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- Harry Beresford was born on November 4, 1863 in London, England as Henry William Walter Horseley Beresford. He was an actor and writer, known for Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935), David Copperfield (1935) and Anna Karenina (1935).
He also used the stage name Harry's professional name was Harry J. Morgan.
His first marriage was to actress Emma Dunn, on October 4, 1897, in Chicago. They divorced on February 10, 1909, in New York City, and Dunn was awarded sole custody of their young daughter, Dorothy.
His second marriage was to Edith Wylie (actress). He died on October 4, 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA. - Soundtrack
Legendary New York Democratic politician whose life began on the low end as a fish market worker and climaxed as a Presidential candidate. He was first elected to the New York State Assembly in 1903, becoming its Speaker in 1913. For a time, he was sheriff of New York County (1915-17) and president of the Board of Aldermen of New York (1917). He was elected four times as the state's governor, serving in 1919-1920 and 1923-1928). In 1928, he was the first serious Roman Catholic candidate for the Presidency, and received the active support of Franklin D. Roosevelt, but was defeated by the Republican candidate, Herbert Hoover. Four years later, he gave his support to Roosevelt's successful campaign, but in 1936 and 1940, supported the Republican candidate instead.- Writer
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Walter Wassermann was born on 19 September 1883 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer and actor, known for Ein Walzer im Schlafcoupé (1930), Der Schrein der Medici (1921) and Das Rheinlandmädel (1930). He died on 4 October 1944 in Salzburg, Austria.- Al Smith is an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for President in 1928.
Smith was the foremost urban leader of the Efficiency Movement in the United States and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War veteran father, he was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bridge, where he resided for his entire life.