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- Betty Browne was born Elizabeth L. Browne in New York City. Her father, Edgar Brown, was an attorney. At the age of fifteen she made her Broadway debut in The Passing Show Of 1915. Then she joined the cast of The Ziegfeld Follies. Betty also starred in Ziegfeld's Nine O'Clock Review. On January 3, 1918 she married theatrical producer Leslie Casey. She appeared in the Broadway shows The Little Blue Devil, The Magic Melody, and The Rose Of Stamboul. During the early 1920s she began writing articles for fan magazines like Picture Play. In 1927 she was hired by Mack Sennett to write title cards (the descriptive text that appears in silent films).
Betty wrote title cards for more than a dozen comedies including The Bargain Hunt, Taxi Spooks, and Love At First Flight. She was one of a small number of female writers working in Hollywood at that time. After divorcing her husband she married screenwriter Gene Towne. Their daughter, Betty Gene, was born in 1929. The family lived in Los Angeles and she gave up her career to be a housewife. Unfortunately her marriage to Gene ended in 1939. Betty married George L. Kehner, a Merchant Marine, in 1945 but they divorced a few years later. As she grew older she began suffering from diabetes. On December 28, 1959 Betty died from a heart attack at the age of fifty-nine. She was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. - Janina Klimkiewiczowa was born on 15 February 1891 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Pan Tadeusz (1928). She died on 30 December 1959 in Jastrzebia Góra, Wladyslawowo, Pomorskie, Poland.
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Abbasuddin Ahmed was born on 27 October 1901 in Cooch Behar, British India. Abbasuddin was a composer, known for Prohor (2002) and Asiya (1960). Abbasuddin died on 30 December 1959 in Dacca, East Pakistan.- Yuri Yurovsky was born on 3 May 1894 in Tiflis, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. He was an actor, known for Zhukovsky (1950), Vstrecha na Elbe (1949) and Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924). He died on 30 December 1959 in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia].