Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor, (January 31, 1892 – October 10, 1964), born Edward Israel Iskowitz, in New York City. After becoming a smash hit in vaudeville, Ziegfeld signed him for his Midnight Frolics and then the Follies of his Midnight Frolics and then the Follies of 1917, 1918, 1919 and 1923.  From there he went to films in the 1920s, starring in Whoopee, Kid from Spain and Kid Millions. Eddie Cantor was an American  performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter.

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Richard Arlen

Richard Arlen (September 1, 1899 – March 28, 1976) was an American actor. Handsome leading man Richard Arlen was born Cornelius Richard Van Mattemore in Charlottesville. He began his acting career as an extra in silent movies, and made a big hit in the William Wellman silent movie classic "Wings" (1927), with Clara Bow and Buddy Rogers, the first film to win an Academy Award as Best Picture.

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Buddy Ebsen

Buddy Ebsen, 1936, girls

Christian Rudolph Ebsen, Jr., known as Buddy Ebsen (April 2, 1908 - July 6, 2003), was an American character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the long-running CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones, and played Barnaby Jones in the 1993 movie version of The Beverly Hillbillies. Ebsen also played Fess Parker's sidekick in Walt Disney's Davy Crockett miniseries (1953–54), and was cast as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (1939) until he fell ill from an allergy to the makeup.

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Frank Silvera

Actor, director, producer, teacher, Frank Silvera aka Man of a Thousand Faces, (July 24, 1914 - June 11, 1970), young emerging actor, in the American Negro Theatre, during the early stages of his career in theatre, film and television. Due to his looks, ability to transcend color, race, his skill with language, the new nearly dead art of make-up, and perhaps the surname of Silvera, Frank moved into the new elite inner circles of the leading American Theatre groups, where he became an active member of the famed Actors' Studio of New York, a "spin-off" of the old Group Theatre, of the Thirties.

Frank Silvera in the film, "Hombre."

Frank Silvera in the film, "Viva Zapata." 

Burgess Meredith

Burgess Meredith as the Penguin

One of the truly great and gifted performers of the century who often suffered lesser roles, Oliver Burgess Meredith, known professionally as Burgess Meredith, (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997), was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1907 and educated in Amherst College in Massachusetts before joining Eva Le Gallienne's stage company in New York City in 1933. Meredith was an American actor in theatre, film, and television, who also worked as a director.

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Ernie Morrison

Ernest Fredric "Ernie" Morrison (December 20, 1912 – July 24, 1989) was an American child actor who performed under the stage name "Sunshine Sammy". Morrison was the only black member of the East Side Kids, and was also an original Our Gang kid, a sidekick to Harold Lloyd and Snub Pollard, a silent screen comedian, a vaudevillian, a dancer, and band leader.

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Ray Bolger

Raymond Wallace, Ray Bolger (January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987) began his career in vaudeville. He was half of a team called "Sanford and Bolger" and also did numerous Broadway shows on his own. He, like Gene Kelly, was a song-and-dance man as well as an actor. Bolger was signed to a contract with MGM in 1936 and his first role was as himself in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). Noticed by MGM producers and resulted in his being cast in his most famous role, that of the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (1939).

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Canada Lee

Canada Lee, (March 3, 1907 — May 9, 1952) was an American actor who pioneered roles for African Americans. A champion of civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s, he died shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee. (Lee has signed and inscribed this fine sepia toned photograph, stamped on verso, "A. Steiner Photographer...." "To my sister Helen Martin From her brother 'Bigger' Canada Lee.")

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Cary Grant

Archibald Alexander Leach, (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later gained American citizenship. Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor and "dashing good looks", Grant is considered one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant," Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."

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Cesar Romero

Cesar Romero in his role as the Joker in Batman 

Tall, suave and sophisticated Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. (February 15, 1907 – January 1, 1994)

was an American film and television actor who was active in film, radio, and television for almost sixty years.

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Henkie Klein

Little Henkie Klein (sometimes written as Klyn or Kleinman) was a child actor in German and Dutch films of the silent era. He was born in 1921 in Amsterdam and was the son of film director Henk Kleinman.  Henkie had made his film debut as the Berlin street boy Bolleken in Goldjunge/Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht (1925, Henk Kleinman). Both films are now presumed missing. (More information on Henkie Klein was not to be found on the net. If he is still alive, he would be now 86 or 87).

Source: flickr | Dutch postcard by B. Brouwer, Amsterdam. Photo: Bernard Eilers, Amsterdam. Collection: Egbert Barten

Davey Lee

Best recalled as the young tyke with the Buster Brown hairstyle who crawled onto Al Jolson's lap while the star sang the best-selling song "Sonny Boy" in the early talking film The Singing Fool. Davey Lee (December 29, 1924 -June 17, 2008) was an American child actor. He was born in Hollywood, California, USA. He appeared in six feature films between 1928 and 1930. Following his older brother Frankie Lee into films and earning close to $30,000 per week by 1930 after a handful of films, Davey's mother insisted he "retire" from films at age 6 so he could have a normal childhood. In later years he performed in local theatre.

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Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia (January 18, 1892 - August 7, 1957) and preferred to not stay in school but to go to the vaudeville houses and study the onstage antics of many different groups. Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955.

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Steve McQueen

He was the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world's most popular actor. Terence Stephen "Steve" McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American movie actor. He was nicknamed "The King of Cool."

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John Wayne

Marion Mitchell Morrison, May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979, better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa. He received his first leading film role in The Big Trail (1930). Settling in Glendale, California, Wayne received his distinctive nickname "Duke" while living there. John Wayne had a dog by that name of "Duke", and he spent so much time with his pet that the pair became known as "Little Duke" and "Big Duke," according to the official John Wayne website.

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Robert Young

Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American television, film, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father character in Father Knows Best, and the physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D.

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Paul Newman

Paul Newman, one of the last of the great 20th-century stars, acted in more than 65 movies over half a century. Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, and auto racing enthusiast. Paul Newman, the legendary actor whose steely blue eyes, good-humored charm and advocacy of worthy causes made him one of the most renowned figures in American arts.

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) began his career on Broadway in the 1920s. This led to B-movie parts in 1930s Hollywood. Bogart's turning point came in the 1940s, with his legendary roles in The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca. The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema.

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Rock Hudson

Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., later Roy Harold Fitzgerald (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985), was tall, dark, handsome and muscular, just what Universal-International needed to develop one of the last major stars under the studio system. A former mail carrier, Navy airplane mechanic, and truck driver, his name was changed to Rock Hudson. His teeth were capped and he was given lessons in acting, elocution, riding, fencing and singing. It took him 38 takes to deliver one line in his film debut in 1948's Fighter Squadron. But he had star potential, so Universal-International [U-I] brought him along slowly.Hudson was voted "Star of the Year", "Favorite Leading Man", and similar titles by numerous movie magazines.

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Chief Thundercloud

Chief Thundercloud, (born Victor Daniels, April 12, 1899 – December 1, 1955) was an American character actor in westerns. Information about Thundercloud is vague. Most biographies state that he was a full blooded Cherokee (or Muskogee). The pressbook for The Lone Ranger Rides Again announced his parents as "Dark Cloud and Morning Star, artistocrats of the Muskogee tribe" but his death certificate lists his father as "Joseph Mahawa." He had the title role in Geronimo (1939) and played Tonto in both Republic Lone Ranger serials, The Lone Ranger (1938) and The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939).

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