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Preminger: American film producer and director
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Graham: American football player and coach
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Klemperer: German-born conductor and composer
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Ludwig Preminger
(December 5, 1906 – April 23, 1986) was a film director.
Born in Vienna, of assimilated Jewish ancestry, he worked with
Max Reinhardt before immigrating to America. At first he directed
and acted for 20th Century Fox, his Austrian accent typecasting
him as a screen Nazi.
After
the war, he became one of the most consistent Hollywood directors
of the 1950s and early 1960s — delivering intelligent and
entertaining films, often literary adaptations, albeit rather
melodramatic or heavy-going on occasion.
Notable
films include Anatomy of a Murder with James Stewart and Ben
Gazzara, Advise and Consent with an on-form Charles Laughton, and
Bonjour Tristesse with David Niven and Deborah Kerr.
Through
a relationship with Gypsy Rose Lee he had one child, the
screenwriter Eric Lee Preminger.
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Preminger died in 1986 and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery,
The Bronx, New York.
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Everett Graham Jr.
(December 6, 1921–December 17, 2003) was a professional
American football player.
Born
in Waukegan, Illinois, Graham graduated from Northwestern
University. He played tailback in his college years. Graham also
played basketball at Northwestern. Upon joining the Cleveland
Browns of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) in 1946, he
was switched to quarterback. He also played professional
basketball in 1946 with the Rochester Royals.
During
the AAFC's four-year existence, the Browns won the championship
each year. Graham threw for 10,085 yards and 86 touchdowns, while
rushing for 11 more.
The
Browns joined the National Football League in 1950, and won the
league championship in their first NFL season. Behind Graham's 88
touchdowns in the NFL, the Browns won two more league titles, in
1954 and 1955. In the 1954 championship game against the Detroit
Lions, Graham ran for three touchdowns and passed for three more.
Graham
had an astounding 105-17-4 record with the Browns before he
retired after the 1955 season. He is the only NFL QB to take his
team to the Championship game every year he played and his 86.6
career pass rating is one of the best of all time. In 1955 Graham
won the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year. In
1965 he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Klemperer (14 May 1885 – 6 July 1973) was a German-born
conductor and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the
leading conductors of the 20th century.
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Klemperer was born in Breslau, Silesia, then in Germany (now
Wrocław, Poland). Klemperer studied music first at the Hoch
Conservatory in Frankfurt, and later in Berlin under Hans
Pfitzner. In 1905 he met Gustav Mahler while conducting the
off-stage brass at a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2,
'Resurrection'. The two men became friends, and Klemperer became
conductor at the German Opera in Prague in 1907 on Mahler's
recommendation. Mahler wrote a short testimonial, recommending
Klemperer, on a small card which Klemperer kept for the rest of
his life. Later, in 1910, Klemperer assisted Mahler in the
premiere of his Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand.
A
severe fall during a visit to Montreal forced Klemperer
subsequently to conduct seated in a chair. A severe burning
accident further paralyzed him, which resulted from his smoking
in bed and trying to douse the flames with a glass of whisky.
Through Klemperer's problems with his health, the tireless and
unwavering support and assistance of Klemperer's daughter Lotte
was crucial to his success. His son, Werner Klemperer, was an
actor and became known for his portrayal of Colonel Klink on the
US television show Hogan's Heroes. The diarist Victor
Klemperer[4] was a cousin; so were Georg Klemperer and Felix
Klemperer, who were famous physicians.
Klemperer
took Israeli citizenship in 1970. He retired from conducting in
1971. Klemperer died in Zürich, Switzerland in 1973, aged
88, and was buried in Zurich's Israelitischer Friedhof-Oberer
Friesenberg.
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