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At the age of eight, Fleming hopped on a freight train to Chicago to escape his abusive father. Following hospitalization for gang fight injuries, he returned to California where he lived with his mother and worked at Paramount as a laborer. Fleming joined the Merchant Marine, and then he served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific in WW II, where he was a Master Carpenter in the Seabees.
From 1946 to 1957, Fleming appeared on stage in Chicago and New York with featured roles in numerous plays on Broadway including "My Three Angels," "Stalag 17," and "No Time For Sergeants." Fleming's television career began in the early 1950's with live performances on "Hallmark Summer Theatre," "The Web," "Suspense," "Kraft Television Theatre," and many other dramatic series. In 1954, he starred in Paramount's film "Conquest of Space," followed by "Queen of Outer Space" for Allied Artists. In 1958, Fleming became the star of CBS-TV's long-running western "Rawhide" as the trail boss Gil Favor. He remained with the top-rated show for seven of its eight seasons, and he had planned to retire to Hawaii where he had purchased a ranch.
He acted in "The Glass Bottom Boat" in 1965, and he was hired by MGM-TV to film the two-part adventure program "High Jungle" in Peru. During the shooting of location shots on the Huallaga River on September 28, 1966, Fleming dove (intentionally?) from a dug-out canoe after paddling it beyond the rapids. His body was lost in the turbulent water and was not recovered until three days later.- Actor
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Married to Marguerite A. Thomson in 1942. Joined the US Navy as a Medical Corp Man. Marguerite gave birth to Stephanie Rye Howell on Sept. 9, 1943 after Kenneth had a leave from the navy. Divorced from Marguerite around 1945 after realising he was gay. No contact made with daughter after the age of five. Upon turning twenty-one, daughter Stephanie made phone contact with her father but no physical contact was ever made. He died by his own hands (gun) on a small boat moored in a harbor on the California coast. He left a sister as well whose name was Lee Howell.- André Breton, one of the founders of Surrealism who studied to be a medical doctor and survived the First World War, became a writer and applied his knowledge of medicine and psychiatry to create innovative literature and art.
He was born on February 18, 1896, in Tichebray, Normandy, France. He was the only child in the family of a government clerk and a shopkeeper. In 1914 Breton enrolled in Sorbonne Medical School. There he studied neurology and psychiatry and was highly influenced by the writings of Sigmund Freud. In 1915 he was drafted in the First World War and served in the neurological ward at a military hospital. There he met Guillaume Apollinaire and they became close friends.
Guillaume Apollinaire introduced him to Philippe Soupault and Louis Aragon. They continued development of Surrealism which was initially named and formulated by Guillaume Apollinaire. In 1919 Breton and Philippe Soupault published the 'Les Champs Magnétiques' (The Magnetic Fields) written in the style of automatic writing. In 1921 he met Sigmund Freud in Vienna. Breton used Freudian method to psychoanalyze his patients. He also applied his knowledge of medicine and psychiatry to analyze literature and art. His analyzing of artists as well as his patients, whose disturbed images he found remarkable, allowed Breton to define Surrealism as "pure psychic automatism, by which an attempt is made to express the true functioning of thought" in writing or in any other manner. In 1924 Breton became editor of 'La Revolution surrealiste' and published the 'Manifeste du Surréalisme' (The Surrealist Manifesto). At that time he was joined by director 'Louis Buñuel' and artist Salvador Dalí.
From 1927-1935 Breton was a member of the French Communist Party from which he was expelled after expressing his disgust with Joseph Stalin and mass executions of intellectuals in the USSR. However, he continued his association with such prominent communists as Lev Trotskiy and artist Diego Rivera. The three were traveling together and remained friends during the 1930's. They co-wrote a Manifesto of Independent Revolitionary Art which called for complete freedom of art. During the Second World War Breton became a refugee in the United States. In 1941 he came to New York and founded the magazine VVV with Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst. In 1942 Breton gave a lecture at Yale on Surrealism helped organize the important Surrealist Exhibition at Yale, which stimulated development of the American Pop-Art. At that time his friendship with Salvador Dalí suffered the first blow, because Dali declared: "I am Surrealism!" After WWII Breton returned to France and continued writing poetry and prose.
André Breton's works include the novels Nadja (1928) and L'Amour Fou (1937), as well as essays and collections of poetry, of which his last work, 'Constellations' (1959), paralleled his poems with the art of Joan Miró. Breton was also known for his risqué and unusual humorous behavior. He staged humorous fights at parties and invented various grotesque jokes, which were explained by him as an essential part of Surrealism, amongst the boring world, in which he was rivaled by Salvador Dalí. Breton was widely regarded as the founder of Surrealism. He died of a lung disease on September 28, 1966, in Paris, and was laid to rest in Cimetiere des Batignolles in Paris, France. - Actor
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Bandleader Lucky Millinder was born in Alabama and raised in Chicago. He got his start in the music business--even though he didn't play any instrument and, according to some, couldn't even read music--as an emcee, and in 1934 he took over the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, among whom were such respected musicians as Henry 'Red' Allen, Buster Bailey and J.C. Higginbotham. When the band disbanded in 1938, Millinder worked with Bill Doggett's band, then formed his own group, Lucky Millinder and His Band, which quickly became one of the premier bands on the swing circuit.
The band was extremely popular in Harlem, especially when it began to shift away from swing music and more towards R&B. Among the band's more prominent members were Dizzy Gillespie and Bull Moose Jackson. Millinder secured a recording contract with Decca Records in 1942. Four of their records reached #1 on the R&B charts. In 1949 he began to reduce the size of his band to become involved in the "combo" music fad that was then sweeping black music. That was the beginning of the end, as the reconstituted band could not regain the level of success it had in its heyday, and in 1952 he dissolved it. Millinder didn't form another band, and became a disc jockey.
He died in New York City in 1966.- Actor
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Franz Herterich was born on 3 October 1877 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Liebesträume (1935), So endete eine Liebe (1934) and The Prince and the Pauper (1920). He died on 28 September 1966 in Vienna, Austria.