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Johnie Player 1905 - 1976

Johnie Player of Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California was born on August 24, 1905, and died at age 71 years old in November 1976.
Johnie Player
Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California 91016
August 24, 1905
November 1976
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  • 08/24
    1905

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    August 24, 1905
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  • 11/dd
    1976

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    November 1976
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    Johnie Player lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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In 1905, in the year that Johnie Player was born, the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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In 1927, Johnie was 22 years old when the first "talkie" (a movie with music, songs, and talking), The Jazz Singer, was released. Al Jolson starred as a cantor's son who instead of following in his father's footsteps as expected, becomes a singer of popular songs. Banished by his father, they reconcile on his father's deathbed. It was a tear-jerker and audiences went wild - especially when they heard the songs. Thus begun the demise of silent films and the rise of "talkies".
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