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... Born in St. Peters- burg , he became famous both as an actor and as an author of witty , sparkling and often cynical comedies . He wrote several of the plays in which his father , Lucien Guitry , acted , including Pasteur , Jacqueline ...
... Born in St. Peters- burg , he became famous both as an actor and as an author of witty , sparkling and often cynical comedies . He wrote several of the plays in which his father , Lucien Guitry , acted , including Pasteur , Jacqueline ...
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... Born in Berlin , he emigrated to America at the age of sixteen . In the course of a checkered career he built the Manhattan Opera House , New York , in 1906 , where he ran successful seasons of grand opera until 1910 , when he sold his ...
... Born in Berlin , he emigrated to America at the age of sixteen . In the course of a checkered career he built the Manhattan Opera House , New York , in 1906 , where he ran successful seasons of grand opera until 1910 , when he sold his ...
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... born on New York's East Side , but his first acting was done far from home in San Francisco and Chicago . The gifted comedian teamed with an Irishman named Rickey , and later with Anthony Cannon , whom he renamed Tony Hart . Harrigan ...
... born on New York's East Side , but his first acting was done far from home in San Francisco and Chicago . The gifted comedian teamed with an Irishman named Rickey , and later with Anthony Cannon , whom he renamed Tony Hart . Harrigan ...
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