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- Grace McHugh was born in 1898 in Golden, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Across the Border (1914). She died on 1 July 1914 in near Canon City, Colorado, USA.
- Born on December 18, 1863, the eldest son of Archduke Karl-Ludwig von Habsburg and his wife, Princess Annunziata di Borbone, Franz Ferdinand was third in line to the thrown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire upon his birth. After his cousin Crown Prince Rudolf committed suicide in 1889 and his father died in 1896, Franz Ferdinand became the heir of his aging uncle Emperor Franz Josef. He eloped with Countess Sophie Chotek in 1900, but this marriage was considered unequal and they were forced to renounce rights of rank and succession for their three children. A radical reformist, Franz Ferdinand had a number of new ideas he planned to implement when he became Emperor, one of them giving Slavs an equal voice in the empire. After the annexation of Bosnia by Austria, he decided to go on a tour of his new province in 1914 in hopes of fostering good will with his new subjects. A Serbian terrorist group called The Black Hand sent three of its members to murder Franz Ferdinand and his wife as they visited Sarajevo. Their first assassination attempt, throwing a bomb at the Archduke's car, failed, though a number of bystanders were wounded. The assassins almost gave up their plans, and one of them, Gavrilo Princip, wandered off down the street. Meanwhile, the Archduke and Archduchess decided to visit the wounded in the hospital, but their driver took a wrong turn and they ended up on the same street as Princip. Seizing his chance, Princip stepped forward and fired several times into the car, fatally wounding both Franz Ferdinand and Sophie. They were raced to the governor's mansion where they were pronounced dead. Not only did this act of violence orphan their three young children, it also set off a series of events that led directly to World War I.
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Johann Schwarzer was born on 30 August 1880 in Javornik, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. Johann was a director and cinematographer, known for Zimmer zu Vermieten (1908), Sklavenmarkt (1907) and Weibliche Ringkämpfer. Johann died on 8 October 1914 in Wierzbolów, Poland, Russian Empire [now Virbalis, Lithuania].- Rube Waddell was born on 13 October 1876 in Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Madge Maguire, May Wynne Skinner and Florence Dunning. He died on 1 April 1914 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Randolph McCoy was born on 30 October 1825. He was married to Sarah McCoy. He died on 28 March 1914 in Pike County, Kentucky, USA.
- Flora Foster was born on 4 March 1898 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for David Copperfield (1911), The District Attorney's Conscience (1912) and The Wedding Gown (1913). She died on 21 September 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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- Actor
Stellan Rye was born on 4 July 1880 in Randers, Denmark. He was a director and writer, known for Der Flug in die Sonne (1914), Ein Sommernachtstraum in unserer Zeit (1914) and The Student of Prague (1913). He died on 14 November 1914 in France.- Brandon Thomas was born on 24 December 1848 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Charley's Aunt (1930), Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940) and Charley's Aunt (1941). He was married to Marguerite Blanche Leverson. He died on 19 June 1914 in Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England, UK.
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- Actor
Frédéric Mistral was born on 8 September 1830 in Maillane, Provence, France. He was a writer and actor, known for Mireille (1934), Mireille's Sincere Love (1909) and Mireille (1922). He was married to Marie Louise Aimée Rivière. He died on 25 March 1914 in Maillane, Provence, France.- Charles Peguy was born on 7 January 1873 in Orléans, France. He was a writer, known for Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017), Film socialisme (2010) and Variations (1962). He was married to Charlotte-Françoise Baudouin. He died on 5 September 1914 in Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne, France.
- Pope Pius X was born on 2 June 1835 in Riese, Treviso, Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire [now Riese Pio X, Veneto, Italy]. He died on 20 August 1914 in Vatican City.
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Hermann Löns was born on 29 August 1866 in Culm, West Prussia, Germany [now Chelmno, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for The Heath Is Green (1932), Rot ist die Liebe (1957) and Wenn die Heide blüht (1960). He was married to Lisa Hausmann and Elisabeth Erbeck. He died on 26 September 1914 in Reims, Marne, France.- Lillian Nordica was born on 12 December 1857 in Farmington, Maine, USA. She was married to George Washington Young (banker), Zoltan F. Doeme (Hungarian tenor) and Frederick Allen Gower (journalist and inventor). She died on 10 May 1914 in Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia.
- Ellen Axson Wilson was born on 15 May 1860 in Savannah, Georgia, USA. She was married to Woodrow Wilson. She died on 6 August 1914 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- The theater-owner Benjamin Franklin Keith was born in Hillsboro Bridge (Hillsborough), New Hampshire on January 26, 1846. He is the theatrical impresario generally credited with the creation of vaudeville in America, which evolved out of variety theater. The theatrical empire he helped build became one of the building blocks for Joseph P. Kennedy's and David Sarnoff's Radio-Keith-Orpheum (R.K.O.) Studios, one of the major Hollywood film studios from 1929 through the early 1950s.
B.F. Keith was one of those romantic youths who joined a circus, eventually working for P.T. Barnum and then the Forepaugh Circus. In 1883, he and his partner Colonel William Austin opened a museum of curiosities in Boston, Massachusetts. Two years later, he and his new partner, Edward Franklin Albee II (the father of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee) opened Boston's Bijou Theatre. The Bijou ran a continuous variety show program from 10:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. daily, a format that came to be known as vaudeville. There was no intermission.
Keith and Albee's Union Square Theatre in New York City was the first to exhibit motion pictures, the Lumière Cinématographe, on June 29, 1896. Owning the American rights to the Lumière cinema equipment, they signed a contract with Biograph Studios for the production of films to be shown in their theaters in Boston, New York Philadelphia, and other locations in the East and Midwest. They began buying up small theaters throughout the East and Midwest to expand their empire of vaudeville theaters that also showcased the new medium. In 1905, they signed a deal with Thomas Edison's Edison Studios to supply their theaters with movies. The Keith and Albee chain of theaters was expanded via a merger with Frederick Freeman Proctor's theater chain in 1906. They were not nickelodeon owners, but legitimate theater impresarios who incorporated short films as part of their vaudeville bill.
B.F. Keith retired from the running of the theater chain in 1909 and died at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida on March 26, 1914. His interest went to his son Andrew Keith and subsequently was acquired by Albee after Andrew's death in 1918. The Keith and Albee chain eventually was merged with the Orpheum theater chain to form Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corp. in early 1928, and a controlling interest in K-A-O was acquired by Joseph Kennedy, the financier father of future U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy. The Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corp. consisted of a chain of vaudeville and movie theaters in the U.S. and Canada that had 1.05 million seats. Kennedy, who already controlled the small film producer/distributor F.B.O. (Film Booking Office), envisioned the K-A-O chain of theaters as the exhibition arm of a new major motion picture studio.
Later that year, Kennedy brokered a deal with David Sarnoff's Radio Corporation of America (RCA) to create Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) from K-A-O and his own Film Booking Office. Sarnoff had been looking for a venue for his company's new optical sound-on-film process, as other studios were wedded to the rival process created by Western-Electric. Sarnoff likely was the major force behind the deals that Kennedy had pulled off earlier.
David Sarnoff became the chairman of the board of RKO, and a motion picture production unit, Radio Pictures, was created in 1929, its name -- like that of the parent corporation -- paying homage to RCA, which owned a controlling share in the new studio throughout the 1930s. His wheeling and dealing done, Kennedy got out of the film industry for good in 1931, selling the last remaining film asset under his direct control, Pathé, to RKO, with which it was merged.
Vaudeville bills were soon dropped from the former K-A-O theaters after they were wired for sound. Vaudeville acts in some theaters survived, but only as an added feature, typically as an interlude for the feature film, as shown in the James Cagney 1933 movie Footlight Parade (1933) from Warner Bros. In the musical-comedy, Cagney is the harassed producer of vaudeville interludes used at major movie theaters in New York City. (Ironically, one of the movie companies Joe Kennedy considered acquiring was First National Pictures, which eventually merged with Warner Bros. in 1928 and gained access to its Vitaphone sound-on-film process, the first to be used in commercial motion pictures but which was soon obsolete. First National was dropped as a separate marque by Warner Bros. in 1936. Warner Bros. itself was sold by Jack L. Warner to Seven Arts Productions in 1967, after which the old cinema warhorse retired.)
Radio-Keith-Orpheum Studios was one of the major studios of Hollywood, producing the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals and Citizen Kane (1941), which many consider the greatest motion picture ever made. Aside from Astaire & Rogers, its major stars in the 1930s included Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. After buying the studio in 1948, eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes ran it into the ground.
Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. as a corporate entity was terminated in 1950 when Hughes signed a consent decree with the federal government in the wake of the Supreme Court's 1948 Paramount decision that ordered the studios to divest themselves of their theater chains. The studio was split up into a production-distribution business, RKO Pictures Corp., and an exhibition chain, RKO Theatres Corp. Hughes didn't actually sell off RKO Theatres until 1953, and two years later, he sold off the studio to General Tire & Rubber Co. for $25 million (approximately $200 million in today's money, when factored for inflation), by which time it was a shadow of itself.
The deal was a bust for General Tire, which shut down RKO Studios in January 1957. The studio's production facilities were sold to Desilu Productions, which was owned by TV superstar Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz. Ironically, Ball had signed a seven-year contract with R.K.O. as a 24-year-old starlet in 1935. In her seven years at R.K.O., she served as a supporting player in A pictures and as a leading player at the studio's B pictures unit until 1942, enjoying the title "Queen of the B's." She moved over to M.G.M. after her contract was up, to star in support of Red Skelton in 1943's Du Barry Was a Lady (1943). Now christened "The Queen of T.V.", Lucy came back to R.K.O. a generation later as owner of her former employer. - Camillo Boito was born on 30 October 1836 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Times Gone By (1952), Black Angel (2002) and Senso (1954). He died on 28 June 1914 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
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Abundio Martínez was born on 8 February 1875 in Huichapan, Hidalgo, Mexico. Abundio is known for El tango vuelve a París (1948), El buena suerte (1961) and A Quixote Without La Mancha (1969). Abundio died on 27 April 1914 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Pol Plancon was born on 12 June 1854 in Fumay, Ardennes, France. He was an actor, known for Lucia di Lammermoor (1911). He died on 12 August 1914 in Paris, France.
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Edwin Barbour was born on 2 July 1857 in Cresco, Iowa, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Northern Lights (1914), The Fire Patrol (1924) and The Fiancee and the Fairy (1913). He died on 15 September 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.- Director
- Actor
Leo Tscherning was born on 30 January 1880. He was a director and actor, known for Manegens stjerne (1912), Kommandørens døtre (1912) and Hustruens Ret (1913). He died on 24 June 1914 in Ebeltoft, Denmark.- Actor
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Sam Corker, Jr. was familiar with both sides of the entertainment business, being knowledgeable about the business and administrative end of as well as being a topflight performer in front of the footlights. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he was the son of a fisherman who served in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The son decided that his fate led elsewhere, and when he was in his teens, he headed north to New York City where he got a job as an usher at Augustin Daly's theatre on Broadway. In 1897, Corker was the business manager for Bob Cole and Billy Johnson's traveling minstrel show, "A Trip to Coontown." In 1904, he managed the road company of "In Dahomey," eventually traveling to Great Britain, to great acclaim. In 1908, he was briefly the manager of the Pekin Theatre in Chicago and later involved in organizing minstrel shows and booking vaudeville acts. He died as the result of a fall from a ladder and was buried in his home town of Charleston.- Count Alberti was born in September 1849 in Germany. He was an actor, known for A Spanish Wooing (1911), A Diplomat Interrupted (1912) and Merely a Millionaire (1912). He died on 29 October 1914 in California, USA.
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Robert Drouet was born on 27 March 1870 in Clinton, Iowa, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Gambler of the West (1915), The Two Fathers (1913) and Beverly of Graustark (1914). He was married to Mildred Loring (actress). He died on 17 August 1914 in New York City, New York, USA.- Robert Henry Hall was born on 15 November 1837 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He died on 29 December 1914 in Chicago Heights, Illinois, USA.
- Pierre Souvestre was born on 1 June 1874 in Plomelin, Finistère, France. He was a writer, known for Fantomas, Fantomas (1964) and Untitled Fantomas/Wassim Beji/SND Series. He died on 26 February 1914 in Paris, France.
- Peyo Yavorov was born on 1 January 1878 in Chirpan, Kingdom of Bulgaria. He was a writer, known for Dve hubavi ochi (2001). He was married to Lora Karavelova. He died on 29 October 1914 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- Thomas W. Henshaw was born in 1857 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Thomas W. died on 3 March 1914 in London, England, UK.
- Gustav Wied was born on 6 March 1858 in Nakskov, Denmark. He was a writer, known for Das Feuer (1914), Thummelumsen (1941) and Slægten (1978). He was married to Alice Tutein. He died on 24 October 1914 in Roskilde, Denmark.
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Herkomer was a painter who founded an art school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, in the 1880s. His film company produced only a handful of films, of which not a single can appears to have survived. He was widely credited with pushing cinema to new artistic heights, with bringing down the pace of the action to a more realistic speed and with taking more care than most with his period costumes and settings. He commissioned scripts from literary sources, notably the novels of Marie Corelli and Thomas Hardy, but none of these seem to have made it on to the screen.- Music Department
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Anatol Liadov was born on 10 May 1855 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a composer, known for Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), The Invisible Boy (2014) and The Price of Milk (2000). He died on 28 August 1914 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia].- Alain-Fournier was born on 3 October 1886 in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, Cher, France. He was a writer, known for The Wanderer (1967), Kouzelné dobrodruzství (1983) and Le grand Meaulnes (2006). He died on 22 September 1914 in Les Éparges, Meuse, France.
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Ivan Zajc was born on 3 August 1832 in Fiume, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire. Ivan was a writer and composer, known for Amelia (1999), Nikola Subic Zrinjski (2019) and Nikola Subic Zrinjski (1997). Ivan was married to Natalija Jesenko . Ivan died on 16 December 1914 in Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, Austro-Hungarian Empire.- Sydney Grundy was born on 23 March 1848 in Manchester, England, UK. Sydney was a writer, known for Sowing the Wind (1916), A Bunch of Violets (1916) and A Pair of Spectacles (1916). Sydney died on 4 July 1914 in London, England, UK.
- Caesar was born in 1898 in Caesar of Notts. He died on 18 April 1914.
- Paul Heyse was born on 13 March 1830 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer, known for Your Favorite Story (1953) and Zwei Liebesgeschichten (1980). He was married to Anna Schubart and Margaret Kugler. He died on 2 April 1914 in Munich, Germany.
- George Westinghouse was born on 6 October 1846 in Central Bridge, New York, USA. He was married to Marguerite Erskine Walker. He died on 12 March 1914 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Gladys Rankin was born on October 8, 1870 in New York City. Her father was actor Arthur McKee Rankin and her mother was actress Kitty Blanchard. She began acting on the stage when she was a child. One of her first starring roles was in The Runaway Wife. At the age of eighteen she married actor Sidney Drew. The couple costarred in the plays The Burglar and That Girl From Mexico. Their son, S. Rankin Drew, was born in 1891. Gladys and Sidney became a popular duo and they were first actors to perform drama in vaudeville. They also appeared together in the 1901 Broadway show Sweet And Twenty. She was usually billed as "Mrs. Sidney Drew". Her sister Doris Rankin married actor John Barrymore in 1904. Gladys was a talented author who wrote scripts using the pen name "George Cameron".
In 1908 her dramatic play Agnes was produced on Broadway. She made her film debut in the 1911 comedy The Red Devils. It was directed by Sidney and was based on one of their vaudeville sketches. Gladys wrote numerous short films including The Still Voice, A Sweet Deception, and The Line-Up. Sidney starred in all the films she wrote. Sadly in 1913 she was diagnosed with cancer. On January 9, 1914 she died from the disease at the age of forty-three. She was buried at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York, Just six months after her death Sidney married actress Lucille McVey who would also billed as "Mrs. Sidney Drew". Gladys's son, S. Rankin Drew, became an actor but tragically he was killed during World War 1. She is the great-grand aunt of actress Drew Barrymore.- Antonio Grisanti was born on 26 October 1859 in Cunico, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Last Days of Pompeii (1913), The Betrothed (1913) and The Maniac (1912). He died on 17 May 1914 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Duchess Sophie von Hohenberg was born on 1 March 1868 in Stuttgart, Germany. She was married to Archduke Franz Ferdinand. She died on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Alfred Henry Lewis, noted journalist and author, was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1855, the son of Isaac Lewis, a carpenter. When Lewis was quite young his family moved to Painesville, Ohio. Alfred H. Lewis married in Richfield, Ohio in 1879 to Miss Alice Ewing, the daughter of Dr. A. E. Ewing.
Lewis was educated as a lawyer and began to practice in Cleveland. From 1879 to 1881 he was a police prosecutor in that city. While still a lawyer, Lewis began to dabble in newspaper work as a Cleveland police reporter. About 1882, he moved west to Kansas City, and from there traveled in the southwest collecting frontier lore from the colorful characters of Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. The cowboys and miners Lewis met in his western travels became the dominant figures in his books. His first western sketches were printed in Kansas City newspapers. They were stories of the "Old Cattleman," signed "Dan Quin," his pseudonym.
Lewis was a prodigious worker. In 15 years he produced 18 works, many of which were widely popular. He specialized in western stories and tales of the New York underworld. Among his most popular books were the "Wolfville" series, "The Sunset Trail", Episodes of Cowboy Life", "Peggy O'Neil", and "The Boss".
By 1890, Lewis was an established journalist, a writer of political articles, by which he established a reputation as one of the foremost political writers of the country.
In the newspaper field Lewis was best known as Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times and New York Journal. He was a regular contributor to Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan and other magazines. In 1896 Lewis became the Washington correspondent for the Hearst newspapers and held that position for two years. He then became editor of "The Verdict," a humorous weekly, but soon turned his attention again to fiction and political writing for the Hearst newspapers.
In his later years, he was described as a short, squatty man with a square chin. He was noted for the prodigious amounts of coffee he drank each day.
Two of his brothers, Irving and William, controlled the publication of the New York Morning Telegraph, a theatrical daily newspaper.
He died at the age of 59 from an intestinal disorder on December 23, 1914 in Manhattan, New York. He was survived by his wife, Alice and his two brothers.
Like Bret Harte and Mark Twain, he first came into prominence through his stories of the west. It is probable he caught the spirit and vernacular of the latter-day West more accurately than any writer of his era. He had a host of imitators, but it was he that set the pace in rich humor and measured pathos and simple human nature. - Writer
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Christian Morgenstern was born on 6 May 1871 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He was a writer, known for Der Kriminalist (2006), Peer Gynt (1971) and Morgenstern am abend (1973). He was married to Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern. He died on 31 March 1914 in Meran, South Tyrol, Austria [now Merano, Alto Adige, Italy].- Väinö Kataja was born on 28 September 1867 in Hailuoto, Finland. He was a writer, known for Koskenlaskijan morsian (1937), Curses of the Witch (1927) and Koskenlaskijan morsian (1923). He died on 2 December 1914.
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John Tenniel was born on 28 February 1820 in London, England, UK. He is known for Jackanory (1965). He died on 25 February 1914 in England, UK.- May Treat was born on 17 November 1857 in Canada. She was an actress, known for The Mission Worker (1911). She was married to Joseph D. Clifton (née Dilks) (actor, playwright). She died on 25 December 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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George Bastow was born in 1871 in England, UK. George was a composer, known for She's Proud and She's Beautiful (1908). George died on 7 January 1914 in London, England, UK.- Cinematographer
Owen Carter was born in 1889. He was a cinematographer, known for The Range War (1914), The Ace of Diamonds (1914) and Bringing in the Law (1914). He died on 1 July 1914 in near Canon City, Colorado, USA.- Director
- Actor
Sofus Wolder was born on 11 April 1871 in Køge, Denmark. He was a director and actor, known for I kammerherrens klæder (1914), Den bortførte Brud (1913) and Kæmpedamens bortførelse (1913). He died on 13 July 1914.- Cecil Raleigh (born Cecil Rowlands in England on January 27, 1856) was an English dramatist and actor whose plays, primarily melodramas, were quite popular at both ends of the turn of the last century. The son of a physician, he took up acting with the stage name of Raleigh and specialized in musical comedy. He quit acting to write plays, both alone and in collaboration with other well-known dramatists, including Henry Hamilton, Augustus Harris and Seymour Hicks.
Raleigh was married to and divorced Effie Adelaide Rowlands, a novelist, and then married actress Saba Raleigh. He died on November 10, 1914 in London. Many of his plays, such as his famous 1909 melodrama The Whip (1928) (co-written with Hamilton) were made into movies during the silent era. - Luke J. Loring was born in 1852 in the USA. He was an actor, known for Forgiven; or, the Jack of Diamonds (1914). He died on 4 May 1914 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Charles Fisher was a cinematographer, known for The Tangle (1914). He died on 11 August 1914 in Yonkers, New York, USA.