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- Harry Cashman born in America in 1870, became well-known in the theatre from the 1890's. tall, stocky wavy haired performer who starred and supported in many comedy and drama films for the Chicago based Essanay Film Company in 1911-12, often played Father's or Chief of Police often teamed with Francis X. Bushman until his death in 1912 from pneumonia.
- Alice Charbonnet Kellerman was born on 12 October 1858 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Alice Charbonnet was a writer, known for Venus of the South Seas (1924). Alice Charbonnet died on 14 July 1914 in Paris, France.
- Andrew Sheridan Burt was born on 21 November 1839 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He died on 12 January 1915 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Arthur V. Johnson was born on 2 February 1876 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Beloved Adventurer (1914), Annie Rowley's Fortune (1913) and The Adventures of Dollie (1908). He was married to Maude Webb. He died on 17 January 1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.- Mary Stewart was born on 28 June 1872 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for La Belle Russe (1914). She was married to Spencer Houghton Cone (theatrical agent). She died on 23 November 1916 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
- Pauline Hall was born on 26 February 1860 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Governor's Boss (1915). She was married to George Brinton McLellan and Edward R. White. She died on 29 December 1919 in Yonkers, New York, USA.
- Rachel Barton Butler was born in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Rachel Barton was a writer, known for Mama's Affair (1921), Must We Marry? (1928) and Broken Hearted (1929). Rachel Barton was married to Boyd Agin (actor). Rachel Barton died on 24 November 1920 in New York City, New York, USA.
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- Producer
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Karger was married to Ann Conley of the "Ann & Effie Conley Sisters" Vaudeville Act. He was one of the original founders and the general manager of Metro Pictures in New York before they moved to Hollywood and merged with Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer to form MGM Pictures. His son Fred Karger was a composer and a vocal coach at Columbia Pictures. Romantically involved with a young Marilyn Monroe from 1948-1949, Fred broke with Monroe, and eventually married Jane Wyman in 1952.- L.M. Wells was born on 5 February 1862 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Graft (1915), Huckleberry Finn (1920) and The Voice on the Wire (1917). He was married to Bess Gilbert. He died on 1 January 1923.
- Actor
Larry Lewis was born in 1881 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor. He died on 26 November 1923 in Brixton, London, England, UK.- Milton Nobles was born on 28 September 1844 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Courage of Silence (1917), The Price of Pride (1917) and Saved by the Enemy (1913). He was married to Dolly Nobles. He died on 14 June 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- William Addison Lathrop was born on 8 January 1864 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. William Addison was a writer, known for Heir of the Ages (1917), A Bachelor's Children (1918) and Man's Woman (1917). William Addison was married to Mabel C. Seiler. William Addison died on 2 January 1925 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- Miller Huggins was born on 27 March 1879 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He died on 25 September 1929 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Charles Phelps Taft was born on 21 December 1843 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was married to Anna Sinton Taft. He died on 31 December 1929 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
- William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States (1909-1913) and the tenth chief justice of the United States (1921-1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for reelection in 1912 by Woodrow Wilson after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft to be chief justice, a position he held until a month before his death.
- Dolly Nobles was born in May 1861 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Phoenix (1910). She was married to Milton Nobles. She died on 6 October 1930 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Anna Sinton Taft was born on 12 March 1850 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was married to Charles Phelps Taft. She died on 31 January 1931 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
- Nicholas Longworth was born on 5 November 1869 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was married to Alice Roosevelt Longworth. He died on 9 April 1931 in Aiken, South Carolina, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Harry F. Millarde was born on 12 November 1885 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Town That Forgot God (1922), My Friend the Devil (1922) and The Money Gulf (1915). He was married to June Caprice. He died on 2 November 1931 in New York City, New York, USA.- Fanny Midgley was born on 26 November 1879 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Wasted Lives (1923), The Corsican Brothers (1920) and Some Pun'kins (1925). She died on 4 January 1932 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Harry Fenwick was born on 1 August 1880 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail (1926), Lights Out (1923) and Slow Dynamite (1925). He died on 24 December 1932.
- Writer
- Editor
Hoey Lawlor was born on 28 August 1879 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Hoey was a writer and editor, known for William Tell (1924), The Danger Sign (1925) and School Days (1921). Hoey died on 10 December 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Jesse Shipp was born on 24 March 1864 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Jesse was a writer, known for The Grafter and the Maid (1913). Jesse was married to Maggie Davis Wade and Charlotte Tarlton. Jesse died on 1 May 1934 in Queens County, New York, USA.
- Al Ochs was born on 13 November 1880 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Pie a la Mode (1933), Money on Your Life (1938) and Seeing Things (1930). He died on 21 June 1935 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Anders Van Haden was born in October 1876 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Paul's Political Pull (1916), Doughnuts (1916) and Sammy's Semi-Suicide (1916). He died on 19 June 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Edna Aug was born on 9 February 1877 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Where D'Ye Get That Stuff? (1916). She died on 30 November 1938 in Willow, New York, USA.
- Ralph Remley was born on 24 May 1885 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), Princess O'Hara (1935) and Behind the Mike (1937). He died on 26 May 1939 in Sawtelle, California, USA.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Harry Forbes was born on 4 May 1888 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for What Price Vengeance (1937), Clipped Wings (1937) and What Price Crime (1935). He died on 17 August 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
The name may have been forgotten, especially today (seven decades later), but the portly, apoplectic, exasperated figure on the 1930s screen wasn't. While his film career, save a couple of silents, lasted a paltry seven years (1932-1939), character actor Walter Connolly certainly ran the distance. While some film historians complain that a number of his performances were annoying or overbaked, he was for the most part applauded for his zesty contributions to a number of comedy classics. Frank Capra's Lady for a Day (1933), Broadway Bill (1934) and It Happened One Night (1934), not to mention the Carole Lombard/Fredric March screwball farce Nothing Sacred (1937) as news reporter March's hot-headed editor boss are sure-fire examples.
The Cincinnati, Ohio native was born on April 8, 1887 and schooled there. The son of the head of the Western Union relay office, he attended St. Xavier College and the University of Dublin in Ireland before making his New York debut in 1910 in an outdoor presentation of "As You Like It". For the next year or so he was a member of E.H. Sothern's touring company and played supporting roles in a number of Shakespearean shows on the road. After a few silent pictures left him unimpressed with film-making, he turned to the Broadway stage in the 1920s and scored quite well. Somewhat short and tubby, it was not difficult for the jowly, mustachioed actor to seize laughs and he found his share in such outings as "The Talking Parrot" (1923), "Applesauce" (1925), "The Springboard" (1927), "The Happy Husband" (1928), "Stepping Out" (1929), "Your Uncle Dudley" (1930), "Anatol" (1931), "Six Characters in Search of an Author" (1931), "The Good Fairy" (1932) and "The Late Christopher Bean" (1932).
With his talents as a stage farceur firmly established, it was time to make a second attempt at a film career and Hollywood (specifically, Columbia) wisely opened their doors to him. Interestingly, his debut in a full-length talking picture came at age 45 in the form of a drama, Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932), where he was third-billed as a rather benign senator. For the next seven years Connolly, often playing older than he really was, could be found everywhere giving good fluster to the greatest and glossiest of stars -- Janet Gaynor, Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Paul Muni, Spencer Tracy, and Ginger Rogers, among hordes of others.
Every now and then he was asked to hold up a film, as with his leading roles in the drama Whom the Gods Destroy (1934), the Hecht/MacArthur comedy/drama Soak the Rich (1936), and the whodunnits Father Brown, Detective (1934) (as the title priest/gumshoe) and The League of Frightened Men (1937) (as supersleuth Nero Wolfe). Connolly's archetypal fuming was on full display in the comedies She Couldn't Take It (1935) with George Raft and Joan Bennett and Fifth Avenue Girl (1939) with Ginger Rogers. His last role was as the great composer himself in the highly fictional The Great Victor Herbert (1939), although it wasn't the leading role.
Connolly married actress Nedda Harrigan in 1920. The two appeared together in the Broadway comedies "Treat 'Em Rough" (1926) and "Merry Andrew" (1929). They had one daughter, actress Ann Connolly (1924-2006), who also appeared on stage and played the grownup Wendy in the 'Mary Martin' /Cyril Ritchard Broadway production of "Peter Pan" in 1954. Ironically, Connolly, whose obesity was probably a contributing factor to his fatal stroke suffered on May 28, 1940, received his final divorce decree on the day he died. He was only 53.- Actor
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Edward LeSaint was born on 13 December 1870 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Modern Times (1936), Merely Mary Ann (1920) and Only a Shop Girl (1922). He was married to Stella Razeto. He died on 10 September 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Sarah Addington was born on 6 April 1891 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was a writer, known for And So They Were Married (1936) and Dance Team (1932). She died on 7 November 1940 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Edmund L. Gruber was born on 11 November 1879 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He died on 30 May 1941 in the USA.- Clarence Wilson was born on 17 November 1876 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for You Can't Take It with You (1938), The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) and Penguin Pool Murder (1932). He died on 5 October 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- William Clifford was born on 27 June 1877 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Hidden Law (1916), A Tale of Two Cities (1917) and The Oaklawn Handicap (1915). He was married to Irene A. Stillings. He died on 23 December 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- Cinematographer
Charles Urban was born on 14 April 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The Tempest (1905), Britain Prepared (1915) and Combatting the Elements (1921). He was married to Ada Aline Jones and Julia Avery. He died on 29 August 1942 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Actor
- Writer
Harry Weil was born on 20 January 1878 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an assistant director and actor, known for Circus Days (1923), Oliver Twist (1922) and A Voice in the Dark (1921). He died on 23 January 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Helen Taft was born on 2 June 1861 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was married to William Howard Taft. She died on 22 May 1943 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
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Perley Poore Sheehan was born on 7 June 1875 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Perley Poore was a writer and director, known for The Lost City (1935), The Night Message (1924) and The Bugler of Algiers (1916). Perley Poore was married to Virginia Pont. Perley Poore died on 30 September 1943 in Sierra Madre, California, USA.- Writer
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- Director
What a life! Edgar Selwyn was born Edgar Simon on October 20, 1875, in Cincinnati, OH. As a child he and his family lived in Toronto, Canada, before moving to Selma, AL, where his parents died. He moved to Chicago at the age of 17 to seek his fortune, but Fortune would not let the young man take her as his mistress. Penniless, one night he decided to commit suicide and jumped off a bridge spanning the Chicago River. Instead of drowning, he landed on ice. Picking himself up, he made his way back to shore, where he was promptly accosted by a stickup artist, who jammed a gun into his back. "Your money or your life!" the thug thundered in time-honored fashion. The calm Selwyn replied, "My life." The perplexed thief began conversing with his intended victim, with the result that they both went to a pawnshop, where the gun was pawned and the proceeds divided between the two. This real-life comedy-drama served as the basis for Selwyn's 1915 play "Rolling Stones."
Busted flat in Chicago, Selwyn moved to New York in the 1890s, where he eventually achieved success as an actor, playwright and theatrical producer. First, though, he had to struggle. He became a haberdasher, selling neckties for $9 a week. Subsequently, he found employment as an usher at the Herald Square Theatre at the princely wage of 50 cents a night, but was soon was fired for imitating actor Richard Mansfield, who was starring in a play at the theater.
Actor-impresario William Gillette hired Selwyn for "Secret Service" in 1896, in which he played the role of a Confederate soldier, for $8 a week. Later he became the assistant stage manager for Gillette's company at the same salary. Gillette believed in the "realism of action," and minimized unnecessary dialog in favor of physical action that would elucidate the characters' behavior, a production philosophy that influenced the nascent movie industry, which, of course, was silent. Eventually Selwyn left Gillette and toured with a stock company, which put on his first play, the one-act "A Night in Havana."
After his apprenticeship in stock companies in Rochester, NY, and at New York City's Third Avenue Theatre, Selwyn made it back to Broadway in 1899, appearing in "The King's Musketeers" at the Herald Square Theatre, where he had first ushered. The next year he appeared in Augustus Thomas' "Arizona", moving with the production to London in 1902. Other plays he performed in on Broadway before becoming a star were Charles Frohman's 1902 production of "Sherlock Holmes", with his former employer Gillette in the title role, and two plays starring Ethel Barrymore: "Sunday" in 1904 and a 1905 revival of Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece "A Doll's House", with Barrymore as Nora Helmer.
Selwyn appeared in George M. Cohan's stinker "Popularity" in 1906. That same year he turned to playwriting, with his "It's All Your Fault" running for 32 performances at the Majestic in September 1908. His adaptation of Anglo-Canadian writer Gilbert Parker's novel about French-Canadians, "Pierre and His People", hit the Broadway boards that October, running for 32 performances as "Pierre of the Plains" (it was made into a movie in 1914, Pierre of the Plains (1914), starring Selwyn and produced by his own company, the All Star Feature Film Corp.; it was remade by MGM in 1942 as Pierre of the Plains (1942), with John Carroll). "The Country Boy" opened at the Liberty on August 30, 1910, and ran for 143 performances. According to his "New York Times" obituary, Selwyn had the biggest success of his career as a dramatist as playwright-star of his own original play "The Arab" in 1911. This drama was made into a film in 1915 (The Arab (1915)) by Cecil B. DeMille, with Selwyn recreating his stage role.
His first musical, "The Wall Street Girl", opened at George M. Cohan's Theatre on June 1, 1912, and ran for 56 performances. The book was written by Broadway playwright Margaret Mayo, Selwyn's first wife. He produced "Within the Law" that same year, and it was a huge success, generating a net profit of $1 million (approximately $19 million in 2003 dollars) in the days just before the advent of federal income tax. He also produced his wife's play "Her First Divorce", which ran for eight performances at the Comedy Theatre in 1913.
Edgar's younger brother Archibald Selwyn had followed him to New York and gone into business with a loan from the theatrical literary agent Elisabeth Marbury. Archibald had acquired the rights to operate a Coney Island concession that required the purchase of a penny-slot weighing machine, which he did with Marbury's money. After much frustration with the rusting machine, Arch and his partner one day garnered 1,300 pennies from a Coney Island crowd mindful of their waists. The two partners promptly lost their loot, which was wrapped in a blanket, although they did recover it from a restaurant trash can. It was time for a new career for Arch.
Edgar, Arch and future Broadway producer-director Crosby Gaige launched Selwyn & Company, Inc., in 1914, a theatrical production company and play brokerage that Edgar headed as president until 1924. The Selwyn Theater was built in 1918 at 229 W. 42nd St. behind their six-floor office building. It was inaugurated on Oct 2, 1918, with "Information Please", co-written by Jane Cowl, who had appeared in "Within the Law" and acted in other Edgar Selwyn plays. Its second offering was Edgar's own "The Crowded Hour", which opened 11 days after the end of World War I.
Construction of the theater--which was rechristened in 2000 as the American Airlines Theater--was bankrolled by infamous gambler Arnold Rothstein, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series (one of the inspirations for the character of Meyer Wolfsheim in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Rothstein pioneered New York's narcotics trade, in addition to being a gangster, swindler and political fixer).
The most popular play to appear at the Selwyn was Edna Ferber's and George S. Kaufman's "The Royal Family," which burlesqued the Barrymore family. Opening on December 28, 1927, the play, which was produced by Broadway legend Jed Harris, ran for 345 performances.
The Selwyns also built the Times Square Theater on 42nd Street in 1920. It opened with Edgar's own play, "The Mirage," which turned out to be a hit that ran for six months. The second play at the theater, Avery Hopwood's "The Demi-Virgin," ran for eight months. Eight of the 23 plays that followed these two inaugural hits were successful, and its boards were trod by the likes of Beatrice Lillie, Tallulah Bankhead and Robert Cummings. Gertrude Lawrence co-starred with the young Laurence Olivier and Noël Coward in Coward's 1931 hit comedy "Private Lives" at the theater. Other famous productions there were "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" in the 1926-1927 season, "The Front Page" in 1928 and "Strike Up the Band" in 1930.
The Times Square Theater's exterior featured an open-colonnaded limestone facade that had an entrance for the Selwyns' Apollo Theater. Built in 1919 as a movie-cum-vaudeville house named The Bryant, it was taken over by the Selywns in 1920 and rebuilt. It was converted to a legitimate theater showcasing plays and musicals, sharing a single marquee with the Times Square Theater.
The Apollo didn't have its first hit until 1923's "Poppy," starring W.C. Fields. The theater then was taken over exclusively for George White's "Scandals," a Ziegfeld Follies-like show that ran annually from 1924-31. The productions were famous for their chorus lines of gorgeous--and undressed--showgirls. The Apollo closed as a legitimate theater after the musical "Blackbirds of 1933" flopped, lasting only 25 performances. It then began showing movies until it was acquired by the Minskys, who ran it as a burlesque theater from 1934-37. In 1938 the Apollo transformed itself into a movie theater specializing in foreign films, then devolved into a Times Square grindhouse, an incarnation that lasted many years.
In 1933 the Times Square Theater ceased to be a legitimate theater after the closing of the play "Forsaking All Others," starring Tallulah Bankhead. Produced by Arch Selwyn, it opened on March 1, 1933, and closed after 110 performances. The theater was refitted as a movie house in 1934, as was the Selwyn, before being converted into a retail store in 1940. The Selwyn degenerated into one of Times Square's many double-feature grindhouses before being reclaimed as a theater in the 1990s, when the Wooster Group staged "The Hairy Ape" there in 1997.
Edgar Selwyn personally produced the Anita Loos comedy "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" in 1926, which ran for 199 performances at the family's Times Square Theater. He was also the producer of the musical "Strike up the Band", with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and a book by Morrie Ryskind, based on George S. Kaufman's libretto, and the play racked up 191 performances at the Times Square in 1930. Edgar's last Broadway productions were "Fast Service" in 1931, a flop that lasted only seven performances at the Selwyn, and "The Wookey" ten years later, which ran for 134 performances at the Plymouth. His brother Arch continued to produce on Broadway throughout the 1930s.
Although Selwyn wrote many plays solo and in collaboration, the new medium of motion pictures was to become his future. Edgar and Arch Selwyn started producing films in 1912 through their All Star Feature Films Corp. In December 1916 they merged their company with that of producer Samuel Goldfish, creating the Goldwyn Pictures Corp. The symbol of the new company was a reclining lion, surrounded by a banner made from a strip of celluloid film, reading, in Latin, "Ars Gratia Artis" ("Art for Art's Sake"). Designed by advertising-publicity guru Howard Dietz, who later became a Broadway lyricist and movie executive, it adorned the front gate of the studio's Culver City, CA, production facilities, which ranked with the finest in the film industry (the inspiration for the original "Leo the Lion" likely were the stone lions fronting the New York Public Library on 44th St., which was across from the All Star Feature Corp.'s offices.)
Edgar's wife Margaret Mayo, a success in her own right as a playwright, and Broadway impresario Arthur Hopkins also were partners in the deal, but the dominant figure at Goldwyn Pictures and Goldwyn Distributing was Sam Goldfish. Goldfish, a founding partner of the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Film Co. in 1914, was forced out of that company in early 1916 when studio chief Jesse L. Lasky more closely integrated his production company with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Co. The two firms served as the basis of Paramount Pictures. Goldfish, who had immigrated to Canada as Schmuel Gelbfisz, liked the name of his new company so well he adopted it as his surname--thus the world was introduced to Samuel Goldwyn.
Disliked by his partners, he dominated Goldwyn Pictures for three years until he lost an ownership struggle in September 1920. He resigned and, tired of partners, became an independent producer, a status he maintained for the rest of his career. Subsequently, the Goldwyn-less Goldwyn Pictures bought the old Triangle Studios in Los Angeles and leased two more New York studios while ceasing operations in New Jersey. The company eventually was merged with Loew's Inc.'s Metro Pictures in 1924 through a stock swap, creating Metro-Goldwyn, which subsequently merged with Louis B. Mayer Productions, with Louis B. Mayer as studio chief. The "Leo the Lion" trademark was adopted by MGM, and after being modified, would become one of the most famous and enduring trademarks in history.
Selwyn was hired by MGM as a writer-director in 1929. There he directed the Broadway star Helen Hayes to an Academy Award in the melodrama The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931). Divorced from Margaret Mayo, Selwyn married Ruth Selwyn (born Ruth Wilcox), who was 30 years his junior. The marriage made him the brother-in-law of Loew's Inc. President Nicholas M. Schenck, who was married to Ruth's sister Pansy (aka Pansy Schenck).
Marcus Loew, the capo di tutti capo of MGM, was a firm believer in nepotism. Going along with the family tradition, Selwyn put his wife Ruth in several of the films he directed and produced. He mentored Ruth's brother, Fred M. Wilcox, who eventually became a director at MGM himself (Lassie Come Home (1943) and the sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet (1956)). Selwyn adopted Ruth's son Russell from an earlier marriage (Edgar and Ruth eventually divorced),
When Louis B. Mayer replaced the position of central producer with a "college of cardinals" concept of production units after Irving Thalberg's 1932 heart attack, Selwyn became a producer. He eventually served as Mayer's editorial assistant while simultaneously running his own production unit.
Edgar Selwyn died at the age of 68 at Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital on February 14, 1944, from a cerebral hemorrhage he had suffered the previous night. He was survived by his brother, Arch, two sisters, Mrs. Michael Isaacs and Mrs. S. M. Goldsmith, and his stepson, Russell "Rusty" Selwyn.- Director
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Burton L. King was born on 25 August 1877 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Won in the Stretch (1917), The Master Mystery (1918) and When Lightning Strikes (1934). He was married to Adele Lane. He died on 4 May 1944 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Frank Clark was born on 22 December 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Light of Western Stars (1918), The Lone Star Ranger (1923) and The Spoilers (1914). He died on 10 April 1945 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Additional Crew
William Strunk Jr. was born on 1 July 1869 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He is known for Romeo and Juliet (1936). He was married to Olivia Emilie Locke. He died on 26 September 1946 in Ithaca, New York, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Mamie Smith was born on 26 May 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Beginners (2010), Paradise in Harlem (1939) and Murder on Lenox Avenue (1941). She was married to Jack Goldberg. She died on 30 October 1946 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
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Amateur radio operator in Cincinnati at the age of nine. Held the fastest code speed in the U.S. Navy 1917-1920. Writing for Paramount Pictures and then for Joe Penner throughout Penner's career until 1941. Wrote Penner's trademark line, "Wanna buy a duck?" Married Broadway Comedy star and dancer Dorothy Deuel in 1928. Chaplain to the State Guard, 1939 and rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Glendora, California. Died December 4, 1946.- Actress
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Eugenie Woodward was born in 1859 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for T'Other Dear Charmer (1918), If Winter Comes (1923) and Rose of the Golden West (1927). She died on 29 March 1947 in White Plains, New York, USA.- Louis K. Anspacher was born on 1 March 1878 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for The Unchastened Woman (1918), The Embarrassment of Riches (1918) and A Woman of Impulse (1918). He was married to Florence Sutro and Kathryn Kidder. He died on 10 May 1947 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
- Actor
Karl Stall was born in 1871 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor. He died on 14 June 1947 in New York City, New York, USA.- Foster Williams was born on 28 July 1899 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for That's the Spirit (1937). He was married to Alice McDonald and Shirley Grey. He died on 19 May 1948.
- Art Department
Ted Bevis was born on 15 July 1866 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He is known for Tarzan of the Apes (1918). He died on 11 August 1949 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.- Director
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- Animation Department
Ashley Miller was born on 11 August 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Ashley was a director and writer, known for The Moral Code (1917), Infidelity (1917) and The Quest of Life (1916). Ashley was married to Ethel Browning. Ashley died on 19 November 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.