- Alan Ladd
Alan Walbridge Ladd was an American film actor. He was famous for his emotionless demeanor and small stature (reports of his height vary from 5'2" to 5'9", with 5'5" being the most generally accepted today). In the majority of his films he played either the hero or a bad guy with a conscience. - Sue Carol
Sue Carol was an American actress. Carol was born Evelyn Lederer in Chicago, Illinois to Caroline, a German Jewish immigrant, and Samuel Lederer, a Jewish immigrant from Austria. One of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, for eleven years from 1927 to 1937, she performed in motion pictures then became a successful agent. Among the movies in which she appeared are "Fox Movietone Follies of 1929" and "Girls Gone Wild" (1929). - Jean Hersholt
Jean Hersholt (July 12, 1886 - June 2, 1956) was a Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning Danish actor who lived in the United States. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark to a stage family, Hersholt went on to become a well-known actor in the United States. According to the Internet Movie Database, he appeared in 140 films and directed four. His first two films were made in Germany in 1906. - Warner Baxter
Warner Baxter (March 29, 1889 - May 7, 1951) was an American actor. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he moved to San Francisco, California when he was nine. Following the 1906 earthquake, he and his family lived in a tent for two weeks. By 1910 Baxter was in vaudeville, and from there began acting on the stage. Warner Baxter began as an extra in 1918 and quickly rose to become a star. He had his first starring role in 1921, … - Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford was an American actor in the silent film era of the 1910s and 20s. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Harrison Ford began acting on stage and made his Broadway debut in 1904. He turned to film beginning in 1915 and moved to Hollywood. He became a leading man opposite early stars such as Constance Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, Marie Prevost, Marion Davies, and Clara Bow. Ford's acting career ended with the advent of talkies. - Sid Grauman
Sidney Patrick Grauman (March 17, 1879 - March 5, 1950) was an American showman who created one of Southern California's most recognizable and visited landmarks, Grauman's Chinese Theater. A failed prospector in the Klondike gold rush, he had owned movie theaters in Alaska and Northern California before building three noteworthy Los Angeles movie palaces: the Million Dollar Theater, the Egyptian Theater, and finally the Chinese, … - Fifi D'Orsay
Fifi D'Orsay was an actress. Born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier in Montreal, Quebec, as a young girl, filled with the desire to become an actress, she went to New York City. There, she found work in The Greenwich Village Follies after an audition in which she sang the song "Yes, We Have No Bananas" in French. In a burst of creativity, she told the play's director she was from Paris, France where she had worked in the Folies Bergères. - Sam de Grasse
Samuel Alfred de Grasse (born June 12, 1875, died November 29, 1953) was a Canadian actor. Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, he trained to be a dentist. After his older brother Joe had gone into the fledgling movie business, de Grasse decided to also give it a try. He traveled to New York City and in 1912 he acted in his first motion picture. - John M. Stahl
John Malcolm Stahl was an American film director and producer. Born in New York City, New York, he began working in the city's growing motion picture industry at a young age and directed his first silent film short in 1914. In the early 1920s Stahl signed on with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in Hollywood and in 1924 was part of the Mayer team that became MGM Studios. - Myron Selznick
Myron Selznick was an American film producer and talent agent. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was the son of film executive Lewis J. Selznick and brother of renowned producer David O. Selznick. As a young man, Myron Selznick learned the film production business from his father and worked for his father's film company as a production supervisor. After his father's company closed in 1925, Myron Selznick worked for other studios, primarily as a production adviser. - Athole Shearer
Athole Shearer was an actress most noted as the sister of motion picture star Norma Shearer and film sound engineer Douglas Shearer. Shearer was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. As a teenager, her divorced mother moved the two girls to New York City and then to Hollywood and in 1920 she obtained her first minor film role. In 1923, Athole Shearer married John Ward with whom she would have a son. - William Castle
William Castle born William Schloss, was an American film director, producer, and actor. Born in New York City to a Jewish family, he spent most of his teenage years working on Broadway in a number of jobs ranging from set building to acting. This put him in a good stead to become a director, and he left for Hollywood at the age of 23, going on to direct his first film 6 years later. He also worked an as assistant to director Orson Welles, … - Bruno Frank
Bruno Frank (Stuttgart, June 13, 1878 - Beverly Hills, June 20, 1945) was a German author, poet, dramatist and a humanist. Frank studied law and philosophy in Munich where he later worked as a dramatist and novelist until the Reichstag fire in 1933. Fearing the new government because of his Jewish heritage, he left Nazi Germany with his wife Liesl and lived for four years in Austria and England, … - Junior Durkin
Junior Durkin was an American film actor. Born Trent Bernard Durkin in New York, New York, Durkin began his acting career in theater while a child. He entered films in 1930, and played the role of Huckleberry Finn in "Tom Sawyer" (1930), and "Huckleberry Finn" (1931). Under contract with RKO Studios he was cast in a series of "B" films in comedic roles that capitalized on his gangly appearance. - William Demarest
William Demarest (February 27, 1892 - December 28, 1983) was an American character actor. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he was a very prolific film and TV actor, having worked on over 140 films. He worked frequently with director Preston Sturges, becoming part of a "stock" troupe of actors that Sturges repeatedly cast in his films. He started in show business working in vaudeville, then moved on to Broadway. - Harvey Seeley Mudd
Harvey Seeley Mudd was a mining engineer and founder, investor, and president of Cyprus Mines Corporation, a Los Angeles-based international enterprise that operated copper mines on the island of Cyprus. The science and engineering college Harvey Mudd College was named in memory of him. His father, Colonel Seeley W. Mudd (1861–1926) was also a mining engineer. In 1907 he developed the Ray Copper Mine in Arizona, which is still in production. - Carter Dehaven
Carter DeHaven (birthname: Francis O'Callaghan b. October 5 1886 in Chicago, Illinois - d. July 20 1977 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) was a movie and stage actor, movie director and writer. DeHaven started his career on vaudeville and started to make movies when he was in his teens. DeHaven has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Carter DeHaven died in 1977 at age 90 and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. - Tom Keene
Tom Keene (born George Duryea) (December 30, 1896 - August 4, 1963) was an American actor born in Rochester, New York known mostly for his roles in B Westerns. Little is known of his earlier life but he arrived in Hollywood in the late 20s after college studies at Columbia and Carnegie Tech and immediately made some impact co-starring in "The Godless Girl" (1929) directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Known for his sharp, pleasant looks and physique, … - Harold Grieve
Harold Grieve was an motion picture art director and interior designer. Born in Los Angeles, California, he attended Hollywood High School then studied art at the "School of Illustration and Painting" run by John Francis Smith in Los Angeles. In the early 1920s Grieve went to work in the film industry as a set designer and art director. - Alice Hollister
Alice Hollister was an American silent film actress. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, she is believed to have been the daughter of French-Canadian immigrants. In 1903, at age seventeen, she married George K. Hollister who a few years later became a pioneer cinematographer with Kalem Studios in New York City. They had a daughter, Doris Ethel, born in 1906, and George Jr., born in 1908. When Kalem Studios began sending a film crew to Florida in the wintertime, … - Art Acord
Artemus Ward Acord (April 17, 1890 - January 4, 1931) was an American silent film actor and rodeo champion. Born to Mormon parents in Prattsville, Utah, Acord as a young man worked as a cowboy and ranch hand. He went on to become one of the first true cowboys of Western films. He was sometimes called the Mormon Cowboy. A celebrated rodeo champion, Acord not only acted but also wrote scripts and performed as a stuntman. - John Robert Powers
John Robert Powers was an American actor and founder of a prominent New York City modeling agency. In 1923, John Robert Powers founded a modeling agency that became the most famous and powerful in the industry. The John Robert Powers Agency represented many models who went on to success in the Hollywood film industry, and even Betty Bloomer who became the First Lady of the United States. - Ruby Dandridge
Ruby Dandridge (1 March 1899 in Wichita, Kansas - 17 October, 1987 in Los Angeles, California), born Ruby Jean Butler, was an African American actress from the early 1900s to the 1950s. She is best known for her radio work in her early days of acting. Her parents were Nellie Simon and George Butler. It is stated in her daughter, Dorothy Dandridge's book (written by Earl Mills) that Ruby had mixed Jamaican, Mexican, and Native American ancestry. - Charles Grapewin
Charles E. Grapewin was an American vaudeville performer, and a stage and film actor. Grapewin first worked as an aerialist and trapeze artist in a traveling circus before turning to acting. He performed on stage with various stock companies and wrote stage plays as a vehicle for him to star in. He married actress Anna Chance and they remained a devoted couple until her death some 47 years later. - Rupert Julian
Rupert Julian (January 25, 1879 - December 27, 1943) was a cinema actor, director, writer and producer. Born Thomas Percival Hayes in Whangaroa, New Zealand, Rupert Julian performed on stage and in film in his native New Zealand and Australia before emigrating to the United States in 1911, starting his career as an actor in Universal silent movies. He turned to directing in 1915, often directing his wife Elsie Jane Wilson, … - Jules Furthman
Jules Furthman (March 5, 1888 - September 22, 1966) was a magazine and newspaper writer before working as a screenwriter. Born in Chicago, Illinois, during World War I he wrote under the name "Stephen Fox." Furthman wrote screenplays for a number of popular films including "Merely Mary Ann" (1931), "Shanghai Express" (1932), "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), "To Have and Have Not" (1944), … - William Cameron Menzies
William Cameron Menzies (July 29, 1896 - March 5, 1957) was an American Academy Award-winning and versatile art director. He earned acclaim on silent films and later pioneered the use of color in film for dramatic effect. In his long career spanning five decades from 1918 to 1956, he pioneered the role of production designer but also worked as a director, producer, and screenwriter. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut before moving to Los Angeles, California. - Russell Harlan
Russell B. Harlan (September 16, 1903 - February 28, 1974) was an American cinematographer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Russell Harlan witnessed the city's development from the construction of its first film studio to being the center for motion picture production in the United States. Harlan embarked on a career in film as an actor and stuntman but by the early 1930s was pursuing his interest behind the camera as an assistant. - Ruth Roland
Ruth Roland (August 26 1892 - September 22 1937) was an American stage and film actress and film producer. Born in San Francisco, California, her father managed a theatre and she became a child actress who went on to work in vaudeville. Hired by director Sidney Olcott who had seen her on stage in New York City, … - Frederick W. Elvidge
Frederick W. Elvidge (born November 4, 1911 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; died December 23, 1988 in Los Angeles, California), was an actor under the stage name of Ted Howard who portrayed "Perth the blacksmith" in the 1956 "Moby Dick" film directed by John Huston and starring Gregory Peck. Elvidge was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California. - Bill Walsh
Bill Walsh (September 30, 1913 - January 27, 1975) was a film producer and screenwriter who primarily worked on live-action films for Walt Disney Productions. He was born in New York City. For his work on "Mary Poppins", he shared Academy Award nominations for Best Picture with Walt Disney, and for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium with Don DaGradi. - Lyda Roberti
Lyda Roberti (May 20, 1906 - March 12, 1938) was a stage and film actress. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Roberti was the daughter of a clown and as a child performed in the circus as a trapeze artist, and as a vaudeville singer. As the family toured Europe and Asia, Roberti's mother left her husband, settling in Shanghai, China where the younger Roberti earned money singing. They moved to the United States in the late 1920s where Roberti began singing in nightclubs. - Charles W. Nash
Charles W. Nash was a United States automobile entrepreneur. Nash was born to a farming family in Cortland, Illinois on what is now route 38 Lincoln Highway. After his parent's separation, at age 6, he worked as a farm-hand in Michigan as an indentured servent. Then a shepherd to the owner of hay-bailing machinery, then moved to Flint, Michigan where he became a supervisor at a carriage for factory in 1890. In 1897 he had a chance to drive an early automobile, … - Edgar J. Goodspeed
Edgar Johnson Goodspeed and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. 1898), where he taught for many years, and whose collection of New Testament manuscripts he enriched by his searches. The University's collection is now named in his honor. He is widely remembered for his translations of the Bible: "The New Testament: an American Translation" (1923), and (with J. M. Powis-Smith) "The Bible, An American Translation" (1935), the "Goodspeed Bible". - William H. Daniels
William H. Daniels (December 1 1901 - June 14 1970) was a film cinematographer best known as Greta Garbo's personal lensman. He worked regularly with director Erich von Stroheim. His career as a cinematographer extended fifty years from the silent film "Foolish Girls" (1922) to "Move" (1970), although he was an uncredited camera operator on two earlier films (1919 and 1920). - Bert Kalmar
Bert Kalmar (February 10, 1884 - September 18, 1947) was an American lyricist. He was born in New York, New York. He ran away from home at the age of 10 to become a magician at a tent show, and retained an interest in magic all his life. He never got much of an education, but decided to make a career in show business. He earned enough money as a vaudeville performer to start a music publishing company, Kalmar and Puck. He hired Harry Ruby as a song plugger, … - Henry Roquemore
Henry Roquemore or Henry Rocquemore (March 13 1886 - June 30 1943) was an American character actor who primarily played bit parts. He appeared in 229 silent and sound films from 1927 until 1943. Many of his roles were uncredited parts in Western movies, but he also appeared in major films including "Meet John Doe", "The Little Foxes", "The Magnificent Ambersons", and the Marx Brothers film "Yours For the Asking". - Joseph Farnham
Joseph White Farnham was an American playwright and an Academy Award-winning film writer and film editor of the silent movie era to the early 1930s. He was also a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was born in Connecticut. Farnham got his start in film through his business relationship with theatre empresarios Gustave and Daniel Frohman who owned The Frohman Amusement Corp.. - Joe Grant
Joe Grant was a Disney artist and writer. Born in New York City, New York, he worked for The Walt Disney Company as a character designer and story artist beginning in 1933 on the Mickey Mouse short, "Mickey's Gala Premiere". He was a Disney legend. He created the Queen in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". He co-wrote "Dumbo". He also led development of "Fantasia" and "Pinocchio". - Frank P. Flint
Frank Putnam Flint was a politician and banker. He served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of California from 1897 to 1901 and as a U.S. Senator from California from 1905 until 1911. He was a Republican. He served one term in the Senate and did not run for reelection. The town of La Cañada Flintridge, California is named for him (in part), as he was a developer of Flintridge, which merged with La Cañada in the late 20th century.
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