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Frank Loesser was educated at Townsend Harris Hall; CCNY. He wrote songs for college shows, and worked as a newspaper reporter, a pianist and singer, a caricaturist in vaudeville acts, and as an editor for a trade newspaper. While serving as an officer in the US Army during World War II, he wrote songs for Army shows. Joining ASCAP in 1934, his chief musical collaborators included Barton Lane, Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy McHugh, Jule Styne, Victor Schertzinger and Arthur Schwartz.- Felipe de Flores was born on 19 May 1907 in Durango, Durango, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Neutron Traps the Invisible Killers (1965), En busca de la muerte (1961) and Asesinos, S.A. (1957). He died on 28 July 1969 in Mexico D.F., Mexico.
- Konstantin Vasilevich Skorobogatov was born on March 6, 1887, in Aleksandrovskoe, St. Petersburg province, Russia. From 1897-1903 he was an industrial worker in St. Petersburg. Young Skorobogatov began his acting career as an amateur in 1903, then he joined a touring troupe and performed in many cities across Russia.
Skorobogatov had also a stellar career as a stage actor. From 1928-1935 he was a permanent member of the troupe of Bolshoi drama Theatre in Leningrad. From 1935-1969 he was a permanent member of the troupe of the Pushkin Drama Theatre in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). There his stage partners were such remarkable actors as Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Nikolay Cherkasov, Yuri Yuryev, Boris Babochkin, Nikolai Simonov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Illarion Pevtsov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Aleksandr Borisov, Bruno Frejndlikh, Vladimir Chestnokov, Vladimir Erenberg, Leonid Vivyen, Konstantin Adashevsky, Igor Gorbachyov, Olga Lebzak, Nina Mamaeva, Lidiya Shtykan, Nina Urgant, Valentina Panina, and other notable Russian actors.
Konstantin Skorobogatov was awarded the State Prize of the USSR for his stage and film works four times (1941, 1949, 1951, 1952). He was designated the People's Artist of the USSR, and received many other awards and decorations. From 1951-1969 Skorobogatov was Artistic Director of the Pushkin Drama Theatre in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad). He died on July 28, 1959, in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia.