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Mussolini’s Final Hours,  APRIL 28, 1945   By  Christopher Klein PRINT CITE Facebook Twitter Google After a failed attempt to flee Italy with his mistress, Benito Mussolini was executed on April 28, 1945. On the 70th anniversary of the Italian dictator’s death, read about his final hours, the desecration of his corpse in a public square and his body’s strange journey in the ensuing years. By April 25, 1945, Benito Mussolini’s dream of re-creating the Roman Empire, much like the crumbling Roman Forum itself, lay in ruins. With the Allies closing in from the south and anti-fascist partisans rising up to seize city after city in northern Italy, Mussolini’s power base was quickly evaporating. The 61-year-old Italian dictator who sought to become a modern-day Julius Caesar had first risen to power more than two decades earlier when he became prime minister in 1922. “Il Duce” allied himself with fellow fascist Adolf Hitler and Nazi Ge...

Benito Mussolini's women Benito Mussolini had two wives, several mistresses and dozens, possibly hundreds, of casual lovers during his lifetime. Here are the most important women in his life. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini: Benito Mussolini's women  Italian dictator Benito Mussolini Ida Dalser:   Mussolini struck up a relationship with the beauty therapist in around 1909. They may have married in 1914, although no records survive. In 1915 she bore him his first child, which they named Benito Albino Mussolini. But the couple soon became estranged and Mussolini subsequently tried to expunge both Dalser and his son from his life, regarding them as an embarrassment, particularly after he married another woman, Rachele Guidi. Dalser was eventually sent to a psychiatric hospital and her son also ended up in an asylum, dying at the age of 26. Rachele Guidi:  The deterioration of Mussolini's relationship with Ida Dalser was in part due to t...

HOLLYWOOD SILENT FILM ACTRESS  CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG  BORN 1890 SEPTEMBER 6 Clara Kimball Young (September 6, 1890 – October 15, 1960)[1] was an American film actress, who was highly regarded and publicly popular in the early silent film era. Early life[edit] Clarisa Kimball was born in Chicago to Edward M. and Pauline (née Maddern) Kimball, travelling stock actors. She made her stage debut at the age of three, and throughout her early childhood travelled with her parents and acted with their theater company. She attended St. Francis Xavier Academy, Chicago. Afterwards she was hired into a stock company and resumed her stage career, travelling extensively through the United States and playing various small town theaters.[2] Early in her career she met and married a fellow stock company and known Broadway actor named James Young. Young's previous wife had been the songwriter/lyricist Rida Johnson Young. After sending a photograph to Vitagraph St...

DANISH SILENT FILM ACTRESS CLARA SCHONFELD  BORN AUGUST 26,1856 Clara Schønfeld (26 August 1856 - 5 May 1938)[1] was a Danish stage and film actress whose career spanned from the late 19th century through the 1920s. Career[edit] Born Clara Julie Christensen in Roskilde, Zealand, she was the daughter of Andreas Ludvig Christensen, a bricklayer, and his wife Birgitte Elisabeth Christensen. She made her stage debut with the E.J. Haffgreens Theater Company in Oslo, Norway at the Møllergatens Theater on 17 September 1873.[2] Afterward, she was engaged at a number of theaters in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, including part of the ensemble of the Det Ny Teater when it opened in 1908, as well as a number of theaters in the Danish provinces, such as the Odense Theatre. Between 1918 and 1927, she appeared 14 silent films, including Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1925 drama Du skal ære din hustru (English release titles: Master of the House and Honor Thy Wife.)[3] Pe...