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- Katherine Grant was born on May 1, 1904 in Los Angeles, California. Her parents divorced and her father passed away in 1921. At the age of eighteen she won the Miss Los Angeles beauty contest and competed in the Miss America pageant. Katherine worked as a professional dancer and to make extra money she posed nude for an art study project. She made her film debut in the comedy short Saturday Morning and was offered a contract with Hal Roach. In 1923 she appeared in more than a dozen films including A Man About Town and Frozen Hearts. As her career took off the photographer who had taken her nude photos started to extort her. Katherine reported the man to the police and the scandalous photos did not hurt career. By 1925 she had become one of Hal Roach's favorite comedy vamps and he signed her to a new five year contract. Katherine worked with Oliver Hardy in Wild Papa and with Charley Chase in The Uneasy Three.She and Charley also performed in a vaudeville act together.
Unfortunately Katherine struggled with her weight and went on starvation diets to stay thin. On December 8, 1925, she was the victim of a hit-and-run accident. Doctors told her to take a break from acting but she returned to work a few days later. In the Spring of 1926 Katherine suffered a nervous breakdown on the set and was put in a sanitarium. Newspaper reports blamed the breakdown on her extreme dieting. Sadly Katherine would never make another film. Her health continued to get worse and she started suffering from dementia. Eventually she was sent to to Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino where she would live the rest of her life. Katherine died on April 2, 1937 from pulmonary tuberculosis. She was only thirty-two years old. Katherine was buried in an unmarked grave at Evergreen cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Fans of the late actress honored her with a marked headstone, in a special ceremony, on August 27, 2016. - Director
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Edward Laemmle started his film-industry career at Universal Pictures in 1915 when Carl Laemmle--his uncle and also the founder and owner of the studio--asked him to leave his college electrical engineering studies and join him at his recently purchased 230-acre location on Lankersheim Blvd. in the San Fernando Valley. Edward started as an assistant director, mainly under John Ford.
In 1917 he was dispatched to head an expedition as producer and make a film of the natives in Siam, Java and New Guinea. On this venture his sailing ship became shipwrecked in New Guinea in territory inhabited by the Kia Kia tribe, who were cannibals. The expedition spent nearly two years there, getting some remarkable footage. The resulting film, Shipwrecked Among Cannibals (1920), was the first to gross $1,000,000 for Universal.
Laemmle directed approximately 50 films. He had numerous assistants who later became renowned directors, William Wyler being one of the more famous.- Cecile Tormay was born on 8 October 1875 in Budapest, Hungary. She was a writer, known for A hegyek lánya (1942). She died on 2 April 1937 in Mátraháza, Hungary.