edgar neville (director)

Edgar Neville Romrée, Count of Berlanga de Duero (28 December 1899, Madrid – 23 April 1967) was a Spanish playwright and film director, a member of the Generation of '27. Neville lived in Hollywood...

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gypsy chaplin

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frank grandetta (boxer)

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amy reeves

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max reinhardt (actor)

Max Reinhardt (September 9, 1873 – October 30, 1943) was an Austrian-born American stage and film actor and director.

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gus arnheim (musician)

Gus Arnheim (September 4, 1897 – January 19, 1955) was an American pianist and an early popular band leader. He is noted for writing several songs with his first hit being "I Cried for You" from 19...

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fernandel (actor)

Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin (8 May 1903 – 26 February 1971), better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born in Marseille, France, he was a comedy star who first gained popularit...

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primo carnera (boxer)

Primo Carnera (October 26, 1906 – June 29, 1967) was an Italian boxer, nicknamed the Ambling Alp, who became the world heavyweight champion. His career was controversial. Some believe Carnera was "...

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jean de limur (director)

Jean de Limur (13 November 1887, Vouhé, Charente-Maritime - 5 June 1976, Paris) was a French film director, actor and screenwriter. His works include La Garçonne (1936) and The Letter (1929).

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jim tully (author)

Jim Tully (June 3, 1886 - June 22, 1947) was a vagabond, pugilist, and American writer. His critical and commercial success in the 1920s and 30s may qualify him as the greatest long shot in America...

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fred goodwins

Fred Goodwins (26 February 1891 – April 1923) was an English actor, film director and screenwriter of the silent era. He appeared in 24 films between 1915 and 1921. He was an actor and press agent...

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caryl frink

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george bernard shaw (author)

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary critici...

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lillian spicer (Lita Grey's mother)

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virginia kirtley (actress)

Virginia Kirtley (November 11, 1888 – August 19, 1956) was an American film actress during the silent era. She appeared in 55 films in the 1910s and 1920s.

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constance collier

Constance Collier (22 January 1878 – 25 April 1955) was an English stage and film actress and acting coach.

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Vivi Crespi (Countess)

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martin johnson

Martin Elmer Johnson (October 9, 1884 – January 13, 1937) and his wife Osa Helen Johnson (née Leighty, March 14, 1894 – January 7, 1953) were American adventurers and documentary filmmakers.

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eddie sutherland

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aurélia thierrée

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osa johnson

Martin Elmer Johnson (October 9, 1884 – January 13, 1937) and his wife Osa Helen Johnson (née Leighty, March 14, 1894 – January 7, 1953) were American adventurers and documentary filmmakers.

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pola negri (actress)

Pola Negri (née Apolonia Chalupova, 3 January 1897 – 1 August 1987) was a Polish stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film ...

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arnold schoenberg (musician)

Arnold Schoenberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian composer and painter, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese Sch...

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roscoe arbuckle (actor)

Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. Starting at the Selig Polyscope Company he eventually move...

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maurice schwartz

Maurice Schwartz, born Avram Moishe Schwartz (June 15, 1889 – May 10, 1960), born Galicia (then part of the Austrian Empire), was a stage and film actor active in the United States. He founded the ...

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jimmy gillespie

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charles m. schwab

For the founder and chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation brokerage firm, see Charles R. Schwab Charles Michael Schwab (February 18, 1862 – September 18, 1939) was an American steel magnate. U...

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eulalia neilson ("nice and friendly" actress)

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Phoebe Holcroft Watson (tennisman)

Phoebe Catherine Holcroft Watson (née Holcroft; 7 October 1898 – 20 October 1980) was a tennis player from the United Kingdom whose best result in singles was reaching the final of the U.S. Champio...

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charlie murray

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charlotte mineau (actress)

Charlotte Mineau (March 24, 1886 – October 12, 1979) was an American film actress of the silent era.

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vincent p. bryan

Vincent Patrick Bryan (June 22, 1878 – April 27, 1937) was an American composer and lyricist. Vincent P Bryan Down Where The Wurzburger Flows In the 1903-1909 production of The Wizard of Oz ...

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william morris jr.

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lloyd bacon

Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was an American screen, stage and vaudeville actor and film director. As a director he made films in virtually all genres—westerns, musica...

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monroe lathrop

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douglas fairbanks jr. (actor)

Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr., KBE, DSC, (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor and a decorated naval officer of World War II.

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jay kanter (film producer.)

Jay Ira Kanter (born December 12, 1926) is an American film producer. He is best known for his long association with Alan Ladd, Jr.. He was a talent agent at MCA for a number of years. He is known ...

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anna pavlova (dancer)

Anna Pavlova (Russian: А́нна Па́влова; February 12  1881 – January 23, 1931) was a Russian Empire ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. She is widely regarded as one of the fines...

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arthur fiedler

Arthur Fiedler (December 17, 1894 – July 10, 1979) was an American conductor known for his association with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops orchestras. With a combination of musicianship and sh...

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prince axel christian georg of denmark

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