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- Leon Holmes (real name Leon von Cederholm) was born November 26, 1913 in San Francisco to immigrant parents. His father Alfred Sederhulden, thirty-eight years old at Leon's birth, was a watchmaker from Russia. Leon's mother, Rose, then 33, was also Russian-born. The Sederhuldens lived on Eddy Street in San Francisco with Rose's mother and two brothers. Leon was the youngest; his older brothers were Norvin and Robert, and his older sister was Isabel. His father died a few years after Leon's birth and Rose was forced to place the children in the Pacific Hebrews Orphan Asylum on Divisadero Street in San Francisco while she worked to support them. Rose got a job as a bakery clerk and continued to live with her mother and a brother in the Eddy Street, a half-mile from the orphanage. By the time Leon was cast in one of Alice Comedies, he, his siblings, and his mother were reunited in one roof in Los Angeles. The family lived on North Hudson Avenue, about two and one-half miles west of Disney studio in Kingwell Avenue. Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney hired some kids of the neighbor for different productions. Leon was paid 50 cents a day for shooting.
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A Kansas native, Elmer Dyer moved with his family to Los Angeles when he was 14. He entered the film business as an assistant set dresser, but after buying a camera he began to find work as a cinematographer, and supplied footage to many newsreel companies. He soon found himself hired as cinematographer on several low-budget westerns, but he really hit his stride when he he got into aerial photography--he was one of the many cameramen who photographed the sweeping aerial dogfights in Hell's Angels (1930), worked on Frank Capra's Dirigible (1931) and soon gained a reputation as one of the best aerial cinematographers in the business. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his photography in Air Force (1943). During World War II he was assigned to the Army's Motion Picture Unit and shot much aerial footage that was used in training films. He began assembling a library of stock footage during the war, and eventually left active photography to spend most of his time in that business.- Sound Department
Ned O. Nair was born on 8 February 1902 in California, USA. He died on 8 February 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ben Alley was a radio singer extremely popular in the early 1930s. "Radio Round-Ups, Intimate Glimpses of the Radio Stars" in 1932 noted "Ben Alley, whose beautiful tenor voice has stirred romance in the souls of the most prosaic, was born in the hills of West Virginia, one of seven children." Nicknamed the Blue Grass Tenor, Alley sang on the radio at WSAI in Ohio for a few years and then moved over to WLW where his popularity led him to CBS radio in New York City, often paired with singer Helen Nugent. "Who's Who on the Air (1932 edition)" mentioned in a feature called Headliners of the Air that "Ben Alley is just twenty nine years old, but his lyric tenor voice has been heard on more than nine hundred programs." The "Broadway and Hollywood Movies" magazine of May 1932 wondered in the Radio Row column "When is Ben Alley going to get a real good break?" By 1936 Alley and Helen Nugent were included in a feature in Radio Mirror (December 1936 edition) "Yesterday's Stars-Where Are They Now." The story includes "So popular was Ben Alley that the radio moguls overreached themselves. They put him on too many programs. Every time you turned on the radio you heard Ben Alley singing. He was on for a corset concern. For a department store. For a cigar concern. He had his own group of sustaining." (Note-sustaining were radio shows paid for by the network and not by sponsors) "And people tired of hearing him. Today he's a singer at a Baltimore nightclub." Helen Nugent didn't fare any better. The article in Radio Mirror states that after a failed romance with CBS engineer Paul Green she was back at WLW but "no one seems to know exactly what she's doing." In November 1937 he was heard six times weekly over WCAU and drawing more fan mail than the network programs. The magazine wondered "For some five years Ben Alley was starring on the CBS net five times or more weekly and then a shake-up left him outside looking in. A trouper, he fought the situation with plenty of "moxie" and is now heard six times weekly via WCIU sponsored by a bill-payer of a large network show... We arrived in time to see Alley collect his mail from fans...why should Ben Alley be confined to WCAU when millions of others would want to hear him?"
- Art Department
E. Dyer was born on 24 August 1892 in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. E. is known for The Unpainted Woman (1919) and The Exquisite Thief (1919). E. died on 8 February 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Lester Stoefen was born on 30 March 1911 in Iowa, USA. He was married to Ruth Moody. He died on 8 February 1970 in San Diego, California, USA.