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- Writer
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Miguel Echegaray was born on 29 September 1848 in Quintanar de la Orden, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He was a writer, known for Gigantes y cabezudos (1926), De Madrid al cielo (1952) and TNC Digital: L'Emperadriu del Paral·lel (2021). He died in 1927 in Madrid, Spain.- Writer
- Soundtrack
Junie McCree was born on 15 February 1865 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She was a writer, known for Enigma (2001), The Man Who Beat Dan Dolan (1915) and Coney Island (1943). She was married to Isabella Milnes. She died on 13 January 1918 in New York City, New York, USA.- Edna Hunter was born on 9 April 1876 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Unchastened Woman (1918), Half a Rogue (1916) and The Common Law (1916). She was married to Worden George Leveret Woods. She died on 5 February 1920 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Roger Bresnahan was born on 11 June 1879 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He died on 4 December 1944 in Toledo, Ohio, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Romualdo Tirado was born on 3 September 1880 in Quintanar de la Orden, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He was an actor and director, known for De México a Los Angeles (1921), El proceso de Mary Dugan (1931) and La vida bohemia (1938). He died on 17 October 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
- Writer
Corra Beach was born on 19 December 1880 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for What Becomes of the Children? (1918), The Dance of Life (1929) and Carnival (1935). She was married to Walter Shumway. She died on 5 October 1963 in North Hollywood, California, USA.- Frank Condon was born on 8 May 1882 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for Legend of Hollywood (1924), The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1922) and The End of the World (1925). He was married to Esther. He died on 18 December 1940 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
- Adolph Faylauer was born on 16 November 1882 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Dream Melody (1929). He died on 11 January 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Kathryn Osterman was born on 5 May 1883 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Bludgeon (1915), The Lost Child (1904) and Making a Welch Rabbit (1903). She was married to J.J. Rosenthal. She died on 25 August 1956 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Fred Ardath was born on 13 January 1884 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Lights Out (1946), The Singing Bee (1929) and Cabaret Nights (1929). He died in 1955 in Valhalla, New York, USA.
- Curtis Benton was born on 26 August 1885 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916), The Runaway Express (1926) and The Uninvited Guest (1924). He died on 14 September 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
The grandnephew of South African pioneer and former president
Paul Krüger, Otto Kruger trained for a
musical career from childhood, but after enrolling in Columbia
University he switched his career choice to acting. Making his Broadway
debut in 1915, at 30, he shortly became a matinée idol of the day,
specializing in sophisticated leading roles. He made his film debut in
1915 in The Runaway Wife (1915),
but it was in the 1930s that Kruger's polished, urbane
characterizations came into full swing. Although he occasionally played
a hero, as in Corregidor (1943) he was
often cast as the amoral villain or a charming but corrupt businessman
(usually a banker), a task at which he excelled. Kruger was one of the
industry's busiest character actors until a series of strokes brought
about his retirement in the mid-1960s.- Writer
- Director
- Production Manager
Leon D'Usseau was born on 10 November 1885 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Lost City (1935), The One Man Dog (1929) and Breed of Courage (1927). He was married to Ottola Nesmith. He died on 6 June 1963.- Writer
- Soundtrack
El Pastor Poeta was born on 16 February 1886 in Ocaña, Toledo, Castilla la Nueva, Spain [now Ocaña, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain]]. El was a writer, known for Un alto en el camino (1941) and Los duendes de Andalucía (1966). El died on 17 September 1979 in Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Actor / director John Cromwell was
born December 23, 1887, in Toledo, OH. He made his Broadway debut on
October 14, 1912, in
Marian De Forest's adaptation
of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"
at the Playhouse Theatre. The show was a hit, running for a total of
184 performances. Cromwell appeared in another 38 plays on Broadway
between February 24, 1914--when he appeared in
Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks" at
the 39th Street Theatre (a hit show he co-directed with Craven that ran
for a total of 223 performances)--and October 31, 1971, when he closed with
"Solitaire/Double Solitaire" at the John Golden Theatre after 36
performances. In addition to "Cooks", Cromwell directed or staged 11
plays and produced seven plays on Broadway. Among the highlights of his
Broadway acting career were his multiple appearances as a Shavian
actor. He was "Charles Lomax" in the original Broadway production of
George Bernard Shaw's "Major
Barbara" in 1915 (Guthrie McClintic,
who married Katharine Cornell in 1921
and became a notable Broadway director, played a butler) and as "Capt.
Kearney" in the revival of "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" the
following year (McClintic played "Marzo"). He also appeared as "Brother
Martin Ladvenu" in Katharine Cornell's
1936 "Saint Joan", directed by McClintic, and played "Freddy Eynsford
Hill" in Cedric Hardwicke's 1945
revival of "Pygmalion", starring
Gertrude Lawrence as "Eliza Doolittle"
and Raymond Massey as "Henry
Higgins".
As for William Shakespeare,
he played "Paris" to Katharine Cornell's "Juliet" and
Maurice Evans' "Romeo" in
McClntic's "Rome and Juliet" in 1935, and appeared as "Rosenkrantz" in
McClintic's 1936 Broadway staging of "Hamlet", with
John Gielgud in the title role,
Lillian Gish as "Ophelia" and
Judith Anderson as "Gertrude".
He also appeared as "Lennox" in the 1948 revival of Shakespeare's
"Scottish Play", with Michael Redgrave
as "Macbeth" and Flora Robson as "Lady
Macbeth" (young actors also featured in the play who went on to renown
were Julie Harris,
Martin Balsam and
Beatrice Straight). Cromwell won a
Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1952 for "Point of No
Return", in which he supported Henry Fonda,
and appeared as the father, "Linus Larabee Sr.", in "Sabrina Fair" the
next year.
With the advent of sound pictures, Cromwell went "Hollywood" in 1929,
appearing in The Dummy (1929) in
support of Ruth Chatterton and
Fredric March. He also co-directed two
talkies with A. Edward Sutherland
that year, Close Harmony (1929) and
The Dance of Life (1929) (he
had a bit part as a doorman in the latter). After learning the craft of
directing, he directed
The Mighty (1929) with
George Bancroft, in which he
made innovative use of sound. He also directed
Jackie Coogan in
Tom Sawyer (1930) the next year. He
made his name with Ann Vickers (1933) in 1933 and Of Human Bondage (1934) in
1934, two films he shot for RKO based on novels by the preeminent
writers Sinclair Lewis and
W. Somerset Maugham. Both movies ran
into censorship trouble. Lewis'
"Ann Vickers" featured
Irene Dunne as a reformer and birth control
advocate who has a torrid extramarital affair. The novel had been
condemned by the Catholic Church, and the proposed movie adaptation
proved controversial. The Studio Relations Committee, headed by James
Wingate (whose deputy was future Production Code Administration head
Joseph Breen, a Roman Catholic
intellectual) condemned the script as "vulgarly offensive" before
production began. The SRC, which oversaw the Motion Picture Producers
and Distributors Association's Production Code, refused to approve the
script without major modifications, but RKO production chief
Merian C. Cooper balked over its
excessive demands. Though studio head
B.B. Kahane protested the SRC's actions to
MPPDA President Will Hays, the studio agreed
to make "Ann Vickers" an unmarried woman at the time of her affair, thus
eliminating adultery as an issue, and the film received a Seal of
Approval. The battle over "Ann Vickers" was one of the reasons the more
powerful PCA was created in 1934 to take the place of the SRC.
Joseph Breen, now head of the PCA,
warned that the script for
W. Somerset Maugham's
"Of Human Bondage" was
"highly offensive" because the prostitute "Mildred", whom the
protagonist, medical student "Philip Carey", falls in love with, comes
down with syphilis. Breen demanded that Mildred be turned into less
of a tramp, that she be afflicted with tuberculosis rather than syphilis and
that she be married to Carey's friend whom she cheats on him with. RKO
gave in on every point, as the PCA, unlike the SRC, had the ability to
levy a $25,000 fine for violations of the Production Code. Despite the
changes, chapters of the Catholic Church's Legion Of Deceny condemned
the film in Chicago, Detroit, Omaha and Pittsburgh. Despite a picket
line manned by local priests in Chicago, Cromwell's film broke
all records at the Hippodrome Theater when it played there in August
1934. Five hundred people had to be turned away opening night. It
seemed that wherever the Legion of Decency had condemned the film, it played to
capacity crowds. In 1935 Breen ruled that
"Of Human Bondage" would
have to be changed if RKO wished to re-release it.
Other major films Cromwell directed include
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936),
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937),
Algiers (1938),
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940),
Since You Went Away (1944)
and
Anna and the King of Siam (1946).
In 1951 he directed The Racket (1951)
starring Robert Mitchum,
Lizabeth Scott, and
Robert Ryan; he had appeared in the
original staging of the Broadway play by
Bartlett Cormack on which the movie was
based back in 1927.
Busy on Broadway in the 1950s, it was seven years before he directed
another film, The Goddess (1958),
with a screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky and
starring Kim Stanley. He directed
two more minor films before calling it quits as a movie director in
1961. As a director, Cromwell eschewed flashy camera work, as he felt it
detracted from both the story and the actors' performances. Late
in his life director
Robert Altman cast Cromwell as an
actor in two of his films, 3 Women (1977)
and A Wedding (1978).
John Cromwell died on
September 26, 1979, in Santa Barbara, CA.- Harry Sinclair Drago was born on 20 March 1887 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for Where East Is East (1929), The King of the Kongo (1929) and Silver Valley (1927). He was married to Herminne. He died on 25 October 1979 in White Plains, New York, USA.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Leon Rosebrook was born on 11 February 1888 in Toledo, Oregon, USA. He was a composer. He died on 7 February 1957 in San Francisco, California, USA.- Magdalena G. de Banquells was born on 25 May 1888 in Alcabón, Toledo, Spain. She was an actress, known for Sí, mi vida (1953). She died on 26 December 1960 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
King Zany was born on 11 June 1889 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Can't Hardly Wait (1998), The Great Gabbo (1929) and Broadway or Bust (1924). He died on 19 February 1939 in Ramona, California, USA.- Writer
- Producer
- Production Manager
Ralph C. Wells was born on 14 August 1889 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Shifting Sands (1923), Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight (1926) and The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1926). He died on 21 July 1975 in Placer County, California, USA.- Actress
- Writer
Eva McKenzie was born on 5 November 1889 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Virtuous Husband (1931), A Knight of the West (1921) and Her Realization (1915). She was married to Robert McKenzie (I). She died on 15 September 1967 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Billy Carew was born on 12 January 1890 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Girl at Nolan's (1915). He died on 25 June 1972 in Carmichael, California, USA.
- William Musgrave was born on 5 October 1890 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Society's Driftwood (1917), The Black Sheep of the Family (1916) and Crown Jewels (1918). He died on 28 August 1922 in Clyde, Ohio, USA.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
José Prada was born on 15 November 1891 in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He was an actor, known for Carmen (la de Triana) (1938), El negro que tenía el alma blanca (1951) and Teatro Apolo (1950). He died on 19 August 1983 in Madrid, Spain.- George F. Worts was born on 16 March 1892 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for Once a Gentleman (1930), Absolute Quiet (1936) and Madness of Youth (1923). He was married to Janet M. Walter and Flora Berriman. He died in February 1967 in Hawaii, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Frank Uecker was born on 11 December 1892 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He died on 8 May 1965 in Inyo County, California, USA.- Len Doyle was born on 2 February 1893 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Armchair Theatre (1956), Dead to the World (1961) and Kraft Theatre (1947). He died on 6 December 1959 in Port Jervis, New York, USA.
- Tania was born on 13 October 1893 in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. She was an actress, known for Caprichosa y millonaria (1940), Poor Perez (1937) and Cuatro corazones (1939). She died on 17 February 1999 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Harland Tucker was born on 8 December 1893 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Kid Galahad (1937), Slim (1937) and Missing Witnesses (1937). He was married to Marie Walcamp. He died on 22 March 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Cinematographer
- Editor
- Camera and Electrical Department
Alberto Arroyo was born on 23 April 1894 in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He is known for Los intereses creados (1919), Expiación (1921) and The Unapproachable Woman (1921).- Actor
- Stunts
- Additional Crew
Jack Shannon was born on 31 August 1894 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Sundown Riders (1944), The Mystery Rider (1928) and Man from Montana (1941). He was married to Grace Cunard and Ruby May Huff. He died on 27 December 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Lillian Herlein was born on 11 March 1895 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Solomon in Society (1922) and The Goldbergs (1949). She was married to Charles G. Straikosh. She died on 13 April 1971 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Additional Crew
Alberto Sánchez was born on 8 April 1895 in Toledo, Spain. He is known for Don Kikhot (1957). He died on 12 October 1962 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Composer, songwriter ("Hot Lips"), conductor and pianist, educated in
public schools and a private music student of Arthur Kortheur, Max
Ecker and Herman Wasserman. He was a pianist in the Paul Whiteman Orchestra
and made a European tour between 1920 and 1924. The following year, he
formed his own orchestra and was appointed the music director for Baker
Hotels in Texas, and toured in vaudeville. In 1936, he was the director
of a radio station. Joining ASCAP in 1924, his other popular-song
compositions include "I Adore You", "Yes Sir, That's Lazybones",
"Regret", and "On Sunday Night".- Composer
- Music Department
- Writer
Jacinto Guerrero was born on 16 August 1895 in Ajofrín, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He was a composer and writer, known for Volver (2006), El sobre verde (1971) and Love in the Time of Cholera (2007). He died on 15 September 1951 in Madrid, Spain.- Actor
- Writer
Pierre Gendron was born on 4 March 1896 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Fog Island (1945), The Lover of Camille (1924) and The Monster Maker (1944). He was married to Mary Alice Scully. He died on 27 November 1956 in Hollywood, California, USA.- James Adamson was born on 12 June 1896 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Jungle Siren (1942), Dark Manhattan (1937) and Sophie Lang Goes West (1937). He died on 29 January 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Jeanne Olsen was born on 31 August 1896 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Hollywood on Parade No. B-9 (1934). She was married to Jimmy Durante. She died on 14 February 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Stunts
- Actor
Cliff Bergere was born on 6 December 1896 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Eagle's Talons (1923), 1927 Indianapolis 500 (1927) and 1928 Indianapolis 500 (1928). He died on 18 June 1980 in Dade City, Florida, USA.- Douglas Herrick was born on 8 February 1897 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Brenner (1959), Car 54, Where Are You? (1961) and Kim & Co. (1975). He died on 16 November 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actress
Della Rose McIntire was born on 8 October 1897 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Webb Kyle McIntire and Clarence Lopez. She died on 10 April 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Carlotta King was a veteran of stage operettas and comic operas when
'Jack Warner' heard her on the radio. He decided if she looked as good as she
sang, then she would play the lead in the musical The Desert Song (1929). Indeed, the
blonde soprano's appearance was as attractive as her voice, and she
made her film debut. King was next slated for a role as 'Arthur Lake's'
girlfriend in _On With the Show (1929)_ but instead she signed with MGM in mid-1929.
She spent five months waiting for a version of "Rose Marie" that was
never filmed, and with seven months left on her contract she returned
to vaudeville. - Arnold Gray was born on 20 April 1899 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Bird of Paradise (1932), The Dentist (1932) and West of Broadway (1926). He was married to Josefina Ramos. He died on 3 May 1936 in Alpine, California, USA.
- Art Department
Wecker was born on 6 September 1899 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. Wecker is known for The Unpainted Woman (1919). Wecker died on 14 August 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Isabel Scott Rorick was born on 13 April 1900 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She was a writer, known for Are Husbands Necessary? (1942) and My Favorite Husband (1953). She died on 11 October 1967 in Toledo, Ohio, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Character actor of distinctly American persona who nevertheless made
several films in Britain before returning to the U.S. to carve out a
career as a familiar face in American movies. Short, bald and built
like a tank with a streetwise character and a Damon Runyan accent,
Welden played countless gangsters and smalltime hoods, often with a
comic aspect. He was the henchman who beat the snot out of
Bette Davis in
Marked Woman (1937) and gunned down
Elia Kazan in
City for Conquest (1940), and
made numerous appearances as crooks on
Adventures of Superman (1952).
As a sideline, he owned Nutcorn, a popular Beverly Hills confectionery.
He retired from acting in his sixties.- Otis Garth was born on 1 July 1901 in Toledo, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Mister Scoutmaster (1953), Chevron Hall of Stars (1956) and Big Town (1950). He died on 21 December 1955 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Clarence Gray was born on 14 November 1901 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for Brick Bradford (1947). He died on 5 January 1957 in Lakewood, Ohio, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Jack Osterman was born on 8 April 1902 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Wolves (1930), The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) and Umpa (1933). He was married to Mary Daly. He died on 8 June 1939 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
Frank Bucholtz was born on 17 February 1903 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He died on 3 June 1969 in California, USA.