Lionel Brockman Richie, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer who has sold more than 100 million records.

Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Richie grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute. His grandfather’s house was across the street from the home of the president of the Institute. His family moved to Illinois where he graduated from Joliet Township High School, East Campus, in Joliet. A star tennis player in Joliet, he accepted a tennis scholarship at Tuskegee Institute and later graduated with a major in economics. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Tuskegee, Richie briefly attended graduate school at Auburn University. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

As a student in Tuskegee, Richie formed a succession of R&B groups in the mid-1960s. In 1968 he became a singer and saxophonist with the Commodores. They signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record before moving on to Motown Records initially as a support act to The Jackson 5. The Commodores then became established as a popular soul group. Their first several albums had a danceable, funky sound, as in such tracks as “Machine Gun” and “Brick House.” Over time, Richie wrote and sang more romantic, easy-listening ballads such as “Easy,” “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” and the tragic breakup ballad “Sail On.”

By the late 1970s, he had begun to accept songwriting commissions from other artists. He composed “Lady” for Kenny Rogers, which hit #1 in 1980, and produced Rogers’s album Share Your Love the following year. Richie and Rogers maintained a strong friendship in later years. Latin jazz composer and salsa romantica pioneer La Palabra enjoyed international success with his cover of “Lady,” which was played at Latin dance clubs. Also in 1981, Richie sang the theme song for the film Endless Love, a duet with Diana Ross. Issued as a single, the song topped the UK and U.S. pop music charts, and became one of Motown’s biggest hits. Its success encouraged Richie to branch out into a full-fledged solo career in 1982. He was replaced as lead singer for The Commodores by Skyler Jett in 1983.

Livingston & Evans were a songwriting and composing team who worked on movies, television and stage. Both had worked on several movies together and separately such as Nurse Betty, Sunset Blvd., The Godfather, Crime, Inc., and The Godfather III. Jay Livingston died in 2001.

Lizabeth Scott is an American actress and singer widely known for her film noir roles.

She was born Emma Matzo in the Pine Brook section of Scranton, Pennsylvania, one of six children, to Ukrainian born parents who emigrated from Uzhgorod, Ukraine. She attended Central High School and Marywood College.

She later went to New York City and attended the Alvienne School of Drama. In late 1942, she was eking out a precarious living with a small Midtown Manhattan summer stock company when she got a job as understudy for Tallulah Bankhead in Thornton Wilder’s play The Skin of Our Teeth. However, Scott never had an opportunity to substitute for Bankhead.

When Miriam Hopkins was signed to replace Bankhead, Scott quit and returned to her drama studies and some fashion modeling. She then received a call that Gladys George, who was signed to replace Hopkins, was ill, and Scott was needed back at the theatre. She went on in the leading role of “Sabina”, receiving a nod of approval from critics at the tender age of 20. The following night, George was out again and Scott went on in her place.

Lloyd Francis Bacon was a screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director.

Bacon started in films with Charlie Chaplin and Bronco Billy Anderson and appeared in more than 40 total. As an actor he is best known for supporting Chaplin in such films as 1915’s The Tramp, The Champion and 1917’s Easy Street.

He also directed over a hundred films between 1920 and 1955. He is best known as director of such classics as 1933’s 42nd Street, 1937’s Ever Since Eve from a screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley et al., 1938’s A Slight Case of Murder with Edward G. Robinson, 1939’s Invisible Stripes with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart, 1939’s The Oklahoma Kid with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, 1940’s Knute Rockne, All American with Pat O’Brien and Ronald Reagan, 1943’s Action in the North Atlantic, and 1944’s The Fighting Sullivans with Anne Baxter and Thomas Mitchell. He also directed Wake Up and Dream. Bacon was not related to Irving Bacon, who was a film actor who appeared in a number of Bacon’s films. Irving’s parents were Millar and Myrtle Bacon of St. Joseph, Missouri. Lloyd’s father, Frank Bacon, was the co-author and star of Lightnin‘, which for a while was the longest-running play in Broadway history. His mother was Jennie Bacon, whom he adored.