Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Judith Anderson |
Actor |
10-Feb-1897 |
3-Jan-1992 |
Rebecca |
Henry Armetta |
Actor |
4-Jul-1888 |
21-Oct-1945 |
A Bell For Adano |
Tallulah Bankhead |
Actor |
31-Jan-1902 |
12-Dec-1968 |
Lifeboat |
Count Basie |
Pianist |
21-Aug-1904 |
26-Apr-1984 |
Big band pianist |
Ralph Bellamy |
Actor |
17-Jun-1904 |
29-Nov-1991 |
Trading Places |
Edgar Bergen |
Actor |
16-Feb-1903 |
30-Sep-1978 |
Radio's greatest ventriloquist |
Ray Bolger |
Actor |
10-Jan-1904 |
15-Jan-1987 |
The Wizard of Oz Scarecrow |
Helen Broderick |
Actor |
11-Aug-1891 |
25-Sep-1959 |
Top Hat |
Sunset Carson |
Actor |
12-Nov-1920 |
1-May-1990 |
B-Movie cowboy |
Ina Claire |
Actor |
15-Oct-1893 |
21-Feb-1985 |
Ninotchka |
Katharine Cornell |
Actor |
16-Feb-1898 |
9-Jun-1974 |
The Barretts of Wimpole Street |
Lloyd Corrigan |
Actor |
16-Oct-1900 |
5-Nov-1969 |
Arthur Manleder in Boston Blackie films |
Xavier Cugat |
Musician |
1-Jan-1900 |
27-Oct-1990 |
The Rumba King |
Jane Darwell |
Actor |
15-Oct-1879 |
13-Aug-1967 |
The bird woman in Mary Poppins |
William Demarest |
Actor |
27-Feb-1892 |
28-Dec-1983 |
The Great McGinty |
Margaret Early |
Actor |
25-Dec-1919 |
29-Nov-2000 |
Strike Up the Band |
Virginia Field |
Actor |
4-Nov-1917 |
2-Jan-1992 |
Waterloo Bridge |
Gracie Fields |
Singer |
9-Jan-1898 |
27-Sep-1979 |
Sally in Our Alley |
Lynn Fontanne |
Actor |
6-Dec-1887 |
30-Jul-1983 |
English-American stage actress |
Benny Goodman |
Jazz Musician |
30-May-1909 |
13-Jun-1986 |
Bespectacled jazz clarinetist |
Virginia Grey |
Actor |
22-Mar-1917 |
31-Jul-2004 |
Hullabaloo |
Helen Hayes |
Actor |
10-Oct-1900 |
17-Mar-1993 |
First Lady of the Theater |
Katharine Hepburn |
Actor |
12-May-1907 |
29-Jun-2003 |
The Philadelphia Story |
Hugh Herbert |
Actor |
10-Aug-1884 |
12-Mar-1952 |
Hellzapoppin |
Jean Hersholt |
Actor |
12-Jul-1886 |
2-Jun-1956 |
Founder, Motion Picture Relief Fund |
Sam Jaffe |
Actor |
10-Mar-1891 |
24-Mar-1984 |
Gunga Din |
Allen Jenkins |
Actor |
9-Apr-1900 |
20-Jul-1974 |
American character actor |
George Jessel |
Actor |
3-Apr-1898 |
24-May-1981 |
Toastmaster General of the United States |
Roscoe Karns |
Actor |
7-Sep-1891 |
6-Feb-1970 |
It Happened One Night |
Tom Kennedy |
Actor |
15-Jul-1885 |
6-Oct-1965 |
Character actor, 1910s to 1960s |
Dorothea Kent |
Actor |
6-Jun-1916 |
10-Dec-1990 |
It Happened on Fifth Avenue |
Otto Kruger |
Actor |
6-Sep-1885 |
6-Sep-1974 |
Saboteur |
Kay Kyser |
Musician |
18-Jun-1897 |
23-Jul-1985 |
The Ol' Professor, eleven #1 records |
June Lang |
Actor |
5-May-1917 |
16-May-2005 |
Bonnie Scotland |
Gypsy Rose Lee |
Dancer |
9-Feb-1911 |
26-Apr-1970 |
Terpsichorean ecdysiast |
Guy Lombardo |
Musician |
19-Jun-1902 |
5-Nov-1977 |
The Royal Canadians |
Alfred Lunt |
Actor |
12-Aug-1892 |
3-Aug-1977 |
American stage actor |
Aline MacMahon |
Actor |
3-May-1899 |
12-Oct-1991 |
Dragon Seed |
Harpo Marx |
Actor |
23-Nov-1888 |
28-Sep-1964 |
Silent harp-playing Marx Brother |
Horace McMahon |
Actor |
17-May-1906 |
17-Aug-1971 |
Lt. Parker on Naked City |
Yehudi Menuhin |
Violinist |
22-Apr-1916 |
12-Mar-1999 |
Child prodigy violinist, conductor |
Ethel Merman |
Singer |
16-Jan-1908 |
15-Feb-1984 |
There's No Business Like Show Business |
Peggy Moran |
Actor |
23-Oct-1918 |
24-Oct-2002 |
The Mummy's Hand |
Ralph Morgan |
Actor |
6-Jul-1883 |
11-Jun-1956 |
The Kennel Murder Case |
Alan Mowbray |
Actor |
18-Aug-1896 |
25-Mar-1969 |
Founding member, Screen Actors Guild |
Paul Muni |
Actor |
22-Sep-1895 |
25-Aug-1967 |
The Life of Louis Pasteur |
Elliott Nugent |
Film Director |
20-Sep-1896 |
9-Aug-1980 |
My Favorite Brunette |
Merle Oberon |
Actor |
19-Feb-1911 |
23-Nov-1979 |
Wuthering Heights |
Franklin Pangborn |
Actor |
23-Jan-1888 |
20-Jul-1958 |
Character actor, 1920s to 1950s |
George Raft |
Actor |
26-Sep-1895 |
24-Nov-1980 |
Actor with Mafia ties |
Selena Royle |
Actor |
6-Nov-1904 |
23-Apr-1983 |
The Fighting Sullivans |
Martha Scott |
Actor |
22-Sep-1912 |
28-May-2003 |
Our Town |
Cornelia Otis Skinner |
Actor |
30-May-1899 |
9-Jul-1979 |
Paris '90 |
Ned Sparks |
Actor |
19-Nov-1883 |
3-Apr-1957 |
Unsmiling character actor |
Ethel Waters |
Singer |
31-Oct-1896 |
1-Sep-1977 |
Sweet Mama Stringbean |
Johnny Weissmuller |
Actor |
2-Jun-1904 |
20-Jan-1984 |
Gold Medalist became Tarzan |
Arleen Whelan |
Actor |
1-Sep-1914 |
7-Apr-1993 |
Castle in the Desert |
May Whitty |
Actor |
19-Jun-1865 |
29-May-1948 |
Night Must Fall |
Ed Wynn |
Actor |
9-Nov-1886 |
19-Jun-1966 |
Requiem for a Heavyweight |