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- Harald Madsen was born on 20 November 1890 in Silkeborg, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Krudt med knald (1931), Hallo! Afrika forude! (1929) and Han, hun og Hamlet (1932). He was married to Anna Sandberg. He died on 13 July 1949 in Usseroed, Denmark.
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Famed songwriter ("Moonglow", "Solitude", "A String of Pearls", "Darn That Dream"), composer, author and conductor, educated at the University od Pennsylvania. In 1934 he organized an orchestra with Will Hudson. He wrote the Broadway stage scores for "New Orleans" and "If I'm Lucky". Joining ASCAP in 1934, his chief musical collaborators incuded Louis Alter, Will Hudson, Duke Ellington, Josef Myrow, Joseph Meyer, Sammy Stept, James Van Heusen, and John Benson Brooks. His other popular-song compositions include "Haunting Me", "I Wish That I Were Twins", "So Help Me", "Good for Nothing but Love", "Deep in a Dream", "Heaven Can Wait", "This Is Worth Fighting For", "Just as Though You Were Here", "Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well", "Isn't It Strange What Music Can Do?", "Velvet Moon", "Along the Navajo Trail", "Man With a Horn", "One More Tomorrow", "If I'm Lucky", "Shake Down the Stars", "Endie", "It Ain't Right to Say Ain't", "Soft and Warm", "Holiday Forever", "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", and "All This and Heaven, Too".- Ruth Findlay was born on 19 September 1896 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for The Moonstone (1915), The Salamander (1916) and The Scar (1919). She was married to Donald W. Lamb. She died on 13 July 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Otto Wächter was first and foremost an Austrian lawyer and politician. A member of the Austrian Party, he took part in the July Coup in 1934. After the Anschluss, he became Secretary of State in charge of expelling those who did not submit to the new regime. Governor of the Krakow district (Poland and Ukraine) on behalf of the Third Reich, he took part in organizing the expulsion and deportation of Jews. After the war, wanted for war crimes, he went into hiding in Rome and, to survive, landed a few roles as an extra at Cinecittà, a month before his death.