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While she is now best known for her book "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," Anita Loos was one of Hollywood's foremost early screenwriters. She began writing screen scenarios for the 'Biograph Company' at an early age (though not 12, as she later claimed), and the first to be produced, The New York Hat (1912), was not only directed by the legendary D.W. Griffith but starred another of Hollywood's future heavyweights: Mary Pickford. After working for some years with Griffith (including writing the surtitles for his epic Intolerance (1916), she began to work for Douglas Fairbanks, whom she had championed in his early days in Hollywood.
Her husband and collaborator John Emerson convinced her to quit screenwriting for the sake of his own pride -- nevertheless, fate intervened in the form of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," an unassuming book she had compiled from a series of magazine stories she had based on the predilection of then-famous intellectual H.L. Mencken to be dazzled by gold-digging ditzes. The book was a surprise smash all over the world, later spawning a sequel ("But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes"), which became a not particularly successful silent movie but later a hugely successful film starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, and a hit Broadway musical.
This success, and the on-again, off-again nature of her marriage to Emerson allowed her to re-enter the film industry, where she worked on such classics as San Francisco (1936), The Women (1939), and Jean Harlow's Red-Headed Woman (1932). In her later years, she also wrote several pieces for the theater, eventually regaining fame via a number of movie memoirs, including "A Girl Like I" and "Kiss Hollywood Goodbye." These are today as well known for their colorful treatment of the truth as for their witty observations on the early days of Hollywood.- Philippe Marlaud was born on 20 June 1959 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Graduate First (1978), The Aviator's Wife (1981) and La maison des autres (1977). He died on 18 August 1981 in Lyon, France.
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Ray Turner was born on 28 October 1895 in New Mexico, USA. He was an actor, known for Mutiny Ahead (1935), Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940) and Young Nowheres (1929). He was married to Shirley Turner and Kaffie M. Thompson. He died on 18 August 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Music Department
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Composer, arranger, musician and conductor Robert Russell Bennett studied piano with his mother and other instruments with his bandmaster father, and also with Carl Busch and Nadia Boulanger (honorary DHL, Franklin & Marshall College and Guggenheim fellowships). He began conducting at 11, was organist at a Kansas City theatre and a violinist and violist with string ensembles. He came to New York in 1916 and joined G. Schirmer. In World War I he conducted army bands, and in 1922 he became an arranger for Broadway musicals; his productions included "Rose-Marie", "Sunny", "The Band Wagon", "Of Thee I Sing", "The Cat and the Fiddle", "Face the Music", "Show Boat", "Oklahoma!", "Kiss Me, Kate", "South Pacific", "The King and I", "The Sound of Music", "My Fair Lady", and "Camelot". He was affiliated with NBC's Project Twenty (1954) since 1954. He joined ASCAP in 1935 and was the former president of the NAACC. His compositions include "Abraham Lincoln, Sights and Sounds (RCA Victor awards)", the opera "Maria Malibran", "Hollywood (on a League of Composers commission)", "8 Etudes for Symphony Orchestra (on a CBS commission)", "Charleston Rhapsody", "Concerto Grosso", "Stephen Foster", "Armed Forces Salute", "Symphonic Songs for Band", "Suite of Old American Dances", "Song Sonata for Violin, Piano", "Organ Sonata", "Hexapoda", "4 Freedoms Symphony", "Celebration", "Symphonic Story of Jerome Kern", "He is Risen (Emmy award)", "The Enchanted Kiss" and "An Hour of Delusion (1-act operas)", "Suite for Band Track Meet", and "Commemmoration Symphony".- Actress
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Édith Georges was born on 20 May 1931 in Lyon, Rhône, France. She was an actress, known for Folies-Bergère (1956), The Man in the Raincoat (1957) and Sins of Paris (1952). She was married to Jean Burtin. She died on 18 August 1981 in St. Augustine, Florida, USA.- Bill Koza was born on 22 December 1930 in Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for My Bodyguard (1980) and Mickey One (1965). He died on 18 August 1981 in Riverdale, Illinois, USA.
- Carolina Nabuco was a great writer, best remembered as the biographer of her father Joaquim Nabuco, also an excellent novelist. Her education was all done in Europe. When she returned to Brazil she was already a perfect "Miss Society", but with solid training, both linguistic and literary. The admiration for the father was instrumental in her life, and only after having written his biography, "A vida de Joaquim Nabuco (1929) devoted herself to her own fiction, with the novels "A Sucessora" (1934), "Chama e cinzas" (l947) and a book of short stories, "O ladrão de guarda-chuva e dez outras histórias". She wrote an interesting book of memoirs, "Eight Decades" (therefore a less of the many who lived) and two biographies, of Santa Catarina de Siena and Virgil de Melo Franco, and a history of American ;iterature: "Retrato dos Estados Unidos à luz da sua literatura."
- Alexa von Porembsky was born on 5 June 1906 in Ödenburg, Austria-Hungary [now Sopron, Hungary]. She was an actress, known for Woman in the Moon (1929), Der Kosak und die Nachtigall (1935) and Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1955). She died on 18 August 1981 in West Berlin, West Germany.