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Julia Crawford Ivers was born on 3 October 1867 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for A Son of Erin (1916), The White Flower (1923) and The Majesty of the Law (1915). She died on 8 May 1930 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Vincente Howard was born on 19 July 1869 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Vengeance - and the Woman (1917), A Fight for Millions (1918) and The Isle of Sunken Gold (1927). He died on 2 November 1946 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Solly Smith was born on 6 March 1871 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He died on 28 August 1933 in Culver City, California, USA.
- Satchel McVea was born on 11 August 1873 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Legion of the Condemned (1928) and The Delicious Little Devil (1919). He died on 9 July 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Dick Hunter was born on 1 April 1875 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fatal Hour (1937), Bill Haywood, Producer (1915) and The Canby Hill Outlaws (1916). He died on 22 December 1962 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Eugene Meyer was born on 31 October 1875 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was married to Agnes Elizabeth Ernst. He died on 17 July 1959 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Ed La Niece was born on 4 June 1876 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Thundering Thompson (1929), His Last Bullet (1928) and Sell 'Em Cowboy (1924). He died on 25 September 1949 in West Los Angeles, California, USA.
- J.F. Briscoe was born on 18 October 1877 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for Fighting for Love (1917) and The Three Godfathers (1916).
- Actor
Joe Farey was born on 13 February 1878 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor. He died on 2 January 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Location Management
Lew Strohm was born on 14 August 1878 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He died on 23 August 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Percy Morris was born on 16 March 1879 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and assistant director. He died on 23 April 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
- Director
Ida May Park was born on 28 December 1879 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was a writer and director, known for Bread (1918), The Flashlight (1917) and The Amazing Wife (1919). She was married to Joseph De Grasse. She died on 13 June 1954 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Actor
Dan Dillon was born on 10 May 1880 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Additional Crew
George W. Chapman was born on 23 July 1880 in Los Angeles, California, USA. George W. is known for The Mollycoddle (1920).- Al Cooke was born on 26 September 1880 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Defenders of the Law (1931), One Minute to Play (1926) and A Small Town Idol (1921). He died on 6 July 1935 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Leo Carrillo was born on 6 August 1881 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Guilty Generation (1931), The Cisco Kid (1950) and Crime, Inc. (1945). He was married to Edith Shakespear Haeselbarth. He died on 10 September 1961 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Princess Mona Darkfeather was born Josephine M. Workman in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles on 13 January 1882. Her grandparents were William Workman (1799-1876), a native of England, and Nicolasa Urioste (1802-1892), who hailed from the Taos Pueblo of New Mexico. Consequently, though Darkfeather stated in a 1914 film magazine interview that she was descended "from an aristocratic Spanish family," she likely had at least some Indian blood through her grandmother. Her father was José (Joseph) Workman (1833-1901), who worked as a ranch superintendent in Kern County, California, when he married Josephine Belt (1850-1937), a native of Stockton, California, of American and Peruvian ancestry. Josephine was the youngest of their seven children.
The first hint of her involvement in entertainment appears to have been captured in the 1900 federal census, where her profession was given as "whistler." Some have speculated this was a job calling out to passersby to visit a nickelodeon theater. In 1909, however, the year films were first made in Los Angeles, Josephine answered an advertisement calling for a dark-featured woman for acting roles. Quickly, she became a major star in the fledgling film industry in Hollywood with her peak period of activity coming between 1913 and 1915.
Working with film director Frank E. Montgomery (a.k.a., Akley), Princess Mona made dozens of short films as a stereotypical Indian for such companies as Bison, Nestor, Kalem and Centaur and one full-length film for Universal in 1917. Her last film appearance was in 1926. Her husband continued to work in the industry as a cameraman and bit player, the former Princess lived in obscurity for decades.
She lived in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles until her death on 3 September 1977 when she was 95 years old. She died as a ward of the State of California and her collection of film memorabilia, recalled by relatives, was likely discarded as she had lost contact with her family. Josephine Workman/Princess Mona Darkfeather was buried in an unmarked grave at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California, but in late 2014 her great-nephew, Doug Neilson, had a grave marker installed to identify this early silent film star. - C.E. Rogers was born on 14 March 1882 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Ten of Spades (1914), The Spell of the Primeval (1913) and Between the Rifle Sights (1913). He died on 5 February 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
Leon Farey was born on 22 March 1882 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor. He died on 18 April 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Edward L. Moriarty was born on 15 June 1882 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Edward L. is known for The Fall Guy (1921).
- Actor
- Writer
Elmer Booth was born on 9 December 1882 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for His Auto's Maiden Trip (1912), Why He Gave Up (1911) and Abe Gets Even with Father (1911). He was married to Irene Outtrim. He died on 16 June 1915 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Hal Coffman was born on 3 January 1883 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Teddy Tetzlaff was one of the best-known American racing car drivers of the early 20th century, and he held several different speed records at one time or another. In 1914, Tetzlaff set a world speed record of over 142 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, and once in a race at Corona, California Tetzlaff turned in what at the time was the fastest lap speed in the USA. Tetzlaff also twice briefly held the one-lap qualifying record at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but he was never able to win the Indy 500. He drove in the race four times, with his best finish being second place in 1912. Tetzlaff was featured in The Speed Kings (1913) with Mabel Normand.
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Production Manager
Theodore Joos was born on 10 April 1883 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an assistant director and production manager, known for They Never Come Back (1932), Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943) and Junior Army (1942). He died on 24 June 1972 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Nina Rowland was born on 23 September 1883 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Ten Thousand Dollar Trail (1921). She was married to Clarence Gaines Toland, M.D.. She died on 11 October 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Henry G. Sell was born on 31 July 1884 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Fine Feathers (1915), East Lynne (1921) and The Seven Pearls (1917). He died on 20 August 1968 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- Actress
Edith Russell was born on 26 March 1885 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress. She died on 11 August 1969 in Woodland, California, USA.- Esther Lea Yarnell was a socialist, teacher and poet who was politically active in the labor movement in Los Angeles during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Yarnell was born in Los Angeles on June 10, 1885, although various sources list her birth year as 1880. She was the daughter of Jesse Yarnell and Susan Caystile.
She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1903 and worked as a teacher in the Los Angeles School District.
Closely associated with socialist and author Upton Sinclair and his wife, Mary Craig Sinclair, Yarnell often spoke at socialist meetings and conventions. She wrote for several leftist publications, most notably the Los Angeles-based The Western Comrade, The New Justice and The Los Angeles Citizen. She also had her poems published in The New Justice.
She appeared in one film, the pro-labor, socialist-themed "From Dawn to Dusk" (1913).
Darnell died on May 30, 1925, in Los Angeles. - F. Corcoran was born on 8 September 1885 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918).
- Frederic Blanchard was born on 8 January 1886 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Man Hunt (1936). He died on 29 April 1948 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Charles Ruggles had one of the longest careers in Hollywood, lasting more than 50 years and encompassing more than 100 films. He made his film debut in 1914 in The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) and worked steadily after that. He was memorably paired with Mary Boland in a series of comedies in the early 1930s, and was one of the standouts in the all-star comedy If I Had a Million (1932), as a harried, much-put-upon man who finally goes berserk in a china shop. Ruggles' slight stature and distinctive mannerisms - his fluttery, jumpy manner of speaking, his often befuddled look whenever events seemed about to overwhelm him, which was often - endeared him to generations of moviegoers. Memorable as Maj. Applegate the big-game hunter in the classic screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938). Many will remember him as the narrator of the "Aesop's Fables" segment of the animated cartoon The Bullwinkle Show (1959). He was the brother of director Wesley Ruggles.- Production Manager
- Editor
J.R. Crone was born on 3 June 1886 in Los Angeles, California, USA. J.R. was a production manager and editor, known for The Rainbow Man (1929), Sombras de gloria (1930) and Así es la vida (1930). J.R. died on 24 December 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Russ Westover was born on 3 August 1886 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a writer, known for Tillie the Toiler (1941) and Tillie the Toiler (1927). He died on 5 March 1966 in San Rafael, California, USA.
- Mary Mersch was born on 4 January 1887 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Rainbow Trail (1918), Riders of the Purple Sage (1918) and The Dream Girl (1916). She was married to Tom Forman. She died on 26 February 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
Maude T. Howell was born on 26 July 1887 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Maude T. was a writer and assistant director, known for The King's Vacation (1933), The Working Man (1933) and The Expert (1932). Maude T. died on 24 October 1964 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.- Tisdale Justin Dow was born in Los Angeles, California. He was the son of Wilbur Olen Dow Sr., a real estate developer and Irene Eladist Bowen and the oldest of five children. He left Los Angeles to attend Adelphi College in Long Island, New York. While there, he majored in art, winning a gold medal in drawing in 1911. A number of his cartoons appeared in the Los Angeles Herald Newspaper. Shortly after, he began his stage career. This lasted two years before switching to silent films with Kalem Studios in New York. He appeared in several Alice Joyce films such as "The Vanderhoff Affair", "The Swamp Fox", "The Plains of Abraham" and "The Barefoot Boy". He typically portrayed foreign characters in supporting roles owing to his black hair. He later became a studio manager in Jacksonville, Florida for Kalem Film Co. He died in Oakland, California. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in East Los Angeles. He was the uncle of Olympian Bowen Stassforth.
- Harry Hollingsworth was born on 3 September 1888 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Tarantula (1916), The Apple-Tree Girl (1917) and Hollingsworth and Crawford in 'Bed Time' (1929). He was married to Nanette Crawford. He died on 4 November 1947 in Inglewood, California, USA.
- Paul Smith was born on 2 November 1888 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Squaring the Triangle (1914), The Tribunal of Conscience (1914) and Vengeance Is Mine (1914). He died on 13 November 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Ethel Doherty was born on 2 February 1889 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was a writer, known for Home on the Range (1935), The River of Romance (1929) and Innocents of Paris (1929). She died on 12 August 1974 in San Diego, California, USA.- Harry J. Vejar was born on 24 April 1889 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Mexicali Rose (1929) and The Sea Hound (1947). He died on 1 March 1968 in Sawtelle, California, USA.
- Art Director
- Set Decorator
- Director
Jack Okey was born on 3 June 1889 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an art director and set decorator, known for Out of the Past (1947), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Outlaws of the Sea (1923). He was married to Marie. He died on 8 January 1963 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Director
- Actor
- Producer
The younger brother of Hollywood character player Charles Ruggles, Wesley Ruggles spent most of his early years in San Francisco. He attended university there, began a lengthy apprenticeship in stock and musical comedy and then joined Keystone in Hollywood as an actor in 1914 working alongside Syd Chaplin. Moving on to Essanay a year later, he worked briefly alongside Charles Chaplin. In 1917, he graduated to directing after being signed by Vitagraph. During the closing stages of the First World War, he served as a camera operator with the Army Signal Corps. After that it was back to the studios. Unfortunately, he found himself encumbered by routine scripts and such inane assignments as The Leopard Woman (1920). For the next few years his workload included several forgettable Ethel Clayton melodramas and a series of short comedies made at FBO, starring Alberta Vaughn. Following a spell at Universal (1927-29), Wesley had his most productive period at RKO (1931-32) and Paramount (1932-39). At RKO he directed the western blockbuster Cimarron (1931), the most expensive picture made by this studio to date, at $1.4 million. While the costs were not recouped at the box office (its loss of $565,000 was attributed to the effects of the Great Depression), it won the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards. Wesley narrowly lost out to Norman Taurog (for Skippy (1931)) in the directing stakes.
At Paramount, Wesley showed his flair for comedy with Mae West's best-loved film, I'm No Angel (1933), and with three excellent vehicles for Carole Lombard: the romantic drama No Man of Her Own (1932) (co-starring Clark Gable), the entertaining, elegantly-mounted Bolero (1934) (featuring Sally Rand's famous fan dance) and the delightful comedy True Confession (1937). Moreover, he also handled the quintessential '30s tearjerker Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936).
By the early 1940s his career was on the decline, however. After short-term tenures at Columbia and MGM, he was signed by J. Arthur Rank as producer/director for the lavish British Technicolor musical London Town (1946). This picture turned out to be a fiasco of major proportions and brought about his premature retirement.- Glenn Anders was born September 1, 1889 in Los Angeles, California. He attended the Wallace dramatic school in California and began a career as a performer in vaudeville on the Orpheum circuit. He arrived in New York in 1919 and attended Columbia University from 1919 until 1921. He made his Broadway debut in 1919 in a play entitled Just Around the Corner. Mr. Anders had a very long and distinguished career on Broadway and during his career appeared in three Pulitzer Prize winning plays. Those plays were: Hell Bent for Heaven (1924) written by Hatcher Hughes; They Knew What They Wanted (1924) written by Sidney Howard and Strange Interlude (1928) written by Eugene O'Neill. Most of his career was spent on stage but he also had some noteworthy film appearances. He made approximately eight movies from 1925 to 1951. His most memorable film role was that of Grisby the lawyer in Lady from Shanghai, The (1948) starring Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. After retiring from the stage he resided for several years in Mexico. He returned to the United States to reside at the Actor's Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey. He resided at the Actor's Fund Home until his death in 1981 at the age of 92.
- Early silent screen comedienne Araminta Durfee started out as a chorus girl and began her career on stage in 1908 in musical revues. In August of that year she married comedian Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. In 1914, both players entered the fledgling film industry with Mack Sennett and were soon paired as a comedy double. By that time, Charles Chaplin had arrived from England to join the troupe and Minta became his leading lady in the two-reeler Making a Living (1914). The pairing was prompted by Mack Sennett who found the new arrival 'very peculiar' and felt it necessary to counterbalance his eccentricities with an actress who had a reputation for being able to 'get along with everybody'.
In addition to the series of 'Fatty' featurettes, Minta also worked at Keystone in the classic madcap farce Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914). She co-starred opposite the likes of Chester Conklin, Mack Swain and Ford Sterling in a series of outrageous daredevil comedies until 1916. A popular story goes that on one occasion director Wilfred Lucas bribed her with the bonus of a pet dog to hang suspended from a bridge, held only by a piano wire (Love, Speed and Thrills (1915)).
Minta and 'Fatty' Arbuckle separated in 1921, just prior to the scandal over the death of Virginia Rappe which destroyed her husband's career. In spite of divorcing him in 1925, Minta nonetheless remained Arbuckle's staunchest defender during three well-publicized trials and throughout her remaining life. In later years, Minta reminisced about the heyday of silent comedy in a series of interviews. She described most of her fellow players at Sennett -- including her husband and comedienne Mabel Normand -- as being extremely 'shy' when not on the job. She also made several candid (and not always complimentary) revelations about Chaplin's personal hygiene and idiosyncrasies.
Minta continued to make sporadic screen appearances in cameos and walk-ons until the early 70s. She died at the Motion Picture Country Home in September 1975 of a heart ailment. - Actor
Roy Smith was born on 30 October 1889 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was an actor. He died on 12 December 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Mark Jones was born on 9 December 1889 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Why Worry? (1923), Short Orders (1923) and Family Life (1924). He was married to Leah Harriet Cavanagh, Edna Mae Alchin and Edna Mae. He died on 14 April 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Lindley Phipps was born on 26 December 1889 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for A Race with the Limited (1914), Poisoned Waters (1913) and A Cup of Cold Water (1911).
- Art Director
- Art Department
- Set Decorator
Milton Menasco was born on 22 January 1890 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an art director and set decorator, known for As Man Desires (1925), The Lost World (1925) and Lorna Doone (1922). He died on 7 June 1974 in Versailles, Kentucky, USA.- Edwin Schallert was born on 16 April 1890 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for A Night for Crime (1943), This Is Your Life (1950) and Delta Kappa Alpha Silver Anniversary Banquet (1963). He was married to Elza Emily Baumgarten. He died on 28 September 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Ann Andrews was born on 13 October 1890 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Girl by the Roadside (1917) and The Cheat (1931). She died on 23 January 1986 in New York City, New York, USA.