Leeann Velez Tweeden (born June 13, 1973) is an American model and television personality of Spanish, Filipino and Norwegian descent. Tweeden was born in Manassas, Virginia. She graduated from Osbourn Park High School a year early. Tweeden eschewed college altogether and instead pursued a career in modeling. Just two years after leaving her Virginia high school, while working as a hostess at a Hooters restaurant in Colorado Springs, Colorado, …

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.

Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr. (March 30,1890, Oak Park, Illinois - May 31, 1978, Santa Monica, California), commonly known as Lloyd Wright, was an American architect who did most of his work in Southern California. He was fathered by, overshadowed by, and frequently confused with Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright came to Michigan as a landscape architect, trained by the Olmsted brothers and put to work at the San Diego World's Fair of 1915.

Marilyn Maxwell (August 3, 1921 - March 20, 1972), born Marvel Marilyn Maxwell, was a platinum blonde, curvaceous movie actress and entertainer who, in addition to appearing in many films and radio programs, also entertained the troops during World War II and the Korean War on USO tours with Bob Hope. She also appeared in a number of Hope's shows as a sexy but comic foil.

Abraham Isaac "Abe" Lastfogel (May 17, 1898 - August 27, 1984) was one of the first employees and a long-time President of the William Morris Agency, a large diverisified talent agency. Abe was the seventh son of "a Yiddish-speaking animal skinner who'd fled Russia in 1889 to escape the pogroms and found work in the Gansevoort Street meatpacking district by the docks of the Lower West Side.

"Curly-Joe" DeRita (July 12, 1909 - July 3, 1993), born Joseph Wardell, was an American comedian who is best known as the "sixth" and last of the Three Stooges. DeRita was born into a show business family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wardell's father was a stage technician, and his mother, a professional stage dancer; the three often acted on stage together from his early childhood.

Francis Patrick Matthews (March 15, 1887-October 18, 1952) served as 49th United States Secretary of the Navy, during the administration of President Harry Truman. Matthews served during most of Truman's second term, from May 25, 1949 to July 31, 1951. He was also the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus from 1939 to 1945. Born in Albion, Nebraska, Matthews spent most of his adult life in Omaha. He graduated from Creighton University in Omaha in 1913, …

Jo Collins (birthname Janet Canoy, born 5 August 1945 in Lebanon, Oregon) was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1964 and Playmate of the Year for 1965. Her original pictorial was photographed by Mario Casilli. She was discovered by "Playboy" while working as a page for the "Queen for a Day" TV game show. She went on to work at the Playboy Clubs as a Bunny and, later on, as a Bunny Mother.

Lynelle Johnson is an American singer, dancer, and stage actress. In 2004, and again in 2005, she became Miss USO and joined the Metropolitan New York USO Troupe of performers.

Ina Balin (November 12, 1937 - June 20, 1990) was an American actress on Broadway and in film. Born Ina Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, Balin first appeared on television in the 1950s Perry Como Show. She also did summer stock, which led to roles on Broadway and in 1959 she won the "Theatre World Award" for her performance in the Broadway comedy, "A Majority of One"." That same year, …

Niki Barr is an American musician, based in Denton, Maryland, who is most known for her tours overseas performing for U.S. troops. She has toured overseas locations through Armed Forces Entertainment, operated by the U.S. military (distinct from the USO which is independent of the military). Her first overseas tour went to Japan, Diego Garcia, and Singapore in 2003. Her most extensive tour was in late 2005, which involved seven countries.

Andy Breckman (born March 3, 1955) is the creator and executive producer of the television series "Monk", on the USA Network. He was previously a member of the writing staff of "Saturday Night Live" and "Late Night With David Letterman". One of Breckman's most famous TV comedy sketches was a Saturday Night Live segment called "White Like Me" (which he also directed), where Eddie Murphy disguises himself as a Caucasian man for a day.

Geoffrey O'Hara (February 2, 1882 - January 31, 1967) was a Canadian American composer, singer and music professor. O'Hara was born in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. He initially planned a military career. O'Hara entered the prestigious Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario at age 18 and he trained with the 1st Hussars. He had to abandon his military career upon the death of his father, Robert O'Hara.

Edward Angus Powell, Jr, (b. April 1, 1950) is the current president of the United Service Organizations (USO), a volunteer organization that provides morale and recreational services to members of the United States military worldwide. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he was nominated by President Clinton to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Financial Management, and was then promoted to Deputy Secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs, or VA. While at the VA, Mr.

Thomson "Tommy" Bartlett (July 11, 1914 - September 6, 1998) was a Wisconsin showman and entertainment mogul. He most often associated with the water skiing thrill show based in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin named the Tommy Barlett's Thrill Show. The success of this and other traveling water ski shows led to Bartlett's induction into the Water Ski Hall of Fame in 1993.

Tatiana Semenova (July 17, 1920 - September 24, 1996) was the founding director of the Houston Ballet Academy. Semenova was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, but moved with her family to Paris, France when she was five. At the age of seven, Semenova began studying with Mathilde Kschessinska. After several years of practice, Semenova made her dancing debut at the age of 11 with a Russian opera company formed in London.

Fred Gardner is an American political organizer and author best known for his opposition to the Vietnam War and his writings about the medical mariijuana movement in the United States. Gardner received his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1963. He has been an editor at "Scientific American", the owner of Variety Home Video, one of the credited screenwriters for "Zabriskie Point" directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, …

Molly Dodd (November 11, 1921 - March 26, 1981) was an American actress. She was born Mary Elise Dodd in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Neal Dodd (September 6, 1879-May 26, 1966) and Lila Elsie Weaver (September 12, 1889-March 28, 1949). Her father was a priest of the Anglo-Catholic Episcopal Church. Dodd began her career on the Los Angeles stage in 1939, debuting in a revival of the play "The Cradle Song" with the Westwood Theatre Guild.

Paul Gerard Smith (born September 14, 1894, in Omaha, Nebraska - died April 4, 1968 in San Diego, California) was a writer and contributor to the Vaudeville tradition. Smith started writing musical revues at the age of ten. He joined the Marines for World War I and while still in Germany wrote and directed the Sixth Marine Revue in the Rhine Occupation Area. He arrived back in the States in 1919 and started writing vaudeville acts.

Vanessa Marie Semrow (born 1984) was Miss Teen USA 2002, representing her home city of Rhinelander and the state of Wisconsin. Semrow won her first title, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA in 2001, after being recruited during a modelling exhibition (she had been modelling since the age of 11). She reigned until she won the Miss Teen USA 2002 title at South Padre Island, Texas on August 28, 2002, where she was the first delegate from Wisconsin to win the national title, …

Chloe Webb (born 12 June 1956) is an American actress. Webb was born in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. She grew up in Syracuse, New York. She played the female lead character in the 1986 feature film "Sid and Nancy", which revolved around the life of the Sex Pistols bassist, Sid Vicious, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Webb also played the part of Mona Ramsey in the 1994 television adaptation of Armistead Maupin's novel "Tales of the City".

Donald Percy 'Don' Rendell (born March 4, 1926) is an English jazz musician and arranger, specialising on tenor saxophone, but also playing soprano saxophone, flute, and clarinet. Born to two musicians in Plymouth, England, Rendell's jazz career began at the age of fifteen, with the alto sax, though after a few years he switched to tenor. He started his professional career playing with big bands, first on U.S. bases for the U.S.O. in 1944, and then with various bands, …

Candace Michelle Brown (born November 21, 1968) was born and reared in Calhoun, Georgia. Candace began a modeling career in her high school years and was featured in a broad array of advertisements and publications. While a student at Auburn University, she entered and won the 1992 Miss Alabama USA title. She competed for the title of Miss USA in Wichita, …

Mona Grudt (born 1971 in Skatval, Norway) a green-eyed redhead, became the first Norwegian to capture the Miss Universe title in 1990. She was the clear favorite from the beginning, winning the interview and swimsuit preliminaries and during the semi-finals, she won all three competitions. In 1990, major format changes in the pageant caused Mona to be the first Miss Universe to face two rounds of eliminations on finals night.

Mary Therese Cadorette (born on March 31, 1957 in East Hartford, Connecticut) is an American actress best known for playing John Ritter's live-in girlfriend, flight attendant Vicky Bradford on the short-lived 1984 "Three's Company" spinoff, "Three's a Crowd". Cadorette was Miss Connecticut in the 1975 Miss America pageant. She graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1979, after which she performed in dinner theatres and with the USO.

Julita Ross (March 21, 1919 - June 29, 1981) born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, was a singer of Puerto Rican danzas, also known as "The Great Lady of the Danzas". Julita's parents Ramon and Clemencia moved to the Santurce section of San Juan in 1923. Julita received her primary and secondary education and graduated from the Central High School of Santurce.

Cathy Carr (28 June 1936 - November 1988) was a pop singer. She was born Angelina Helen Catherine Cordovano in the New York borough of The Bronx. As a child, she appeared on "The Children's Hour," a television show locally aired in New York, sponsored by Horn & Hardart, a cafeteria chain which had locations in New York and Philadelphia. She later became a singer and dancer with the USO and joined big band orchestras such as those of Sammy Kaye, Johnny Dee, …

Shaike Ophir was a prominent Israeli actor, comedian, writer, director, and mime. Ophir was born In Jerusalem to a family that traces its roots in Israel to the mid 19th Century. He studied acting as an adolescent, but left school in the 1940’s to join the Palmach on the hills of increasing tension between the Jewish Settlement and the neighboring Arabs. During Israel’s War of Independence, he escorted convoys to the besieged city of Jerusalem, …

Angela Lanza is an American singer from Bay City, Michigan, who has performed in different American cities and internationally as well. She joined with other performers, sponsored by Hooters in their "Let Freedom Wing Tour", to perform for US forces overseas. As part of this special USO tour she performed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Qatar and Uzbekistan. Also in the overseas tour was pop group UC3, which included Tracy Williams.