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Songwriter ("Oh, You Beautiful Doll", "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"), author, composer and actor, educated in public schools. He wrote songs for "The Ziegfeld Follies of 1909". He appeared in vaudeville between 1911-1914, then joined the staff of music publishers, where he worked into 1926. He wrote the Broadway stage scores for "The Newlyweds and Their Baby", "The Matinee Idol", and "Adrienne" (for which he also wrote the libretto). Joining ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, his other popular songs include "Can't You See I Love You?", "Great Big Blue-Eyed Baby", "If You Talk in Your Sleep, Don't Mention My Name", "Moving Day in Jungle Town", and "Chin Chin".- Costume Designer
A.B. Sorter was born on 21 July 1881 in Kansas, USA. He was a costume designer, known for The Long Chance (1915). He died on 26 August 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- A.C. Fotheringham-Lysons was born on 23 May 1867 in Skene, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Elusive Pimpernel (1919), The Scourge (1922) and The Amateur Gentleman (1920). He died on 8 October 1947 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- A.E. Thomas was born on 16 September 1872 in Chester, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Just Suppose (1926), No More Ladies (1935) and Come Out of the Kitchen (1919). He was married to Ethel L. Dodd. He died on 18 June 1947 in Wakefield, Rhode Island, USA.
- Abraham Teitelbaum was born in 1889. He was an actor, known for Two Sisters (1938) and The Wandering Jew (1933). He died on 16 October 1947 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Addie Ross was born on 9 August 1892 in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Pride o' the Green (1937). She died on 14 August 1947 in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
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Adolfo Carabelli was born on 8 September 1893 in San Fernando, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a composer, known for De la sierra al valle (1938), Pájaros sin nido (1940) and El ángel de trapo (1940). He died on 25 January 1947.- Actress
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Born in Fort Worth, TX, in 1907, Adrienne Ames hit Hollywood in the late 1920s. Although her career only lasted about ten years, she crammed a lot of living into it--high-profile marriages (and divorces) and her reputation as a clothes horse and glamour queen par excellence far outshone her reputation as an actress.
In 1933 she married Bruce Cabot after leaving her second husband, a rich New York City stockbroker, but she and Cabot only lasted four years. In her divorce she told the court that the main reason she left him was that he was a violent, uncontrollable drunk. In 1938 the pair appeared before a US Tax Appeals Board to explain why she wrote off more than $9000 in wardrobe and jewelry on her 1934 tax form, which she claimed was necessary for "professional reasons" (as was her maid). She claimed that her "daily expenses" included flowers, massages, taxis and beauty work.
Her career lasted from 1929-40, during which she appeared in about 30 films, mostly "B" pictures. The best-known of her movies would probably be You're Telling Me! (1934) with W.C. Fields. After her film career ended she worked as a radio commentator.
She died in New York City in 1947 after a long illness.- Afrânio Peixoto was born on 14 December 1876 in Lençóis, Bahia, Brazil. He was a writer, known for Maria Bonita (1937) and Diamante bruto (1978). He died on 12 February 1947 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Agnes Gavin was born on 30 November 1871 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was a writer and actress, known for Assigned to His Wife (1911), His Convict Bride (1918) and Keane of Kalgoorlie (1911). She was married to Jack Gavin and Barnet Kurts. She died on 9 January 1947 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.- Agnes Lorentzen was born on 21 February 1874 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Den glade løjtnant (1912), Unjustly Accused (1913) and Manegens stjerne (1912). She was married to Aage Lorentzen. She died on 23 December 1947.
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Ahmad Galal was born on 17 August 1897 in Egypt. He was a director and writer, known for Fattich an el-mar'a (1939), Banknote (1936) and Uyun sahira (1934). He was married to Mary Queeny. He died on 21 July 1947 in Egypt.- Infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone was born in the tough Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn, NY, the fourth of nine children of Italian immigrants from Naples. Capone was a born sociopath. In the sixth grade he beat up a teacher and promptly quit school. He picked up his education from the streets, "making his bones" when he joined the notorious James Street gang. This was run by Johnny Torrio, who later graduated Capone into the even more notorious Five Points gang. It was here that Capone became friends with Lucky Luciano, another who would become a hallmark in the '30s gangster era.
By his late teens Capone had been hired by Torrio and Frankie Yale as a bouncer at a saloon / brothel in Brooklyn. In 1918 he was involved in a bar fight over a prostitute with hoodlum Frank Galluccio. Gallucio went after Capone with a knife, resulting in Capone's picking up the moniker by which he would be known for the rest of his life--"Scarface" (although that word was NEVER used in his presence). Capone, however, would attribute the scar to wounds he received in battle while fighting with the famous "lost battalion" in France during World War I (the fact that Capone never spent one minute in the army was a minor point, apparently). By 1919 he was already suspected by New York police of at least two murders, so he moved to Chicago to work under Torrio's uncle, "Big" Jim Colosimo, a Chicago gangster who ran a string of brothels. Torrio and Colosimo had a dispute over bootlegging during the Prohibition era--Torrio was for it and Colosimo was against it. Torrio hatched a plot with Capone to have Colosimo "rubbed out" and they got their old pal Frankie Yale to do it. Over the next few years the new Torrio-Capone regime went to war with rival bootlegging gangs in Chicago. In 1924 they killed Charles Dion O'Bannion, head of the Irish North Side gang. That didn't end the war, however, which went on for several more years. Capone's younger brother Frank died in a hail of rival gangsters' bullets in 1924. In February 1925 Torrio, who had been badly wounded in a shootout, decided to retire. He told Capone, "It's all yours". At the tender age of 26, Al Capone found himself in control of a sophisticated crime organization with 1,000 gunmen at his command and a $300,000-a-week payroll. He was up to it, however, and made a smooth transition from a simple gun-toting leg-breaker, pimp and killer to a "business executive" (his business card stated that he sold "second-hand furniture"). It was estimated that at one point he had approximately half of Chicago's police department on his payroll, and his reach extended to the highest levels of Chicago's city government and even into the Illinois legislature (he was also suspected of having the Illinois governor "in his pocket"). He controlled the local political process by terrorizing voters into voting for candidates he picked. So great was his power that he claimed he "owned" Chicago, and once publicly assaulted the mayor of nearby Cicero--who was on his payroll--on the steps of City Hall for doing something without his clearance, while the local police looked the other way.
Capone was probably the first "equal-opportunity" mob boss. While many of his fellow Italian and Sicilian gangsters would only hire those from their own ethnic group, Capone hired Jews, Irish, Poles, Slovaks, blacks--as long as he considered them trustworthy, they could work for Capone. He even purged the Chicago organized crime scene of "Mustache Petes", the old-time Sicilian gangsters who he didn't think were capable of running a "modern" crime organization. Capone ran Chicago's gambling, prostitution and bootlegging empire, getting rich giving people what they wanted. He was soon wildly popular among the citizenry and was even cheered at the ballpark, while "respectable" citizens like President Herbert Hoover were not. Capone absorbed smaller gangs into his own--sometimes by negotiation, other times by gunfire--extending his reach to outside the Chicago environs and expanding his empire even further. He was, however, always concerned for his own safety and surrounded himself with trusted bodyguards (including Frank Gallucio, the man responsible for his nickname, "Scarface"). Several attempts were made on his life by rival mobsters--one time a convoy of cars full of gangster Hymie Weiss' gunmen shot up a restaurant at which Capone was dining; the place was destroyed, but Capone came through unscathed. Another time would-be assassins poisoned his soup, but his luck held out again.
On Valentine's Day in 1929 Capone ordered the bloody "St. Valentine's Day Massacre". His underlings found out the location of the warehouse of his rival George Moran (aka "Bugs" Moran) and that Moran was to attend a meeting there at a particular time. Capone sent a carload of his gunmen dressed as police officers to the address. Once there they lined up the seven men they found, but Moran wasn't among them; he was on the sidewalk heading towards the building when he saw the "police car" pull up in front and he quickly ducked into a nearby store. Nevertheless, Capone's gunmen machine-gunned them to death. Following the massacre (when Moran was later asked who he thought was responsible for the murders, he replied, "Only Capone kills like that"), public opinion about Capone began to change. He was not above killing on his own, either. When he was informed that his bodyguards John Scalise and Albert Anselmi were part of an assassination plot against him, he decided to take care of the matter himself. To put their minds at ease, he threw a banquet in their honor. While delivering a glowing testimonial to them, Capone suddenly pulled out an Indian club and beat both men to death.
Although local and state authorities had been trying to bring down Capone for years, the federal government finally managed to do it by prosecuting him for income-tax evasion. He was tried, found guilty and sentenced to 11 years in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, GA. In 1934 he was transferred to Alcatraz, a federal prison on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay that was set up to hold the nation's worst criminals. He never finished out his sentence, though. In 1939 he was paroled because of the ravages of neurosyphilis, a disease he contracted while running Torrio's and Colosimo's whorehouses. He lived the last eight years of his life as a virtual zombie at his estate in Florida, his brain almost totally destroyed by the disease. - Music Department
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Conductor, composer, arranger, orchestrator, violinist and bandleader whose orchestra was regularly featured on a number of network radio programs of the 1940s including "Beulah". Al Sack, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, began his career as a violinist under the tutelage of Rudolph Ringwall, the assistant conductor of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. Concentrating on arrangements and conducting, Al became the musical director for Olsen and Johnson productions. Settling in California, he worked in close conjunction with David Rose. Soon, Paul Whiteman appointed Al chief arranger and associate conductor on his Chase and Sanborn Hour radio program which emanated from Hollywood. Al Sack's orchestra recorded for Black and White Records and also made a number of recordings with such vocalists as Tony Martin, Ginny Simms, Andy Russell, Frank Morgan, Ann Sothern, Fred Astaire, Gracie Fields and Dinah Shore. (Al Sack is not to be confused with furniture expert Albert M. Sack or the quickie film producer Albert Sack.)- Sound Department
Al Sinton is known for Adventure Girl (1934). He died on 24 August 1947.- Albert Arid was born on 16 February 1896. He was an actor, known for Fridericus (1937), Zentrale Rio (1939) and Onkel Bräsig (1936). He died on 17 January 1947 in Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Albert Guyot was born on 25 December 1881 in Orléans, Loiret, France. He died on 24 May 1947 in Paris, France.
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Albert W. Hale was born on 1 January 1882 in Bordeaux, France. He was a director and producer, known for Buried Alive in a Coal Mine (1913), The Prisoner of Zenda (1915) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1913). He was married to Julia F. Johnson. He died on 27 February 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Aldrich Bowker was born on 1 January 1875 in Ashby, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) and Susan and God (1940). He died on 21 March 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Edward Alexander "Aleister" Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, philosopher, professional writer, and self-proclaimed prophet. In his youth, Crowley joined the occult organization Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1887-1903), where he received much of his training in theurgy and ceremonial magic. In 1904, Crowley established his own religion: Thelema (Greek for "the will"). He had supposedly received a divine revelation from an angel. Crowley believed that humans should strive to overcome both their desires and their socially-instilled inhibitions in order to find out the true purpose of their respective lives. Several of Crowley's religious ideas went on to influence Wicca, the practice of chaos magick, Satanism, and Scientology.
In 1875, Crowley was born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire to a wealthy family. His father was the retired engineer Edward Crowley (1829-1887), who was 46-years-old at the time of Crowley's birth. Edward had grown wealthy due to being the partial owner of a successful brewery. Cowley's mother was Emily Bertha Bishop (1848-1917), a member of a somewhat prominent family whose members lived in both Devonshire and Somerset.
Crowley's parents were converts of the Plymouth Brethren, a Christian fundamentalist movement whose members believed that the Bible is the only authority for church doctrine and practice. Crowley received his early education at an evangelical boarding school located in Hastings. He was then send to the Ebor preparatory school in Cambridge. The boy grew to hate the abusive Reverend Henry d'Arcy Champney, who inflicted sadistic punishments on his students. Crowley eventually dropped out of this school, due to health problems. The boy had developed albuminuria, a urine disease.
By the time he was 12, Crowley was skeptical about Christianity and its teachings. Years of bible study had resulted in Crowley realizing and memorizing the inconsistencies in the Bible. He eagerly pointed these to his religious teachers. In his teen years, Crowley largely rejected Christian morality. He felt the need to satisfy his sexual urges, and did not view this need as immoral. He received college lessons in chemistry, and started writing poetry as a hobby. In his early 20s, Crowley was also a chess enthusiast, and an increasingly skilled mountaineer. In 1894, Crowley joined the Scottish Mountaineering Club. In 1895, Crowley climbed the peaks of five mountains in the Bernese Alps.
By 1895, Crowley started using his nickname "Aleister" as his legal name. From 1895 to 1898, Crowley attended Trinity College, Cambridge. He studied primarily philosophy and literature. He was the president of the local chess club, and briefly considered pursuing a career as a professional chess player. In 1896, Crowley had his first sexual experience with another man while vacationing in Stockholm, Sweden. He would later embrace his bisexuality. He had sexual sexual relationships with various men while living in Cambridge, though such activities were illegal in Victorian England. In 1897, Crowley started a romantic relationship with the on-stage female impersonator (drag queen) Herbert Charles Pollitt (1871-1942). They eventually broke up because Pollitt refused to join his boyfriend in his studies of mysticism and occultism. Crowley later wrote several texts concerning his lifelong regrets about ending his relationship with Pollitt.
In 1898, Crowley dropped out of Cambridge. He maintained excellent grades, but he lost interest in actually pursuing a degree. Also in 1898, Crowley published two volumes of his poems. Shortly after leaving Cambridge, the novice occultist Crowley started hanging out with members of the occultist organization Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1887-1903). He was formally initiated into the organization in November 1898. His initiation ritual was performed by the organization's de facto leader, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854 -1918). Crowley grew to consider Mathers to be an ineffectual leader.
In the late 1890s, Crowley received training in ceremonial magic by more experienced members of the Golden Dawn. He was fascinated with the ritual use of drugs. He rose through the organization's ranks, but was soon refused entry into the group's inner Second Order. The openly bisexual and libertine Crowley was disliked by several conservative members of the organization. Crowley had started a feud with a fellow member, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Yeats' friends resented Crowley.
A schism eventually started within the Golden Dawn, between Mathers' supporters and the members who disliked Mathers' autocratic policies. Crowley chose to support Mathers, and tried to take over one of the organization's temples in the name of Mathers. The dispute resulted in a court case between the rival factions of the Golden Dawn, over ownership of the temple. Mathers lost the court case, and Crowley started being treated as a pariah by members of the winning faction.
In 1900, Crowley decided to migrate to Mexico. He settled in Mexico City, where he experimented with the Enochian invocations of the famed occultist and alchemist John Dee (1527-1608/1609). His mountaineering activities led him to reach the top of several Mexican mountains, such as Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, and Colima. After leaving Mexico, Crowley started traveling the world in search of new experiences. He visited California, Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India, and France. Crowley took part in a failed mountaineering expedition that attempted to reach the peak of K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. The expedition reached an altitude of 20,000 feet (6,100 meters). They abandon the attempt to reach the peak, as Crowley and several other expedition members were suffering from malaria.
In August 1903, Crowley married Rose Edith Kelly (1874-1932), the sister of one of his close friends. It was a marriage of convenience, not love. Rose wanted to escape an arranged marriage, and was fleeing from domineering family members. Her brother viewed the marriage as a personal betrayal by Crowley. The couple took an extended honeymoon. In February 1904, the couple settled in Cairo Egypt. Crowley started invoking ancient Egyptian deities in magical ceremonies. He also took the opportunity to study Islamic mysticism.
In early April 1904, Crowley started listening to the disembodied voice of the angel Aiwass. It supposedly delivered to Crowley messages from the god Horus, concerning a new age for humanity. Crowley recorded his divine revelations in "The Book of the Law", the first publication of Thelema. The disembodied voice supposedly also requested a number of difficult tasks from Crowley, who simply chose to ignore them as unreasonable demands.
In 1905, Crowley returned to his private estate in Scotland, for the first time in several years. He renounced his former mentor Mathers, as Crowley was convinced that the old man was conspiring against him. Crowley established his own printing company, the "Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth". He chose the name to mock a Christian charity organization, the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (1698-). The primary purpose of the company was the promotion of Crowley's literary works. By this point, Crowley was relatively famous as a poet. Several of his poems were favorably received by critics, but they never sold well.
Crowley soon resumed world traveling. He led a failed mountaineering expedition to climb the mountain Kanchenjunga in Nepal. Crowley faced a mutiny over his reckless behavior during the expedition. He returned to India, then made an extended tour of Southern China. He also visited Hanoi in Vietnam. He worked on a new ritual while in China, invoking his Holy Guardian Angel. He proceeded to travel through Japan and Canada, and visited New York City in a failed effort to secure funding for a new mountaineering expedition.
Crowley's return to the United Kingdom came with a nasty surprise for him. He learned that his first-born daughter Lilith Crowley had died of typhoid fever during his absence. He also realized that his wife Rose was struggling with alcoholism, and that she was probably not fit to be a parent. His own health was failing at the time, and he underwent a series of surgical operations.
In 1907, Crowley started regularly using hashish in his magic rituals. In 1909, he published an essay concerning the mystical aspects of hashish use. He published several books concerning the occult during the late 1900s. The family fortune which he had inherited was running out at the time, and he tried to secure additional funds. At one point, Crowley was hired by George Montagu Bennett, the Earl of Tankerville, to protect him from evil witchcraft. Crowley realized that Tankerville was a cocaine-addict suffering from paranoia, so Crowley just improvised a drug rehabilitation project for his employer.
In 1908, Crowley realized that horror short stories were selling much better than poetry. So he published a series of his own horror stories. He also became a regular writer for a weekly magazine, the so-called "Vanity Fair" (1868-1914). In 1909, Crowley established his own magazine, "The Equinox" (1909-1998). The magazine specialized in texts about occultism and magick, but also regularly published poetry, prose fiction, and biographies.
In 1909, Crowley divorced his wife Rose, as he was fed-up with her drinking binges. Rose was institutionalized in 1911.In November 1909, Crowley started a long journey through the deserts of Algeria. He chose to recite the Quran on a daily basis while living in the desert. At one point, Crowley offered a blood sacrifice to the demon Choronzon while still in Algeria. He returned to London in January 1910, to find that his old mentor Mather was suing him for publishing secret texts of the defunct Golden Dawn. Crowley both won the court case, and enjoyed the publicity which the case brought him. The yellow press was portraying him as a Satanist, and Crowley found it amusing to embrace various stereotypes about Satanism at the time.
In 1910, Crowley organized the Rites of Artemis, a public performance of magic and symbolism. All the performers were associates and followers of Crowley. The celebrations received favorable reviews from the press. The encouraged Crowley soon organized the Rites of Eleusis in Westminster, but this performance received mostly negative reviews. There were press reports at the time that Crowley was homosexual, but the authorities made no attempt to arrest him. Crowley devoted the next couple of years to his writing activities, completing 19 works on magic and mysticism in this period. He also continued publishing poetry and fiction.
In 1912, Crowley published the magical book "The Book of Lies", one of his best-reviewed works. Crowley found himself accused of plagiarizing the works of the German occultist Theodor Reuss (1855-1923), based on the similarities between their ideas. Crowley managed to convince Reuss that the similarities were coincidental, and befriended Reuss in the process. Crowley was then initiated in Reuss' own occult organization, the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO). With Reuss' permission, Crowley established a British branch of the organization and completely rewrote most of the organization's rituals. OTO was practicing sex magic, and Crowley liked that idea.
In 1913, Crowley served as the producer for a group of female violinists. Primarily because the group's leader was a close friend and lover of Crowley. He followed them during 6 weeks of performances in Moscow, Russia. Crowley wrote several new works while in Moscow. In January 1914, Crowley and his long-term lover Victor Neuburg settled together in a Parisian apartment. The couple experimented with sex magic rituals, which involved the use of strong drugs. At the time, Crowley regularly invoked the Roman gods Jupiter and Mercury in his new rituals. Noticing that Neuburg had started distancing himself from Crowley by the end of their vacation in Paris, Crowley had an intense argument with him and ritually cursed Neuburg.
By 1914, Crowley was nearly bankrupt. He financially depended on donation by his followers. In May 1914, he transferred the ownership of his estate in Scotland. Later that year, Crowley suffered from a bout of phlebitis. Following his recovery, he decided to migrate to the United States for financial reasons. He settled in New York City, where he became a regular writer for the American version of the magazine "Vanity Fair" (1913-1936). He continued experimenting with sex magic while living in the Big Apple.
During World War I, Crowley declared his support for the German Empire against the British Empire. His sympathies were possibly influenced by his German friends in the OTO. In 1915, Crowley was hired as a writer for the propagandist newspaper "The Fatherland", which championed German interests in the United States. Crowley left New York City for a while, going on an extended tour of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. He visited Vancouver to make contact with the local variation of the OTO. Crowley spend part of the winter of 1916 in New Orleans, which was his favorite American city. In February 1917, Crowley headed to Florida for a family reunion with a number of his evangelical Christian relatives who had settled there.
Later in 1917, Crowley returned to New York City. He struggled with unemployment, as several of the newspapers and magazines which had previously hired him had shut down. In 1918, Crowley worked on a new translation of the Taoist book "Tao Te Ching". At the time, Crowley claimed to have started experiencing past life memories. Fueled by his belief in reincarnation, Crowley proclaimed himself to be a reincarnation of Pope Alexander VI/Rodrigo de Borja (1431-1503, term 1492-1503). Having more free time than usual while living in Greenwich Village, Crowley found a new hobby in painting. He exhibited several of his painting at a local literary club, and attracted some attention from the local press.
In 1919, the impoverished Crowley moved back to London. The local press labeled a traitor for his Germanophile tendencies. He was suffering from asthma attacks at the time. An English doctor prescribed a supposedly miraculous drug for Crowley, which promised to cure his asthma. The drug was actually heroine, and was highly addictive. Crowley developed a drug addiction. In January 1920, Crowley moved to the Parisian apartment of his lover Leah Hirsig. While there, he started efforts to establish a new organization, the Abbey of Thelema. He named it after a fictional organization which had appeared in the works of Francois Rabelais (c. 1483-1553).
In April 1920, Crowley settled in Sicily with a number of his supporters and their families. They established the Abbey of Thelema. They established daily rituals for the sun god Ra. Crowley offered a libertine education for the children of his followers, and allowed them to witness sex magic rituals. The organization soon attracted new followers, but Crowley's drug addiction was increasingly out of control. In 1922, Crowley published the autobiographical novel "Diary of a Drug Fiend". The British press criticized it for supposedly promoting the use of drugs.
In 1923, Crowley was at the center of an international scandal. A young Thelemite follower died from a liver infection, after drinking polluted water. His widow published stories of the unsanitary conditions in the Abbey, and of self-harm rituals which Crowley had created for his followers. The international press published scathing stories for Crowley. Benito Mussolini, the fascist Prime Minister of Italy (1883-1945, term 1922-1943) decided to deport Crowley in April 1923. The Abbey was not officially targeted by the fascist government, but it soon collapsed due to its lack of leadership. There was no way to attract more followers of Crowley to Sicily without using Crowley's physical presence as a tool for recruitment.
In self-exile in Tunis during much of 1923, Crowley started working on his autobiography, "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". In January 1924, Crowley moved back to France in preparation for a series of nasal operations. For the next few years, Crowley spend part of each year in Tunis and part of each year in France. He wrote a few significant works at the time, though some of his personal relationships deteriorated.
In the mid-1920s, Crowley declared himself to be the new leader of the OTO, following the death of Reuss. His right to leadership was questioned by other candidate leaders,. The OTO soon split itself to several rival factions, each proclaiming itself to be the true continuation of the original organization. In 1928, Crowley was deported from France. Due to Crowley's past loyalty to the German Empire, the French authorities worried that he may be a German agent.
In 1929, Crowley moved back to the United Kingdom. He secured a book deal with Mandrake Press, which agreed to publish his autobiography and several works of prose fiction. The Great Depression negatively affected Crowley. In November 1930, Mandrake went into liquidation. Crowley was left with no regular published for his works, and no regular source of income. Crowley spend part of the year 1930 in Berlin, Germany, where his expressionistic paintings were displayed in a gallery. His works gained favorable press reviews, but few of them were actually sold. Painting was not a profitable occupation for Crowley.
In January 1932, Crowley started socializing with German communists and other far left figures in Berlin, despite having never previously expressed any interest in their ideologies. Some of his biographers suspect that Crowley was merely acting as a spy for British intelligence at this time. Later that year, he returned to London for another nasal surgery. In desperate need of money, Crowley launched a series of court cases for libel against his perceived enemies. The litigation proved more expensive than he expected, and he was declared bankrupt in February 1935. The bankruptcy case revealed that Crowley's expenses over the past few years had far exceeded his income.
In 1936, Crowley published "The Equinox of the Gods". It was his first new book in half a decade, and sold unusually well. Crowley also managed to secure funding from the Agape Lodge, a Californian splinter faction of the OTO. His benefactor was the Lodge's de facto leader, the rocket engineer Jack Parsons (1914-1952). Crowley was concerned at the time about the disestablishment of the German faction of the OTO, whose members faced persecution by the Nazi Party. Several of Crowley's German friends had been arrested, and others had fled the country.
During World War II, Crowley was closely associated with the British intelligence community. His biographers are uncertain whether he was working as a British agent, or merely assisting actual agents. Among Crowley's close associates during the War were two fellow British writers who were working as intelligence agents: Roald Dahl (1916-1990) and Ian Fleming (1908-1964). Crowley supposedly helped create a new war slogan for the BBC, called "V for Victory". His asthma attacks worsened during the war, in part because the medication he needed was unavailable. He was briefly hospitalized in Torquay. Among Crowley's last published works was a wartime book about the concept of human rights.
On December 1, 1947, Crowley died due to chronic bronchitis, aggravated by pleurisy. He was 72-years-old at the time of his death. Despite Crowley maintaining several friendly and professional contacts during the last years of his life, only about a dozen people bothered to attend his funeral. His body was cremated, and his ashes were delivered to the next leader of the OTO, Karl Gemer. Gemer was living at the time in exile in the United States. Gemer buried Crowley's ashes in a garden located in Hampton, New Jersey. Crowley remains one of the most famous and influential occultists of his era, thought the nature of his legacy remains a controversial topic. - Director
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Aleksandr Evmenenko was born on 28 August 1906 in Gomel, Mogilyov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Gomel oblast, Belarus]. Aleksandr was a director and production designer, known for Kino-Krokodil Nomer 5 (1932), Road to Life (1931) and Diary of a Revolutionist (1932). Aleksandr died on 4 November 1947 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Aleksandr Geirot was born on 20 March 1882. He was an actor, known for Simfoniya lyubvi i smerti (1914), Men and Jobs (1932) and Dikaya sila (1916). He died on 8 February 1947.
- Alex Yokel was born in 1886. Alex was a producer, known for Skinny, School and Scandal (1919), Secret S'ciety (1919) and Fire, Fire (1919). Alex died on 27 November 1947.
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Alexander Esway was born on 20 January 1898 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a director and writer, known for Taxi for Two (1929), The Lady with the Mask (1928) and Bad Seed (1934). He died on 23 August 1947 in Saint-Tropez, Var, France.- Actor
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Alexander Leftwich was born on 24 December 1884 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Marihuana (1936), Swing It, Sailor! (1938) and Prison Train (1938). He was married to Elizabeth L. Arment, Natalie Parker Ewing and Florence Cecilia Tiers. He died on 13 January 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Alfred Allen was born on 8 April 1866 in Alfred, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for An Old Fashioned Boy (1920), The Price of a Good Time (1917) and Burning Daylight (1920). He died on 18 June 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Alfred Hewston was born on 12 September 1882 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for A Texas Cowboy (1929), The Mysterious Airman (1928) and Roaring Guns (1927). He was married to Ollie Haywood. He died on 6 September 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Alfred Schlesinger was born on 6 June 1872 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republik]. He was an actor, known for Horské volání S.O.S. (1929), Válecné tajnosti prazské (1926) and Krásná vyzvedacka (1928). He died on 17 September 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Alfred Webster was an actor, known for Back Door to Heaven (1939). He died on 12 October 1947.
- Algot Persson was born on 19 February 1884 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for The Investigating Magistrate (1911) and Värmländingarna (1910). He died on 16 March 1947 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Alice Fischer was born on 16 January 1863 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for National Red Cross Pageant (1917) and Animated Weekly, No. 55 (1913). She was married to William Harcourt. She died on 25 June 1947 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Alice MacGowan was born on 10 December 1858 in Perrsyburg, Ohio, USA. She was a writer, known for Twenty-One (1923), Judith of the Cumberlands (1916) and The Best Man's Bride (1916). She died on 10 March 1947 in Los Gatos, California, USA.
- Alma Bodén was born on 27 June 1859 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Hemliga Svensson (1933). She died on 1 December 1947 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Actress
Alma Travers was an actress. She died on 20 January 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Amelia Gardner was born on 4 September 1866 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Lure of Ambition (1919). She was married to Henry J. West (actor). She died on 11 January 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- Composer
- Soundtrack
André Sablon was born on 22 May 1896 in Paris, France. He was a composer, known for Un chien qui rapporte (1932), Polish Jew (1931) and Béatrice devant le désir (1944). He was married to Germaine Dauriac and Myriam Ranglet-Josselin. He died on 9 August 1947 in Paris, France.- Anna Baranics was born on 26 July 1897 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for A vadorzó (1918), A medikus (1918) and A vasgyáros (1917). She died on 10 November 1947 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Director
- Actress
- Writer
Anna Hofman-Uddgren was born on 23 February 1868 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was a director and actress, known for Fröken Julie (1912), Stockholmsfrestelser eller Ett Norrlands-herrskaps äventyr i den sköna synderskans stad (1911) and Blott en dröm (1911). She died on 1 June 1947.- Anna Rápolthy was born on 5 July 1909 in Kisvárda, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Miss President (1935). She died on 2 July 1947 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Famous as the "Woman in Red", Ana Cumpanas aka Anna Sage reached the status of cultural icon in the United States in the years following John Dillinger(1903-1934)'s death, because she assisted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in tracking down the 'Public Enemy No.1' at the Biograph Theatre in Chicago, USA where he was killed on July 22, 1934 after having seen Manhattan Melodrama (1934). Ana Cumpanas was a native of Comlosu Mare, a village of Banat (then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Timis County, Romania). She married in 1909 and the couple moved to the United States. They had a son, but their marriage did not last and by the end of the decade, Cumpanas was working as a prostitute, and later became a madam. She opened a brothel on Halsted Street in Chicago. By 1934, Cumpanas was facing deportation to Romania, after the authorities deemed her to be "of low moral character". On July 4, 1934, John Dillinger began frequenting Cumpanas and her circle of friends. Cumpanas was reportedly close to Polly Hamilton, who was Dillinger's lover. Once Cumpanas became aware of Dillinger's real identity, she considered turning him in as a way of obtaining permanent US residence and getting a large reward that had been offered for his capture. On July 22, after contacting the FBI through the Chicago Police, Cumpanas identified Dillinger to the FBI agent Melvin Purvis, resulting in Dillinger's shooting outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago. Despite the famous nickname "Woman in Red" and her alleged promise to wear red as a distinctive mark, Cumpanas is said to have actually worn orange that night. She received a US$ 5,000 reward, only half of what she had been allegedly promised, and still had to leave the United States in 1936. She lived then in Timisoara, Romania (close to where she was born) an ordinary life until her death from liver disease in 1947.
- Anne Gee was born on 9 September 1919 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Pilgrim's Progress (1939), Bar aux Folies-Bergère (1938) and The Immortal Hour (1939). She was married to Harry Dexter Lyon. She died on 30 December 1947 in Sloley, Norfolk, England, UK.
- Anton Danilo Cerar was born on 15 July 1858 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He was an actor, known for Triglavske strmine (1932). He died on 23 April 1947 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Arthur B. Allen was born on 8 April 1881 in Gowanda, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Our Town (1940) and Rangers of Fortune (1940). He died on 25 August 1947 in Hempstead, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Arthur Chatterdon was born in 1885. He was an actor, known for Her Aviator (1918). He died on 9 October 1947 in Absecon, New Jersey, USA.
- Sound Department
- Editor
- Editorial Department
Arthur Johns was born on 30 October 1889 in Kansas, USA. He was an editor, known for The Stranger (1946), And Then There Were None (1945) and The Dark Mirror (1946). He died on 4 September 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Arthur Loft was born on 25 May 1897 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for The Woman in the Window (1944), Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944) and Should a Girl Marry? (1939). He was married to Daisy Loft. He died on 1 January 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Arthur Machen was born on 3 March 1863 in Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales. Arthur died on 15 December 1947 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England.
- Writer
- Music Department
- Director
Arthur Mertz was born on 7 March 1885 in Southport, Lancashire, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for Off the Dole (1935), Home Sweet Home (1945) and The Penny Pool (1937). He died on 22 March 1947 in Manchester, England, UK.- Arthur Rankin was born on 30 August 1895 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for To Have and to Hold (1922), The Great Adventure (1921) and The Truth About Husbands (1920). He was married to Marian Mansfield and Mignon Audrey Klemm. He died on 23 March 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Production Manager
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Arthur Rose was born on 14 January 1882. He was a production manager and assistant director, known for Beautiful But Dumb (1928) and Faithful in My Fashion (1946). He died on 26 August 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.