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- Charles Major was born on 25 July 1856 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a writer, known for When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922), Sweet Alyssum (1915) and Yolanda (1924). He was married to Alice Shaw. He died on 13 February 1913 in Shelbyville, Indiana, USA.
- Cinematographer
C.H. Wales was born on 18 July 1882 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Madame Sphinx (1918), Tony America (1918) and The Painted Lily (1918). He was married to Bessie (Leonard) Butler. He died on 11 December 1921 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Gertrude Smith was born on 16 December 1842 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Rainbow Island (1917) and Pinched (1917). She died on 8 May 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Mattie Ferguson was born in 1862 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for The Spendthrift (1915), The Fatal Ring (1917) and Scandal (1917). She was married to Fred Reichelt. She died on 31 March 1929 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Sunshine Hart was born Lucia Adams on July 6, 1886, in Vevay, Indiana. She would later claim that her father was a minister on an Indian reservation and that an Indian nurse gave her the nickname "Sunshine". After high school she started acting in stock companies and spent many years working in vaudeville using the stage "Miss Sunshine". She married Charles W. Hart, a machinist, in 1910 and had a daughter named Leora. At the age of thirty Sunshine made her film debut in the 1916 comedy short A Scoundrel's Toll. She continued to work on the stage and appeared in several of Jack White's Mermaid comedies. Producer Mack Sennett gave her a part in his 1924 short film Scarem Much and offered her a long term contract. She would go on to star in more than two dozen of Sennett's comedies including Crazy To Act, Hoboken To Hollywood, and Smith's Baby.
Sunshine, who weighed more than 250 pounds, usually played funny mothers. She became a popular character actress and was often called a female Fatty Arbuckle. Despite her age and size she was always willing to do dangerous stunts if it got a laugh. She loved making films but she told an interviewer her main priority in life was raising her daughter. In 1927 she was cast as Mary Pickford's mother in My Best Girl. During filming she badly injured her foot when she fell doing an automobile stunt. Although she kept working she never fully recovered from this accident. She had a small role in the 1930 comedy Midnight Daddies. It would be her last film. Sunshine died on January 3, 1930 from heart failure. She was just forty-three years old. Sadly she had spent the last few weeks of her life bedridden. She was buried at Hollywood Forever cemetery in Los Angeles, California. - One of the most famous bank robbers in history, he was born John Herbert Dillinger on June 22, 1903, to a grocery store owner named John Wilson Dillinger and his wife Mollie (the family also included an older sister, Audrey). By all accounts the Dillingers were a normal "all-American" family, but the normality was broken when John was three and his mother passed away (her death has been ascribed to a variety of causes, but the best guess is that she died of pneumonia). With his mother gone and his sister getting married and moving out a few years later, John was left alone with his father, who was caring but not very affectionate. In that kind of environment young John, a naturally rambunctious boy, began to rebel and get into all sorts of mischief, including shoplifting, vandalism and even stealing coal from train cars and selling it to neighbors. In order to curb his son's wild behavior, as well as to fulfill his own need for companionship, John Sr. married Elizabeth Fields and moved the family back to her hometown of Mooresville, IN, but the change of scenery did little to deter John's behavior. He was still in and out of trouble, and by the time he was 16 he had dropped out of high school and taken a job at a machine shop. Even as a young adult, though, John was irresponsible and in 1921 he was caught by a policeman in Indianpolis trying to steal a car. He managed to elude the officer in a foot pursuit, fled home and joined the Navy. He was assigned to the U.S.S. Utah (a ship that would later be sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor). Unable to stay out of trouble even in the Navy, he soon deserted and returned home, and not long afterwards in 1924 he married Beryl Hovius and took another job. He was a neglectful and sometimes abusive husband and an absentee worker, and hooked up with an ex-con named Ed Singleton. They hatched a plan to mug an elderly grocer named Frank Morgan, who was known to carry his weekly cash and receipts with him to the bank after his store closed on Saturday night. The plan was for John to rob the old man at gunpoint on the street and hop into a getaway car driven by Singleton, which was parked at a nearby curb. However, when John confronted Morgan, the old man fought back, knocking the gun out of John's hand and causing it to fire. Thinking he had accidentally shot the old man (which he hadn't), John fled to the pre-arranged getaway spot, only to find that Singleton wasn't there. He fled on foot but was caught two days later. The incident aroused public indignation, and after a trial and conviction, the judge gave John 10 years for assault with a deadly weapon (he had tried pistol-whipping the old man) and 20 years for attempted robbery, despite the fact that this was John's first crime and he had pleaded guilty and confessed freely to the crime. Embittered, Dillinger vowed revenge.
He was sent to Indiana's Pendleton Reformatory, where he hooked up with experienced thieves Harry Pierpont and Homer Van Meter. There John learned a little bit about crime. In 1929 Beryl divorced him and he was denied parole. He was later transferred to the reformatory at Michigan City, where he was reunited with the recently transferred Pierpont and Van Meter and introduced to Charles Makley, Russell Clark and John "Red" Hamilton, all professional robbers. While John learned the art of bank robbery, the cons groomed him to help plan their escape from prison. In May of 1933 he used the fact that his stepmother Lizzy was dying as a reason to ask for parole, which was granted. He hung around his family farm enough to help his father for a while and to make a positive impression on the townsfolk before embarking on his life of crime. He hooked up with a group of petty thieves who were associated with his jailhouse buddy Pierpoint and pulled off a string of grocery-store heists before robbing his first bank in Daleville, IN, in July of 1933 (his take was $3,500). He then embarked on a series of bank robberies in Indiana and Ohio, using the proceeds to buy guns and bribe key guards at the Michigan City prison in order to help his friends Pierpoine and Van Meter escape. The escape went off without a hitch in September of 1933. Pierpoint and Van Meter got away scot-free, but Dillinger was captured by police in an Ohio boarding house and taken to Lima to be held in the local jail. Learning of Dillinger's capture, Pierpont and the others (minus Van Meter, who struck out on his own after the escape) broke John out, killing an elderly deputy sheriff in the process. Reunited, the full-strength gang was one of the most efficient and professional of the era due to their careful planning and execution of robberies, their tactic of avoiding confrontations with police and their calm and respectful manner towards their victims, which earned the gang the moniker "The Gentleman Bandits" and turned handsome and dashing ringleader Dillinger into a household name.
From the fall of 1933 and into the winter, the gang robbed banks in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin, using Chicago as a base of operations. While living there, John fell for a party girl named Evelyn "Billie" Frechette, who would become his lifelong companion. In December of 1933 the gang decided to take a break from the "heat" caused by law enforcement and went on vacation in Miami. In January of 1934 they decided to temporarily split up, with Pierpont, Clark and Makley heading for Tucson, AZ, and Dillinger and "Red" Hamilton heading back to Chicago. It was there that John committed his one and only murder. During the robbery of the East Chicago (Indiana) bank, an alarm went off, and the arrival of police forced Dillinger and Hamilton to take hostages to escape. As they were leaving the bank, a patrolman named Patrick O'Malley fired at the exposed Dillinger, only to have his bullets bounce of the bandit's bulletproof vest. In a fit of anger, Dillinger--carrying a Thompson submachine gun--shot and killed O'Malley. The resulting gun battle with other officers resulted in Hamilton being wounded before the pair managed to escape. Once Red was tucked away in a safe house where he could get medical aid, Dillinger reunited with the others in Tucson. Unbeknownst to Dillinger, however, Tucson police had taken notice of Pierpont, Makley and Clark, whose fancy clothes, flashy girlfriends and heavy suitcases (which carried their guns and robbery proceeds) aroused their suspicion. When police discovered their true identities they quickly arrested the gang, and when Dillinger arrived in Tucson he was arrested, too. Extradited back to Indiana to stand trial for the murder of Officer O'Malley, Dillinger was found guilty at a lengthy trial (in which his defense was that he wasn't in Chicago at the time), sentenced to death and returned to Michigan City Prison, where he was placed on Death Row. However, in transit to Michigan City he was held overnight at a jail in Crown Point, IN, where he pulled off one of the great jailbreaks of all time by carving a "pistol" out of a bar of soap and coloring it black with shoe polish, fooling his jailers into thinking it was a real gun (adding insult to injury, he escaped in the town sheriff's personal car). Although the fake gun story may be apocryphal, it was a fact that the most notorious criminal in America was on the loose again.
Reuniting with Van Meter and Hamilton, and joining forces with the infamous Baby Face Nelson (born Lester Gillis) and his gang, the new "Super Gang"--as the press had dubbed them--robbed banks in Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. This time, though, they were dealing with more than local police. Since their robbery spree had crossed state lines--a federal offense--they were now subject to pursuit by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Despite the fact that every lawman in the country was looking for him and that his picture was on every magazine and newspaper, John defied the logic of "laying low" by making a surprise visit to his father and relatives during a Sunday gathering at the family farm while FBI agents had the place under surveillance (he even posed for a now-famous photo in which he laughed and held a tommy gun in one hand and a wooden gun in the other). Eventually settling in St. Paul, MN, the gang laid low between heists until the FBI found them in early April of 1934. Dillinger, his girlfriend Billie and Van Meter had to shoot their way out of an apartment building to escape FBI agents, who had shown up acting on a tip. Two days later gang member Eddie Green was shot and killed by the FBI. Not long after that the agents struck again, this time nabbing Billie at a bar where John was supposed to meet an underworld contact, not knowing the contact was setting him up for capture by the FBI. Dillinger knew that they finally had to "lay law" and arranged with an underworld contact of Baby Face Nelson to stay at a resort lodge in Wisconsin called Little Bohemia, which was owned by a former Chicago saloonkeeper. The man, despite initial reservations about having the gang stay at his facility, raised no objections. However, his wife wasn't as accommodating. She managed to slip a letter out of town to the FBI agent in charge of the Chicago office, Melvin Purvis. On April 22, 1934, Purvis and a squad of agents and local cops descended on the lodge. When the lodge owner's dogs began barking, the startled officers, believing they'd been discovered, rushed the house at the same moment three locals were driving away after having eaten at the restaurant. Believing them to be fleeing gang members, Purvis ordered agents to fire at their oncoming car. One man was killed and his two friends were wounded. Meanwhile, Dillinger, Nelson and the others escaped. Before getting out of the area Nelson, cornered by agents at a nearby lodge, shot his way out of the trap, killing one FBI agent and a local police officer.
A statewide alert was issued for the gang, and not long afterwards Dillinger, Van Meter and gang member Red Hamilton ran a roadblock in Minneapolis. Dillinger and Van Meter escaped without injury, but Hamilton was shot and killed. A few weeks later gang member Tommy Carroll died in a shootout with police in Iowa. For the next several weeks the gang laid low and avoided each other, with only Dillinger and Van Meter running together. Eventually the two outlaws were so afraid of being spotted that they went to an underworld doctor in Chicago to have plastic surgery performed to change their face. The doctor botched the operation--an associate commented that they looked like they had been mauled by rabid dogs--the two were convinced that they would no longer be easily recognized. Out of desperation what was left of the original gang--Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Van Meter, along with Nelson's associates Johnny Chase and "Fatso" Negri, robbed a bank in South Bend, IN, on June 30, 1934. It would be the last heist for any of them. They had hoped the haul would be enough to finance an escape to Canada or Mexico, but it was only enough to keep them in hiding or on the run from ever-closing lawmen--the FBI had just declared Dillinger "America's First Public Enemy #1". While the others hit the road, John settled in Chicago, living under the alias of "Jimmy Lawrence, a clerk for the Chicago Board of Trade" in a boarding house owned by bordello madam Anna Sage, an illegal immigrant from Romania. Dilliner even began dating one of Anna's girls, Polly Hamilton. However, if he thought he was safe and secure, he was wrong. Sage, whose real name was Ana Cumpanas, was facing deportation by the INS for her numerous prostitution arrests. Desperate to stay in America, she called the FBI and made a deal: She'd set up Dillinger to be arrested and the FBI would intercede on her behalf with Immigrfation and Naturalization Service (INS) officials. Purvis agreed to the terms. On the evening of July 22, 1934, Anna called Purvis and told him that she, Polly Hamilton and Dillinger would be going to see a movie at the nearby Biograph Theater (Manhattan Melodrama (1934), with William Powell and Clark Gable). Purvis assembled a squad and headed to the theater. On that sweltering summer night, Purvis and his assistant, Sam Cowley, positioned agents around the theater with Purvis stationed by the door to alert the other agents by lighting a cigar upon seeing Sage (they didn't know what Dillinger looked like after his surgery). When the movie let out, Purvis spotted Anna, whose orange dress looked red under the lights of the awning--thus giving birth to the "Woman In Red" --and lit his cigar. Two nearby FBI agents muscled their way through the crowd of exiting patrons. Just as they were coming up behind Dillinger, he spotted them and made a run for it. Seeing him desperately groping for a gun in his pants pocket, the two agents opened fire. Mortally wounded, Dillinger stumbled forward and fell face down in the mouth of a nearby alley while Polly Hamilton, who may not have known who "Jimmy" really was, screamed hysterically. Only 31 years old, the infamous John Dillinger was dead.
Even in death, however, Dillinger still managed to captivate the nation. When the news hit the radio waves, friends called friends saying, "Did you hear what happened?". Newspapers carrying the story were instantly sold out. His corpse was taken to The Alexian Brothers Hospital in Chicago, who put it on display for several days so people could come in and look at the slain outlaw like he was an art exhibit. Finally his body was returned to his father, who buried his notorious son in the local cemetery in Mooresville, Indiana. Before the dirt was shoveled onto John's coffin, cement was poured in to prevent treasure seekers from robbing Dillinger's grave.
John Dillinger continues to fascinate the public, with his good looks, cocky attitude, daring robberies and fantastic escapes. He has been immortalized in folk songs, books, television and movies. He has gone down in history as one of the most famous criminals who has ever lived. - Louis Howe was born on 14 January 1871 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He died on 18 April 1936 in Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Jobyna Howland was born on March 31, 1880 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her father was a civil war veteran. Jobyna's family moved to Denver, Colorado where she studied acting. When she was a teenager she went to New York City and started modeling. The six foot tall redhead posed for Charles Dana Gibson's famous "Gibson Girl" sketches. In 1899 she was cast in the stage play Rupet Of Hentzau. Then she starred in the shows The Messenger Boy and Winsome Winnie. Jobyna wanted to play dramatic roles but her height and booming voice made her better suited for comedy. On October 2, 1900 she married novelist Arthur Stringer. The couple had a volatile relationship and separated several times before divorcing in 1914. Soon after she fell in love with playwright Zoe Akins and the two women moved in together in Los Angeles. At the age of thirty-eight she made her film debut in the 1918 drama Her Only Way.
She also appeared in The Way Of The Woman with Norma Talmadge and in the comedy Second Youth. Her brother, Olin Howard, became a successful actor too. Jobyna starred in the 1922 Broadway show The Texas Nightingale which was written by her girlfriend Zoe. Then she appeared in the hit musical Kid Boots with Eddie Cantor. During the 1930s she made several comedies with Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey including The Cuckoos, Dixiana, and Hook Line And Sinker. She and Zoe became known for hosting lavish dinner parties and for their frequent arguments. They remained close even after Zoe got married in 1932. Her final film was the 1934 comedy Ye Old Saw Mill. Jobyna returned to Broadway in January of 1936 to star in O Evening Star. The show flopped and closed after only five performances. Sadly on June 7, 1936 she died from heart disease at the age of fifty-six. She was buried at Forest Memorial Park in Glendale, California.- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Salisbury Field was born on 28 February 1878 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a writer, known for Zander the Great (1925), His Greatest Gamble (1934) and In Gay Madrid (1930). He was married to Isobel Osbourne. He died on 20 September 1936 in Zaca Lake, California, USA.- Marjorie Vonnegut was born in 1892 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for The Grain of Dust (1918). She was married to Don Marquis and Walter Vonnegut. She died on 26 October 1936 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Bill Cummings was born on 11 November 1906 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He died on 8 February 1939 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
- Fred Gamble was born on 26 October 1868 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Chasing Trouble (1926), The Only Way (1914) and Tonio, Son of the Sierras (1925). He died on 17 February 1939 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Louis Schneider was born on 19 December 1901 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He died on 22 September 1942 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
- George Webb was born on 3 October 1887 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Black Beauty (1921), John Petticoats (1919) and The Lucky Devil (1925). He was married to Lee Kinney, Esther Ralston and Julia Frances Leahy. He died on 24 May 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Kate Mayhew was born on 2 September 1853 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Hazel Kirke (1916), Tongues of Flame (1924) and Baseball's Peerless Leader (1913). She died on 16 June 1944 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Booth Tarkington was born on 29 July 1869 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a writer, known for The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Presenting Lily Mars (1943) and Cameo Kirby (1914). He was married to Laurel Louise Fletcher and Susanah Robinson. He died on 19 May 1946 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
- Arthur T. Walden was born on 10 May 1871 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He died on 26 March 1947 in Wonalancet, New Hampshire, USA.
- Betty Alden was born on 21 August 1891 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for The Fountain (1934) and The Nut Farm (1935). She was married to Edwin Maxwell. She died on 7 April 1948 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
James Baskett was born on February 16, 1904 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA as James Franklin Baskett. He was an actor, known for Song of the South (1946), Revenge of the Zombies (1943) and Policy Man (1938). He was married to Margaret. He died on July 9, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Casting Director
- Casting Department
Charles Richards was born on 16 December 1899 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a casting director. He died on 29 July 1948 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Charles Richards was born on 16 December 1899 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Call of the Canyon (1923) and Thief or Angel (1918). He died on 29 July 1948 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- May McCabe was born in 1873 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for The Jungle (1914). She was married to Jack McCabe (actor). She died on 22 June 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Billy McClain was born on 15 September 1870 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Nagana (1933), Undercurrent (1946) and Name the Woman (1934). He died on 28 January 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Thomas G. Lingham was born on 7 April 1874 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Lone Star Ranger (1923), The Fatal Warning (1929) and Two Sisters (1929). He was married to Katherine Goodrich. He died on 19 February 1950 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Sid Grauman was born on 17 March 1879 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Mad About Music (1938), Hollywood (1923) and Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933). He was married to Rose. He died on 5 March 1950 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Russ Powell was born on 16 September 1875 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Vamping Venus (1928), Check and Double Check (1930) and Heaven Will Protect a Woiking Goil (1916). He died on 28 November 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Pat Lane was born on 3 March 1901 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for She's a Sweetheart (1944). He died on 4 July 1953 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Additional Crew
- Music Department
Lester Horton was born on 23 January 1906 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He is known for Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946), Frisco Sal (1945) and Phantom of the Opera (1943). He died on 2 November 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
Dave Pepper was born on 17 February 1889 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor. He died on 12 March 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Albert von Tilzer was born on 29 March 1878 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a composer, known for Frequency (2000), The Fan (1996) and A League of Their Own (1992). He died on 1 October 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Frederick Burton was born on 20 October 1871 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fighting Blade (1923), Arizona (1918) and The Big Trail (1930). He was married to Lora Osgood and Jessie Perine Lawrie. He died on 23 October 1957 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Mary Brandon was born on 5 November 1901 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for The Bashful Suitor (1921). She was married to Simeon Brooks Chapin, Jr. and Robert E. Sherwood. She died on 30 January 1958 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Writer
- Editor
John W. Krafft was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was the son of Ernest L. and Mary E. Krafft. He graduated from Indianapolis' Manual Training H.S. in 1907, and wrote and produced the senior play for the school. He went to work for the Indianapolis News as an editorial writer and did stage and movie reviews. Universal Pictures sent him a telegram inviting him to join their writing staff, and for a year he was a title and advertising writer. Fox then hired him and he did similar work there for five years. He contributed to such magazines as Puck, Life, Film Fun and Judge. His proficiency in smoothing out unfinished or otherwise problematic scripts earned him a reputation as a "script doctor", and in 1928 he signed a contract with producer/director Cecil B. DeMille. He stayed with DeMille for four years and then went to Pathe Studios. After his stint at Pathe he became a freelancer, working for such studios as Paramount, First National, Universal and Associated Exhibitors. He was married to Emma Noble of Pendleton, Indiana. They had two sons and a daughter.- Born Priscilla Jones Shortridge on March 8, 1914 in Indianapolis, the daughter of a locomotive mechanic. The voluptuous, dark-haired Priscilla Lawson was a professional model in her early twenties. When she was crowned "Miss Miami Beach" in 1935 and found work as an Earl Carroll chorus girl in an area casino.
A rather exotic, severe-looking beauty, her pageant title caught the eye and attention of Universal Pictures and earned her a contract. She began in starlet bit parts and was confined mostly to similar small roles as nurses, hat check girls, native girls, switchboard operators and secretaries in such movies as His Night Out (1935), The Great Impersonation (1935), The Phantom Rider (1936) and The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936) for the duration of her Hollywood career. She did earn occasional featured parts in a few films including Rose Bowl (1936), Double Wedding (1937), The Girl of the Golden West (1938), Test Pilot (1938) and Heroes of the Hills (1938).
Priscilla capped her brief, rather unremarkable 1930's career as the sexy, conniving Princess Aura, daughter of Ming the Merciless in the classic cliffhanger Rocket Ship (1938), a role that made her a minor cult figure. Universal dropped her within a year or so and MGM picked her up in 1937. Her movie career was over, however, in less than a half a decade. making her last appearances in walk-ons as a hairdresser in The Women (1939) and a barmaid in Billy the Kid (1941).
Married briefly at age 18, she later married to movie actor Alan Curtis, her second husband but the marriage was short-lived. Priscilla later joined the Women's Army Corps. under her married name in World War II. It is believed that she lost a leg in a war-related incident (jeep accident) and later managed a stationary shop in Los Angeles after leaving active service.
He ex-husband, Curtis, died on February 2, 1953, at the relatively young age of 43. Priscilla herself would die just a few years later on August 27, 1958, at age 44 in the Veterans' Administration hospital in Los Angeles. Her death was due to cirrhosis of the liver and upper gastrointestinal bleeding from a duodenal ulcer. - Additional Crew
- Writer
- Editor
Donn McElwaine was born on 24 February 1899 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a writer and editor, known for Fun on a Weekend (1947), The Bachelor's Daughters (1946) and The Big Hop (1928). He died on 1 September 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Olive White was born on 6 January 1880 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for A Tale of Two Cities (1917), An International Marriage (1916) and David Garrick (1916). She was married to William Farnum. She died on 19 April 1960 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- As a brigadier general, Walter Bedell Smith was chief of staff in Europe to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II, and he was the man who negotiated first the surrender of Italy and then of Germany. He was U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1949 and Director of Central Intelligence from 1951 to 1953. He retired from the army in 1953, and was appointed Undersecretary of State.
- Ben Grauman Kohn was born in 1908 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Ben Grauman was a writer, known for Pirates of the Skies (1939), Stormy (1935) and He Couldn't Say No (1938). Ben Grauman died on 11 November 1961 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- Casting Director
- Casting Department
Fred Schuessler was born on 22 July 1896 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Fred was a casting director. Fred was married to Marie Ankenbrock. Fred died on 30 January 1962 in California, USA.- Lottie Williams was born on 20 January 1874 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Dark Victory (1939), Yesterday's Wife (1923) and The Barefoot Boy (1923). She died on 16 November 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Stunts
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Stalwart, durable Monte Blue, a romantic leading man of the silent days, was born January 11, 1887, as Gerard Monte Blue (some sources indicate 1890, but his mother's application for his admission to the Soldier's and Sailor's Orphan's Home lists his birth date as January 11, 1887). Various sources have reported his first name as George or Gerald, but, again, in his mother's application, it is spelled Gerard. His father was killed in a railroad accident when Monte was eight and his mother could not support four children. He was admitted (along with another brother, Morris) to the orphanage at that time. There he built up his physique playing football. At one time or another the able-bodied gent was a railroader, a fireman, a coal miner, a cowpuncher, a ranch hand, a circus rider, a lumberjack and, finally, trekking west, he became a day laborer for D.W. Griffith's Biograph Studios.
Blue eventually became a stuntman for Griffith and an extra in The Birth of a Nation (1915), which was his first film. Griffith took him in and made him an assistant on his classic epic Intolerance (1916), where he earned another small part. Gradually moving to support roles for both Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, Blue earned his breakthrough role as "Danton" in Griffith's Orphans of the Storm (1921) with sisters Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish. He rose to stardom as a rugged romantic lead opposite Hollywood's top silent stars, among them Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow and Norma Shearer. He made a relatively easy transition into talkies as he had a fine, cultivated voice, but, at the same time, lost most of his investments when the stock market crashed in 1929. By the 1930s the aging star had moved back into small, often unbilled parts, continuously employed, however, by his old friend DeMille and Warner Bros. At the end of his life he was working as an advance man for the Hamid-Morton Circus in Milwaukee. He died of a coronary attack complicated by influenza in 1963.- J. Russel Robinson was born on 8 July 1892 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Tolkien (2019) and Bullets Over Broadway (1994). He died on 30 September 1963 in Palmdale, California, USA.
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Alan Le May was a novelist, short-story writer and screenwriter, although today he may be best remembered for his novels which served as the basis for two classic westerns, The Searchers (1956) and The Unforgiven (1960). He started his career as a journalist before becoming a full-time author (he wrote 17 novels in all).- Louis Fossee was born on 4 April 1910 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He died on 6 May 1964 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
- Actress
- Writer
Ethel Browning was born on 17 April 1877 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Hansel and Gretel (1909), The Fairies' Banquet (1911) and What Happened to Mary (1912). She was married to Ashley Miller. She died on 22 September 1965 in Paramus, New Jersey, USA.- Russell Collins was born on 11 October 1897 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Enemy Below (1957), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) and Fail Safe (1964). He died on 14 November 1965 in West Hollywood, California, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Already trained in dance and theater, he quit school at age 13 to study music and painting. By 19 he was a professional ballroom dancer in New York, and by his mid-twenties he was performing in musicals, dramas on Broadway and in London, and in silent movies. His first real success in film came in middle age as the classy villain Waldo Lydecker in Laura (1944), followed by the part of Elliott Templeton in The Razor's Edge (1946) - both of which won him Oscar nominations. His priggish Mr. Belvedere in a series of films was supposedly not far removed from his fastidious, finicky, fussy, abrasive and condescending real-life persona. He was inseparable from his overbearing mother Maybelle, with whom he lived until her death at 91, six years before his own death. The recent success of Titanic (1997) created brief interest due his having appeared with Barbara Stanwyck in the 1953 version of the story. He is interred at Abbey of the Psalms, Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now known as Hollywood Forever).- James Pease was born on 9 January 1916 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Fra Diavolo oder Das Gasthaus bei Terracina (1955), Words and Music (1958) and The World Our Stage (1958). He died on 26 April 1967 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Director
- Additional Crew
- Actor
William D. Russell was born on 30 April 1908 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a director and actor, known for You Are There (1953), The Farmer's Daughter (1963) and Family Affair (1966). He was married to Mota Maye Shaw. He died on 1 April 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Art Director
- Editorial Department
Charles K. Hagedon was born on 21 June 1914 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an art director, known for North by Northwest (1959), The Time Machine (1960) and Forbidden Planet (1956). He died on 30 April 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.