Gypsy Rose Lee was an American burlesque entertainer, famous for her striptease act. She was also an actress, author and playwright, whose 1957 memoir was made into the stage musical and film ‘.

Gypsy Rose Lee was born Rose Louise Hovick‘ in Seattle, Washington in 1911, although her mother later shaved three years off both of her daughters’ ages. She was initially known by her middle name, Louise. Her mother, Rose Hovick, was a teenaged bride fresh from a convent school when she married Norwegian-American John Olaf Hovick, who was a newspaper advertising salesman and a reporter at The Seattle Times”. Louise’s sister, Ellen Evangeline Hovick, was born in 1913.

After their parents divorced, the girls supported the family by appearing in vaudeville where June’s talent shone, while Louise remained in the background. At the age of 15 in December 1928, June eloped with Bobby Reed, a dancer in the act, much to her mother’s displeasure, going on to a brief career in marathon dancing, which was more remunerative than tap dancing at the time.

Louise’s singing and dancing talents were insufficient to sustain the act without June. Eventually, it became apparent that Louise could make money in burlesque, which earned her legendary status as a classy and witty strip tease artist. Initially, her act was propelled forward when a shoulder strap on one of her gowns gave way, causing her dress to fall to her feet despite her efforts to cover herself; encouraged by the audience response, she went on to make the trick the focus of her performance.Her innovations were an almost casual strip style, compared to the herky-jerky styles of most burlesque strippers and she brought a sharp sense of humor into her act as well. She became as famous for her onstage wit as for her strip style, and—changing her stage name to Gypsy Rose Lee—she became one of the biggest stars of Minsky’s Burlesque, where she performed for four years. She was frequently arrested in raids on the Minsky brothers’ shows.

H. B. Warner was an English actor. He was born Henry Byron Charles Stewart Warner-Lickford in St John's Wood, London, England in 1875. His father, Charles Warner, was an actor, and, although young Henry had initially thought about studying medicine, he eventually followed in his father's footsteps and performed on the stage.

Warner began his film career in silent films in 1914, when he debuted in The Lost Paradise. He played lead roles, culminating in the role of Jesus Christ in Cecil B. DeMille's silent film epic, The King of Kings in 1927. Following that film, he was usually cast in dignified roles, in such movies as the 1930 version of Liliom, Grand Canary, the 1935 version of A Tale of Two Cities, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, the original 1937 version of Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It with You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Rains Came, and The Corsican Brothers. In It's a Wonderful Life he played what was for him, an atypical role, as the drunken druggist. He also appeared in Sunset Boulevard and The Ten Commandments. Occasionally, Warner was seen in a sinister role, as in the 1941 film version of The Devil and Daniel Webster, in which he played the ghost of John Hathorne as well as Topper Returns from the same year.

Warner was married twice, to Rita Stanwood in 1919 and to F.R. Hamlin.

In December 1958 Warner died in Los Angeles, California of cardiac arrest, and he is buried in Chapel of Pines crematory in Los Angeles, California.

H. Bruce ‘Lucky’ Humberstone was a movie actor, a script clerk, an assistant director, working with directors such as King Vidor, Edmund Goulding and Allan Dwan and, ultimately, a director.

One of twenty-eight founders of the Directors Guild of America, Humberstone worked on several silent movie films for 20th Century Fox. Humberstone did not specialize; he worked on comedies, dramas, and melodramas. Humberstone is best known today for his work on some of the Charlie Chan films. In the 1950s, Humberstone worked mostly on TV.

Henry Codman Potter II was an American theatrical producer/director and a motion picture director.

H.C. Potter was born in New York City, the grandson of the Right Rev. Henry Codman Potter, Episcopal Bishop of New York, and son of Alonzo Potter, New York investment banker. He attended St. Marks School and graduated from Yale University in 1936, where he was a member of the Yale Dramatic Association and Scroll and Key. He attended the Yale School of Drama in the era of George Pierce Baker, and with George Haight founded the Hampton Players, one of the first summer theaters in America, based in Southampton, Long Island 1927-33. With Haight as producer, he directed numerous Broadway productions 1927-35, then moved to Hollywood where he directed over 20 feature films, earning a reputation as a specialist in “gag” comedy.

He married Lucilla Annie Wylie in 1926. Their three sons were Daniel J. Potter M.D., Robert A. Potter and Earl Wylie Potter.

The films he directed included: Beloved Enemy, Wings Over Honolulu, Romance in the Dark, The Cowboy and the Lady, and The Shopworn Angel, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle and Blackmail, Congo Masie and Second Chorus, Hellzapoppin‘, Victory Through Air Power and Mr. Lucky, The Farmer’s Daughter and A Likely Story, You Gotta Stay Happy, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House and The Time of Your Life, The Miniver Story, Three for the Show and Top Secret Affair .

Gregory Ratoff was a Russian-born American film director, actor and producer. His most famous role as an actor was as producer Max Fabian who feuds with star Margo Channing in All About Eve. Ratoff was born in Samara, Russia. The Russian Jewish actor first came to the United States in 1922. He married the Russian actress Eugenie Leontovich in 1923. He returned to the United States, passing through Ellis Island in July 1925. On the steerage passenger list of the SS Mauretania he was listed as Gregoire Ratoff; for next of kin he listed his mother, Mme. Sophie Ratner of Paris.

Ratoff is most noted for having directed the pro-Soviet propaganda film Song of Russia and for being one of the two producers to have purchased and developed the original rights to the James Bond franchise from Ian Fleming in 1955.