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In the early days of silent pictures, Marshall Neilan was a top director for Goldwyn Pictures. He had also directed a small number of Louis B. Mayer's independently produced melodramas, but there was a mutual dislike between the two men. During the festivities inaugurating the merger of Metro and Goldwyn Pictures on April 26, 1924, Neilan grew disgusted at the prospect of listening to Mayer's speech and interrupted everything by ordering his cast and crew back to the set of Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1924). Mayer later viewed the picture and ordered the downbeat ending re-shot over Neilan's loud protests. Mayer, wanting to instill his absolute authority over all production matters, held firm. The prospect of working for Mayer in the new Metro-Goldwyn super-studio was unbearable and Neilan quit. His was the first outright desertion from the studio that others over the next three decades would aspire to be a part of.- Music Department
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The composer John Wooldridge, was a pupil of Sibelius and a contemporary and friend of William Walton. He spent the war in Bomber Command. His promising career ended in a fatal car accident at the age of 47 in 1958. He was married to the actress Margaretta Scott from 1948 and was the father of the actress Susan Wooldridge and the director Hugh Wooldridge.- Actor
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Bert Howard was born on 7 August 1878 in Salmon Falls, New Hampshire, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Too Much Married (1914) and The Victory of Virtue (1915). He died on 27 October 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Walter von Molo was born on 14 June 1880 in Sternberg, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Sternberk, Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Fridericus (1937), Der Unendliche Weg (1943) and Der Choral von Leuthen (1933). He was married to Annemarie Mummenhoff and Rosa Richter. He died on 27 October 1958 in Murnau am Staffelsee, Bavaria, Germany.