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Henry Houry was born on 2 July 1874 in Paris, France. He was an actor and director, known for Love Watches (1918), The Secret Spring (1923) and Daring Hearts (1919). He died on 13 March 1972 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Robert Dinesen was born on 23 October 1874 in Denmark. He was a director and actor, known for The Four Devils (1911), Malva (1924) and Die Feuertänzerin (1925). He was married to Margarete Schön, Marie Dinesen and Johanne. He died on 8 March 1972.- Elizabeth Clark was born on 14 May 1875 in Hartlebury, Wychavon, Worcestershire, UK. She was a writer, known for Executive Suite (1976), Jackanory (1965) and Rainbow (1972). She died on 21 April 1972 in Winchester, Hampshire, UK.
- Esme Beringer was born on 5 September 1875 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The October Man (1947), All the World's a Stage (1917) and Something in the City (1950). She died on 31 March 1972 in Hove, Sussex, England, UK.
- Mayme Stocker was born on 5 September 1875 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA. She was married to Oscar Stocker. She died on 12 September 1972 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- Margaret Dale was born on 6 March 1876 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for One Exciting Night (1922), The Man with Two Faces (1934) and Second Youth (1924). She died on 23 March 1972 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Rudolf Deyl was born on 6 April 1876 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Reka (1933), Vyderac (1937) and V trestném území (1951). He died on 21 November 1972 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
- Natalie Clifford Barney was born on 31 October 1876 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. She died on 2 February 1972 in Paris, France.
- Mila Dimitrijevic was born on 9 January 1877 in Kragujevac, Serbia. She was an actress, known for Dani (1963), Sofka (1948) and Sreca dolazi u 9 (1961). She was married to Mihajlo "Mia" Dimitrijevic. She died on 12 January 1972 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia].
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Leo-Ernest Ouimet, the French Canadian film pioneer who built the first, first-rate movie cathedral that was the forerunner for all the huge North American movie palaces that came after it, was born in Laval, Quebec, north of Montreal, in 1877. Educated as an electrical engineer, he entered show business by chance in 1901, when Montreal's Le Theatre National contracted with the 24-year old engineer to rewire its theater. In just two days, Ouiment not only rewired the theater, but he installed a lighting system of his own devising that wowed the theater patrons and critics. Quebec City theater-owner Paul Cazeneuves hired him to do the same for his Le Cartier Theatre, and the results were even more astonishing.
The next step in Ouimet's metamorphosis into a movie pioneer was his engagement by Le Theatre National as a lighting designer. His acquaintance with the movies was about to begin, as Quebec law forbade Le Theatre National from operating on Sundays in any closed venue. To get around the provincial blue laws, Le Theatre performed in Montreal's Sohmers Park on Sundays. The park, which featured a 5,000-seat, open-air pavilion, began showing animated movies between intermissions in 1902. The park projectionist, an American yclept Ben Fenton, taught Ouimet about the projector, an Edison Co. kinetoscope. Intrigued, Ouiment soon bought one himself.
Ouiment became a representative for Edison for Eastern Canada, and subsequently, he opened up his own Ouimet Film Exchange to distribute films. His fascination with film encouraged him to make his own films, mostly short subjects, and by 1904, he had become an innovator in the world of cinema. During the Canadian general election in November 1904, he used his kinetoscope to project election returns onto a white sheet tacked to the front wall of the Montreal newspaper Le Patrie. He took the opportunity afforded by this all-day exhibition to recalibrate and fine-tune the kinetoscope to produce a better image.
He began traveling with his improved kinetoscope to give exhibitions of films, drawing large crowds, primarily from the working class, who could not afford the luxury of the legitimate theater or vaudeville. In 1906, Ouimet converted an abandoned cabaret on Ste.-Catherine St. into a 500-seat nickelodeon.
As movie theater impresario Marcus Loew had said, "We sell tickets to theaters, not movies." His Loew's Inc. own and ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a subsidiary from its New York headquarters. Hundreds of movie theaters eventually were constructed in Canada in the period of 1910 through 1930, mostly in Ontario and Quebec.
Filmmaking was literally the tail that wound up wagging the dog, as in the early days of the cinema, most filmmakers got into the barely acknowledged "Seventh Art" as a means of ensuring product for their theaters. Due to the dominance of the Edison Patent Trust over cameras, projection equipment (the kinetoscope), and film stock, many a would-be movie entrepreneur had to resort to "inventing" their own equipment from extant models, and importing their film stock from overseas
Like the later innovation Technicolor, which tightly controlled the use of its product, mandating Technicolor consultants on films using its cameras and color stock ensure that the aesthetic results fell within the accepted corporate parameters, Edison too controlled the aesthetic use of his product. No film could be more than one reel, and the facility for projection equipment to throw a large picture was restricted, in order to keep the venues small.
Quebec native Ouimet was no different than the entrepreneurs outside the Edison Trust who made a go of it south of the border. He modified the kinetoscope that he had bought from Edison to improve its luminosity, and he improved the claw-mechanism for advancing film before the shutter to reduce its habit of damaging the negative. He also added a second shutter to reduce the optical glitch that gave rise to the early movies being called "flickers" by the anglophones. He so modified his original projector, he dubbed his "new" creation the Ouimetoscope, which he used to project film images on a larger screen than was possible before his transformation of Edison's contraption.
Many other pioneers in North America were doing the same, modifying Edison's kinetoscope or other projectors illegally imported from Europe, then making films and showing them with their bespoke equipment to crowds starved for entertainment. Where Ouimet bested the entrepreneurs in the lower 48 was in his ability to project a larger image while not sacrificing quality. This enabled him to build what was at the time the largest movie theater in the world.
Tearing down his old theater, Ouimet constructed a 1,200-seat cathedral of cinema he called, after his projector, the Ouimetoscope. He brought to Montreal the first movie theater constructed as lavishly as any first-rate, legitimate house. His mission was "to provide the best moving pictures and illustrated song exhibition that can be provided." The theater not only was huge, but it was air-conditioned, a first for a movie palace. The Ouimetoscope was opened on August 31, 1907.
According to Toronto film historian Hye Bossin in the 1950s, the Ouimet was the first movie showcase to challenge the legitimate theater by offering movie patrons first-class comfort and appointments at a reasonable price that the average citizen could afford. Bossin said that the Ouimetoscope theater was unique, as it was a testament to Ouimet's belief that the movies, as an art and as an industry, were not a fad, but were here to stay. Many entrepreneurs, like Loew, bought up old vaudeville houses in order to present their pictures, but they hedged their bets by continuing to offer live entertainment between shows. In fact, the process of offering live entertainment at the Loew's Inc. chain of 400 theaters lasted until Marcus Loew's death in 1927. Loew was never a gambler, and was unsure whether the movie boom would go bust, even after twenty years in the industry.
Ouimet was committed to a quality experience for his patrons, hiring the best musicians to accompany the silent films. He booked only the best movies, and carefully planned each showcase. Ouiment even published a program for his audience, akin to the show bills distributed at legitimate theaters. A Quebecker, Ouimet also was committed to the francophone cinema, bringing in pictures from France for his Montreal audience, and translating the inter-titles of English-language films into French. He was truly the father of Quebec cinema, an idealist as well as a business-cum-showman.
Increasingly, just like Canadian cinema today, Ouimet faced fierce competition from the studios in the U.S., who flooded the province with product. In addition, Ouimet had to face the economic backlash caused by a conservative Catholic clergy, who inveigled against movie-going on Sundays, and successfully lobbied the provincial government to ban Sunday-showings of films. It was an ordinance that lasted until the 1960s, when, after a social revolution that saw the dawn of French Canadian nationalism, as noted in Denis Arcand's Oscar-wining "The Barbarian Invasions" (2002), the good people of la belle province split with the church and its patrimony.
Worn out from the battles with New York- and Hollywood-based movie-makers, fed up with the interference from the church, Ouimet sold his theater, which was renamed Le Canadien after his departure. Quebec's movie pioneer said "au revoir" to the province and decamped for Hollywood in 1922, where he formed a production company, Laval Photoplays, that made "Why Get Married?" The film was not as big a success as Ouimet anticipated, and he abandoned commercial movie-making.
Returning to Montreal, he leased a movie theater on Bleury Street, but he was financially ruined in 1935 after two people were killed in a fire at his movie house, and he was successfully sued by their survivors. Ouimet retired from the industry he loved forever, though he continued to experiment with movie technology. He took a job as a store manager for the Quebec Liquor Commission.
Leo-Ernest Ouimet died on March 2nd, 1972, at the age of 94. He did not die unhonored, as Le Canadien was renamed Ouimetoscope in 1966. The federal government at this time was undertaking the biggest building boom of cinemas since the initial 20-year boom was crushed by the Great Depression, erecting cultural centers with cinemas to commemorate the 1967 Centennial of the Confederation in 1967. A year after the centennial celebrations, which put Montreal on the international map with Expo '67, the last great World's Fair, Cinematheque canadienne put a plaque on the Ouimetoscope building to commemorate the 60th anniversary of its opening.
Thus, in his old age, during a revival of French Canadian identify that would revolutionize Quebec's relations with the rest of the Confederation, the province remembered Ouimet. It remembered the old gentilhomme not just for bringing bonhomie to his `patrie,' but for his technical innovations and for his faith in the future of cinema. It hailed him for opening up the province of Quebec to the world, and for making the world cognizant of Quebec, all through the magic lantern that was the Ouimetoscope.- Geno Ferny was born on 29 March 1877 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was an actor, known for The Novel of Werther (1938), À minuit, le 7 (1937) and Son dernier Noël (1952). He died on 23 January 1972 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- Georges Toudouze was born on 22 June 1877 in Paris, France. Georges was a writer, known for Les élus de la mer (1925), Wolves (1930) and La voix de l'océan (1922). Georges died on 4 January 1972 in Paris, France.
- Teresa Franchini was born on 19 September 1877 in Torre Pedrera di Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Nobody's Children (1951), Via delle cinque lune (1942) and Sleeping Beauty (1942). She was married to Mario Fumagalli. She died on 11 August 1972 in Sant'Arcangelo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
- Carl Hayden was born on 2 October 1877 in Hayden's Ferry [now Tempe], Arizona, USA. He was married to Nan Downing. He died on 25 January 1972 in Mesa, Arizona, USA.
- Evelina Paoli was born on 30 March 1878 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for We the Living (1942), Addio Kira! (1942) and Hanno rapito un uomo (1938). She died on 28 December 1972 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
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- Art Department
David Anthony Tauszky was born on 4 September 1878 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He is known for The Lure of Youth (1921), Eye for Eye (1918) and Shore Acres (1920). He died on 26 February 1972 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- C.R. Rajagopalachari was born on 10 December 1878 in Salem, Madras Presidency, British India. He died on 25 December 1972 in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Mieczyslawa Cwiklinska was a Polish actress, comedienne and singer. For more than 50 years on the stage, she was one of Poland's most outstanding comedic actors and singers.
She appeared on both stage and in film, and did operettas and the classics. She received numerous awards including commendations from the Polish national government. She was a member of her country's National Theatre.
On April 25, 1950, she celebrated the golden jubilee of her career in the theatre and was awarded highest honours by the Polish government. - Leopolda Dostalová was born on 23 January 1879 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Bílá jachta ve Splitu (1939), Psohlavci (1931) and The Magic House (1939). She died on 17 June 1972 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Ethel Royale was born on 30 March 1879 in Hoare Abbey Park, County Tipperary, Ireland. She was an actress, known for Twice Branded (1936), Fettered (1919) and If This Be Sin (1949). She died on 8 August 1972 in Eton, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
- Gerald Kelly was born on 9 April 1879 in London, England, UK. He died on 5 January 1972 in London, England, UK.
- Gerald Kelly was born on 9 April 1879 in London, England, UK. He was married to Lilian Ryan. He died on 5 January 1972 in London, England, UK.
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- Director
Donald MacKenzie was born on 17 April 1879 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was an actor and director, known for The Carter Case (1919), The Seven Pearls (1917) and The Fatal Fortune (1919). He died on 21 July 1972 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.- James Byrnes was born on 2 May 1879 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. He was married to Maude Busch. He died on 9 April 1972 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
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- Cinematographer
- Art Department
Lewis W. Physioc was born on 30 June 1879 in South Carolina, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for The Knife (1918), Bab's Diary (1917) and Thundering Dawn (1923). He died on 16 January 1972 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Rose Quong was born on 15 August 1879 in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She was an actress, known for The United States Steel Hour (1953). She died on 14 December 1972 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
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- Actor
Herbert Farjeon was born on 27 October 1879 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Ex-Flame (1930), White Zombie (1932) and The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946). He was married to Claribel Fontaine. He died on 3 November 1972 in San Marcos, California, USA.- Music Department
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Composer, songwriter ("Donkey Serenade", "Song of the Vagabonds") and pianist, educated at the Prague Conservatory and a music student of Anton Dvorak and Jiranek. He toured Europe as a concert pianist with violinist Jan Kubelik, and then toured America in 1901 and 1906. In 1912 he replaced Victor Herbert as the composer of the score for the Broadway musical "The Firefly". His other Broadway sage scores include "High Jinks", "The Peasant Girl", "Katinka", "You're In Love", "Sometime", "Glorianna", "Tumble In", "The Little Whopper", "June Love", "The Blue Kitten", "Rose-Marie", "The Vagabond King", "No Foolin'", "The Wild Rose", and "The Three Musketeers". He came to Hollywood in 1934. Joining ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, his chief musical collaborators included Otto Harbach, P.G. Wodehouse, Rida Johnson Young, Oscar Hammerstein II, Brian Hooker, Clifford Grey, Harold Atteridge, and Dailey Paskman. His other popular-song compositions include "Giannina Mia", "Love is Like a Firefly", "When a Maid Comes Knocking at Your Door", "Sympathy", "Something Seems a Tingle-ing-eling", "Love's Own Kiss", "Katinka", "Not Now But Later", "'Tis the End, So Farewell", "Allah's Holiday", "Rackety Coo", "L'Amour, Toujours, L'Amour", "On the Blue Lagoon", "In Love With Love", "Somewhere in My Heart", "You're In Love", "Cutie", "The Door of Her Dreams", "Rose-Marie", "The Mounties", "Pretty Things", "Totem Tom-Tom", "Some Day", "Tomorrow", "Only a Rose", "Huguette Waltz", "Love Me Tonight", "Nocturne", "Wild Rose", "One Golden Hour", "Give Me One Hour", "March of the Musketeers", "Ma Belle", "Your Eyes", and "I Have the Love"- Lidiya Genel-Ablova was born on 9 January 1880. She was an actress, known for Veseley nas net (1940). She died on 19 June 1972.
- Winifred Harris was born on 17 March 1880 in Kew, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Belonging (1922), The Kid from Kokomo (1939) and Night Must Fall (1937). She was married to Capt. Harry Lambart. She died on 18 April 1972 in Evanston, Illinois, USA.
- George Dudley was born on 25 May 1880 in Chelsea, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Laughing Lady (1946), Quatermass and the Pit (1958) and Mary Britten, M.D. (1958). He died on 23 April 1972 in Lambeth, London, England, UK.
- E. Newton-Bungey was born on 6 June 1880 in Minehead, Somerset, England, UK. E. was a writer, known for The Squire of Long Hadley (1925), The Autumn of Pride (1921) and The Fordington Twins (1920). E. died on 24 December 1972 in Wethersfield, Essex, England, UK.
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- Writer
Alfred Sangster was born on 15 July 1880 in Norwood, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Wuthering Heights (1948), The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) and The Brontes (1947). He was married to Pauline Lacey. He died on 14 August 1972 in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.- Grace Wood was born on 4 August 1880 in Fort Lyons, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Mr. Wong, Detective (1938), The Strange Woman (1918) and Ferocious Pal (1934). She died on 19 September 1972 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Ingeborg Nilsson was born on 7 September 1880 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Två bröder (1912). She died on 24 June 1972 in Täby, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Lise Jaux was born on 7 November 1880 in Elbeuf, France. She was an actress, known for Une nuit à l'hôtel (1932), Vindicta (1923) and La double existence de Lord Samsey (1924). She died on 29 June 1972 in Paris, France.
- Harold R. Stark was born on 12 November 1880 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Katharine Rhoads. He died on 20 August 1972 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
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- Soundtrack
Jane Morgan was born on 6 December 1880 in Warmley, Gloucestershire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Our Miss Brooks (1952), Our Miss Brooks (1956) and The Web (1950). She was married to Leo Cullen Bryant. She died on 1 January 1972 in North Hollywood, California, USA.- Bertrand W. Sinclair was born on 9 January 1881 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was a writer, known for The Raiders (1921), Big Timber (1917) and The Peculiar Nature of the White Man's Burden (1912). He was married to Bertha Muzzy Sinclair. He died on 20 October 1972 in Canada.
- Davison Clark was born on 15 January 1881 in Fresno, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Scarlet Empress (1934), The Buccaneer (1938) and The Mighty Barnum (1934). He died on 4 November 1972 in Ventura, California, USA.
- Laura Pierpont was born on 14 February 1881 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for My Blue Heaven (1950), Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1950) and Born Yesterday (1956). She was married to Taylor Granville. She died on 11 December 1972 in New Canaan, Connecticut, USA.
- Signe Rydberg-Eklöf was born on 10 March 1881 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Trollebokungen (1924), Only a Mother (1949) and Hylands hörna (1962). She died on 27 June 1972 in Täby, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Lidiya Kartashyova was born on 12 March 1881 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Ski Battalion (1937), Bolshaya zhizn (1939) and Nebesa (1940). She died on 27 January 1972 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].
- Margaret (Daisy) Ashford was born at Elm Lodge in Petersham, Surrey to a former War Office official, William Ashford, and his wife Emma in 1881. The majority of her schooling was done at home and she was encouraged to write, as were her sister and three brothers. Her first story "The Life of Father McSwiney" was dictated to her father when she was four years old (it remained unpublished for almost 100 years), and this was followed by "A Short Story of Love" in 1889 and "Mr. Chapmer's Bride" (now lost). Her most famous work "The Young Visiters" was written shortly afterwards and was the first book that she wrote herself rather than dictating the tale to another. She wrote a number of other stories and a play, "A Woman's Crime". She wrote "The Hangman's Daughter" during 1894-95, which she considered to be her best work, but when she went to school in 1898 her aspirations to be an authoress disappeared. Instead, Daisy left school and spent five years at home, before moving with her family, in 1904, to Bexhill, and then later to London, after her sister Vera. In London she worked as a secretary, and ran a canteen during the First World War, in Dover.
It was following her mother's death in 1917 that Daisy and her sisters discovered her original manuscript for "The Young Visiters", and her other childhood writings. Daisy gave the manuscript to a friend, Margaret Mackenzie, who then passed it on to an acquaintance, Frank Swinnerton, who was, at that time, working for Chatto and Windus publishers. "The Young Visiters" was finally published for the first time on 22nd May 1919, with a preface by J.M. Barrie. The authenticity of the story, written by a child, was questioned in some quarters, but it also had its admirers - among them A.A. Milne and Robert Graves . It was an immediate success, reprinted 18 times in it's first year, dramatised for the stage in 1920, adapted into a musical in 1968, and filmed twice, in 1984 and for television in 2003.
Daisy was always astonished by her new found fame, and saw her stories published in a volume called "Daisy Ashford: Her Book" in 1920 (which also included a tale by her sister Angela). Also in 1920 she married and settled in Norfolk, at one time running the King's Arms Hotel in Reepham. In 1939 they settled with her family in Hellesdon, Norwich where Daisy died on 15th January 1972. She did not write in the intervening years, although in old age she did begin an autobiography, which she later burned during spring cleaning. In 1983, her very first story "The Life of Father McSwiney" was published for the first time in a collection of her work, "The Hangman's Daughter and other stories" - 11 years after her death and almost 100 years after she dictated the tale to her father. - Actor
- Producer
Nicholas Hannen was born on 1 May 1881 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Quo Vadis (1951), Who Killed John Savage? (1937) and Dunkirk (1958). He was married to Athene Seyler and Muriel Morland. He died on 25 June 1972 in London, England, UK.- Giannina Chiantoni was born on 24 June 1881 in Bernalda, Basilicata, Italy. She was an actress, known for Re Lear (1910), ...e Napoli canta! (1953) and The Duchess of Parma (1937). She was married to Ernesto Sabbatini. She died on 17 May 1972 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
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Rose De Haven was born on 2 July 1881 in Illinois, USA. She was an actress. She died on 23 July 1972 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Actress
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- Soundtrack
Louella Parsons was born on 6 August 1881 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Hollywood Hotel (1937), Without Reservations (1946) and Starlift (1951). She was married to Dr. Henry Watson Martin, John McCaffrey Jr. and John Demont Parsons. She died on 9 December 1972 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Actress
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- Director
Danish leading woman of German films who became one of the greatest stars of the silent era. A native of the Copenhagen suburb of Vesterbro, Nielsen was the daughter of a coppersmith and a washerwoman, both of whom died before Nielsen was fifteen. Her stage debut came as a child in the chorus of the Kongelige Teater's production of Boito's opera "Mephistopheles." She studied at the Royal Theatre School of Copenhagen and embarked upon a stage career in her late teens. She toured Scandinavia and became one of the highest-paid and most popular stage actresses of her time and place. In 1909, director Urban Gad suggested that the silent screen would allow her to transcend her Danish language barrier, and she agreed appear in his film 'Afgrunden (1910)'. The film was successful and Nielsen was encouraged to continue in this new art form. A German distributor, Paul Davidson, invited Nielsen to Germany, where he was building a film studio which would eventually become Europe's largest--the Universum Film Union A.-G. (or Ufa). Nielsen and her director, Gad, whom she had married, went to Germany and spent the next quarter century there. She became one of the true superstars of the silent screen, a tragic heroine whose photograph during the First World War accompanied German and also British and French troops into battle. Among her notable films after the war was a version of "Hamlet, " which was not so much a Shakespearean film as it was an exploration of a then-current theory that the real Hamlet had been, in fact, a woman. Nielsen played the title role. She continued to play a wide variety of roles in Germany and occasionally in Denmark and Norway, never losing the respect and popularity she had maintained almost from the beginning of her career. She abandoned her film work just as sound was taking over the industry. Aside from one or two brief forays in talkies, her acting was thereafter confined to the stage. She died in 1972 at the age of 89, shortly after her fifth marriage.- Zofia Bajkowska was born on 21 September 1881 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Dorozkarz nr 13 (1937), Parade of the Reservists (1934) and Wierna rzeka (1936). She died on 5 May 1972 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK.