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- Betty Lorraine was born Betty Cornelia Mumford on June 10, 1912 in Hartford, Connecticut. When she was a child she took dancing lessons and danced with the Arnold Lamon ballet. After her parents divorced her mother took her to California. Betty attended the Berkeley Hall School in Beverly Hills. At the age of sixteen she made her film debut as an extra in None But The Brave. The beautiful brunette was offered a contract with Sam Goldwyn and became one of the Goldwyn Girls. She sometimes used the screen name "Lorraine Marshall". In January of 1930 she married James Huston, a wealthy broker. The couple divorced two years later. Her second marriage, to Melville Peterson, also ended in divorce. Betty had small roles in A Bedtime Story, Dancing Lady, and Cain And Mabel.
Unfortunately by 1936 her acting career had stalled. She started working as a big band singer and appeared on numerous radio shows. Then she appeared on Broadway in the musical The Streets Of Paris. Betty impulsively married bandleader Charlie Barnet on November 21, 1938 after a two day courtship. Their marriage was annulled just forty- three days later. In 1940 she married her fourth husband singer Larry Stewart. She landed a bit part in the 1944 film Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves. Sadly she was suffering from severe depression. On September 29, 1944 she committed suicide by taking an overdose of barbiturates. Betty was only thirty-two years old. She was cremated and buried at Hollywood Forever cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Tragically her mother Bessie would also commit suicide in 1948. - Liviu Rebreanu, was the first born of the 13 children of a small village teacher. After usual school and gymnasium education in North Transylvania, (then part of Austro- Hungarian Imperium), learns in a military school and then between 1903 and 1908 in the Military Academy in Budapest, Hungary. In 1908, he resign and moves to live in Bucharest, Romania. After 1920 his novels "Ion" (the Lust For Land), "Ciuleandra", and "Rascoala" (the Uprising) brings him wide recognition as a valued writer. In 1922 he published "Padurea spanzuratilor" (the Forrest of the Hanged), inspired by his brother Emil tragic fate. An Austro - Hungarian officer of Romanian ethnic origin, is sent to fight in WWI on Eastern front, the Romanian army. When he tried to cross the front line, the officer is sentenced to death and hanged. Liviu Rebreanu dies a week after occupation of Romania by the Red Army.
- Mattie Keene was born in 1861 in Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Alma, Where Do You Live? (1917) and A Clever Collie's Come-Back (1916). She was married to Isaac Payton (manager) and Joseph Phillips. She died on 1 September 1944 in New York City, New York, USA.