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Stalwart, durable Monte Blue, a romantic leading man of the silent days, was born January 11, 1887, as Gerard Monte Blue (some sources indicate 1890, but his mother's application for his admission to the Soldier's and Sailor's Orphan's Home lists his birth date as January 11, 1887). Various sources have reported his first name as George or Gerald, but, again, in his mother's application, it is spelled Gerard. His father was killed in a railroad accident when Monte was eight and his mother could not support four children. He was admitted (along with another brother, Morris) to the orphanage at that time. There he built up his physique playing football. At one time or another the able-bodied gent was a railroader, a fireman, a coal miner, a cowpuncher, a ranch hand, a circus rider, a lumberjack and, finally, trekking west, he became a day laborer for D.W. Griffith's Biograph Studios.
Blue eventually became a stuntman for Griffith and an extra in The Birth of a Nation (1915), which was his first film. Griffith took him in and made him an assistant on his classic epic Intolerance (1916), where he earned another small part. Gradually moving to support roles for both Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, Blue earned his breakthrough role as "Danton" in Griffith's Orphans of the Storm (1921) with sisters Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish. He rose to stardom as a rugged romantic lead opposite Hollywood's top silent stars, among them Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow and Norma Shearer. He made a relatively easy transition into talkies as he had a fine, cultivated voice, but, at the same time, lost most of his investments when the stock market crashed in 1929. By the 1930s the aging star had moved back into small, often unbilled parts, continuously employed, however, by his old friend DeMille and Warner Bros. At the end of his life he was working as an advance man for the Hamid-Morton Circus in Milwaukee. He died of a coronary attack complicated by influenza in 1963.- Beppe Fenoglio was born in Alba, Piemonte, in northern Italy, in 1922. He had a brother and a sister, and his parents worked in a butcher's shop in Alba. He attended University in Torino, where he studied English literature and language, one of his greatest passions during his whole life. After 8 Semptember 1943 he joined the Resistance against the nazi-fascist army in Italy, and from this experience derived his masterpiece, IL PARTIGIANO JOHNNY (Johnny the Partisan), written in Italian and in English, a magnificent book on his terrible experience. Some other works are "Primavera di bellezza", and "La paga del sabato", "la malora".
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James Brock was born on 2 April 1901 in Gazil, West Virginia, USA. He is known for This Mad World (1930), Escapade (1935) and A Lady to Love (1930). He died on 18 February 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Fernando Tambroni died on 18 February 1963 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.