The Men
Victor Young - Born in Chicago and raised in Poland, Young studied at the Warsaw Conservatory and debuted with the Warsaw Philharmonic. Young wrote music for Broadway shows and appeared in a few as well. On Broadway he wrote for ‘Murder at the Vanities,’ ‘Blackbirds of 1933,’ ‘Winged Victory,’ ‘Arms and the Girl,’ ‘Pardon Our French’ and ‘Seventh Heaven.’ He was the musical director of the Balaban and Katz theatre chain at 20 years of age and supervised live orchestras for silent films. In 1936, he signed with Paramount Pictures music department and worked with them till his death from a cerebral hemorrhage and stroke. He left an estate valued at $50,000. Following his death, his wife Rita sued ‘Victor Young Publications’ for the rights of forty published works of her husband. She claimed that she was given all rights upon his death. Rita died May 4, 1962 and is interred next to Victor. Nominated for twenty‑two Oscars, he won for "Around the World in Eighty Days."
Reginald Leslie "Snowy" Baker - Known as one of Australia’s greatest athletes, Baker competed in 26 different sports and represented a boxing company in Australia working with partner W.F. Howe and his wife, who was very involved in the business. In 1908, he gained fame for boxing in the Olympic Games which were held in London. Baker was an expert swimmer and equestrian, performing stunts in 1944's "National Velvet" as well as teaching a young Elizabeth Taylor how to ride. He also trained actor Lash LaRue in the use of a bullwhip. Prior to his illness, he had been teaching polo to a number of film stars. He died from cerebrovascular disease he’d suffered for two years and his $10,000 estate was left to his wife, Ethel Rose Baker.
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Tyrone Power - Third generation of actors, he was the son of matinee idol Tyrone Power Sr., and formerly married to actresses Linda Christian and Annabella. Power was living with his father in Hollywood when his father was given the starring role in the film "The Miracle Man." During filming Power Sr., fell ill on the set and passed away early the next morning. Power stayed in Hollywood for two more years then returned to New York and the stage and appeared in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ opposite Katharine Cornell, ‘Saint Joan’ and ‘Back to Methuselah’ opposite Faye Emerson. He returned to Hollywood and was an overnight sensation when the film "Lloyds of London" opened in 1936. His son Tyrone Power, Jr., is also an actor.
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George Hoyningen-Huene (b. 1900 St. Petersburg, Russia; d. 1968 Los Angeles, CA) Hoyningen-Huene’s father was a Baron, Baltic nobleman and a military officer, his mother was the daughter of an American Minister to Russia. By 1925, he was working as a photographer and in 1931, published the first photograph in the French edition of ‘Vogue.’ In 1935, he moved to New York and did photography work for “Harper’s Bazaar,” and published two art books before relocating in Hollywood where he worked as a master portraitist for movie stars and other celebrities. A few of the celebrities he photographed are Tallulah Bankhea, Cecil Beaton, Greta Garbo and Anna Mae Wong. He was related to Peter Berlin, a photographer, fashion designer and actor in Gay porn films of the 1970s.
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Elmo Lincoln - In 1918, Elmo made film history portraying the screen's first ‘Tarzan.’ He repeated the role in two feature films and a serial. Lincoln went into the salvage business in Salt Lake City in 1923 and returned to Hollywood in 1933 and appearing in a handful of pictures. Following his last screen appearance, in “The Hollywood Story,” Lincoln was presented with a pioneer’s plague to which he said he’d rather have a job. For the last months of his life, he was campaigning to the studios to organize old-time stars into a stock company. He also claimed that old-timers were used more for publicity than for appearing in films and that Hollywood had just put them in storage. Lincoln died of a heart attack.
Paul Malvern - Malvern, a former child acrobat with The Ringling Bros. Circus, worked as a movie stuntman in silent and early talkie films. While working at Monogram Studios, Malvern took over the responsibility of producing films under his newly created ‘Lone Star Productions’ logo. He produced 16 westerns from 1933 to 1935 and worked very closely with actor John Wayne on his early films. Later in his career, Malvern moved to Universal Studios where his films generated big business for the studio and, created a wave of prosperity for the studio that began with the introduction of Deanna Durbin musicals and lasted after WWII. Malvern retired in 1952 to take care of his stepson who was ill with cancer, and his wife who wasn't in the best of health. He was married for fifty years to actress Jean Huntley, whom he'd met when he fell from a balcony while filming a scene.
John Pringle - Stage actor and father of actor John Gilbert, Pringle managed and acted in his own stock company in Chicago and New York for a number of years before appearing in films. Gilbert refused to acknowledge Pringle as his father because his mother told him that he was from her second marriage. (Pringle’s wife - Gilbert’s mother, Ida Adair Pringle died and is buried in Utah.) Pringle died at the California Lutheran Hospital following a lingering illness.