Born Elizabeth Barry Scale, Bessie Barriscale was a silent-film and stage actress, and a major star for producer Thomas Ince in the late 1910s. Her last role was as a maid in The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934). In 1922, actor Jackie Coogan and his parents purchased her home in Pellisier Square, Los Angeles, valued at $45,000. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Howard Hickman was an actor, director and writer. Hickman directed 19 films and co-starred with his wife, actress Bessie Barriscale, in several productions before returning to the theater. He made a brief appearance as plantation owner John Wilkes, father of Ashley Wilkes, in Gone with the Wind (1939).