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#48239 Bud-Barsky
Bud-Barsky - Born Isador J. Barsky in the Ukraine in 1891, Bud Barsky emigrated to the US as a young man, gained experience in the film business with various production companies in New York, made his way to Hollywood, and by the time he was in his 20s had already become an independent producer. His career was interrupted by military service in World War I, and upon his discharge he went to work for several production companies in the Midwest before heading to Hollywood again. He began Bud Barsky Productions in 1922, which produced comedies, westerns with such stars as Al Hoxie and short subjects. In 1926 he went to work for MGM as a unit manager, then was hired by Tiffany Productons as assistant general manager. He joined Columbia Pictures in 1930 as studio manager but left the next year to become an independent producer again, this time of comedy shorts, including ones with a group of chimpanzees he had purchased (he also rented them to MGM for that studios Tarzan pictures). He worked at various studios in Hollywood in production capacities before branching out on his own again in 1936, with a contract to produce films for release by the independent Grand National Pictures. He died in Hollywood in 1967.. Date of Birth,     19June 1891,Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]    ,Date of Death,       18December 1967,Hollywood, California, USA    ,Birth Name,Isador J. Barsky

Born Isador J. Barsky in the Ukraine in 1891, Bud Barsky emigrated to the US as a young man, gained experience in the film business with various production companies in New York, made his way to Hollywood, and by the time he was in his 20s had already become an independent producer. His career was interrupted by military service in World War I, and upon his discharge he went to work for several production companies in the Midwest before heading to Hollywood again. He began Bud Barsky Productions in 1922, which produced comedies, westerns with such stars as Al Hoxie and short subjects. In 1926 he went to work for MGM as a unit manager, then was hired by Tiffany Productons as assistant general manager. He joined Columbia Pictures in 1930 as studio manager but left the next year to become an independent producer again, this time of comedy shorts, including ones with a group of chimpanzees he had purchased (he also rented them to MGM for that studios Tarzan pictures). He worked at various studios in Hollywood in production capacities before branching out on his own again in 1936, with a contract to produce films for release by the independent Grand National Pictures. He died in Hollywood in 1967.. Date of Birth, 19June 1891,Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine] ,Date of Death, 18December 1967,Hollywood, California, USA ,Birth Name,Isador J. Barsky .

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#13181 Asta-Nielsen
Asta-Nielsen - Danish leading woman of German films who became one of the greatest stars of the silent era. A native of the Copenhagen suburb of Vesterbro, Nielsen was the daughter of a coppersmith and a washerwoman, both of whom died before Nielsen was fifteen. Her stage debut came as a child in the chorus of the Kongelige Teaters production of Boitos opera Mephistopheles. She studied at the Royal Theatre School of Copenhagen and embarked upon a stage career in her late teens. She toured Scandinavia and became one of the highest-paid and most popular stage actresses of her time and place. In 1909, director Urban Gad suggested that the silent screen would allow her to transcend her Danish language barrier, and she agreed appear in his film Afgrunden (1910). The film was successful and Nielsen was encouraged to continue in this new art form. A German distributor, Paul Davidson, invited Nielsen to Germany, where he was building a film studio which would eventually become Europes largest--the Universum Film Union A.-G. (or Ufa). Nielsen and her director, Gad, whom she had married, went to Germany and spent the next quarter century there. She became one of the true superstars of the silent screen, a tragic heroine whose photograph during the First World War accompanied German and also British and French troops into battle. Among her notable films after the war was a version of Hamlet,  which was not so much a Shakespearean film as it was an exploration of a then-current theory that the real Hamlet had been, in fact, a woman. Nielsen played the title role. She continued to play a wide variety of roles in Germany and occasionally in Denmark and Norway, never losing the respect and popularity she had maintained almost from the beginning of her career. She abandoned her film work just as sound was taking over the industry. Aside from one or two brief forays in talkies, her acting was thereafter confined to the stage. She died in 1972 at the age of 89, shortly after her fifth marriage.. Date of Birth,     11September 1881,Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark    ,Date of Death,       24May 1972,Frederiksberg, Denmark      (after a leg fracture)     ,Birth Name,Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen,Nicknames, The Silent MuseDie Asta

Danish leading woman of German films who became one of the greatest stars of the silent era. A native of the Copenhagen suburb of Vesterbro, Nielsen was the daughter of a coppersmith and a washerwoman, both of whom died before Nielsen was fifteen. Her stage debut came as a child in the chorus of the Kongelige Teaters production of Boitos opera Mephistopheles. She studied at the Royal Theatre School of Copenhagen and embarked upon a stage career in her late teens. She toured Scandinavia and became one of the highest-paid and most popular stage actresses of her time and place. In 1909, director Urban Gad suggested that the silent screen would allow her to transcend her Danish language barrier, and she agreed appear in his film Afgrunden (1910). The film was successful and Nielsen was encouraged to continue in this new art form. A German distributor, Paul Davidson, invited Nielsen to Germany, where he was building a film studio which would eventually become Europes largest--the Universum Film Union A.-G. (or Ufa). Nielsen and her director, Gad, whom she had married, went to Germany and spent the next quarter century there. She became one of the true superstars of the silent screen, a tragic heroine whose photograph during the First World War accompanied German and also British and French troops into battle. Among her notable films after the war was a version of Hamlet, which was not so much a Shakespearean film as it was an exploration of a then-current theory that the real Hamlet had been, in fact, a woman. Nielsen played the title role. She continued to play a wide variety of roles in Germany and occasionally in Denmark and Norway, never losing the respect and popularity she had maintained almost from the beginning of her career. She abandoned her film work just as sound was taking over the industry. Aside from one or two brief forays in talkies, her acting was thereafter confined to the stage. She died in 1972 at the age of 89, shortly after her fifth marriage.. Date of Birth, 11September 1881,Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark ,Date of Death, 24May 1972,Frederiksberg, Denmark (after a leg fracture) ,Birth Name,Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen,Nicknames, The Silent MuseDie Asta .

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