Pat Paterson (April 7, 1910 - August 24, 1978) was a British-born actress. Born Patricia Paterson in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK. During the 1930s, she appeared in British and Hollywood films. She was married to French-American actor Charles Boyer, who committed suicide two days after she died of cancer. They are buried together in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Jack Haley --born John Joseph Haley, Jr.--was an American film actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and farmworker Hickory in "The Wizard of Oz". Haley starred in vaudeville as a song-and-dance comedian. One of his closest friends was fellow vaudeville alumnus Fred Allen, who would frequently mention "Mr. Jacob Haley of Newton Highlands, Massachusetts" on the air. In the early 1930s Haley starred in comedy shorts for Vitaphone in Brooklyn, New York.

Edmond O'Brien was an American film actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in "D.O.A." (1950). Born in New York, New York, O'Brien made his film debut in 1938, and gradually built a career as a highly regarded supporting actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954), and was also nominated for his role in "Seven Days in May" (1964).

Leo Penn was an American actor and director. Leo Penn's parents were Russian and Lithuanian Jews. Claims of their Sephardic extraction (the original surname was reportedly Piñon and was allegedly altered by officials at Ellis Island; see) are highly improbable: there were no known Sephardic Jews in Russia, where Penn is a relatively common Ashkenazic surname. He was married to actress Eileen Ryan, and the father of singer Michael Penn and actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn.

Edgar Livingston Kennedy (b. April 26, 1890 in Monterey County, California; d. November 9, 1948) was an American comedic film actor, known as "the king of the slow burn". A former singer and boxer, Kennedy worked in hundreds of films beginning as a Keystone Kop in 1914. He would go on to work with the biggest film comedians in the United States, including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and Our Gang.

John Farrow was an award-winning film director, producer and screenwriter. Born John N.B. Villiers-Farrow in Sydney, Australia, John Farrow began writing while working as a sailor in the 1920s. He moved to Hollywood to work in films as a marine technical advisor and stayed on as a screenwriter. He wrote for films between 1927 and 1959, and also directed between 1934 and 1959. Farrow was also a writer of short stories and plays.

Richard Arlen was an American actor. Born Cornelius Richard Van Mattimore in Charlottesville, Virginia, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War I. At war's end, he went to Los Angeles where he found work as an unskilled laborer. By a stroke of pure luck, he was given an opportunity to act, appearing at first in silent films before making the transition to talkies.

Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Jr. (July 6, 1926 - February 5, 1969), known as "Nicky," was an American socialite and heir of the Hilton Hotel chain, a business executive and TWA director. He was born in Dallas, Texas, the eldest son of Conrad Nicholson Hilton and Mary Adelaide Barron. His father founded Hilton Hotels. His brothers are William Barron Hilton and Eric Michael Hilton. He also has a younger half-sister, Francesca Hilton, whose mother is Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Millard Mitchell was an American character actor whose credits include roughly thirty feature films and two television appearances. Born in Havana, Cuba, Mitchell appeared as a bit player in eight films between 1931 and 1936. He returned to film work in 1942 after a six-year absence. For his performance in the 1952 film, "My Six Convicts", Millard Mitchell won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Al Dubin (June 10, 1891 - February 11, 1945) was a Jewish-American Swiss-born lyricist. He was born in Zurich, Switzerland and died in New York City. Dubin was responsible for lyrics to several Broadway shows. In 1970 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is perhaps most famous for the musical film "42nd Street" to the music of Harry Warren.

Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm (September 26, 1958 – December 7, 1980) was an American punk rock musician who co-founded (with long time friend, Pat Smear) The Germs.

May McAvoy (born September 8 1899 in New York City; died April 26 1984 in Los Angeles, California), was a pioneer American silent film actress best known starring in Hollywood's first motion picture talkie. McAvoy made her film debut in 1920. After appearing in more than three dozen films, she co-starred with Ramon Novarro and Francis X. Bushman in director Fred Niblo's 1925 production of "Ben-Hur".

James Gleason (May 23, 1882 - April 12, 1959) was an American actor born in New York City. He was also a playwright and screenwriter. Balding and slender with a craggy voice, Gleason portrayed tough but warm-hearted characters, usually with a New York background. He appeared in several movies with his wife Lucille. Gleason co-wrote "The Broadway Melody", the second film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, and had a small uncredited role in it.

Alan Mowbray (August 18, 1896 - March 25, 1969), was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood. Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, he served with distinction the British Army in World War I, reaching the rank of major and being awarded the Military Medal for bravery. He began as a stage actor, making his way to the United States where he appeared in Broadway plays and toured the country as part of a theater troupe.

Jean Del Val was a French-born actor. He has also been credited as Jean Gauthier and Jean Gautier. He has played roles during the Hollywood silent era, beginning with "The Fortunes of Fifi" in 1917. During the early days of talkies he served as a translator and vocal coach for French language versions of American-made films. The classic 1942 film "Casablanca" featured Jean in the limited role as an announcer for a French radio station.

Bobby Day (born July 1, 1928 - died July 27, 1990), was an early African American rock and roll and R&B musician. Born Robert James Byrd Snr, (making him, ironically because of his biggest hit, Bobby Byrd - not to be confused with the funk musician of the same name), in Fort Worth, Texas, he moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of fifteen. As a member of the R&B group, the Hollywood Flames, he used the stage name Bobby Day to perform and record.

Alejandro Rey (February 8, 1930 - May 21, 1987) was an Argentine actor. Rey was born in Buenos Aires and became famous as an actor in Argentine movies before making the decision to emigrate to the United States in 1960. He was most famous for his roles in movies like "Fun in Acapulco" with Elvis Presley (1963), as well as the lead in "The Stepmother" (1972). On television, he was most famous for his role as Carlos Ramirez in "The Flying Nun", …

Victoria Forde was an American silent film actress. Born in New York City, Victoria Forde was the daughter of Broadway actress Eugenie Forde who got her into films with Biograph at age 14. In 1912, at age 16, she signed with Nestor Studios to make comedy films under director Al Christie. That same year, her mother made her film debut, appearing with her daughter in "A Pair of Jacks".

Joan Banks (October 30, 1918 - January 18, 1998) was an American film, television, stage and radio actress. Born in Petersburg, West Virginia on October 30, 1918, she worked in radio, and was a regular on the 1930s series Gangbusters, with weekly episodes based on real criminal incidents. She married fellow "Gangsbusters" voice actor Frank Lovejoy, with whom she had two children (a boy and a girl). Banks began her Hollywood career with small roles in film, …

Edgar Joseph "Eddie" Mannix (b. 25 February 1891, Fort Lee, New Jersey - d. 30 August 1963, Beverly Hills, California) was an American film studio executive. Mannix became the Vice-President of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He allegedly had connections to gangs and the underworld; gossip purported that he murdered his first wife Beatrice Fitzmaurice (in a make-believe high speed car crash) in 1937.

James Kirkwood, Sr. (b. February 22 1875, Grand Rapids, Michigan - d. August 24 1963, Woodland Hills, California) was an American actor and director. He debuted on screen in 1909 and was soon playing leads for D.W. Griffith. He started directing in 1912, and became a favorite of Mary Pickford. In 1923 he married actress Lila Lee and had a son James Kirkwood, Jr. who later went on to become a writer.