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- J.F. Willumsen was born on 7 September 1863 in Denmark. He died on 4 April 1958 in Denmark.
- Infanta Eulalia was born on 12 February 1864 in Madrid, Spain. She was married to Antonio Maria Luis Felipe Juan Florencio de Orleans y Borbón. She died on 8 March 1958 in Irun, Spain.
- Ragna Wettergreen was born on 19 September 1864 in Oslo, Norway. She was an actress, known for Madame de Thebes (1915), En fortid (1913) and Blodets röst (1913). She died on 27 June 1958.
- Natalio Rivas was born on 8 March 1865 in Albuñol, Granada, Andalucía, Spain. He died on 16 January 1958 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
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- Producer
Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon was born on 5 May 1865 in Mimoso, Município de Santo Antônio do Leverger, Mato Grosso, Brazil. He was a cinematographer and producer, known for Ao Redor do Brasil (1932), The River of Doubt (1928) and The River of Death (1933). He died on 19 January 1958 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Polly Emery was born on 10 May 1865 in Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Good Companions (1933), The Case of Lady Camber (1920) and A Sister to Assist 'Er (1922). She died on 31 October 1958 in Denville Hall, Northwood, London, England, UK.
- Sylvia Grey was born on 18 May 1866 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Chouquette et son as (1920), Comment j'ai tué mon enfant (1925) and L'homme inusable (1923). She was married to C.D. Stewart and Dick Fenwick (Queensland rancher). She died on 6 May 1958 in London, England, UK.
- Joseph Scott was born on 16 July 1867 in Penrith, Cumbria, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919). He died on 24 March 1958 in California, USA.
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- Cinematographer
Adolf Gärtner was born on 24 July 1867 in Berlin. He was a director and writer, known for Ein scharfer Schuss (1917), Zwischen zwei Welten (1919) and Die Peitsche (1916). He died on 9 January 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar was born on 15 March 1868 in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India. He was a director, known for Atash Behram (1901), The Wrestlers (1899) and Sr. Wrangler Mr. R.P. Paranjpe (1902). He died on 20 February 1958.
- Julius Pohl was born on 25 April 1868 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He was a writer, known for Schach der Eva (1934), Die fünf Karnickel (1953) and Matrimonial Strike (1935). He died on 8 January 1958 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria.
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Antonio Paso was born on 9 September 1868 in Granada, Andalucía, Spain. He was a writer, known for Superintelligence (2020), Aventura oriental (1935) and Su desconsolada esposa (1958). He died on 11 July 1958 in Madrid, Spain.- Esther Lyon was born on 30 October 1868. She was an actress, known for The Dictator (1915) and The Frozen Warning (1917). She was married to Oscar Eagle. She died on 15 July 1958 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Adolph Schmidt was born on 18 November 1868 in Hannsdorf, Austria. He is known for The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916). He died on 2 February 1958 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.- Composer
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Adolf Schmid was born on 18 November 1868 in Hannsdorf, Mährisch Schönberg, Austria-Hungary [now Hanusovice, Sumperk, Czech Republic]. Adolf was a composer, known for The Tempest (1905) and Henry VIII (1911). Adolf died on 2 February 1958 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Percy Nash was born on 5 December 1868 in Kensington, London, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for Ships That Pass in the Night (1921), Women Who Win (1919) and Il potere sovrano (1916). He was married to Joan Ritz and Vivia Nina Abrahams. He died on 30 April 1958 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK.- Hedwig Bleibtreu was born on 23 December 1868 in Linz, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for The Third Man (1949), Der Spieler (1938) and Pygmalion (1935). She was married to Alexander Roempler and Peter Petersen. She died on 24 January 1958 in Vienna, Austria.
- A. Corney Grain was born on 18 January 1869 in Surbiton, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Fire Over England (1937), Libel! (1938) and Richard of Bordeaux (1938). He died on 16 August 1958 in Carshalton, Surrey, England, UK.
- Sheldon Lewis was born on 20 April 1869 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Monster Walks (1932), Orphans of the Storm (1921) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920). He was married to Virginia Pearson. He died on 7 May 1958 in San Gabriel, California, USA.
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- Writer
- Composer
Armas Järnefelt was born on 14 August 1869 in Viipuri, Finland [now Vyborg, Russia]. He was a writer and composer, known for Sången om den eldröda blomman (1919), Tukkipojan morsian (1931) and Muntra musikanter (1932). He was married to Olivia Edström and Maikki Pakarinen. He died on 23 June 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden.- Avgusta Danilova was born on 24 August 1869 in Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary [now Slovenia]. She was an actress, known for Na svoji zemlji (1948) and Trst (1951). She died on 3 January 1958 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia].
- Gennaro Pasquariello was born on 8 September 1869 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was an actor, known for Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeo (1937). He died on 26 January 1958 in Naples, Campania, Italy.
- Marcel Cachin was born on 20 September 1869 in Paimpol, Côtes-du-Nord, France. He died on 12 February 1958 in Choisy-le-Roi, Val-de-Marne, France.
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- Director
- Writer
Burton Holmes was born on 8 January 1870 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and director, known for How California Harvests Wheat (1917), Today in Samoa (1918) and Fiji Does Its Bit (1918). He was married to Margaret Oliver. He died on 22 July 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Centa Bré was born on 20 January 1870 in Donauwörth, Germany. She was an actress, known for Mutter Erde (1919), Am Spieltisch des Lebens (1920) and Eine tolle Wette auf dem Imperator (1913). She died on 30 March 1958 in Vilshofen an der Donau, Germany.
- Friedrich Kühne was born on 24 April 1870 in Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Detective Brown (1914), Othello (1922) and Der Hund von Baskerville (1914). He died on 13 October 1958 in Berlin, Germany.
- Composer
- Music Department
Florent Schmitt was born on 28 September 1870 in Blâmont, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France. He was a composer, known for Salammbô (1925) and Salome (1959). He died on 17 August 1958 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France.- Samuel Adams was born on 16 December 1870 in Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Pick a Star (1937), Amateur Crook (1937) and The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936). He died on 24 March 1958 in Sun Valley, California, USA.
- Journalist, author, biographer and historian Samuel Hopkins Adams was born along the banks of Lake Erie at Dunkirk, NY, on 26 January 1871. His parents were Myron, a ministe3r, and Hester Rose Hopkins Adams, the daughter of a theologian. Adams attended Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, and upon graduation began working as a newspaper reporter and later editor.
In the early years of the 20th century Adams became one of the pioneers in "muckraking journalism" with his exposes on the patent-medicine industry published in Collier's Magazine. He would later write a number of informational articles on health and medicine and become an associate member of the American Medical Association, even though he lacked a background in medicine. Adams was probably the first journalist to write articles on health that could be understood by the average reader
Adams' first novel, "The Clarion", was published in 1914 and told the story of an idealistic editor trying to run an honest newspaper amid unscrupulous advertisers and corrupt politicians. A reoccurring theme throughout Adams' novels was the triumph of idealism over corruption. He wrote biographies on writer Alexander Woollcott, American politician Daniel Webster and President Warren G. Harding. Earlier supporters of Harding tried to suppress Adams' novel "Revelry" (1926) for its portrayal of the various scandals that had plagued the Harding administration. Adams wrote a number of "detective Average Jones" mystery stories that would later be adapted to radio. Under the pseudonym Warner Fabian he wrote several novels about the "Lost Generation" in the years following World War I, of which "Flaming Youth" (1923) was probably his best known.
An expert on the history of New York state, Adams wrote a series of articles for "The New Yorker" on the Erie Canal that were gathered together in 1955 and published under the title "Godfather Stories". He also authored "Canal Town" (1944) that told the story of the canal's construction, "Banner by the Wayside" about a 19th-century troupe of traveling New York actors and "Sunrise to Sunset", which chronicled the rise of the union movement in New York's garment district.
Adams married Elizabeth R. Noyes (1877-1957) of Charleston, WV, in 1898. The couple had two daughters before their divorce in 1915. Later that year he married former stage actress Jane Peyton Van Norman (1880-1946).
Adams died on 15 November 1958, while at his winter residence in Beaufort, SC. He was survived by his daughters, Hester and Katherine. - Gustav Waldau was born on 27 February 1871 in Ergolding, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Little Dorrit (1934), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943) and Das Tor zum Paradies (1949). He was married to Herta Von Hagen. He died on 25 May 1958 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- From 1885 onwards, Rouault was taught drawing in evening courses at the École des Arts Décoratifs. In the same year he began training as a glass painter, which he completed in 1890. He then attended the École Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in 1890. From 1892 he was taught by the painter Gustave Moreau, who introduced him to mysticism and religion in painting. Even in his early days, Rouault was interested in religious painting, which also testifies to his interest in medieval art. In Moreau's studio he met the painters Henri Matisse and Henri Charles Manguin. This theme initially determined the content of his images; works with Old Testament and mythological motifs were created. But Georges Rouault also turned to landscape painting. From 1895 to 1901, exhibitions in the "Salon des Artistes Francais" followed at regular intervals. The death of his teacher and mentor Gustave Moreau in 1898 marked a deep turning point in Rouault's artistic work.
He withdrew from the public art world and became curator of the Musée Moreau; He filled this position throughout his life. A change occurred in his style expression. From this point on, Georges Rouault concentrated on Expressionism, which expressed itself in strongly emphasized colors and in hard, close contrasts. He painted in the style of the Parisian Fauvists, but distinguished himself from them through his moral stance. He used fringe social figures such as prostitutes, clowns, artists and homeless people as the subject of his pictures. This is how pictures were created such as "The Harlot in front of the Mirror" from 1906 or the work entitled "Three Clowns" painted around 1917. The images of prostitutes in particular from the years 1903 to 1907 are said to be influenced by the writer Léon Marie Bloy, who describes decadent Parisian life in his novel entitled "La Femme pauvre". The French novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans also had a personal influence. From 1903 to 1908 he exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Automne. Together with Henri Matisse and Albert Marquet, he played a key role in its founding and establishment.
The work entitled "Wrestler" was created in 1905 and the following year the title "Girl with Raised Arms" was created. They are considered an example of his full-scale expressionism with the hard, erratic brushstrokes that he made with passion. This phase lasted in the two years 1905 and 1906. Georges Rouault then occupied himself with ceramic works, which allowed him to find expression from 1910 onwards. The image surface turned out to be less transparent and became less permeable. The colors in glowing tone were given a border of dark-toned contours. Between 1917 and 1927, Rouault created a series of etchings entitled "Guerre et Miserere" on the subject of war, suffering and biblical scenes, which was published in 1948 under the title "Miserere". From 1918 onwards, oil painting was again in the foreground, and biblical themes dominated his motifs. George Rouault designed the decorations for the ballet "The Prodigal Son" by the Russian ballet manager Serge Diaghilev in 1929. Since then he turned to impasto painting, which he realized in a relief-like characteristic that was exemplary for him.
From this point on, his themes were almost exclusively of a religious nature. The two large-format works entitled "The Wounded Clown" from 1932 and "Christ with the Fishermen" from 1937 are among his masterpieces. In the years 1934 to 1935, Rouault made the graphic series entitled "Passion". It was published in 1938. In 1948 he made stained glass windows for the church in Assy. Rouault's artistic work was primarily religious. With these and other works he intended to represent the experience of theological and existential areas through the expression of expressionism.
Georges Rouault died on February 13, 1958 in Paris. - Music Department
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Songwriter ("Peg O' My Heart", "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine"< "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier") and author, educated in parochial schools. He joined the staff of several New York publishing firms, and wrote the Broadway stage scores for "The Shubert Gaieties of 1919", "The Midnight Rounders" (1920, 1921), "The Century Revue", and "A Night in Spain". Joining ASCAP in 1914 as a charter member, his chief musical collaborators included Fred Fisher, George Meyer, Larry Stock, Alfred Gumble, Al Piantadosi, Joe McCarthy, and John Klenner.- Karol Adwentowicz was born on 19 October 1871 in Wielogóra, Poland, Russian Empire [now Wielogóra, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Przeor Kordecki - obronca Czestochowy (1934) and Pomszczona krzywda (1912). He was married to Irena Grywinska. He died on 19 July 1958 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Charles Mendl was born on 14 December 1871 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Notorious (1946). He was married to Elsie de Wolfe. He died on 15 February 1958 in Paris, France.
- Charles Hagen was born on 19 December 1871 in Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for The City Gone Wild (1927) and The Ray Milland Show (1953). He died on 13 June 1958 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Vangie Beilby was born on 8 January 1872 in Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Fugitive Road (1934). She died on 14 October 1958 in Alameda County, California, USA.
- Ethel Turner was born on 24 January 1872 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was a writer, known for One-Way Ticket (1935), Seven Little Australians (1939) and Seven Little Australians (1953). She died on 8 April 1958 in Mosman, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Amélie Matisse was born on 16 February 1872 in Beauzelle, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France. She was married to Henri Matisse. She died on 12 November 1958 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
- Hamilton Revelle was born on 31 May 1872 in Gibraltar, UK. He was an actor, known for Hamlet (1914), Thais (1917) and Kismet (1920). He died on 11 April 1958 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Ida Otterström was born on 23 August 1872 in Gåsborn, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Mannekängen (1913). She died on 10 October 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Marcel Simon was born on 31 August 1872 in Brussels, Belgium. He was an actor and director, known for La Petite amie (1917), Le calvaire de Mignon (1917) and Une nuit de noces (1920). He died on 16 October 1958 in Paris, France.- Gardner Hunting was born on 2 September 1872 in Wisconsin, USA. He was a writer, known for The Clever Mrs. Carfax (1917), Little Miss Optimist (1917) and Big Timber (1917). He died on 21 November 1958 in Burbank, California, USA.
- Maurice Gamelin was born on 20 September 1872 in Paris, France. He died on 14 April 1958 in Paris, France.
- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott was born on 22 September 1872 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She was a writer, known for Molly Make-Believe (1916), Little Eve Edgarton (1916) and Old Dad (1920). She was married to Fordyce Coburn. She died on 4 June 1958 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA.
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Dr. Ralph Vaughan Williams was perhaps the most important English composer of the 20th Century. His influence on the development of 20th Century music was immense. Benjamin Britten and numerous film composers (Jerry Goldsmith, etc.) owe a lot to him. He created a truly contemporary idiom whose roots reached back to Tudor times and folk music.
He first made a name as one of the leading collector/researcher of traditional English folk music at the turn of the century. He worked also as organist, conductor, lecturer, teacher, editor and writer. He studied under Sir Hubert Parry, Max Bruch and Maurice Ravel. He had a life-long friendship with Gustav Holst, and if one listens carefully one can hear crossover 'hommages' in their works. His professional career spanned more than six decades, with nine Symphonies, several concertos, a ballet, a few operas and countless choral works. The latter are often performed in church services, not bad for an agnostic composer. In 1941, at an age most people have retired (almost 70), he entered the movies with the score to Michael Powell's '49th Parallel'. He composed 11 motion picture scores. Out of his score to 'Scott of the Antarctic' he developed his majestic 7th Symphony.- Actor
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Born in Germany in 1872, Paul Panzer spent several years on the stage before entering the film industry with Edison in 1905. He later went to Vitagraph, one of the first actors to work at that studio, but left them in 1911. He directed one film, The Life of Buffalo Bill (1912), with the real Buffalo Bill (aka Buffalo Bill Cody) released by Monopol, a small independent company. However, he returned to acting and worked, often uncredited, in that capacity for the next 40+ years, appearing in more than 350 films all told. He made his last film in 1952, and died in Hollywood in 1958.- 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.
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If John R. Freuler is remembered at all, it is as the man who, in February 1916, offered Charles Chaplin a contract to make 12 two-reel comedies for the astonishing sum of $670,000. Up to that point, no actor or celebrity had received anything remotely close to that figure. In 1933, he would tell an interviewer, "'Just crazy,' is what everybody [told us]. But we made $700,000 clear profit on that contract after those pictures brought us a gross of $3,300,000."
Formerly a real estate banker, John Rudolf Freuler entered the motion picture business in 1906 as co-owner of the Comique, a storefront nickelodeon, located in Milwaukee. Later that year, with brothers Harry and Roy Aitken, Freuler founded the Western Film Exchange, a distribution outlet that would open branches in St. Louis, Joplin and Kansas City, Missouri.
In 1910, Freuler and Samuel S. Hutchinson, another exchange owner, created the American Film Manufacturing Company of Chicago, thus entering the producing arena. Their brand became known as "Flying A." Like other "independent" producers, Flying A was challenged by the Patents Trust companies, and eventually moved production to Santa Barbara, California. (By 1915, the Trust collapsed.)
In March 1912, Freuler, the Aitken brothers, Hutchinson and another partner, Charles J. Hite, merged their exchanges into the Mutual Film Corporation, which locked up exclusive distribution for nearly all of the Midwest. (Hite would also become a producer by purchasing outright the Thanhouser Film Company of New York.) In 1913, director D.W. Griffith joined the Mutual family, but the biggest coup for the organization was its contract with the New York Motion Picture (NYMP) Company, which owned the Bison, Broncho and Domino dramatic brands supervised by Thomas H. Ince, and the Keystone comedy brand supervised by Mack Sennett. As Keystone's distribution outlet, Mutual was among the first to benefit from the sudden stardom of Charlie Chaplin in 1914. The following year, the Aitken brothers left Mutual to form Triangle with the NYMP Company and Griffith, and Freuler became president of Mutual. He helped institute new dramatic and comedy brands that kept the company prosperous, and continually kept Chaplin's Keystone comedies in circulation to meet an ever-increasing demand.
By the time they signed Chaplin directly, Mutual had grown to 68 exchanges throughout the United States and Canada. Freuler and Hutchinson formed the Lone Star Film Corporation to produce the twelve Chaplin comedies that have remained in wide distribution to this day. In addition to Chaplin's enormous salary, Lone Star also paid everybody else's salaries, plus bought and refurbished the studio used by Chaplin (which would eventually pass to Buster Keaton). During this period, Freuler's companies also produced and distributed films starring Mary Miles Minter, Helen Holmes, Ben Turpin, W.C. Fields and many others.
With the loss of Chaplin to First National in late 1917, closely followed by the loss of Minter to Adolph Zukor, Mutual foundered and Freuler and Hutchinson both resigned from the company in May 1918. Freuler remained active as a theater owner, and in the early 1930s returned to the producing end as the head of Monarch Films, a low-budget state rights outfit. By the 1940s, he had come full circle as owner of a single movie house, but had invested wisely and remained a wealthy man and respected Milwaukee citizen up to his death.- Writer
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Composer, songwriter ("Dearie"), playwright Plays: "and author, educated at the Packer Institute and in private music study. She wrote the Broadway stage scores for "90 in the Shade", "One Kiss", "Annie Dear", "Madame Pompadour", and "The Three Waltzes". Joining ASCAP in 1934, her chief musical collaborators included Sigmund Romberg and Jerome Kern, and her other popular-song compositions include "Egypt", "Other Eyes", "Blushing June Roses", "Somebody's Eyes", "Thro' All the World", "Only With You", "The Bluebird", "Garden of Dreams", "Sunset", "The Road to Yesterday", "Today", and "Lover of Mine".- Soundtrack
George Bennard was born on 4 February 1873 in Youngstown, Ohio, USA. George died on 10 October 1958 in Reed City, Michigan, USA.