1. Lew Ayres

    Lew Ayres (December 28, 1908 - December 30, 1996) was an American actor. Born Lewis Frederick Ayre III in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California, Ayres began acting in bit player roles in films in 1927. Lew Ayres was discovered in 1927 playing banjo in the Henry Halstead Orchestra as Halstead was recording one of the earliest Vitaphone movie shorts called "Carnival Night in Paris" (Warner Brothers, 1927).

  2. Jack Haley

    Jack Haley --born John Joseph Haley, Jr.--was an American film actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and farmworker Hickory in "The Wizard of Oz". Haley starred in vaudeville as a song-and-dance comedian. One of his closest friends was fellow vaudeville alumnus Fred Allen, who would frequently mention "Mr. Jacob Haley of Newton Highlands, Massachusetts" on the air. In the early 1930s Haley starred in comedy shorts for Vitaphone in Brooklyn, New York.

  3. Phil Silvers

    Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 - November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor. His best-known work is "The Phil Silvers Show", a 1950s sitcom set on a US Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko; the show was also often referred to by this name. The show's chief writer, Nat Hiken, was TV's first writer-producer, and Hiken helped set a high comic tone for the show through his inventive plots and snappy comedic repartee for the characters.

  4. Ben Pollack

    Ben Pollack was a drummer and bandleader from the mid 1920s through the swing era. His eye for talent led him to either discover or employ, at one time or another, musicians such as Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller, Jimmy McPartland and Harry James. This ability earned him the nickname "Father of Swing". Born in Chicago, Illinois to a well-to-do family, Pollack was largely self taught as a drummer, …

  5. Benny Fields

    Benny (Bennie) Fields (born Benjamin Geisenfeld, June 14, 1894 in Milwaukee - died August 16, 1959 in New York City) was a popular singer of the early 20th century, best known as one-half of the Blossom Seeley-Benny Fields vaudeville team Fields began his career in Chicago, as a singer in Al Tierney's cafe on 22nd Street. The tall young man had a gentle, easygoing way with a song, …

  6. Estelle Taylor

    Estelle Taylor (May 20, 1894-April 15, 1958) was an American Hollywood actress whose career was most prominent during the silent film era of the 1920s. Born Estelle Boylan in Wilmington, Delaware, Taylor married a banker while still a teenager. After relocating to Hollywood, she began taking bit parts in films. Taylor is possibly best recalled for her roles in the 1922 drama "Monte Cristo" opposite John Gilbert, …

  7. Anita Garvin

    Anita Garvin (February 11, 1906 - July 7, 1994) was an American actor and comedian who appeared in both silent and sound films. She is best known for her work with the comedians Laurel and Hardy and Charley Chase. Garvin was born in New York City. Later, she moved to California where in 1924, she initially worked for Al Christie's comedy unit. She then began work for Educational Studios and eventually, in 1926 Hal Roach, …

  8. Marion Byron

    Marion "Peanuts" Byron (born Miriam Bilenkin in Dayton, Ohio, March 16, 1911 - died California July 5, 1985) was a petite, plucky American movie comedian. After following her sister into a short stage career as a singer/dancer, she was given her first movie role as Buster Keaton's leading lady in the film "Steamboat Bill, Jnr." in 1928. From there she was hired by Hal Roach to co-star in short subjects with Max Davidson, Edgar Kennedy, …

  9. Lee Morse

    Lee Morse was an American jazz singer best known for her trademark yodeling. She was born Lena Corinne Taylor on November 30, 1897 in Portland, Oregon to Pleasant John and Olive Taylor. She was the tenth of thirteen children, and the second girl. Her younger brother Glen H. Taylor was a country-western singer who served one term as a U.S. Senator from Idaho. She began her professional singing career in a local movie house in 1918.

  10. Edward Buzzell

    Edward Buzzell (13 November 1900, Brooklyn, New York - 11 January 1985, Los Angeles, California) was a director for MGM who directed many of their films in the late 1930s, including "Honolulu" (1939), the Marx Brothers films "At the Circus" (1939) and "Go West" (1940), the musicals "Best Foot Forward" (1943) with Lucille Ball, and "Neptune's Daughter" (1949) with Esther Williams.

  11. Irène Bordoni

    Irène Bordoni was a singer and a Broadway theatre and film actress. Born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France from Italian family she had been a child actor, performing in Paris on stage and in silent films for a few years when she came to the United States in 1912. At age seventeen, she made her Broadway debut in a Shubert brothers production of "Broadway to Paris" at the Winter Garden Theatre. She also starred in "Naughty Cinderella" (1925) by Avery Hopwood.

  12. Jeroen Molenaar
  13. Michael Bartels

    Michael Bartels (born March 8, 1968 in Plettenberg, Germany) is a professional race car driver. He failed to qualify for 4 Formula One Grands Prix with Lotus. He was the 1985 German karting champion and the 1986 German Formula Ford 1600 champion. After his F1 starts he continued in F3000, finishing 4th in 1992, before switching to the DTM - he was top privateer in 1994 and also raced the series in 1995 and 1996.

  14. Andrea Bertolini

    Andrea Bertolini (December 1, 1973) is an Italian race car driver currently driving for Vitaphone Racing in the FIA GT, he currently lives in Sassuolo. He began racing at a young age and has continued, working as a the youngest ever test driver for Ferrari at 19, working in the experimental and development department and worked on the Maserati MC12 throughout its development. Bertolini has enjoyed a successful career with 5 pole positions.

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  17. Scott Levine

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