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James Dunn worked on the stage, in vaudeville and as an extra in silent movies before he was signed by Fox in 1931. His first movie with Fox was 1931's Sob Sister (1931). While at Fox, he appeared with Shirley Temple in her first three features: Baby, Take a Bow (1934), Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) and Bright Eyes (1934). Dunn's screen character was usually the boy next door or the nice guy. In 1935 musicals at the new 20th Century-Fox were out and Dunn would move to the "B" list, from which he would never return. In The Payoff (1935) he plays the nice guy newspaper columnist whose wife ruins his career. By the late 1930s he was drinking heavily and became unemployable. He would appear in small roles in films during the early 1940s, but those parts were few and far between. In 1945 he was able to make a comeback and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), but his rejuvenated career would not continue. By 1951 he would again be unemployed and bankrupt. Television would later supply some work and he would be a regular on the series It's a Great Life (1954).- Known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald", Ilse Koch was the wife of Karl Koch, the SS commandant of the Nazi concentration/extermination camps of Buchenwald and Majdanek during World War II. An ardent Nazi, she was accused after the war of war crimes, specifically that she chose certain camp prisoners with unique tattoos to be murdered and then skinned, after which she would have lampshades made of the tattooed skin. She and her husband were arrested by the SS in 1943 on charges of embezzlement and murder of prisoners (there were rumors that the charges were a cover for the fact that her husband, a homosexual, had tried to blackmail top SS officials who were also homosexuals). Her husband was found guilty and executed by firing squad in 1945 (she was tried in 1944 but was acquitted for lack of evidence). She went to live with her family in Ludwigsburg, where she was arrested by US authorities in June of 1945.
She was among 30 accused war criminals tried by a US military court in Dachau, Germany. Although she announced to the court that she was pregnant, she was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment for "violations of the laws and customs of war" (when her child, a son, was born in the prison he was taken from her. He did not find out that she was his mother until he was 19). However, in 1948--after she had served only two years in prison--Gen. Lucius D. Clay, the military governor of the American zone in Germany, reduced her sentence from life to four years. Clay's action caused an uproar, and an outraged public brought pressure on the government to try her again. She was re-arrested in 1949. She went to trial in 1951 and was again convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
On September 1, 1967, suffering from delusions (among them that survivors of her actions in the concentration camps were trying to sneak into the prison to kill her), she committed suicide by hanging herself in her cell at Aichach Womens Prison. She was 60 years old. - Hélène Burls was born on 7 July 1881 in Islington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Dear Murderer (1947), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Never Look Back (1952). She died on 1 September 1967 in Hastings, Sussex, England, UK.
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Siegfried Sassoon was born on 8 September 1886 in Matfield, Kent, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The First World War (2003), Aftermath (2016) and T. E. Lawrence 1888-1935 (1962). He was married to Hester Gatty. He died on 1 September 1967 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK.- Camera and Electrical Department
Bert Six was born on 15 June 1902 in Missouri, USA. He is known for The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961), Kona Coast (1968) and Sunrise at Campobello (1960). He died on 1 September 1967 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
Sergey Fomin was born on 25 September 1908 in Tsaritsyn, Voisk Don oblast, Russian Empire [now Volgograd, Volgograd oblast, Russia]]. Sergey was a cinematographer, known for Razgrom militaristkoy Japonii (1945), Zimorodok (1972) and Plamya (1974). Sergey died on 1 September 1967 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union [now Saint Petersburg, Russia].- Maudie Flock was born on 13 March 1884 in Alabama, USA. She died on 1 September 1967 in Georgia, USA.