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- Marie Burke was born on 18 October 1894 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for His House in Order (1920), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and Help! Help! Police! (1919). She was married to Tom Burke. She died on 21 March 1988 in Menton, France.
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Henri Colpi was born on 15 July 1921 in Brig, Valais, Switzerland. He was a director and writer, known for The Long Absence (1961), Codine (1963) and Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959). He died on 14 January 2006 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Marvin H. Albert was born on 22 January 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for The Don Is Dead (1973), Duel at Diablo (1966) and A Twist of Sand (1968). He died on 24 March 1996 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Michel Garland was born on 29 December 1930 in Amiens, France. He was an actor, known for Aux frontières du possible (1971), Pêcheur d'Islande (1959) and Le dernier saut (1970). He died on 1 March 2024 in Menton, France.
- Tony Laurent was born on 21 January 1904 in Saint-Lô, Manche, France. He was an actor, known for Le roi des gangsters (1935), La robe rouge (1933) and N'épouse pas ta fille (1934). He died on 25 September 1985 in Menton, France.
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born on 29 January 1867 in Valencia, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for Sangre y arena (1917), Torrent (1926) and Blood and Sand (1922). He was married to Elena Ortuzar and Maria Blasco. He died on 28 January 1928 in Menton, France.- Georges Wague (1874-1965) was a French mime, teacher and silent film actor. Between 1907 and 1922 he also performed in more than forty films. He started his film career with the silent film L'Enfant prodigue/The Prodigal Son (Michel Carré, 1907), where he played a Pierrot. His last film performance was in Faust (Gérard Bourgeois, 1922).
Georges Wague was born Georges Marie Valentin Waag in Paris in 1874. In the early 1890s Wague participated in the soirées of La Plume, the literary magazine founded by Léon Deschamps, where he was noticed for his verse recitals. Xavier Privas proposed to sing songs while Georges Wague mimed them, creating a new artistic expression they called 'cantomime'. In the cantomimes, which began in 1893 at the Café Procope, Wague performed on stage with a singer and piano in the wings. Often the character was Pierrot. The established mime Félicia Mallet assisted Wague in developing his highly individual style during the early part of his career. Cantomimes included Noël de Pierrot (1894) and Le Testament de Pierrot (1895). Wague staged his first pantomime at the Théâtre Montparnasse in 1895, Le Voeu de Musette. Many others followed over the years. To revive his career after his return from military service in 1898, Georges Wague began to participate in soirées of the 'Veillées artistiques de Plaisance'. Cantomimes included Pierrot Chante (1899) and Sommeil Blanc (1899). Sommeil blanc (White Sleep) was written for him by Xavier Privas, with music by Louis Huvey. Due to rivalry with other performers of cantomimes, Wague created a company with Christiane Mandelys (or Mendelys), who became his wife, to preserve his rights as inventor of the concept. With his troupe, he played La Roulotte (The Caravan) directed by Georges Chartron. He won success and began touring in France and abroad, leading to presentation of the last show at the Exposition Universelle (1900) where he played Pierrot parts such as unfaithful Pierrot and Christmas Pierrot. Georges Wague decided to move into white pantomime, where large gestures and movements are made, and the pantomime is dramatic. For this he changed his stage play: his mime consisted of gestures reduced to the simplest attitudes to express the full range of thought in constant movement. He did not use the conventional alphabet of mimes in this original form of expression.
Georges Wague taught pantomime, notably to the writer Colette, with whom he made a tour from 1906 to 1912 and caused a scandal with presentations of La Chair (Flesh) where Colette was largely naked. Wague performed in many stage pantomimes including Scaramouche, Barbe Bluette and L'homme aux poupées, and played silent roles in ballet and opera. Between 1907 and 1922 he also performed in more than forty films. He started his film career with the silent film L'Enfant prodigue/The Prodigal Son (Michel Carré, 1907), where he played a Pierrot. His last film performance was in Faust (Gérard Bourgeois, 1922).He continued to play a white-faced Pierrot at the Opéra-Comique during the 1920s. In 1925 he performed with the flamenco dancer Antonia Mercé y Luque, "La Argentina", in El amor brujo at the Théâtre Trianon-Lyrique. From 1916 Wague taught at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique. Wague taught mimes who went on the fame such as Christine Kerf, Caroline Otéro, Angèle Héraud and Charlotte Wiehé. He also taught actors and opera singers how to use their bodies to express their feelings. This skill was much neglected in opera, where often the singers were chosen for their voice rather than their appearance and had little acting ability. Wague collaborated with the mime and actor Jean-Louis Barrault when he played Jean-Gaspard Deburau in the film Les Enfants du Paradis/Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, 1943), the basis for his 1946 mime piece Baptiste. Georges Wague was awarded the Grande médaille de vermeil by the city of Paris in 1962. In1965, he died at Menton in the Alpes-Maritimes, aged 91. - Lesley Blanch was born on 6 June 1904 in London, England, UK. She was married to Romain Gary. She died on 7 May 2007 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Charlotte Duchesne was born on 27 October 1918 in Nantes, France. She was an actress, known for Bossemans et Coppenolle (1938) and Mystère à Shanghai (1950). She was married to Stanislas-André Steeman. She died on 23 December 2011 in Menton, France.
- Stanislas-André Steeman was born on 23 January 1908 in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. He was a writer and actor, known for The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942), La muerte camina en la lluvia (1948) and Brelan d'as (1952). He died on 15 December 1970 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- G. Bruno was born on 31 July 1833 in Laval, Mayenne, France. He was a writer, known for Le tour de France par deux enfants (1924), Le tour de France par deux enfants (1957) and France/tour/détour/deux/enfants (1980). He died on 8 July 1923 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Wendy (born Wynnelle) Russell was a well-known New York City print model when she met Hungarian-born Emery Reves, a writer and newspaper publisher who had worked closely with Winston Churchill during World War II, and later published the wartime memoirs of Churchill, Lord Montgomery and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, among others. After the war, Reves embarked on a career as a collector of fine art and took Wendy along with him. In 1952, they purchased the Villa La Pausa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the Côte d'Azur and furnished it with magnificent works of fine art. Winston Churchill was a constant and honored guest, and it was said that one of the attractions that brought him there was the beauty, charm and Texas wit of Wendy Reves. After Emery Reves' death, his widow occupied herself with good works, including establishing the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies at the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg, Virginia and endowing (and furnishing) the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection of International Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. She was survived by her son, Arnold L. Schroeder, his wife and their three children.
- DeWitt Kirk was born on 11 June 1923 in Greensberg, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for I Want to Live (1983) and The Preppie Murder (1989). He died on 18 September 2000 in Mentone, California, USA.
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Richard Le Gallienne was born on 20 January 1866 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Chain Invisible (1916), Schlitz Playhouse (1951) and The Quest of the Golden Girl (2016). He died on 14 September 1947 in Menton, France.- Garnet Joseph Wolseley was born on 4 June 1833 in Golden Bridge, Ireland. He was married to Louisa Erskine. He died on 26 March 1913 in Menton, France.
- Michel Warren was born on 8 May 1942 in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He died on 28 July 2015 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
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Anatoli Lunacharsky was born on 24 November 1875 in Poltava, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was a writer and actor, known for Salamander (1928), Slesar i kantsler (1924) and Congestion (1918). He died on 26 December 1933 in Menton, France.- Animation Department
Aubrey Beardsley was born on 21 August 1872 in Brighton, England, UK. Aubrey is known for Between Earth and the End of Time (1995). Aubrey died on 16 March 1898 in Cosmopolitan Hotel, Menton, France.- Alfred Hegenscheidt was born on 6 April 1866 in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Brussel, Belgium. Alfred was a writer, known for Starkadd (1966) and Starkadd (1985). Alfred died on 9 February 1964 in Menton, France.
- Cyril Harcourt was born on 30 December 1872 in Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK. He was a writer, known for A Lady's Name (1918), A Pair of Silk Stockings (1918) and They Just Had to Get Married (1932). He died on 4 March 1924 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
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Harry David was born on 18 September 1888 in San Francisco, California, USA. Harry died on 6 July 1977 in Mentone, California, USA.