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?From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Allan Jones (14 October 1907–27 June 1992) was an American actor and singer. For many years he was married to actress Irene Hervey; their son is American pop singer Jack Jones. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allan Jones  licensed under C... Read more

Frank Simmons Leavitt (June 30, 1891 – May 29, 1953) was an American professional wrestler of the early 1900s, known by the ring name Man Mountain Dean. Leavitt wrestled with limited success at first, and after an injury took a job as a police officer in Miami, Florida. Here he met his wife, Doris... Read more

Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (June 20, 1909 - October 14, 1959) was an Australian-American actor and writer. He is popularly remembered as a charismatic romantic hero in the eight films he starred in with Olivia de Havilland. Flynn’s most iconic role came as Robin Hood in "The Adventures of Rob... Read more

Muriel George was an English singer and film actress who appeared in 55 films between 1932 and 1955, as well as on the variety stage and on radio with her second husband Ernest Butcher.... Read more

Danny Web was an American voice and film actor, active in Hollywood from 1935-1951. The son of a Hungarian-born furrier, by the time he arrived in Hollywood in 1935, he was already a seasoned radio comedian. A series of clever celebrity impersonations on the 'Burns & Allen' show led to... Read more

Charles R. Bowers was a cartoonist and slapstick comedian during the silent film and early "talkie" era. He was forgotten for decades and his name was notably absent from most histories of the Silent Era, although his work was enthusiastically reviewed by André Breton and a number of his ... Read more

An outstanding Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1937). People's Artist of the RSFSR (03/11/1939). People's Artist of the USSR (02.26.1947). He graduated from the Institute of Performing Arts (1926). Since 1919 - a mimic artist of the Petrograd Mariinsky Opera and... Read more

Pyotr Zinovyev was born on 22 August 1903 in Troitskoye village, Orenburg Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor and director, known for Bez oshibki (1935), Happiness (1935) and Vlastelin mira (1932). He died on 22 June 1976 in the USSR.... Read more

Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin was a Soviet Russian film director, best known for his 1935 film Happiness. His life and art are the subject of Chris Marker's documentary films, The Train Rolls On (1971) and The Last Bolshevik (1992). He travelled around Russia in his Kinopoezd, a film-train, in... Read more

Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko (Russian: ????????? ????? ??????, 19 April [O.S. 6 April] 1900 – 6 March 1973) was a Soviet animation and fantasy film director, and a People's Artist of the USSR (1969). Ptushko is frequently (and somewhat misleadingly) referred to as "the Soviet Walt Disney,&q... Read more