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1. Fanny Brice

Actress | Be Yourself!

Fanny Brice was a popular and influential American comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances but is best remembered as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show. Thirteen years after her death, she was ...

2. Susan Berman

Writer | The Real Las Vegas

Susan Berman was born on May 18, 1945 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for The Real Las Vegas (1996) and The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015). She was married to David Margulies. She died on December 24, 2000 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

3. Thelma Leeds

Actress | New Faces of 1937

Her late 1930s film career was brief and unheralded, and she retired early from the business, but as the mother of Albert Brooks she managed to enjoy a mini-comeback of sorts in a couple of his films, during her twilight years. Former singer/actress Thelma Leeds was born Thelma Goodman in New York ...

4. Louis Burstein

Producer | The Silent Mystery

Louis Burstein was born in 1878 in Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a producer and writer, known for The Silent Mystery (1918), Crimson Shoals (1919) and The Genius (1917). He was married to Jeanette. He died on March 25, 1923 in Pomona, California, USA.

5. Boake Carter

Actor | The Dead March

Boake Carter was born on April 12, 1899 in Baku, Russian Empire [now Azerbaijan]. He was an actor, known for The Dead March (1937) and Invasion (1941). He died on November 16, 1944 in Hollywood, California, USA.

6. Lou Clayton

Soundtrack | Roadhouse Nights

Lou Clayton was born on March 12, 1890 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Roadhouse Nights (1930). He died on September 12, 1950 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

7. Jack Cohn

Producer | The Sideshow

Arguably there wouldn't have been a Columbia Pictures without him. Jacob (Jack) Cohn was born into an impoverished immigrant family that eventually numbered four children. Hollywood history may credit his younger brother Harry Cohn for a begrudging amount of greatness but he not only followed in ...

8. Harry Einstein

Actor | Night Spot

Harry Einstein was born on May 6, 1904 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Night Spot (1938), Badminton (1945) and The Yanks Are Coming (1942). He was married to Thelma Leeds, Lillian Anshen and Jennifer Ann Boyd. He died on November 24, 1958 in Los Angeles, ...

9. Leo F. Forbstein

Music_department | The Adventures of Robin Hood

Leo Forbstein began as a violin player at the age of 4. While conducting at the Royal Theater in St. Joseph, Mo., he pioneered and introduced the synchronization of the orchestra with the silent action on the movie screen.

He moved to Hollywood in the mid 1920s where he directed a symphony orchestra...

10. Al Freeman

Al Freeman was born on November 25, 1883 in Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor. He died on March 22, 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

11. Mack Gordon

Soundtrack | The Shape of Water

Mack Gordon was born on June 21, 1904 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for The Shape of Water (2017), Collegiate (1935) and Sweet and Low-Down (1944). He was married to Elizabeth Cook and Rose Ponelli. He died on February 28, ...

12. Curly Howard

Actor | If a Body Meets a Body

Jerome "Curly" Howard, the rotund, bald Stooge with the high voice was the most popular member of The Three Stooges. His first stage experience was as a comedic conductor for the Orville Knapp Band in 1928. Curly joined The Three Stooges in 1932, replacing his brother Shemp Howard. He made more ...

13. Shemp Howard

Actor | Scrambled Brains

Shemp Howard was born Samuel Horwitz in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was also the brother of fellow stooges Moe Howard and Curly Howard. Larry Fine was not related to any of the other stooges.

When not working with The Three Stooges, Shemp made a lot of feature film appearances, such as The Bank Dick...

14. Carl Laemmle Jr.

Producer | All Quiet on the Western Front

Carl Laemmle Jr. was an American film producer and studio executive from Chicago, Illinois. He was the son and the intended heir of the film producer Carl Laemmle (1867-1939), co-founder and studio head of Universal Pictures (1912-). Carl Junior served as Universal's head of production from 1928 to...

15. Carl Laemmle

Frankenstein

The roots of Universal Pictures can rightfully be traced back to 1906 when Carl Laemmle returned home to Chicago after a stint as a bookkeeper in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and opened up a chain of nickelodeons. This in turn led to the ambitious 39-year-old organizing a film exchange network he boldly ...

16. Ruth Harriet Louise

Camera_department | The Demi-Bride

Ruth Harriet Louise was a professional photographer in the 1920s. It was unusual enough for a woman to be in that profession at that time, but what was even more unusual was that she was the official photographer at MGM Studios from 1925 to 1930, a time when MGM's prestige was at its peak and its ...

17. J.G. Mayer

Production_manager | Thunder

J. G. Mayer was born on 16 April, 1891 in Brooklyn, New York. Early in his life he was a deep sea diver and in 1919 formed his own salvage company. He went on to manage a city railroad company, a brass foundry and a steel company. When in the early 1920s his brother, Louis B. Mayer, opened his ...

18. Louis B. Mayer

Producer | The Great Secret

Mayer was born Lazar Meir in the Ukraine and grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after his parents fled Russian oppression in 1886. He had a brutal childhood, raised in poverty and suffering physical and emotional abuse from his nearly-illiterate peddler father. In the early 1890s, he ...

19. Carmel Myers

Actress | Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ

Though she is little remembered today, silent screen star Carmel Myers had a high-flying career in her heyday and was ranked among the screen's most glamorous and enticing vamps. She was born at the turn of the century in San Francisco, the daughter of immigrant parents. Her father, a rabbi, ...

20. Kurt Neumann

Director | Rocketship X-M

Kurt Neumann was born on April 5, 1908 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Rocketship X-M (1950), The Fly (1958) and She Devil (1957). He was married to Irma Ely Neumann. He died on August 21, 1958 in Hollywood, California, USA.

21. Harry Norwood

22. Harry Rapf

Producer | Brown of Harvard

Harry Rapf was born on October 16, 1880 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for Brown of Harvard (1926), The Night Is Young (1935) and Let Freedom Ring (1939). He was married to Clementine Uhlfelder. He died on February 6, 1949 in Los Angeles, California...

23. Marvin Ross

Actor | The Treasure

Marvin Ross is known for The Treasure (1990).

24. Mark Sandrich

Director | Shall We Dance

Mark Sandrich was born on October 26, 1900 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Shall We Dance (1937), Holiday Inn (1942) and Melody Cruise (1933). He was married to Freda Wirtschafter. He died on March 4, 1945 in Hollywood, California, USA.

25. Morris R. Schlank

Producer | Crossed Signals

Morris R. Schlank, the eponymous boss of Morris R. Schlank Productions, is vaguely remembered as a Poverty Row producer who continued to turn out silent films into the 1930s for his main market of third-run rural movie theaters. In the pantheon of movie producers, Schlank was to Irving Thalberg what...

26. Jack H. Skirball

Producer | Saboteur

Jack H. Skirball was born on June 23, 1896 in Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer, known for Saboteur (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and This Woman Is Mine (1941). He died on December 8, 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

27. Abe Stern

Producer | The Purple Mask

Abe Stern was born on March 8, 1888 in Hintersteinau, Germany. He was a producer, known for The Purple Mask (1916), Tee Time (1921) and The Little Rascal (1922). He was married to Hortense J. Westheimer and Jesse J. ???. He died on July 12, 1951 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

28. Bernard Stone

Actor | Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

Bernard Stone is known for Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width (1967) and House of Mystery (1931).

29. Joe Traub

Writer | King of the Islands

Joe Traub was born on October 12, 1901 in New York City, New York, USA. Joe was a writer, known for King of the Islands (1936), Merry Wives of Reno (1934) and Into the Night (1928). Joe died on November 8, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

30. Charles Vidor

Director | Gilda

Hungarian-born Karoly Vidor spent the First World War as a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian infantry. Following the armistice, he made his way to Berlin and worked for the German film company Ufa, as editor and assistant director. In 1924, he emigrated to the U.S. and, for several years, earned ...

31. Harry M. Warner

Producer | The Lost City

Harry M. Warner was born on December 12, 1881 in Krasnoshiltz, Russian Empire. He was a producer, known for The Lost City (1920), My Four Years in Germany (1918) and Cleaning Up (1920). He was married to Rea Ellen Levinson. He died on July 25, 1958 in Hollywood, California, USA.

32. Jack L. Warner

Producer | My Fair Lady

With his brothers Harry M. Warner, Albert Warner, and Sam Warner, he founded Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. in 1923. They released the first motion picture with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer (1927) with Al Jolson. In the 1930s they gave employment to a parade of stars, including Bette Davis, ...

33. Sam Warner

Director | A Dangerous Adventure

Sam Warner could rightly be called "The Father of Talking Pictures". Of the four Warner brothers, Sam was the most in favor of using synchronized sound with movies. He was the driving force behind the studio's partnership with Western Electric to create Vitaphone. At first, he only wanted to use ...

34. Conrad Wells

Cinematographer | The Phantom Express

Born Abraham Fried in 1900, he was a cinematographer in early Hollywood specializing in outdoor and early western cinema. He died tragically along with 9 others while filming Such Men Are Dangerous (1930) off the coast near Santa Monica, the plane he was filming on collided with another plane. Both...

35. Ivan Kahn

Writer | Star Dust

Ivan Kahn was born on December 8, 1890 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Star Dust (1940) and The Sands of Life (1914). He was married to Frances Guihan and Jessie Kahn. He died on April 4, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

36. Carla Laemmle

Actress | The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

Carla Laemmle was born on October 20, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936), King of Jazz (1930) and The Gate Crasher (1928). She died on June 12, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

37. Don Hartman

Writer | Every Girl Should Be Married

Producer, director, writer, author, actor and songwriter, educated in public schools. He was an actor, playwright and stage manager with the Dallas Little Theatre, and played Andy Hardy in the Broadway play "Skidding". Coming to Hollywood in 1933, he wrote screenplays and songs for several films (...