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George Chesebro was an American character actor who, after a few leading roles in silent films, became an omnipresent bit player in "B" westerns. A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Chesebro became involved in traveling stock theater productions before the age of 20, and by 1911 was a seasoned performer. He played in a musical spectacular that toured Asia for two years, then returned to America and played in stock and vaudeville. Moving to Los Angeles in 1915, Chesebro began to supplement his vaudeville career with movie work and quickly began moving up the ladder of film success. World War I interrupted his work (sources differ as to whether he served in the US Navy or US Army). Following the war he resumed his movie career, starring in several popular serials. His popularity and the size of his roles waned during the 1920s, and with the arrival of talkies he was most often seen as heavies, henchmen and cops in a huge number of westerns and crime dramas, most of them low-budget. He became a fixture in "B" westerns, rarely billed but always familiar, and finished out his career in the 1950s with the demise of the B-Western. Occasional TV appearances marked his retirement, and he died in 1959, two months prior to his 71st birthday.- American novelist, several of whose stories became motion pictures. The daughter of a grocer, Strabel was born in Crown Point, Indiana, though she at times claimed her mother's birthplace of Pennsylvania as her own. She grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and sold her first story at 10 to a Pittsburgh newspaper. After college, she worked as a fashion reporter and a fashion advertising copywriter before taking up fiction writing during an extended illness. Her first novel, "Smart Woman," was published in 1933. She sold a story, "You Can't Escape Forever," to Warner Bros. in 1938, but it is unclear whether it was ever filmed, and a later film of that title credits a different author. Her first, and greatest, success with a film adaptation of her work was Cecil B. DeMille's Reap the Wild Wind (1942), from her bestseller. That was followed the same year by The Forest Rangers (1942), adapted from her magazine story "The Forest Ranger." Concurrent with that tale, she met and married David P. Godwin, the chief of fire control for the U.S. Forest Service. Godwin died in a 1947 plane crash, soon after Strabel's last film adaptation was released, Undercurrent (1946), based on her magazine story "You Were There." Strabel's final novels, "Storm to the South" and "Caribee," were successful but to date have not been filmed. She died of cancer in 1959 in Washington DC, and was buried in Charleston, South Carolina, survived by her two younger siblings.
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Daisy Eloise Smith was born on 30 December 1866 in Maryland, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for La paloma (1916), Little Kaintuck (1913) and Anne of the Trails (1913). She died on 28 May 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA.