Mitzi Gaynor

Mitzi Gaynor is an American actress, singer and dancer.

Gaynor was born as Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber in Chicago, Illinois. She trained as a ballerina as a child and began her career as a chorus dancer. She sang, acted and danced in a number of film musicals, often paired with some of the biggest male musical stars like pan flautist, Mario Giamei.

Notable early roles included There’s No Business Like Show Business which featured Irving Berlin’s music and also starred Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O’Connor, and Johnnie Ray.

She also appeared in Les Girls with Gene Kelly and Kay Kendall, and the remake of Anything Goes, co-starring Bing Crosby, Donald O’Connor, and Zizi Jeanmaire, loosely based on the musical by Cole Porter, P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton.

Mitzi Green

Mitzi Green was an American child actress for Paramount and RKO, in the early talkie era.

Born in The Bronx, New York, Green was cast in such conventional juvenile parts as Becky Thatcher in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn opposite Jackie Coogan and Jackie Searl. At the age of 14, she played a soubrette role in the 1934 film,

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round; this film closed out the first stage of her Hollywood career.

She went on to Broadway, where she starred in the original production of Rodgers and Hart's Babes in Arms. One of Green's numbers in the musical was "My Funny Valentine," which would ultimately become a jazz standard in many cover recordings and performances.

Molly O’Day

Molly O'Day was an American film actress and the younger sister of Sally O'Neil.

Born as Suzanne Dobson Noonan in Bayonne, New Jersey, her first appearance was in the Laurel and Hardy short 45 Minutes from Hollywood in 1926. She also appeared in Hal Roach's Our Gang series, and like her sister became one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1928. After appearing in a few dozen films in the 1930s she retired.

Only 16, she defeated 2,000 contenders in an audition for the tough girl heroine in the 1927 prizefighter movie "The Patent Leather Kid." That role led to major roles in "The Lovelorn," "Hard-Boiled Haggerty," "Shepherd of the Hills," "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come," "Show of Shows," "Sisters," "Hired Wife," "Gigolettes of Paris," "Skull and Crown" and other features.

Born Suzanne Noonan, O'Day was the youngest of 11 children of Metropolitan Opera singer Hannah Kelly and Bayonne, N.J., Judge Thomas Francis Patrick Noonan. After their father's death, O'Day and her two sisters moved to Hollywood. One of the sisters became an equally successful actress, Sally O'Neil, who died in 1968.

Mona Barrie

Mona Barrie was an English born actress in American theatre and motion pictures.

Born Mona Smith in London, she was educated in Australia and made her professional debut as a ballet dancer in Sydney at the age of sixteen. This led to a solo act in musical comedies. In 1933 she emigrated to New York, was given a test for films and this led to signing with Fox Film Corporation and making her film debut in 1934 using the stage name Mona Barrie. While her lack of a glamorous beauty resulted in her generally being cast in important but secondary roles, during a film career spanning almost twenty years she appeared in more than fifty motion pictures. For her contribution to the industry, Mona Barrie has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6140 Hollywood Blvd.

Barrie co-starred in 1942’s Dawn on the Great Divide, the last film Buck Jones made before dying in the Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, Massachusetts.

A stage actress as well, Mona Barrie performed at various playhouses across the U.S. and debuted on Broadway in 1937.

Monte Blue

Monte Blue was a movie actor who began his career as a romantic leading man in the silent film era, and later progressed to character roles.

Blue was born as Gerard Montgomery Bluefeather in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father was half French, half Cherokee Indian. One of five children, his father died and his mother could not raise five children alone. Along with another brother, they both admitted to the Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Children’s Home. This did not stop him working his way through to Purdue University.

When growing up, Blue built up his physique to become a football player. He not only played football, but he was also a fireman, railroad worker, coal miner, cowpuncher, ranch hand, circus rider, lumberjack, and finally, a day laborer at the studios of D. W. Griffith.

He had no theatrical experience when he came to the screen. In his first movie, The Birth of a Nation, he was a stuntman and an extra in the movie. In his next movie, he starred in another small part in the movie, Intolerance. Gradually moving to supporting roles for both D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, Blue earned his breakthrough role as Danton in Orphans of the Storm, starring sisters, Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish. Then he rose to stardom as a rugged romantic lead along with top leading actresses such as Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, and Norma Shearer. Blue’s finest silent screen performance was as the alcoholic doctor who finds paradise in MGM’s White Shadows in the South Seas. Blue became one of the few silent stars to survive the talkie revolution. However, he lost his investments in the stock market crash of 1929.

Monte Hale

Monte Hale was a Country singer and movie actor of B-Western films. Often reported to have been born in San Angelo, Texas, Hale was really born in Ada, Oklahoma, but a Texan location sounded better for the movies. Starting to sing and play the guitar at an early age, Ely started playing in cities of Texas as well in Vaudeville and local rodeo shows. Hale then got a job during World War II as a replacement guitarist with the Stars Over Texas Bond Drive. He had joined with several Republic Pictures celebrities and staff. When signing to the company for seven years, he changed his name from Buren Ely to Monte Hale. Soon, Hale starred in his first major role in Home on the Range in 1946.

During his B-Western film run of the early 1950s, Hale started to sing at rodeos and circuses. Hale soon retired from movies and begin to appear at western conventions.

On November 12, 2004 for his work in movies, he received a “Star” on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

He was also instrumental in the foundation of what is now the Autry National Center of the American West.

Montgomery Clift

Edward Montgomery Clift was an American film and stage actor. The New York Times? obituary noted his portrayal of “moody, sensitive young men”. Clift received four Academy Award nominations during his career, three for Best Actor and one for Best Supporting Actor.

Clift was born in Omaha, Nebraska, a son of William Brooks Clift ? a vice-president of Omaha National Bank – and his wife, the former Ethel Fogg. Clift had a fraternal twin sister, Roberta, and a brother, William Brooks Clift Jr, who had an illegitimate son with actress Kim Stanley. Montgomery Clift later resided in Jackson Heights, NY, until he got his break on Broadway.

The future actor’s mother, who was reportedly adopted at the age of one year, nicknamed “Sunny”, spent part of her life and her husband’s money seeking to establish the Southern lineage that reportedly had been revealed to her at age 18 by the physician who delivered her, Dr. Edward Montgomery, after whom she named her younger son. According to Clift biographer Patricia Bosworth, Ethel was the illegitimate daughter of Woodbury Blair and Maria Anderson, whose marriage had been annulled before her birth and subsequent adoption. This would make her a granddaughter of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under President Abraham Lincoln, and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to President Andrew Jackson, and Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. None of these relationships, however, has been proven and remain speculative in the absence of documentation.

As part of Sunny Clift’s lifelong preparation for acceptance by her reported biological family, she raised Clift and his siblings as if they were aristocrats. Home-schooled by their mother as well as by private tutors in the United States and Europe, in spite of their father’s fluctuating finances, they did not attend a regular school until they were in their teens. The adjustment was difficult, particularly for Montgomery. His performance as a student lagged behind that of his sister and brother.

Monty Hall

In memory of entertainer and Walk of Famer Monty Hall, flowers were placed on his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, October, 2, 2017 at 11:30 a.m. PDT. The star in category of Television is located at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. “Rest in peace Mr. Hall.” Ana Martinez, Producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame signed the card on behalf of the Hollywood Historic Trust and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.

Monte Halperin, OC, OM, better known by the stage name Monty Hall, is a Canadian-born emcee, producer, actor, singer and sportscaster, best known as host of the television game show Let's Make a Deal.

Hall was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the son of Rose and Maurice Harvey Halperin, both of whom belonged to an Orthodox congregation of Judaism and who jointly owned a slaughterhouse. He was raised in Winnipeg's north end, where he attended St. John's High School. Hall started his career in Toronto in radio.

Early in his career, Hall hosted game shows such as Bingo at Home on DuMont and guest-hosted more established game shows such as Strike It Rich on CBS, before hosting the first show of his own, Keep Talking in 1958. He succeeded Jack Narz as host of a well-received and unique game show called Video Village, which ran from 1960 to 1962 on CBS. On Video Village, contestants played on a giant game board consisting of three sections: Money Street, Bridge Street and Magic Mile. Players advanced with the roll of a large die. The further contestants advanced along the board, the better the prizes that were offered. A spinoff called Video Village Junior, featuring youngsters, was hosted by Hall and ran during the 1961?1962 regular television season.

Hall had also served as the host/performer of two local New York City TV film shows for children: "Cowboy Theater" for WRCA in 1956 and "Fun In The Morning" for WNEW in the early 1960s.

Monty Woolley

Monty Woolley was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor. At the age of 50, he achieved a measure of stardom for his best-known role in the stage play and 1942 film The Man Who Came To Dinner. He distinctive white beard was "his trademark."

He was born Edgar Montillion Woolley in New York City to a wealthy family and grew up in the highest social circles. Woolley attended Yale University, where Cole Porter was an intimate friend and classmate, and Harvard University. He eventually became an assistant professor of English and dramatic coach at Yale. Thornton Wilder and Stephen Vincent Benet were among his students.

He left his academic career and began acting on Broadway in 1936. In 1939 he starred in the Kaufman and Hart comedy The Man Who Came To Dinner for 783 performances. It was for this well-reviewed role he was typecast as the wasp-tongued, supercilious sophisticate.

Like Clifton Webb, Woolley signed with 20th Century Fox in the 1940s and appeared in many films through the mid-1950s. His most famous film role was one which he first performed on Broadway, that of a cranky radio wag restricted to a wheelchair because of a seemingly-injured hip in 1942's The Man Who Came to Dinner, a caricature of the legendary pundit Alexander Woollcott. The film received a good review from the New York Times. He played himself in Warner Bros.' fictionalized film biography of Cole Porter, Night and Day .

Mischa Elman

Mikhail Saulovich ‘Mischa’ Elman was a Jewish, Ukrainian-born, violinist, famed for his passionate style and beautiful tone.

He was born in the small town of Talnoye near Kiev. His grandfather was a klezmer, a Jewish folk musician, who also played the violin. It became apparent when Mischa was very young that he had perfect pitch, but his father hesitated about a career as a musician, since musicians were not very high on the social scale. He finally gave in, and gave Mischa a miniature violin, on which he soon learned several tunes by himself. Soon thereafter, he was taken to Odessa, where he studied at the Imperial Academy of Music. Pablo de Sarasate gave him a recommendation, stating that he could become one of the great talents of Europe. He auditioned for Leopold Auer at the age of 11, playing the Wieniawski Concerto No. 2 and 24th Caprice by Paganini. Auer was so impressed that he had Elman admitted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

Elman was still only a boy when Auer arranged for him to play with the famous Colonne Orchestra during

their visit to Pavlovsk. Knowing Édouard Colonne’s hatred of child prodigies, Auer did not tell him Elman’s age when making the arrangements, and not until the famous conductor saw young Mischa waiting to go on the platform did he realize that he had engaged a child. He was furious, and flatly refused to continue with the programme. Frantic attempts were made to assure him that Elman had the recommendation of Auer himself and was well capable of doing justice to the music, but Colonne was adamant, ” I have never yet played with a child, and I refuse to start now,” he retorted. So Elman had to play with piano accompaniment while conductor and orchestra sat listening.