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Hedy Lamarr (9 Nov 1913 - 19 Jan 2000), Austrian-born American film star.

"Often typecast as a provocative femme fatale. Years after her screen career ended, she achieved recognition as a noted inventor of a radio communications device."

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Virna Lisi (8 Nov 1936 - 18 Dec 2014), Italian actress.

"Returning to Italy, Lisi took on roles that used her comely looks for satire or juxtaposition, like in 'Arabella,' 1968, and 'Le dolci signore,' 1968."

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Virna Lisi (8 Nov 1936 - 18 Dec 2014), Italian actress.

"Lisi was cast as the knockout beauty in a number of English speaking roles over next few years, such as 'Not with My Wife, You Don't!,' 1966, with Tony Curtis and George C. Scott."

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🎨 Greek writer, painter and iconographer, was 8 November 1895.

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🎨  American painter (pioneer of America's Romantic movement of landscape painting) and author, was 5 November 1779.

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🎨  German landscape painter, was 5 November 1667. p

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"We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves."
John Berger BOTD 05 Nov. 1926

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"Negli onesti c'è quella purezza che se gli capita l'occasione diventano più mascalzoni dei mascalzoni veri.”

1905


Aldo Fabrizi,
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Marie Laurencin (31 Oct 1883 - 8 Jun 1956), French painter and printmaker.

"Known for her delicate portraits of elegant, vaguely melancholic women."

🎨 'Self-portrait,' 1908.
🎨 'Le Bal élégant, La Danse à la campagne,' 1913.
🎨 'Three Young Women,' c. 1935.

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Attilio 'Teo' Macero (30 Oct 1925 - 19 Feb 2008), American jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer.

"Produced Miles Davis' 'Bitches Brew,' and Dave Brubeck's 'Time Out,' two of the best-selling and most influential jazz albums of all time."

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Philip Heseltine a.k.a Peter Warlock, English composer and early music scholar was in 1894.

Here is his Serenade, dedicated to Delius

by Neil Tyler

https://t.co/oceQC7CgrS

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Teresa Wright (27 Oct 1918 - 6 Mar 2005), American actress.

"Well-regarded for her fine work in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Shadow of a Doubt,' 1943, and William Wyler's 'The Best Years of Our Live,' 1946."

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Born on this day, the supernaturally talented Bernie Wrightson (1948-2017).

Here's some of his incredible artwork for 's Cycle of the Werewolf.

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"To be a woman abstract artist in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s was a radical endeavour. With most avenues closed to them, they forged a network of overlapping communities to support one another..."

https://t.co/ZxTRBLtrCQ

Lee Krasner
Still Life, 1938

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