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Mary Livingstone
Mary Livingstone (Sadya Marcowitz, later Sadie Marks, 1905-1983) was an American radio comedienne, wife and radio partner of Jack Benny on The Jack Benny Program from 1932, retired 1958, died Holmby Hills 1983.
Mary Philips
Mary Philips, an American stage, screen, and television actress, had a career centered on Broadway from 1918 to 1945, and is remembered as Humphrey Bogart's second wife.
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford (1892-1979), born Gladys Louise Smith, was a Canadian-born silent film star called America's Sweetheart, co-founder of United Artists in 1919, Best Actress Oscar winner for Coquette, and a film preservation pioneer.
Mayo Methot
Mayo Methot (Mayo Jane Methot, 1904–1951), American stage and film actress nicknamed Sluggy, known for hard-boiled 1930s Warner Bros. roles and as Humphrey Bogart's third wife (1938–1945), the 'Battling Bogarts.'
Miriam Hopkins
Miriam Hopkins (1902–1972), American actress born Ellen Miriam Hopkins in Savannah, Georgia; Paramount star of Trouble in Paradise and Becky Sharp, Oscar nominee, Bette Davis rival, Walk of Fame honoree.
Owen Moore
Owen Moore (1884–1939), Irish-born American silent film actor and director, Biograph and D.W. Griffith player, first husband of Mary Pickford (married 1911, divorced 1920), last film A Star Is Born (1937).
Pearl White
Pearl Fay White (1889–1938), American silent-film actress and leading "serial queen"; starred in The Perils of Pauline (1914), famed for performing her own stunts, retired to France in 1924.
Peggy Wood
Peggy Wood (Mary Margaret Wood, 1892–1978), American stage, film, and television actress and singer; star of CBS's Mama (1949–1957) and Oscar-nominated Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music (1965); ANTA president 1959–1966.
Richard Cromwell (actor)
Richard Cromwell (LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh, 1910-1960) was an American film actor, star of Tol'able David (1930) and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), and the first husband of Angela Lansbury; not to be confused with Oliver Cromwell's son.
Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley (1889–1945), American humorist, drama critic, and actor; Algonquin Round Table member, New Yorker founder-contributor, star of 48 comic shorts, 1935 Oscar for How to Sleep.
Robert Woolsey
Robert Woolsey (1888-1938), American comedian born in Oakland, California; half of the Wheeler and Woolsey comedy team, a former jockey who starred in RKO musical comedies from Rio Rita (1929) to On Again-Off Again (1937).
Ruby Keeler
Ruby Keeler (Ethel Hilda Keeler, 1909–1993), Canadian-born American tap dancer and actress, star of Warner Bros. musicals 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade opposite Dick Powell, wife of Al Jolson, and 1971 No, No, Nanette comeback star.
Ruth Lee
Ruth Lee (1895–1975), American stage and film actress born Ruth Margaret Lee in Minneapolis; Broadway from Apple Blossoms (1919) to Your Loving Son (1941), over 80 films including The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair; distinct from the British actress, Venezuelan performer, and artist Maia Ruth Lee.
Sara Sothern
Sara Sothern, stage name of Sara Viola Warmbrodt (1895/1896-1994), American stage actress of the 1920s, mother of Elizabeth Taylor; five Broadway plays 1922-1926 including The Fool; retired on marriage to art dealer Francis Taylor.
Sidney Fox
Sidney Fox (born Sidney Liefer, 1907–1942) was an American stage and film actress of the early 1930s, a WAMPAS Baby Star discovered by Carl Laemmle Jr., who debuted in Bad Sister opposite Bette Davis and died at 34 in Beverly Hills.
Suzanne Kaaren
Suzanne Kaaren, also known as Suzanne Blackmer, was an American actress and dancer who appeared opposite the Three Stooges and Bela Lugosi from the 1930s.
Sylvia Sidney
Sylvia Sidney (Sophia Kosow, 1910-1999), American actress of stage and screen; Paramount star of 1930s Depression dramas like Fury and Street Scene, Oscar-nominated for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, later in Beetlejuice and Mars Attacks!.
Tom Mix
Tom Mix, born Thomas Edwin Mix, was an American actor who was the leading silent Western film star of the 1920s and reportedly Hollywood's highest-paid actor by 1928.
Una Merkel
Una Merkel was an American character actress known for wisecracking supporting roles, remembered for Destry Rides Again and nominated for an Oscar for Summer and Smoke.
Veronica Cooper
Veronica Cooper (Veronica Balfe, screen name Sandra Shaw, later Veronica Cooper Converse, 1913–2000), American actress of 1933 shorts and wife of Gary Cooper from December 15, 1933 until his 1961 death; later married Dr. John Converse.
Virginia Rappe
Virginia Rappe (Virginia Caroline Rapp, 1891-1921), American silent film actress and model who died of peritonitis after a ruptured bladder at Roscoe Arbuckle's 1921 St. Francis Hotel party; Arbuckle was acquitted after three manslaughter trials.
Wallace Reid
Wallace Reid (William Wallace Reid, 1891–1923), American silent-film actor called "the screen's most perfect lover"; starred in over 60 Lasky/Paramount films, became addicted to morphine after a 1919 train-crash injury, and died at 31 in a sanitarium.
Warner Oland
Warner Oland (Johan Verner Ölund, 1879–1938), Swedish-American actor who emigrated in 1892, played the cantor in The Jazz Singer and starred as Charlie Chan in sixteen Fox films from 1931, Hollywood's best-known yellowface casting.
Warren William
Warren William (Warren William Krech, 1894-1948), American actor, the "King of Pre-Code" Hollywood; Warner Bros. star of The Mouthpiece, Skyscraper Souls, and Employees' Entrance, first screen Perry Mason, Lone Wolf series star.
Will Rogers
Will Rogers (William Penn Adair Rogers, 1879–1935), Cherokee-American Cowboy Philosopher: vaudeville trick roper, Ziegfeld Follies star, top Hollywood box-office actor, radio personality, and syndicated columnist; died with Wiley Post in a 1935 Alaska plane crash.
William Boyd (actor)
William Boyd (1895–1972), American actor born in Hendrysburg, Ohio, who played Hopalong Cassidy in 66 B-westerns from 1935, then bought the character's rights and became television's first cowboy hero and a merchandising pioneer.
William Haines
William (Billy) Haines, 1900–1973, American silent film star and interior designer, MGM's top box-office draw around 1930; refused Louis B. Mayer's demand to enter a sham marriage, left films, and ran William Haines Designs with partner Jimmie Shields.
William S. Hart
William S. Hart (William Surrey Hart, 1864-1946), American silent-film Western star, director, and producer; creator of the 'good badman' persona; star of Hell's Hinges (1916) and Tumbleweeds (1925); former stage actor and friend of Wyatt Earp.