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(Benjamin David Goodman), 1909–86, American clarinetist, composer, and band leader, b. Chicago. Goodman studied clarinet at Hull House. In Chicago h...
1905–90, American film actress, b. Stockholm, Sweden, as Greta Gustafsson. Garbo’s success in the Swedish film The Atonement of Gösta Berling (19...
(zhäN-lük gôdär´) (KEY) , 1930–, French film director and scriptwriter, b. Paris. Godard is probably the most influential of the French New Wav...
(David Wark Griffith), 1880–1948, American movie director and producer, b. La Grange, Ky. Griffith was the first major American film director. He be...
(j vän´n j nt ´l ) (KEY) , 1875–1944, Italian philosopher and educator. He taught philosophy in several Italian universities and for many years ...
(zh lb r´ d lä pôr ´) (KEY) , 1076–1154, French scholastic philosopher, b. Poitiers. He taught for 20 years at Chartres, where he was for some ...