All Entries Tagged With: "David O. Selznick"
William Dieterle
Date of Birth: 15 July 1893 Birth Name: Wilhelm Dieterle Nickname: The Iron Stove Mini Biography: William Dieterle was the youngest of nine children of parents Jacob and Berthe Dieterle. They lived in poverty, and when he was old enough, William earned money as a carpenter and a scrap dealer. But he dreamed of better [...]
Olivia de Havilland
Date of Birth: 1 July 1916 Birth Name: Olivia Mary de Havilland Nickname: Livvie Height: 5′ 4″ (1.63 m) Mini Biography: Olivia Mary de Havilland was born to a British patent attorney and his wife on July 1, 1916, in Tokyo, Japan. Her sister, Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the [...]
Bette Davis
Date of Birth: 5 April 1908 Birth Name: Ruth Elizabeth Davis Nickname: The Fifth Warner Brother The First Lady of Film Height: 5′ 3″ (1.60 m) Mini Biography: Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother, [...]
Robert Armstrong
Date of Birth: 20 November 1890 Birth Name: Robert William Armstrong Height: 5′ 10″ (1.78 m) Mini Biography: Robert Armstrong is familiar to old movie buffs for his case-hardened, rapid fire vocal delivery in typical roles as promotional schemers-agents-managers-and hard-boiled officials of many sorts in over 160 films. His father owned a small and profitable [...]
Bruce Cabot
Date of Birth: 20 April 1904 Birth Name: Etienne Pelissier Jacques de Bujac Height: 6′ 1½” (1.87 m) Mini Biography: Hollywood stalwart Bruce Cabot’s main claim to fame, other than rescuing Fay Wray from King Kong (1933), is that he tested for the lead role of The Ringo Kid in John Ford’s Western masterpiece Stagecoach [...]
John Agar
Date of Birth: 31 January 1921 Height: 6′ 1″ (1.85 m) Mini Biography: John Agar was born in Chicago, the eldest of four children of a local meat packer. His 1945 marriage to “America’s Sweetheart” Shirley Temple put him in the public eye for the first time, and a movie contract with independent producer David [...]