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Hollywood Party
Hollywood Party is a musical film starring Jimmy Durante. It was directed by Roy Rowland and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was not a financial or critical success and is mostly remembered today because it features 31 stars such as Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges and Mickey Mouse,...
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Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; 16 June, 1890 – 23 February, 1965) was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the...
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy (born Norvell Hardy; January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted over 31 years, from 1926 to 1957. Hardy...
Lupe Vélez
Lupe Vélez (July 18, 1908 – December 13, 1944) was a Mexican film actress.
Vélez began her career in Mexico as a dancer, before moving to the U.S. where she worked in vaudeville. She was seen by Fanny Brice who promoted her, and Vélez soon entered...
Jimmy Durante
James Francis "Jimmy" Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of...
Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball (6 August 1911 – 26 April 1989) was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here...
Clark Gable
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) 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...
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, television and stage.
Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from 12 nominations. Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1976 for her...
Spencer Tracy
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American theatrical and film actor, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Tracy 9th among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. He was...
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (March 23, 1908 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress in film, television and theatre. Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway, Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro...
Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre (26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was an Austrian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.
He made an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M....
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American film and stage actress, dancer and singer.
During her long career, she made a total of 73 films, and is noted for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a...
Jack Benny
Jack Benny (February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974), born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film. Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny...
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr.; September 23, 1920) is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy...
Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor, known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, his titular role in a series of films featuring the character Sweedie, and his titular role in The Champ,...
Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper (born September 15, 1922) is an American actor, TV director, TV producer and executive. He was a child actor who managed to transition to an adult career. As of 2009, Cooper's Oscar-nominated performance in Skippy is the earliest...
Edward G. Robinson
Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Sr. (born Emanuel Goldenberg; Yiddish: עמנואל גאָלדנבערג; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was an American actor born in Romania. Although he has played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles...
Dick Powell
Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss.
Born in Mountain View, the seat of Stone County in northern Arkansas, Powell attended the former Little Rock College...
Eddie Cantor
Eddie Cantor (January 31, 1892 – October 10, 1964) was an American illustrated song "model," comedian, dancer, singer, actor, and songwriter. Familiar to Broadway, radio and early television audiences, this "Apostle of Pep" was regarded almost as a...
Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow (March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" and the "Blonde Bombshell" due to her platinum blonde hair, Harlow was ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of...
Ted Healy
Ted Healy (October 1, 1896 – December 21, 1937) was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. He is chiefly remembered today as the original employer of the Three Stooges, but had a successful stage and film career of his own.
Healy's...
Bert Lahr
Bert Lahr (August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967) was a Tony Award-winning American actor and comedian. Lahr is best remembered today for his role as the Cowardly Lion and the farmworker Zeke in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but was well...
Sterling Holloway
Sterling Price Holloway, Jr. (January 4, 1905 – November 22, 1992) was a character actor who appeared in 150 films and television shows. He was also a voice actor for the Walt Disney Studios.
Born in Cedartown, Georgia, Holloway was named for his...
Charles Butterworth
Charles Butterworth (July 26, 1896 – June 13, 1946) was an American actor specializing in comedy roles, often in musicals. In his obituary, he was described as "the man who could not make up his mind". Butterworth's distinct voice was the...
Lyle Talbot
Lyle Talbot (February 8, 1902 - March 2, 1996) was an American actor on stage and screen, best known for playing Joe Randolph on television's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and for his long career in films from 1931 to 1960.
He began his movie...
Guy Kibbee
Guy Kibbee (March 6, 1882 – May 24, 1956) was an American stage and film actor.
Born in El Paso, Texas, Kibbee began his entertainment career on Mississippi riverboats and eventually became a successful Broadway actor. In the 1930s, Kibbee moved to...
Polly Moran
Polly Moran (June 28, 1883 – January 25, 1952) was an American actress and comedian.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Moran started out in vaudeville, and toured all over the world including Europe and South Africa. She left vaudeville in 1914 after...
John Boles
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Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American popular singer and actor whose career stretched over more than half a century from 1926 until his death. Crosby was the best-selling artist until well into the rock era,...
Robert Young
Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American actor, best known for his leading roles of Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best (NBC and then CBS) and physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC).
Born in...
Arthur Treacher
Arthur Veary Treacher (July 23, 1894 – December 14, 1975) was an English actor born in Brighton, East Sussex, England.
Treacher was a veteran of World War I. After the war, he established a stage career and in 1928, he went to America as part of a...
Joe E. Brown
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June Clyde
June Clyde (December 2, 1909 in St. Joseph, Missouri – October 1, 1987 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) was an American actress, singer and dancer.
Clyde's career began at age seven on the vaudeville stage, billed as Baby Tetrazini. She progressed to a...
Eddie Quillan
Edward "Eddie" Quillan (March 31, 1907 - July 19, 1990) was an American film actor whose career began as a child on the vaudeville stages and silent film and continued through the age of television in the 1980s.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
Ben Bard
Ben Bard (26 January 1893, Milwaukee – 17 May 1974, Los Angeles) was a movie actor, stage actor, and acting teacher. With comedian Jack Pearl, Bard worked in a comedy duo in vaudeville.
Bard had a small roll in Roland West's classic mystery The Bat...
Richard Carle
Richard Carle (7 July 1871 – 28 June 1941) was an American film actor. He appeared in 132 films between 1915 and 1941.
He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.
