Thursday, 31 August 2023

1595) Richard Quintin Hoare

Richard Quintin "Tigger" Hoare (1943 - 2020). English banker at C. Hoare & Co., the oldest extant bank in the United Kingdom.
Youngest son of Quintin Hoare and Lucy (née Selwyn), he was the scion of the landed gentry family of that name, founders, in 1672, of the eponymous private bank.
After leaving school in 1960, he was articled to a chartered accountancy firm before joining the family bank a few years later. At C. Hoare he rose quickly to become a partner in 1969 and later deputy chair.
In 1970 Hoare married his second cousin, the Hon Frances Evelyn Hogg (a teacher and maistrate), by whom he had two sons, Alexander and Charles, and a daughter, Elizabeth.
In 1983 he founded the Bulldog Trust, to provide support and advice for charities facing immediate financial difficulties. The trust is based at and owns Two Temple Place in the City of London.


- "Richard – nicknamed Tigger for his flaming red hair and his childhood exuberance - was born in a snowstorm in Crickhowell, Powys..." https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/25/richard-hoare-obituary


 

Wednesday, 30 August 2023

1594) Madlyn Rhue

Madlyn Soloman Rhue (née Madeline Roche, 1935 – 2003). American film and television actress.
Rhue debuted in show business at age 17 as a dancer at the Copacabana night club in New York City. From the 1950s to the 1990s, she appeared in some 20 films, including Operation Petticoat; The Ladies Man; A Majority of One; It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; Kenner; and Stand Up and Be Counted.
Rhue guest-starred in dozens of television series, such as Cheyenne, Bonanza, Perry Mason, Star Trek, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Fugitive, Ironside, The Wild Wild West, Mannix, Hawaii Five-O, Mission: Impossible, Longstreet, Fantasy Island, Charlie's Angels.
In 1977, Rhue was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, but despite being reliant on a wheelchair, she managed to resume her entertainment career and was praised by media outlets for not allowing her health issues to overthrow her career. She played intermittent roles that did not require her to walk or stand, sometimes incorporating the wheelchair as part of the character. She also performed a recurring role in Murder, She Wrote, said to be her last television role. Angela Lansbury created a role for her when she heard that Rhue was at risk of losing her health insurance because she could no longer work enough hours.


- "Her beautiful looks, natural red hair and brown eyes got her the attention of television producers..." https://www.celebsagewiki.com/madlyn-rhue


- "She insists with humor in her caramel eyes and a toss of her red hair that this is no 'poor-Madlyn' tale." https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/10/23/Actress-Madlyn-Rhue-tackles-her-toughest-role-MS-spokeswoman/6208561960000/


 

Sunday, 27 August 2023

1593) Janice Rule

Mary Janice Rule (1931 – 2003). American actress and psychotherapist.
Her parents were of Irish origin and her father was a dealer in industrial diamonds.
Her first credited screen role was as Virginia in Goodbye, My Fancy (1951), which featured Joan Crawford in the lead. The established star belittled the younger woman, making Rule's work on the film difficult, although Crawford years later wrote a letter of apology to Rule for treating her badly on this film.
Her other films in the 1950s included A Woman's Devotion (1956), the Western Gun for a Coward (1957) and Bell, Book and Candle (1958), in which she played the fiancée who loses publisher 'Shep' Henderson (James Stewart) to the spell-casting witch Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak).
Among her later film roles were Emily Stewart in The Chase (1966), Sheila Sommers in The Ambushers (1967), Burt Lancaster's bitter ex-lover in The Swimmer (1968), Willie in Robert Altman's 3 Women (1977), journalist Kate Newman in Costa Gavras' political thriller Missing (1982), and Kevin Costner's mother in American Flyers (1985).
During the 1960s, she became interested in psychoanalysis. She began her formal studies in 1973, specializing in treating her fellow actors, and received her PhD 10 years later from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in Los Angeles. She practiced in New York and Los Angeles, and continued to act occasionally until her death.


- "Auburn-haired with a dancer’s figure, Rule was born in Cincinnati and dreamed of a Broadway acting career." https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-oct-24-me-rule24-story.html


 


Saturday, 26 August 2023

1592) James Archibald Campbell

James Archibald Campbell (1862 – 1934). Founder of the Campbell University (originally Buies Creek Academy) in Buies Creek, North Carolina in 1887.
He descended from the Highland Scots who migrated to North Carolina in the XVIII century.
He began his career as a teacher of penmanship in Alamace County, where he taught for two years.
In the summer of 1886, Campbell, like his father, became an ordained Baptist minister and served as pastor of Hector's Creek Baptist Church. The following year, along with other residents of Buies Creek, he established there an academy, of which he was the principal.
In 1890 he married Cornelia Pearson. The couple had three children: Leslie, Arthur Carlyle and Bessie.
Leslie became the second president of the university, while Arthur Carlyle became college president of Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.


- "Jim Arch had red hair and just this incredible personality... His red hair, blue eyes and bushy mustache attracted attention, but his engaging, charismatic personality drew people to him." https://news.campbell.edu/articles/the-founder-and-his-dream/


- "A slender six-footer with red hair..." https://issuu.com/campbelluniversity/docs/125_year_book_lr


 

Campbell aristocratic family in Scotland

1591) Halide Edib Adıvar

Halide Edib Adıvar (sometimes spelled Halidé Edib in English; 1884 – 1964). Turkish novelist, teacher, and feminist intellectual.
She was best known for her novels criticizing the low social status of Turkish women and what she saw from her observation as the lack of interest of most women in changing their situation. She was a Pan-Turkist and several of her novels advocated for the Turanism movement.
Halide Edib Adıvar is also remembered for her role in the forced assimilation of children orphaned in the Armenian genocide.


- "A contemporary described her as "a slight, tiny little person, with masses of auburn hair and large, expressive Oriental eyes..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halide_Edib_Ad%C4%B1var


 

1590) Jeremy Kemp

Edmund Jeremy James Walker (1935 – 2019), known professionally as Jeremy Kemp. English actor. 

He was known for his significant roles in the miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, the film The Blue Max, and the TV series Z-Cars.
His other television credits include Colditz, Space: 1999 and a number of other series, such as Hart to Hart, The Greatest American Hero, The Fall Guy, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Conan the Adventurer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance and Murder, She Wrote. He played King Leontes in the BBC Television production of The Winter's Tale (1981). He also appeared as Cornwall in the 1983 TV movie version of King Lear opposite Laurence Olivier as Lear.
From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, Kemp had a prominent film career, usually appearing as second male leads or top supporting roles. His films include Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Operation Crossbow, The Blue Max, Darling Lili, A Bridge Too Far, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Top Secret! and Four Weddings and a Funeral.
He belonged to a Yorkshire landed gentry family that had owned at various times Aldwick Hall at Rotherham, Silton Hall at Northallerton, Ravensthorpe Manor, and Mount St John, at Thirsk.


- "When first seen in a wide shot, his imposing height and build, with red hair (swiftly to recede) and sometimes an equally ruddy face, often combined with upright bearing, made his characters appear resolute and often forceful." https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/17826335.obituary-jeremy-kemp-prolific-actor-started-z-cars/ 



1589) Trevor Howard

Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith, known professionally as Trevor Howard (1913 – 1988). English stage, film, and television actor. After varied work in the theatre, he achieved star status with his role in the film Brief Encounter (1945), followed by The Third Man (1949).
He is also known for his roles in Golden Salamander (1950), The Clouded Yellow (1951), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), Lola (1969), Ryan's Daughter (1970), Superman (1978), Windwalker (1981), and Gandhi (1982). For his performance in Sons and Lovers (1960) he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.


- "I thought William Golding made some references to The Bounty story, even down to the fact that both Anderson and Trevor Howard are red-headed and both tend gardens at sea.” https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bounty-hunter-3hz7stxrfss


- "To my surprise Howard strikes me as a diminutive figure. His full head of fine, carroty red hair stands out." https://books.google.it


 

Friday, 25 August 2023

1588) Anita Morris

Anita Rose Morris (1943 – 1994). American actress, singer and dancer. She began her career performing in Broadway musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Seesaw and Nine, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.
During her career, Morris had starring roles in a number of films, include The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), Absolute Beginners (1986), Ruthless People (1986), Aria (1987), 18 Again! (1988), Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) and A Sinful Life (1989). She had leading roles in two short-lived television series in 1980s: the NBC prime time soap opera Berrenger's (1985), and the Fox sitcom Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1987).


- "Anita Morris, an actress who was nominated for a 1982 Tony Award for her exuberant performance as a brassy redhead in black-lace body stocking in the musical "Nine,"..." https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/04/obituaries/anita-morris-50-actress-in-theater-and-movies-dies.html


- "A lush, full-bodied, redheaded dancer..." https://it.findagrave.com/memorial/93531099/anita-morris#


 

Thursday, 24 August 2023

1587) Ninon de l'Enclos

 Anne "Ninon" de l'Enclos (also spelled Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos, 1620 – 1705). French author, courtesan and patron of the arts.
In 1632, her father was exiled from France after a duel. When Ninon's mother, Marie Barbe de la Marche, died ten years later, Ninon entered a convent, only to leave the next year.
Returning to Paris, she became a popular figure in the salons, and her own drawing room became a centre for the discussion and consumption of the literary arts.
It was during this period that her life as a courtesan began. Ninon took a succession of notable and wealthy lovers, including the king's cousin the Great Condé, Gaston de Coligny, and François, duc de La Rochefoucauld.
This life (less acceptable in her time than it would become in later years) and her opinions on organised religion caused her some trouble, and she was imprisoned in the Madelonnettes Convent in 1656 at the behest of Anne of Austria, Queen of France and regent for her son Louis XIV. Not long after, however, she was visited by Christina, former queen of Sweden. Impressed, Christina wrote to Cardinal Mazarin on Ninon's behalf and arranged for her release.
Starting in the late 1660s she retired from her courtesan lifestyle and concentrated more on her literary friends. During this time she was a friend of Jean Racine, the great French playwright. Later she would become a close friend with the devout Françoise d'Aubigné, better known as Madame de Maintenon, the lady-in-waiting who would later become the second wife of Louis XIV.
When she died she left money for the son of her notary, a nine-year-old named François-Marie Arouet, later to become known as Voltaire, so he could buy books.
Edgar Allan Poe mentioned her in his short story "The spectacles," as did Rudyard Kipling the "Venus Annodomini". Edwin Arlington Robinson used Ninon as a symbol of aging beauty in his poem "Veteran Sirens." Dorothy Parker wrote the poem "Ninon De L'Enclos On Her Last Birthday" and also referred to Ninon in another of her poems, "Words Of Comfort To Be Scratched On A Mirror". L'Enclos is the eponymous heroine of Charles Lecocq's 1896 opéra comique, Ninette.


- "Finally, Ninon cut off her beautiful, red-gold hair and sent it to Comte de Fiesque, how could a man ignore her after that?" https://theinvisiblementor.com/ninon-de-lenclos-french-author-courtesan-and-patron-of-the-arts/


- "She has an attractive figure, a round face, a pleasant mouth, rosy lips, black, glowing, humorous eyes, and hair of the most beautiful auburn colour ever seen." https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/e35daf36-b535-420b-a9bf-7781df5ce0ca/content 


 

Wednesday, 23 August 2023

1586) Angelique Clarisse d’Angennes, Countess of Grignan

Angelique Clarisse d’Angennes, Countess of Grignan (1627 - 1664). French noblewoman.
She was the daughter of Catherine de Vivonne and Charles d’Angennes, Marquis de Rambouillet.
Madame de Rambouillet was the founder of an important literary salon known as Hôtel de Rambouillet.
 After several years being educated by nuns, Angelique finished her education in her mother’s salon. Along with her mother and elder sister Julie, she was satirized by Moliere in his comic farce Les précieuses ridicules.
In 1658, she was married to François Adhemar de Monteil (1632 – 1714), Count of Grignan, and bore him two daughters, Louise Catherine (who became a nun) and and Julie Françoise. After her death, the Count remarried twice more, his third and last wife being Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné.


- "Red-haired and considered unattractive..." https://abitofhistory.net/html/rhw/g_body.htm

Angelique's mother and sister Julie

 

1585) Rozalia Lubomirska

Rozalia Lubomirska (1768 – 1794). Polish noblewoman.
She was born Countess Rozalia Chodkiewicz in Chernobyl, which is now in Ukraine.
In 1787 she married Prince Aleksander Lubomirski and a year later she bore their daughter, Aleksandra.
Known for her beauty, Rozalia travelled to France, where she was rumoured to have some romantic affairs. Unhappy in her marriage, she decided to divorce her husband and did not accompany him on his way back to Poland. During the Revolution she was arrested along with her child, and tried for alleged conspiracy against the Revolution, and cooperation with the royalists. As a result, the 26-year-old princess was sentenced to death and soon beheaded by guillotine, although her guilt was, and remained, widely questioned.
Following Rozalia's death, her daughter, Aleksandra Lubomirska, was released from prison and given under the guardianship of Izabella Leżeńska.
After her death, Rozalia became the subject of legends. According to one, her ghost appears in the Lubomirski's palace in Opole Lubelskie. The writer Adolf Dygasiński claimed he saw her ghost.


- "The duchess was a beautiful woman with a magnificent figure, blue eyes and red hair." https://palacrozalin.pl/en/about-us/


 

Monday, 21 August 2023

1584 Thomas Leary

 Thomas Lewis (1855-19??, aka Thomas Leary, Kid Leary). American sneak thief and bank robber.
After a first arrest in 1874, Lewis was arrested again in 1877 by New York detectives for the robbery of the Cambridge National Bank of Cambridge, Massachusetts. However, no evidence was found, and he was released.
A month later, Lewis was arrested for stealing a trunk with $10,000 worth of jewelry from a salesman by arranging for the trunk to be diverted at a railroad depot. Lewis was convicted of this crime and sent to Sing Sing for a term of five years.
In October 1881 he robbed the Baltimore bank.
In 1893 he was arrested for concealing a kit of burglar’s tools–possession of which was a felony. He was sentenced to another five years at Sing Sing.
Perhaps seeking different luck, Lewis went west. He was arrested in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 1903, for his involvement in the robbery of the Eagle Bank. Upon walking out of prison, Lewis migrated to Chicago and he was never heard from again.


- "Dark red hair. Eyes, bluish gray. Complexion, light.https://criminalsrevised.org/thomas-lewis-6/


 

1583) Hope Dare

Hope Dare (born Rose Lutzinger, 1909 - 1999). American dancer and showgirl.
When she was seventeen she moved to Los Angeles and married David Swing Ricker, a forty-seven year old promoter. She was named "Miss Southern California" in a beauty contest and danced in the Fanchon & Marco stage shows. Tragically, her husband David died following an appendectomy in 1929. Soon after Hope moved to New York City and appeared in the Broadway show Melody.  She adopted a stage name — Hope Dare — that expressed her optimistic outlook on the world, with a nod to life’s challenges and her readiness to take them on.
Hope also starred in the 1932 film She Wanted A Millionaire. In 1934 she started dancing with the Ziegfeld Follies and fell in love with Richard "Dixie" Davis, a married mobster.
After he got a divorce, they were married in 1939. The couple had two children and opened an ice-cream store in Los Angeles.


- "The beautiful redhead also starred in the 1932 film..." https://www-imdb-com.translate.goog/name/nm12551574/bio/?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=it&_x_tr_hl=it&_x_tr_pto=sc&_x_tr_hist=true


- "Ziegfeld described her as “the most beautiful redhead I ever hired.”... Hope, who put on a black wig to hide her red hair, claimed her name was “Rose Rickert.” https://capturedandexposed.com/2021/10/22/arresting-hope-dare/


 

1582) Marion "Kiki" Roberts

Marion "Kiki" Roberts (née Strasmick, 1909 - ?). American dancer and showgirl. She was better known as the girlfriend and moll of American gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond.
At age 17, she was signed as a Ziegfeld girl.
Jack "Legs" Diamond was a major Irish-American bootlegger and mobster of the 1920s and 1930s. There are various accounts as to how Diamond and "Kiki" Roberts met, but one was that she had befriended a lady named Agnes O. Laughlin, who was in turn friends with Diamond and introduced them.
The two soon became lovers, gaining Roberts the celebrity she wanted. Diamond helped Roberts get introduced to New York City choreographers in order to improve her dancing skills.
It is widely believed that Roberts was one of the later people to see Diamond alive before he was gunned down in December 1931.
Not much is known about Marion Roberts after the death of "Legs" Diamond. She did an interview for the Boston American newspaper, recorded in film in 1931, and in 1935, she moved to the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, and by 1937, she was headlining a show titled Crazy Quilt at the Allentown Lyric Theater in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
By the 1940s, she had disappeared from the limelight. Attempts at finding her whereabouts and her death date have been unsuccessful.


- "Marion Roberts the red haired sweetheart of slain gangster chief, Jack (Legs) Diamond, yesterday signed a vaudeville contract." https://www.gettyimages.it/.../marion-roberts.../97295498


- "... Marion "Kiki" Roberts, an auburn-haired woman who Marcus thinks is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen." https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/legs/section4/


- "... and his red-haired girlfriend Marion Kiki Roberts." http://thepublici.blogspot.com/2017/11/calling-judge-crater-chapter-seven.html


 

Sunday, 20 August 2023

1581) Gilbert James Fitzgerald

Gilbert J. Fitzgerald (aka James Fitzgerald, The Kid, Red Fitz, 1856-1933). American banco steerer.
 He was born to Irish immigrants who had settled in Milwaukee.
In 1881 he formed a gang with Billy Harris and Johnny Norton, and headed to New Orleans.
The following year the gang headed north to Boston, where they happened upon the most prominent bunco victim in history: Charles Francis Adams–son of John Quincy Adams and grandson of John Adams; and himself a former Ambassador to Great Britain. Fitzgerald was found guilty and sentenced to five years in the Massachusetts State Prison.
In 1915, Fitzgerald was arrested for being one of the operators of an elaborate “wireless wiretap” betting parlor con, first developed by Larry Summerfield and Timothy Oakes. Fitzgerald’s partners in this venture were Charles and Fred Gondorf; and Fitzgerald was sometimes introduced to others as “Harry Gondorf.” If the name sounds familiar, it is because that was the character name of the wireless wiretap operator (Paul Newman) in the movie The Sting: Henry Gondorff.
Fitzgerald was free by 1917. Over the next several years, he took several trips to Havana, which was then a resort for wealthy Americans.


-  “Red hair, dark auburn eyes, sandy complexion, straight nose, beard red (when worn), hair very thick and coarse... He was known among his friends and acquaintances as ‘Reddy,’ a name applied to him perhaps on account of his fiery red hair." https://criminalsrevised.org/113-james-fitzgerald/


 

1580) Ellen Darrigan

Ellen Darrigan (1853 - ?). English-born New York shoplifter.
It is claimed that she got married three times: to Jerry Dunn, to John Mahaney and to Billy Darrigan, an old New York thief. She was considered a pretty woman until Billy broke her nose in 1875.
Ellen was arrested in New York City in 1875 for shoplifting and was sentenced to four years in State prison. She served terms in several other cities.
In 1885 she was arrested after leaving a dry goods store in NYC and the police found in her skirt a piece of beaded cloth, valued $50. Ellen was convicted and sentenced to five months.

 
- "Red hair, hazel eyes, light complexion." https://books.google.it


 

1579) Charles Hylebert

Charles Hylebert (born John William Heil, aka Cincinnati Red, aka Red Hyle, 1850 - 1904). American hotel thief.
He was born and raised in Cincinnati, where he learned the butcher's trade. He started his career as a thief when he was twenty and soon began one of the most celebrated hotel thieves in the US.
In 1880 he was arrested and sentenced to the Georgia penitentiary for a hotel robbery in Atlanta. In 1885 he was sentenced to four years in the Northern State prison at Michigan City.
Red escaped conviction during the years between 1889 and 1904, though he was arrested and tried many times: in Chicago, Washington, Baltimore, Louisville, and New York.
In November 1904, Heil was found unconscious in a rooming house in Chicago. The stove in his room was leaking gas. The coroner declared that he died from accidental asphyxiation.

  
- "He was called Red Hyle on account of his red hair and florid face." https://books.google.it


 


Tuesday, 15 August 2023

1578) Charlotte Rae

Charlotte Rae Lubotsky (1926 – 2018). American character actress and singer whose career spanned six decades.
Rae was known for her portrayal of Edna Garrett in the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and its spin-off, The Facts of Life (in which she had the starring role from 1979 to 1986). She received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy in 1982. She also appeared in two Facts of Life television films: The Facts of Life Goes to Paris in 1982 and The Facts of Life Reunion in 2001. She voiced the character of "Nanny" in 101 Dalmatians: The Series and Aunt Pristine Figg in Tom and Jerry: The Movie. She also appeared as Gammy Hart in Girl Meets World.
In 2015, she returned to film in the feature film Ricki and the Flash, with Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Rick Springfield. In November 2015, Rae released her autobiography, The Facts of My Life, which was co-written with her son, Larry Strauss.
Her parents, Esther (née Ottenstein) and Meyer Lubotsky, were Russian Jewish immigrants. Mr. Lubotsky was a retail tire business owner. Rae's mother, Esther Lubotsky, had been childhood friends with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.


- "Charlotte Rae, the redheaded comedian beloved as the good-natured housemother Mrs. Garrett on TV's "Facts of Life" and "Diff'rent Strokes," has died at 92." https://eu.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/television-radio/2018/08/06/facts-life-star-charlotte-rae-has-died-92-reports-say-milwaukee-native/913048002/


- "Charlotte Rae, the quavery-voiced redhead who started out on Broadway but was best known as a warmhearted, wisecracking housemother in two hit 1980s sitcoms..." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/obituaries/charlotte-rae-dead.html


- "From Sesame Street to All In The Family to Love, American Style, she always stuck out with her trademark red hair." http://stereoembersmagazine.com/the-facts-of-life-remain-remembering-charlotte-rae/

 


 

Friday, 11 August 2023

1577) Red Mitchell

Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell (1927 – 1992). American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet.
His first instruments were piano, alto saxophone, and clarinet. Although Cornell University awarded him an engineering scholarship, by 1947 he was in the U.S. Army playing bass. The next year, he was in a jazz trio in New York City.
Mitchell moved to Stockholm in 1968. He won Sweden's Grammis Award in 1986 and again in 1991, for his recorded performances as a pianist, bassist, and vocalist, and for his compositions and poetic song lyrics. The Swedish government awarded Mitchell the Illis quorum in 1992.
Returning to the United States in early 1992, Mitchell settled in Oregon.
His younger brother, Whitey Mitchell, also became a jazz bassist.


- "... his nose has settled back into a rounded face, the flame of his red hair has subsided and is noticeable primarily in the soft wisps of a modest beard."  https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/11/arts/pop-jazz-red-mitchell-bassist-back-for-debut-as-pianist-singer.html

 



 

1576) Frank Wedekind

Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864 – 1918). German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the development of epic theatre.
In the English-speaking world, before 2006 Wedekind was best known for the "Lulu" cycle, a two-play series—Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box, 1904)—centered on a young dancer/adventuress of mysterious origin. In 2006 his earlier play Frühlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening, 1891) became well known because of a Broadway musical adaptation.


- "There he stood, ugly, brutal, dangerous, with close-cropped redhair, his hands in his trouser pockets, and one felt that the devil himself couldn’t shift him." https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/51329424.pdf

 


 

1575) Karl Valentin

Karl Valentin (born Valentin Ludwig Fey, 1882 – 1948). Bavarian comedian. 

He had significant influence on German Weimar culture. Valentin starred in many silent films in the 1920s, and was sometimes called the "Charlie Chaplin of Germany". His work has an essential influence on artists like Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Loriot and Helge Schneider.


- "Valentin was physically striking, a tall, exceedingly lanky figure with bright ginger hair and elastic facial features..." https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/cy/publications/persona-and-physicality-in-the-work-of-karl-valentin


- "Already as a young boy, the red-head Valentin was a regular in the “Wagnerbräu” alehouse on Lilienstraße."  https://wirtshausinderau.de/en/wirtshaus/curiosities/ 

 


 

Thursday, 10 August 2023

1574) Katherine De Hetre

Katherine De Hetre (1946-2007). American actress. She is best remembered for films such as Joni (1979), Meteor (1979), Being There (1979) and Looker (1981).

In 1983 she married actor Charles Levin. They had three children.
She was half Dutch, half Scots-Irish.
 
- "Actress, wife, mom, best friend, animal trainer, gypsy, and the most beautiful redhead in town..." https://www.legacy.com/.../katherine-de-hetre-obituary...
 

 

Tuesday, 8 August 2023

1573) George Camsell

George Camsell (1902 - 1966).

English footballer. Scored a club record 325 league goals in 418 games for Middlesbrough. Also holds the highest goals-to-games ratio of any England player who played more than once, scoring 18 goals in 9 appearances.
"John Arlott, the great cricket journalist who for a time covered football for the Guardian, wrote that Camsell 'was not just a poacher, but a well-equipped footballer…red-headed, athletically built, buoyant, balanced and fast.'"

https://thesetpieces.com/latest-posts/george-camsell-forgotten-goal-machine/ 



Monday, 7 August 2023

1572) Kate Cavanaugh

Kate Cavanaugh (Kathleen M. Munnelly, 1947 - 2009?). Wife of US Congressman John Joseph Cavanaugh III and mother of eight children. The family often served as fodder for Kate's weekly column in the Omaha World-Herald. A collection of her columns was published in the 1989 book, Mother's Day.
She also wrote several childrens' books, such as Pete Goes to Grand Island (1992), Pete's Lost (1991), I Can't Sleep With Those Elves Watching Me (1990).
While living in Washington, Kate wrote a column “Letter from Washington” for the Omaha Sun Newspaper.
Her husband and all their children but Pete have red hair.


- "... but it is 29year‐old, auburn‐haired Kate, his wife, who has turned into a celebrity back home." https://www.nytimes.com/.../a-congressional-wifes-down...

 
- "The lady's name is Kate Cavanaugh. She is 35 years old, red haired..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../0d28a8ce-e039-446f.../