Lyle Talbot, became one of the longest-running non-musical plays on Broadway at the time, finally closing after 613 performances. Alan's son, Mason Alan Dinehart, followed in his father's footsteps and also became an actor, featured in several westerns and on television from the late 1940's.- Actor
Alan Paull was born on 9 July 1879 in Summerfield, Ohio, USA. He was an actor. He died on 3 December 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Alan Quinn was born in 1889. He was an actor, known for The Sporting Duchess (1915), The Great Ruby (1915) and The Climbers (1915). He died on 23 January 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Albert Ray, born in New Rochelle, NY, attended Townsend Harris Hall and City College of New York. He spent summer vacations as a member of the Vitagraph stock company, on 14th St. in New York City. He appeared in summer stock in White Plains (NY), Florida and the Harlem Opera House in New York City. He directed short subjects for Pathe on the East Coast, went to Hollywood in 1915 and directed Ben Turpin pictures for the Vogue Film Co. and then Sunshine Comedies for Fox. He also acted opposite Ruth Clifford and Mildred Harris at Universal and co-starred with Elinor Fair at Fox. His first feature-length film as director was Scrap Iron (1921) starring Charles Ray (his cousin) for First National, and altogether he directed nine of his cousin's comedies for the studio. He returned to Fox and directed the "Helen and Warren" series and 19 features.- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Production Manager
Alberto Doria was born on 21 July 1901 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was a writer and assistant director, known for Il ponte sull'infinito (1942), Porte chiuse (1945) and La mia vita sei tu (1934). He was married to Bianca Doria. He died on 31 May 1944 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.- Alberto Quintero Álvarez was born on 25 January 1914 in Acambaro, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was a writer, known for The Balloon of Cantoya (1943) and El vengador (1949). He died on 20 August 1944 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
- Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim was born on 25 March 1905 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire [now Munich, Germany]. He was married to Hilde Baier and Charlotte Alice Kraudzun. He died on 21 July 1944 in Berlin, Germany.
- Albrecht von Hagen was born on 11 March 1904 in Langen, Pomerania, Germany [now Legi, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He died on 8 August 1944 in Plötzensee, Berlin, Germany.
- Alejandro Nolla was born in 1881. He was an actor, known for El hombre que se quiso matar (1942), Viva la vida (1934) and La Millona (1937). He died on 12 July 1944 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
Aleksandr Elbert was born on 30 September 1902 in Baku, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire [now Baku, Azerbaijan]. He was a cinematographer, known for Moscow Strikes Back (1942), Osvobozhdennaya Chekhoslovakiya (1945) and Na zashchitu rodnoy Moskvy (1941-1942) (1942). He died on 7 September 1944 in Krosno, Poland.- Aleksandr Shenshin was born on 18 November 1890 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was a composer, known for Prividenie, kotoroe ne vozvrashchaetsya (1930) and Tommi (1931). She died on 18 February 1944 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Aleksandr Zasorin was born in 1906 in Soltsy, Pskov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Novgorov oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Fedka (1937). He died on 29 November 1944 in Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania].
- Aleksandra Peregonets was born on 15 November 1895 in Kuznetsk, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire. She was an actress, known for Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924). She died on 10 April 1944 in Simferopol, Russian SFSR, USSR.
- Aleksei Novikov-Priboy was born on 12 March 1877 in Matveyevskoye, Spassk Uyezd, Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tambov Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for The Bay of Death (1926), Eralashnyy reys (1978) and Esimese järgu kapten (1958). He was married to Mariya Lyudwigovna. He died on 29 April 1944 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Aleksey Klumov was born on 21 August 1907 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. Aleksey was a composer, known for Belorusskie novelly (1943). Aleksey died on 5 September 1944 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Actor
- Make-Up Department
Alexander Polonsky was born in 1860 in Taganrog, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Rostov oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Taras Bulba (1924), Knyaz Demir Bulat (1916) and Der Adjutant des Zaren (1929). He died on 16 June 1944 in Paris, France.- Alfons Paquet was born on 26 January 1881 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Alfons was a writer, known for Melodie der Welt (1929). Alfons was married to Marie Henriette Steinhausen. Alfons died on 8 February 1944 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Alfonso Parra was born on 31 December 1885 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico. He was an actor, known for Beautiful Sky (1936), Conspiración (1927) and Monja casada, virgen y mártir (1935). He was married to María Concepción Garcia Maldonado. He died on 30 November 1944 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
- Soundtrack
Legendary New York Democratic politician whose life began on the low end as a fish market worker and climaxed as a Presidential candidate. He was first elected to the New York State Assembly in 1903, becoming its Speaker in 1913. For a time, he was sheriff of New York County (1915-17) and president of the Board of Aldermen of New York (1917). He was elected four times as the state's governor, serving in 1919-1920 and 1923-1928). In 1928, he was the first serious Roman Catholic candidate for the Presidency, and received the active support of Franklin D. Roosevelt, but was defeated by the Republican candidate, Herbert Hoover. Four years later, he gave his support to Roosevelt's successful campaign, but in 1936 and 1940, supported the Republican candidate instead.- Alfred Kjøge was born on 23 June 1886 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Under det sorte Flag (1913), Frelst fra Forbrydelsens Vej (1913) and Harestegen (1921). He died on 21 February 1944.
- Composer
Alfréd Grósz was born on 3 August 1880 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a composer, known for Miss Iza (1933). He died on 3 April 1944 in Budapest, Hungary.- Alice H. Smith was born on 20 November 1864 in Mississippi, USA. She was an actress, known for The Rose of Paris (1924), Mr. Fix-It (1918) and His Old-Fashioned Dad (1917). She died on 23 December 1944 in Montebello, California, USA.
- Alice Wilson was born on 14 June 1887 in Offalan, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for What's Your Husband Doing? (1920), La belle Russe (1919) and The Face in the Dark (1918). She was married to Tod Browning and Douglas Wilson. She died on 12 May 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Aline Carola was born on 17 February 1921 in Dunkerque, Nord, France. She was an actress, known for Dernière aventure (1942), Forte tête (1942) and Huit hommes dans un château (1942). She died on 15 November 1944 in Paris, France.
- Allegretti Anderson was born on 1 April 1898 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Georgia Rose (1930). She was married to Julian Kerby Anderson and Agaton H Magboo. She died on 10 July 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Allen Watt was born on 4 April 1885 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Marquis and Miss Sally (1918), The Widow Dangerous (1918) and His Beach of Promise (1920). He was married to Myrtle Gonzalez. He died on 15 September 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Amelia Chellini was born on 16 June 1880 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for L'allegro fantasma (1941), La damigella di Bard (1936) and Il cuore non invecchia (1913). She was married to Didaco Chellini. She died on 31 May 1944 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Amy Beach was born on 5 September 1867 in Henniker, New Hampshire, USA. She is known for Dances for an iPhone (2010) and The War (2007). She was married to Henry Harris Aubrey Beach. She died on 27 December 1944 in New York City, New York, USA.- Writer
- Director
- Art Department
Andor Pünkösti was born on 31 October 1892 in Kassa, Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Kosice, Slovak Republic]. He was a writer and director, known for Álomsárkány (1939), Elkésett levél (1941) and Bünös vagyok! (1942). He died on 12 July 1944 in Budapest, Hungary.- Anita Rothe was born in 1866 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Her Sister (1917) and The Fairy and the Waif (1915). She was married to James Kearney (actor). She died on 9 January 1944 in The Bronx, New York, USA.
- Ann Brody was born on 29 August 1884 in Poland. She was an actress, known for High Gear (1933), A Fool and His Money (1920) and Playing Around (1930). She died on 16 July 1944 in New York City, New York, USA.