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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Iris Tree (27 January 1897 – 13 April 1968) was an English poet, actress and artists' model, described as a bohemian, an eccentric, a wit and an adventuress.Her parents were actors Sir Herbert Beer...
Peggy Hopkins Joyce (May 26, 1893 – June 12, 1957) was an American actress, artist model and dancer. In addition to her performing career, Joyce was known for her flamboyant life, with numerous eng...
David Raksin (August 4, 1912 – August 9, 2004) was an American composer who was renowned for his work in film and television. With over 100 film scores and 300 television scores to his credit, he ...
Ray Rasch (March 1, 1917 – December 23, 1964) was a pianist and arranger on the Hollywood scene in 1950s and 1960s.Rasch was born in Toledo, Ohio. He won a posthumous Academy Award in 1972 for "Be...
Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director and violinist. Leader of one of the most popular dance bands in the United States...
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is former French actress, singer and fashion model, now an animal rights activist. She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and '60s. Starting in 1969, Bard...
James Ramsay MacDonald, FRS (12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British statesman who was the first ever Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading a Labour Government in 1924, a La...
Nathalie Kay "Tippi" Hedren (born January 19, 1930) is an American actress and former fashion model. She is known for her roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films The Birds and Marnie (in which she play...
Tom Vallance (27 May 1856 – 16 February 1935) was a Scottish footballer. Vallance was the first in a long line of inspirational Rangers captains. He made 38 Scottish Cup appearances for the club.
Robert Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, writer and producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), What Ever Happened to B...
Alice Davenport (February 29, 1864 – June 24, 1936) was an American film actress. She appeared in 140 films between 1911 and 1930. She was born Alice Shepphard in New York, New York, and died in Lo...
