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- Ivan Popov was born on 10 September 1865 in Karlovo, Bulgaria. He was an actor, known for Pod staroto nebe (1922) and Dyavolat v Sofia (1921). He died on 11 February 1966 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- Theodore F. Green was born on 2 October 1867 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He died on 19 May 1966 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
- Sofie Bernhoft was born on 21 July 1870 in Kristiania, Norway. She was an actress, known for Trysil-Knut (1942), Boer Boerson Jr. (1938) and A Quiet flirt (1933). She died on 17 February 1966 in Oslo, Norway.
- Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator who was the highest-paid commercial artist in the United States by the 1920s. Born on July 25, 1870 in Philadelphia. Trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Drexel Institute of Art, he was the highest-paid commercial artist and muralist in the U.S. by the 1920s. He is best known for his depictions of fantasy landscapes populated by attractive young women. He died in 1966.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Frank Hemphill was born on 6 October 1870 in Mobile, Alabama, USA. He was an actor, known for The Railroad Raiders (1917), The Non-Stop Flight (1926) and The Yellow Stain (1922). He died on 12 December 1966 in Oakland, California, USA.- Daisetz Suzuki was born on 18 October 1870 in Kanazawa, Japan. He died on 12 July 1966 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Mignon Ziegfeld was born on 4 December 1871 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Billy's Burglar (1912). She was married to Hugo V. Ziegfeld. She died on 15 July 1966 in the USA.
- George Washington Ogden was born on 9 December 1871 in Johnson County, Kansas, USA. He was a writer, known for The Bond Boy (1922), The Duke of Chimney Butte (1921) and The Trail Rider (1925). He died on 31 March 1966 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Producer
- Art Department
British actor / author / producer E. Gordon Craig was born in England on January 16, 1872. He was the son of legendary stage actress Ellen Terry (another theatrical legend, Henry Irving, was his godfather). He made his stage debut at age six in "Olivia", which starred his mother, and when the family traveled to the US in 1885, he appeared in another of his mother's plays, "Eugene Aram", in Chicago. He had a steady, if unspectacular, career on stage, but it wasn't his cup of tea and he gave up acting in 1897 for a career as an author and set designer.
In 1903 he left England for Italy, where he founded the School for the Art of the Theatre in Florence. He designed sets for productions starring Isadora Duncan, and in 1910 he was commissioned to design the sets for the Moscow Art Theatre's production of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
Gordon also also became a theatrical and film producer, in addition to being a set designer and author. In 1931 he wrote a biography of his mother, "Ellen Terry and Her Secret Self".- Maud Cooling was born on 5 June 1872 in Fergus, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for The Boy Girl (1917), Fields of Honor (1918) and The Eternal Magdalene (1919). She was married to Dean Raymond. She died on 11 June 1966 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
- Sam Polo was born on 7 November 1872 in California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Lion's Claws (1918), The Great Circus Mystery (1925) and A Man from Nowhere (1920). He died on 3 October 1966 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Make-Up Department
Sam Palo was born on 7 November 1872 in California, USA. Sam died on 3 October 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Herman Lieb was born on 9 March 1873 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Dope (1914), Daybreak (1918) and Two Shall Be Born (1924). He was married to Evelyn Wall. He died on 9 March 1966 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.- Animation Department
Jesse Sylvester "Vet" Anderson, cartoonist, comic strip artist, illustrator, and sculptor, was born in Bear Lake, Michigan. He got the nickname "Vet" because he was a veteran of the Spanish American War at the age of 23.
He created cartoons and comic strips for the Detroit Free Press, the New York Herald Tribune, and New York Globe, studied sculpture under Paul Landowski (1875-1961) in Paris, and participated in the 1922 Salon des Artists Francais show in Paris.
In the late 1910s, he worked with animators Dick Huemer and Raoul Barre in NYC. In the 20s, he worked with Paul Terry and Max Fleischer in NYC. In 1931, he came to California to work with Walter Lantz on 15 "Oswald the Rabbit" cartoons. In 1933, Vet worked on a 9-minute animated version of "The Wizard of Oz" in Canada. In 1937, he came to San Francisco to work on two bas-relief sculptures for the WPA Horseshoe Courts in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
He died at the Veterans Home in Santa Clara County, California in 1966.- Cécile Sorel was born on 7 September 1873 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for La Tosca (1909), The Pearls of the Crown (1937) and L'an 40 (1941). She was married to Guillaume de Sax. She died on 3 September 1966 in Trouville-sur-Mer, Calvados, France.
- Robert Koppel was born on 9 January 1874 in Bochum, Germany. He was an actor, known for Jettchen Gebert's Story (1918) and Henriette Jacoby (1918). He died on 21 August 1966 in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Emma Dunn was a much noted stage actress before turning to films. She worked with such theatre luminaries as Richard Mansfield, Frances Starr, James Ellison and Blanche Yurka. She appeared in 3 productions under the direction of the legendary David Belasco. Miss Dunn also authored 2 books regarding diction and voice quality.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Soledad Jiménez was born on 28 February 1874 in Santander, Spain. She was an actress, known for Kid Galahad (1937), The Girl from Rio (1939) and The Kid from Rio (1939). She died on 17 October 1966 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ada Reeve was born on 3 March 1874 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Night and the City (1950), Nicholas Nickleby (1957) and Mr. Gladstone (1947). She was married to [Albert] Wilfred Cotton (actor) and Joseph Gilbert Fleetwood (aka Bert Gilbert). She died on 5 October 1966 in London, England, UK.
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- Art Director
- Set Decorator
Paul Crawley was born on 17 April 1874 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an art director and set decorator, known for The Bat Whispers (1930), Speed (1936) and The Dove (1927). He died on 29 September 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Cinematographer
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
Giovanni Vitrotti was born on 1 May 1874 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Il Natale del perdono (1907), Generous Policeman (1907) and The Orphan of Messina (1909). He died on 1 December 1966 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Tilly von Kaulbach was born on 8 August 1874 in Odense, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Kleiner Svend und seine Mutter (1913), En gartnerdreng søges (1913) and Skyggedanserinden (1913). She died on 1 June 1966.
- Mary Marvin Heaton was born in New York City on October 11, 1874, the daughter of Hiram and Ellen Cordelia Blackman Heaton. Her father was a private teacher who taught English literature. Her mother had been married to a wealthy merchant before he died and he left her a fortune and five children (interestingly, Mary's middle name was the surname of her mother's first husband). Mary spent much of her youth abroad with her family. She was educated at schools in France and Germany and, at times, by her father. As a young woman she studied to be a painter at art schools in Paris and New York.
On October 26, 1898, she married Albert White Vorse (1866-1910) at Amherst, Massachusetts. He was a Harvard graduate, journalist and future author. In 1892 he had worked as a journalist on the Peary Relief Expedition in Greenland. Mary and Albert had two children: Heaton Vorse (1901) and Mary White Vorse (1907). Albert died of a cerebral hemorrhage on June 14, 1910, at Staten Island, New York, while Mary and her children were on an ocean liner returning home from Europe. At the time of his death, the couple had been estranged for some months. Sadly, Mary's mother died that very same day of a heart attack at her home in Amherst. Coincidentally, 56 years later, Mary also died on the 14th of June.
Though Mary had started writing several years before Albert's death, circumstances now forced her into writing full time. After her mother had passed away Mary learned that she had been written out of her will. Ellen Heaton had disliked Albert and disapproved of their lifestyle.
During her long career Mary Heaton Vorse wrote 16 books, two plays and scores of articles for newspapers, magazines and periodicals. An example of some of her more well known works are: "The Heart of the House" (1906), "The Breaking-In of a Yachtsman's Wife" (1908), "The Very Little Person" (1911), "The Autobiography of an Elderly Woman" (1911), "Standardizing Jimmy" (1913), "The Heart's Country" (1913), "The Prestons" (1918), "I've Come to Stay" (1919), "Growing Up" (1920), "The Ninth Man" (1920), "Men and Steel" (1921), "Fraycar's Fist" (1923), "Weisbord's Farewell to Passaic" (1926), "The Battle of Passaic" (1926), "School for Bums" (1931), "How Scottsboro Happened" (1933), "A Footnote to Folly" (1935), "Lawrence Strike" (1935), "Labor's New Millions" (1938) and "Time and the Town: A Provincetown Chronicle" (1942).
In 1911 she witnessed the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City, in which 146 garment workers (mostly women) had perished--the factory doors had been locked shut by the owners and many workers had been forced by the fire to jump to their deaths. As a journalist, Mary would spend much of the remainder of her career as an advocate of worker's rights. On June 19, 1937, Mary's forehead was grazed by a stray bullet after a labor dispute she was covering at a steel plant in Youngstown, Ohio, turned into riot.
In 1912 she married freelance journalist and labor activist Joe O'Brien. The couple shared a common concern over the plight of the ordinary working man. Earlier that year Mary and Joe had covered together a labor strike that involved immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. On October 27, 1915, Joe died suddenly in New York City after battling stomach cancer for several months. Joel, their only child together, was born the previous year. Around 1921 she married Robert Minor (1884-1952), a newspaper cartoonist and founding member of the American Communist Party. Minor left her in 1922 shortly after she had suffered a miscarriage. Her brief flirtation with communism ended after observing it up close while visiting Russia under the Joseph Stalin regime. She still remained a strong advocate of many left-wing causes, however. She became a pacifist after, as a journalist, witnessing the carnage of the First World War and remained so throughout the Second World War. She had also been an early campaigner for the equality of women.
Mary's writings covered a wide range of subjects. In 2002 Jesica Amands Salmonson published a collection of seven supernatural stories by Mary Heaton Vorse, entitled "Sinister Romance": Collected Ghost Stories.
Mary Heaton Vorse died on June 14, 1966, at her home in Provincetown. She was survived by all three of her children. - Raymond Duncan was born on 1 November 1874 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Germs and Microbes (1916), Around the World with Orson Welles (1955) and Pariser Journal (1961). He was married to Aia Bertrand and Penelope Sikeliano. He died on 14 August 1966 in Cavalaire-sur-Mer, Var, France.
- Marguerite Long was born on 13 November 1874 in Nimes, France. She was married to Joseph Marliave. She died on 13 February 1966 in Paris, France.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
A dainty but nevertheless feisty character actress, southern-bred (Mary) Elizabeth Patterson was born in Savannah, Tennessee, on November 22, 1874, and started her career over her strict parent's objections. She became a member of Chicago's Ben Greet Players, performing Shakespeare at the turn of the century. This followed college at Martin College where she studied music, elocution and English, and post-graduate work at Columbia Institute in Columbia, Tennessee.
Elizabeth eventually traveled for well over a decade in stock tours before given the opportunity to debut on Broadway with the short-lived play "Everyman" in 1913. She continued in such other Broadway comedies and dramas as "The Family Exit (1917), "The Piper" (1920), "Magnolia" (1923), "The Book of Charm" (1925), "Spellbound" (1927), "Rope" (1928), "The Marriage Bed" (1929), "Her Master's Voice" (1933), "Yankee Point" (1942), "But Not Goodbye" (1944) and "His and Hers" (1954).
By the time the veteran player finally advanced to the screen, she was 51 years of age. Starting with the silent films The Boy Friend (1926) and The Return of Peter Grimm (1926), she would be best recalled for her series of careworn ladies, playing a host of dressed-down, small-town folk -- grannies, aunts, spinsters, gossips, teachers, frontier women -- and other sweet-and-sour types. She added greatly to the atmosphere of such popular talking films as The Cat Creeps (1930), Penrod and Sam (1931), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Doctor Bull (1933), So Red the Rose (1935), High, Wide and Handsome (1937), Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938) (and series: as Aunt Blanche), Anne of Windy Poplars (1940), The Cat and the Canary (1939), Remember the Night (1939), Tobacco Road (1941) (her most famous film role: as Ada Lister), Her Cardboard Lover (1942), I Married a Witch (1942), Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), Out of the Blue (1947), The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947), Little Women (1949), Intruder in the Dust (1949), Pal Joey (1957), and her final, Tall Story (1960).
In the television arena, she appeared on several anthology shows ("Armstrong Circle Theatre," "Chevron Theatre," "Four Star Playhouse," "General Electric Theatre," "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse") and such regular shows as "The Adventures of Superman," "The Adventures of Jim Bowie," "77 Sunset Strip" and "Playhouse 90." She became a familiar household face, however, as the elderly neighbor and part-time babysitter, Mrs. Trumbull, on the I Love Lucy (1951) TV series.
The never-married Elizabeth, who lived at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel her entire TV and film career, died on January 31, 1966, after contracting pneumonia. The 91-year-old lady was buried in a hometown cemetery.- Terezie Brzková was born on 11 January 1875 in Kolín, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Babichka (1940), Barbora Hlavsová (1943) and Sny na nedeli (1959). She was married to Václav Zejfert and Josef Brzek. She died on 19 November 1966 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Ricardo Calvo was born on 19 April 1875 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for La fuerza del mal (1914), I Was a Parish Priest (1953) and El escándalo (1943). He died on 13 June 1966 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- Lee Tong Foo was born on 23 April 1875 in Alameda, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Across the Pacific (1942), There's a Girl in My Heart (1949) and Mr. Wong, Detective (1938). He died on 1 May 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Producer
Alfred P. Sloan was born on 23 May 1875 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was a producer. He died on 17 February 1966 in New York City, New York, USA.- Berta Monnard was born on 24 July 1875 in Germany. She was an actress, known for Entfesselte Leidenschaften (1919), Vier Finger (1919) and The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950). She died on 1 December 1966 in Berlin, Germany.
- Jean Nadolovitch was born on 6 September 1875 in Zvorestéa, Romania. He was an actor, known for Paganini (1923). He died on 22 September 1966 in Berlin, Germany.
- Actress
- Writer
Eleanor Lawson was born on 23 December 1875 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Twenty-One (1923), Lights of Old Broadway (1925) and Man with Two Lives (1942). She died on 22 March 1966 in Pasadena, California, USA.- Eduard Kandl was born on 2 January 1876 in Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. He was an actor, known for Crown of Thorns (1923), Falstaff in Vienna (1940) and Martha (1916). He died on 17 January 1966 in Herrsching am Ammersee, Bavaria, Germany.
- Hallene Hill was born on 12 September 1876 in Kirksville, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956), The Arkansas Traveler (1938) and Thriller (1960). She died on 6 January 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Olga Szohner was born on 27 December 1876 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for András (1941). She died on 30 March 1966 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Actor
Ludwig Provaznik was born on 19 January 1877 in West Point, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor. He died on 31 January 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- William Provaznik was born on 19 January 1877 in West Point, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor. He died on 7 November 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Wojciech Brydzinski was born on 28 January 1877 in Stanislau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Pan Tadeusz (1928), Dzieje grzechu (1911) and Television Theater (1953). He died on 4 May 1966 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Actress
- Music Department
Ida Perry was born on 16 February 1877 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Elisabeth von Österreich (1931), Gretchen Wendland (1914) and Die Dame, der Teufel und die Probiermamsell (1919). She was married to Rudolf Ander. She died on 21 June 1966 in Berlin, Germany.- Additional Crew
- Writer
- Producer
Arthur H. Sawyer was born on 8 March 1877 in Portland, Maine, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Sandra (1924), The Girl from Montmartre (1926) and Your Friend and Mine (1923). He died on 24 June 1966 in Keene, New Hampshire, USA.- Actor
- Director
Franz Herterich was born on 3 October 1877 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Liebesträume (1935), So endete eine Liebe (1934) and The Prince and the Pauper (1920). He died on 28 September 1966 in Vienna, Austria.- Claire McDowell was born on 2 November 1877 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), The Big Parade (1925) and The Mark of Zorro (1920). She was married to Charles Hill Mailes. She died on 23 October 1966 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Robert Farquarson was born on 6 November 1877 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Man They Couldn't Arrest (1931) and Captivation (1931). He died on 11 January 1966 in Ticino, Switzerland.
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
William Dillon was born on 6 November 1877 in Cortland, New York, USA. William is known for Tin Pan Alley (1940), New York Stories (1989) and Unconditional Love (2002). William died on 10 February 1966 in Ithaca, New York, USA.- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Producer
Elmer Harris was born on 11 January 1878 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Ransom (1928), No More Women (1924) and Cross Country Cruise (1934). He was married to Wilhelmina B. Henderson. He died on 6 September 1966 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.- Rudolf Ritter was born on 19 January 1878 in Brüx, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Most, Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Der Wilderer (1926). He died on 3 June 1966 in Gaildorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Actor
Joe Farey was born on 13 February 1878 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor. He died on 2 January 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- James Montgomery was born on 27 April 1878 in Malden, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Irene (1940), Nothing But the Truth (1941) and Nothing But the Truth (1929). He was married to Constance Montague. He died on 17 June 1966 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Edd Russell was born on 27 May 1878 in New York, USA. He was an actor. He died on 17 November 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.