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- 221: Charlie Chaplin
- ... on April sixteenth, 1989. His mother, Hannah Chaplin, was often put in mental houses and his brother Sydney and him were put into children’s workhouses. His father whom he almost never saw died of alcoholism. Charlie’s childhooCharlie directed and produced it. Its length is six reels, roughly an hour long. The Kid expertly showed Charlie’s use of pathos in his work, if perhaps too much pathos this time ...
- 222: Charlie Chaplin
- ... became a leading player and writer. Late in the year 1900 Charlie is cast as a cat in a production of Cinderella at the London Hippodrome. Less than a month later his father died from Alcoholism. Soon afterwards his mother Hannah is committed to the Cane Hill Asylum, and never completely recovers her sanity. For almost the next ten years Charlie performs in various rolls throughout Europe. In September of 1910 ...
- 223: Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... His inspiration to write even more in his spare time was brought on by his marriage. Shortly after their marriage, Doyle's father, Charles, was confined inside a nursing home in London, England because of alcoholism and epilepsy. Jean Leckie and Doyle had three children, a son, Denis Percy Stewart born in 1909, another son, Adrian Malcolm born in 1910, and a daughter, Lena Jean Annette born in 1912.15 In ...
- 224: Kerouac
- ... are what created the subject matter of his books. Even though Charters is friends with Kerouac, she is not biased. Charters explains both the positive and negative aspects of Jack Kerouac, such as Kerouac s alcoholism. Charters also discusses all of Kerouac s works and how they are actually personal stories of Kerouac s life. The changing culture of the 1950 s is what inspired Kerouac to evolve into the creative ...
- 225: Jack The Ripper
- ... prostitute. She was a sad, destitute woman, but one that most people liked and pitied. Annie Chapman, known to her friends as Dark Annie , was a 47 year old homeless prostitute. Suffering from depression and alcoholism, she did crochet work and sold flowers. Eventually she turned to prostitution despite her plain features, missing teeth and plump figure. She was found murdered on Saturday, September 8, 1888. Hey throat was cut and ...
- 226: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ... are derived from his own life and that of his wife and friends. The early gaiety shows only one side of a writer whose second and final decade of work portrayed a life marred by alcoholism and financial difficulties, troubled by lost love, and frustrated by is lack of inspiration. Fitzgerald was the son of well-to-do Midwestern parents. He was a talented child with an early interest in writing ...
- 227: Dylan Thomas
- ... the United States in 1953, he collapsed in his New York hotel. He was but a few days past his 39th birthday. He died on Noovenber 9th, 1953 at St. Vincents Hospital, New York. His alcoholism was legendary and no doubt played a significant role in his demise. His Body was sent back to Laugharne, Wales, where his grave is marked by a simple wooden cross- the way he would have ...
- 228: Charlie Chaplin 2
- ... on April sixteenth, 1989. His mother, Hannah Chaplin, was often put in mental houses and his brother Sydney and him were put into children s workhouses. His father whom he almost never saw died of alcoholism. Charlie s childhooCharlie directed and produced it. Its length is six reels, roughly an hour long. The Kid expertly showed Charlie s use of pathos in his work, if perhaps too much pathos this time ...
- 229: Charlie Chaplin
- ... London in April of 1889. His parents, Charles Chaplin and Hanna Hill were music hall entertainers but separated shortly after Charlie was born, leaving Hanna to provide for her children. Unfortunately his father died of alcoholism in 1901 and his mother became ill, constantly going in and out of mental institutions. Chaplin lived his childhood in and out of run-down furnished rooms, state poorhouses, and an orphanage. His childhood was ...
- 230: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... the company, Sullivan’s quantity of contracts declined quickly. Sullivan soon ran into economic troubles and his international reputation dwindled by 1920. Sullivan was soon regarded as worthless to the architectural world. He resorted to alcoholism and died in 1924 without regaining the glory of what was held in his early years in Chicago. LIFE AFTER THE FIRM Wright quickly built up a practice in residential architecture. At one point in ...
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