1265) Owney Madden

Owen Vincent Madden (1891 – 1965), known as Owney Madden and nicknamed "The Killer". Leading underworld figure in Manhattan, most notable for his involvement in organized crime during Prohibition. He also ran the famous Cotton Club and was a leading boxing promoter in the 1930s.
He was born in Leeds, England, and moved to New York in 1901, along with his mother and brother (his father died in 1932).

- "... her association with the notorious red-haired gangster Owney Madden..."  https://books.google.it/books…

1264) Emilio Coda

Emilio Coda (1881 - ?). Italian-born American coal miner and anarchist. He was born in the province of Novara, in Piedmont. Along with other Italian immigrants (like Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti), he was a follower of anarchist Luigi Galleani. Galleani and his group promoted radical anarchism by speeches, newsletters, labor agitation, political protests, secret meetings, and, above all, direct action. Many used bombs and other violent means to promote their political position, practices that Galleani actively encouraged but in which he apparently did not participate, except for writing the bomb-making manual La Salute è in voi!.

- "Coda was compact and strongly built, with blue eyes, reddish hair and a ruddy complexion to match. Eugene Lyons described him as a 'little red-haired anarchist who liked to talk violence'."  https://books.google.fr/books…

1263) Sidney Garfield

Sidney R. Garfield (1906 – 1984). American medical doctor and a pioneer of health maintenance organizations. He co-founded the Kaiser Permanente healthcare system with businessman Henry J. Kaiser. He graduated from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1928, which is now called the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

- "Garfield was flashy in appearance, with a full head of flaming red hair."  https://books.google.fr/books…

- "Sid was walking around the hospital without his white coat, looking very youthful with his bright red hair and casual clothes."  https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/…/when-the-poker-chips-a…

- "From his mother, Sidney Garfield inherited a shock of red hair that made him the target of taunting by neighborhood bullies to the point that he begged to color his hair."  https://www.calhospital.org/…/volunteers_and_innovation_-_a…

- "His hair, cut close, was curly reddish-gold and he was deeply tanned."  https://books.google.fr/books…

1262) Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman (1905 – 1984). American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her Communist sympathies and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–1952. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the American film industry caused a drop in her income. Many praised Hellman for refusing to answer questions by HUAC, but others believed, despite her denial, that she had belonged to the Communist Party.
As a playwright, Hellman had many successes on Broadway, including Watch on the Rhine, The Autumn Garden, Toys in the Attic, Another Part of the Forest, The Children's Hour and The Little Foxes. She adapted her semi-autobiographical play The Little Foxes into a screenplay, which starred Bette Davis and received an Academy Award nomination in 1942.
Hellman was romantically involved with fellow writer and political activist Dashiell Hammett, author of the classic detective novels The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, who also was blacklisted for 10 years until his death in 1961. The couple never married.

- "Though she lacked conventional beauty, the shapely, auburn-haired office girl excited the interest of the editors."  https://books.google.fr/books…

- "She had reddish hair, heavy features, a protrusive nose and a tough way of expressing herself."  https://books.google.fr/books…

- "Interviewers, conditioned by the toughness of her writing, were surprised to find her intensely feminine, fond of clothes and cooking, a short, attractive person with reddish hair and an aquiline nose."  https://www.nytimes.com/…/lillian-hellman-playwright-author…

1261) Jack Curran

John Joseph "Jack" Curran (1930 – 2013). American baseball and basketball coach. Curran was the head coach at Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, New York. He won more basketball and baseball games than any high school coach in the United States. He has been elected into nine different Halls of Fame.

- "Curran was a respectable gentleman with an old Irish face and a brush of fading red hair."  https://books.google.fr/books…

- ''Hero of the night was Johnny Curran, a 6-foot 3-inch red-headed right-hander..."  https://www.nytimes.com/…/father-basketball-long-into-overt…

- "But as a son of the city, I can remember him as a scrawny, big-eared red-headed sub with the good St. John’s basketball teams..."  https://www.georgevecsey.com/…/honoring-jack-curran-lifer-c…

1260) Marion Denman Frankfurter

Marion Frankfurter (née Denman, 1890 - 1975). Wife of the Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965), who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He became a friend and adviser of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed him to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Benjamin Cardozo.
Frankfurter and Denman married in 1919. She was a Smith College graduate and the daughter of a Congregational minister. They married after a long and difficult courtship, and against the wishes of Frankfurter's mother, who was disturbed by the prospect of her son marrying outside the Jewish faith. Frankfurter was a non-practicing Jew, and regarded religion as "an accident of birth". Frankfurter was a domineering husband and Denman suffered from frail health. She suffered frequent mental breakdowns. The couple had no children.

- "Among them was Marion Denman, Frankfurter's future wife, the daughter of a Congregational minister from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, pale and beautiful, with auburn hair and hazel eyes."  https://scholarship.law.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi…

- "Sharp-tongued, intelligent, coquettish, and a trifle vain... with her shimmering auburn hair and hazel eyes..."  https://books.google.fr/books…

1259) Olive Thomas

Olive Thomas (born Oliva R. Duffy; 1894 – 1920). American silent-film actress and model.
Thomas began her career as an illustrator's model in 1914, and moved on to the Ziegfeld Follies the following year. During her time as a Ziegfeld girl, she also appeared in the more risqué show The Midnight Frolic. In 1916, she began a successful career in silent films and would appear in more than 20 features over the course of her four-year film career. That year she also married actor Jack Pickford, the younger brother of fellow silent-film star Mary Pickford.
On September 10, 1920, Thomas died in Paris five days after ingesting her husband's syphillis medication, mercury bichloride, that brought on acute nephritis. Although her death was ruled accidental, news of her hospitalization and subsequent death were the subject of speculation in the press. Thomas' death has been cited as one of the first heavily publicized Hollywood scandals.

- "... with her large blue eyes, chiseled nose, pert childlike lips and flowing auburn hair... Olive Thomas was mesmerizing on stage as well as on screen."  https://books.google.nl/books…