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- Quit acting career during World War I, to outfit & staff a barge as a floating hospital, to nurse wounded soldiers in France. Boyfriends as a young actress included Baseball Hall of Famer John Montgomery Ward & heavyweight champ/actor Gentleman James J. Corbett. Elliott was named as co-respondent in Ward's divorce from famed actress Helen Dauvray. For her beauty & unusual violet eyes, Maxine Elliott has been compared to Elizabeth Taylor. For many years, there was a Maxine Elliott Theatre on Broadway.
She met husband Nat C. Goodwin, the leading comic actor of his era, en route to Australia in 1896. Goodwin was a dedicated baseball fan/gambler, and the stage idol of George M. Cohan. - American playwright, many of whose plays were filmed. The leading light of early twentieth-century light comedy and farce and one of the most commercially successful playwrights of his era, Hopwood, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, graduated from the University of Michigan, which would later be the beneficiary of much of his substantial estate. He began a career as a journalist for a Cleveland newspaper as its New York correspondent, but within a year had one of his plays, "Clothes," produced on Broadway. Thereafter followed a string of hits written solely or in collaboration, among them "Getting Gertie's Garter," "The Bat," and "Seven Days." His plays were looked upon at the time as extremely risqué and one of them, "The Demi-Virgin," which featured suggestive subject matter and near-nude actresses, led to a Supreme Court determination over its alleged obscenity. (The court ruled in Hopwood's favor.) His Prohibition-era plays of flappers, bathtub gin, and jazz were iconic for his age, and his own life was reflected in aspects of his plays. He was a heavy drug and alcohol user, and he kept his homosexuality tightly concealed. Despite making millions of dollars a year in royalties, he was known as a tightwad. An inveterate proponent of night life, he died while vacationing on the Riviera under somewhat mysterious circumstances. Ultimately it was ruled that he had drowned, though bruises on his body and the simultaneous presence in the vicinity of an angry ex-lover who had reportedly threatened him have kept suspicion alive. The University of Michigan established the Hopwood Prize with his bequest, providing funds and education for many future leading lights of the American theatre.
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Michel Leroy was born on 2 June 1931 in Sivry-Rance, Wallonia, Belgium. He was an assistant director and actor, known for Exorcist: The Beginning (2004), Sueurs froides (1988) and S.A.S. San Salvador (1982). He died on 15 May 2003 in Juan-les-Pins, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Writer
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Jean Guitton was born on 28 March 1887 in France. Jean was a writer, known for Forty Little Mothers (1940), Jim la houlette, roi des voleurs (1926) and Femme sans passé (1948). Jean died on 15 April 1973 in Juan-les-Pins, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Gaston Palmer was born on 4 March 1886 in Marseille, France. He was an actor, known for The Show Goes On (1936), Variety (1935) and Croquette (1927). He died on 4 January 1969 in Juan-les-Pins, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
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Julius Brammer was born on 9 March 1877 in Sehraditz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Sehradice, Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Suicide Squad (2021) and Sweet and Lowdown (1999). He died on 18 April 1943 in Juan-les-Pins, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Liselott Linsenhoff was born on 27 August 1927 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. She died on 4 August 1999 in Juan-les-Pins, Alpes-Maritimes, France.