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- Princess Palatine Elizabeth Charlotte was born on 27 May 1652 in Heidelberg, Electoral Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]. She was a writer, known for I Am (2014). She died on 8 December 1722 in Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France, Kingdom of France [now Hauts-de-Seine, France].
- Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on 27 May 1794 in Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Francis Crawford and Sophia Johnson. He died on 4 January 1877 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Jacques Fromental Halévy was born on 27 May 1799 in Paris, France. Jacques Fromental was a composer, known for Der Shylock von Krakau (1913), Die Jüdin (1918) and Va prononcer la mort (1927). Jacques Fromental died on 17 March 1862 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Writer
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Julia Ward Howe was born on 27 May 1819 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Captive State (2019) and Kick-Ass (2010). She was married to Samuel Gridley Howe. She died on 17 October 1910 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA.- Music Department
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Joseph Joachim Raff was born on 27 May 1822 in Lachen, Schwyz, Switzerland. He is known for Downtown Express (2011). He was married to Dorothea Genast. He died on 24 June 1882 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau, Germany.- 'Wild Bill' Hickok was born on 27 May 1837 in Troy Grove, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA. He died on 2 August 1876 in Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota, USA.
- Frederik C.O. Raben-Levetzau was born on 27 May 1850 in Lekkende, Præstø, Denmark. He died on 5 May 1933 in Ålholm Slot, Nysted, Denmark.
- Marie Van Westerhoven was born on 27 May 1857 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She was an actress, known for De Jantjes (1934), Oranje Hein (1925) and De man zonder hart (1937). She died on 26 February 1946 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
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Margrethe Munthe was born on 27 May 1860 in Elverum, Norway. She is known for Cabin Fever (2000), Upperdog (2009) and Theo & det magiske Talkshow - med Jannik Schow (2018). She died on 20 January 1931 in Oslo, Norway.- Charles Brandt born in Philadelphia in 1862. well-known stage performer from the 1880s. cheerful, white-haired gentleman who starred and supported in more than 60 movies for the Lubin Film Company from 1911, often seen as professionals or fathers in dramas and comedies, first appeared in 'His Chorus Girl Wife' directed by Harry Solter and starring Florence Lawrence in 1911, perhaps he will be best remembered in the role of Sam Graham in 'The Fortune Hunter' directed by Barry O'Neil, starring William Elliott and Ethel Clayton in 1914. in 1917 he moved to the World Film Company followed by the Betzwood Film Co in 1918 last seen in 'The Master Mind' directed by Kenneth S. Webb and starring Lionel Barrymore for the First National Film Company in 1920. died in Philadelphia in 1924 age 62
- John Kendrick Bangs was born on 27 May 1862 in Yonkers, New York, USA. John Kendrick was a writer, known for A Proposal Under Difficulties (1912), Mrs. Upton's Device (1913) and The Ford Television Theatre (1952). John Kendrick died on 21 January 1922 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
- James Rice Cassidy was born in Selkirk on the 27th May 1863. He was the eldest son of my great grandparent's James and Ellen Cassidy (nee Rice). In his early 20s he made the decision that working, as a plasterer alongside his dad was not for him. He left Scotland in the late 1880's and headed for England to pursue a career in the entertainment business. It was clear from the start that he was born to perform. His debut as a professional actor took place in the land of his forefathers when he appeared in the play "The Eviction" at Belfast's Theatre Royal in 1888 when he was 24 years old. In the 1891 census he was living in Rochdale and still working as an actor.
In December of 1895 he married a twenty one year old Yorkshire lass Lillian Clare Cheetham in St Anne's Church Leeds. On their marriage certificate he gave his occupation as "Comedian". Lillian was also an actor and together they formed their own theatre company. They were a double act and she was most definitely an equal partner in the business.
James and Lillian toured all over Britain and Ireland performing in their own productions. Their careers seemed to be going from strength to strength. Rice Cassidy was the son of a poor Irish plasterer making a name for himself in show business the classic rags to riches tale!
One of their biggest successes was "The God of War" by Charles Whitlock it was performed in theatres throughout Britain and Ireland from 1899 till 1909. The play was a satirical piece about the Cuban insurrection and Spanish American war of 1895. His character was Dandy Donovan an Irish American servant to Dolly Daly an American heiress, played of course by Lillian. In the play he sings his own composition called "The British Hero".
The Glasgow Evening Times 7th of April 1901 referred to it as a "Sensational Cuban American Drama".
In 1909 The God of War played to a packed house at the Metropole Theatre in Stockwell Street. The Glasgow Evening Times on this occasion refers to him as the "Famous Rollicking Racy Irish Comedian".
Rice Cassidy excelled in comic roles often-Irish characters but he had a talent for accents and was equally at home playing English, Welsh and Americans alternating between comedy and high drama when required.
Cassidy's wife Lillian was a prolific playwright with a long list of original and successful dramas often with a comedy element. Her plays included, "The Beggar Princess", "The Last of the Rubinoffs" and "In Holy Russia". One of her plays called His Mother's Cross was not only performed in Britain but also in the Hudson Theatre on Broadway New York. In this piece Rice Cassidy plays a Parish Priest Father Meary and Lillian is the daughter of Dermot Sullivan played by Mr J. K Walton and described as an "agitator"
James and Lillian arrived in New York on the 17th August 1913. They gave their destination on the S.S St Paul's passenger manifest as The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park, New York. Founded by the famous American Shakespearian actor Edwin Booth the Player's was an exclusive club where actors could relax and mingle with the great and the good!
In London Rice Cassidy had made a success of playing the part of Timothy Boyle from the George A Birmingham play General John Regan. Initially it was only intended that he replace the actor Mr Leonard Boyne who had been taken ill but this became a full time role for James. He went on to play the character at the Hudson and Liberty Theatres, Broadway, New York. This was a comedy play written by George A Birmingham. Dr. O'Grady, general practitioner of a small Irish village had convinced a visiting American newspaper publisher that a resident of the village was General John Regan, liberator of Bolivia. This harmless prank mushrooms into a major headache when the American spreads this so called fact to the rest of the world.
Whilst playing Timothy Doyle in New York he played the character of old Hardcastle in the play She Stoops to Conquer for none other than Mr Charles Frohman of Peter Pan fame. In New York he also made his film debut appearing for the Thomas Edison Company in five films the greatest of which was "The First Christmas"
On his return from the USA he played Conn in the Shaughraun. The play is about a Fenian fugitive, Robert Ffolliott, fiancee of Arte O'Neil. A country squire, Kinchela, his rival for Arte's hand, tries to hunt Robert down and arrest him, with the help of a police informer, Harvey Duff. Robert escapes various melodramatic cliff-hanger situations with the help of Conn the Shaughran, an Irish word which in English means wanderer or errant person. The character of Conn a roguish but comedic poacher with a great was tailor made for Rice Cassidy.
From 1921 till 1925 Rice Cassidy toured all round Britain and Ireland with Peter Pan playing Smee in his own indomitable style. However just after midnight on the 25th of March 1925 while travelling on the train from Leeds to Dublin with the Peter Pan Company he fell from the train. The emergency chain was pulled and the train ground to a halt. James was found unconscious on the track. He was rushed to Chester Royal Infirmary suffering from fractured ribs. When he regained consciousness he could not remember anything at all about the accident.
Towards the end of his life he suffered from a chronic kidney condition. This took its toll and he had to give up his beloved theatrical career. Eventually he suffered cardiac failure and passed away on the 11th May 1927 in St Pancreas hospital. His long and distinguished career merited his obituaries in both the "Stage" and "Variety" newspapers as well as a mention in both the "Who's who" of both the British and American theatres.
After thirty two years of marriage Lillian found herself very much alone. They had never been separated in all that time so her devastation at her husband's passing must have been total. She tried to carry on with her acting and playwrighting career but eventually returned to her native Huddersfield where she lived with her brother James for a while.
In April of 1930 she was admitted to Deanhouse institution, which was basically a workhouse with an infirmary attached. She was suffering from confusional insanity and obviously her brother could no longer cope with her condition. The illness was chronic and it appears she was suffering from manic depression as she would have periods of elation and then suddenly become very morose and depressed. She also suffered from hallucinations in which a lover would appear to her disguised as a bird. She was transferred to Storthes Hall Psychiatric Hospital in June the same year and was to spend the last fourteen years of her life there.
Lillian's brother James committed suicide in August 1931. He had been found dead in the street having consumed a toxic substance, which corroded his throat and intestines. Just six weeks before his death he had written to the hospital requesting that his sister be allowed her own clothes and her trinkets. They agreed to her having some of her clothing but refused to let her have her trinkets. He had also requested more regular visits with his sister. The Medical Superintendent wrote back to James agreeing to more visits but added that "frequent visiting does not assist the patient but under the circumstances you can come once a fortnight, but not oftener, on any of the visiting days" She was visited from time to time by her sister-in-law Martha Cheetham (James's widow) and her niece Florence Sheard. She was also supported financially by James Calvert Wilson her step brother.
Lillian never regained her sanity. However she was often described by medical and nursing staff as having delusions of grandeur believing herself to be a famous actress and playwright. Although her imagined status became more and more fanciful as her illness progressed, nevertheless she was, in her time, a very successful, well respected writer and entertainer loved by her peers and the public alike.
As well as her mental illness she was also plagued with physical ill health. After a serious of accidents resulting in various fractures she was diagnosed with osteoporosis, which is often referred to as a softening of the bones.
This dreadful illness left her with little or no mobility and she was confined to bed. Towards the end of her life she must have suffered great torment both physical and mental.
Lillian died on the 2nd of December 1944 in Storthes Hall, Psychiatric Hospital, Huddersfield. All that was left in possession that gave some clue to her previous existence were her fur cape, a gold ring and her costume coat. She also had some sketches and paintings. Such a sad and tragic end to the life of a very colourful and gifted lady.
He was often referred to as an Irish comedian despite the fact he was born in Selkirk and spent a good part of his early life in Glasgow. - Arthur Mold was born on 27 May 1863 in Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire, England, UK.
- Arnold Bennett was born on 27 May 1867 in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Battling Jane (1918), Sacred and Profane Love (1921) and Piccadilly (1929). He was married to Marie Marguerite Soulé. He died on 27 March 1931 in London, England, UK.
- Caleb Bradham was born on 27 May 1867 in Chinquapin, North Carolina, USA. He was married to Charity Credle. He died on 19 February 1934 in New Bern, North Carolina, USA.
- Knute Erickson was a vaudeville comedian and actor active in Hollywood between 1915 and 1936. His most famous creation was that of the character Daffy Dan, with which he had some success as a touring vaudeville performer, in a show presented by Hollywood mogul Jesse Lasky. Daffy Dan made his film debut in 1915 in a couple of two-reel comedies, and was featured in two Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle films that were never released in the US.
Daffy Dan was a "Swedish" character, very much like that of Philadephia-born comedian El Brendel's character "Ole", which he developed around the same time. To add authenticity to the character, Erickson would insist that he himself was born in Norrköping, Sweden. In fact, he was born in Ogden, Utah as Carl Erickson. However, unlike El Brendel, Erickson did have Swedish ancestry: his parents were Swedish immigrants.
Outside of his vaudeville acts, Erickson continued to act in films up until 1936, when he did his last role, in the serial The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand. Daffy Dan, however, only had one more film outing, as Lon Chaney's daffy henchman in the silent horror comedy The Monster (1925). Erickson primarily played bit-parts, often uncredited. - William Addison Hervey was born on 27 May 1870 in the USA. William Addison was a writer, known for Aftermath (1914). William Addison died on 25 December 1918 in the USA.
- 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. - Actress
Marta Belfort was born on 27 May 1872 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She was an actress. She died on 29 September 1941 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Max Jungk was born on 27 May 1872 in Miskowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Miskovice, Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Schlagende Wetter (1923), A Throw of Dice (1929) and Das Glück der Frau Beate (1918). He died in July 1937 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Prague, Czech Republic].
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American leading man of silent pictures who specialized in Westerns. His mother and father were, respectively, a singer and an actor, and he and his younger brother William Farnum were introduced to the theatre at an early age. Raised in Maine, Dustin attended the East Maine Conference Seminary, but left school to go on the stage at the age of fifteen. With his brother, he formed a vaudeville act consisting largely of tumbling and wrestling. He spent several years touring in stock companies before making a great success in the play "Arizona" in New York. After a number of Broadway hits, he went to Cuba in 1913 to star in a film, Soldiers of Fortune (1914). Soon thereafter, Cecil B. DeMille gave Farnum the leading role in the film version of one of Farnum's Broadway hits, "The Squaw Man." He followed this smash hit with a number of film versions of plays he had starred in on Broadway. His brother William had himself become a big star in pictures, and the two of them signed contracts with the Fox Film Corporation. Although Dustin Farnum played a wide variety of roles, he tended toward Westerns and became one of the biggest stars of the genre. At the age of fifty-two, Farnum retired from films and, but for a few stage roles, lived quietly with his third wife, actress Winifred Kingston for three years, until his death in 1929 from kidney failure.- Charles Sindelar was born on 27 May 1876 in Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Cleopatra (1912). He died on 15 May 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski was born on 27 May 1876 in Ludza, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Latvia]. Ferdynand Antoni was a writer, known for Glos pustyni (1932). Ferdynand Antoni died on 3 January 1945 in Zólwin, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Mariska Vízváry was born on 27 May 1877 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for Füszer és csemege (1940), I Can't Live Without Music (1935) and Megvédtem egy asszonyt (1938). She was married to György Kürthy and Dezsö Tapolczai. She died on 9 January 1954 in Budapest, Hungary.
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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.- Actress
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Unsmiling character player Lucile Watson was one of Hollywood's most indomitable mothers of the 1930s and 1940s...and you can take that both ways. The archetypal matriarch who enhanced scores of plush, soapy, Victorian-styled drama, her prickly pears could be insufferable indeed and heaven help anyone who gathered up the courage to take them on. A fiercely protective mother usually to everyone's detriment, her narrow-minded characters were overt and opinionated, customarily equipped with a withering look and slivered tongue as weapons. Having no trouble whatsoever situating themselves into any and all's business, Lucile played imperious mother to filmdom's top stars including James Stewart and Robert Taylor, and often stole a bit of the thunder from under them.
She was born on May 27, 1879 in Quebec, Canada and trained at New York's Academy of Dramatic Arts, making her first professional stage appearance in "The Wisdom of the Wise" in 1902 at the age of 23. For the next three decades plus, she played, in stark contrast to her later stereotype, frothy ladies in witty, sparkling comedy. Her superlative performance on Broadway in "The City" in 1909 guaranteed her position as a stage star. Playwright Clyde Fitch went on to use her quite frequently in his productions. Other stage successes over the years included "Under Cover" (1913), "Heartbreak House" (1920), "Ghosts" (1926), The Importance of Being Earnest (1926), "No More Ladies" (1934), "Pride and Prejudice" (1935) and "Yes, My Darling Daughter" (1936). She blossomed in both chic lead and support roles.
It took her longer, however, to bloom on film... and it was not as a leading lady. She didn't make her film bow until age 55 in the Helen Hayes vehicle What Every Woman Knows (1934). She then slowly moved up the credits list after playing minor servile roles at first. Her first noticeable support was as Norma Shearer's advice-spouting mom in the classic Clare Boothe Luce film adaptation of The Women (1939) in which she expounds on the inescapable infidelities of husbands and the importance of saving face in high society. Better yet was her thorny, smothering mother to James Stewart in Made for Each Other (1939) in which she squares off with Carole Lombard who poses a threat as a possible daughter-in-law. So too was her cool-as-ice matriarch in Waterloo Bridge (1940) as she tries to separate son Robert Taylor from Vivien Leigh's fiancé with a sordid past.
Lucile reached the apex of her adult career with Lillian Hellman's anti-fascist war drama "Watch on the Rhine" (1941) starring Paul Lukas on Broadway. Two years later she and Lukas preserved their brilliance on film. Co-starring Bette Davis, Watch on the Rhine (1943) won Lukas the Academy Award for "best actor" and Lucile was acknowledged for her matriarchal supporting turn, but lost to Katina Paxinou for her work in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943).
Lucile continued to set a pattern of excellence in the post-war years with arch supports in such films as My Reputation (1946) as Barbara Stanwyck iron-willed mom, the class Disney film Song of the South (1946) and cranky Aunt March in the MGM remake of Little Women (1949). She wound up her film career wreaking havoc in the musical Let's Dance (1950) as Betty Hutton's maligning mother-in-law and in the overly melodramatic My Forbidden Past (1951) as newly-rich Ava Gardner's scheming great aunt. Following a return to the stage and some scattered work in television anthologies, Lucile retired in 1954 at the age of 75 to live out her last years in New York.
Lucile's first marriage somewhere around 1910 to actor Rockliffe Fellowes was brief. She subsequently married playwright Louis Evan Shipman in 1928, a union that lasted until his death in 1933. The character veteran passed away on June 25, 1962, after suffering a heart attack at age 83.- E.B. 'Zeke' Colvan was born on 27 May 1880 in Londonderry, Ireland. E.B. 'Zeke' was a writer, known for Hey, Rookie (1944). E.B. 'Zeke' was married to Doris Wederts. E.B. 'Zeke' died on 7 October 1945 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Joseph Grew was born on 27 May 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was married to Alice de Vermandois Perry. He died on 25 May 1965 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, USA.
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Wilhelm von Brincken was born on 27 May 1881 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was an actor and art director, known for Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937), Conspiracy (1939) and Miss V from Moscow (1942). He was married to Milo Abercrombie (San Francisco socialite). He died on 18 January 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Enrico Serretta was born on 27 May 1881 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Enrico was a writer, known for Cura di baci (1916), L'ottavo servizio da tè (1955) and L'amico a nolo (1963). Enrico died on 18 August 1939 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
- Ethan Allen was born on 27 May 1882 in Carrollton, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Border Legion (1930), The Flood (1931) and Water Rustlers (1939). He died on 25 August 1940 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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Thea Cervenková was born on 27 May 1882 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was a writer and director, known for Zlodej (1919), Babicka (1922) and Palicova dcera (1923). She died in 1961 in São Paulo, República Federativa do Brasil.- George Stillwell was born on 27 May 1883 in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Gretna Green (1915), Soldiers of Fortune (1914) and The Eternal City (1915). He died on 14 July 1930 in Middletown, New Jersey, USA.
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Born in Prague, Austria-Hungary on 27 May, 1884, Max Brod had an extensive writing career between 1908 and 1965 with more than 80 works published, ranging from fiction to plays, biographies and one appearance as an actor in the silent film Die Strecke (1927). However, Brod has a special place in history not simply because of his works but above all, for spreading the words, the intelligence and wisdom of one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, his friend Franz Kafka.
Kafka & Brod first met in 1902 and developed a great friendship with the Czech author, both regular presences on the literary circles of Germany. At the time Kafka had a work on an insurance agency and he was very insecure of his own writing, never publishing and never trying to establish himself as a professional writer. On the other hand, Brod (a law student working on civil services and frequently involved with the literary world and social/political causes) always kept encouraging Kafka to publish everything, telling how brilliant and special his writings were but the friend asked the man to destroy and burn all of his works in case of his death, quite near due to his constant poor health. Kafka died in 1924, and his memorable literary works such as "The Trial", "The Metamorphosis", "A Hunger Artist", "The Castle" were all posthumously published thanks to Max Brod, who acted as administrator of the Kafka estate.
The genius of Kafka's works is that it reveals life and reality as an existentialist process of endless suffering, questions without answers, dark sense of humor, nihilism and thoughts that were very on the current wave of its time in the early years of the 20th century, which Brod easily perceived as mandatory works to see the light of day and conquer audiences. By not keeping his promise to Kafka, Brod gave to the world of arts important pieces of reflection and inspiration.
Like Kafka, he was a Czech of Jewish decent (and both always wrote their productions in the German language) and along with his wife Elsa Taussig he fled from Prague when the Nazis took over power in the late 1930's. They moved to Palestine but by that time Max wasn't producing much works. He died on 20 December, 1968, in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Märta Halldén was born on 27 May 1884 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Ingmarsarvet (1925), Youth (1927) and Kampen om hans hjärta (1916). She died on 28 January 1932 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Gladys Hamer was born on 27 May 1884 in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Confessions (1925), Smashing Through (1928) and Not for Sale (1924). She died on 13 March 1967 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Emil Pirchan was born on 27 May 1884 in Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]. He was a writer and art director, known for Der zeugende Tod (1921), Puppen des Todes (1920) and Der Frauenarzt (1921). He was married to Johanna Diehl. He died on 20 December 1957 in Vienna, Austria.- Richmond Kelly Turner was born on 27 May 1885. He died on 12 February 1961.
- J. Ambrose O'Brien was born on 27 May 1885 in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada. He died on 25 April 1968.
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The Hungarian playwright and novelist Ernest Vajda was educated at a monastic college in Paps, where he graduated with a degree in electrochemistry in 1904. He added a Ph.D. to his name in 1908 and produced his first play the following year. Vajda held several editorial jobs in Hungary before moving to the United States, settling down in Beverly Hills and joining Paramount as a contract writer in 1925. He was chiefly associated with comedies starring Adolphe Menjou, and, from 1929, collaborated on several films -- noted for their continental sophistication -- with the director Ernst Lubitsch (their most celebrated effort was the classic musical comedy The Love Parade (1929)).
Vajda also continued to write plays for the Broadway stage, including the comedy "Fata Morgana", which was aired twice (in 1924 and in 1931). He moved to MGM in 1932, where he stayed for six years, working in collaboration on lavish period dramas like The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) and Marie Antoinette (1938). Though he authored no further screenplays after 1941, he contributed original material to the John Philip Sousa biopic Stars and Stripes Forever (1952).- Bobbie Hale was born on 27 May 1886 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Escape to Glory (1940), Nightmare (1942) and Front Row Center (1955). He died on 27 September 1977 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
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E. Lloyd Sheldon was born on 27 May 1886 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Bride 13 (1920), Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942) and When a Woman Sins (1918). He was married to Fanny Franks. He died on 24 January 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
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Born in Illinois, and working as a strawberry picker in Missouri by the age of ten. Called herself a "Jill-of-all-trades," as she worked as a newspaper reporter, taxi-cab driver, lawyer's assistant, laundry worker, and press agent before she became a writer. Author of over 200 short stories and eight novels. Originator of the Maisie stories which later starred Ann Sothern. One time lover of Dashiell Hammett: he dedicated The Glass Key (1930) to her. Friend of Earl Stanley Gardner, Don Blanding and Lon Chaney, Sr.- Antonín Jirsa was born on 27 May 1888 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Batalión (1937), Pytlákova schovanka aneb Slechetný milionár (1949) and Zíznivé mládí (1943). He died in 1959.
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Hermann Krome was born on 27 May 1888 in Berlin, Germany. He was a composer, known for Hen Pecked Husbands (1934). He died on 22 July 1955 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- B. Russell Herts was born on 27 May 1888 in New York City, New York, USA. B. Russell was a writer, known for Grand Slam (1933). B. Russell died on 5 November 1954 in Westchester County, New York, USA.
- Rita Johnson was born on 27 May 1888 in Coleraine, Victoria, Australia. She was an actress, known for Ave Maria (1918). She was married to Stanley Groome. She died in 1971 in Ashford, Kent, England, UK.
- Louis Durey was born on 27 May 1888 in Paris, France. Louis was a composer, known for La grande pêche (1955) and Des hommes comme les autres (1954). Louis died on 3 July 1979 in Saint-Tropez, Var, France.
- Fritzi Brunette was born in Savannah, Georgia on May 27, 1890. With the birth name of Florence Brunet. She was mostly a character actress whose career spanned mostly the silent era, although she made a successful transition to the sound period. Fritzi's debut came in 1913 when she was 23 years old. She was in two productions that year, ANNIE LAURIE and THE APPEAL. Toward the end of her career, she was in, mostly, uncredited roles such as the hit SAN FRANCISCO with Clark Gable and Jeannette MacDonald. Her last film was in 1941's MEET JOHN DOE. Fritzi died in Hollywood, California on September 28, 1943. She was 53 years old.
- Ralph Stuart was born on 27 May 1890 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Mystery of the Double Cross (1917), With Serb and Austrian (1914) and Midnight at Maxim's (1915). He was married to Doris Rich and Mary Kingsley Mead. He died on 4 November 1952 in New York City, New York, USA.