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- Daniel Topping was born on 11 June 1912 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. He was married to Charlotte Ann Lillard, Alice Meade Lowthers, Kay Sutton, Sonja Henie, Arline Judge and Theodora Boettger. He died on 18 May 1974 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
- A pretty and promising Australian-born actress in Hollywood films from the early 1930s, pinch-cheeked Mary Maguire was born Helene Teresa ("Peggy") Maguire in Melbourne, one of five children born to footfall player and boxer turned hotelier Michael "Mick" Maguire. One of her sisters became actress Joan Shannon.
A student at the Academy of Mary Immaculate in Fitzroy, the fresh-faced actress made her film bow unbilled in the film Diggers in Blighty (1933). Billed as "Peggy Maguire" in her second film Heritage (1935) directed by Charles Chauvel, who discovered her, she received good reviews for this and earned another fine role opposite Charles Farrell in The Flying Doctor (1936) in which she changed her stage moniker to "Mary Maguire".
In the United States from August of 1936, Warner Bros. signed her to a seven-year contract and cast her in That Man's Here Again (1937) co-starring Tom Brown. Other roles came her way with Confession (1937) and Alcatraz Island (1937) and Sergeant Murphy (1938). Warner Bros. released her from her contract when she refused a role in Mystery House (1938).
Fox signed her up briefly in 1938 and cast her as the lead in Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938), the Gracie Fields musical Smiling Along (1938) and in The Outsider (1939). From there she signed up with British Picture Corp. and starred in False Rapture (1939) with Otto Kruger and Mad Men of Europe (1940) with Edmund Gwenn.
Marriage and the birth of a child joyously interrupted her career, but when the child died suddenly in infancy, the devastated Mary returned to work and was cast in the British film This Was Paris (1942) starring Ann Dvorak and Ben Lyon, but no other future films came her way.
A second marriage to Philip Henry Legarra in 1945 prompted a sudden move back to the States where he worked as an engineer. An attempt to resurrect her film career failed. The marriage lasted until his death in 1971 and Mary passed away three years later, interred alongside her husband at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California. - Actor
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Tyree Glenn was born on 23 November 1912 in Corsicana, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Once Upon a Tune (1951), Jazz Party (1958) and BBC Show of the Week (1965). He died on 18 May 1974 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.- Actor
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Karl Hellmer was born on 11 March 1896 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Madame Bovary (1937), Liebe, Tod und Teufel (1934) and The Castle (1968). He was married to Selma Dietl. He died on 18 May 1974 in West Berlin, West Germany.- John Henry Lewis was an actor, known for Human No More: The Feature (2021) and Human No More: A Making-Of Documentary: Reinventing Perspective (2023). He died on 18 May 1974 in New York, USA.