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Gloria Stuart, the American actress, activist, painter, bonsai artist and fine art printer and printmaker, was born Gloria Frances Stewart on the 4th of […]
Born in Vienna on the 14th of January, 1896, Hans J Salter trained at the city’s Academy of Music and served as assistant director […]
British actress Heather Sears, best known to horror fans for her performance as Christine in Hammer’s 1962 production of Phantom of the Opera, was […]
James Henry Kinmel Sangster was born on the 2nd of December, 1927. He began his movie career as a production assistant during World War […]
Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on the 30th of August, 1797 in Somers Town, London, and would go on to create one […]
Maximilian Schreck – best known to film fans as Max Schreck – was born on the 6th of September, 1879. Passionate about the theatre […]
Maximilian Raoul “Max” Steiner was born on the 10th of May, 1888 in Austria-Hungary. A child prodigy, he conducted his first operetta when he […]
