Larry Parks (13 December 1914, Olathe, Kansas - 13 April 1975, Studio City, California), was an American stage and movie actor. His career was virtually ended when he admitted to having once been a member of a Communist party cell, an admission that led to his blacklisting by all Hollywood studios. Parks grew up in Joliet, Illinois, and graduated from Joliet Township High School in 1932. He attended the University of Illinois as a pre-med student, …

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.

Alfred E. Green (born July 11, 1889 in Perris, California; died September 4, 1960 in Hollywood, California) was a prolific movie director and assistant director. Greene entered film in 1912 as an actor for the Selig Polyscope Co.. He became an assistant to director Colin Campbell. He then started to direct two-reelers until he started features in 1917. Although his career lasted until the 1950s, Greene directed number of movies with major stars such as Mary Pickford, …

Ludwig Donath (6 March 1900, Vienna-29 September 1967, New York City), was an Austrian actor who appeared in many American films. Donath graduated from Vienna's Academy of Dramatic Art and became a prominent actor on the stage in Berlin. He moved to the USA in 1933 when Hitler came to power and began his American film career with "Lady from Chungking" (1942). He went on to appear in dozens of films, including "Gilda" (1946), "The Jolson Story" (1946), …

Scott Hastings Beckett (October 4, 1929 - May 10, 1968), better known as Scotty Beckett was an American child actor. He is best remembered for his parts in the "Our Gang" and "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger" series.

Saul Chaplin was one of Hollywood's preeminent composers and musical directors. He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York. He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley. In film, he won four Oscars for collaborating on the scores and orchestrations of "An American in Paris" (1951), "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954) and "West Side Story" (1961).

Betty Garrett (May 23, 1919, St. Joseph, Missouri) is an American actress and dancer who belonged to the golden era of the movie musical. However, she is probably best known for a pair of roles in two prominent 1970s sitcoms. In late 1973, she joined the cast of "All in the Family", playing Archie Bunker's socially liberal next-door neighbor, Irene Lorenzo, a role she would remain in until her character was phased out in late 1975.

Joseph H. Lewis (April 6, 1907-August 30, 2000), was an American B-movie director. Although he worked with both Bela Lugosi ("The Invisible Ghost") and Lionel Atwill in early 1940s horror, he is best known for his work in film noir from the late 40s and the 1950s. His most acclaimed feature, "Gun Crazy" (1949), is a dark romance about gun-obsession, and notable for its use of location photography.

Jo-Carroll Dennison (born December 16, 1923), was a beauty queen and actress originally from Tyler, Texas. Dennison, a self-supported student at the Federal Institute in Tyler, Texas was lured into competing in the Miss Tyler pageant by the offer of a free swimsuit from Swartz Department Store. She won the pageant, and reluctantly agreed to represent Tyler in the Miss East Texas pageant.

James Thornton was an American composer and lyricist. He was born in Liverpool, England, emigrated to the United States in 1869, became a US citizen in 1931, and died in New York City. Thornton is primarily remembered today as the composer of the 1898 song, "When You Were Sweet Sixteen". The song was a favorite of Barbershop Quartets at the turn of the century, but, according to most sources, did not appear in recorded form until the 1946 Columbia Pictures film, …

William Austin Dillon (November 6, 1877-February 10, 1966) was an American songwriter and Vaudevillian. He is best known as the lyricist for the song "I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)" (1911), written in collaboration with Harry Von Tilzer. It can be heard in "Show Business" (1944) and "The Jolson Story" (1946). He was born in Cortland, New York and performed in Vaudeville with his brothers John and Harry. <br style="clear: both"/>

Composer, songwriter ("Broadway Rose") and longtime accompanist and arranger for Al Jolson. He conducted many Jolson musicals. Joining ASCAP in 1923, his other popular-song compositions include "Honeymoon Bay", "Strawberries", "Hindoo Moon", "Dolly", "Nobody's Rose", "Days", "Who and Where", and "In Our House".