 |
 Moe
Howard (Moses Harry Horwitz) dropped
out of high school to pursue a career in the
theater. He is best known as the leader of The
Three Stooges. |
 John
Milton is best known for the
monumental works Paradise Lost, Paradise
Regained and Samson Agonistes, all
of which were written after he had become totally
blind. |
 Jean
Harlow (Harlean Carpenter) became a
star in Howard Hughes's sound remake of Hell's
Angels in 1930, and a sex symbol with her
starring role in Platinum Blonde in
1931. Her star was still rising when she
succumbed to kidney failure in 1937. |
 Bert
Lahr (Irving Lahrheim) dropped out of school at age 15 to join
a juvenile vaudeville act, and gradually worked
his way up to top billing on Columbia Burlesque
Circuit. He made his movie debut in 1929, but
only enjoyed true success on the silver screen
when he played the Cowardly Lion in The
Wizard of Oz (1939). |
 William
Allen White bought the Emporia Gazette
in 1895. His 1896 editorial "What's the
Matter with Kansas?" made he and his paper
famous, and he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for
his 1922 editorial "To an Anxious
Friend." |
 Simone
Signoret (Henriette
Charlotte Simone Kaminker) was a French actress
who became the first actress to win an Academy
Award for a non-American film in 1960. |
 Buster
Keaton (Joseph Frank Keaton VI)
began his career as a child in an act with his
parents that involved him being literally thrown
around the stage. He made his film debut in The
Butcher Boy with Fatty Arbuckle in 1917, and
went on to appear in dozens of silent shorts and
feature-length films. |
 Laura
Ingalls Wilder spent most of her
childhood traveling the Great Plains from one
homestead to another. She turned the story of her
life into a series of eight books known as the
"Little House" series, which in turn
inspired a television series. |
 Edgar
Lee Masters published over 25 books
of poetry but only enjoyed success with Spoon River Anthology (1915), a
collection of over 200 monologues from the dead
in an Illinois graveyard |
 Seņor
Wences Wenceslao
Moreno was born in Salamanca, Spain. fter a brief
career as a bullfighter he took up ventriloquism,
and was a sensation in Europe before coming to
America in 1935. Throughout his career Wences
only had two principal characters -- Johnny, who
was actually just his left hand with a mouth
drawn on and a wig; and Pedro, a head in a box. |
 Larry
Parks spent most of his movie career
playing minor roles in major films
and major roles in obscure films, with the
exception of The Jolson Story (1946).
His movie career came to an end after he appeared
before the House Un-American Activities Committee
in 1951. |
 Lyle
Wesley Waggoner appeared in several
bad sci-fi and beach party movies before being
hired as an announcer for The Carol Burnett
Show, on which he appeared until 1974. From
1975 to 1979 he played Major Steve Trevor on The
New Adventures of Wonder Woman. |
 Gordon
Jump had a long career in television
but is probably best remembered as Arthur Carlson
in WKRP in Cincinnati, which aired
1978-1982, and as the "lonely Maytag
repairman," a role he played from 1997 to
2003. |
