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Buddy Messinger was born on 26 October 1907 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Jinx (1919), A Lady of Chance (1928) and Treasure Island (1917). He was married to Marjorie Josephine Montgomery. He died on 25 October 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Mary L. Mulhern was born on January 24, 1908 in Newark, New Jersey. When she was a child her family moved to Manhattan where her father worked as a salesman. At the age of seventeen Mary started dancing in the chorus of the Ziegfeld Follies. Then Florenz Ziegfeld cast her in his the 1926 Broadway show No Foolin. The beautiful brunette appeared in several Vitaphone shorts including Just Like A Man and Somewhere In Jersey. She fell in love with entertainer Harry Richman but he left her for Clara Bow. On August 12, 1930 she married actor Jack Pickford. He was the brother of movie star Mary Pickford and the widow of Olive Thomas. Unfortunately Jack was an alcoholic and often became abusive. When he was injured in a car accident in 1931 she was forced to be his full-time nurse.
Mary divorced him in February of 1932 claiming he was "a jealous man who sleeps until 4 in the afternoon". Soon after Jack Pickford died from neuritis. In 1936 she married Edward McCarty, a twenty-eight year old stockbroker. Tragically he died just four years later. She married her third husband in 1941 but they divorced a few years later. Mary also dated prize fighter Jack Dempsey and was briefly engaged to a British nobleman. As she got older she struggled with money and depression. She worked at several low paying jobs including being the hostess at an ice-cream shop. Then in May of 1955 she was committed to a mental hospital in New York. Sadly she would remain institutionalized for the rest of her life. On October 25, 1965 she died at the age of fifty-seven. She was buried at Kensico Cemetery in Vahlalla, New York. Her grave was paid for by the actors fund. - Music Department
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Hans Knappertsbusch was born on 12 March 1888 in Elberfeld [now Wuppertal], Germany. He is known for The Cousins (1959), Eine kleine Nachtmusik (1939) and Eroica (1949). He was married to Marion von Leipzig and Ellen Selma Neuhaus. He died on 25 October 1965 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Oszkár Ascher was born on 20 August 1897 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Felfelé a lejtön (1959), Hannibál tanár úr (1956) and Éjfélkor (1957). He was married to Mária Gabriella, Balázs. He died on 25 October 1965 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Composer and arranger Reginald Douglas Brownsmith's first big success as a composer came in 1927 when "Down the Mall" written with Tony Lowry was published. The newly-formed BBC Dance Orchestra under Henry Hall made its first broadcast (and Columbia recordings) in March 1932, and Douglas Brownsmith was one of a fine team of arrangers, working alongside Tony Lowry, Phil Cardew, Sid Phillips, Peter Yorke, Ronnie Munro and Van Phillips. One of his compositions, "Hush Hush Hush Here Comes The Bogey Man" (credited on the label to Lowton and Benson - actually Lowry and Brownsmith) was on the other side of the famous Henry Hall record of "Teddy Bears' Picnic". After World War II production music publishers needed a vast amount of original orchestral compositions to service the requirements of radio, films and the emerging television stations around the world; Bosworth, Boosey & Hawkes, Charles Brull and Francis Day & Hunter all published a number of Brownsmith's works.