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- Helene Chadwick came from a very wealthy family in upstate New York (the town, Chadwick, was named after them), where her father owned a silk mill and her mother was an opera singer. On a visit to New York she was persuaded by an artist friend to pose for one of his paintings. A film producer saw the work, and after contacting Helene discovered that she was an experienced horsewoman, which is what he needed for a film he was shooting. He asked her if she'd be interested, she was, and soon she found herself making her film debut in The Challenge (1916) for Pathe. After a few more films she signed a contract with Goldwyn Pictures. She had a career of more than 20 years in the film industry, her last picture being A Star Is Born (1937), directed by her former husband, William A. Wellman, in which she had an uncredited bit part as a woman at a film preview. Tragically, she died in Los Angeles in 1940 from injuries she received in a fall. She was only 42 years old.
- Arthur Stone was born on 28 November 1883 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Burning Daylight (1928), The Vagabond King (1930) and On the Level (1930). He was married to Dorothy Westmore. He died on 4 September 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Tisdale Justin Dow was born in Los Angeles, California. He was the son of Wilbur Olen Dow Sr., a real estate developer and Irene Eladist Bowen and the oldest of five children. He left Los Angeles to attend Adelphi College in Long Island, New York. While there, he majored in art, winning a gold medal in drawing in 1911. A number of his cartoons appeared in the Los Angeles Herald Newspaper. Shortly after, he began his stage career. This lasted two years before switching to silent films with Kalem Studios in New York. He appeared in several Alice Joyce films such as "The Vanderhoff Affair", "The Swamp Fox", "The Plains of Abraham" and "The Barefoot Boy". He typically portrayed foreign characters in supporting roles owing to his black hair. He later became a studio manager in Jacksonville, Florida for Kalem Film Co. He died in Oakland, California. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in East Los Angeles. He was the uncle of Olympian Bowen Stassforth.
- Ludwik Fritsche was born on 17 August 1872 in Czestochowa, Poland, Russian Empire [now Czestochowa, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Story of a Sin (1933), Pan Tadeusz (1928) and Dziesieciu z Pawiaka (1931). He died on 4 September 1940 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.