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- A chess grandmaster and the World Chess Champion from 1921 to 1927, Capablanca appeared in Chess Fever (1925), which was filmed while he was in Moscow competing in an international tournament. As a chess player, he was known for his clear, logical style, and at his peak he was considered almost impossible to defeat. He once went 8 years without losing a single game.
- Belonging to an illustrious family of theater actors, he debuted as "love" in the theater company of Bianca Iggius, before moving in 1904 to that of Emma Gramatica and Leo Orlandini where he was "the first young actor." Having become a "brilliant actor" in 1914, two years after his debut in cinema with the film "Buon sangue non mente". On the big screen, Casilini boasts a fair number of appearances between 1916 and 1942, usually in supporting roles. Drafted into the army during the First World War, where he fought with the role of captain, filming the theatrical activity in 1918, and passed into the companies Cesare Dondini, Armando Falconi and again in that of the Gramatica, where he became a "leading man." In 1924 he formed a theater company in partnership with Letizia Bonini and Calisto Bertrand, which lasted until 1929. It was then "character" in the companies of Tatiana Pavlova, in Tofano-De Sica-Rissone and in that of Antonio Gandusio. In 1930 he was director of Luigi Rasi Ravenna. Subsequently, Casilini also devoted himself to radio drama at the EIAR studies of Turin.
- Georges Mauloy was born on 4 January 1875 in Soissons, Aisne, France. He was an actor, known for Les Misérables (1934), La maison du mystère (1933) and Tovaritch (1935). He died on 8 March 1942 in Paris, France.