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Patriarch of a famous political family, Kennedy had a brief Hollywood career: He was one of the first financiers to play a leading role in the movie industry. Although he grew up in modest East Boston, where his father was a barkeeper and politician, Kennedy was educated with the Establishment's children at Boston Latin School and Harvard. In 1914, he married Rose Fitzgerald, daughter of Boston's mayor. Billed as "America's youngest bank president" at 25 (his father and his friends owned the bank.) He became a prominent stock market "operator" in the 1920s. In 1926, as the front man for Wall Street interests, he became chief executive of Film Booking Office, a distributor of low-budget features for unsophisticated audiences. Soon Kennedy also assumed power at another studio, Pathe, and at the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chain. Through "financial engineering" of these companies - some of their pieces went into a new major studio, RKO - Kennedy added to his already substantial fortune. (A sidelight in his Hollywood period was his business and sexual relationship with Gloria Swanson, recounted in detail in her autobiography.) In the 1930s, Kennedy turned his attention to politics: an early fund-raiser for Franklin D. Roosevelt, he became the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, then U.S. ambassador to England (1938-40). Kennedy's pessimistic statements about Britain's chances in World War II alienated Roosevelt and made Kennedy deeply unpopular in America. After the war, Kennedy steered his surviving sons, John, Robert and Edward, into politics and served as financier and strategist for their campaigns. In 1961, he suffered a stroke that left him unable to speak, but by all accounts he was aware of many calamities that befell his family until his own death in 1969. Some say that the scandal of his son Teddy at Chappaquiddick was what killed him. Some historians see Kennedy's rapacious greed for success as a fatal flaw that he passed on to his sons, none of whom could transcend it.- Music Department
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Ted Heath was born on 30 March 1900 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Entrapment (1999), Call Me Mister (1951) and Undertaking Betty (2002). He was married to Moira Heath and Audrey Keymour. He died on 18 November 1969 in Surrey, England, UK.- Actor
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Gus McNaughton was born on 29 July 1881 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The 39 Steps (1935), Leave It to Me (1933) and Not So Dusty (1936). He was married to Charlotte Govett. He died on 18 November 1969 in Castor, England, UK.- Artye Folz was born on 4 August 1920 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Tomato Omelette (1929), The Pooch (1932) and Big Pie Raid (1927). She died on 18 November 1969 in Bellflower, California, USA.
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Eero Leväluoma was born on 6 June 1896 in Helsinki, Finland. He was an actor and art director, known for Varuskunnan 'pikku' morsian (1943), Finlandia (1922) and Erehtyneet sydämet (1944). He died on 18 November 1969 in Helsinki, Finland.- Writer
- Actor
- Director
Oreste Palella was born on 19 August 1912 in Messina, Sicily, Italy. He was a writer and actor, known for Il richiamo nella tempesta (1950), Non vogliamo morire (1954) and Caterina da Siena (1947). He died on 18 November 1969 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.