Clarence Brown was an American film director.

Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was eleven. He attended Knoxville High School and the University of Tennessee, both in Knoxville, Tennessee, graduating from the university at the age of 19 with two degrees in engineering. An early fascination in automobiles led Brown to a job with the Stevens-Duryea Company, then to his own Brown Motor Car Company in Alabama. He later abandoned the car dealership after developing an interest in motion pictures around 1913. He was hired by the Peerless Studio at Fort Lee, New Jersey, and became an assistant to the great French-born director Maurice Tourneur.

After serving in World War I, Brown was given his first co-directing credit for 1920s The Great Redeemer. Later that year, he directed a major portion of The Last of the Mohicans after Tourneur was injured in a fall.

Brown moved to Universal in 1924, and then to MGM, where he stayed until the mid-1950s. At MGM he was one of the main directors of their female stars–he directed both Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo six times. Garbo referred to Brown as her favorite director.

William Clark Gable was an American film actor, nicknamed “The King of Hollywood” in his heyday. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the greatest male stars of all time.

Gable’s most famous role was Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh. His performance earned him his third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor; he won for It Happened One Night and was also nominated for Mutiny on the Bounty. Later performances were in Run Silent, Run Deep, a submarine war film, and his final film, The Misfits, which paired Gable with Marilyn Monroe in her last screen appearance.

During his long film career, Gable appeared opposite some of the most popular actresses of the time. Joan Crawford, who was his favorite actress to work with, was partnered with Gable in eight films, Myrna Loy was with him seven times, and he was paired with Jean Harlow in six productions. He also starred with Lana Turner in four features, and with Norma Shearer in three. Gable was often named the top male star in the mid-30s, and was second only to the top box-office draw of all, Shirley Temple.

Gable was born in Cadiz, Ohio to William Henry “Bill” Gable, an oil-well driller, and Adeline, who was of German and Irish descent. He was mistakenly listed as a female on his birth certificate. His original last name was Goebel, but this was considered too German during World War I because of anti German sentiment. Birth registrations, school records and other documents contradict one another. “William” would have been in honor of his father. “Clark” was the maiden name of his maternal grandmother. In childhood he was almost always called “Clark”; some friends called him “Clarkie,” “Billy,” or “Gabe”.

Claudette Colbert was a French-born American stage and film actress.

Born in Saint-Mandé, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures. She established a successful film career with Paramount Pictures and later, as a freelance performer, became one of the highest paid entertainers in American cinema. Colbert was recognized as one of the leading female exponents of screwball comedy; she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her comedic performance in It Happened One Night, and also received Academy Award nominations for her dramatic roles in Private Worlds and Since You Went Away. Her film career began to decline in the 1950s, and she made her last film in 1961. Colbert continued to act in theater and, briefly, in television during her later years. After a career of more than 60 years’ duration, Colbert retired to her home in Barbados, where she died at the age of 92, following a series of strokes.

Colbert received theatre awards from the Sarah Siddons Society, a lifetime-achievement award at the Kennedy Center Honors, and, in 1999, the American Film Institute placed her at number twelve on their “AFI’s 100 Years. 100 Stars” list of the “50 Greatest American Screen Legends”.

Television producer Chuck Lorre was honored with the 2,380th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Mark Panatier, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Chairman of the Board, presided over the ceremony. Guests included Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Christine Baranski, and cast members from "Two and a Half Men" and "Big Bang Theory."

7021 Hollywood Boulevard on March 12, 2009.

BIOGRAPHY

Award-winning executive producer, writer, creator Chuck Lorre has created and helmed some of the most successful sitcoms in television history, ruling the airwaves for the past 20 years, with hit shows like "Grace Under Fire," "Dharma & Greg," and "Cybill." He currently is creator and executive producer of two Warner Bros. Television and the CBS hit comedies, "Two and a Half Men" the number one comedy on television and four-time People's Choice Award winner, and "The Big Bang Theory" one of television's fastest growing sophomore series which, in its second season, is averaging more than 10 million viewers per week.

A native of Long Island, New York, Lorre got his start as a guitarist/singer, touring the country and writing several hundred pop songs that, as he puts it, "helped keep him out of the big time" (Debbie Harry's top 40 hit "French Kissin' in the USA" being the lone exception). After more than a decade on the road, Lorre decided to turn his attention to television. He began writing animation scripts for DIC and Marvel Productions, as well as writing and producing the themes and scores for such animated series as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

A spec primetime script soon led to freelance work on the syndicated comedy "Charles In Charge" and eventually to a staff job on the NBC sitcom "My Two Dads", starring Paul Reiser. Lorre's big break came in 1991, when he became a supervising producer on the ABC/Carsey-Werner hit comedy "Roseanne." Over the next two seasons, during which he was upped to co-executive producer, Lorre helped bring the show to the height of its critical and popular acclaim, shattering one sacred cow after another in the process.

Since then, Lorre has dominated network television by single-handedly keeping the multi-camera sitcom alive through hit series that generate mass appeal. He continues to break television records with "Two and a Half Men." It is the number one off-network sitcom in syndication for the 2007-2008 season. During this season, the rebroadcast of the show has delivered more viewers than first-run episodes of nearly every other sitcom.

In January 2009, Lorre kicked off the New Year when he was honored with the NATPE Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award for exhibiting extraordinary passion, leadership, independence and vision in the process of creating television programming and in evoking the spirit of Brandon Tartikoff's generosity. This past February, Lorre was presented with the 2009 Television Showman of the Year Award at the 46th Annual ICG Publicists Awards Ceremony, which recognizes individuals whose creative accomplishments reflect the finest qualities of what has traditionally been defined as showmanship. Lorre will also receive the David Angell Humanitarian Award on behalf of the American Screenwriters Association for demonstrating his charitable efforts at the Venice Family Clinic. This award is presented to an individual in the entertainment industry who contributes to global well-being through their donation of time, expertise or other support to improve the human condition.

Despite his busy schedule, Lorre is involved with the aforementioned

Venice Family Clinic and the Dharma/Grace Foundation, where he insisted that the foundation directly benefit the people for whom the money was intended. In other words, dollars had to be translated immediately into services. Through the Dharma/Grace Foundation, Lorre has made it possible for funds to be distributed to the Clinic in perpetuity. In 2002, Lorre was honored with the Silver Circle Humanitarian Award for his compassion and his determination to assure that the sick be cared for, that children be given a healthy beginning and that no one be turned away for lack of financial resources. Another addition to the clinic, The Robert Levine Family Health Center, named after Lorre's father, provided free healthcare services to more than 4,000 women and teens in 2008 and continues to serve a growing number of patients at 5% increase each year. In addition to serving as a core benefactor and advocate for the organization, Lorre is also a member of the Philanthropy Board.