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- Actor
Aaron Edward was born on 26 January 1888 in New York, USA. He was an actor. He died on 1 January 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Jan Valtin was born on 17 December 1905 in Mainz, Germany. He was a writer, known for Studio One (1948). He was married to Hermine. He died on 1 January 1951 in Betterton, Maryland, USA.
- While he had a short life and very short film career, sleekly handsome actor Richard Hart, with his dark and virile looks, demonstrated much promise in those few years, especially on Broadway and in TV's "Golden Age." It all ended quickly, however, with his sudden demise at age 35.
He was born Richard Comstock Hart, in Providence, Rhode Island, on April 14, 1915, the middle child of a prominent local lawyer, Henry Clay Hart. His grandfather, Richard Comstock, was also a lawyer. Following education at the Quaker-run preparatory Moses Brown School, he majored in English and psychology upon entering Brown University. After attaining his degree, his interest changed and he took journalism classes and had a brief job at Gorham, the silver company, before pursuing acting.
A summer stock job in nearby Tiverton, Rhode Island, decided things for Hart, and he moved to New York City to pursue a professional stage career. Wife (and high school sweetheart) Eugenia did not adjust to the Manhattan life style and returned to Providence with son Christopher in tow. They abruptly divorced. Following his Broadway debut in "Pillar to Post" in December of 1943, he went out on tour with Constance Bennett in "Without Love." A superb performance in a repertory production of "Dark of the Moon" led to his being cast in the Broadway version, winning a Theatre World Award in the process, and continuing on the national tour. He met second wife, theatre actress Louise Valery, during the run of the show.
MGM saw the dark-haired actor with the trimmed mustache as potential leading man material after seeing his stage success, and with no film training at all, Richard was signed and given the chance to perform in three prominent movies. In Desire Me (1947) he replaced Robert Montgomery as the man who takes Robert Mitchum away from Greer Garson. In Green Dolphin Street (1947) he was the love interest of both Lana Turner and Donna Reed. And in B.F.'s Daughter (1948) he loses Barbara Stanwyck to Van Heflin. A terrible experience in Desire Me (1947) (numerous rewrites, retakes, added scenes and director changes) disillusioned Hart in pursuing career film work. Not helping were his rather diffident performances on film and a burgeoning alcohol problem.
Following a dismal MGM loan-out opposite Arlene Dahl in Reign of Terror (1949) [aka The Black Book], Hart asked for a release from his contract. Returning to New York, he replaced Sam Wanamaker in the 1949 production of "Goodbye, My Fancy" and co-starred with Charlton Heston and Coleen Gray in the short-lived "Leaf and Bough", which closed the next day. He then enjoyed a major success in "The Happy Time" with Eva Gabor, Leora Dana and Claude Dauphin the following year.
Hart also found a valuable medium in TV, appearing in numerous live productions of Fireside Theatre, NBC Presents, Ford Theatre Hour and Studio One. He also returned to his "Dark of the Moon" stage success on TV for a Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse presentation and appeared in such classics as "Hedda Gabler" and "Julius Caesar" (as Mark Antony). In 1950 he became the first Ellery Queen on TV, appearing in the low-budget Dumont series "The Adventures of Ellery Queen."
On January 2, 1951, Hart died suddenly of a coronary occlusion, possibly triggered by his prodigious alcohol intake. He was divorced once and estranged from his second wife at the time he died. He left a son, Christopher, from his first marriage and two daughters from his second, and there is a debate about another possible son, Richard Lee Hart, from an out-of-marriage relationship with Phyllis Buswell. - Kyllikki Väre was born on 13 March 1912 in Vaasa, Finland. She was an actress, known for 'Herra ja ylhäisyys' (1944), Kyläraittien kuningas (1945) and Katupeilin takana (1949). She was married to Unto Salminen. She died on 2 January 1951 in Helsinki, Finland.
- Henry Baynton was born on 23 September 1892 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Auld Lang Syne (1917). He was married to Alice M.R. Jackson. He died on 2 January 1951 in London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Lucien Carol was an actor, known for Pépé le Moko (1937), Four Lovers (2010) and Sunday (1997). He died on 3 January 1951.- Daniel G. Tomlinson was born on 1 May 1889 in New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Bardelys the Magnificent (1926), The Crowd (1928) and Captain Lash (1929). He died on 4 January 1951 in Orange, California, USA.
- Guido Morisi was born on 8 February 1903 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for I pompieri di Viggiù (1949), Capitan Fracassa (1940) and Outlaw Girl (1950). He died on 4 January 1951 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Wolf Trutz was born on 12 January 1887 in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. He was an actor, known for Zwischen Hamburg und Haiti (1940), Love in Stunt Flying (1937) and A Woman of No Importance (1936). He died on 4 January 1951 in Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany.
- Andrey Platonov was born on 20 August 1899 in Voronezh, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a writer, known for Revolt in the Desert (1931), Three Brothers (1981) and Television Theater (1953). He died on 5 January 1951 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Gustave Hamilton was born on 27 March 1871 in Brussels, Belgium. He was an actor, known for Pension Mimosas (1935), Le billet de logement (1932) and Studio à louer (1935). He died on 5 January 1951 in Villefranche-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Don Hancock was born on 21 October 1888 in London, England, UK. Don was a producer, known for Graveyard of Ships (1936). Don was married to Katherine Irvin. Don died on 5 January 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Beth Darlington was born Helen Hixson on March 19, 1904 in Kansas City, Missouri. After her parents separated she moved to Los Angeles with her mother. When she was seventeen she won first prize in the annual Venice bathing suit parade. Beth made her film debut in the 1921 melodrama The Lamplighter. Then she appeared in the comedies Keep Moving and Just A Minute with Eddie Lyons. In 1923 she was offered a contract with Hal Roach's studio. She was Charley Chase's leading lady in numerous shorts including Don't Forget, Sittin' Pretty, and The Fraidy Cat. Beth was called one of the most beautiful girls in Hollywood.
She was just over five feet tall, weighed 117 pounds, and had natural blonde hair. Although she appeared in more than thirty films she never became a major star. She decided to quit acting in 1925. Her last role was in the comedy short Captain Suds. She married Terrence Clarke, a cement salesman, on February 16, 1926. Beth spent the next two decades being a housewife. She and her husband never had children. On January 6, 1951 she was traveling in Val Verde, Texas when she died suddenly from a coronary occlusion. She was only forty-six years old. Beth was cremated and her ashes are buried at Hollywood Forever cemetery in Los Angeles. - Maila Talvio was born on 17 October 1871 in Hartola, Finland. She was a writer, known for Ja alla oli tulinen järvi (1937), Ne 45000 (1933) and Pimeänpirtin hävitys (1947). She was married to J. J. Mikkola. She died on 6 January 1951 in Helsinki, Finland.
- Actress
- Writer
May Foster was born on 27 March 1873 in Neoga, Illinois, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Milestones (1920), The Crown of Lies (1926) and A Woman of the World (1925). She was married to Val Paul. She died on 6 January 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Writer
Raised in upstate New York, Bouck White graduated from Harvard and became a Congregational minister. During World War I, he abandoned mainstream religion and founded his own "Church of Social Revolution." He was soon known as New York City's "most eccentric radical." Jailed several times for various protests, he left the United States to study ceramics in France. He returned in the early Twenties with Parisian bride half his age. After only a couple of days at White's shabby farmhouse near Marlboro, New York, the young woman ran away and the marriage was annulled. White moved to the Helderberg Mountains (just south of Albany, New York). He built a castle and sold pottery until a stroke forced him to retired to a nursing home. He remained there until his death.- Lars Moen was born on 9 March 1901 in South Dakota, USA. He was an editor, known for La route est belle (1929), Wives Beware (1932) and The Bells (1931). He died on 7 January 1951 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Actor
- Music Department
Sven Lilja was born on 26 February 1887 in Uppsala, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Kärlek och allsång (1944) and Sun Over Sweden (1938). He died on 7 January 1951 in Stockholm, Sweden.- Agnethe Schibsted-Hansson was born on 21 September 1886 in Bergen, Norway. She was an actress, known for A Quiet flirt (1933), Den store barnedåpen (1931) and Ungen (1938). She died on 7 January 1951 in Norway.
- Mabel Russell was born on 1 January 1887 in England, UK. She was an actress, known for Tilly of Bloomsbury (1931) and Sons of Martha (1907). She was married to Hilton Philipson (businessman/MP) and Thomas Stanley Rhodes (manufacturer). She died on 8 January 1951.
- Mikhail Lenin was born on 4 March 1880 in Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Krasnyi gas (1924) and Borba za Ultimatum (1923). He died on 9 January 1951 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Writer
- Actor
Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was a colossus of American letters in the first half of the last century. Arguably, he is the first major "modern" writer of the 20th century, as there is American literature before "Main Street" (1920) and after that seminal novel, which revolutionized writing in the US. His eminence as a great American writer was eclipsed by Ernest Hemingway, who although more influenced by Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein, owes a debt to Lewis, as do most realists in 20th-century American letters.- George Walcott was born on 23 August 1885. He was an actor, known for The Swan (1925). He died on 10 January 1951 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Norman Long was born on 26 March 1893 in Deal, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The New Hotel (1932) and Regal Cavalcade (1935). He died on 10 January 1951 in Torquay, Devon, England, UK.
- Additional Crew
Adolph Winninger was born on 26 May 1882 in Wisconsin, USA. Adolph died on 10 January 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Boleslaw Horski was born on 25 July 1887 in Czestochowa, Poland, Russian Empire [now Czestochowa, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Pan Tadeusz (1928) and Maly marynarz (1936). He died on 10 January 1951 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.
- Charles W. Goddard was born on 26 November 1879 in Portland, Maine, USA. He was a writer, known for The Hope Diamond Mystery (1921), The Perils of Pauline (1914) and Scared Stiff (1953). He was married to Ruth Dickey. He died on 11 January 1951 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Jacques de Baroncelli was born on 25 June 1881 in Bouillargues, Gard, France. Jacques was a director and writer, known for Pêcheur d'Islande (1924), Nitchevo (1926) and Le père Goriot (1921). Jacques was married to Marguerite de Mont de Banque. Jacques died on 12 January 1951 in Paris, France.- Agnes Bovien was born on 28 October 1881 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for En Mesalliance (1912). She died on 12 January 1951.
- Florence Kahn was born on 3 March 1878 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. She was an actress, known for Secret Agent (1936). She was married to Max Beerbohm. She died on 13 January 1951 in Rapallo, Liguria, Italy.
- Actor
- Director
Arvi Tuomi was born on 13 March 1893 in Helsinki, Finland. He was an actor and director, known for Viimeinen vieras (1941), Ballaadi (1944) and 'Minä elän' (1946). He was married to Santa Tuomi. He died on 13 January 1951 in Helsinki, Finland.- Maxence Van der Meersch was born on 4 May 1907 in Roubaix, France. He was a writer, known for The Doctor and the Girl (1949), The House on the Dune (1934) and La maison dans la dune (1952). He died on 14 January 1951 in Le Touquet, Pas-de-Calais, France.
- Gregorios Xenopoulos was a novelist, journalist and playwright from Zakynthos. He was lead editor in the magazine The Education of Children during the period from 1896 to 1948, during which time he was also the magazine's main author. His was the trademark signature "Sas aspazomai, Faidon" ("Yours sincerely, Phaedon)", which he used in letters ostensibly addressed to the magazine. He was also the founder and editor of the Nea Estia magazine, which is still published. He became a member of the Academy of Athens in 1931, and founded the Society of Greek Writers together with Kostis Palamas, Angelos Sikelianos and Nikos Kazantzakis.
- Norman Astridge was born on 26 November 1886 in Islington, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Black Diamonds (1932) and Double Confession (1950). He died on 14 January 1951 in Ruislip, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya was one of Russian theatre's most prolific actresses who survived three Russian revolutions and three wars and performed over 400 roles on stage and in film.
She was born Ekaterina Pavlovna Korchagina on December 23, 1874, in Kostroma, north of Moscow, Russian Empire. Her parents were professional actors, and young Ekaterina Korchagina performed on stage together with her parents, as a child. In 1887 she began her professional career as an actress under the stage name Olgina. At that time she worked with touring troupes, as well, as with permanent troupes of local theatre companies in Arkhangelsk, Mogilev, Tula, Tambov and other Russian cities. In 1883, at age 19, she married a fellow actor Vladimir Aleksandrovsky.
In 1904 she moved to the capital of Russia, St. Petersburg, where she had more chances for her studies, as well, as her acting career. From 1904 - 1907 she was a permanent member of the troupe at Komissarzhevky Theatre in St. Petersburg, then was a permanent member of the troupe at Society of Arts and Literature in St. Petersburg, and also worked with various other tropes in St. Petersburg. From 1915 until the end of her life in 1951, Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya was a permanent member of the troupe at the legendary Aleksandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg (now The Pushkin Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia). She was best known for her stage performances as Lisa in A. Ostrovsky's play 'Groza' (aka... The Storm), and as Snegurochka in 'Snegurochka (aka... The Snowgirl), among her other memorable stage performances.
She made her film debut in the Soviet silent film Komediantka (1923), but there is also a record in her letters that she actually made her film debut in silent films by producer/director Aleksandr Khanzhonkov who initially invited her in his film after seeing her in a stage play during the 1900s, but soon Khanzhonkov changed his mind and said that she is not made for movies, however some of her scenes had been shot, albeit all of her early film scenes had been lost during the turbulent times of the Russian revolution and the Civil War. Her later career in the Soviet Union was highlighted by such film roles as Ulita in period film House of Greed (1934), based on the novel 'Gospoda Golovlevy' by writer Saltykov-Shchedrin, and as Mother Samoylova in _Mother and Sons (1938)_, by directors Mikhail Doller and Vsevolod Pudovkin.
Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya was designated People's Artist of the USSR in 1936. She was awarded the State Prize of the USSR for her works on stage in 1943. She also received numerous awards and decorations for her contribution to the art of theatre and film, including the Order of Lenin (twice), and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. She also made acclaimed radio performances of classic Russian plays during the 1940s. She died on January 15, 1951, and was laid to rest in Tikhvinskoe Cemetery of Aleksander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg, Russia. - A.V. Jarol-Jarolímek was born on 30 September 1897 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republik]. He was an actor and writer, known for Pro hubicku do Afriky (1919), V mesíci lásky (1919) and Devce z Podskalí (1922). He died on 15 January 1951 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Fritz Balogh was born on 16 November 1920. He was an actor, known for Das große Spiel (1942). He died on 15 January 1951.
- Ernest Metcalfe was born on 4 October 1900 in Pendleton, Salford, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Cardboard Cavalier (1949) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He died on 15 January 1951 in Brixton, London, England, UK.
- Ferike Boros was born on 2 August 1880 in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary [now Oradea, Romania]. She was an actress, known for The Light That Failed (1939), Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) and Bachelor Mother (1939). She died on 16 January 1951 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Director
- Composer
- Writer
Jyotiprasad Agarwala was born on 17 June 1903 in Tezpur, Assam, British India. Jyotiprasad was a director and composer, known for Joymati (1935) and Indramalati (1939). Jyotiprasad was married to Devajani Bhuyan. Jyotiprasad died on 17 January 1951 in Tezpur, Assam, India.- Actor
- Stunts
Staunch, granite-jawed American leading man of silent and early talkie films, much associated with Westerns. A native of New York City, Holt often claimed to have been born in Winchester, Virginia, where he grew up. The son of an Episcopal minister, he attended Trinity School in Manhattan, then the Virginia Military Institute, from which he was expelled for bad behavior. Giving up his vague hopes of becoming a lawyer, he went on the road, engaging in numerous occupations. He mined gold in Alaska, worked as both a railroad and a civil engineer, delivered mail, rode herd on cattle, and played parts in traveling stage productions. While looking for work as a surveyor in San Francisco in 1914, he volunteered to ride a horse over a cliff in a stunt for a film crew shooting in San Rafael. In gratitude, the director gave him a part in the film. Holt followed the movie people to Hollywood and began getting bits and stunt jobs in the many Westerns and serials being made there. He impressed a number of co-workers at Universal Pictures, among them Francis Ford and his brother John Ford, and Grace Cunard. Holt soon became a frequent supporting player in their films, and then a star in serials.
A move to Paramount studios in 1917 cemented his leading man status, and he became one of the studio's great stars, particularly in a very successful series of Westerns based on the novels of Zane Grey. Talkies proved no problem for Holt, and his career thrived, although mostly in run-of-the-mill adventure films. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Holt entered the U.S. Army at the age of 54, serving at the request of General George C. Marshall as a horse buyer for the cavalry. Upon his return to pictures following the war, he alternated between character roles in major films such as John Ford's They Were Expendable (1945) and leading roles in minor Westerns. He made a cameo appearance in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) which starred his son Tim Holt. That same year father and son played father and son in a B-Western, The Arizona Ranger (1948). Less than three years later, on January 18, 1951, Holt died of a heart attack at the Los Angeles Veterans Hospital in Sawtelle, a couple of blocks west of the Los Angeles National Cemetery where he is now buried.- Valentine Petit was born on 29 April 1873 in Saint Josse ten Node, Brussels, Belgium. She was an actress, known for Les armes de la femme (1916), Lafayette, We Come (1918) and The Silent Master (1917). She was married to Léonce Perret. She died on 18 January 1951 in Nogent-sur-Marne, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France.
- Johnny Mitchell was born on 13 December 1918 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Pillow to Post (1945), Mr. Skeffington (1944) and Laugh Your Blues Away (1942). He died on 19 January 1951 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Art Department
Carl Bolzic was born on 12 December 1890 in Halle, Germany. He is known for 1925 Studio Tour (1925). He died on 19 January 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Fyodor Kurikhin was born on 8 January 1882 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for The Country Bride (1938), Vratar (1936) and The Circus (1936). He died on 19 January 1951 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Dwight Wiman was born on 8 August 1895 in Moline, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Puritan Passions (1923), I Married an Angel (1942) and Old Acquaintance (1943). He was married to Dorothea Stephens. He died on 20 January 1951 in Hudson, New York, USA.- Music Department
- Composer
Lajos Kiss was born in 1902 in Debrecen, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. Lajos was a composer, known for Hétszilvafa (1940), Vörös Csillag (1950) and The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 (2023). Lajos died on 20 January 1951 in Budapest, Hungary.- Ernest Cossart came to Hollywood to play a succession of butlers, valets and man-servants with names like Binns, Jeepers or Brassett. In fact, if you saw Angel (1937) or Letter of Introduction (1938), you may have assumed that he simply stepped from one movie set to another. Always at home donning bat-wing collars, cut-away coats and striped trousers, portly, beetle-browed Ernest Cossart was America's notion of the perfect English 'gentleman's gentleman' (along with fellow émigrés Arthur Treacher, Barnett Parker, Eric Blore and Alan Mowbray, though perhaps a little less condescending).
With ancestors deriving from Scandinavia, Germany, Poland, Russia, and England, Ernest Cossart was born Emil Gottfried Adolph von Holst in Cheltenham, England, the son of a prominent musician. His brother Gustav Holst became a famous composer and music teacher. Emil adopted the stage name 'Ernest Cossart' after a brief spell as clerk for a wine merchant. He gave his first theatrical performance in 1896, then acted with provincial repertory companies before moving to the U.S. in 1908. His career on Broadway got off to a flying start with a leading role (as a colonel of Hussars) in the musical comedy "The Girls of Gottenberg". For the next twenty years (interrupted only by wartime service with the Canadian Army), his name remained high up in the list of credits.
Cossart's Hollywood career did not eventuate until 1935, when he was signed by Paramount. Except for occasional loan-outs, he remained with this, the most cosmopolitan of the studios, until 1945. Aside from butling, Cossart could also be relied upon to effectively impersonate Roman Catholic priests (Father McGee in The Jolson Story (1946)), chimney sweeps (Tom Clink in Tower of London (1939), uttering the famous line "Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds") and waiters (Champagne Waltz (1937)). Easily one of his best roles was as the irascible, but kind-hearted Irish father of Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle (1940). Cossart retired from acting in 1949, having made his curtain call in the flop Broadway play "The Ivy Green". He died two years later in New York at the age of 74. - Milton Herman was born on 12 May 1896 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Rocky King, Detective (1950), Big Brother (1923) and Hands of Mystery (1949). He died on 21 January 1951 in Astoria, New York, USA.
- Isabel O'Madigan was born on 16 October 1871 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Bab's Diary (1917), The Egg and I (1947) and Bab's Matinee Idol (1917). She died on 23 January 1951 in Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA.