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Richard Schayer was an American screenwriter from Washington, D.C., active from 1916 to his death in 1956. He wrote or co-wrote the scripts for nearly a 100 films, and he was a prolific writer of Westerns. He is primarily remembered for scripting the Gothic horror films "Frankenstein" (1931) and "The Mummy" (1932), which were both box office hits.
In 1880, Schayer was born in Washington, D.C. His father was Colonel George Frederick Schayer, Deputy Recorder of Deeds in Washington, D.C.. His mother was Julia Schayer (1842-1928), a professional writer who is mostly remembered for her short stories. Schayer was a younger, maternal half-brother of the poet Leonora Speyer (1872 - 1956). Leonora won the the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Through Leonora's marriage, Schayer was a brother-in-law of the British financier and music patron Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet (1862-1932).
Schayer worked for various film studios in Los Angeles. He served as an executive of Universal Pictures, when the studio was under the control of its co-founder Carl Laemmle (1867-1939). Laemmle lost control of the company in 1936, and several of his associates were pushed out by the new management.
Schayer continued working in the film industry until his death. He died in Hollywood, Los Angeles, where he had spend much of his career. He received several writing credits following his death. In part due to the reuse of his scripts in remake films, and in part due to the filming of his unused scripts.- Rudolf Hrusínský was born on 14 April 1897 in Dolní Liboc, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Liboc, Prague, Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Poslední mohykán (1947), Humoreska (1939) and Podobizna (1948). He was married to Hermína Cervícková. He died on 15 March 1956 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Actress and variety artiste. From the age of 13 an accomplished violinist, she also played the leading parts of principle boy in many pantomimes, and went into the music halls, playing regularly at the Tivoli, Oxford and Pavillion. Also the first woman member of the Variety Artists Federation, she travelled to Australia, America and all over England appearing in many Variety Shows. When she was almost 50 years old, she teamed up with Wee Georgie Wood and carried on travelling the world doing pantomimes and comedy sketches as his partner in jest. She nearly always played his stage mother and also became known as the "Mother of the Forces" when she travelled abroad entertaining the troops. A very giving and caring lady who never took anything in return, she worked practically up until the day she died at the age of 89 years in 1956.