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- Will S. Hayes was born on 19 July 1837 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Will S. died on 23 July 1907 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
- Howard P. Taylor was born on 8 March 1838 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer, known for Caprice (1913). He was married to Agnes Chalmers. He died on 7 July 1916 in New York, New York, USA.
- Harry Linson was born on 26 August 1839 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Gates of Eden (1916), The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1914) and The Declaration of Independence (1911). He was married to Teckla Weiner and Mary Woodhouse. He died on 13 March 1926 in Bronx, New York, USA.
- J.L. Franck was born on 31 July 1852 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for Ramona (1916) and Her Moment (1918). He died on 22 October 1920 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Louis D. Brandeis was born on 13 November 1856 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was married to Alice Goldmark. He died on 5 October 1941 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Soundtrack
Mildred J. Hill was born on 27 June 1859 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Mildred J. died on 5 June 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.- Mathilde Brundage was born on 22 September 1859 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917), My Boy (1921) and A Woman's Resurrection (1915). She died on 6 May 1939 in Long Beach, California, USA.
- Writer
- Actress
Elizabeth Robins was born on 6 August 1862 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for A Dark Lantern (1920), My Little Sister (1919) and Collision Course (2016). She was married to George Richmond Parks. She died in 1952 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.- Orrin Johnson was born on 1 December 1865 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for Satan Sanderson (1915), The Three Musketeers (1916) and The Penitentes (1915). He was married to Isabel B. Smith and Katherine Grey. He died on 24 November 1943 in Neenah, Wisconsin, USA.
- Director
- Visual Effects
J.L. Roop was born on 22 December 1869 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. J.L. was a director, known for The Gasoline Trail (1923), Tom Goes on His Vacation (1924) and The Lost Whirl (1926). J.L. was married to Rena Elston Mills and Lula H. Roop. J.L. died on 22 December 1932 in Glendale, California, USA.- Special Effects
- Animation Department
Joseph Leeland Roop was born on 22 December 1869 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Joseph Leeland is known for The Greater Glory (1926) and Black Cyclone (1925). Joseph Leeland died on 22 December 1932 in California, USA.- Emma Tansey was born on 12 September 1870 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for When You and I Were Young (1917), Joan of the Woods (1918) and Are Children to Blame? (1920). She died on 23 March 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Clarice Vance was a well known vaudeville headliner from the turn of the century to 1910. Her bio from the Johnson Briscoe 1904 book "The Actors' Birthday Book" states . . . "All lovers of vaudeville, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Canada Border to Mexico Gulf, are familiar with the admirable methods of Clarice Vance, so well known by her sobriquet of 'The Southern Singer.' The first few years of Miss Vance's stage career were given over to farce comedy productions and it was not until about 1897 that she awoke to the full possiblities of the "coon song". Since then she has made this particular style of song her one big feature in the vaudevillle theaters and her popularity is truly amazing." In 1904 a Boston ciritic wrote,"Her charm is as powerful as it is indescribable". Between 1905 and 1909 she recorded for Edison (two cylinders) and for Victor (1906-1909). Several of her Victor recordings were big hits. Her recording of "I'm Wise" (1907) stayed in the Victor catalogs for 15 years. Other hits were "He's a Cousin of Mine" and "I'm Afraid to Come Home In the Dark". She played the Palace of Varieties in London for 26 week in 1909 and in 1910 starred in "A Skylark", a lavish Broadway musical production with Hazel Cox. Her picture appeared in Vanity Fair. In 1904, she married Moses Gumble, songwriter and New York manager of Remick Music Publishing. Together they were part of the New York theatrical elite. Clarice's stature (and she was over six feet tall) was such that all songs submitted to Remick were reviewed for her exclusive use in vaudeville. The Gumbles divorced in 1914 and Clarice nearly disappears from theatrical history. A single engagement at the Tivoli Opera House in San Francisco in 1919 and a brief appearance in movies, Down to the Sea in Ships (1922) and Daughters of the Night (1924) signify the end of her theatrical career. Today her records are prized and capture her unique spirit and subtle comedy gift. Her whereabouts and activities from 1924 to 1951 remain a mystery. Her picture graces dozens of pieces of sheet music from 1900 to 1914 . . . . but alas, references to her in show business documentaries are almost nonexistent. Abel Green of Variety referred to her in 1951 as one of the "vaudeville greats". Note: A complete vaudeville sketch, "April First" written by Clarice in 1900 can be accessed through the American Memories, Library of Congress Web site. In 1951 she was committed to the Napa, Californina hospital for the insane. At the time of her death in 1961 she had no friends or relatives. Only through an odd coincidence was it discovered that the deceased was Clarice Vance, a person of significant show business importance.
- Bertie Badger Moyers was born on 22 June 1871 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Bertie Badger was a writer, known for Fate's Boomerang (1916), The Two Sentences (1915) and When Queenie Came Back (1914). Bertie Badger died in December 1960 in Orange, Florida, USA.
- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Fred Hearn was born on 20 December 1871 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The Dark Star (1919), The Burden of Proof (1918) and Patsy (1917). He died on 20 January 1923 in Pasadena, California, USA.- Percy Parsons was born on 12 June 1872 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Good Companions (1933), Criminal at Large (1932) and A Blonde Dream (1932). He was married to Natalie Lynn. He died on 3 October 1944 in St. Stephen's Hospital, Chelsea, London, England, UK.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Madame Sul-Te-Wan was born on 7 March 1873 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Maid of Salem (1937), In Old Chicago (1938) and Safari (1940). She was married to Robert Reed Conley. She died on 1 February 1959 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Jack Gardner was born on 30 September 1873 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for Bluff (1924) and Hollywood (1923). He was married to Louise Dresser. He died on 30 September 1950 in Encino, California, USA.
- Cinematographer
Alfred Huger Moses Jr. was born on 18 June 1874 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Alfred Huger is known for Life's Shadows (1916), The Love Net (1918) and Milestones of Life (1915).- Daniel F. Whitcomb was born on 24 February 1875 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer, known for Sheriff of Sun Dog (1922), The Hellion (1919) and Battling Bates (1923). He died on 16 May 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Rupert Sargent Holland was born on 15 October 1878 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer, known for The Winning of Sally Temple (1917) and The Night Riders of Petersham (1914). He died on 3 May 1952 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Adolph Klauber was born on 29 April 1879 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a producer, known for Scrambled Wives (1921). He was married to Jane Cowl. He died on 7 December 1933 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
- Thais Lawton was born on 18 June 1879 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for The Battle Cry of Peace (1915) and The Pardon (1915). She was married to Percy McDermott. She died on 18 December 1956 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Very popular American star of silent films who left the business at the height of his career. While barely in his teens, he worked as a warehouse clerk until a chance arrived to appear in a vaudeville production. He continued to act in traveling stock productions, though he took a brief time away from the stage to attend the University of Illinois. By the time he was thirty, he had begun to make appearances in films for Essanay and Biograph. A contract with the American Film Corporation opened the door to leading roles, often as a well-dressed and elegant man-about-town. Universal Pictures lured him with a better deal and he quickly rose to stardom there. A glib remark about his refusal to enlist in the American army after the U.S. entry into World War I cost him both sympathy with audiences and the support of the studios. He began to work less frequently and for more minor studios. When director James Cruze cast him as the rugged lead in The Covered Wagon (1923), Kerrigan found himself back on top, appearing in dashing leads in several important pictures. However, within a year, he decided to abandon his film career while at its zenith. His stardom had given him the freedom to live freely and easily without working, which is how he lived out the rest of his life. Supposedly he made a few small appearances in supporting roles just before his death in June, 1947.- Harry Carter was born on 14 September 1879 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Hope Diamond Mystery (1921), The Gray Ghost (1917) and The Pool of Flame (1916). He died on 22 July 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Director
Orral Humphrey was born on 3 April 1880 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Huckleberry Finn (1920), Broadway Madness (1927) and The Pork Plotters (1916). He was married to Lois Frances Born, Josephine Edith Taylor and Florence Chapman. He died on 12 August 1929 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Belonging to a well-situated family, Charles Browning fell in love at the age of 16 with a dancer of a circus. Following her began his itinerary of being clown, jockey and director of a variety theater which ended when he met D.W. Griffith and became an actor. He made his debut in Intolerance (1916). Working later on as a director, he had his first success with The Unholy Three (1925) (after about 25 unimportant pictures) which had his typical style of a mixture of fantasy, mystery and horror. His biggest hit was the classic Dracula (1931), in which he also appears as the voice of the harbor master.- Walter Deming was born on 11 May 1881 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for Love's Law (1918) and Passionate Youth (1925). He died on 27 September 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Cleves Kinkead worked as a newspaper reporter for the Louisville Post before joining his father's law firm (1905-1913) and later serving a short stint in the Kentucky House of Representatives. His best known work, "Common Clay", which was given the Harvard Prize Play Award, was written in 1913 after he had left his father's law firm and was attending classes at Harvard University.
Cleves Kinkead was born on 4 March, 1882 in Louisville, Ky., the second of four children born to Robert C. and Julia Grinstead Kinkead. He later married Katherine S. Patch of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. - Art Director
- Art Department
- Additional Crew
Charles L. Cadwallader was born on 28 August 1882 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an art director, known for The Night Flyer (1928), The Dice Woman (1926) and Pals in Paradise (1926). He was married to Alexia. He died on 5 April 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Mayme Gehrue was born on 27 June 1883 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She is known for Above the Abyss (1915) and The Fable of the Galloping Pilgrim Who Kept on Galloping (1915).
- Mary Boyd was born on 11 December 1883 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for I Married Joan (1952), Celebrity Playhouse (1955) and The Ford Television Theatre (1952). She died on 12 February 1970 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Bert Niehoff was born on 13 May 1884 in Louisville, Colorado, USA. He died on 8 December 1974 in Inglewood, California, USA.
- Fontaine Fox was born on 4 June 1884 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer, known for Mickey's Big Broadcast (1933), Mickey the Romeo (1930) and The Skipper's Scheme (1921). He died on 9 August 1964 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA.
- Shelly Hull was born on 17 June 1884 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for Sapho (1913) and An Honorable Cad (1919). He was married to Josephine Hull. He died on 14 January 1919 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Blues singer Sara Martin was born June 18, 1884, in Louisville, KY. She began her career in vaudeville, and in 1922 she signed a recording contract with Okeh Records. She toured clubs and theaters all over the US, especially in the South. She was renowned for the flashy and extravagant costumes she wore on stage, as well as the layers of jewelry and gaudy clothes. In 1931 she appeared in a short film by pioneering black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux called The Darktown Revue (1931).
She eventually quit touring and returned to her home town of Louisville. She did some gospel singing there and ran a nursing home. She died in Louisville of a stroke in 1955. - Harry Blaising was born on 19 November 1886 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Long Chance (1915). He died on 10 September 1972 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
- Writer
- Director
- Script and Continuity Department
Anthony Coldeway was born on 1 August 1887 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Pacific Liner (1939), Glorious Betsy (1928) and Men of the Hour (1935). He died on 29 January 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Hobart Henley was born on 23 November 1887 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Society Snobs (1921), The Abysmal Brute (1923) and Parentage (1917). He was married to Corinne Barker. He died on 22 May 1964 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Natalie Lynn was born on 4 January 1888 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for The Nudist Story (1960), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and International Detective (1959). She was married to Percy Parsons. She died on 3 December 1964 in Isleworth, London, England, UK.
- Patsy De Forest was born on 1 May 1888 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Lost on Dress Parade (1918), A Night in New Arabia (1917) and An Alabaster Box (1917). She died in August 1966.
- Actress
- Costume Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Margaret Whistler was born on 31 July 1888 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress and costume designer, known for Doctor Neighbor (1916), The Little Orphan (1917) and Come Through (1917). She was married to Merle Farnsworth. She died on 23 August 1939 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Juanita Evers was born on 13 October 1888 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Buckskin (1958). She died on 30 May 1988 in Alameda County, California, USA.
- Charles Withers was born on 23 October 1888 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for Hideaway (1937), Aladdin from Manhattan (1936) and The Oily Bird (1936). He was married to May Withers. He died on 10 July 1947 in Bayside, New York, USA.
- Sayle Taylor was born on 16 August 1889 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Hit Parade (1937). He died on 1 February 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- A character actor and veteran of hundreds of Hollywood westerns, Tom London seemed to be born in the saddle. As a trick rider he performed riding specialties in a number of films. His career started in the teens and through the 1920s he alternated between good guy and bad. He made appearances in non-westerns such as All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Platinum Blonde (1931), but westerns were his mainstay. When the "B" western disappeared in the mid-'50s, so did his career. He appeared in only a handful of film for the rest of the decade.
- Lenore Cooper was born on 25 March 1890 in Louisville, Mississippi, USA. She was an actress, known for The Sins of the Children (1918). She died in 1978 in Fort Myers, Florida, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Henry Hull, the actor who created the role of Jeeter on Broadway in "Tobacco Road," was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 13, 1890, the son of a drama critic. Originally intending to become an engineer, Hull became an actor and made his Broadway debut in "Green Stockings" less than two weeks before his 21st birthday, on October 2, 1911. Two years later he appeared again on Broadway in support of John Barrymore in "Believe Me, Xantippe." He then quit the stage to go prospecting for gold, using his skills as a mining engineer. When he failed to find his El Dorado, Hull turned back to acting, appearing in "The Man Who Came Back" in 1916. He made his first films at the nearby World Pictures in 1917, most famously starring as the ill-fated Aleksandr Kerensky in Rasputin, the Black Monk (1917). The following year he appeared in the second film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's famous novel Little Women (1918).
Although he appeared in about a dozen films from just after World War One to the mid '30s, Hull concentrated on the stage until he went to Hollywood to appear as Magwitch in Great Expectations (1934). He even had a play he wrote produced on Broadway, "Manhattan," which made its debut on August 15, 1922, at the Playhouse Theatre and ran for a respectable (for the time) 86 performances.
Hull made his mark in the history of the horror film, one of Hollywood's most venerable genres, by appearing in the title role in Werewolf of London (1935). Six feet tall and slender, Hull had a rich and cultured voice, which put him in demand as a supporting player in the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was, however, somewhat of a mannered actor in a style that went out of favor after the death of John Barrymore, and he often gave a performance, such as that of the newspaper editor in The Return of Frank James (1940), that was a thick slice of ham. However, his mannerisms and plummy voice were perfect for certain roles such as the obnoxious millionaire conceived by populist John Steinbeck for Lifeboat (1944).
Hull's greatest success as an actor was on Broadway, limning Erskine Caldwell's Jeeter in "Tobacco Road," which still ranks as the longest-running drama in the Great White Way's history, opening on December 4, 1933, and closing on May 31, 1941, after 3,182 total performances. (Hull, of course, did not play the entire run; Jeeter was also played by James Barton and Will Geer). By early 1936 Hull was starring on Broadway in Maxwell Anderson's "The Masque of Kings". When John Ford went looking to cast roles in his film version of the play Tobacco Road (1941), he chose lovable old coot Charley Grapewin for Jeeter; Grapewin had been memorable as Grandpa Joad the year before in Ford's classic adaptation of Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
Henry Hull's last film appearance was as a sort of chorus along with Jocelyn Brando in The Chase (1966). He was the brother of actor Shelly Hull, the brother-in-law of Shelly's wife Josephine Hull and the father of producer Shelley Hull with his wife, actress Juliet Fremont, with whom he had appeared on Broadway in 1916 in "The Man Who Came Back." Their son Henry Hull Jr. had a minor career on Broadway, appearing in and serving as assistant stage manager in his father's "The Masque of Kings," as well as appearing in the ensemble in the legendary "Hamlet" of John Gielgud that was on Broadway in 1936.- Eddie Fries was born on 20 November 1890 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for Humanity (1916), After Midnight (1915) and The Bachelor's Burglar (1915). He died in March 1974 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
- Cecile Arnold was born Cecile Laval Arnoux on July 9, 1891 in Louisville, Kentucky (some sources say New York). Her parents divorced when she was a child. After her mother remarried the family lived in Missouri and Texas. She started her career as a chorus girl and joined the Ziegfeld Follies. Cecile was signed by Mack Sennett's Keystone studios in 1913. The beautiful blonde played vamps in comedies like The Masquerader and Gussie's Day Of Rest. She made eleven films with Charlie Chaplin including Those Love Pangs, His Musical Career, and The Face On The Barroom Floor. During her career she used the stage names Peaches Arnold and Cecile Arley. In 1915 she appeared in a New York stage production of Robinson Crusoe with Al Jolson.
She married director Frank "Duke" Reynolds in 1918 and quit making movies. The couple divorced two years later. Cecile moved to Shanghai, China where she worked as a stenographer in a real estate office. She married David Toeg, a wealthy stockbroker, but their relationship was rocky. On March 25, 1925 she gave birth to a son named Robert in San Francisco. Her son may have been the result of an affair with Nicolai Merkuloff, a Russian merchant. Robert was raised by Cecile's family in Texas. She returned to China and divorced her husband. Tragically on June 18, 1931 she died from a heart ailment. She was just thirty-nine years old. Cecile was buried at Happy Valley Roman Catholic Cemetery in Hong Kong.