James Hilton (September 9, 1900 - December 20, 1954) was a Oscar-winning novelist, and author of several best-sellers including Lost Horizon (which popularised the mythical Shangri La) and Goodbye Mr Chips.

Ronald Colman (February 9 1891 - May 19 1958) was an Oscar-winning English actor. Born in Richmond, Surrey, England, Colman discovered acting while at school. He intended to attend Cambridge University to study engineering, but his father's death put an end to that. He joined the Territorial Army and served in the London Scottish Regiment during the Great War (World War I), with fellow actors Claude Rains, Herbert Marshall and Basil Rathbone.

Jane Waddington Wyatt (August 12, 1910 - October 20, 2006) was an American actress in films and television. Her most famous role was as Ronald Colman's love interest in Frank Capra's "Lost Horizon" (1937). Other film appearances included 1947's "Gentleman's Agreement" (with Gregory Peck), "None but the Lonely Heart" (with Cary Grant), and "Boomerang" (with Dana Andrews). For many people, she is best remembered for her television roles, …

John Howard (April 14 1913 - February 19 1995) was an American actor. Born John R. Cox, Jr. in Cleveland, Ohio, he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of what is now Case Western Reserve University. At college he discovered a love for the theater, and took part in student productions. The goodlooking and personable young Howard soon became a contract player for Paramount, …

Edward Everett Horton (March 18, 1886-September 29, 1970) was an American character actor with a long career including motion pictures, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons. Horton was born in Brooklyn, New York to Isabella S. Diack and Edward Everett Horton. His mother was born in Matanzas, Cuba to Mary Orr and George Diack, immigrants from Scotland.

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a three-time Academy Award winning film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Miklós Rózsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood. Tiomkin was born in Kremenchug, Ukraine and educated at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, where he studied piano with Felix Blumenfeld and harmony and counterpoint with Glazunov.

Sam Jaffe (March 8, 1891 - March 24, 1984) was an American actor, teacher and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950) and appeared in other classic films such as "Ben-Hur" (1959) and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951). He may be best remembered for the playing the title role in "Gunga Din" (1939), …

H. B. Warner (26 October 1875 - 21 December 1958) was a British actor. He was born Harry Byron Warner in St John's Wood, London in 1875. His father was an actor, and, although young Harry had initially thought to study medicine, he eventually followed in his father's footsteps and performed on the stage. Warner began his film career in silent films in 1914, when he debuted in "The Lost Paradise".

Liv Johanne Ullmann (born December 16, 1938) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning Norwegian actress, author and film director. She played lead roles in nine films by Ingmar Bergman, with whom she had a daughter, Norwegian author Linn Ullmann. The consummate psychological actress, she was the object of considerable critical acclaim during the 1970s (awards include three Best Actress prizes from the prestigious National Society of Film Critics, …

Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 - April 5, 1972) was an American film actress. Born in Shoshoni, Fremont County, Wyoming, Jewell was a Broadway actress who achieved immediate success and glowing critical reviews in two productions, "Up Pops the Devil" (1930) and "Blessed Event" (1932). She was brought to Hollywood for the film version of the latter, by Warner Brothers. A petite 4' 11" tall and with platinum blonde hair, …

Ross Hunter, born Martin Fuss (May 6, 1920 - March 10, 1996), was a noted Hollywood film producer. After serving in Army intelligence during World War II, Hunter signed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures and acted in a number of B-movie musicals. Success followed when he transisioned to become a film producer attaining a staff producer post at Universal Pictures in 1953 on the strength of his previous credits as a theatrical producer and director.

Stephen Goosson (1889 - 1973) was an American designer of film sets. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he won the 1931 Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Gosson's sets for "Lost Horizon" in 1937 have been noted as excellent examples of the Streamline Moderne style that reached the height of its popularity in that year.

Joseph Francis Charles Rock was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist. He was born in Vienna, Austria but moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1907, where he became an authority on the flora of these islands. From 1922–1949 he spent most of his time studying the flora, peoples and languages of southwest China, mainly in Yunnan, Sichuan, southwest Gansu and eastern Tibet. Many Asian plants that he collected can be seen in the Arnold Arboretum.

Larry Kramer (born June 25 1935 in Bridgeport, Connecticut), is an American playwright, author, public health advocate and gay rights activist. He was nominated for an Academy Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and was twice a recipient of an Obie Award. In response to the AIDS crisis he founded Gay Men's Health Crisis, which became the largest organization of its kind in the world.

Jerome Lawrence (July 14, 1915 - February 29, 2004) was an American playwright and author. Born Jerome Schwartz in Cleveland, Ohio, he worked for several small newspapers as a reporter/editor before moving into radio as a writer for CBS. He is best known for the plays "Auntie Mame", "Inherit the Wind", and "First Monday in October", which he co-wrote with Robert E. Lee.

Margo (born María Marguerita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado May 10, 1917 in Mexico City; died July 17, 1985 in Pacific Palisades, California), also known as "Margo Albert", was a movie actress and dancer. Margo appeared in many motion pictures and television productions, mostly in minor roles. She performed in the 1937 movie version of "Lost Horizon" as well as "Viva Zapata!" (1952), "The Leopard Man" (1943) and "I'll Cry Tomorrow" (1955) with Susan Hayward.

Berry Kroeger (October 16, 1912 - January 4, 1991) was an American film, television, and stage actor. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Kroeger got his acting start on radio as an announcer and actor, playing for a time The Falcon and The Shadow. He was discovered by filmmaker William Wellman while performing on Broadway and began appearing in films in 1948. Kroeger specialized in playing slimy bad guys in films like "Act of Violence" (1948) and "Gun Crazy" (1949).

Estêvão Cacella was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary. Cacella was born in Aviz in 1585, joined the Jesuits at the age of nineteen, and sailed for India in 1614 where he worked for some years in Kerala. In 1626, Father Cacella and Father Cabral, another younger Jesuit priest, travelled from Cochin to Bengal where they spent six months preparing for a journey through Bhutan, which would eventually take them to Tibet where they founded a mission in Shigatse, …

Michael Nader (born February 19, 1945 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor of Lebanese descent, best known for his role on the hit ABC primetime soap opera "Dynasty" from 1983 to 1989 as Farnsworth "Dex" Dexter, the third husband of Alexis Colby (played by series star Joan Collins). Nader's first soap opera role was opposite actress Marie Masters playing the character of Kevin Thompson #1 on "As the World Turns".

Screen legend Ronald Colman was one of only a handful of actors who were successful in both silent and sound films. Born in Richmond, England on February 9th, 1891, he was orphaned at 16, and found employment with a British steamship company. He served in WWI, was wounded, and upon returning to England decided to become an actor. By 1918 he starred in "Damaged Goods" on the London stage, and his success led to film work.

Albert Marre (born September 20, 1925) is a Tony Award-winning American director, choreographer, writer, and producer in the theatre. Born Albert Moshinsky in New York City to Alexander and Eugenia Moshinsky, Marre made his Broadway debut as an actor in and associate director of a 1950 revival of John Vanbrugh's Restoration comedy "The Relapse". Three years later he helmed a production of George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance", followed by "Kismet", …

Albert Edward Anson (14 September 1879 - 25 June 1936) was a British stage and screen actor. Born in London made his first appearance onstage in 1895. He left the stage briefly to pursue a degree in engineering and returned to appear with Beerbohm Tree's company in 1904. He gained fame as a Shakespearian actor appearing on London and New York stages. In 1931, Anson made his screen debut in John Ford's film "Arrowsmith".

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I am a retired San Francisco firefighter, born in Northern England where I still have a home which I occupy about twice a year and pretend to be English. I am very well travelled, am organised and independant,have been married disasterously but friendly with my ex. I have a daughter and two grandchildren. I am an entertainer, I dance (freedance) usually on cruise ships or at any place where there is suitable music and space.

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Cool doesn't cut it.

"SHUT UP OLD MAN! I'M ALL JACKED UP ON MOUNTAIN DEW!".

K, I guess there are four things that you should know about me. The first being that im the kind of person that either absolutely loves something or i tolerate it or hate it, there is nothing in between those three things.if i dont hate you/something, ill tolerate it, anything over that i love and i love it all the way. And once i love something, its very unusual for me to stop. Secondly, I am a hopeless romantic. Plain and Simple.

My name is Shorty, I am a 4 yr old (28 in people years) English Bulldog who grew up in the Phoenix desert. I met my "dad", Chris, and now live in the cool pines outside of Prescott. I like the climate here better. I am prone to heat stroke, and can't breathe as good as other dogs with my face being mushed up like it is. That makes me snore, too.