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Ruth Roman was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the youngest of three daughters of Lithuanian-Jewish parents Mary Pauline (Gold) and Abraham Roman. Her father, a carnival barker, died when she was a small child, forcing her mother to support the family by working as a waitress and cleaning woman. Ruth grew up in the poor tenement district of Boston, Massachusetts, where she went to school. However, she left school after just two years to pursue an acting career. Her chosen path proved to be strewn with obstacles: in New York, she obtained a job posing for stills for a crime magazine, but theatrical work eluded her. She then worked as a hat check girl at a night club before calling it quits and returning to Boston. There, she made ends meet as an usherette during the day while at night performing with the New England Repertory Company, her first steady acting job. She also studied drama and eventually graduated from the Bishop-Lee Theatre School.
Trying to get into films, Ruth unsuccessfully made the rounds of agents and producers for two years (1940-42), until a bit part as a WAVE came her way in the film Stage Door Canteen (1943). With $200 to her name, she purchased a one-way ticket to Hollywood, where she found shared accommodation with other aspiring starlets, naming it, optimistically, 'the House of the Seven Garbos'. After a screen test with Warner Brothers failed to result in a contract, Ruth had another run of six hard years playing bit parts, many of them uncredited, some ending up on the cutting room floor. A sole speaking part of consequence was in the titular role of Jungle Queen (1945), a Universal serial (after subsequent acting lessons, Ruth was aghast when the serial was rereleased in 1951).
Ruth finally got her big break when producer Dore Schary cast her (against character, as a murderess) in the RKO thriller The Window (1949). That same year, she successfully auditioned for Stanley Kramer's boxing drama Champion (1949) as the dependable wife of the fighter (Kirk Douglas). After this turning point in her life, the shapely, smoky-voiced brunette secured a contract with Warner Brothers. During the next phase of her career, she moved effortlessly from glamorous and seductive to demure and wholesome in films opposite stars like James Stewart, Errol Flynn, and Gary Cooper. Look Magazine billed her as the 'Big Time Movie Personality of 1950', and by the following year she was receiving some 500 fan letters per week.
While many of her leads were in westerns (albeit mostly A-grade ones), Ruth was somewhat more memorable in support of Farley Granger (as his upper-crust lover and the raison d'etre for the planned murder of his wife) in Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951). Another offbeat role was as a gangster's moll in the British-made updated adaptation of Shakespeare's Joe MacBeth (1955). As Lily, she is the power behind angst-ridden Paul Douglas ('Joe'), whom she easily manipulates to do her bidding. In The Bottom of the Bottle (1956), she was at her dependable best as the supportive wife of lawyer Joseph Cotten. Arguably, her last noteworthy performance on the big screen was in Alexander Singer's romance/drama Love Has Many Faces (1965).
By the 1960s, Ruth had made the transition to middle-aged character parts and began to appear mostly on television in shows like The Outer Limits (1963), Mannix (1967), Gunsmoke (1955), and (in a recurring role) in The Long, Hot Summer (1965). She also toured nationally with theatrical productions of "Plaza Suite", "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", and "Two for the Seesaw". For the actress, who was said to disdain the trimmings of Hollywood stardom, real-life drama came when she and her son counted among the 760 survivors of the sinking of the luxury cruise liner 'Andrea Doria' in 1956. In September 1967, she jumped from her burning car but still managed to make her scheduled performance in "Beekman Place" at the Ivanhoe Theatre. Ruth died in September 1999 at her home in Laguna Beach, aged 76.- Actor
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Leon Ames was born Harry Wycoff in Portland, Indiana, to Cora Alice (DeMoss) and Charles Elmer Wycoff. He had always wanted to be an actor and he did it the hard way, serving a long apprenticeship in touring amateur theatre companies -- even selling shoes for a while on 42nd Street in the 1920s. It took him until 1933 to make his debut on Broadway. His play at the Morosco Theatre, "It Pays to Sin," lasted for only three performances after receiving disastrous critical reviews. By then he had already appeared in his first movie, the sombre, expressionistic Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), an Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, in which Leon played the dependable love interest of heroine Sidney Fox.
For the next three year, he appeared under his birth name (Leon Waycoff) in a variety of B-movies for "Poverty Row" studios like Mayfair, Showmen's Pictures, World-Wide, Empire and Majestic. His first film as 'Leon Ames' was the Shirley Temple vehicle, Stowaway (1932). For the next few years he served yet another apprenticeship, playing a variety of stalwart characters and the occasional bad guy in such cheerful potboilers as the anemic Murder in Greenwich Village (1937), the amusing Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938) and the eminently forgettable Secrets of a Nurse (1938). There were also occasional highlights: he popped up in Ernst Lubitsch's last film at Paramount, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938), with Gary Cooper and Myrna Loy, and even starred as the leading man of Cipher Bureau (1938) and Panama Patrol (1939), albeit at Grand National.
Leon's career improved dramatically after playing Judy Garland's father Alonzo (along with Mary Astor as the matriarch of the family) in MGM's classic, Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), directed by Vincente Minnelli. For the first time, Leon's acting abilities were well employed, especially his ability to deliver dryly humorous one-liners. Signed to a contract at MGM, Leon was now cast in pivotal character roles in more important A-grade output, usually as put-upon, loving fathers: A Date with Judy (1948), Little Women (1949), (where he again teamed up with Mary Astor), By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953), to name but a few. For something completely different, he also played district attorney Kyle Sackett in the film noir, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and, against type, portrayed Paul Newman's thoroughly unpleasant father in From the Terrace (1960).
Leon continued in films well until his twilight years and was last seen as Kathleen Turner's grandfather in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). On television, he had a popular run starring in Life with Father (1953) and Father of the Bride (1961) (played by Spencer Tracy on the big screen) as well as playing Wilbur Post's neighbor Gordon Kirkwood in Mister Ed (1961).
Leon had another claim to fame in being one of 19 actors, who -- after a clandestine meeting in June 1933 -- established the Screen Actor's Guild. For thirty years (commencing in 1945) he held a senior executive position as recording secretary and served as national president of the organization between 1957 and 1979. He also served on the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The dapper actor and avid unionist died at a Laguna Beach nursing home at the ripe old age of 91 on October 12, 1993.- Actor
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The son of a day laborer, William Boyd moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was seven. His parents died while he was in his early teens, forcing him to quit school and take such jobs as a grocery clerk, surveyor and oil field worker. He went to Hollywood in 1919, already gray-haired. His first role was as an extra in Cecil B. DeMille's Why Change Your Wife? (1920). He bought some fancy clothes, caught DeMille's eye and got the romantic lead in The Volga Boatman (1926), quickly becoming a matinée idol and earning upwards of $100,000 a year. However, with the end of silent movies, Boyd was without a contract, couldn't find work and was going broke. By mistake his picture was run in a newspaper story about the arrest of another actor with a similar name (William 'Stage' Boyd) on gambling, liquor and morals charges, and that hurt his career even more. In 1935 he was offered the lead role in Hop-a-Long Cassidy (1935) (named because of a limp caused by an earlier bullet wound). He changed the original pulp-fiction character to its opposite, made sure that "Hoppy" didn't smoke, drink, chew tobacco or swear, rarely kissed a girl and let the bad guy draw first. By 1943 he had made 54 "Hoppies" for his original producer, Harry Sherman; after Sherman dropped the series, Boyd produced and starred in 12 more on his own. The series was wildly popular, and all recouped at least double their production costs. In 1948 Boyd, in a savvy and precedent-setting move, bought the rights to all his pictures (he had to sell his ranch to raise the money) just as TV was looking for Saturday morning Western fare. He marketed all sorts of "Hoppy" products (lunch boxes, toy guns, cowboy hats, etc.) and received royalties from comic books, radio and records. He retired to Palm Desert, California, in 1953. In 1968 he had surgery to remove a tumor from a lymph gland and from then on refused all interview and photograph requests.- Actress
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Harriet Nelson will always have a secure place alongside Barbara Billingsley and Jane Wyatt in the "TV's Golden Age Mom Hall of Fame." For fourteen years, she, husband Ozzie Nelson, and their two boys, David Nelson and Ricky Nelson, were the quintessential role models of the '50s ideal nuclear family.
Harriet, the daughter of actors, was practically born in a trunk on July 18, 1909, in Des Moines, Iowa. She made her debut amid the footlights at age 6 weeks with her parents. The mid-West beauty attended St. Agnes Academy in her early years. Quite a dazzler in her youth, she was playing vaudeville when she attracted the attention of saxophone-playing Ozzie Nelson and was hired by him as vocalist for his orchestra in 1932. They married three years later.
Harriet had a bold, sassy edge to her that proved a perfect counterpoint to Ozzie's genial, stumbling personality in their off-the-cuff routines. During the '40s, they were regulars on Red Skelton's radio show and even took over the comic's time slot when Red was drafted into the army. As Harriet Hilliard, she moved to leading lady status in a number of cool, snazzy war-era musicals, the most notable as "second lead" to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Follow the Fleet (1936). Other minor efforts included Cocoanut Grove (1938), Sweetheart of the Campus (1941) with Ozzie, Juke Box Jenny (1942), and Honeymoon Lodge (1943), also with Ozzie. Breezy, tuneful films, but nothing to write home about.
Once Harriet partnered with Ozzie in their own radio series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" in 1944, the family-oriented woman's career became unequivocally bound to his. They extended their devoted radio audience to TV (1952-1966). The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952), which now included both their sons, made household names of the entire clan. David followed in his father's footsteps as director/producer, while Ricky turned pop teen idol with such hits as "Hello, Mary Lou" and "Travelin' Man," songs that were introduced on the show. Following the show's long run, Ozzie and Harriet lay back a bit and settled in Laguna Beach, California, touring occasionally on stage. A second series entitled Ozzie's Girls (1973) lasted only one season.
Following Ozzie's death in 1975, Harriet turned somewhat reclusive, save for a few mini-movies or guest spots. She never fully recovered from son Ricky's death in a plane crash in 1985. She was the doting grandmother of actress Tracy Nelson and of twin rockers Matthew Nelson and Gunnar Nelson, who were simply called "Nelson." A heavy smoker most of her life, she never smoked in public, feeling it did not befit her "perfect mom" image. She died of emphysema and congestive heart failure on October 2, 1994, at age 85.- Actor
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Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1892, rustic-looking George "Slim" Summerville possessed one of those malleable mugs that made you laugh even before he opened his mouth. Young Slim ran away from home as a youth and lived a rather wanderlust life until a chance meeting with Mack Sennett through his comedian friend Edgar Kennedy changed everything.
Slim broke into silent films at age nineteen as one of Sennett's pie-hurling Keystone Kops and became part of the stock company of players. Making an unbilled appearance in Keystone's first feature film Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), Summerville's gangly build and naive innocence, not to mention his potato-like nose, mournful mug, and slim, curling upper lip, helped set him apart -- so much so that Summerville eventually branched out into his own short vehicles.
Much more comfortable in rumpled clothes and overalls than a suit and tie, he later learned the ropes of directing and in the 1920s helmed a string of short films for both Fox and Universal studios. He refocused on acting come the advent of sound and made a rather easy transition, standing out in a number of commercial films, both comedic and dramatic, including the mammoth war epic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), the landmark musical film King of Jazz (1930), Hecht-MacArthur's classic The Front Page (1931), the Shirley Temple vehicles Captain January (1936) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), and John Ford's Tobacco Road (1941). In addition, Slim scored in a series of short comedies opposite Zasu Pitts, and a slew of supports in Hoot Gibson westerns.
Usually playing much older than he was, the sleepy-eyed, slow-drawling Summerville played his last role in The Hoodlum Saint (1946), before dying of a stroke on January 5, 1946, at the not-so-old age of 53. He left a strong enough legacy, however, to be remembered as one of the screen's more reliable comedians. He was survived by his wife Eleanor and son Elliot.- Barbara Read was born on 29 December 1917 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), Three Smart Girls (1936) and The Spellbinder (1939). She was married to William Talman, Willard Edward Josephy, John Pershing Crawford and William Paul III. She died on 11 December 1963 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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Born in Los Angeles almost a year after the start of Great Depression. Bob (whose nickname 'Bobs' was given to him by his father, and for legal and professional reasons he adopted professionally) is from a family of 9 siblings; 6 boys and 3 girls. He made his first on-screen appearance as a (literal) babe in arms in Life Begins (1932). Watson received the sobriquet 'cry-baby' for his ability to cry on-cue. Watson is best known as "Pee Wee" from Boys Town (1938). Later in the mid-late 60's Watson left the film industry entirely and entered the Claremont School of Theology. Later he became a Methodist minister in Burbank and La Canada. Watson retired in 1997 and passed away in 1999, succumbing to prostate cancer- Actor
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Fair-haired, youthfully handsome Swedish-American actor Eric Linden, who enjoyed pre-Code, Depression-era Hollywood stardom in boyish leads, was discovered for films by director Wesley Ruggles when Ruggles cast the New York-based actor in a lead role in the film Are These Our Children (1931).
Born in New York City, his Swedish father, Philip Linden, was an actor with Stockholm's Royal Theatre who migrated to America, then later abandoned his wife and five children when Eric was still young. His mother made ends meet by working at a church parish. He attended the Paul Hoffman Jr. School where he made appearances in the school's plays. A one-time usher at the Riverside, Riviera and Roxy Theatres in New York, he took English and literature classes at Columbia University at one point.
Eric was invited into the Theatre Guild membership and appeared in such productions as "Marco's Millions" and "Strange Interlude". He also began appearing on Broadway and performed in repertory around the East coast. Earning a RKO Hollywood contract at the onset of talking films, he made an auspicious debut as the self-important, trouble-making Eddie Brand in Are These Our Children (1931). From there he appeared opposite Hollywood's finest leading ladies in quality fare: Helen Twelvetrees in Young Bride (1932), Joan Blondell in Big City Blues (1932), and Loretta Young in Life Begins (1932), to name a few.
Initially promoted by RKO as "The Boy Sensation of the Theatre Guild," he later was pegged as Hollywood's tragic boy actor on the screen. Other fine roles came with The Crowd Roars (1932) as James Cagney's hero-worshiping brother, a collegiate lead in The Age of Consent (1932), the callow son of Lionel Barrymore in Sweepings (1933), the young male lead in The Past of Mary Holmes (1933), the dominated son of Laura Hope Crews in The Silver Cord (1933) and then performed one of his last good film roles in Ah Wilderness! (1935) opposite Barrymore again, Wallace Beery and Mickey Rooney. One of his biggest disappointments at the time was losing the part of Laurie in the classic Alcott tearjerker Little Women (1933).
Good parts declined into the late 1930s and, following diminishing work in such films as Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936), The Good Old Soak (1937), Here's Flash Casey (1938) (title role), Everything's on Ice (1939) and, his last, Criminals Within (1941), Eric left films for good. During this time, he also had a very small role as a Civil War amputee in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Linden fared better under the theatre lights in later years with prime roles as Joe Bonaparte in "Golden Boy" and in "Another Language," "The Philadelphia Story" (with Diana Barrymore), "Mr. and Mrs. North" and "My Sister Eileen". Following a stint with the Armed Forces during WWII, he again returned to the stage but his career was in serious decline. Eric married late in life in 1955, age 46; he and wife Jo, an artist, settled in Laguna Beach, California and had three children: Karen, David and Andrea. They divorced in 1977. In later years, he worked for the County of Orange in California. He died on July 14, 1994, at age 84.- Actor
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John Eldredge was born on 30 August 1904 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for High Sierra (1940), Backlash (1947) and The Master Key (1945). He was married to Frances Virginia Kathleen Hubbell and Eleanor Catherine Walker. He died on 23 September 1961 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Actor
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For over 30 years he was a fixture in Hollywood films that were set in England, Ireland or Scotland, His first film appearance was as Jock Gordon in The Lilac Sunbonnet (1922) which told the story of a supposedly innocent young girl who is anything but as an ingenue. Harvey played a man smitten with love. During his time in Hollywood, he made some 116 films 14 of which were silents, when sound came his character roles developed with the sound of his voice often being cast as a cockney tradesman, family gardener or a pub inhabitant. His more famous roles came in the 30's when he was cast as Beamish , part of a scheming safari group in the Johnny Weissmuller film Tarzan the Ape Man (1932). In 1933, he was cast as Herbert the innkeeper, in the classic The Invisible Man (1933) opposite Una O'Connor as his wife and they all but stole the film from Claude Rains. Other roles included Bradshaw in Frank Capra's Broadway Bill (1934), Twiddle in The Wolf Man (1941), and Mr Huggins in Mrs. Miniver (1942).- John Clarke was born on 14 April 1931 in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Days of Our Lives (1965), The Satan Bug (1965) and Death Valley Days (1952). He was married to Patricia Clarke. He died on 16 October 2019 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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American film character actor who appeared in primarily comedic roles from the 1920s through the 1950s. Born Fehmer Christy Chandler (named after his uncle, well-known architect Carl Fehmer), in Kingston, New York to Colonel George F. Chandler and the former Martha Schultze (a sportswriter and daughter of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Carl Schultze), by the age of 12, he was appearing as a dancer and entertainer in local stage shows. His father, an army surgeon and organizer of the New York State Police, enrolled him in a military academy, The Manlius School, which he attended for three years, serving with distinction and rising to the school rank of corporal. At 16, though he was being groomed by his family for a military career, he dropped out to work on a tramp steamer and, later, to pursue work in vaudeville and to study dance at the school of famed choreographer Ned Wayburn. Chandler maintained a successful career throughout the 1920s as a dancer and comedian in vaudeville and burlesque, at times teamed with Naomi Morton, granddaughter of vaudeville and Broadway star Sam Morton. In 1930, Chandler, still billed as Fehmer Chandler, joined the cast of the Liberty Bell Filling Station radio show starring Chic Sale, as Rodney Gordon, the assistant to Wheel Wilkins (Sale), proprietor of the titular gas station. Two years later, he landed a role in the Ben Hecht-Gene Fowler Broadway play The Great Magoo. Spotting him there, film producer David O. Selznick signed Chandler, now billed under his boyhood nickname Chick, to a film contract at RKO, telling the press that Chandler was "a cross between Lee Tracy and James Cagney." Chandler, who had done behind-the-camera work for director Charles Brabin in 1923 and had appeared in at least one silent film as an actor, turned full-time to movie acting with his first films under contract, Sweepings and Melody Cruise, in 1933. He appeared mainly in supporting roles, mostly comic, in nearly 120 films over the next 36 years. Under the pseudonym Guy Fehmer, Chandler wrote a screenplay about racing called The Quitter. In 1955, Chandler was cast in the starring role of Toubo Smith in the adventure series Soldiers of Fortune, alongside John Russell as Tim Kelly. In the show, Smith and Kelly traveled the world engaging in treasure hunts, rescues, and exploration adventures. It brought Chandler his greatest fame. During the off-seasons, he toured the country in stock and musical theatrical productions such as Harvey and Annie Get Your Gun. He was also a regular on the short-lived 1961 NBC comedy series One Happy Family. In February 1925, Chandler became engaged to Ziegfeld Follies performer and Christy model Dorothy Knapp, whom he had met in his uncle Howard Chandler Christy's studio in or around 1922. Knapp broke off the engagement to pursue her career further, and Chandler then became partnered, both privately and professionally, with 17-year-old Sallie Sharon, whom he met at West Point. The pair formed a vaudeville team, but never married. On April 4, 1931, Chandler married Eugenia "Jean" Frontai, a former contract performer with David Belasco's theatrical company. They were married 57 years, until Chandler's death from a heart attack on September 30, 1988. (Jean Chandler followed her husband in death [from cancer] the next day in the same hospital, South Coast Medical Center.) The couple had no children.- Actress
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An Alabama native she made a name for herself playing good girl roles in the 1940s. The middle of six children she was born in Birmingham, Alabama on Christmas Day 1919 to William and Gladys Early, both of whom had originally come from Montgomery. She was raised on the family chicken farm rooted in home-sprung tradition and religious faith. Her early acting endeavors usually involved her work in Christmas and Easter pageants at her local Baptist church but in the mid-1930s she found herself starring in leading roles while touring in stock companies, which found her performing in various stage productions in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
In 1936 while starring in "Idiot's Delight" on Broadway she was spotted by a talent scout who brought her to California for an RKO screen test. She made her screen debut in Stage Door (1937) followed by turns in Jezebel (1938), Judge Hardy and Son (1939), Strike Up the Band (1940), Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941), and Stage Door Canteen (1943). With 13 film titles to her resume she left movies in 1946 following her appearance in Cinderella Jones (1946) and moved to Laguna Beach where she spent the remainder of her life working as a receptionist for a local doctors office and she continued to be active in the Baptist church and Republican politics. She died in 2000 from complications of congestive heart failure at age 80.- Joyce Mathews was born on 5 December 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Sudden Money (1939), $1000 a Touchdown (1939) and Mister Universe (1951). She was married to Don Beddoe, Ivor Studebaker Schmidt, Billy Rose, Milton Berle and Gonzalo Gómez. She died on 17 January 1999 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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Harvey Bullock was born on 4 June 1921 in Oxford, North Carolina, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Andy Griffith Show (1960), Monster Squad (1976) and NBC Special Treat (1975). He died on 23 April 2006 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Actor
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Frank Mayo was born on 28 June 1886 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Souls for Sale (1923), Then Came the Woman (1926) and Wild Oranges (1924). He was married to Dagmar Godowsky and Joyce Eleanor. He died on 9 July 1963 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Marta Mitrovich was born on 27 September 1909 in Dubrovnik,Austro-Hungary (later Yugoslavia). She was an actress, known for Prisoners in Petticoats (1950), When Strangers Marry (1944) and The Unfaithful (1947). She died on 25 March 2002 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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John Holland was born on 11 June 1899 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Hell Harbor (1930), Summer Bachelors (1926) and Morals for Women (1931). He died on 2 September 1971 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Mary Slattery was born on 4 June 1915 in Lakewood, Ohio, USA. She was married to Arthur Miller. She died on 12 December 2008 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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George Beranger was born on 27 March 1893 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor and director, known for The Birth of a Nation (1915), A Manhattan Knight (1920) and Number 17 (1920). He died on 8 March 1973 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Harry Varteresian was born on 23 December 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Get Smart (1965), The Danny Thomas Hour (1967) and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966). He died on 31 March 2000 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
- Ena Gregory was born on 18 April 1907 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for Grinning Guns (1927), In the Palace of the King (1923) and The Rose of Kildare (1927). She was married to Dr. Frank G. Nolan, Albert S. Rogell and Abe Steinberg. She died on 13 June 1993 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
- Paul Masterson was born on 11 November 1917 in Hardin, Montana, USA. He was an actor, known for Disc Jockey (1951) and Fireside Theatre (1949). He was married to Gale Storm and Adell Nancy Leonard. He died on 10 May 1996 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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Jack Norworth was born on 5 January 1879 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Frequency (2000), The Fan (1996) and The Princess Bride (1987). He was married to Amy B. Archer Swor, Dorothy Adelphi, Mary Johnson, Nora Bayes and Louise Dresser. He died on 1 September 1959 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Virginia Brown Faire was born on 26 June 1904 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Broadway Billy (1926), Handcuffed (1929) and The Calgary Stampede (1925). She was married to William Bayer, Duke Worne, Jack Dougherty and Dick Durham. She died on 30 June 1980 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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Bob Henry was born on 27 July 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Flip (1970), The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show (1962) and Mitzi (1968). He was married to Annette and Shirley. He died on 18 March 2012 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Carl Crow was born on 30 November 1936 in Nueces County, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Arrest and Trial (1963), Mutiny in Outer Space (1965) and Premonition (1972). He died on 22 October 1979 in Pacific Ocean off Laguna Beach, California, USA.
- Lowell Barrington was born on 26 October 1907 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He was a writer, known for Schlitz Playhouse (1951), Man with a Camera (1958) and 77 Sunset Strip (1958). He died on 26 September 1966 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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Lule Warrenton was born on 22 June 1862 in Flint, Michigan, USA. She was an actress and director, known for The College Orphan (1915), Drugged Waters (1916) and Samson (1914). She died on 14 May 1932 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Eric Berry was born on 9 January 1913 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for To Trap a Spy (1964), The Red Shoes (1948) and Gilbert and Sullivan (1953). He died on 10 September 1993 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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Theodore Taylor started his career as a copy boy for the Portsmouth (Virginia) "Star". He served during World War II and the Korean War as a press aide in the U.S. Navy. Taylor also worked in public relations and as a ghost writer for Jerry Lewis. He is best known as a writer of fiction for young people, although he authored a number of books and articles on a myriad of topics, including co-authoring Tippi Hedren's 1985 book on the "Cats of Shambala", an account of her big-game preserve in California.- Maude Gilbert was born on 24 May 1879 in Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Samson (1915), A Gilded Fool (1915) and The Alien (1915). She was married to Hayward Ginn. She died on 7 July 1953 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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Stanley Kallis was born on 5 September 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Police Story (1973), The Glitter Dome (1984) and Roadracers (1959). He was married to Lucetta. He died on 28 January 2017 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Richard Kean was born on 1 January 1881 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Ten Commandments (1956), The Court Jester (1955) and A Dangerous Game (1941). He died on 29 December 1959 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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Robert Warnes Leach was born on 16 December 1914 in Dupree, South Dakota, USA. Robert Warnes was a writer, known for Men Into Space (1959), Everglades! (1961) and Perry Mason (1957). Robert Warnes was married to Marcella Nicholas. Robert Warnes died on 30 March 2008 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Director
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Andrew J. Kuehn was born on 24 September 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Terror in the Aisles (1984), D.O.A. (1988) and Great Performances (1971). He died on 29 January 2004 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Writer
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Monahan was one of the first gag writers at Leon Schlesinger's cartoon factory to receive screen credit. His initial tenure at Warner Brothers spanned the period from 1938 to 1942, during which he toiled on several of the early Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies entries for Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny (including the odd classic, like Tortoise Beats Hare (1941)). It was said, that Monahan fitted in perfectly with the rest of the wacky crew at 'Termite Terrace', helping to devise practical jokes, whenever possible, "to relieve the boredom". According to Michael Maltese (who took over the mantle of leading story writer after Monahan's departure), this included once setting fire to the studio "just for the hell of it, just to see if it burned. And it wouldn't burn". Monahan left in 1942 to serve as a sergeant in the U.S. Army, though he returned for a brief spell in 1947. He announced his permanent exit from Warner Brothers with "I'm going to the dentist", before driving halfway across the United States to secure a job elsewhere. Monahan latterly worked as a writer and director of commercials. He also directed the live action sequences of an animated feature, The Phantom Tollbooth (1970).- Editor
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Anthony Carras was born on 23 November 1920 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an editor and producer, known for The Fearmaker (1971), Pajama Party (1964) and Master of the World (1961). He was married to Catherine. He died on 15 August 2007 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Hugh Huntley was born on 14 December 1889 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Bat Whispers (1930), The Phantom Creeps (1939) and Whom the Gods Destroy (1934). He died on 9 February 1977 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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Songwriter ("Deep Night"), composer, conductor, pianist, arranger and author, educated at Roxbury Latin School and Harvard University (cum laude), BA, and a student of Walter Piston, Ernst Toch, and Victor Bay. He was a pianist, arranger and vocal arranger for orchestras, musicals and radio. Between 1949 and 1951 he was a composer, arranger and musical director for film studios and television productions, and he created and conducted Las Vegas night club acts, and wrote special material. Joining ASCAP in 1931, his chief musical collaborators included Rudy Vallee, Tom Waring, Edward Heyman, Mack Gordon, and Alfred Newman. His other popular-song compositions included "Carefree", "This Is a Chance of a Lifetime", and "So Beats My Heart for You".- Sound Department
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Martin Alper was born in 1942 in Tonbridge, England, UK. He was a director and actor, known for 7 Deadly Sins (2010), Command & Conquer: Red Alert (1996) and The Lion King Breakfast (2019). He was married to Jamie Jensen. He died on 7 June 2015 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Animation Department
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Wilma Baker was born on 24 June 1917 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is known for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Black Cauldron (1985) and FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992). She was married to Edward Baker III and Lewis A. Salmon. She died on 4 September 2016 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Art Director
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Hungarian-born Wilmos Bela Sandorhaji arrived in the U.S. in 1910 with qualifications from the Royal Academy of Art in Budapest and the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris. He enjoyed his first success as a portrait painter in New York prior to the outbreak of World War I. By the time he relocated to Hollywood ten years later, he had adopted his wife's maiden name of Darling. After a brief stint with the American Film Company, he signed a contract with (20th Century) Fox in 1922. Until his departure in 1946, Darling held a position as the pre-eminent supervising art director at the studio, involved in equal measure with prestige releases and B-pictures. He provided striking sets for a variety of exotic subjects, from Zoo in Budapest (1933) to The Rains Came (1939), on several occasions working with the illustrious director John Ford. Darling was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning three times: for Cavalcade (1933), The Song of Bernadette (1943) and for Anna and the King of Siam (1946).
After his retirement from film work in the mid-1950s, Darling devoted himself to painting idyllic desert landscapes and coastal scenes in oil or watercolour on canvas. Until his death in September 1964, Darling was strongly involved in local arts communities in Laguna Beach and Palm Springs, maintaining residencies in both. He was inducted into the Art Director's Guild Hall of Fame in 2011.- Joseph Jackson was born on 8 June 1894 in Winchester, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer, known for Smart Money (1931), Maybe It's Love (1930) and Those Who Dance (1930). He was married to Ethel Shannon. He died on 26 May 1932 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
- Paul Annixter was born on 25 June 1894 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was a writer, known for Those Calloways (1965), Red Hot Trail (1920) and The Magical World of Disney (1954). He was married to Jane Levington Comfort. He died on 3 November 1985 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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Morris Strassberg was born on 18 April 1897 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was an actor and art director, known for Klute (1971), Overture to Glory (1940) and Mothers of Today (1939). He was married to May Misbinsky. He died on 8 February 1974 in South Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Eileen Coghlan was born on 23 March 1920 in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for Conrad Nagel Theater (1955) and Fireside Theatre (1949). She died on 23 January 2015 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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Marshall Stedman was born on 16 August 1875 in Bethel, Maine, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Between Love and the Law (1912), The Suffragette (1913) and A Motorcycle Adventure (1912). He was married to Myrtle Stedman. He died on 16 December 1943 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Arnold Hano was born on 2 March 1922 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Bonnie Abraham and Marjorie Mosheim. He died on 24 October 2021 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
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Jerry Payne was a writer and producer, known for The Cross-Wits (1975), Cross Wits (1985) and Crossword (1966). He died on 10 June 1992 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.