Aaronson Irving
Irving A. Aaronson was a jazz pianist and big band leader. From age 11 he played accompaniment in silent movie theaters. He co-wrote a hit song, "Boo-Hoo-Hoo", in 1921 and thereafter formed his own band, which had a hit, "Let's Misbehave" in 1927. In 1935, he starred in the Irving Aaronson Orchestra radio. Around this time, Aaronson went to work as a musical director for MGM studios until his death from a heart attack.
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Aisle
An aisle of crypts.
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Alexander Van
Born Alexander Van Vliet Feldman, Van Alexander was a bandleader, arranger, and composer. An early job was selling arrangements to Chick Webb in the mid-1930s. One of these, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket", was a hit for Webb and Ella Fitzgerald. Alexander later arranged other nursery rhymes for jazz performance, such as "Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?" and "Got a Pebble in My Shoe". In the 1940s, he worked extensively as a composer, arranger and conductor for film scores, wrote a textbook on film arrangement in 1950, and worked on music for TV shows.
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Allen Corey
Corey Allen was a film and TV director, writer, producer, and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a TV director. He may be best known for playing the character who goes over the cliff while playing "chicken" with James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. Allen turned to directing in the 1960s, including Hawaii Five-O, Hill Street Blues, Ironside, Mannix, Murder, She Wrote, Police Woman, The Rockford Files, Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Streets of San Francisco. He won an Emmy Award in 1984 for Hill Street Blues.
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Allman Sheldon
Actor Sheldon Allman appeared in many TV shows, was the singing voice of Mister Ed, and composer of the Super Chicken, George of the Jungle, and Tom Slick theme songs.
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Allyn Alyce
Alice Allyn was an actress, appearing in Operation Dames (1959), Baretta (1975) and Ride the High Country (1962).
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Archerd Army
Armand Andre "Army" Archerd was a columnist for Variety for over fifty years. One of his most significant scoops was in his July 23, 1985, column, when he printed that Rock Hudson, despite denials, was undergoing treatment for AIDS. Archerd made appearances on The Hollywood Squares game-show, and other TV shows. In 1984, he was given a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, in front of Mann's Chinese Theater, where he had emceed dozens of movie premieres.
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Bank Frank
Frank Bank was an actor known for his role as Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford in 50 episodes of the 1957–1963 TV series Leave It to Beaver, and 101 episodes of The New Leave It to Beaver, which aired on cable television from 1983 to 1989.
Beginning in 1973, Bank became a bond broker. His autobiography, Call Me Lumpy: My Leave It To Beaver Days and Other Wild Hollywood Life, was published in 1997.
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Baron Sandy
Sandy Baron was an comedian on stage, in films, and on TV. He started his career working in the Catskill Mountains resorts when they were synonymous with the "Borscht Belt" brand of Jewish humor on which Baron made his mark. He was the host of the pilot for Hollywood Squares and often appeared as a celebrity contestant on this and other games shows. Baron played himself in the opening scene of Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Rose (1984) and narrated the film.
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Barry Gene
Actor Gene Barry was the doctor in the original War of the Worlds, and was in Our Miss Brooks, Bat Masterson and Burke's Law.
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Barry Gene
Gene Barry finally got his name plate.
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Benny Jack
Known to us as Jack Benny, Benjamin Kubelsky was a comedian and gifted violinist, though part of his comedy was playing it badly. Robber: "Your money or your life........well?Jack: I'm thinking it over!
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Bergman Henry
Henry Bergman was an actor of stage and film. He made his first film appearance with the L-KO Kompany in 1914 at the age of forty-six. In 1916, Bergman started working with Charlie Chaplin, beginning with The Pawnshop. For the rest of his career, Bergman remained a character actor for Chaplin and worked as a studio assistant, including Assistant Director. Bergman's last appearance was in Modern Times as a restaurant manager, and his final offscreen contribution was for The Great Dictator in 1940. Chaplin helped Bergman finance a restaurant in Hollywood, named "Henry's", which became a popular spot for celebrities as a precursor to the later Brown Derby restaurant.
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Berle Milton
Comedian Milton Berle.
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Berman Pandro
Pandro Berman was a film producer. His father Henry Berman was general manager of Universal Pictures during Hollywood's formative years. In 1930, Berman was hired as a film editor at RKO, then became an assistant producer. When RKO supervising producer William LeBaron walked out of the ill-fated The Gay Diplomat (1931), Berman took over LeBaron's responsibilities, remaining there until 1939. Berman left for MGM in 1940, where he oversaw such productions as Ziegfeld Girl (1941), National Velvet (1944), The Bribe (1949), Father of the Bride (1950), Blackboard Jungle (1955) and BUtterfield 8 (1960). He eventually became an independent, finishing his career with the unsuccessful Move (1970).
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