23 Wednesday Mar 2016
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Lucille Fay LeSueur was born in San Antonio, Texas, on March 23, 1904. Her father, Thomas E. LeSueur, abandoned her mother, Anna Bell Johnson, and her two eldest children, while she was still pregnant. Anna began a new relationship with Henry J. Cassin, and the family lived with him in Lawton, Oklahoma, where he ran the Ramsey Opera House. After Cassin was accused of embezzling, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1916. Continue reading
15 Tuesday Mar 2016
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Belgium, Bulldog Drummond, C. Haddon Chambers, Cardinal Mercier, Emile Chautard, George Archainbaud, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Joseph Brooks, Leuven, Montagu Love, Shubert Theatre, The Cross Bearer, The Great Pursuit, The Idler, World Film Corporation, World Pictures-Brady
Harry Montagu Love was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire on March 15, 1880. His father was an estate agent. He became a newspaper illustrator during the Anglo-Boer War at the turn of the century. By 1911, he was a professional actor. He sailed to America in 1913, supporting the English actor, Cyril Maude, in Grumpy, which had a successful Broadway run followed by a nationwide tour. After returning to New York, he appeared in George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man and Candida at the Garrick Theatre. One of Love’s first films, Hearts in Exile (1915), starred Clara Kimball Young. Continue reading
23 Tuesday Feb 2016
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Emile Chautard, Frederick Warde, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Silent Movies, Thanhouser, The Fires of Youth, Under False Colors
Frederick Barkham Warde was born in Wardington, Oxfordshire, on February 23, 1851. Educated at the City of London School, he had planned to become a lawyer. But after being cast as ‘Second Murderer’ in an 1867 production of Macbeth, a life on the stage beckoned. He learned his craft at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow, playing eighty parts in nine months. Continue reading
13 Saturday Feb 2016
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Biopic, Dorothy Kilgallen, Eddie Doherty, George Sidney, Jean Louis, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels (1957), Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Jeff Chandler, Kim Novak, Louella Parsons, Rita Hayworth, The Jeanne Eagels Story, The Rain Girl
Marilyn Pauline Novak was born in Chicago on February 13, 1933. Her father was a history teacher who also worked as a railroad dispatcher, and her mother was employed in a factory. Both parents were of Czech descent, and had an elder daughter, Arlene. Continue reading
10 Wednesday Feb 2016
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Eddie Doherty, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Judith Anderson, Ossining, Storm Song
Frances Margaret Anderson was born in the Australian city of Adelaide on February 10, 1897. From an early age she was drawn to the theatre. At seventeen, she made her stage debut at Sydney’s Theatre Royal. Continue reading
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