- Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow (b. Harlean Harlow Carpenter, March 3, 1911 - June 7, 1937) was an American film actress and top sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" for her famous hair, Harlow starred in several films mainly designed to showcase her magnetic sex appeal and strong screen presence before transitioning to more developed roles and achieving massive fame under contract to MGM. Known as "The Baby" to family and close friends, … - Clark Gable
William Clark Gable was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. He has been nicknamed "The King of Hollywood." His most famous role was in the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind", in which he starred with Vivien Leigh. - Dick Powell
Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an American singer, actor, producer, and director. Born in Mountain View, Arkansas, Powell attended Little Rock College in Arkansas, before starting his entertainment career as a singer in his own band. He recorded a number of records for the Vocalion label in the late 1920s. In April 1930, Warner Bros. bought up Brunswick Records, which at that time owned Vocalion. Warner Bros. - Bette Davis
Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 - October 6, 1989), born Ruth Elizabeth Davis, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were romantic dramas. - Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 - January 14, 1957) was an American actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time. Playing primarily smart, playful and reckless characters anchored by an inner moral code while surrounded by a corrupt world, Bogart's most notable films include "The Petrified Forest" (1936), "Kid Galahad" (1937), "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), … - John Ritter
Johnathan Southworth Ritter (September 17, 1948 - September 11, 2003) was an American actor and comedian best known for his role of Jack Tripper in the sitcom "Three's Company". - George Burns
George Burns, born Nathan Birnbaum (January 20 1896 - March 9 1996) to a Jewish family, was an American comedian and actor. His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his equally legendary wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three quarters of a century. Enjoying a remarkable career resurrection that began at age 79, … - Walt Elias Disney
Walter Elias Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Disney is notable as one of the most influential and innovative figures in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Walt became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. - Gutzon Borglum
(John) Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 - March 6, 1941) was an American artist and sculptor famous for creating the monumental presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, as well as dozens of other impressive public works of art. - Jack Teagarden
Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905-January 15, 1964) was an influential jazz trombonist and vocalist. Born in Vernon, Texas, his brothers Charlie and Clois "Cub" and his sister Norma also became noted professional musicians. Teagarden's father was an amateur brass band trumpeter and started young Jack on baritone horn; by age 10 he had switched to trombone. He first heard jazz music played by the Louisiana Five and decided to play in the new style. - Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball was an iconic American comedian, actress and star of the landmark sitcom "I Love Lucy", a four time Emmy Award winner (awarded 1953, 1956, 1967, 1968) and charter member of the Television Hall of Fame. A major movie star and "glamour girl" of the 1930s and 1940s, she later achieved tremendous success as a television actress. She received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986. - 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. - Gene Autry
Orvon Gene Autry (September 29 1907 - October 2 1998) was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television. - James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 - July 2, 1997) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing screen persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Oscars, winning one in competition and one life achievement. He also had a noted military career, rising to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force. - Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 - May 29, 1979) was an Oscar-winning Canadian motion picture star and co-founder of United Artists in 1919. She was known as "America's Sweetheart," "Little Mary" and "the girl with the curls." She was one of the first Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and one of film's greatest pioneers. Her influence in the development of film acting was enormous. Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, … - George Cukor
George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 - January 24, 1983) was an American film director. Cukor's career flourished at RKO Studios where he directed a string of impressive films including "What Price Hollywood?" (1932), "A Bill of Divorcement" (1932), "Dinner at Eight" (1933), "Little Women" (1933), "David Copperfield" (1935), "Romeo and Juliet" (1936), and "Camille" (1937). - Ozzie Nelson
Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson (March 20, 1906 - June 3, 1975) was an American entertainer who originated and starred in "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" radio and television series with his wife and two sons. The second son of Swedish parents, he was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and raised in the affluent suburb of Ridgefield Park, where the street of the high school he attended is now named after him. - Telly Savalas
Telly Savalas (January 21, 1922 - January 22, 1994) was a prominent Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor whose career spanned four decades. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1963 for his supporting role in "Birdman of Alcatraz". He also starred with Burt Lancaster in "The Young Savages" and "The Scalphunters". For the course of his long career, he was best known for his work playing the title role in the popular 1970s crime drama, … - Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang was an Austrian-German-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known "émigrés" from Germany's school of expressionism. His most famous films are the groundbreaking "Metropolis" (the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release) and "M", made before he moved to the United States. - Noah Beery Jr.
Noah Beery was an American actor. Born Noah Nicholas Beery in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, he and his younger brothers William Beery and the legendary Wallace Beery all became Hollywood actors. The three Beery brothers were the children of Frances Margaret Fitzgerald and Noah Webster Beery, which made them full brothers (contrary to many sources). Noah Beery worked in the theatre starting at the age of sixteen and by 1905 was performing on Broadway. - Ernie Kovacs
Ernest Edward Kovacs was a creative and innovative entertainer in the early days of television. His on-air antics would influence later TV shows such as "Laugh-In", "the Uncle Floyd Show", "Saturday Night Live" and TV hosts like David Letterman. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, the Hungarian-American Kovacs became a pioneer of television comedy as a distinct medium. Earlier television comedians had mainly continued the comedy styles of vaudeville, … - Sammy Davis Jr.
Samuel George Davis, Jr., better known as Sammy Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925 - May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer. He was a dancer, singer, multi-instrumentalist (playing vibraphone, trumpet, and drums), impressionist, comedian, and actor. He was a member of the 1960s Rat Pack, which was led by his old friend Frank Sinatra, and included such fellow performers as Dean Martin and Peter Lawford. - W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields (January 29, 1880 - December 25, 1946) was an American juggler, comedian, and actor. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century-a misanthrope who teetered on the edge of buffoonery but never quite fell in, an egotist blind to his own failings, a charming drunk; and a man who hated children, dogs, and women, unless they were the wrong sort of women. - Ricky Nelson
Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson, later known as Rick Nelson (May 8, 1940 -December 31, 1985), was one of the first American teen idols. - Leo Durocher
Leo Ernest Durocher, nicknamed "Leo the Lip", was an American infielder and manager in Major League Baseball. Upon his retirement, he ranked fifth all-time among managers with 2,009 career victories, and second only to John McGraw in National League history. As of 2007, Durocher still ranks tenth in career wins by a manager. A controversial and outspoken character, Durocher's career was dogged by clashes with authority, … - Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922-September 8, 1965) was an American actress. She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Actress category and the third African American to receive a nomination in any category overall (after Hattie McDaniel and Ethel Waters). - Paramahansa Yogananda
Paramahansa Yogananda (Bengali: পরমহংস যোগানন্দ "Pôromôhongsho Joganondo", Hindi: परमहंस योगानन्द; January 5, 1893-March 7, 1952), was an Indian yogi and guru. He was instrumental in bringing the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga to the West. His book, "Autobiography of a Yogi", has introduced several generations of readers to the teachings of yoga and Hinduism. - Gene Austin
Gene Austin (June 24, 1900-January 24, 1972) was an American singer and songwriter who is considered to have been the first "crooner". Austin was born as Lemeul Eugene Lucas in Gainesville, Texas (north of Dallas), to Nova Lucas (died 1943) and the former Serena Belle Harrell (died 1956). He took the name "Gene Austin" from his stepfather, Jim Austin, a blacksmith. Austin grew up in Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, … - Red Skelton
Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton (July 18 1913 - September 17 1997) was an American comedian who was best known as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and went on to vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, TV, clubs and casinos, while pursuing another career as a painter. - Aimee Semple McPherson
Aimee Semple McPherson (October 9, 1890 - September 27, 1944), also known as "Sister Aimee" or simply "Sister", was an evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s; she was also the founder of the Foursquare Church. - Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 - February 17, 1970) was a major American composer of music for films. His birth year is commonly mistakenly given as 1901. He received 45 Academy Award nominations (a record in the music categories, now shared with John Williams), winning 9 times; in 1940 he was nominated for 4 different films. Between 1938 and 1957, he was nominated an incredible twenty years in a row. - Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; June 16, 1890 - February 23, 1965) was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as part of the comedy double act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th Century until post-World War II. - Marty Feldman
Martin Alan "Marty" Feldman (8 July 1934 - 2 December 1982) was an English writer, comedian and BAFTA award winning actor, famous for his bulging eyes, which were the result of a thyroid condition known as Graves Disease. - Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 - September 1, 1977) was an Oscar-nominated American blues vocalist and actress. She was the second African American to ever be nominated for an Academy Award. Waters frequently performed jazz, big band, gospel, and popular music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts. Her best-known recording was her version of the spiritual "His Eye is on the Sparrow". - Errol Flynn
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, most famous for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle. - Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen was an American comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. Burns himself phrased it perfectly in a gag that got laughs no matter how often he repeated it for the rest of his life: "One day, the audience realized I had a terrific talent. They were right. I did have a terrific talent. And I was married to her for 38 years." In a career spanning vaudeville through television, … - John Gilbert
John Gilbert (July 10, 1899 - January 9, 1936) was an actor and major star of the silent film era. Known as "the great lover," he rivaled even the great Rudolph Valentino as a box office draw. Though he was often cited as one of the high profile examples of an actor who was unsuccessful in making the transition to talkies, his decline as a star in fact had as much to do with studio politics and money as did the sound of his screen voice. - Edward S. Curtis
Edward Sheriff Curtis (February 16, 1868 - October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native American peoples. - Chico Marx
Leonard Marx, known as Chico, (March 22, 1887 - October 11, 1961) was one of the Marx Brothers. He was originally nicknamed Chicko due to his reputation as a ladies man, or a "chicken chaser" in the popular slang of the day. A typesetter accidentally dropped the "k" in his name and it became Chico. It was still pronounced "Chick-o" although those who were unaware of its origin tended to pronounce it "Cheek-o". - Judith Barsi
Judith Eva Barsi (June 6, 1978 - July 25, 1988) was an American child actress. Although she appeared in a large number of films and television shows, she is best remembered as of 2007 for being murdered by her father when she was ten years old.
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