Thea von Harbou
Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a German screenwriter, novelist, film director, and actress. She is remembered as the screenwriter of the science fiction film classic Metropolis (1927) and for the 1925 novel on which it was based. von Harbou collaborated as a screenwriter with film director Fritz Lang, her husband, during the period of transition from silent to sound films.
27 December 1888
Born on the same birth day (27 December): Andrejs Perepļotkins • Bernard Berrian • Bohdan Khmelnytsky • Claudio Castagnoli • December 27 • Duncan Ferguson • Fumiko Orikasa • Ghalib • Hermann-Paul • Ian Gomez • Jay Hill (politician) • Jean Bartik • Nityanand Swami (politician) • Olivia Cooke • Prince Frederick Henry Eugen of Anhalt-Dessau • Vachirawit Chivaaree • Willem van Otterloo • Zavon Hines
Born in the same month (December 1888): Alexander I of Yugoslavia • Alphonse Juin • F. W. Murnau • Fred Merkle • Fritz Reiner • Gladys Cooper • Hamilton Fish III • J. Arthur Rank • Jean Bouin • Joyce Cary • Marius Canard • Maxwell Anderson • Robert Moses • Will Hay • Yitzhak Baer