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- Ichiyo Higuchi was born on 25 March 1872. Ichiyo was a writer, known for Nigorie (1953) and Midare makura (1976). Ichiyo died on 23 November 1896.
- Mrs. Linnaeus Banks was born on 25 March 1821 in Manchester, England, UK. Mrs. Linnaeus was a writer, known for The Manchester Man (1920). Mrs. Linnaeus was married to George Linnaeus Banks. Mrs. Linnaeus died on 4 May 1897 in London, England, UK.
- Writer
- Additional Crew
László Arany was born on 25 March 1844 in Nagyszalonta, Austria-Hungary. He was a writer, known for A délibábok höse (1976) and Tévedések vígjátéka, avagy Tévedések víg játéka (1988). He was married to Gizella Szalay. He died on 1 August 1898 in Budapest, Hungary.- Elwell Stephen Otis was born on 25 March 1838 in Frederick, Oklahoma, USA. He died on 21 October 1909 in Rochester, New York, USA.
- Italian novelist Antonio Fogazzaro was born in Vicenza, Italy, in 1842. His parents were opposed to the Austrian occupation of northern Italy, and their political activities came to the attention of the occupation authorities, forcing the family to flee into exile to southern Italy. As a young man he studied at the University of Padua and the University of Turin--where, after graduating, he practiced law--and after his father brought the family back from exile, he moved to Milan. Fogazzaro followed in his father's footsteps and continued his political activity, but when he got into trouble it wasn't with the Austrians but with the Catholic Church--in 1905 he published his novel "Il Santo" ("The Saint"), which was termed "heretical" by the church and ran into censorship problems across the country.
His most famous work was the "trilogy" of novels written about the "Risorgimento", or the struggle against the Austrians in northern Italy known as the "War of Liberation". He died on March 7, 1911, from complications resulting from an operation. He was 69 years old. - Composer
- Music Department
William Furst was born on 25 March 1852 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was a composer, known for Joan the Woman (1916), The Green Swamp (1916) and Let Katie Do It (1916). He was married to Charlotte Joan Nicol. He died on 11 July 1917 in Freeport, Long Island, New York, USA.- Robert Stowe Gill was born on 25 March 1880 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Turmoil (1916) and The Million (1914). He died on 23 September 1918 in France.
- Actor
- Producer
Son of Dr.Cornelius Herz (1845-1898), famous politician and electrician of Jewish German origin, and of Bianca Saroni (1855-1939) from Boston; he was born in Paris where the family emigrated in 1877. Ralph studied at Ecole Alsatienne and later at Eton and Trinity college. When his father lost his fortune through an investment with Ferdinand De Lesseps in the building of the Panama Canal, he was brought up by his aunt Mathilda Herz, wife of Italian baritone Napoleone Zardo. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he turned to the stage; his first stage appearance was at Haymarket, London, in "The School for scandal" in 1900; in 1902 he went to the USA with Mrs. Pat Campbell's company.- Writer
- Soundtrack
Leo Stein was born on 25 March 1861 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary. Leo was a writer, known for The Merry Widow (1934), The Csardas Princess (1934) and The Merry Widow (1925). Leo died on 28 July 1921 in Vienna, Austria.- Mary Webb was born on 25 March 1881 in Leighton Lodge, Leighton, Nr Shrewsbury, Hereford, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Gone to Earth (1950), Precious Bane (1957) and Precious Bane (1989). She was married to Henry Webb. She died on 8 October 1927 in St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, England, UK.
- George Thompson was born on 25 March 1868 in Black Hawk, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Why Bring That Up? (1929). He was married to Cora Bennett. He died on 29 May 1929 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Elmore Elliott Peake was born on 25 March 1871 in Ohio, USA. Elmore Elliott was a writer, known for His Divorced Wife (1919). Elmore Elliott was married to Grace T.. Elmore Elliott died on 27 May 1930.
- Julia Mills was born on 25 March 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Stick Around (1920), The Bashful Lover (1922) and Little, But Oh My! (1921). She was married to Ernest Truex. She died on 14 November 1930 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
- Tommy West was born on 25 March 1860 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Country Blood (1915). He was married to Ellen S. Young and Georgia Rink. He died on 28 July 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Artur Landsberger was born on 25 March 1876 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer and producer, known for Im Strudel der Großstadt (1921), Das Blut (1922) and Lache Bajazzo (1917). He was married to Dolly Pinkus and Clara Jüngst. He died on 4 October 1933 in Berlin, Germany.- Mateiu I. Caragiale was born on 25 March 1885. Mateiu I. was a writer, known for Craii de Curtea Veche (1995) and Sub pecetea tainei (1974). Mateiu I. died on 17 January 1936.
- Roy Laidlaw was born on 25 March 1883 in Comber, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), The Relic (1914) and Is That Nice? (1926). He died on 2 February 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Sidney M. Goldin was born on 25 March 1878 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Führe uns nicht in Versuchung (1922), Tam na horách (1920) and East Side Sadie (1929). He was married to Betty Gärtner. He died on 19 September 1937 in New York City, New York, USA.- Carrie Daumery was born Carrie Mess in Amersterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She was an actress who married Belgian composer and pianist, Théophile Ysaÿe (1865-1918). After her husband's death in Nice, France, she moved to the United States. She had acted in two short films in France in 1908, and began her career in Hollywood films in 1921 as a bit player at poverty row studios, eventually moving to the major studios. She died on July 1, 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Her son, John Daumery, was born in 1898 in Brussels, Belgium, and became a director for Warner Brothers and other studios.
- Géza Koudela was born on 25 March 1894 in Kalocsa, Hungary. He was a composer, known for The Eternal Secret (1938). He died on 21 June 1939 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Karl Hammes was born on 25 March 1896 in Zell (Mosel), Germany. He was an actor, known for Königswalzer (1935) and Spanisches Intermezzo (1929). He died on 10 September 1939 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Robert Hale was born on 25 March 1874 in Devon, England, UK. He was an actor, known for What Happened to Harkness? (1934), Where Is This Lady? (1932) and It's Love Again (1936). He was married to Belle Reynolds. He died on 18 April 1940 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK.
- M.W. Rale was born on 25 March 1877 in Russia. He was an actor, known for Madame Butterfly (1915), Beatrice Fairfax (1916) and Patria (1917). He died on 8 July 1940 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
- Allan Cavan was born on 25 March 1880 in Concord, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Officer Thirteen (1932), Old Louisiana (1937) and Rebellion (1936). He died on 19 January 1941 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Gutzon Borglum was born on 25 March 1867 in Bear Lake, Idaho, USA. He was married to Mary Williams. He died on 6 March 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Spencer Charters was a burly, moon faced man who got his start in the theater where he basically stayed until 1930. Thereafter, he quickly launched a career as a character actor in movies. His specialty was a lower-to-middle-class worker, and he portrayed many types, including judges, doctors, clerks, managers, jailers, etc. Charters was a busy man, with over 200 parts from 1930 to 1943. By the late 1930s, Charters was feeling the effects of advancing age, and was unable to play more than short bit parts. He ended his life in 1943 via sleeping pills and carbon monoxide poisoning.- Tôson Shimazaki was born on 25 March 1872 in Nagano, Japan. Tôson was a writer, known for Arashi (1956), The Outcast (1962) and Apostasy (1948). Tôson died on 22 August 1943.
- Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim was born on 25 March 1905 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire [now Munich, Germany]. He was married to Hilde Baier and Charlotte Alice Kraudzun. He died on 21 July 1944 in Berlin, Germany.
- Kenneth McMillan was born on 25 March 1916 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was an actor, known for Uncle Tom's Uncle (1926). He died on 6 January 1945 in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines.
- Actor
George Kaluna was born on 25 March 1900 in Hawaii, USA. He was an actor. He died on 30 March 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Music Department
- Composer
- Writer
Born in Hungary in 1881, Bartok began his musical studies on the piano at age five. His mother was his first teacher; after his father died in 1888, the Bartok family moved to Nagyszolos, where Bela continued his piano studies and took up composition. At age eleven, he made his first public appearance, playing his own piano music. Bartok enrolled in the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest. he made several tours of Europe after his graduation in 1902. In 1940 Bartok moved to the United States to get away from the Nazi expansion, and was given a teaching position at Columbia University in New York City. With the exception of some noted musicians - conductor Serge Koussevitzky and violinist Yehudi Menuhin in particular - he was generally misunderstood and ignored by the musical establishment. He contracted leukemia in the early 1940s, and died in the fall of 1945, unaware of the monumental status he would achieve after death.- William S. Knudsen was born on 25 March 1879 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was married to Clara Elizabeth Euler. He died on 27 April 1948 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- Actor
- Director
D.J. Williams was born on 25 March 1868 in Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. He was an actor and director, known for The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936), The Shuttle of Life (1920) and The Doctor's Secret (1934). He died on 26 July 1949 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK.- Actor
Louis Young was born on 25 March 1896 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor. He died on 15 December 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Nan Taylor was born on 25 March 1876 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for The Man from Snowy River (1920), Our Friends the Hayseeds (1917) and Pacific Adventure (1946). She died on 23 June 1950 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Make-Up Department
Robert "Bob" Stephanoff seems to have had a knack for charming newspaper reporters who may have been wandering studio back lots in search of a good story for the entertainment or women's pages. He was quoted, for instance, on matters of women's posture, recipes for the custom-manufacture of makeup, and for tips about avoiding skin damage from excessive sunshine.
In 1927, he was touted as the first expert to win the title "makeup technician," when he was signed to United Artists. Later, he was reported to work for the Samuel Goldwyn Studio, and to have enough time in the business to rank as "dean" of such artists.
His background made for especially colorful copy, and it seemed to get more exotic with every telling. Under the real full name of Blagoe Stephanoff-Pop-Petroff, he was born to wealthy Bulgarians, but in an area of the world that was then part of Turkey; his father was working a contract there to build railroad bridges. At various times, he was said to formerly be a well-known portrait painter of Europe; a member of an ancient Balkan family; a scion of Bulgarian nobility; a baron; a nephew to Srebren P. Petroff, in 1929 the Bulgarian Minister to Albania; and, also in 1929, one of three heirs to a large estate in Macedonia left by an aunt. How much of all this was true, who is to say?
He was reported to speak English, French, Turkish, Russian, Bulgarian, Greek, Serbian, Polish, Montenegrin, Bohemian, Albanian, Belgian, and Spanish. Another list, for good measure, added Rumanian and Armenian. One clipping, in fact, indicated his first studio work was as an interpreter, not as an actor or makeup artist.
Here's a chronological outline of the rest of his life, as, again, compiled from newspaper clippings: In 1910, he emigrated to the U.S., and acted in films and on stage. In 1919, he decided to specialize in screen makeup, quitting touring. In 1928, the papers published his notice of intention to marry Virginia Lee Curtis, then 21. In 1930, his son, Wayne Lee Stephanoff was born. In 1941, Virginia L. Stephanoff filed for divorce against Blagoe Stephanoff, something the papers then routinely reported in long lists. In 1951, Stephanoff died in a fire at his apartment at 1607 N. Gower St., Los Angeles; officials blamed it on smoking in bed. The Los Angeles Times news item reporting his death included an undated photo portrait, which (though unfortunately a half-tone) seems to be an image that may be hard to preserve in any other form.- Alphonse de Chateaubriant was born on 25 March 1877 in La Prévalaye, France. He was a writer, known for La Brière (1925) and Monsieur des Lourdines (1943). He died on 2 May 1951 in Kitzbühel, Tyrol, Austria.
- Actress
- Costume Designer
Maria Ray was born on 25 March 1904 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress and costume designer, known for Nocturno (1934), Ballerine (1936) and Jealousy (1945). She was married to Gustav Machatý. She died on 4 October 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Production Manager
Jean Epstein was born on 25 March 1897 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), Mauprat (1926) and Le lion des Mogols (1924). He died on 2 April 1953 in Paris, France.- Erwin Biegel was born on 25 March 1896 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Nights in Andalusia (1938), Request Concert (1940) and Die lustigen Vagabunden (1940). He died on 24 May 1954 in West Berlin, West Germany.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Modesto Cid was born on 25 March 1879 in Ourense, Ourense, Galicia, Spain. He was an actor, known for Doce horas de vida (1949), María Morena (1952) and Aquellas palabras (1949). He was married to María Severini. He died on 5 July 1954 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain.- Anna Iblová was born on 25 March 1893 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Láska je utrpením (1919), Proudy (1922) and Neznámé matky (1921). She died on 16 July 1954 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Make-Up Department
Anatole Robbins was born on 25 March 1894. He is known for Serpent of the Nile (1953), Invaders from Mars (1953) and Hitchhike to Hell (1941). He died on 25 January 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Stocky, bespectacled English character actor, whose career began in the music halls. Educated at Dover College, Oliver Burchett Clarence acted in repertory theatre from 1890. He then worked as a member of actor-manager Frank Benson's troupe for a number of years. During the First World War, he served as a special constable. After the war, Clarence undertook extensive classical training in Britain and America and subsequently accumulated a long list of credits on London's Shakespearean stage. A regular in British films from 1930, he was generally well-cast in period drama or comedy, often as cloth-capped working class types, priests or likable old dodderers. O.B. Clarence retired from acting at the age of eighty.
- Rex Hammel was born on 25 March 1883 in California, USA. He was an actor, known for Angel of Crooked Street (1922) and The Ninety and Nine (1922). He died on 31 December 1955 in San Diego, California, USA.
- Alan Gordon was born on 25 March 1908 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Lady Audley's Secret (1949) and The Winslow Boy (1948). He died on 24 November 1956 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Liliane Lesaffre was born on 25 March 1905 in Lille, Nord, France. She was an actress, known for Personal Column (1939), La dame de Malacca (1937) and Symphonie D'Amour (1936). She died on 20 December 1956 in Paris, France.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Arturo Toscanini was the most celebrated conductor of his time, considered by many to be the greatest conductor of the twentieth century. He revolutionized musical interpretation by frequently insisting that his orchestras play the music exactly as written, a highly unusual practice in the nineteenth century, when Toscanini began his career. He conducted the world premieres of such operas as Puccini's "La Boheme" and "Turandot", and Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci". During his lifetime and for a short while afterwards,he was revered by critics (and still is by the older ones.) Today's younger critics, however, tend to look down on him, and call his fidelity to the printed score "lack of imagination" - a term which shows a total misunderstanding of Toscanini's achievements.- Rolf Pinegger was born on 25 March 1873 in Schwifting bei Landsberg/Lech, Germany. He was an actor, known for Ein Kuß in der Sommernacht (1933), 1812, Gräfin Vandières (1926) and Schuß am Nebelhorn (1934). He died on 18 October 1957.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Composer and conductor, educated at Breslau University and Juilliard and a music student of Julius Gloger and Percy Goetschius. Coming to the USA in 1908, he was a church organist in Philadelphia and a music director with a theatrical circuit for thirteen years. He was also an editor for a music publisher for three years, and wrote background music for radio programs, and conducted radio's "The Army Hour" between 1943 and 1946. In addition he was a staff arranger, conductor and composer for NBC. Joining ASCAP in 1927, his song compositions include "Our Faith Shall Live", "Gracious Lord Who Givest Blessing", "The Call of the Highroad", "Land of Faith, Land of Hope", "For the Red, White and Blue", "Flag of Hope", "Somewhere, Sometime, Somehow", and "Wonderful Night".