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John Steinbeck was the third of four children and the only son born to John Ernst and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck. His father was County Treasurer and his mother, a former schoolteacher. John graduated from Salinas High School in 1919 and attended classes at Stanford University, leaving in 1925 without a degree. He was variously employed as a sales clerk, farm laborer, ranch hand and factory worker. In 1925, he traveled by freight from Los Angeles to New York, where he was a construction worker. From 1926-1928, he was a caretaker in Lake Tahoe, CA. His first novel, "Cup of Gold," was published in 1929. During the 1930s, he produced most of his famous novels ("To a God Unknown," "Tortilla Flat," "In Dubious Battle," "Of Mice and Men," and his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Grapes of Wrath"). In 1941, he moved with the singer who would become his second wife to New York City. They had two sons, Thom (b. 1944) and John IV (b. 1946). In 1948, his close friend Ed Ricketts died, he went through a divorce, he took a a tour of Russia, and he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His wrote the screenplay for Viva Zapata! (1952), and 17 of his works have been made into movies. He received three Academy Award nominations. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. US President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded him the United States Medal of Freedom in 1964, and he was commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp on what would have been his 75th birthday. His ashes lie in Garden of Memories Cemetery in Salinas.- Betty Lou Jensen was born on 22 July 1952 in Kiowa County, Colorado, USA. She died on 20 December 1968 in Benicia, California, USA.
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Born in Brooklyn, Van Nest Polglase studied architecture and interior decoration. In 1919 he began at Famous Players-Lasky, which became Paramount. He went to RKO in 1932, where he was head of the art department. Although Polglase did not actually design any sets at RKO (a job actually supervised by unit art directors such as his colleague, Carroll Clark), his name appeared on credits as a representative of the art department as a whole. Polglase moved to the Columbia studio in 1943.- Marguerite Clayton was born on 12 April 1891 in Ogden, Utah, USA. She was an actress, known for The Night Workers (1917), The Dream Doll (1917) and Wolfblood (1925). She was married to Victor Bertrandias. She died on 20 December 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- David Arthur Faraday was born on 2 October 1951 in San Rafael, California, USA. He died on 20 December 1968 in Benicia, California, USA.
- Writer
- Actor
Born in Prague, Austria-Hungary on 27 May, 1884, Max Brod had an extensive writing career between 1908 and 1965 with more than 80 works published, ranging from fiction to plays, biographies and one appearance as an actor in the silent film Die Strecke (1927). However, Brod has a special place in history not simply because of his works but above all, for spreading the words, the intelligence and wisdom of one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, his friend Franz Kafka.
Kafka & Brod first met in 1902 and developed a great friendship with the Czech author, both regular presences on the literary circles of Germany. At the time Kafka had a work on an insurance agency and he was very insecure of his own writing, never publishing and never trying to establish himself as a professional writer. On the other hand, Brod (a law student working on civil services and frequently involved with the literary world and social/political causes) always kept encouraging Kafka to publish everything, telling how brilliant and special his writings were but the friend asked the man to destroy and burn all of his works in case of his death, quite near due to his constant poor health. Kafka died in 1924, and his memorable literary works such as "The Trial", "The Metamorphosis", "A Hunger Artist", "The Castle" were all posthumously published thanks to Max Brod, who acted as administrator of the Kafka estate.
The genius of Kafka's works is that it reveals life and reality as an existentialist process of endless suffering, questions without answers, dark sense of humor, nihilism and thoughts that were very on the current wave of its time in the early years of the 20th century, which Brod easily perceived as mandatory works to see the light of day and conquer audiences. By not keeping his promise to Kafka, Brod gave to the world of arts important pieces of reflection and inspiration.
Like Kafka, he was a Czech of Jewish decent (and both always wrote their productions in the German language) and along with his wife Elsa Taussig he fled from Prague when the Nazis took over power in the late 1930's. They moved to Palestine but by that time Max wasn't producing much works. He died on 20 December, 1968, in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Director
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Mariya Fyodorova was born on 29 December 1920. She was a director and assistant director, known for A Gift for Music (1957), Bolshie i malenkie (1963) and Svoya golova na plechakh (1961). She died on 20 December 1968 in Moscow, USSR.- Frank Pelleg was born on 24 September 1910 in Prague, Austria-Hungary [now Prague, Czech Republic]. He was a composer, known for Sipur Lachish (1955). He died on 20 December 1968 in Haifa, Israel.