Gunga Din / George Stevens, réal. ; Ben Hecht, Charles Mac Arthur, Rudyard Kipling, aut. adaptés ; Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, scénario ; Alfred Newman, comp. ; Cary Grant, Victor Mc Laglen, Douglas Fairbanks jr... [et al.], act.

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English author and poet. His best-known works include the novels and short story collections The Jungle Book (1894), Just So Stories (1902), Puck of Pook's Hill (1906), and Kim (1901), as well as a number of poems such as "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), and "If-" (1910). Kipling was born in Bombay, India, into an artistic family: his father was a sculptor, pottery designer, and professor of architectural sculpture and tw...

Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964

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The Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe was a Jewish activist group led by Peter H. Bergson and Ben Hecht, among others; founded in 1943, the group publicized the extermination of the Jewish people ongoing under Nazi reign in Europe and pressured the administration of President Franklin Roosevelt to take measures to save Jewish refugees. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1943, 1946. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldC...

Fairbanks, Douglas, 1909-2000.

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American actor and writer; b. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; d. 2000. From the description of Douglas Fairbanks collection, 1888-1980. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70925544 Epithet: actor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000472.0x000376 ...

McLaglen, Victor, 1886-1959

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MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956

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Guiol, Fred, 1898-1964

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Grant, Cary, 1904-1986

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Sayre, Joel, 1900-1979

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Joel G. Sayre (1900-1979) was a journalist, author, screenwriter, and foreign correspondent. Raised and educated in Ohio, he served in the Canadian Army's Siberian Expeditionary Force during World War I and later studied at Oxford and Heidelberg. Returning to the United States, he covered sports and crime stories for newspapers in several cities, including Boston and New York, and wrote for the New Yorker. He wrote two successful novels and worked in Hollywood as a scree...

Newman, Alfred, 1901-1970

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Newman was born on Mar. 17, 1901 in New Haven, CT; became pianist, composer, and conductor; studied with Sigismond Stojowski, Reuben Goldmark, George Wedge, and Arnold Schoenberg; at age 13 he played piano at the Strand Theatre in NY, and was a pianist, accompanist, and conductor in vaudeville, and later in Broadway musicals; moved to Hollywood in 1930; appeared as a guest conductor with the Cincinnati Symphony, National Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Hollywood Bowl Symphony; became...

Stevens, George, 1904-1975

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Railroad surveyor and employee of Ensign, Bridgman and Fanning. Surveyed the Terre Haute & Alton in 1852, the Mississippi Central, the Nashville & Memphis and others. From the description of Account books, 1847-1848. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55662316 ...