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- Robert Henry Hall was born on 15 November 1837 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He died on 29 December 1914 in Chicago Heights, Illinois, USA.
- Bronson Howard was born on 7 October 1842 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a writer, known for The Saphead (1920), Aristocracy (1914) and One of Our Girls (1914). He was married to Alice Culverwell. He died on 4 August 1908 in Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey, USA.
- Richard Foster Baker was born on 25 January 1857 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Little Girl Next Door (1916), A Bunch of Keys (1915) and Kidder and Ko (1918). He died on 21 February 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
A longtime and respected stage actor, Van Dyke Brooke went into the film business in 1909. A prolific actor, writer and director for Vitagraph, he stayed with the company until 1916, when the studio cleaned house and fired many of its "old-timers". He stayed in the business as an actor until his death in 1921.- Frank Campeau was born on 14 December 1864 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for 3 Bad Men (1926), Battling Bunyan (1924) and The Life of the Party (1920). He was married to Sarah Estelle Lewis and Lillian Stratton Corbin. He died on 5 November 1943 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Frederic S. Isham was born on 29 March 1865 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a writer, known for Nothing But the Truth (1941), The Social Buccaneer (1923) and Nothing But the Truth (1929). He was married to Helen M. Frue. He died on 6 September 1922 in New York City, New York, USA.
- John Nance Garner was born on 22 November 1868 in Detroit, Texas, USA. He was married to Ettie Rheiner. He died on 7 November 1967 in Uvalde, Texas, USA.
- Director
- Producer
Louis Myll was born on 29 April 1871 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Keep Moving (1915), The Adopted Baby (1915) and When Ciderville Went Dry (1915). He was married to Alma Hanlon and Corah White. He died on 22 April 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.- Lyricist, author and songwriter ("At Dawning", "From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water") and teacher, who taught school in Nebraska. She joined ASCAP in 1927, and her chief musical collaborator was Charles Wakefield Cadman. Her other popular-song compositions include "From Wigwam to Tepee" and "I Hear a Thrush at Eve".
- Writer
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Harry von Tilzer was born on 8 July 1872 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and composer, known for You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010), Night School (2018) and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). He died on 10 January 1946 in New York City, New York, USA.- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Director
Rob Wagner moved to Santa Barbara from Detroit in 1906. He settled in Los Angeles about 1909. His first scenario for a film, "The Artist's Sons," was produced by Selig Studios in 1911. Between 1915 and 1918 he wrote a series of articles on the film industry for the Saturday Evening Post. Wagner was Charlie Chaplin's publicity man and confidant for many years. He was a director of Will Rogers film shorts. He was founder, editor and publisher of Rob Wagner's Script, a literary magazine for the film community. The magazine was published from 1929 to 1949.- Leon Czolgosz was an American anarchist of Polish extraction who shot President William McKinley while the president was attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York in September 1901.
Born in Michigan in May 1873, the 28-year-old Czolgosz was the son of ethnic Polish immigrants from Prussia. He arrived in Buffalo on August 31, 1901 and stalked the president once he arrived at the exposition. He bought a pistol on September 2nd and on September 6th, joined a receiving line at the Temple of Music whose members moved forward to shake hands with the president. The meet-and-greet was only expected to last was 10 minutes, but that was enough to change history.
The assassin had secreted his pistol wrapped in a handkerchief inside his pocket. When he made it to the head of the line and McKinley extended his hand, Czolgosz swatted it away and twice pulled the trigger of his weapon, shooting McKinley in the stomach. The two bullets fired at point-blank range staggered the president, but did not immediately kill him. (He lived on for a week and a day, expiring on the 14th.)
The crowd in the Temple of Music seized Czolgosz and beat him to the point of death before soldiers and police intervened. The near-dead Czolgosz was jailed and stood trial on September 23rd, nine days after McKinley died of his wounds. Czolgosz had been deeply influenced by the anarchists Alexander Berkman (himself the would-be assassin of Henry Clay Frick) and Emma Goldman, whom he had seen give a public speech and subsequently met.
Czolgosz's meeting with Goldman occurred the very same year he killed McKinley, and she was arrested as part of a possible conspiracy but was released for lack of evidence. It was apparent Czolgosz acted alone. Goldman tried to rally support for the assassin, comparing him in print to Brutus who had slain Julius Caesar, but many anarchists shunned Czolgosz, as he had brought opprobrium onto the movement. Theodore Roosevelt, the new president, had declared, "When compared with the suppression of anarchy, every other question sinks into insignificance.
At his arraignment, Czolgosz pleaded guilty, which is not allowed in a capital trial, and the judge changed his plea to "not guilty". His lawyers wanted to go with an insanity defense such as used for Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of President James Garfield, but a defiant Czolgosz refused to cooperate with them as, to him, they were symbols of the authority he hated and had struck out against in the Temple of Music. He clearly wanted to be martyred, and he was, convicted after a two day trial when the jury came back with a guilty verdict after one hour. He was executed in the electric chair at Auburn State Prison (Auburn, New York) on October 29, 1901, 53 days after he shot and fatally wounded President McKinley. - Music Department
- Soundtrack
Hughie Cannon was born on 9 April 1877 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is known for The Conversation (1974), Miss Congeniality (2000) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). He was married to Emma Dorson. He died on 17 June 1912 in Toledo, Ohio, USA.- Kalla Pasha was born on 5 March 1879 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for West of Zanzibar (1928), The Dictator (1922) and A Small Town Idol (1921). He died on 10 June 1933 in Talmage, California, USA.
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
John Randolph Bray was born on 25 August 1879 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Let's Talk Turkey (1936), Jewel of Asia (1937) and Wildman's Land (1937). He was married to Margaret Bray. He died on 10 October 1978 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA.- Blanche Rose was born on 16 August 1880 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Call of the West (1930), Buy Me That Town (1941) and Smudge (1922). She was married to ? Starr and ? Smith. She died on 5 January 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Jessie Deppen was born on 10 July 1881 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Jessie is known for Wings (1927), We're No Angels (1989) and Poor Little Butterfly (1930). Jessie died on 22 January 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ed Reulbach was born on 1 December 1882 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He died on 17 July 1961 in Glens Falls, New York, USA.
- Writer
- Actor
- Director
Detroit-born Howard Estabrook entered show business as a stage actor in New York in 1904. He appeared in several films starting in 1914 and even directed a few in 1917. He left films for a career in the business world, but returned in 1921 in executive positions with various studios, then began producing films in 1924. He soon turned to screenwriting, and was responsible for several of what have come to be regarded as classics of Hollywood: Hell's Angels (1930), Cimarron (1931) (for which he won an Academy Award) and David Copperfield (1935), among others. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay for Street of Chance (1930).- Actor
- Writer
Fred Duprez was born on 6 September 1884 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for My Wife''s Family (1931), Lend Me Your Wife (1935) and Svärmor kommer (1932). He was married to Florence Isabel Mathews (actress) and Grace Hazard (actress). He died on 27 October 1938 in shipboard en route to England.- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("In the Cool of Evening"), producer, author, director and artist, educated at the University of Detroit and the Detroit Art School. He was an early designer of sheet music covers. In 1907 he came to New York, and designed and directed an act for Lillian Russell. In 1912, he became the chief writer and assistant to Florenz Ziegfeld, lasting to 1926. He composed Broadway stage scores and sketches for thirteen editions of the "Ziegfeld Follies" and two editions of "Ziegfeld's 9 O'Clock Revue", "No Foolin'", and "Zig-Zag" (in London), and he originated and directed eleven editions of the "Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics". He produced and directed the musicals "Yours Truly" and "Take the Air" (for which he also composed the score). He was president of the Catholic Actors Guild, and won an NAACC award. Joining ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, he became an ASCAP director in 1920, lasting to 1957. He served as ASCAP's president from 1924 to 1941. His chief musical collaborator was David Stamper, and he also worked with Rudolf Friml, Jerome Kern, Mischa Elman, Augustus Thomas, Werner Janssen, James Hanley, Ray Hubbell, Victor Herbert and Louis Hirsch. His song compositions include "Daddy Has a Sweetheart (and Mother Is Her Name)", "Hello, Frisco", "Have a Heart", "Hello, My Dearie", "Tulip Time", "Sally, Won't You Come Back?", "Sweet Sixteen", "Sunshine and Shadows", "The Love Boat", "My Rambler Rose", "'Neath the South Sea Moon", "Lovely Little Melody", "No Foolin'", "Florida, the Moon and You", "Some Boy", and "Garden of My Dreams".- Actress
Amelia Stone was born on 5 December 1885 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Armand Kaliz. She died on 30 March 1966 in New York, USA.- Avery Brundage was born on 28 September 1887 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was married to Mariann Princess Reuss and Elizabeth Dunlap. He died on 8 May 1975 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Evelyn Van Buren was born on 10 October 1887 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Evelyn is known for Left in the Train (1914).
- Additional Crew
- Actor
Freddie Fralick was born on 4 June 1888 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for The Price of Art (1912), Badly Wanted (1913) and Si's Wonderful Mineral Spring (1914). He died on 13 May 1958 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Actor
- Stunts
George Daly was born on 13 December 1888 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Excuse My Glove (1936). He died on 24 February 1937 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Production Manager
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
Robert Ross was born on 27 August 1889 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a production manager and assistant director, known for The Phantom Express (1932), Shipwrecked (1926) and Corsair (1931). He was married to Harriett V.. He died on 19 October 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
Kenneth Green was born on 21 December 1889 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is known for Parisian Nights (1930) and The Hot Angel (1958). He died in November 1967 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Editor
- Sound Department
- Editorial Department
Edward Schroeder was born on 29 November 1890 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an editor, known for Leopard Men of Africa (1940), Dark Streets (1929) and A Million to One (1936). He was married to Dorothy Ann Benthall. He died on 8 May 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Stephan Pasternacki was born on 11 September 1891 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a composer, known for The Llano Kid (1939) and Hula Heaven (1937). He died in October 1981 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ruth Amos was born on 13 November 1891 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Shadow of the Cloak (1951) and Studio One (1948). She was married to Hall Shelton and Ralph Earl Brown. She died in July 1980 in Barcelona, Spain.
- William Colt MacDonald was born on 2 December 1891 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. William Colt was a writer, known for Pals of the Saddle (1938), The Wyoming Whirlwind (1932) and Three Texas Steers (1939). William Colt died on 27 March 1968 in Lakeport, California, USA.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Production Manager
Louis Germonprez was born on 14 May 1892 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an assistant director and production manager, known for The Fighting Guardsman (1945), Avalanche (1946) and Queen of Burlesque (1946). He died on 7 July 1963 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Rudy Wiedoeft was born on 3 January 1893 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for The Caretaker (2016), Darn Tootin (1931) and Rambling 'Round Radio Row #2 (1932). He was married to Mary Murphy. He died on 18 February 1940 in Flushing, Long Island, New York, USA.- George Elwell was born on 21 April 1893 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for The Raiders (1916). He died on 3 November 1916 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Art Director
- Art Department
- Set Decorator
Julian Boone Fleming was born on 7 May 1893 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Julian Boone was an art director and set decorator, known for Beau Geste (1926), The Lucky Devil (1925) and The Manicure Girl (1925). Julian Boone died on 15 February 1967 in Stanislaus, California, USA.- One of the capable actresses of the inter-war period in the twentieth century, Phyllis Povah earned national recognition in the early 1920s. A native of Detroit who learned her craft playing in productions at the University of Michigan in 1914-1916, secured her first professional role as a replacement in a production of "Seeing Things" playing in Baltimore in 1920. The excellence of her performance secured her a play in Henry Miller's Company based at the National Theatre in Washington D. C. performing the young widow in "Stepping Stones." Povah had a character actress's talent of being able to play older on stage. Because Miller's troupe was filled with veteran performers, word of Povah's abilities made its way to New York. In 1921 the Theatre Guild engaged her in support of Laura Hope Crews in "Mr Pim Passes By." Povah spent most of her career in supporting roles on both stage and screen. After the gig at the Theatre Guild she belonged to the short-lived cooperative, The Equity Players, in their 1922 production of "Hospitality." In early 1923 she played a rural New England innocent in Owen Davis's "Icebound" to some acclaim and later in the year returned to the Theatre Guild as the lead in Galsworthy's "Windows." 1924 brought Povah further success as Nettie, a daughter-in-law who suffers the thoughtless indulgences of the patriarch of a Jewish household in "Minick." In 1925 she appeared in Molnar's "A Tale of the Wolf" established now as an actress for whom modern drama held no fears. And so her career continued until the later 1930s, appearing in various Theatre Guild productions that had more intellectual heft than dramatic force. Then she featured in two classic women's dramas of the late 1930s and early 1940s: Clare Booth's "The Women" and "Let's Face It." She also appeared in the MGM film of the former, and in 1943 Paramount signed her for the cinema version of the latter. In the 1940s and 50s she appeared regularly in motion pictures as the mature woman with some grit.
- Edsel Ford was born on 6 November 1893 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a writer, known for Upcoming Ford Project (2021). He was married to Eleanor Clay. He died on 26 May 1943 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- Special Effects
- Cinematographer
- Visual Effects
Vernon L. Walker was born on 2 May 1894 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Notorious (1946), Suspicion (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). He was married to Lottie J. Walker. He died on 14 March 1948 in Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California, USA.- Edna Hibbard was born on 12 May 1894 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for The Weavers of Life (1917), The Apaches of Paris (1915) and The Fight (1915). She was married to Lester Bryant, John C. Seager Jr., Stuart Sage and Philip Hart Dunning (stage manager). She died on 26 December 1942 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Producer
- Writer
Harold B. Lipsitz was born on 12 July 1894 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is known for Silver Valley (1927), El último de los Vargas (1930) and The Last of the Duanes (1930).- Dixie Chene was born on 31 July 1894 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Their Social Splash (1915), Cursed by His Beauty (1914) and Those College Girls (1915). She died on 30 April 1972 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Gwendoline Gordon was born on 19 January 1895 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Injustice (1919). She was married to Henry Harrison Kennedy and Frank A. Gordon. She died on 28 July 1988 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Helen MacKellar was born on 13 February 1895 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Barefoot Boy (1938), The Man Who Returned to Life (1942) and The Past of Mary Holmes (1933). She was married to George MacQuarrie. She died on 5 August 1966 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Claire Anderson was born Claire Mathes on May 8, 1895 in Detroit, Michigan. She moved to Hollywood and became one of Mack Sennett's first bathing beauties. Claire was five feet, five inches tall and 132 pounds. She started making movies with Keystone in 1914 (she also used the screen name Cora Anderson). Claire appeared in dozens of comedy shorts including His Baby Doll (1917) and A Clever Dummy (1917). While filming The Lion and the Girl (1916) she bravely got into a cage with an actual lion. Mack Sennett signed her to a long term contract for $675 a week. In 1918 Claire was given starring roles in Mlle. Paulette (1918), The Mask (1918), and Mile.
After leaving Keystone she worked for Fox. She co-starred with Tom Mix in The Road Demon (1921) and with John Gilbert in The Yellow Stain (1922). Claire married auto dealer Harry H. Anderson but they divorced in 1926. He had been having an affair with bathing beauty Florence Omley and Claire sued her for "alienation of affection". Florence responded to the lawsuit by challenging Claire to a fist fight. Claire retired from making movies and moved to Venice, California. She died on March 23, 1964 at the age of sixty-eight. - Music Department
- Soundtrack
Seymour Simons was born on 14 January 1896 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Seymour is known for Beginners (2010), A Good Year (2006) and Sweet and Lowdown (1999). Seymour died on 12 February 1949 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian was born on 19 January 1896 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for The Most Dangerous Game (1932), State Trooper (1933) and Vanity Street (1932). He was married to Gladys Newbold. He died on 13 December 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Danny Hoy was born on 14 February 1896 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for King of the Pack (1926), Savages of the Sea (1925) and The Phantom of the Turf (1928). He died on 26 December 1965 in Santa Clara, California, USA.
- Colonel Earl 'Red' Blaik was born on 15 February 1897 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was married to Merle McDowell. He died on 6 May 1989 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
- Valerie Germonprez was born on 14 April 1897 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Blind Husbands (1919), The Heart of Humanity (1918) and The Man You Loved to Hate (1979). She was married to Erich von Stroheim. She died on 22 October 1988 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.