Word: maddern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth, 76, pioneer cinemactor; in Glendale, Calif. Born in Marietta, Ohio, Bosworth ran off to sea at twelve, at 19 joined a stock company, soon rose to leading parts with Minnie Maddern Fiske and Julia Marlowe. Pronounced fatally tuberculous, seven years later he earned $125 for two days' work as the star of the first movie made on the Pacific Coast: a one-reeler, The Sultan's Power (1909). Three of his 500-odd subsequent films: The Big Parade, Woman of Affairs, The Miracle...
Died. Frank Gillmore, 75, theatrical favorite from the '80s through the 1900s, co-founder and longtime president of Actors Equity Association; in Manhattan. He was leading man to Minnie Maddern Fiske, Henrietta Crosman, Alia Nazimova, was the father of Actress Margalo Gillmore...
...class the owners frowned: stage folk. A few exceptions: Ellen Terry, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Henry Miller. Actors and actresses were apt to be a bit too gay. The Murray Hill stood for leisurely good living; whatever high jinks went on behind its walls were perhaps elaborate, but certainly decorous...
...first man to produce Ibsen's plays in the U.S., fought the Klaw & Erlanger "Theatrical Trust" which controlled nearly every U.S. theater in the '90s. Once Fiske trouped through Texas "under canvas"-because the trust refused him their theaters. He married the late, great Actress Minnie Maddern in 1890, became her manager, starred her in Ghosts, A Doll's House, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, finally helped break the monopoly. His most popular success: Kismet, starring Otis Skinner. A critic once wrote: "Fiske in the '90s was probably the only manager in the American theater...