Sharon Marie Tate was a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. During the 1960s she played small roles in television, before starting her film career. She appeared in several films that highlighted her beauty, and after receiving positive reviews for her comedic performances, was hailed as one of Hollywood's promising newcomers. Tate's celebrity status increased following her marriage to the film director, Roman Polański, …

John Leslie (Jackie) Coogan was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent film

John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 - March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. Candy rose to fame as a member of the Toronto, Canada branch of "The Second City", often playing lovable losers and characters with bad luck but big hearts. His film roles were mostly comedic, such as his memorable characters in "Spaceballs", "Stripes", "The Blues Brothers", "Brewster's Millions", "Uncle Buck", "Cool Runnings", …

Mario Lanza (31 January 1921 - 7 October 1959) was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star who enjoyed success in the late 1940s and 1950s. His voice was considered by many to rival that of Enrico Caruso, whom Lanza portrayed in the 1951 film "The Great Caruso". Lanza was able to sing all types of music. While his highly emotional style was not always universally praised by critics, he was immensely popular and his many recordings are still prized today.

John Ford was an American film director famous for both his westerns such as "Stagecoach" and "The Searchers" and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as "The Grapes of Wrath". His win of four Best Director Academy Awards (1935, 1940, 1941, 1952) is a record till today unmatched, although only one of those films, "How Green Was My Valley", won Best Picture. His style of film-making has been tremendously influential, …

Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 - August 26, 1978) was a French-American actor who starred in several classic Hollywood films, TV director and TV producer. After moving to the U.S., he became an American citizen.

Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 - May 14, 1987), was an American actress of Spanish and Anglo-Irish descent who reached fame during the 1940s as the era's leading sex symbol. Although there was prejudice against Hispanic actors at the time, Hayworth is now widely regarded to be one of the first Hispanic-American "sex goddess" of "Golden Age" Hollywood with leading roles in film.

Rosalind Russell was a four-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning American film and stage actress, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday. She is the actress (tied with Meryl Streep) with the most Golden Globe Awards (for films) wins, with five.

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 - October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. One of the first multi-media stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses.

Walter Francis O'Malley (October 9, 1903 - August 9, 1979) was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. In 1958 he brought major league baseball to the West Coast, moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.

Loretta Young (January 6 1913 - August 12 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American actress.

Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 - May 17, 1992) was a musician, accordion player, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting "The Lawrence Welk Show" from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans as "champagne music." He is a 1961 inductee of North Dakota's Roughrider Award.

Fredrick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 - November 5, 1991) was an actor who appeared in over one hundred movies and a highly successful television series during a career that lasted from the 1930s to the 1970s. MacMurray's most famous role was in the 1944 film noir "Double Indemnity", in which he starred with Barbara Stanwyck. Later in life, he became better known as the slightly stammering Steve Douglas, the widowed patriarch on the CBS TV series, …

Gia Scala (March 3, 1934 - April 30, 1972) was an actress. She was born Giovanna Scoglio in Liverpool, England, to an aristocratic Sicilian father, Pietro Scoglio, and an Irish mother, Eileen Sullivan. She lived in Rome, Italy and moved to the United States at age fourteen where she studied and worked in New York City. Gia graduated from Bayside High School (New York City) in Queens, New York. For a time she was undecided on what to do next.

Helen O'Connell (b. May 23, 1920 in Lima, Ohio - September 9, 1993 in San Diego, California) was a singer, actress, and dancer. Helen O'Connell joined the Jimmy Dorsey band in 1939 and achieved her best selling records in the early forties with "Green Eyes", "Amapola," and "Tangerine." In each of these Latin-influenced numbers, Bob Eberly crooned the song which Helen then reprised in an up-tempo arrangement.

Pat O'Brien was an American movie actor with over 100 screen credits. O'Brien was born William Joseph Patrick O'Brien to an Irish American Catholic family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served as an alter boy at Gesu Church while growing up near 13th & Clybourn streets. O'Brien attended Marquette Academy with fellow actor Spencer Tracy, and later attended Marquette University.

Bela Lugosi (October 20, 1882 - August 16, 1956), was a Hungarian/American actor best known for his portrayal of Count Dracula in the American Broadway stage production (1927), and subsequent film (1931), of Bram Stoker's classic vampire story.

Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 - September 25, 1987) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Most famous for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) opposite Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s.

Audrey Cotter Six, known professionally as Audrey Meadows, born Audrey Cotter, was an Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for playing the deadpan housewife, Alice Kramden in the 1950s American television comedy, "The Honeymooners". According to the Social Security Death Index, Audrey Six (her married name) was born in 1922. Her sister, Jayne Meadows, long claimed to have been born in 1926, …

Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 - July 5, 1969) was a film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his great elegance and his fine sense of humour. French director Jean Renoir once said that no other Hollywood director understood people better than Leo McCarey. Born in Los Angeles, California, he began in the movie business as an assistant director to Tod Browning in 1920, …

Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn (November 27, 1916 - August 5, 2002) was an American sportscaster. Known primarily as the long-time play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association, Hearn is remembered for his rapid fire, staccato broadcasting style, inventing colorful phrases such as "slam dunk", "air ball", and "no harm, no foul" that have become common basketball vernacular, …

Ray Bolger (January 10, 1904 - January 15, 1987) was an American entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow (and the farmworker "Hunk") in the 1939 film classic, "The Wizard of Oz".

James Francis Durante, better known as Jimmy Durante or Schnozzle (Snozzle) Durante, (February 10, 1893 - January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, …

Christopher Shannon Penn (October 10 1965 - January 24 2006) was an American film actor. He was the son of noted director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan (born "Eileen Annucci"), and the brother of actor Sean Penn and musician Michael Penn. Born in Los Angeles, California, he was the youngest of the three sons. He dated and lived with Steffiana De La Cruz from 1993 to 1999.

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).

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.

Polly Ann Young (October 25, 1908 - January 21, 1997) was an American film actress. Actresses Loretta Young and Sally Blane were her sisters, and of the three Polly Ann was the least successful. Among other movie roles, she played John Wayne's leading lady in "The Man From Utah" (1934). Young married Carter Hermann in 1935, and they had four children. Her husband died in the 1970s and she died of cancer in Los Angeles, California, aged 88.

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones was a popular musician and bandleader specializing in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs. Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, and ridiculous vocals. Through the 1940s and early 1950s, the band toured the USA and Canada under the title, "The Musical Depreciation Revue."

James Patrick Murray (December 29, 1919 - August 17, 1998) was an American sportswriter at the "Los Angeles Times" from 1961 to 1998. Many of his achievements include winning the Sportswriter of the Year award fourteen times. In 1990, he won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his 1989 columns, and the Baseball Hall of Fame awarded him the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in 1987.

Vince Edwards (July 9, 1928- March 11, 1996) was an American actor, director, and singer.

Justin McCarthy "Sam" Barry was an American collegiate athletic coach who achieved significant accomplishments in three major sports. He remains one of only three coaches to lead teams to both the Final Four and the College World Series.

Margaret Gibson alias Patricia Palmer aka Pat Lewis (September 14, 1894 near Colorado Springs, Colorado - October 21, 1964, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actress who had leading roles in Vitagraph westerns, often opposite William Clifford. She also appeared with Charles Ray in "The Coward" (1915) and later worked in two Westerns with William S. Hart: "The Money Corral," and "Sand".

Henry Hathaway was an American film director and producer. Born Henri Leonard de Fiennes in Sacramento, California, he was the son of American actor and stage manager, Rhody Hathaway (1868-1944) and a Hungarian-born Belgian aristocrat, Marquise Lillie de Fiennes (1876-1938) who acted under the name, Jean Hathaway.

Bern "Barney" Eli Oldfield (June 3, 1878 - October 4, 1946) was an automobile racer and pioneer. He was born on a farm on the outskirts of Wauseon, Ohio. He was the first man to drive a car at 60 miles per hour (96 km/h). His accomplishments led to the expression "Who do you think you are? Barney Oldfield?"

Juanita Hansen was an American motion picture actress. She was born in Des Moines, Iowa. Her family moved to California when she was a girl and Juanita graduated from Los Angeles High School. There she secured her first acting job with L. Frank Baum's "Oz Film Manufacturing Company". She appeared in the "The Patchwork Girl of Oz", a film based on Baum's book. Given a minor role as the bell ringer, …

Jean Acker (October 23, 1893 - August 16, 1978) was an American film actress with a career dating from the silent film era through the 1950s, though she was perhaps best known as the estranged wife of silent film star Rudolph Valentino.

Frank Lovejoy (March 28 1914 - October 2 1962) was a 1940s and 1950s film actor playing mostly supporting roles. Before becoming a movie actor, Lovejoy was a successful radio voiceover talent and stage actor. Lovejoy was a voice actor on the 1930s crime story radio series called "Gangbusters". He also played the title character on the syndicated radio program "The Blue Beetle" during the Forties, …

Wallace Ford (February 12, 1898 - June 11, 1966) was a movie and television actor who, with his friendly appearance and stocky build, appeared in a number of movie westerns and B-movies. Ford, born Samuel Jones in England, began as a vaudeville actor before performing on Broadway. He appeared in over 200 films including 13 directed by John Ford, who is no relation to him.

Gloria Laura Mercedes Morgan Vanderbilt (August 23, 1904-February 13, 1965) was a socialite best known as the mother of fashion designer and artist Gloria Vanderbilt. She was also the maternal grandmother of American television journalist Anderson Cooper.