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- Born Crescent Clinton Rosemond, although becoming an actor, he started as a singer. He was in some a capella groups in the Los Angeles area at the turn of the century. In 1919 he became part of the Southern Syncopated Orchestra. During the 1920s the ensemble traveled to London where they performed at Buckingham Palace, and toured Australia, New Zealand, India and Japan. Rosemond then came to be one of the three members of the Royal Southern Singers.
As an actor his first role was as butler in Only the Brave (1930), and had bit uncredited similar parts, including a singing one in Carolina (1934), until he played the Prophet in The Green Pastures (1936), an adaptation of religious stories intended for black audiences. He played the doctor in another "black" film, Cabin in the Sky (1943). Like most of his race fellow actors, he was mainly offered roles of butler, servant or stableman, yet director Mervyn LeRoy praised his work in They Won't Forget (1937) as" the first to play a realistic black role on the screen" and a predecessor to Sidney Poitier and other fine black actors. - Writer
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Frank O'Connor was born on 17 September 1903 in Cork, Ireland, UK [now Cork, Ireland]. He was a writer and actor, known for The Sound of Wild Laughter, Camera Three (1955) and The Rising of the Moon (1957). He was married to Harriet Rich and Evelyn Bowen. He died on 10 March 1966 in Dublin, Ireland.- William Orville Eaton was born in 1925 in the USA. He died on 10 March 1966 in Bessemer, Alabama, USA.
- American novelist and biographer Mari Sandoz was born in Sheridan County, NE, in 1901, the eldest of six children of Swiss immigrants (she once noted that she grew up speaking German and hearing French, Polish and Czech, due to the number of Europeans who settled the Nebraska frontier; she didn't learn to speak English until she started school, at nine years of age). After graduating she took the exams to become a rural teacher, and taught school for five years. Afterwards she attended the University of Nebraska for 3-1/2 years but did not graduate.
She began writing at an early age and had several stories published in the "Omaha Daily News". In 1937 she was offered a position at the Nebraska Historical Society as assistant editor of their publication, "Nebraska History". She had written a biography of her father, "Old Jules", which had been rejected by many publishers. Frustrated, she decided to give up writing. After she got the position at the historical society, however, she decided to give it another try. She re-submitted the manuscript to several publishers. It was eventually accepted (after 13 more rejections) and published in 1935. It won the "Atlantic" Magazine prize for non-fiction.
She continued to write, and her most famous book would be "Cheyenne Autumn", which came out in 1951; it was made into a very popular film, Cheyenne Autumn (1964), directed by 'John Ford (I)'.
Mari Sandoz died in New York City in 1966. - Karl Luley was born on 21 September 1887 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was an actor, known for Rheinische Brautfahrt (1939), Peterchen's Mondfahrt (1959) and The Grapes Are Ripe (1952). He died on 10 March 1966 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
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Marie Crisp was born on 25 January 1892 in Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Kissed (1922), A Cafe in Cairo (1924) and The Man Who Married His Own Wife (1922). She was married to Donald Crisp. She died on 10 March 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.