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- Francesco Chiesa was born on 5 July 1871 in Breggia, Ticino, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for Innocenza (1986). He died on 13 June 1973 in Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland.
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Henri Büsser was born on 16 January 1872 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France. He is known for Joyful Partaking (2001), Opéra de Paris (1936) and Lectures pour tous (1953). He was married to Yvonne Gall. He died on 30 December 1973 in Paris, France.- American character actress famed for roles as mothers. Born in a Philadelphia suburb as Mary Kennevan, she became a schoolteacher, but soon gave it up for work as an actress in touring companies. She married actor William Carr and toured extensively with his company. After the turn of the century, he became involved in film production as both an actor and director, and he brought Mary and their six children into the film business with him. Mary made her film debut in 1916, but it was her appearance in Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1920) which made her a success in movies. It was a tremendous success due in large part to her touching portrayal of a poverty-stricken mother. She followed it with similar roles in scores of films throughout the silent period. A fallow period arrived with the talkies, and Carr found herself nearly destitute, but publicity about her status rallied help to her cause and she found help and occasional work. She spent her later years appearing infrequently, often in films directed by her son Thomas Carr. She died at the age of 99 in November 1973.
- Léon Walther was born on 2 June 1874 in Sorgues, Vaucluse, France. He was an actor, known for Madame Sans-Gêne (1941), The Pearls of the Crown (1937) and Ils étaient neuf célibataires (1939). He died on 2 March 1973 in Lagny-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France.
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A former schoolmaster at Culham College, Oxfordshire, Pearson abandoned his teaching career when he began to speculate on the educational propensities of the emerging medium of film. In 1913, he embarked on making instructive short films for London Pathé and subsequently founded his own production company. For Gaumont, he produced a series of popular thrillers, having created the character of 'Ultus the Avenger'. Ultus, one of the first-ever super heroes of the screen, was a master of disguise who fought against injustice and was always a step ahead of the police. Around the same time, Pearson also made the first filmed version of Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet (1914). Unable to locate any known actors with the necessary facial characteristics, Pearson cast an unknown accountant named James Bragington (who had never acted a day in his life) in the central role of Sherlock Holmes.
In 1918, Pearson combined forces with Thomas Welsh to form Welsh/Pearson Productions. He directed the cockney actress Betty Balfour in the popular Squibs (1921) series of comedies. He also made a number of idiosyncratic 'comedy-dramas' which examined the human condition. Of these, the patriotic Réveille (1924) was his own personal favorite. With the advent of talking pictures, Pearson continued to work as producer-director on 'quota quickies' until 1937, latterly based at Twickenham. During World War II, he was put in charge of Britain's Colonial Film Unit. A recipient of an OBE in 1951, Pearson was a former President of the Association of British Film Directors and Honorary Fellow of both the Royal Photographic Society and the British Film Academy.- Composer
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Born of a Catalan father and Puerto Rican mother in the small town of Vendrell, Spain, Casals began his career performing music with his father Charles in church. One of 9 children, Casals became an international sensation due to his musical style, however with the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and Franco's eventual victory and rise in Spain, Casals self-exiled himself to Puerto Rico, where he died in 1973.- Composer
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Giuseppe Becce was born on 2 February 1877 in Lonigo, Veneto, Italy. He was a composer and actor, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Life of Richard Wagner (1913) and The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929). He died on 5 October 1973 in Berlin, Germany.- Actor
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Nicolas Koline was born on 7 May 1878 in Russia. He was an actor and director, known for La cible (1924), Variétés (1935) and La maison du mystère (1923). He died on 3 June 1973 in Nyack, New York, USA.- Additional Crew
R.H. Cochrane was born on 27 December 1878 in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA. He is known for The Exquisite Thief (1919), Mutual Weekly, No. 42 (1915) and Animated Weekly, No. 136 (1914). He was married to Julia Fallis. He died on 31 May 1973 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.- Guy M. Gillette served as a United States Senator from Iowa as a Democrat. He was appointed to fill an unexpired term in 1936 was re-elected in 1938 and defeated in 1944.
He then came back in 1948 and was elected again, but was defeated for re-election in 1954 as a Democrat. - Edward Steichen was a key figure of twentieth-century photography, directing its development as a prominent photographer and influential curator. During World War I, he directed aerial photography for the Army Expeditionary Forces. He renounced painting shortly thereafter, along with the vestiges of Pictorialism, and adopted a modernist style. He served as chief photographer for Condé Nast from 1923 to 1938 while also doing freelance advertising work. Commissioned a lieutenant commander in 1942, Steichen became director of the U.S. Naval Photographic Institute in 1945; there he oversaw combat photography and organized the exhibitions Road to Victory and Power in the Pacific. He was director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art from 1947 to 1962, and was responsible for more than fifty shows, including The Family of Man in 1955, the most popular exhibition in the history of photography. Steichen received innumerable awards and honors, including Knighthood in the French Legion of Honor, an Honorary Fellowship in the Royal Photographic Society, the Distinguished Service Medal, the Art Directors Club of New York Award, U.S. Camera Achievement Award for "Most Outstanding Contribution to Photography by an Individual," (1949) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963).
- André Brunot was born on 3 October 1879 in Prémery, Nièvre, France. He was an actor, known for L'affaire Blaireau (1923), The Red and the Black (1954) and The Lame Devil (1948). He died on 4 August 1973 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- Larry Oliver was born on 5 October 1879 in Carthage, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Born Yesterday (1950) and Born Yesterday (1956). He died on 20 January 1973 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
- Mae Montgomery was born on 14 October 1879 in England Prairie, Minnesota, USA. She was an actress, known for So Shall Ye Reap (1911) and Cowboy's Romance (1909). She was married to Thomas Honess Bellin 20 Mar 1906. She died on 21 December 1973 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Wallace Bosco was born on 31 January 1880 in Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Jungle Jim (1955), Ivanhoe (1913) and Captain Midnight (1954). He died on 17 April 1973 in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK.- Actor
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W.L. McPheeters was born on 13 February 1880 in Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924). He died on 11 July 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Blanche Leopold was born on 18 May 1880 in the USA. She died on 26 December 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Nell Harrison was born on 28 September 1880 in Lebanon, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for The Producers (1967), Tales of Tomorrow (1951) and Suspense (1949). She died on 4 December 1973 in Haverstraw, New York, USA.
- Bertha Lindgreen was born on 22 January 1881 in Malmö, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Gøglernes Elskov (1912), Gud raader (1912) and Fodsporet (1912). She died on 8 November 1973.
- Julio Castello was born on 28 January 1881 in Spain. He died on 15 January 1973 in Tampa, Florida, USA.
- Lottie Blackford was born on 3 February 1881 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Tilly of Bloomsbury (1921), Rock of Ages (1918) and The Narrow Valley (1921). She was married to Jasper William Parsells, Albert Huchthausen and William Vaughan Jennings. She died on 30 December 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Alice Beylat was born on 26 February 1881 in Vendeuvre-sur-Barse, Aube, France. She was an actress, known for La maison du mystère (1933), L'homme qui revient de loin (1919) and Rien que des mensonges (1933). She died on 28 May 1973 in Lagny-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France.
- Robert Fischer was born on 28 May 1881 in Danzig, West Prussia, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Heart of Gold (1919), Expensive Husbands (1937) and Loves of an Actress (1928). He died on 11 March 1973 in San Diego, California, USA.
- Polevitskaya was basically a stage actress, a very famous and talented stage star. (She is even mentioned in the memoirs of the Russian writer Konstantin Paustovsky, who saw her on the stage when he was a lad.) Polevitskaya was educated and trained for a stage acting career in St. Petersburg (1900-08), and apprenticed in the Kommisarzhevsky Theater. She then moved to the Ukraine and played many celebrated stage roles there, 1910-18. Polevitskaya was cast as the young leading lady in such plays as Camille, Nobleman's Nest (adapted from Turgenev), The Storm (Ostrovsky), He Who Gets Slapped (Andreyev), and The Idiot (adapt. from Dostoevsky). Polevitskaya acquired another spelling of her name ("Polewitzkaja") when in 1920 she emigrated from the poverty-stricken USSR shortly after the Russian Revolution. For the next 35 years, she lived and acted in such nations as Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Latvia, sometimes acting in Russian-language plays for a Russian-speaking (emigre) audience, sometimes speaking German, in 5 German-language films and a number of German-language stage plays. In her mature years, she also taught acting classes in Vienna, 1943-55. Polevitskaya did a surprising thing in her mid-seventies: she decided to return to the USSR after 1955, and lived out her final decades there, acting in 3 Russian films and teaching drama classes at the Shchukin School. She died at the age of 92, after a very full and dramatic life.
- Ludwig Von Mises was born on 29 September 1881 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He died on 10 October 1973 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Pablo Picasso, one of the most recognized figures of 20th century art, who co-created such styles as Cubism and Surrealism, was also among most innovative, influential, and prolific artists of all time.
He was born Pablo Ruiz Picasso on October 6, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. He was the first child of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father was an artist and professor of art at the School of Fine Arts, and also a curator of museum in Malaga, Spain. Picasso began studying art under his father's tutelage, continued at the Academy of Arts in Madrid for a year, and went on his ingenious explorations of the new horizons. He went to Paris in 1901 and found the environment conducive for his experiments with new art styles. Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, and André Breton were among his friends and collectors.
Constantly updating his style from the Blue Period, to the Rose Period, to the African-influenced Period, to Cubism, to Realism and Surrealism he was a pioneer with a hand in every art movement of the 20th century. He made some softer and neo-classic artworks during his cooperation with the Russian Ballet of Sergei Diaghilev in Paris. In 1917 Picasso joined the Russian Ballet on tour in Rome, Italy. There he fell in love with Olga Khokhlova, a classical ballerina from the Russian nobility (her father was a General to the Russian Tsar Nickolas II). Picasso painted Olga as a Spanish girl in his painting "Olga Khokhlova in Mantilla" to convince his parents for their blessing, and his idea worked. Picasso and Olga Khokhlova wed in Paris, in 1918, and had one son, Paolo. After their marriage, Olga's high society lifestyle clashed with Picasso's bohemian manners. They separated in 1935, but remained officially married until her death in 1954. Meanwhile, his most famous lovers, Marie Therese Walter and Dora Maar, were also his inspirational models for a series of experimental portraits.
Picasso was a pacifist. His outcry for peace was expressed in large-scale painting Guernica (1937), created after the German bombing of this Spanish city. This powerful composition, showing the brutal inhumanity of war, became his most famous work and turned him into a political celebrity. In 1940 Picasso applied for French citizenship, but was denied it, and remained Spanish. Protected by his fame, he was untouchable even to the Nazis in the occupied Paris. A skillful self-promoter, he used politics, eccentricity, and provocation as a selling tool. Sarcastic harlequin and dominating minotaur were his personal symbols, frequently used in his artworks. His life turned into a PR campaign, playing with scandals; viciousness to his own children, exaggerated virility and beastly treatment of his women. However, he was forgiven by the public. Even his membership in the Communist party and his controversial comments about Joseph Stalin, who awarded Picasso the Stalin Prize for Peace in 1950, were ignored by his admirers. His life-long extraordinary artistic dialogue with Henri Matisse took a form of a "visual conversation" and exchange of their paintings with mutual respect. After WWII he returned to "classical" style and created the "Dove of Peace".
An innovator and a multi-faceted personality, Picasso dominated the 20th century Western Art, spreading his influence beyond art into many aspects of culture and life. In his several film appearances Picasso always played himself. His lifestyle remained as bohemian and vivacious as it was in his youth. Picasso died in style while entertaining his guests at a dinner party, on April 8, 1973, in Mouglins, in southeastern France. Picasso's last words were "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink any more." He was interred at Castle Vauvenargues' park, in Vauvenargues, Bouches-du-Rhone, in the South of France.
Pablo Picasso's paintings rank among the most expensive artwork in the world, establishing a price record with $104 million sale of "Garçon a la pipe" in 2004. Picasso produced over 13 thousand paintings or designs, 100,000 prints and engravings, 34 thousand book illustrations and 300 sculptures, becoming the most prolific artist ever.- Ludwig Sachs was born on 26 October 1881 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Der Millionenschuster (1916), Gejagt bis zum Morgen (1957) and 's kommt anders (1916). He died on 21 June 1973 in Berlin, Germany.
- Louis St. Laurent was born on 1 February 1882 in Compton, Québec, Canada. He was married to Jeanne Renault. He died on 25 July 1973 in Québec City, Québec, Canada.
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Gian Francesco Malipiero was born on 18 March 1882 in Venice, Veneto, Italy. He was a composer, known for Acciaio (1933), Don Bosco (1936) and Poemi asolani (1985). He was married to Anna Wright. He died on 1 August 1973 in Treviso, Veneto, Italy.- Bascom Lamar Lunsford was born on 21 March 1882 in Mars Hill, North Carolina, USA. He was married to Freda Lunsford and Nellie Sara Triplett. He died on 4 September 1973 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
- Piet Bron was born on 14 May 1882 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for Rechter Thomas (1953), Merijntje Gijzen's Jeugd (1936) and De drie wensen (1937). He was married to Dora Vogelzang. He died on 29 May 1973 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
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Ernest Belcher was born on 8 June 1882 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Little Princess (1939), Heroes of the Street (1922) and I Believed in You (1934). He was married to Gladys Lee (Rosenberg). He died on 24 February 1973 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Agnes Nørlund Seemann was born on 21 July 1882 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Fyrtaarnets Hemmelighed (1914), Zirli (1915) and Katastrofen i Jernbane-Tunnelen (1917). She was married to Henry Seemann. She died on 3 April 1973.
- Belle Benchley was born on 28 August 1882 in Larned, Kansas, USA. She was married to William L. Benchley. She died on 17 December 1973 in San Diego, California, USA.
- Bartolomé Catalayud Cerdà was born on 8 September 1882 in Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain. He was a composer, known for Islas Baleares, paraíso de España: Mallorca (1968). He died on 11 April 1973 in Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain.
- King Gustaf VI Adolf was born on 11 November 1882 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was married to Queen Louise and Princess Margaret of Connaught. He died on 15 September 1973 in Helsingborg, Skåne län, Sweden.
- Born in Austria in 1883, Ludwig Stossel was an established theater presence (from age 17) in both his homeland and in Germany for decades, performing at one time or another for both Max Reinhardt and Otto Preminger. He made a handful of German silents beginning in 1926 and had moved with ease into sound pictures.
The Nazi invasion of Austria forced Stossel to emigrate to the United Kingdom in 1938. He rekindled his film career there but moved to America within a couple years. Many German and Austrian actors left their countries because of the Nazi takeover and emigrated to the US, winding up in Hollywood where they formed a sort of "colony", often being used in war-themed dramas to play either refugees or Nazi officers and officials. Stossel found a plethora of work that made use of his thick accent and benevolent countenance, his balding characters often accompanied by a monocle and handlebar mustache. He provided secondary but memorable foreign characters in such WWII classics as Casablanca (1942), Kings Row (1942), and the Lou Gehrig biopic The Pride of the Yankees (1942) as Gehrig's (Gary Cooper) father.
Firmly established in Hollywood, the amiable Stossel continued playing sweet and wise old souls throughout the remainder of his career. Particularly outstanding was his role as Albert Einstein in The Beginning or the End (1947). He also worked on TV in the 1950s and is perhaps best remembered for his long series of commercials for Italian Swiss Colony wine in which he played "that little old winemaker, me!" in Swiss costume. Married to actress Eleanore Stossel, he died in 1973 at age 89 in Beverly Hills, California. - Semyon Budyonny was born on 25 April 1883 in Kozyurin, Salskiy okrug, oblast Voyska Donskogo, Russian Empire [now Proletarsky district, Rostov oblast, Russia]. He died on 17 October 1973 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
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Maurice Dekobra was born on 28 May 1883 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for La rafle est pour ce soir (1954), Minuit... place Pigalle (1928) and Opération Magali (1953). He died on 1 June 1973 in Paris, France.- Cora Reed was born on 18 June 1883 in Mexico. She was an actress, known for Injustice (1919). She was married to Ernest C. Reed. She died on 5 November 1973 in Glendale, California, USA.
- Emil Preetorius was born on 21 June 1883 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He was married to Lilly Krönlein. He died on 27 January 1973 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Stella Wilkinson was born on 14 July 1883 in Islington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Pride and Prejudice (1952), The Herries Chronicle (1960) and The Adventures of Annabel (1955). She died on 1 April 1973 in Worthing, Sussex, England, UK.
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James E. Abbe was born on 17 July 1883 in Alfred, Maine, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Home Talent (1921), Married Life (1920) and The White Sister (1923). He was married to Phyllis Edwards, Eloise Turner, Polly Shorrock and Irene Caby. He died on 11 November 1973 in San Francisco, California, USA.- Helen Cristillo was born on 3 September 1883 in New Jersey, USA. She was a producer, known for The Noose Hangs High (1948) and This Is Your Life (1950). She was married to Sebastian Cristillo. She died on 8 December 1973 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
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Gladys Hanson was born on 5 September 1883 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She was an actress, known for The Straight Road (1914), The Climbers (1915) and The Evangelist (1916). She was married to Charles E. Cook. She died on 23 February 1973 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.- Additional Crew
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Frank Ormston was born on 16 September 1883 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an art director, known for Felix Gets in Wrong (1916), The Isle of Retribution (1926) and Richelieu (1914). He died on 14 August 1973 in North Hollywood, California, USA.- Edwin C. Vogel was born on 21 September 1883 in New York, New York, USA. Edwin C. was married to Mrs. Edwin C. Vogel. Edwin C. died on 21 May 1973 in New York, New York, USA.
- Vasiliki Maliaros was born on 16 October 1883 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress, known for The Exorcist (1973). She died on 9 February 1973 in The Bronx, New York, USA.
- Alexander S. Neill was born on 17 October 1883 in Forfar, Scotland, UK. Alexander S. was a writer, known for Die grüne Wolke (2001) and Die grüne Wolke (2001). Alexander S. died on 23 September 1973 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK.
- S.A. Van Patten was born on 11 December 1883 in Peoria, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Enemies of Youth (1925), The Race for a Siding (1916) and The Treasure Train (1916). He was married to Isabelle von Petten. He died on 10 January 1973 in Missouri, USA.