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Ford turned to film beginning in 1915 and moved to Hollywood. He became a leading man opposite early stars such as Constance Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, Marie Prevost, Marion Davies, Marguerite De La Motte and Clara Bow. Ford’s film career ended with the advent of talkies. His final film, and only talkie, Love in High Gear, was released in 1932.
Oct 7, 2021 · Wallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American film and stage actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, as Gener...
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Wallace Beery (April 1, 1885 - April 15, 1949) was a United States actor, best known for his many cinema appearances. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Beery joined the Ringling Brothers circus at the age of sixteen as an assistant elephant trainer. He left two years later after being clawed by a leopard.
Died July 13, 1945 of coronary thrombosis in Good Samaritan Hospital, Calif. R ussian-born Alla Nazimova was a star of stage and screen for 40 years. Nazimova came to the United States in 1905 by way of Berlin and London. Her debut in New York was in a small upstairs theater on the East Side, but she was quickly "discovered" by the Shubert ...
Beverly Bayne. Beverly Bayne was an American actress who appeared in silent films beginning in 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, where she worked for Essanay Studios. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she moved to Chicago when she was six. She stayed there for a time, and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before she settled in Chicago.
Berry Gordy, Jr. is an American record producer, and the founder of the Motown record label, as well as its many subsidiaries. Gordy, Jr. was the seventh of eight children born to the middle class family of Berry Gordy II and Bertha Fuller Gordy, who had relocated to Detroit from Milledgeville, Georgia in 1922. Gordy was brought up in a tight ...
