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Curt Goetz was born on 17 November 1888 in Mainz, Grand Duchy of Hesse [now Rhineland-Palatinate], Germany. He was a writer and actor, known for Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius (1950), Hocuspocus (1953) and Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend (1923). He was married to Valerie von Martens and Erna Nitter. He died on 12 September 1960 in Grabs, St. Gallen, Switzerland.- In her youth, she had some success as a writer of children's books ["Tom Cats," "The Mutt Book," "Pancho and his Burro"], which were illustrated by her partner Eleanor Byrnes, but that likely ended with the 1932 publication of her book on nudism in Germany, "On Going Naked."
The success of the book enabled Gay to start her own nudist club in Highlands, New York called the Out-of-Doors Club. With Gay interviewing all prospective members prior to admission it became the most exclusive and famous of the nudists clubs of the time. The Out of Doors Club, Gay's book and Gay's nudist documentary This Naked Age (1932), which played as a "Road Show" throughout the 1930s, were the start of the nudist movement in the USA.
In 1935, Gay helped to establish the New York Commission for the Study of Sex Variants, for which she served as both a subject of study and a researcher, but she split with the Commission as the study they conducted increasingly treated homosexuality as a pathology -- while it was Gay's belief that greater knowledge would lead to greater acceptance.
After Gay's departure, the study devolved into an ever-greater exercise in homophobia, even including an attempt to find the defining physical characteristics of the homosexual, in order to better protect society from their deviance. - Actor
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Jules Buffano was born on 18 November 1897 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Always a Bridesmaid (1943), Song of the Roses (1929) and Jimmy Durante: The Great Schnozzola (2001). He died on 12 September 1960 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Alfonso Ortiz Tirado was born on 23 January 1893 in Álamos, Sonora, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Su última canción (1933), Cuando me vaya (1954) and Vigesimo concierto de la compania 'El Aguila' (1937). He died on 12 September 1960 in Mexico City, Mexico.
- Curt Lucas was born on 20 January 1888 in Germany. He was an actor, known for King August the Strong (1936), A Door Opens (1933) and Das himmelblaue Abendkleid (1941). He died on 12 September 1960 in Berlin, Germany.
- Ana María Cassan was born on 12 July 1937 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Sylvie et le fantôme (1946), Enigma de mujer (1956) and Operación Antartida (1957). She died on 12 September 1960 in Paris, France.