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Joan Geraldine Bennett was born on February 27, 1910, in Palisades, New Jersey. Her parents were both successful stage actors, especially her father, Richard Bennett, and often toured the country for weeks at a time. In fact, Joan came from a long line of actors, dating back to the 18th century. Often, when her parents were on tour, Joan and her two older sisters, Constance Bennett, who later became an actress, and Barbara were left in the care of close friends. At the age of four, Joan made her first stage appearance. She debuted in films a year later in The Valley of Decision (1916), in which her father was the star and the entire Bennett clan participated. In 1923 she again appeared in a film which starred her father, playing a pageboy in The Eternal City (1923). It would be five more years before Joan appeared again on the screen. In between, she married Jack Marion Fox, who was 26 compared to her young age of 16. The union was anything but happy, in great part because of Fox's heavy drinking. In February of 1928 Joan and Jack had a baby girl they named Adrienne. The new arrival did little to help the marriage, though, and in the summer of 1928 they divorced. Now with a baby to support, Joan did something she had no intention of doing--she turned to acting. She appeared in Power (1928) with Alan Hale and Carole Lombard, a small role but a start. The next year she starred in Bulldog Drummond (1929), sharing top billing with Ronald Colman. Before the year was out she was in three more films--Disraeli (1929), The Mississippi Gambler (1929) and Three Live Ghosts (1929). Not only did audiences like her, but so did the critics. Between 1930 and 1931, Joan appeared in nine more movies. In 1932 she starred opposite Spencer Tracy in She Wanted a Millionaire (1932), but it wasn't one she liked to remember, partly because Tracy couldn't stand the fact that everyone was paying more attention to her than to him. Joan was to remain busy and popular throughout the rest of the 1930s and into the 1940s. By the 1950s Joan was well into her 40s and began to lessen her film appearances. She made only eight pictures, in addition to appearing in two television series. After Desire in the Dust (1960), Joan would be absent from the movie scene for the next ten years, resurfacing in House of Dark Shadows (1970), reprising her role from the Dark Shadows (1966) TV series as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. Joan's final screen appearance was in the Italian thriller Suspiria (1977). Her final public performance was in the TV movie Divorce Wars: A Love Story (1982). On December 7, 1990, Joan died of a heart attack in Scarsdale, New York. She was 80 years old.

She was born of Swedish ancestry, Thyra Doris Marion Swanstrom, in Chicago, Illinois. Her career began as a singer on NBC radio and as a vocalist in nightclubs. A very pretty blonde, Doris got her first break of sorts in 1935 after appearing on "Major Bowe's Original Amateur Hour" in New York. She was then spotlighted for nine weeks at the prestigious Rainbow Room in mid-town Manhattan, a restaurant frequented by the city elite. Before long, a Warner Brothers talent scout 'discovered' her for the pictures and she was signed under contract in November 1936. Several alternatives were rejected before Warners accepted 'Weston' as a suitable choice for her new stage name. The following year, Doris appeared opposite Dick Powell in a minor musical, The Singing Marine (1937), as replacement for his usual co-star Ruby Keeler. As it turned out, the lack of chemistry between the two leads showed and the only highlight in this flimsily plotted outing proved to be Doris warbling the Harry Warren-Johnny Mercer ballad "Night Over Shanghai". Her career then went into a rapid decline, though she did manage a brief resurgence as Betty Houston, the girlfriend of Mandrake, the Magician (1939) (played by Warren Hull) in the Columbia serial. After appearing as the perfunctory female lead in a Johnny Mack Brown western, she called it a day and retired from films. Sadly, Doris died of lung cancer aged just 42 in July 1960.

Dorothy Dalton was a silent film star who worked her way up from a stock company to a movie career. She made her film debut in 1914 in Pierre of the Plains (1914), co-starring Edgar Selwyn, and appeared in Charles E. Blaney's Across the Pacific (1914) that same year. Producer-director Thomas H. Ince convinced her to leave the stage for the movies, and she made The Disciple (1915) and The Three Musketeers (1916) for him, working for Kay-Bee Pictures and the New York Motion Picture Co. (distributed by Triangle Distributing Corp.). In 1916 and '17 she starred in 15 more movies at Kay-Bee/New York Picture/Triangle, nine of them for Ince. Her co-stars at the studio included William S. Hart, Jean Hersholt, William Conklin and the young John Gilbert.

After appearing in Ten of Diamonds (1917) for Triangle Films, she left the studio to join Ince's Thomas H. Ince Corp., which released through Paramount. Her debut for the Ince company was The Price Mark (1917), followed by Love Letters (1917), both of which co-starred William Conklin. She stayed with Ince's company through L'apache (1919), which was co-produced by Ince's company and Famous-Players Lasky, and _Black is White (1920)_ (qav), a sole production of Thomas H. Ince Corp., released through Famous-Players and Paramount. She also made _The Dark Mirror (1920)_ for Famous-Players, a production supervised by Ince. Altogether they collaborated on 31 pictures between 1915-20.

Dalton was always a top-billed star. working with the best talent and hot properties such as Guilty of Love (1920), based on Avery Hopwood's 1909 Broadway play "This Woman and This Man"; Cecil B. DeMille's Fool's Paradise (1921) and Moran of the Lady Letty (1922), in which she co-starred with Rudolph Valentino; and Victor Fleming's Law of the Lawless (1923). She made all of her remaining films for Famous-Players-Lasky and Paramount, except for her penultimate film, The Lone Wolf (1924), in which she co-starred with Tyrone Power Sr. (the film was produced by John McKeown and distributed by Associated Exhibitors.)

Once married to actor Lew Cody, the divorced Dalton married theatrical impresario Arthur Hammerstein--the uncle of Oscar Hammerstein II--and retired from the screen. Her last film was The Moral Sinner (1924), directed by Thomas M. Ince's younger brother Ralph Ince. She was married to Hammerstein for over 30 years, through his death in 1955.

Dorothy Dalton Hammerstein died at the age of 78.

Songwriter ("Rosie the Riveter", "There, I've Said It Again", "Let Me Off Uptown", "No Moon at All"), composer, author, publisher, musician and record executive, educated at the University of Arizona and Kent College. He was a singer and ocarina soloist, and then a saxophonist and clarinetist in dance orchestras, including those of Teddy Wilson and Horace Heidt. He founded his own music publishing and record firms. Joining ASCAP in 1943, his chief musical collaborator was David Mann. His other popular-song compositions include "Don't Go to Strangers", "Pushin' Along", "The Major and the Minor", "He's 1-A in the Army", "Are You Livin', Old Man?", "Unconditional Surrender", "This Is the Night", "Made Up My Mind", "American Beauty Rose", "The Frim Fram Sauce", "Gobs of Love" (for the US Navy), "Birmingham Jailhouse", "Walking Down to Washington (new lyrics), and "If Love Is Good to Me".

Mark Zeszotek was born on 12 October 1954 in Berea, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Muppet Treasure Island (1996), The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) and Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas (1996). He died on 10 October 2004 in Scarsdale, New York, USA.

Emanuel Gerard was a uniquely gifted television and film art director. His visually innovative set and production designs served to establish the individual character and tone for the drama and action in each production. Emanuel was born in New York City on May 18, 1926 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University in 1947 where he majored in biology. From 1948 to 1949 he worked as a medical illustrator at The Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. In 1954 Emanuel attended Yale Drama School where he earned a Masters degree in Scenic Design. He went on to become a Clio Award winning art director. He received this prestigious award while working first for Elliot, Unger & Elliot Productions, then Robert Lawrence, and finally in 1962 opened his own business, Gerard Designs, where he employed the talents of Robert Drumheller as set decorator. He was a man whose talents and personality were appreciated by those involved in all aspects of film production. He worked closely with both film directors and producers, as well as a loyal crew of carpenters, painters, and technicians who brought his designs to life. From his re-creation of a gritty New York City subway car in his first movie "The Incident", to the affluent houses of Westchester in "Goodbye, Columbus", and the flashy, trend-setting interiors of "Shaft", and "Shaft's Big Score!", Emanuel Gerard's designs were versatile and exciting. They encompassed a wide-range of set design, architecture, props, and color. He was also responsible for choosing and dressing numerous outdoor locations that offered a rare glimpse of New York City in the '60s and '70s, as well as creating the necessary elements for many extended action scenes and most of these movies had plenty of action!

Henry Graff was born on 11 August 1921 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Si Fresnes m'était conté (2015), McLean and Company (1970) and The Last Days of World War II (2005). He was married to Edith Krantz. He died on 7 April 2020 in Scarsdale, New York, USA.

Gerald Astor was born on 3 August 1926 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was married to Sonia. He died on 30 December 2007 in Scarsdale, New York, USA.

Chet Gould was born on 23 May 1929 in New York, USA. He died on 15 July 2011 in Scarsdale, New York, USA.

Arthur Swanstrom was born on 4 August 1888 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is known for Blue Jasmine (2013), Take a Chance (1933) and Sweet Surrender (1935). He died on 4 October 1940 in Scarsdale, New York, USA.

Karl Malkames was born on 6 May 1926 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for The Birth of a Nation (1915), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) and It (1927). He died on 8 March 2010 in Scarsdale, New York, USA.

Virginia Waite was born on 20 May 1877 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Cripple (1914), The Mettle of a Man (1914) and The Skinflint (1915). She was married to James R. Waite and Edward W. Potter. She died on 18 January 1941 in Scarsdale, New York, USA.

James Holland was born on 16 May 1925 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. He was married to Jimmie Coker and Lucille Rahe. He died on 22 March 2018 in Scarsdale, New York, USA.

John Herbert McDowell was born on 21 December 1926. John Herbert was a composer, known for Murder à la Mod (1968), The Wedding Party (1969) and The Orchid (1971). John Herbert died on 3 September 1985 in Scarsdale, New York, USA.

Anastasia Georgina Kissel was born on 20 December 1897 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. She was an actress, known for Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923), The Spanish Dancer (1923) and Flower of Night (1925). She was married to Paul S. Crawley. She died on 15 November 1955 in Scarsdale, New York, USA.

William J. Ganz was born on 24 February 1894 in Mainz, Germany. William J. was a producer, known for Tropical Fish in N.Y. Aquarium (1921), Europe, Asia and Africa in N.Y. (1921) and Pen and Ink (1921). William J. died in June 1968 in Scarsdale, New York, USA.

Ruth Schonthal was born on 27 June 1924 in Hamburg, Germany. Ruth was a composer, known for Preservation (2011). Ruth died on 11 July 2006 in Scarsdale, New York, USA.