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- Actress
Kate Kent was born in March 1864 in Bement, Illinois, USA. She was an actress. She died on 11 December 1934 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Rosetta Dewart Brice (a.k.a. Betty Brice) was born on the 4th of August, 1888 (not 1892 as often reported), the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lincoln Brice, in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. She was raised in Washington, D.C. and completed her education there. A striking young woman with Titian-red hair, green eyes, and a petite 5'6", 124 lb. figure, Miss Brice showed considerable dramatic talent in her youth and received training for the stage as well. After making her theatrical debut in Washington at the age of fifteen, she went on to appear in numerous stock company productions in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
In 1913, while performing with the Orpheum Stock Company at the Chestnut Street Theater in Philadelphia, Miss Brice decided that she wanted to try acting in movies and requested an interview with the general manager of the Lubin Film Company. After putting the actress through a screen test, Ira M. Lowry immediately offered her a job. Miss Brice would later frankly admit that she entered movies so she could watch herself act. "In a general sort of way I knew how I acted," she told a reporter for the Dramatic Mirror in 1915, "but I never saw myself....[and] I've never gotten over it, and I daresay I never will fail to feel that little thrill that comes when I see myself on the screen."
Her first role for Lubin, and her first appearance in a motion picture, came in the Betzwood production of The Price of Victory, a two-reel Civil War drama made in the summer of 1913. Her first day on the job found Miss Brice dressed in 1860s attire, jumping fully clothed into the Perkiomen Creek to play a scene in which the heroine valiantly blows up a bridge during a pitched battle and is killed by the collapsing timbers. Far from being put off by the physical rigors of her new venture, the actress was exhilarated. An athletic woman, who loved to ride and swim, she reveled in the pleasures of "the outdoor life" that working at the Betzwood studio provided. In addition to The Price of Victory, her Betzwood film with Thurston Hall and Octavia Handworth, Sweeter Than Revenge, also survives.
Rosetta Brice had a feisty independent streak, a fiery temper, and was not bound by conventional standards of feminine behavior. In 1908, at the age of twenty, her engagement to society scion, Horace Carpentier Hurlbutt, was announced in the Washington newspapers. When her fiancé objected to her acting career, she broke off the engagement and abruptly married John O. La Gorce, Secretary of the National Geographic Society, instead. That marriage ended in divorce after only a few years. In 1915, she was hauled into court in Philadelphia by a man who claimed that she had stolen two diamond rings from him. Her defiant attitude in court created a minor sensation in the press. She was equally defiant when asked by a Dramatic Mirror reporter in 1915 whether movie actresses had loose morals. Already well-known at the studio for the wild parties she occasionally threw, the actress firmly stated that "Morals are traits that each and every woman must define for herself. Certainly a woman's profession is not indicative of her morals!"
When the Lubin Company hired a new actor/director, John H. Pratt, in 1915, Rosetta Brice was placed under his direction. Pratt guided her through several successful films and her work for Lubin generally received high marks from movie critics. Their close work together soon led to a marriage between Miss Brice and the much older "Smiling Jack" Pratt. The couple continued to work for Lubin until the company folded in 1916, after which both returned to the theater. Eventually they went to Los Angeles to resume working in movies.
For reasons unknown, Miss Brice stopped appearing in films in the early 1920s, though her husband continued to seek work as an actor. Her final role was a minor character in the 1924 production of Beau Brummel, with John Barrymore. She died in Van Nuys, California, on February 15, 1935, at the age of 46. - Music Department
- Composer
- Writer
Academy Award-winning songwriter ("The Continental", 1934), composer, pianist and publisher, educated at military academy, then a pianist in film theatres, and later a vaudeville entertainer in the USA and Europe. He wrote the Broadway stage scores for "Moonlight", "Mercenary Mary", "Kitty's Kisses", and "Americana". Then he became a music publisher, and went to Hollywood in 1929. Joining ASCAP in 1920, and his chief musical collaborators included Joe Young, Sidney Clare, Billy Rose, B. G. DeSylva, Benny Davis, Leo Robin, Herb Magidson, J. Russel Robinson, Vincent Rose, Archie Gottler, Sidney Mitchell, and William Friedlander. His popular-song compositions also include "Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me", "Margie", "Barney Google", "Prisoner of Love", "You've Got To See Mama Every Night", "Oh, Frenchy", "Palesteena", "Come On, Spark Plug", "Memory Lane", "Big City Blues", "Walking With Susie", "Lonesome and Sorry", "Sing a Little Love Song", "Mercenary Mary", "You Call It Madness But I Call It Love", Bend Down, Sister", "My Baby Said Yes Yes", "Looking for a Needle in a Haystack", "Midnight in Paris", "Here's to Romance", "Champagne Waltz", and "Singin' the Blues".- Actor
- Soundtrack
Herbert Mundin was born on 21 August 1898 in St. Helens, Merseyside, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), David Copperfield (1935) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). He was married to Ann Shaw and Hilda Frances Hoyes. He died on 5 March 1939 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Eugenie Forde was born on 22 June 1879 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Cameo Kirby (1923), The Courtesan (1916) and Fair Enough (1918). She was married to Guy H. Fetters. She died on 5 September 1940 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
William L. Sherrill was born in 1866 in Macon, Georgia, USA. William L. was a producer, known for The Rainbow (1917), The Accomplice (1917) and God's Man (1917). William L. died on 5 December 1940 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Charles Lane was born on 25 January 1869 in Madison, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Sadie Thompson (1928) and Romola (1924). He died on 17 October 1945 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
King Kaufman is known for The Flame Within (1935). King died on 10 February 1946 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Actor
Steve Olsen was born on 17 November 1899 in Peru, Indiana, USA. He was an actor. He died on 14 December 1946 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Actor
- Writer
Born in Washington, DC, in 1890, screen villain "par excellance" Wheeler Oakman got into films in 1912. He specialized in playing villains, but he wasn't just a one-note, mustache-twirling "bad guy"--a tall, solidly-built, distinguished-looking, almost patrician man, he could effectively play cold-blooded mob bosses, slick-talking crooked businessmen, greedy land barons, gregarious bankers who are secretly the head of the local bandit gang, and everything in between. On the other hand, he could play college professors, heroic army officers and tough big-city detectives with equal aplomb. He worked in all genres for just about every studio in town at one time or another, from high dramas at top-ranked MGM to bottom-of-the-barrel exploitation fare from J.D. Kendis.
At one time married to silent-screen star Priscilla Dean, he worked almost up until his death--his final role was an uncredited bit in the 1948 serial Superman (1948), and he died of a heart attack in Van Nuys, California, in 1949.- Malcolm Waite was born on 7 May 1892 in Menominee, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for The Gold Rush (1925), A Notorious Affair (1930) and Noah's Ark (1928). He died on 25 April 1949 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Katherine Lewis was born on November 6, 1899 in Newark, New Jersey. She was signed by Vitagraph at the age of fourteen and made her film debut in The Knight Before Christmas (1914). After a few small roles she started working for producer Al Christie in 1919. Katherine appeared in numerous comedies including Mary Moves In, Rowdy Ann, and Chop Suey. The pretty blue-eyed actress was usually cast as an ingenue. Her mother, Jane Lewis, opened a store in Hollywood where she rented costumes to actresses.
Katherine married Broadway actor David Newell in 1935 and became a housewife. The couple had two daughters - Cynthia Ann and Susan Jessie. Sadly in the Spring of 1948 she entered a San Fernando sanitarium suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. She spent sixteen months in the sanitarium and died on August 25, 1949. Katherine was only forty-nine years old. She was buried at Valhalla cemetery in Los Angeles.
Both contemporary and modern sources often confuse her with an older actress, Katharine Lewis (III), who also worked at Vitagraph, and usually played society types through the 1920s. - Royal Raymond was born on 29 September 1916 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Red Menace (1949) and Powder River Gunfire (1948). He was married to Shirley Raymond. He died on 20 December 1949 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Anna Mae Walthall was born on 3 October 1894 in Alabama, USA. She was an actress, known for Bare Fists (1919), As Man Desires (1925) and At the Stroke of the Angelus (1915). She was married to ? Eldridge. She died on 17 April 1950 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Writer
Pioneering cinematographer Carl Louis Gregory was born in Walnut, KS, in 1882. He and his family moved to Ohio, where, at age 11 he became interested in photography and made his own camera using a cigar box and a lens made from a pair of eyeglasses. While a student at a Cleveland high school he began earning a living taking photographs, and made enough money from that business to pay his tuition at Ohio State University. He also studied at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Columbia University. In 1905, a year after graduating from OSU, he opened a photography studio with branches in Cleveland, Colorado Springs (CO), San Antonio (TX) and even Monterrey, Mexico. He soon sold those businesses and went to work for the US Department of the Interior as an official photographer. A few years later he was hired by a wealthy businessman as a projectionist for slides and film that were shown during the man's lectures. In 1909 he joined the Edison Co. as a cameraman and director and turned out quite a few films at the company's New Jersey studios in Orange and Bedford Park. He even went to Cuba to shoot features and short educational films. He joined the Thanhouser Co. in 1910 as a cameraman/photographer and later became the studio's chief cameraman, shooting many of its films and supervising cinematographers on other projects. Renowned for his trick photography and seamless use of double-exposures, he was often mentioned whenever newspapers or magazines wrote about the technical aspects of the relatively new film business.
In 1913 he was placed in charge of the studio's prestigious Princess Films division; in addition to the day-to-day operation of the unit, he also shot films and wrote screenplays. He so impressed the powers-that-be at Thanhouser that he was promoted from the Princess Films division and placed in charge of the company's major, big-budget productions. He was the cinematographer for the Williamson brothers when they shot their groundbreaking underwater productions in the West Indies in 1914, and apparently liked it so much that he worked on quite a few similar projects, gaining even more renown for his expertise in that genre. In 1914 he and a company of actors traveled to Yellowstone National Park, among other places, to shoot a series of outdoor films for Thanhouser.
Gregory left Thanhouser in 1915 for Metro Pictures. He also became a respected lecturer on the subject of film photography, making the rounds of various professional photographic societies. In 1917 he traveled to Florida to do some work for the Technicolor Corp. He contributed to the war effort by being the chief cinematography instructor for the US Army's Signal Corps School of Photography, and wrote a book for cameramen, "Motion Picture Photography". After the war he became a photography instructor at Columbia University and was named Dean of Photography at the New York Institute of Photography. He still kept his hand in the business, however, directing and photographing Love's Flame (1920) for Fidelity Pictures.
He became involved with several companies that shot films in virtually all corners of the world, including Japan, China, Burma, Malaya and the Philippines. He was the cinematographer on one of the first films to be made in Hawaii, The Thirteenth Girl (1915), which was shot on Hilo. He worked for the Kislyn Color Corp., which was trying to develop a color process invented by photographer Louis Berthon. In the 1940s he was employed by the National Archives, and was the first person to try restoring some very early films that were shot on paper prints.
He died on March 11, 1951, at his Van Nuys, CA, home of complications from arteriosclerosis.- Paul Ralli was born on 2 March 1903 in Cyprus, Greece. He was an actor, known for Show People (1928), Married in Hollywood (1929) and Montmartre Rose (1929). He died on 4 September 1953 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- George Kirby was born on 18 February 1879 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Forever and a Day (1943), Shake Hands with Murder (1944) and Rogues Gallery (1944). He died on 2 December 1953 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Mabel Paige was born on 19 December 1880 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Someone to Remember (1943), Johnny O'Clock (1947) and Johnny Belinda (1948). She was married to C.W. Ritchie. She died on 9 February 1954 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Steve Clark was born on 26 February 1891 in Davis County, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Durango Valley Raiders (1938), Haunted Ranch (1943) and Saddle Mountain Roundup (1941). He was married to Emily Margaret Clark and Ruth. He died on 29 June 1954 in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Famed actor, composer, artist, author and director. His talents extended to the authoring of the novel "Mr. Cartonwine: A Moral Tale" as well as his autobiography. In 1944, he joined ASCAP, and composed "Russian Dances", "Partita", "Ballet Viennois", "The Woodman and the Elves", "Behind the Horizon", "Fugue Fantasia", "In Memorium", "Hallowe'en", "Preludium & Fugue", "Elegie for Oboe, Orch.", "Farewell Symphony (1-act opera)", "Elegie (piano pieces)", "Rondo for Piano" and "Scherzo Grotesque".- Actress
- Soundtrack
Grace Hartman was born on 7 January 1907 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Higher and Higher (1943), Sunny (1941) and The Philco Television Playhouse (1948). She was married to Norman Abbott and Paul Hartman. She died on 8 August 1955 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Sandra Hayden was born on 11 July 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Judge Roy Bean (1955). She died on 22 September 1956 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Montreal-born Huntley Gordon was educated in both Canada and England, and upon completing his education took a job with the Bank of Montreal, later starting his own stock trading firm. However, he had had a taste of "the stage" in amateur productions, and soon gave up the business life for that of an actor, moving to New York and eventually managing to get small parts in Broadway productions. As luck would have it, one day he ran into a friend who was on his way to the Lambs Club to offer an actor who was living there a part in a film being shot by Vitagraph in New York City. Gordon said that he would take the part, and he was soon in front of the cameras. Director Ralph Ince took Gordon under his wing and secured him a contract with Vitagraph. Gordon became a reliable leading man and character actor in silents and, unlike many of his contemporaries, easily made the transition into sound films. He made his last film in 1941. He died of a heart attack at his home in Van Nuys, CA, in 1956.
- Artie Auerbach was born on 17 May 1903 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Jack Benny Program (1950), Here Comes Elmer (1943) and Some Time Soon (1937). He was married to Cleo Morgan and Doris. He died on 3 October 1957 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Vaughan Glaser was born on 17 November 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Saboteur (1942), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and Meet John Doe (1941). He was married to Lois Landon. He died on 23 November 1958 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Cinematographer
Otto C. Gilmore was born on 27 January 1890 in Gallia County, Ohio, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Sam Davis, the Hero of Tennessee (1915) and Rheims (1921). He died on 18 May 1959 in Van Nuys, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America.- Actor
- Stunts
Art Dillard was born on 20 February 1907 in Fort Bend County, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Leadville Gunslinger (1952), Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951) and Wild Horse Rodeo (1937). He was married to Ann. He died on 30 March 1960 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Val Harris was born on 14 February 1882 in Ava, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Wild Westerner (1928) and Snowed Under (1923). He was married to Lydia Virginia. He died on 17 March 1961 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Rose Wallerstein was born on 24 January 1896. She was an actress, known for The Cantor's Son (1937). She died on 19 April 1961 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Nell Roy Buck was born on 2 July 1910 in Burdette, Arkansas, USA. She was an actress, known for Forever (1921). She died on 28 February 1962 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Tom Gilson was born on 6 January 1934 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Crowded Sky (1960), Young and Wild (1958) and The Gallant Men (1962). He was married to Saundra Edwards. He died on 6 October 1962 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Terryl Lee Yeigh was born on 19 January 1946 in South Dakota, USA. She died on 18 October 1962 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Actress
Margarete Matzenauer was born on 1 June 1881 in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary [now Timisoara, Romania]. She was an actress. She died on 19 May 1963 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Familiar to many as the frustrated cop, businessman or landlord in countless two-reel comedies by The Three Stooges, Vernon Dent got his start in show business as a member of a singing troupe traveling in Southern California in the early 1920s. He was befriended by comedian Hank Mann, a member of the famed Keystone Kops. Mann thought that Dent was good comic material and gave him a supporting part in a series of two-reel comedies he was making. In the early 1920s Dent was good enough to be given his own series of comedy shorts by Pathe. After this series was over, he freelanced and worked for such top comics as Larry Semon. He found his real niche when he was hired by Mack Sennett, and spent most of the rest of the 1920s at that studio. For such a large man (5'9" and 250 pounds) Dent was surprisingly graceful, and Sennett was enthused to discover that he was a natural at physical comedy, able to do a pratfall as well as or better than Sennett's top comics. Dent really came into his own in the series of comedies that Harry Langdon made for Sennett, which rocketed Langdon to stardom and also brought recognition to Dent. When Langdon left Sennett, Dent stayed and supported such Sennett comics as Billy Bevan and Ralph Graves. Dent and Langdon were reunited in a series of shorts for Educational Pictures in the early 1930s, and his value in the series was such that Langdon insisted Dent always receive second billing after him. Dent joined Columbia in 1935, where he achieved his greatest success, and stayed there until 1953. He worked especially well with Shemp Howard of The Three Stooges, and the two remained lifelong friends. Shortly after retiring in the mid-'50s, Dent went blind, a result of his lifelong battle against diabetes. Although there were rumors that he died because he was a Christian Scientist and refused to take insulin, in an interview several years ago Dent's wife stated that he was not a Christian Scientist, and died from a sudden, massive heart attack.- Herbert Heywood was born on 1 February 1881 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Blues in the Night (1941), King of the Lumberjacks (1940) and Legion of the Lawless (1940). He died on 15 September 1964 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Fred Johnson was born on 4 November 1894 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Native Land (1942), Frontier Circus (1961) and Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955). He died on 15 November 1964 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
George Schneiderman was born on 20 September 1894 in New York, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Black Paradise (1926), Lazybones (1925) and Good Intentions (1930). He was married to Gertrude. He died on 19 November 1964 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
George W. Pyper was born on 6 April 1886 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was a writer, known for Mystery Pilot (1926), The Power God (1925) and The Branded Four (1920). He was married to Florence Hanks. He died on 18 January 1965 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Soundtrack
Art Kassel was born on 18 January 1896 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He died on 3 February 1965 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Born Rex Lloyd Lease in West Virginia on February 11, 1903 (not 1901, according to Social Security records found), future cowboy actor Rex Lease was raised in Columbus, Ohio and very briefly attended Ohio Wesleyan University initially interested in the ministry. When this fell through, he decided to attempt an acting career instead. Setting his sights on Hollywood at age 19 in 1924, he broke into silent films as an extra and bit player.
Rex's first role of any significance was as the adult son of Irene Rich and Morgan Wallace in the melodrama A Woman Who Sinned (1924). Within a couple of years the strapping, exceedingly handsome actor had made it into the silent co-star ranks of romantic drama, jazz-age comedy, canine adventures and rugged action in such fare as Somebody's Mother (1926), Mystery Pilot (1926), The Timid Terror (1926), The Outlaw Dog (1927), Clancy's Kosher Wedding (1927), The College Hero (1927) and as the murderous bad guy, The Solitaire Kid, in the silent Tim McCoy western The Law of the Range (1928) co-starring a very young Joan Crawford.
Lease made an easy transition come the advent of sound and continued on as heroes and romantic leading men types in such early talkies as Borrowed Wives (1930), Troopers Three (1930), The Sign of the Wolf (1931), Chinatown After Dark (1931), The Monster Walks (1932) and Inside Information (1934). Having appeared in the title role of the western The Utah Kid (1930), within a few years Rex hit minor cowboy hero stardom with such offerings as The Cowboy and the Bandit (1935), Cyclone of the Saddle (1935), Fighting Caballero (1935), The Ghost Rider (1935), Rough Riding Ranger (1935), Custer's Last Stand (1936), Cavalcade of the West (1936) and The Silver Trail (1937). Just as quickly, however, his hero status fell aside and he found himself, more often than not, shuffled back to playing secondary partners or villains for a host of other established or ascending sagebrush stars such as his old pal Tim McCoy, as well as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Hoot Gibson, Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Tom Tyler, Bob Steele, Allan Lane, Bill Elliott and a quickly rising John Wayne.
By the late 1930's, Rex was finding himself with little to no billing at all -- appearing as a bank robber in the Laurel & Hardy comedy A Chump at Oxford (1940), a cop in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and minor henchmen in such second-string westerns as Saddlemates (1941), Jesse James at Bay (1941), Idaho (1943), King of the Cowboys (1943), Rough Riders of Cheyenne (1945) and Frontier Gal (1945). Occasional featured roles included those in Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground (1943), Springtime in Texas (1945), Days of Buffalo Bill (1946), The People's Choice (1946) and the serial cliffhanger The Crimson Ghost (1946). Lease went on to appear in hundreds of films over a three and a half decade career.
In the 1950's Rex added TV to his extensive résumé with appearances on "The Abbott & Costello Show," "The Roy Rogers Show," "Tales of the Texas Rangers," "Fury," "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin," "Maverick" and several spots (his last being in 1960) on "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp." A few minor 50's western movie parts also came his way with Ride, Vaquero! (1953), Calamity Jane (1953), Backlash (1956) and Tension at Table Rock (1956).
Rex's personal life was turbulent, what with five marriages and divorces -- his first two being actresses Charlotte Merriam and Eleanor Hunt). He eventually retired and died of undisclosed causes in the Los Angeles area on January 3, 1966, at the age of 62. He was discovered by his son Richard, who was shot to death at age 25 the following year after being involved in a traffic altercation with two teenagers.- Writer
- Producer
James B. Allardice was born in Canton, Ohio, the son of James and Lula Allardice. He attended the College of Wooster where he wrote musicals with James Wise, who later wrote the Broadway musical, "Dames at Sea." While serving in World War II, Allardice wrote the play, "At War with the Army." Following the war, he studied playwriting at Yale, where "At War with the Army" was first produced. In 1949, the play opened on Broadway. The play was bought by Paramount, and so Allardice moved to Hollywood to work on the movie. Although they had been in two earlier movies, At War with the Army (1950) was the first movie in which the comedy team of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin received top billing.
In the early 50s, Allardice wrote original hour-long dramas which appeared on such shows as the _"General Electric Theater" (1954)_ and the Lux Video Theatre (1950). He moved on to write variety shows, including The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1956) and The George Gobel Show (1954), for which he won an Emmy for Best Comedy Writing in 1955.
On the set of "Ann Sothern Show, The" (1958), Allardice met composer 'Tom Adair', and soon after, the two began writing sitcoms, including Hogan's Heroes (1965), My Three Sons (1960), and The Munsters (1964). Allardice is perhaps best known for writing the introductions for Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) which were performed by Alfred Hitchcock. Not only did Allardice write the lead-ins for all 359 episodes of the show, he wrote many of Hitchcock's speeches during the ten years of their collaboration. In 1966, Allardice died of a heart attack at the age of 46, and that year, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" ended its ten year run.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Estelita Rodriguez was born on 2 July 1928 in Guanajay, Cuba. She was an actress, known for Rio Bravo (1959), Belle of Old Mexico (1950) and Susanna Pass (1949). She was married to Dr. Ricardo A. Pego, Ismael Alfonso Halfss, aka Henry Half, Grant Withers and Chu Chu Martinez. She died on 12 March 1966 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Eunice Burnham was born on 13 August 1881 in Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for Sham (1921). She died on 13 April 1966 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Often confused with the British-born comic actor J. Pat O'Malley, who is the better remembered, silent dramatic film star Pat O'Malley had an enduring career that stands on its own. He was of solid Irish-American stock, born in Forest City, Pennsylvania, in 1890. A one-time railroad switchman, he also had circus experience by the time he discovered an interest in movie making. He began with the Kalem Studio in 1913 and appeared in a few Irish films before signing on with Thomas Edison's company in 1914. The following year, he married actress Lillian Wilkes, and three of their children, Eileen, Mary Katherine, and Sheila, would become actors as well. His brother Charles O'Malley was a sometime actor, appearing in westerns on occasion. His first identifiable film is The Alien (1913). He began freelancing in 1916 and from then on, appeared in scores of silents as both a rugged and romantic lead, some classic films being The Heart of Humanity (1918), My Wild Irish Rose (1922), and The Virginian (1923). He did not age well come sound pictures, and he was quickly relegated to supporting parts. He appeared in hundreds upon hundreds of bits (mostly unbilled) until 1956, when he retired. He died a decade later.
- Hazel Boyne was born on 4 July 1883 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for Born to Be Bad (1950), That's My Boy (1951) and I Love Lucy (1951). She was married to Robert Stuart Eschelman (aka vaudeville performer Donald Roberts). She died on 27 August 1966 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Paul E. Burns was born on 26 January 1881 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Smoky River Serenade (1947), The Pilgrim Lady (1946) and Son of Paleface (1952). He died on 17 May 1967 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Effie Conley was born on 7 November 1882 in Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for The Best of Luck (1920), Fair and Warmer (1919) and Blind Man's Eyes (1919). She died on 8 August 1967 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Lee Krieger was born on 30 June 1919 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012), Clambake (1967) and Combat! (1962). He died on 22 December 1967 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Producer
- Director
- Additional Crew
John Goetz was born on 9 December 1920 in Berlin, Germany. He was a producer and director, known for Uncle Vanya (1957), Curtain Call (1952) and Max Liebman Presents: Spotlight (1954). He died on 11 April 1968 in Van Nuys, California, USA.- Famed trumpeter, composer ("And the Angels Sing"), and conductor, a member of the orchestras of Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey between 1936 and 1943. He served in the US Army Air Corps during World War II, then rejoined the Dorsey orchestra in 1945 (to 1947). Later he formed his own orchestra, and appeared in films and made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1961, his chief musical collaborator was Johnny Mercer, and his other popular-song compositions include "Forgive My Heart" and "Zaggin With Zig".