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Henri Murger was born on 27 March 1822 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for La Bohème (1926), The Bohemian Life (1992) and La Bohème (2010). He died on 28 January 1861 in Paris, France.- Adolf Glasbrenner was born on 27 March 1810 in Berlin, Prussia [now Germany]. He was a writer, known for Altberliner Possenabend: Die Menagerie (1961), Altberliner Possenabend: Der Heiratsantrag (1961) and 'Ne scheene jejend is det hier (1981). He was married to Adele Peroni. He died on 25 September 1876 in Berlin, Germany.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Ruperto Chapí was born on 27 March 1851 in Villena, Alicante, Spain. He was a composer, known for Teatro Apolo (1950), De Madrid al cielo (1952) and La danza del corazón (1953). He was married to Vicenta Selva Alvarez. He died on 25 March 1909 in Madrid, Spain.- Actor
- Director
Robert Drouet was born on 27 March 1870 in Clinton, Iowa, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Gambler of the West (1915), The Two Fathers (1913) and Beverly of Graustark (1914). He was married to Mildred Loring (actress). He died on 17 August 1914 in New York City, New York, USA.- Dorrit Weixler was born on 27 March 1892 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Das rosa Pantöffelchen (1913), Die das Glück narrt (1913) and Todesrauschen (1914). She died on 30 November 1916 in Berlin, Germany.
- Eugene Botkin was born on 27 March 1865 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was an actor, known for Vanishings! (2001), History Extra podcast (2007) and Les revues du monde (2014). He was married to Olga Botkina. He died on 17 July 1918 in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
- A.H. Busby was born on 27 March 1876 in Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for The River of Romance (1916), Under Southern Skies (1915) and When Rome Ruled (1914). He died on 13 March 1922 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Actor
- Director
Billy Quirk was born on 27 March 1873 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Algie, the Miner (1912), The Man Worthwhile (1921) and The Maverick (1912). He was married to Patsy Jane Holcomb. He died on 20 April 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Miller Huggins was born on 27 March 1879 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He died on 25 September 1929 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Marcel Salzer was born on 27 March 1873 in St. Johann/March, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Das Mädchen mit den fünf Nullen (1927). He died on 17 March 1930 in Berlin, Germany.
- Anton-Zako Çajupi was born on 27 March 1866 in Sheper in the Zagoria, Southalbania. He was a writer, known for A Tale from the Past (1987). He was married to Eugenia. He died on 11 June 1930 in Cairo, Egypt.
- William Pigott was born on 27 March 1875 in England. He was a writer, known for The Price of Silence (1917), The End of the Road (1915) and The Girl o' Dreams (1918). He died on 8 October 1930 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Otto Matieson was born on 27 March 1893 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for The Maltese Falcon (1931), Behind Closed Doors (1929) and Scaramouche (1923). He was married to Isabel La Mal. He died on 19 February 1932 in Safford, Arizona, USA.
- Tilli Bébé was born on 27 March 1879 in Perchtoldsdorf, Vienna , Austria. She was an actress, known for Wenn das Herz in Haß erglüht (1917), Die graue Frau von Alençon (1919) and Der weiße Schrecken (1917). She died on 11 April 1932 in Vienna, Austria.
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The 1926 publication of "Topper" brought writer Thorne Smith immediate acclaim. A sophisticated spoof of middle-class manners and morals, it chronicles the madcap adventures of Cosmo Topper, a mild-mannered bank executive who is rescued from his drab "summer of suburban Sundays" by fun-loving ghosts George and Marion Kerby. A sequel, "Topper Takes a Trip" (1932), records the further ribald escapades of Topper and the Kerbys on the French Riviera. The improbable trio went on to inspire several movies, notably the 1937 film Topper (1937) starring Cary Grant and Constance Bennett, as well as a hit television series Topper (1953)). Following the success of "Topper", Smith enhanced his reputation with a number of clever fantasies. "The Stray Lamb" (1929) features a Topper-like hero whose complacent life is upset when he is transformed into an assortment of animals. In "The Night Life of the Gods" (1931) Smith captivated readers with the nocturnal antics of an oddball inventor who cavorts around Manhattan with reincarnated Greek and Roman deities, and in "Turnabout" (1931) he offered up a screwball comedy about a jaded husband and wife who temporarily switch identities. "Rain in the Doorway" (1933) transports a harassed lawyer from the gloom of the Depression through a portal into a department store tinged with The Marx Brothers lunacy, and "Skin and Bones" (1933) tells of a fashionable photographer who becomes a nearly invisible skeleton at the most inopportune moments. "Did She Fall?", Smith's one mystery, came out in 1930. During this period Smith also wrote "Lazy Bear Lane" (1931), a children's novel, and "The Bishop's Jaegers" (1932), a metaphorical tale about chance-met passengers on a lost ferry boat who find unexpected sanctuary in a nudist colony. "The Glorious Pool" (1934), in which a group of aging hedonists happen upon the fountain of youth, was the last fantasy Smith completed. While vacationing in Florida with his wife and two young daughters, Smith died suddenly of a heart attack on June 21, 1934. His unfinished novel, "The Passionate Witch", was published posthumously in 1941 and adapted for the screen the following year by director René Clair as I Married a Witch (1942), starring Veronica Lake and Fredric March. It was not, as often claimed, the inspiration for the long-running television series Bewitched (1964) with Elizabeth Montgomery.
As recently as 1997 The New York Times rated Smith "one of America's most significant humorous writers" and credited his mischievous ghosts with inspiring such movies as The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Beetlejuice (1988), Ghost (1990), Always (1989) and A Life Less Ordinary (1997).- Sergey Kirov was born on 27 March 1886 in Urzhum, Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kirov Oblast, Russia]. He died on 1 December 1934 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].
- Richard Jensen was born on 27 March 1883 in Denmark. He was an actor, known for The Isle of the Dead (1913), Den sorte Varieté (1913) and Paa Dødens Tærskel (1913). He died on 20 October 1935.
- Adolphus Greely was born on 27 March 1844 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 20 October 1935 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Ford West was born on 27 March 1873 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Fighting Fate (1921), The Broadway Gallant (1926) and King of the Wild Horses (1933). He was married to May Milloy. He died on 3 January 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Paul McCullough was born on 27 March 1883 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Music Fiends (1929), The Diplomats (1929) and The Medicine Men (1929). He was married to Rae E. Carpenter. He died on 25 March 1936 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.- Marie Harder was born on 27 March 1898 in Province of Schleswig-Holstein. She was a director, known for Bookkeeper Kremke (1930). She died on 26 March 1936 in near Popocatépetl, Puebla, Mexico.
- Alma Tell was born on 27 March 1898 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Saturday's Children (1929), Broadway Rose (1922) and On with the Dance (1920). She was married to Stanley Blystone. She died on 29 December 1937 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Hal Kemp was born on 27 March 1905 in Marion, Alabama, USA. He was an actor, known for Small Time Crooks (2000), Radio City Revels (1938) and His College Chums (1929). He was married to Martha Stephenson Kemp and Bessie Slaughter. He died on 21 December 1940 in Madera, California, USA.- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Coming from a Mormon family in Utah, James Cruze was reportedly part Ute Indian. He worked as a fisherman to pay his way through drama school. Among his former wives were actresses Betty Compson (also from Utah) and Marguerite Snow. He was also married to Alberta McCoy (died on July 7, 1960), who is interred in the Columbarium at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (unmarked). Many of the films Cruze directed in the 1920s and 1930s have been lost. He directed a large variety of films, from Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle slapstick two-reelers to suspense thrillers to big-budget epics. In 1929 he appeared before a grand jury in Los Angeles that was investigating an accident on one of his films in which one man was killed and others were injured, one of many run-ins Cruze had with the law. He used the name Cruze on screen, but in real life remained James Bosen.- Cinematographer
Maxwell Held was born on 27 March 1871 in Rochester, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Lights of New York (1916) and Love's Law (1917). He was married to Nellie McCoy. He died on 21 November 1942 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.- Clarence Arper was born on 27 March 1864 in Gilroy, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Jinx (1919), The Woman Who Dared (1916) and The Unwritten Law (1916). He died on 13 July 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Additional Crew
Jerry Lynton was born on 27 March 1888 in England. Jerry died on 22 November 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
- Production Manager
Mrs. Medill McCormick was born on 27 March 1880 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress and production manager, known for Your Girl and Mine: A Woman Suffrage Play (1914) and Helen's Stratagem (1913). She died on 31 December 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Johan Gildemeijer was born on 27 March 1871 in Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was a director and writer, known for Koningin Elisabeth's dochter (1915), Gloria Fatalis (1922) and Een danstragedie (1916). He died on 31 January 1945 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.- Music Department
- Additional Crew
Richárd Fricsay was born on 27 March 1867 in Kremsier, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Kromeriz, Czech Republic]. He is known for Petöfi (1922), Rakoczi March (1933) and A vén gazember (1932). He died on 16 March 1945 in Budapest, Hungary.- David Clyde was born on 27 March 1885 in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Suzy (1936), Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938) and The Scarlet Claw (1944). He was married to Fay Holden. He died on 17 May 1945 in San Fernando Valley, California, USA.
- Joseph Lang was born on 27 March 1879 in Littau, Kanton Luzern, Switzerland. Joseph was a producer, known for Frühlingsmanöver (1917), Enfin seul (1917) and La frontière est occupée (1917). Joseph died on 13 May 1946 in Zürich, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland.
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Patty S. Hill was born on 27 March 1868 in Anchorage, Kentucky, USA. Patty S. died on 25 May 1946 in New York City, New York, USA.- Art Department
Walter Cooper was born on 27 March 1897 in Utah, USA. Walter died on 26 September 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Barney Gilmore was born on 27 March 1865 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Fight for Millions (1913), The Game of Three (1915) and Kelly from the Emerald Isle (1913). He was married to Mina B. Long. He died on 19 April 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Art Director
- Art Department
- Production Designer
Edward M. Langley was born on 27 March 1870. Edward M. was an art director and production designer, known for When the Clouds Roll by (1919), The Black Pirate (1926) and The Nut (1921). Edward M. died on 11 May 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
- Actor
Heinrich Mann, German novelist and the elder brother of Nobel-Prize winner Thomas Mann, is most famous in the English-speaking world for his novel "Professor Unrat" that was turned into the successful 1930 movie "Der Blaue Engel" ("The Blue Angel"). Mann once enjoyed a considerable reputation in German literary circles, but many of his novels and practically all of his essays are unknown to most anglophones as they remain untranslated. He remains of interest as his work details a people enculturated under an authoritarian regime in their struggle to achieve and sustain democracy.
Mann was born in Lübeck on March 27, 1871, the first child of Senator Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and his wife Julia da Silva-Bruhns. Descended from grain merchants and born into the patrician class, Mann started his writing career as an essayist with a determinedly conservative point of view. Eventually, he evolved into a well-known proponent of democracy and socialism.
Mann's education consisted of attendance at a private preparatory school until 1889. Leaving school, he went to work as an apprentice for a Dresden bookseller, but failed at the job. He moved to Berlin in 1891, where he became a published writer. In 1892, he contracted tuberculosis and was cared for in a Swiss sanatorium. Mann, who published his first novel in 1893, became financially independent upon the death of his father.
The next year, Mann moved from Berlin to Munich along with his mother and the rest of the family, and took the post of editor of "Das zwanzigste Jahrhundert." Mann preferred living in France and Italy to Germany, and he spent most of his time in those two countries until the outbreak of World War I.
His early novels were social satires of the German bourgeoisie that showed the society's resistance to democratic ideals. In 1904, he published the novel he is most famous for, "Professor Unrat" ("Professor Garbage"), which details the moral, social and physical decay of a pompous prep school teacher romantically obsessed with a nightclub singer. Josef von Sternberg's 1930 German- and English-language movies based on the novel, "Der Blaue Engel" and "The Blue Angel," made a star out of Marlene Dietrich, who played the bewitching chanteuse Lola Lola.
Mann's 1912 novel "Der Untertan" ("The Patrioteer") features an amoral, manipulative and opportunistic businessman, Diederich Hessling, who uses patriotism to get ahead and winds up as a simulacrum of the Kaiser. An indictment of the militarism and nationalism of prewar Prussia, it was banned by the German government during World War I. Mann used a gallery of grotesques to elucidate the moral weakness and the lack of personal responsibility of the bourgeoisie under the German Empire of Kaiser Wilhelm II. As a youth who bullies the sole Jew in his school, Hessling believed "[h]e was acting on behalf of the whole Christian community of Netzig. How splendid it was to share responsibility, and to be a part of a collective consciousness."
Mann's essay on the great French naturalist novelist "Zola" (1915), satirized Germany and Prussian militarism and blamed World War I on capitalist exploitation and the plutocracy. "Zola" disrupted Mann's relationship with his brother Thomas, who at that time was more conservative than Heinrich. Thomas Mann supported Germany's participation in World War I, and he wrote his own essay in 1918 that directly attacked Heinrich. Thomas Mann's contemporaneous credo was that an artist should be independent and not dabble in politics. The estrangement between the brothers proved only temporary, and eventually, the four years-younger Thomas came to support many of Heinrich's opinions.
As he progressed as a novelist, Mann became firmly committed to the idea of the didactic power of art. He dedicated himself during and after the post war revolutionary period of 1918-19 to teaching Germany about democratic values through his writing. He became popular during the Weimar Republic when the ban on "Der Untertan" was lifted in 1918, and it was republished to great acclaim. The novel, plus "Die Armen" ("The Poor") in 1917, and "Der Kopf" ("The Chief") in 1925, make up Mann's "Das Kaiserreich" ("The Empire") trilogy.
The Prussian Government appointed Mann to the Academy of Arts in Berlin, and in 1931, he was elected the Poetry Section president. In 1933, Mann published "Der Hass" ("Hate"), a novel with the premise that the hate perpetrated by fascism would trigger the Gotterdammerung of civilization. After the Nazis solidified power, he was removed from his post and declared persona non grata due to his novels criticizing German authoritarianism, militarism, and nationalism.
Mann went into exile, first in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and then in Nice, France. While living on the Côte d'Azur, Mann wrote a novel based on French King Henry IV, a promoter of tolerance. It was this king, known as "Henry the Good," who ended the religious civil war racking 16th century France by issuing the Edict of Nantes, which allowed Protestants to openly practice their religion.
After the Nazi conquest of France, Mann fled to Spain, crossing the Pyrenees Mountains on foot at the age of 69. From Spain, he immigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Santa Monica, California with his second wife, Nelly Kroeger. His friends had arranged a one-year contract for him at Warner Bros., but he was hobbled by a poor command of English. After the contract expired, Mann had financial difficulties for the rest of his life. He had lost his German and French audiences and the royalties his book sales in Europe had generated, and he became financially dependent on friends and family, including Brother Thomas.
In California, Mann hobnobbed with other German exiles, including Bertolt Brecht. He was virtually unknown in America, his reputation eclipsed by that of his brother. Compounding his difficulties in America, his second wife, who was afflicted with mental illness, committed suicide in 1944.
Mann published his autobiography in 1945, and shortly before he died, had accepted an offer from East Germany to become head of their newly reconstituted Academy of Arts in East Berlin. Mann was not able to actually take over the post, as he died in Santa Monica on March 12, 1950. He was cremated and his ashes interred at the Academy in East Berlin.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Roy Eslick was born on 27 March 1893 in Springfield, Missouri, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for The Bantam Cowboy (1928), Wizard of the Saddle (1928) and The Slingshot Kid (1927). He died on 14 December 1950 in Springfield, Missouri, USA.- Gustave Hamilton was born on 27 March 1871 in Brussels, Belgium. He was an actor, known for Pension Mimosas (1935), Le billet de logement (1932) and Studio à louer (1935). He died on 5 January 1951 in Villefranche-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Actress
- Writer
May Foster was born on 27 March 1873 in Neoga, Illinois, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Milestones (1920), The Crown of Lies (1926) and A Woman of the World (1925). She was married to Val Paul. She died on 6 January 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
- Composer
- Actor
Enrique Santos Discépolo was born on 27 March 1901 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. He was a writer and composer, known for Focus (2015), Caprichosa y millonaria (1940) and En la luz de una estrella (1941). He was married to Tania. He died on 23 December 1951 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina.- Actress
- Script and Continuity Department
Christine Francis was born on 27 March 1903 in Tacoma, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for Pony Express (1924), Be Careful, Dearie! (1926) and Stupid, But Brave (1924). She died on 12 February 1952 in New York City, New York, USA.- Friedrich Ulmer was born on 27 March 1877 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Helen of Troy (1924), Schloß Hubertus (1934) and Der Berg ruft! (1938). He died on 26 April 1952 in Traunstein, Bavaria, Germany.
- Actor
- Music Department
- Writer
Andrés de Segurola was born on 27 March 1874 in Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain. He was an actor and writer, known for The Love of Sunya (1927), A Prince in a Pawnshop (1916) and The Flaming Omen (1917). He died on 23 January 1953 in Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain.- Producer
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Maud Gage Baum was born on 27 March 1861 in Fayetteville, New York, USA. Maud Gage was a producer, known for The Wizard of Oz (1938). Maud Gage was married to L. Frank Baum. Maud Gage died on 6 March 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Robert Thornby was born on 27 March 1888 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and actor, known for West of Broadway (1926), The Drivin' Fool (1923) and On Dangerous Ground (1917). He died on 6 March 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Engelbert Menninger Jr. was born on 27 March 1918 in Zabernreith, Lower Austria, Austria. He was married to Stefanie Moser and Moser, Stefanie. He died on 17 June 1953 in Lower Austria, Austria.
- Rene Fonck was born on 27 March 1894 in Saulcy-sur-Meurthe, Vosges, France. He was married to Irène Brillant. He died on 18 June 1953 in Paris, France.
- Tom Walter was born on 27 March 1907. He was an actor, known for Baldwin's Wedding (1938), En kvinna ombord (1941) and Malar Pirates (1923). He was married to Maud Walter. He died on 24 November 1953.
- Moya Nugent was born on 27 March 1901 in Dublin, Ireland, UK. She was an actress, known for The Old Curiosity Shop (1913), The Auction Mart (1920) and The Lights of Home (1920). She died on 26 January 1954 in London, England, UK.