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Born September 1, 1862 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died February 29, 1928 (aged 65) • Switzerland
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Italian stage designer
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American theatrical designer and writer
Steele MacKaye
American playwright
Jo Mielziner
American stage designer
Norman Bel Geddes
Norman Bel Geddes
American theatrical designer
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Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov
Russian stage designer
Kjeld Abell
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Max Frisch
Max Frisch
Swiss author
Albert Steffen
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Niklaus Manuel
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Joseph Viktor Widmann
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Dorothy McGuire
American actress
Florence Henderson
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DeWolf Hopper
American actor
James Whitmore
American actor
Jeanette MacDonald
American actress and singer
Miyoshi Umeki
Japanese-born actress
Jill Haworth
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Theodore Bikel
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