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Producer - Born Sept. 13, 1880 in San Francisco, CA - Died Jan. 13, 1958 of heart attack in Beverly Hilton, CA North side of the 6400 block of Hollywood Boulevard Jesse. L. Lasky was one of the movie pioneers who built Hollywood's sprawling film industry....

Voyage au bout de la haine ... avec Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis-Ferdinand Céline publie ce mois-ci un livre de 600 pages, "D'un château l'autre", où il vomit, dans un flot de ranc?ur et de points de suspension ses souvenirs de guerre. Après son exode...

Actress - Born April 26, 1903 in Birmingham, AL - Died April 8, 1957 in Motion Picture and Television Country House, CA Dorothy Sebastian's film career as a siren spanned 15 years of silent and talking pictures. She came to Hollywood in 1924 after appearing...

En décidant d'évacuer Gaza et Charm el-Cheikh, «le Vieux», conspué comme «capitulard» par l'extrême droite, parie sur le succès de la diplomatie américaine et se satisfait du libre accès d'Israël à la mer Rouge. Ben Gourion a remporté, mardi dernier,...

Actress - Born June 21, 1906 in New York, NY - Died Jan. 26, 1957 of pneumonia in Patton State Hospital, CA Helene Costello was once a $3,000-a-week star of the silent screen. Costello's life faded into obscurity after her brief but brilliant career on...

Dimanche matin, 11 novembre 1956, à l'heure de notre départ de Budapest et de notre retour sur Vienne, une vieille femme, âgée d'environ 70 ans, s'est approchée de la voiture des journalistes français stationnant au coin de la rue Maiakovski et de l'allée...

Avec la prise de Gaza et l'occupation du Sinaï, Israël a atteint ses objectifs. Mais les intérêts coalisés dans l'intervention franco-britannique en Egypte risquent de se retourner contre le «valeureux petit pays traqué». Lundi soir, le speaker de la...

A BRILLIANTLY detailed performance by Paul Newman in the role of an American Army captain on trial for collaborating with the enemy while a prisoner during the Korean conflict gives a much more disturbing emotional impact to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's film,...

The Post continues its interview with the Eisenhowers on Ike’s new memoir. After his second term, President Dwight Eisenhower left Washington, D.C., and retired to his farm in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In his most recent book, David Eisenhower...

Frankfurt, Aug. 9 (JTA) – Adolf Heinz Beckerle, a top Nazi leader who was police chief of Frankfurt when the synagogues of the city were set afire in 1938, and who later tried hard to deport all the Jews from Bulgaria to extermination camps, was granted...

«Regardez le pays et jugez si nous existons ou pas», dit Ben Gourion. David Ben Gourion Selon Ben Gourion, "il y a deux choses qui font la vie du peuple d'Israël, ce sont la Bible et le socialisme. Et pour ceux qui comprennent la Bible, comme je la comprends,...

Actress - Born Dec. 14, 1881 in Pittsburgh, PA - Died June 4, 1956 in Santa Barbara, CA Actress Katherine MacDonald was called "The American Beauty" of silent films. The Broadway star of pre-World War I days followed her sister Mary MacLaren into films....

Washington, Dec. 22 (JTA) – Commander of Nazi Unit Which Burned Jews Recommended for Parole. A parole is being considered for Nazi SS Col. Joachim Peiper, commander of the Blowtorch Battalion" which burned Jews to death. It was learned today. Col. Peiper...

Bochum Germany, Dec. 22 (JTA) – After finding the former commander of the Stutthof concentration camp SS LL Col. Paul Werner Hoppe, guilty of having been an accessory to murder in hundreds of cases a German Court of Assizes here sentenced him to five...

Die Villa Hügel, das einstige Stammschloß der Essener Stahl- und Kanonendynastie Krupp, lag am vergangenen Sonnabend nicht in der sonst gewohnten Finsternis. Aus den zweihundert Zimmern des Palastes, den sich Alfred Krupp in den Jahren des Deutsch-Französischen...

Actress | Producer | Singer - Born Constance Campbell Bennett on Oct. 22, 1904 in New York, NY - Died July 24, 1965 of cerebral hemorrhage in Fort Dix, N.J. Constance Bennett was born to the footlights and later became one of Hollywood’s highest paid...

Actress - Born Theodosia Goodman on July 20, 1890 in Cincinnati, OH - Died April 7, 1955 of cancer in Los Angeles, CA Theda Bara was the first great femme fatale of the silent screen. For her the word "vamp" was invented — from vampire. For her, also,...

Washington, Mar. 14 (JTA) – The effects of American aid to Israel on the economic situation of the country were outlined today by President Eisenhower in a report to Congress on the operation of the Mutual Security program throughout the world. The President...

Director | Producer | Screenwriter - Born William Churchill de Mille on July 25, 1878 in Washington, DC - Died March 5, 1955 in Playa del Rey, CA. William C. de Mille was a playwright, motion-picture producer and director and founder of the drama department...

Vienna, Dec. 14 (JTA) – The "Iffland Ring," for the past century the highest distinction to which a German-language actor can aspire, was conferred upon Werner Krauss, at a ceremony here, after he had been selected by a vote of the "Cartel Association...

A l'occasion des 50 ans de la signature des accords d'Evian, le "Nouvel Observateur" ressort les articles publiés dans "France Observateur". Vus d'ici, les événements d'Algérie apparaissent à la fois comme beaucoup moins spectaculaires et beaucoup plus...

Actor | Director | Writer - Born Lionel Blythe on April 28, 1878 in Philadelphia, PA - Died Nov. 15, 1954 of heart attack in Van Nuys, CA Lionel Barrymore was the eldest brother in a a famed family of actors and himself a veteran of stage, screen and...

En proclamant : «l'Algérie, c'est la France», nous affirmons un but ou un désir - mais est-ce une réalité? Dans les meilleurs moments, tout le monde fait comme si, jusqu'à ce que l'évidence éclate. Malgré tout, il y a encore quelques chances de faire...

Paris, Oct. 3 (JTA) – The Vichy Government was ordered by Nazi Germany to surrender Jews for deportation to the East and at that point the French collaborationist government was forced to choose between sending to their death French Jews or Jews of other...

Dusseldorf, Jul. 27 (JTA) – United States consular officials have refused to grant visas to enter the United States to Hjalmar Schacht, onetime financial advisor to Hitler, and to Dr. Ernst Achenbach, chairman of the Free Democratic Party in the Ruhr,...

Im Sommer 1912 kam der neunzehnjährige Friedrich Sieburg zum ersten Male für wenige flüchtige Tage nach Paris. Der Atem der "Lichtstadt", in der sich die Idee "Frankreich" sammelte, hauchte ihn an und verzauberte ihn. Was sein erstes Erlebnis von dem...

Munich, Oct. 15 (JTA) – In posthumous denazification proceedings, former Nazi press chief Dr. Otto Dietrich, who died last year, was classified as a "major offender" and his estate confiscated. A constant companion and one of the closest confidants of...

Frau Suzy Bidault, geborene Borel, vor 8 Jahren noch Botschaftsrätin 1. Klasse und stellvertretende Leiterin der Personalabteilung des Quai d''Orsay, ließ ihren Gatten Georges in diesem Jahr allein zur spätsommerlichen Leber-Kur nach Vichy fahren. Georges...

published 06/06/1953 at 10:55 Actor - Born July 4, 1876 in Boston, MA - Died June 5, 1953 of uremia in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center [formerly Cedars of Lebanon Hospital], CA William Farnum was once known as the silent films' highest-paid star. His way...

Gustav Hilger, 66, ehemaliger deutscher Botschaftsrat, und seit 1946 Rußlandberater in der Ostabteilung des State Department, erschien zu informativen Gesprächen auf Heimaturlaub in Bonn. Reichsaußenminister v. Ribbentrop unterzeichnet am 28. September...