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A foremost French writer of the Romantic era, Stendhal was born Marie-Henri Beyle in Grenoble, France in 1783. A loyal Bonapartist he followed Napoleon closely during his military campaigns Stendhal's novels reflect his intense love of Italy, his political convictions and the moral and philosophical dilemmas of his time. His most popular works Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme have been transfered to the screen several time and show an immediacy which transcends centuries.- Art Department
- Additional Crew
Édouard Manet was born on 23 January 1832 in Paris, France. He is known for White Expansive, Bar aux Folies-Bergère (1938) and Desperately Seeking Grandma Alma (2022). He was married to Suzanne Leenhoff. He died on 30 April 1883 in Paris, France.- Soundtrack
Daniel James was born on 23 January 1848 in Treboeth, Swansea, Wales, UK. Daniel was married to Gwenllian (Morgan) Parry and Ann Hopkins. Daniel died on 11 March 1920 in Tanylan, Morriston, Swansea, Wales, UK.- Cesare Gravina was born on 23 January 1858 in Naples, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Man Who Laughs (1928), Merry-Go-Round (1923) and Madame Butterfly (1915). He died on 16 September 1954 in New York, USA.
- Lisa Wenger was born on 23 January 1858 in Bern, Kanton Bern, Switzerland. Lisa was a writer, known for Le mariage de Véréna (1938). Lisa died on 17 October 1941 in Carona, Cantone Ticino, Switzerland.
- Franta Zupan was born on 23 January 1858 in Bestín, Bohemia, Austria [now Czech Republic]. Franta was a writer, known for Pepánek nezdara (1925). Franta died on 13 November 1929 in Kolín, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Director
- Actor
Martinius Nielsen was born on 23 January 1859 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a director and actor, known for Midnatssjælen (1917), Lykketyven (1918) and Prinsens Kærlighed (1919). He was married to Oda Nielsen. He died on 10 July 1928 in Fredensborg, Denmark.- Richard Daniels was born on 23 January 1864 in Gwubach, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for The Little Minister (1922), Her Night of Nights (1922) and Girl Shy (1924). He died on 27 January 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Nils Krok was born on 23 January 1865 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden. He was a writer, known for Retten sejrer (1918) and Ingeborg Holm (1913). He died on 12 March 1928.
- Actor
- Writer
Dodson Mitchell was born on 23 January 1868 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Cornered (1924), Road to Paradise (1930) and The Conspiracy (1914). He was married to Alice Reymour. He died on 2 June 1939 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
- Director
Lafe McKee began working in Hollywood around 1913. He usually played the likeable father of the heroine, the distressed businessman, or the ranch owner on the verge of losing his homestead or cattle to the villains. The majority of his films were westerns and he supported such actors as Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Gene Autry, Tim McCoy, Tom Tyler, and others.- Actor
- Writer
American stage actor and director who made numerous silent film appearances. Blinn was born and raised in San Francisco and attended nearby Stanford University. But his stage career had begun years before, when he made his acting debut at age six. Following his education, he resumed acting, eventually becoming a prominent figure on Broadway. He directed many of the plays he appeared in. In 1914, he made his first film and kept busy on screen and on stage for the remainder of his life. During the volatile strike of stage actors in 1919 that led to the formation of the actors' union, Actors Equity, Blinn was one of a minority of actors who sided with the opposition, the producers. He served as president of the Actors Fidelity League, which unsuccessfully fought the formation of the actors' union. During a vacation at Journey's End, his country home in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, Blinn was thrown from a horse. He appeared to be recuperating well, but the injury to his arm became infected and led to respiratory failure. He died on 24 June 1928 at 56.- Bellenden Clarke was born on 23 January 1873 in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Crime Unlimited (1935) and The Mad Hatters (1935). He died on 29 May 1953 in Fitzrovia, London, England, UK.
- Samuel Ellison was born on 23 January 1875 in Kirksville, Missouri, USA. He was a writer, known for Flames of Wrath (1923). He was married to Margaret "Pet" Wilson. He died on 7 August 1949 in Kirksville, Missouri, USA.
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Frank England was born on 23 January 1875 in Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for The Three Musketeers (1921). He died on 3 March 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Alfred Hansen was born on 23 January 1877 in Horsens, Denmark. He was an actor, known for For frihed og ret (1949) and Familien Swedenhielm (1947). He died on 22 September 1954.
- Born in the upstate New York town of Horseheads in 1878, William Desmond began his show business career in vaudeville and on the stage. He had his own theatrical company by the time he made his film debut in Kilmeny (1915). Starting out in dramatic parts, Desmond soon switched to westerns and action serials, and became a major western star. When the sound era began Desmond was almost 50 years old, and was soon relegated to supporting roles. He continued making films into the 1940s.
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- Director
- Editor
Magnus Stifter was born on 23 January 1878 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor and director, known for Der rote Henker (1920), Othello (1922) and Der Graf von Essex (1922). He died on 8 September 1943 in Vienna, Austria.- Harry Steier was born on 23 January 1878 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (1918). He died on 16 January 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
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- Composer
- Soundtrack
Rutland Boughton was born on 23 January 1878 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. Rutland was a writer and composer, known for Lorna Doone (1934) and The Immortal Hour (1939). Rutland was married to Florence Hobley and Christina Anne Stansfield Walshe. Rutland died on 25 January 1960 in Barnes, London, England, UK.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Harry A. Pollard was born on 23 January 1879 in Republic City, Kansas, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Quest (1915), Tonight at Twelve (1929) and Sporting Youth (1924). He was married to Margarita Fischer. He died on 6 July 1934 in Pasadena, California, USA.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Vin Moore was born on 23 January 1879 in Mayville, New York, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Drag-Net (1936), Topa Topa (1938) and Young Eagles (1934). He died on 5 December 1949 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Additional Crew
- Producer
Robert W. Priest was born on 23 January 1879 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Robert W. is known for Hidden Charms (1921), Wild Women (1921) and Jimmy's Last Night Out (1921).- Leopolda Dostalová was born on 23 January 1879 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Bílá jachta ve Splitu (1939), Psohlavci (1931) and The Magic House (1939). She died on 17 June 1972 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Amon Davis was born on 23 January 1880 in Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Darktown Revue (1931). He died on 1 June 1934 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Frida Winnerstrand was born on 23 January 1881 in Lövsta, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Familjen Björck (1940), De läckra skaldjuren (1920) and Äventyret (1936). She was married to Olof Winnerstrand. She died on 1 December 1943 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.- Eero Kilpi was born on 23 January 1882 in Kustavi, Finland. He was an actor, known for 'Minä elän' (1946), Korkein voitto (1929) and Kuudes käsky (1947). He was married to Tekla Sofia Carlson. He died on 29 November 1954 in Helsinki, Finland.
- Alfred Savoir was born on 23 January 1883 in Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938), Here Is My Heart (1934) and Dressed to Thrill (1935). He was married to Michalina Hertz and Suzanne Vilboeuf. He died on 26 June 1934 in Paris, France.
- Writer
- Actress
Florence Welch Wagner began her career as a newspaperwoman in Topeka, Kansas. She moved to Los Angeles during the early part of the century and taught high school. She married Rob Wagner, a portrait painter and writer, in 1914. When Wagner founded Rob Wagner's Script in 1929, she became the magazine's business manager and a columnist. She sold the magazine in 1947, five years after her husband's death.- Writer
- Animation Department
- Actor
George McManus was born on 23 January 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Jiggs and Maggie Out West (1950), Jiggs and Maggie in Court (1948) and Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters (1949). He was married to Florence Bergere. He died on 22 October 1954 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Viriato Correa was born on 23 January 1884 in Pirapemas, Maranhão, Brazil. Viriato was a writer, known for À Sombra dos Laranjais (1977), Bombonzinho (1937) and A Juriti (1929). Viriato died on 10 April 1967 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Glincka Bielawski was born on 23 January 1884 in Poland. She is known for Lejla (1914), To Mennesker (1916) and Rumænsk Blod (1913).
- Celio Bucchi was born on 23 January 1886 in Lugo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for La congiura di San Marco (1924), The Adventures of Fra Diavolo (1942) and Under the Southern Cross (1938). He died on 5 January 1964 in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Percy Wenrich was born on 23 January 1887 in Joplin, Missouri, USA. He was a composer, known for This Boy's Life (1993), Tin Pan Alley (1940) and The Great Ziegfeld (1936). He was married to Dolly Connelly (actress). He died on 18 March 1952 in New York City, New York, USA.- János Czája was born on 23 January 1887 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Ágyú és harang (1915). He died on 22 March 1937.
- William Dewhurst was born on 23 January 1888 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sabotage (1936), Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937) and Non-Stop New York (1937). He died on 26 October 1937 in London, England, UK.
- Bianca Stagno Bellincioni was born on 23 January 1888 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Stasera alle undici (1938), Regina della Scala (1937) and Adriana Lecouvreur (1919). She died on 17 September 1980 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
- Paul Pranger was born on 23 January 1888 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Der Prinz von Arkadien (1932), Herren der Meere (1922) and Bel-Ami Der Frauenheld von Paris (1955). He died on 29 June 1961 in Vienna, Austria.
- Ryszard Sobiszewski was born on 23 January 1888 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Za trzy spojrzenia (1922), Bozyszcze. W sidlach uwodziciela (1923) and Year 1863 (1922). He died on 23 July 1975 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Archie Cross was born on 23 January 1888 in Van Wert County, Ohio, USA. He is known for Moon Over Harlem (1939).
- Georges Lafon was born on 23 January 1888 in Sète, Hérault, France. He was an actor, known for Molière, sa vie, son oeuvre (1922) and Un soir à la Comédie-Française (1935). He died in 1951 in France.
- Dorothea Donn-Byrne was born on 23 January 1888 in Poulton, Merseyside, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Enter Madame (1922), Wings of the Morning (1937) and Irish and Proud of It (1938). She was married to Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne. She died on 19 February 1963 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK.
- Max-Georges Lafon was born on 23 January 1888 in Sète, Hérault, France. He was an actor, known for La folle nuit (1932) and Le truc du Brésilien (1932). He died on 14 December 1951 in Valence-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France.
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- Soundtrack
Franklin Pangborn - a name more befitting a fictionalized bank president rather than a great comedic actor - was a singular character actor but little is known of his early years. He spent some time in developing acting talent prior to appearing on Broadway by March of 1911, and would do six plays until mid-1913. He was noticeably absent afterward and corresponding with the early years of World War I. He was in the US Army after America entered the war in 1917. Pangborn did one more play on Broadway in 1924. Interestingly, for someone immediately identified with comedy, Pangborn's roles were for the most part dramatic and included Armand Duval in "Camille", a role in a play adaptation of "Ben Hur", and two parts in "Joseph and His Brethren". Two years later, Pangborn turned to silent films. And although he would play some villains and romantic leads, that droopy pudding-face of his was bound for comedy. In all these early roles from his debut in 1926, his first talkie (On Trial (1928)), and on through most of 1932 (when he made 24 appearances on film), Pangborn was playing comedic roles, many of which were for short films (many by Mack Sennett) where the players usually had no on-screen persona and no billing credit. His many appearances in shorts tapered off and ended through 1935.
These roles were quite varied and continued as such into the later 1930s. He played the compromised husband in two Bing Crosby vehicles (1933); no fewer than three photographers, reporters, radio announcers, bartenders, and much more, including a character meant to parody his own name: 'Mr. Pingboom' (Turnabout (1940)). But through the same period he was piling up a lot of clerk, floorwalker, and, perhaps most of all, hotel manager roles. These latter were the basis for Pangborn typed as the straight-laced, nervous minor official or service provider or manager of whatever whose smug self-assurance in his orderly world is sorely tested.
The term 'sissy' (so prominent a condemnation from childhood memories) was used in early film (and still used today by some film historians) as a catchall name for a spectrum of rather gentle and nebulous male personalities; a simpering voice of any kind would be an instant label that also implied the taboo of homosexuality. Pangborn is often first on the list of actors noted as typed in this general category with Edward Everett Horton with his dignified but slightly simpering New England drawl a close second. Animator Robert Clampett at Warner Bros. in the late 1940s patterned his Goofy Gophers, Mac and Tosh, with their polite and flowery speech after both men. Pangborn had a mellow, lyrical voice which he could ramp up to a staccato, rapid-fire rhythm when perturbed. Indeed, the face and the voice fit well with characters of convention and control, as well as the fastidious to the point of being another slang term of many faces: 'prissy'. And maybe that does not include effeminate - he was not quite that - though the term is indelibly tagged to the character type. His characters were the sort of proper and snobby figures who the easygoing American public would find suspicious - and thus all the funnier on screen when they get their comeuppance. Yet Pangborn never implied 'gay' in his portrayals despite all the gender revisionism of today that might reinterpret his work as such. In real life, people are more complex; on the mainstream screen - as opposed to the shadowy blue one - of the 1930s and 40s, characters were more generally defined within usual convention.
By the later 1930s, Pangborn had perfected a wonderful sense of timing of demeanor, manner, and voice to fit the control freak who is gradually dragged into his worst nightmare of relative chaos by hapless situation. By this time his characterizations were such a fixture of guaranteed laughs that the movie-going public expected to see him. Pangborn was in great demand to do what he did best. And having already worked from the silent era with great stars and directors, he continued to do so. W.C. Fields was a great fan of him and used him in several movies. He was a constant in smart comedy from Frank Capra and Gregory La Cava to the more extreme screwball comedies of Preston Sturges, though frequently upstaged with such a company of funny men as Sturges gathered around him. The Pangborn progression from very funny to uproarious is seen evolved, for example, from La Cava's My Man Godfrey (1936) to Sturges's Hail the Conquering Hero (1944). In the first he is the volunteer swell who coordinates store-keeping for the scavenger hunt of his fellow - if downright silly - affluent crust of New York society. As the flow of items brought to him for registering turns into a flood (including a live goat kid), his demeanor, mannerisms, and vocal speed display increasing irritation. Head spinning, he is in defensive mode as he fends off shouting, grabbing participants. The role perhaps was his defining moment as established celebrity comedian. In Sturges's movie, and Pangborn appeared in most of his best efforts, he is the committee chairman of the reception for false hero Eddie Bracken, trying to coordinate festivities and caught in a literal battle of bands at the beginning of the film. Converged upon by various hokey town bands who all want to play the featured pieces, Pangborn attempts order but is methodically carried away as people out of the blue arrive to suggest other songs, and the bands continue to assail him with arguments, and finally all play all the songs - and all at once - to prove the most deserving. It is musical chaos with Pangborn finally reduced to desperate blasts on a whistle and jumping up and down, yelling "Not yet! Not yet!" It is one of the actor's finest pieces.
Yet Pangborn's usual stock of characters could fit drama as well. Actually, in "Hero", his coordinator also has some straight scenes as well. In Now, Voyager (1942) as the cruise tourist director, his only problem is that Bette Davis has not arrived on deck to be partnered for the land touring of Rio. As an accomplished stage actor, he did miss the boards. Friend of Edward Horton, he was able to exchange his quirky screen characters for dramatic ones, participating in Horton's Los Angeles-based Majestic Theatre productions. But times changed for Pangborn's specialties. Movies were more diverse and updated as the 1950s ensued. But he was immediately adaptable to the small screen which would re-introduce him. He was right at home as a guest star on TV comedy shows, playing his beloved characters as cameo celebrations of his matter-of-fact stardom.
There were a handful of film roles in his last decade with perhaps the overambitious and black-and-white dull but star-studded The Story of Mankind (1957) a bit of a showcase. Also in 1957 he had the singular distinction of being honored as guest announcer - a familiar enough role - and first guest star on the premiere of the "Tonight Show" with its first host Jack Paar. To pass away after surgery seems such a disordered way to go for one such as Franklin Pangborn whose on-screen characters struggled for order above all else. There is no order in the frailty of life by definition, but Pangborn's legacy, rich in comedic gems, has and surely will continue to endure.- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Edith Fitzgerald was born on 23 January 1889 in Burnside, Kentucky, USA. She was a writer, known for Illicit (1931), Small Town Girl (1936) and The Wedding Night (1935). She died on 4 February 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Mark Lupino was born on 23 January 1889 in Shoreditch, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The King's Highway (1927), The Tallyman (1928) and Pop (1927). He was married to Mildred [Gordon] Coles (actress). He died on 4 April 1930 in London, England, UK.
- Alfonso Muñoz was born on 23 January 1889 in Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. He was an actor, known for Amanecer en Puerta Oscura (1957), María Morena (1952) and Don Quintín el amargao (1935). He died on 23 May 1957 in Madrid, Spain.
- Laurie Leslie was born on 23 January 1889 in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. He was an actor, known for Tom Brown's Schooldays (1916), The Stone of Mazarin (1923) and King's Mate (1928). He died on 22 January 1961 in Blackheath, London, England, UK.
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Vladimir Rosing was born on 23 January 1890 in St Petersburg, Russia. He is known for Grounds for Marriage (1951), Strictly Dishonorable (1951) and Interrupted Melody (1955). He died on 24 November 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
J. Roberts was born on 23 January 1890 in Colorado, USA. J. died on 13 January 1971 in Los Angeles, California, USA.