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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart grew up in Salzburg under the regulation of his strict father Leopold who also was a famous composer of his time. His abilities in music were obvious even when Mozart was still young so that in 1762 at the age of six, his father took him with his elder sister on a concert tour to Munich and Vienna and a second one from 1763-66 through the south of Germany, Paris and London. Mozart was celebrated as a wonder child everywhere because of his excellent piano playing and his improvisations.
In 1769 he became the concertmaster of the Archbishop and was knighted by the Pope in Rome. Working in Salzburg he nevertheless travelled around Europe to meet other composers and orchestras. But in 1781 after a dispute with the Archbishop he left Salzburg and went to Vienna where he married Constanze Weber from Mannheim. In Vienna he also started his friendship with Joseph Haydn and a time of many work pieces. In the last year of his life, for example, he wrote one of his masterpieces, "Die Zauberflöte". Although some of his operas were successful he could not make money from this and died in poverty at the age of 36, having even on his last day worked on a "Requiem". He was buried in a communal grave which could not be precisely identified years later.- Friedrich Wilhelm von Schelling was born on 27 January 1775 in Leonberg, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Hölderlin-Comics (1994). He died on 20 August 1854 in Ragaz, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
- Heinrich Wilken was born on 27 January 1835. Heinrich was a writer, known for Kyritz - Pyritz (1931). Heinrich died on 21 May 1886 in Berlin, Germany.
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin was born on 27 January 1826 in Spas-Ugol, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire [now Moscow Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for House of Greed (1934), Poshekhonskaya starina (1977) and Ono (1990). He died on 10 May 1889 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia].
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Edouard Lalo was born on 27 January 1823 in Lille, France. He was a composer, known for Wings (1927), The Lisbon Story (1946) and Accord final (1938). He died on 22 April 1892 in Paris, France.- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born on 27 January 1836 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austrian Empire [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Venus in Fur (2013), Venus in Furs (2012) and Venus in Furs (1994). He was married to Wanda Aurora von Rümelin. He died on 9 March 1895 in Lindheim, Hesse, Germany.
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Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson, author of the children's classics "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass."
Born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire, England, Charles Dodgson wrote and created games as a child. At age 20 he received a studentship at Christ Church and was appointed a lecturer in mathematics. Dodgson was shy but enjoyed creating stories for children. His books including "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" were published under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Dodgson died in 1898.
Early Life, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, best known by his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll, was born in the village of Daresbury, England, on January 27, 1832. The eldest boy in a family of 11 children, Carroll was rather adept at entertaining himself and his siblings. His father, a clergyman, raised them in the rectory. As a boy, Carroll excelled in mathematics and won many academic prizes. At age 20, he was awarded a studentship (called a scholarship in other colleges) to Christ College. Apart from serving as a lecturer in mathematics, he was an avid photographer and wrote essays, political pamphlets and poetry. "The Hunting of the Snark" displays his wonderful ability in the genre of literary nonsense.
Alice and Literary Success, Carroll suffered from a bad stammer, but he found himself vocally fluent when speaking with children. The relationships he had with young people in his adult years are of great interest, as they undoubtedly inspired his best-known writings and have been a point of disturbed speculation over the years. Carroll loved to entertain children, and it was Alice, the daughter of Henry George Liddell, who can be credited with his pinnacle inspiration. Alice Liddell remembers spending many hours with Carroll, sitting on his couch while he told fantastic tales of dream worlds. During an afternoon picnic with Alice and her two sisters, Carroll told the first iteration of what would later become Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. When Alice arrived home, she exclaimed that he must write the story down for her.
He fulfilled the small girl's request, and through a series of coincidences, the story fell into the hands of the novelist Henry Kingsley, who urged Carroll to publish it. The book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was released in 1865. It gained steady popularity, and as a result, Carroll wrote the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871). By the time of his death, Alice had become the most popular children's book in England, and by 1932 it was one of the most popular in the world.
Photography and Legacy, besides writing, Carroll created a number of fine photographs. His notable portraits include those of the actress Ellen Terry and the poet Alfred Tennyson. He also photographed children in every possible costume and situation, eventually making nude studies of them. Despite conjecture, little real evidence of child abuse can be brought against him. Shortly before his 66th birthday, Lewis Carroll caught a severe case of influenza, which led to pneumonia. He died on January 14, 1898, leaving an enigma behind him.- Manjiro Nakahama was born on 27 January 1827 in Tosashimizu, Japan. He died on 12 November 1898 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Herman Merivale was born on 27 January 1839 in Pancras, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Forget-Me-Not (1917). He was married to Elizabeth Pittman. He died on 14 January 1906 in Suffolk, England, UK.
- Art Department
Josef Israels was born on 27 January 1824 in Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands. He is known for The Bashful Suitor (1921). He died on 12 August 1911 in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands.- E.J. Smith was born on 27 January 1850 in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He was married to Sarah Eleanor Smith. He died on 15 April 1912 in North Atlantic Ocean.
- Cecil Raleigh (born Cecil Rowlands in England on January 27, 1856) was an English dramatist and actor whose plays, primarily melodramas, were quite popular at both ends of the turn of the last century. The son of a physician, he took up acting with the stage name of Raleigh and specialized in musical comedy. He quit acting to write plays, both alone and in collaboration with other well-known dramatists, including Henry Hamilton, Augustus Harris and Seymour Hicks.
Raleigh was married to and divorced Effie Adelaide Rowlands, a novelist, and then married actress Saba Raleigh. He died on November 10, 1914 in London. Many of his plays, such as his famous 1909 melodrama The Whip (1928) (co-written with Hamilton) were made into movies during the silent era. - Lawrence Peyton born in Hartford, Kentucky in 1895. Handsome, wavy haired athletic star of many silent drama, comedy and westerns, first starred at the age of 18 in a short western 'The Range Deadline' made at the Nestor Film Company in 1913, followed with the Majestic Motion Picture Company in 1914, he's perhaps best remembered in the supporting role as Gaspard in 'Joan the Woman' directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Geraldine Farrar for the Paramount Co in 1916, and as James Montague in the comedy/western series 'Buck Parvin' directed by William Bertram and starring Art Acord at the American Film Company in 1915-16, he was last seen in 'Rosalind at Redgate' directed and starred Ruth Stonehouse at Universal released a year after his death, killed in action in France during WW1 he was only 23.
- Rafael Obligado was born on 27 January 1851 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a writer, known for Santos Vega (1917), Nobleza gaucha (1915) and Santos Vega vuelve (1947). He died on 8 March 1920 in Mendoza, Argentina.
- Will Poluski was born on 27 January 1854. He was an actor, known for Mrs. LeTare Lets Apartments (1913) and Picture Palace Piecans (1914). He was married to Harriet ?. He died on 30 December 1923.
- Actress
It seems that Ms. Lawson became somewhat of an entertainer for rich men in the early 1920's. At the time of her murder in 1924, she had not been employed in acting or other legitimate work. It is a shame that a small town girl from Walnut Springs, Texas would end up in such a poor choice of lifestyles.- Writer
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George Randolph Chester is best remembered as the author of "Get Rich Quick Wallingford". Originally a newspaper reporter, Chester first began submitting short stories for publication at the urging of his wife Elizabeth. Mrs. Chester, who at that time was a Cincinnati school teacher, assisted her husband by proof reading his work and taking dictation.
Not long after relocating to New York City, Elizabeth left her husband after accusing him of having an affair with Lillian Hauser (aka Lillian Deremo), a mutual friend who drew illustrations for his stories. On 12 October, 1911 Elizabeth received an interlocutory degree of divorce from Chester. George and Lillian, who at the time were on a tour of Europe, decided to get married after receiving word of the divorce. When Chester returned to America in December, he was shocked to discover that an interlocutory degree of divorce did not become final until 90 days after it was signed, thus technically he was still married to Elizabeth. Later his lawyer informed him that since he and Lillian were married outside the country, it was unlikely any bigamy charges would be laid.
Lillian and George Chester went on to work as a team in New York and in Hollywood until his death in 1924. Chester had credited Lillian for some of the wittier lines that appeared in his later stories. When not working the couple would rarely be found at home but instead off exploring some far corner of the earth.
Of all his stories, the exploits of con men, J. Rufus Wallingford and Blackie Daw remained the most popular and would spawn numerous books, plays and movies.
George Randolph Chester and his first wife had two sons, George Randolph Chester Jr. (1896-1979) and Robert Fay Chester (1904-1975)- Samuel Gompers was born on 27 January 1850 in London, England, UK. He was married to Gertrude Annersly Gleaves Neuscheler and Sophia Julian. He died on 13 December 1924 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Al W. Filson was born on 27 January 1857 in Blufton, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Monte Cristo (1922), Treasure Island (1920) and The Garden of Allah (1916). He was married to Lea Errol. He died on 14 November 1925 in Elsinore, California, USA.
- William Browning was born on 27 January 1871 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Bulldog Drummond (1922), The Fatal Card (1930) and Pulling a Bone (1931). He was married to Anna May Webster and Catherine Elizabeth Pierce (aka Edith Browning, actress). He died on 21 December 1930 in Middle Village, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Stepan Kuznetsov was born on 27 January 1879 in Kishinev, Russian Empire [now Chisinau, Moldova]. He was an actor, known for Kapitanskaya dochka (1928), Man from the Restaurant (1927) and Slesar i kantsler (1924). He died on 18 April 1932 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Dario Niccodemi was born on 27 January 1874 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He was a writer, known for L'ombra (1917), Una sombra en mi destino (1946) and Scampolo (1917). He died on 24 September 1934 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Dorothy Scarborough was born on 27 January 1878 in Mount Carmel, Texas, USA. She was a writer, known for The Wind (1928) and The 100 (2014). She died on 7 November 1935 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
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Rudolf Klein-Rhoden was born on 27 January 1871 in Ober-Gerspitz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno/Horní Herspice, Czech Republic]. He was an actor and director, known for Die Welt des Scheines (1920), Wer war es? (1921) and Ihre zwei Buckligen (1920). He was married to Claire Klein Krona. He died on 5 January 1936 in Lichterfelde, Berlin, Germany.- George Gaston was born on 27 January 1843 in Lockport, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Alma, Where Do You Live? (1917) and The Adventure at Briarcliff (1915). He died on 14 January 1937 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
- Marion Abbott was born on 27 January 1867 in Danville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Backbone (1923) and Tol'able David (1921). She died on 15 January 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Frederick Paulding was born on 27 January 1859 in West Point, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Trooper Billy (1913). He died on 7 September 1937 in Rutherford, New Jersey, USA.
- Alberto Martí was born on 27 January 1894 in San Jose, Costa rica. He was an actor, known for Don Juan Tenorio (1937), The Adventurous Captain (1939) and Every Madman to His Specialty (1939). He was married to Lucy Herrera. He died on 21 March 1939 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
- Campbell McCullough was born on 27 January 1874. He was a writer, known for The Adventures of a Boy Scout (1915), The Fates and Ryan (1914) and The Clause in the Constitution (1915). He died on 6 March 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Popelka Biliánová was born on 27 January 1862 in Králuv Dvur, Bohemia, Austria [now Czech Republic]. Popelka was a writer, known for Do panského stavu (1925), V panském stavu (1927) and Paní Katynka z Vajecného trhu (1929). Popelka died on 7 May 1941 in Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic].
- Kaiser William II was born on January 27, 1859 to a Prince and Princess of Prussia. His mother was the daughter of Queen Victoria. He grew up like any Prussian Prince, except for an arm that was deformed from birth. He admired his grandparents who became Kaiser and Empress when he was small. He also admired his English Grandmother Queen Victoria as well as Otto von Bismarck. During his formative years he had to deal with having brothers and sisters. His brother Henry even got married to their cousin Irene (their Aunt Alice's daughter). Because of the attention his parents gave to his arm he grew to detest them.
When William was in his late teens he fell in love with his cousin (the daughter of his Aunt Alice) but she did not love him and got married to Grand Duke Serge of Russia. A few years later he got married to a granddaughter of his grandmother's half-sister. They had several children. In 1888 when his father died he raided his desk to find anything that may have incriminated his father in something, but all that was found was papers about how bad he had been in his life. He was with his grandmother Queen Victoria when she died in 1901. Later that year he lost his mother as well. He did the same thing to his mother that he did with his father with the same results. Vickie had given all her papers to the British ambassador to Berlin a few days before she died.
After his mother died he continued to rule Germany in a back handed manner, and did not like the fact that his Uncle Edward was more powerful than he was. He did not like the fact that he was part of starting World War One because it pitted him against cousins, aunts, and uncles all over Europe and the Americas. His response to his cousin changing their last name to Windsor was that he would like to see the Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha. After the war he had to give up his throne and he went to the Netherlands, where after the death of his first wife he married a second. He stayed married to his second wife till he died at the age of 82 in 1941. - Director
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Cheslav Sabinsky was born on 27 January 1885 in the Russian Empire. He was a director and production designer, known for The Busy Inn (1916), Zhivoy trup (1918) and Drama na okhote (1918). He died on 11 June 1941 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].- Lous van Korlaar-van Dam was born on 27 January 1856 in Heidelberg, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]. She was an actress, known for De duivel (1918). She died on 5 July 1941 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
- Neel Doff is the author of several autobiographical based books, her most famous one being 'Days of Hunger and Distress'. A full bibliography can be found in "Neel Doff 1858-1942 - A Biography" by Évelyne Wilwerth and translated by Renée Linkhorn. Neel Doff climbed her way out from underneath a crushing poverty and elevated herself to become a socialite in the highest artistic and political circles of late 19th early 20th century Belgium. In her stately home in Antwerp, while battling a bad cold, at age 52, she grabbed paper and poured her sorrow down on them until she ran out of tales to tell. Just for the moment. This was her first book, which was written in French, her adoptive language. Neel Doff, She married Georges Serigiers, a prominent lawyer and social activist on 4 May 1901.
- Although Frank Nitti has gotten the reputation over the years as the right-hand man of gangster Al Capone and a feared killer in his own right, this has actually proven not to be the case. Although Nitti and Capone were as youths in New York City both members of the Five Points Gang--one of the most notorious of the city's many violent street gangs at the turn of the century--they apparently were in the gang at different times and didn't know each other. It wasn't until Nitti later moved to Chicago, where Capone was already established as a major gangland figure, that the two became acquainted. Nitti ran a barber shop from where he peddled bootleg liquor and where various denizens of the neighborhood would fence stolen property. He had a knack for smuggling whiskey from Canada to Chicago and distributing it throughout the city, a talent that brought him to Capone's attention. He was subsequently brought into the Capone mob, where he did indeed become "Big Al's" right-hand man. When Capone went to prison for income-tax evasion in 1929, Nitti was installed as head of the Capone mob by Paul "The Waiter" Ricca, who was the real power in Chicago's gangland hierarchy. Nitti's position was solely as a frontman, to take the spotlight off Ricca and the other gangsters who actually ran things; he had no real power and his "orders" were usually countermanded by Ricca, who--unlike Nitti--was a member of the Commission, a "board of directors" of Mafia crime families.
Nitti did manage to get into trouble on his own, though. In late December of 1932 he had a run-in with a gangster named Ted Newberry, who was running what used to be the George Moran (aka "Bugs" Moran) / Charles Dion O'Bannion gang. Newberry, it was rumored, had Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak on his payroll and vowed to get Nitti. Shortly afterward two Chicago detectives showed up at Nitti's office, sent there by Cermak to arrest him, and a few minutes later a gunfight erupted, during which one of the detectives was shot in the hand and Nitti himself was badly wounded and almost died; he spent several months in the hospital. When he recovered he was put on trial for the attempted murder of the officers. However, at the trial it came out that the detectives had been paid to assassinate Nitti, although it wasn't determined by whom, and that the officer who was shot had actually deliberately shot himself in the hand so as to provide an excuse to kill Nitti, who was in fact unarmed. He was acquitted of the charges.
In 1943 two Chicago mobsters were indicted for labor racketeering in a scheme to take over several Hollywood labor unions and extort money from the movie studios in exchange for labor peace. They were tried and found guilty, but instead of going to prison they made a deal to inform on their gangland bosses, among whom were Nitti and Ricca, who were soon indicted. Ricca and the other mobsters ordered Nitti to take the blame for the scheme, since the two gangsters who turned on them were Nitti's men. Nitti, who had served 18 months in prison in the early 1930s for income tax evasion, was extremely claustrophobic and the thought of spending several years in a small prison cell was too much for him to bear. He refused the order to take the rap for them all, and a violent argument ensued between Nitti and the other gangsters. The next day Nitti went for a walk along the railroad tracks near his home, and as several railroad employees working nearby were looking at him, he pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head. - Actor
- Director
Paavo Kostioja was born on 27 January 1891 in Nurmijärvi, Finland. He was an actor and director, known for Laivan kannella (1938), Nuori luotsi (1927) and Kahden tanssin välillä (1930). He died on 31 July 1943 in Helsinki, Finland.- Writer
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Zsolt Harsányi was born on 27 January 1887 in Korompa, Hungary. He was a writer and actor, known for Az utolsó bohém (1913), Boy, the Noszty (1938) and Kacagó asszony (1930). He was married to Vidor, Ilonka. He died on 29 November 1943 in Budapest, Hungary.- Music Department
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Will Marion Cook was born on 27 January 1869 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Will Marion is known for The Broken Tower (2011). Will Marion died on 19 July 1944 in New York City, New York, USA.- Music Department
- Composer
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Jerome David Kern was born in 1885. He began his stage career grafting American songs (for which he wrote the music) into imported European operettas. His breakthrough came with the song "They Didn't Believe Me", written (with lyrics by Edward Laska) for a show called "The Girl from Utah". It established him as a major American composer in 1914. Married to a Englishwoman, Kern became an Anglophile, and teamed up with British writers Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse to write the so-called "Princess Theatre musicals"--shows like "Very Good, Eddie" and "Leave It To Jane", which were unusual not so much for their silly storylines but for the fact that the characters were everyday people rather than the exotic characters of operetta, and also for the fact that these shows had few sets and small casts. He later wrote shows like "Sally" and "Sunny", both loaded with song hits, star casts and spectacular sets but silly plots. Finally, looking for an entirely different type of musical, Kern decided to adapt Edna Ferber's novel "Show Boat" to the musical stage. Although Oscar Hammerstein II agreed to do the adaptation and lyrics, nearly everyone (including Ferber) thought Kern and Hammerstein had lost their minds. "Show Boat"'s storyline featured interracial marriage, wife desertion, alcoholism and gambling, and the most realistic characters ever seen in a musical up to then, not to mention the song "Ol' Man River" and an opening chorus of black dockworkers singing about their work. Most of the songs were integrated so well into the story that they could not possibly have been sung in another show or taken out of "Show Boat" without damaging the plot. And "Show Boat" featured a song, "Mis'ry's Comin' Round", which was so utterly tragic that Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. ordered it cut--and it remained cut, existing only as background music, until the 1994 revival. In spite of all this, "Show Boat" became a huge hit and has remained one of the musical theater's greatest classics and most often revived shows--the only musical pre-1943 to be revived over and over. Kern, however, did not experiment any further--his other hit shows, "Music In The Air", "Roberta" and "The Cat and the Fiddle", contain classic songs that are still sung, but the shows are almost never revived. After a heart attack in 1939, Kern wrote songs exclusively for movie musicals. Two of his movie musicals, Swing Time (1936) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and Cover Girl (1944) with Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly, have become famous for their songs and dances. Kern died of a stroke at the age of 60, in 1945.- Devi Mukherjee was born on 27 January 1916 in Chapra, Bihar, India. He was an actor, known for Hamrahi (1944), Udayer Pathey (1944) and Bhabhi Kaal (1945). He was married to Sumitra Devi. He died on 10 December 1947 in Calcutta, Bengal, British India.
- Harry Frankel was born on 27 January 1888 in Richmond, Indiana, USA. He died on 12 June 1948 in Richmond, Indiana, USA.
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Reimar Kuntze was born on 27 January 1900 in Berlin, Germany. He was a cinematographer, known for The Gala Performance (1932), Carmen (la de Triana) (1938) and Kaiserwalzer (1933). He died on 18 August 1949 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Leon Frapie was born on 27 January 1863 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for La maternelle (1933), La maternelle (1925) and La maternelle (1949). He died on 29 September 1949 in Paris, France.
- Otto F. Henning was born on 27 January 1884 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. He was an actor, known for Two Friends (1938), Pedro soll hängen (1941) and Jud Süß (1940). He died on 21 February 1950 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.
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Prolific songwriter ("April Showers", "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Look for the Silver Lining", "California, Here I Come"), composer, producer, publisher and author, educated at USC. He wrote songs for the Broadway musicals "Sinbad", "Sally", "The Perfect Fool", "The French Doll", and the 1918 and 1921 editions of the Ziegfeld Follies. In 1925, he joined Lew Brown and Ray Henderson as a songwriting and music publishing team.
His Broadway stage scores include "La La Lucille", "Bombo", "Orange Blossoms", "The Yankee Princess", and "George White's Scandals" (1922 through 1926, and 1928), "Big Boy", "Sweet Little Devil", "Tell Me More", "Captain Jinks", and "Manhattan Mary". He also was co-librettist for "Good News", "Hold Everything", "Three Cheers", "Follow Through", "Flying High", and "Take A Chance" (the latter of which he also co-produced). He also was producer and co-librettist for the Broadway musicals "DuBarry Was a Lady" and "Panama Hattie", and produced "Louisiana Purchase".
In 1929, he sold the publishing firm and went to Hollywood under contract to Fox, eventually becoming a co-producer at Paramount (1941-1944). His film biography was given the title of his song "The Best Things in Life Are Free". Joining ASCAP in 1920 (he served as an ASCAP director between 1922 and 1930), he collaborated musically with Gus Kahn, Al Jolson, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Vincent Rose, Louis Silvers, Joseph Meyer, Victor Herbert, Emmerich Kálmán, Ira Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald, Lewis E. Gensler, James F. Hanley, Nacio Herb Brown, Richard A. Whiting, and Vincent Youmans.
His other popular-song compositions include:- "'N' Everything",
- "I'll Say She Does",
- "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet",
- "Yoo-Hoo",
- "Memory Lane",
- "Why Do I Love You?",
- "Whip-poor-will",
- "Avalon",
- "In Arcady",
- "A Kiss in the Dark",
- "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise",
- "Do It Again",
- "I Won't Say I Will but I Won't Say I Won't",
- "Somebody Loves Me",
- "Keep Smiling at Trouble",
- "Hello, 'Tucky",
- "If You Knew Susie",
- "Just a Cottage Small by a Waterfall",
- "Alabamy Bound",
- "Tell Me More",
- "Kickin' the Clouds Away",
- "My Fair Lady",
- "When Day is Done",
- "Lucky Day",
- "Birth of the Blues",
- "Black Bottom",
- "It All Depends on You",
- "The Best Things in Life Are Free",
- "Good News",
- "The Varsity Drag",
- "Just Imagine",
- "Lucky In Love",
- "Broken Hearted",
- "Just a Memory",
- "So Blue",
- "I'm on the Crest of a Wave",
- "You're the Cream in My Coffee",
- "You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You?",
- "Sonny Boy",
- "Together",
- "My Sin",
- "I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All?",
- "Sunny Side Up",
- "If I Had a Talking Picture of You",
- "Little Pal",
- "Without Love",
- "Thank Your Father",
- "Red Hot Chicago",
- "You Try Somebody Else",
- "Eadie Was a Lady",
- "My Lover",
- "I Want to Be With You",
- "Oh, How I Long to Belong to You",
- "Rise 'n Shine",
- "You're an Old Smoothie",
- "Should I Be Sweet?",
- "Gather Lip Rouge While You May",
- "Polly Wolly Doodle",
- "Wishing".
- Pavel Bazhov was born on 27 January 1879. He was a writer, known for The Stone Flower (1946), Stepanova pamyatka (1977) and Jackanory (1965). He died on 3 December 1950.
- Frank MacQuarrie was born on 27 January 1875 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Black Box (1915), The Voice on the Wire (1917) and A Stormy Knight (1917). He died on 25 December 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Karel Lamac was born on 27 January 1897 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He was a director and actor, known for Wo die Lerche singt (1936), Svejk na fronte (1926) and Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du (1930). He was married to Anny Ondra. He died on 2 August 1952 in Hamburg, Germany.- Composer
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Eduard Künneke was born on 27 January 1885 in Emmerich am Rhein, Germany. He was a composer and writer, known for Hochzeit mit Erika (1950), Bon Voyage (1933) and The Trip to Youth (1935). He died on 27 October 1953 in Berlin, Germany.- Jazz musician, blues vocalist and band leader Hot Lips Page (born Oran Page on January 27, 1908, in Dallas, TX) was much influenced and often overshadowed by Louis Armstrong. Page specialized on the trumpet from the age of 12. He first toured the vaudeville circuit with Ma Rainey, after a spell of manual labour in the Seminole oilfields in Texas. He joined Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1928 and, two years later, Bennie Moten. Building a reputation as a powerful lead trumpeter, Page remained with Moten for the next five years, then led a quintet in Kansas City. The improvisation in his playing continued to be based on the swing and blues riffs perfected as a soloist under Moten and, subsequently, Count Basie (who had assumed leadership of Moten's band following the latter's death in April 1935).
Page eventually moved to New York, organizing his own big band in August 1937, with residency at the Plantation Club. He briefly worked with Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, 1941-42, before forming another band in 1944, recording for Commodore and Savoy. Until 1949, he led a smaller outfit, which had engagements at several top spots, including the Famous Door, the Savoy in Boston and at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago. He also occasionally worked as a single act, or as accompanist for singers like Ethel Waters. Page toured Europe extensively between 1949-52. Back in New York in 1953, he returned to work as a freelance musician. A year later he suffered a heart attack and died in New York's Harlem Hospital at the age of just 46.
Page is perhaps best remembered for his excellent recordings of "St. James Infirmary" for Artie Shaw, and for the hit single "The Hucklebuck" and "Baby, It's Cold Outside" for Pearl Bailey.