Cornel Wilde

Cornel Wilde

Jefferson Pascal

Born October 13, 1912· Prievidza, Hungary

† Died October 16, 1989

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Emerging from a Hungarian-American upbringing, he arrived in the United States as a child, excelled in fencing at Columbia University and studied drama under Theodora Irvine before debuting on Broadway in 1935. After modest film parts, a contract with 20th Century Fox turned him into a prominent leading man by the mid-1940s, highlighted by a starring turn as Frédéric Chopin in A Song to Remember,…

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