Cornelius Louis André Roosevelt (April 24, 1879 – July 21, 1962) was a French-born American

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and resort hotel manager of American origin.

Early life

He was born in

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to Cornelius Roosevelt (1847–1902), a cousin of U.S. President

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, who married a French actress Anna, and was baptized at the American Cathedral, Paris. He won a gold medal in

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at the

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with the French team. He was a member of

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like his cousin Theodore Roosevelt. He married first Adelheid Lange in 1905, then after a divorce, Alice La Fontant in Haiti. Roosevelt was an adventurer, traveling to

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in 1924, attempting to develop the tourist market but at the same time preserve Bali's cultural integrity. He envisioned making Bali a national or international park with laws to regulate it as such. In 1928 and 1929, he and Armand Denis shot ''Goona-Goona, An Authentic Melodrama'' (also called ''The Kris'') with assistance from Walter Spies. It was released in the United States in 1930 and started an American craze for Bali. He was also known for his 1938 film ''Beyond the Caribbean''. He died in July 1962 in

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