 |
 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. |
 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). |
 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. |
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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. |
