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- Nesdon Booth was born on 1 September 1918 in Baker, Oregon, USA. He was an actor, known for The Twilight Zone (1959), Cimarron City (1958) and Thriller (1960). He died on 25 March 1964 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
- Costume Designer
- Actress
Irene Maud Lentz was born on December 8, 1901 in Baker, Montana. When she was a teenager, she moved to Hollywood to become an actress. She found work as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and appeared in the comedies Picking Peaches (1924) and A Tailor-Made Man (1922). Irene married director F. Richard Jones in 1929. Tragically he died a year later from tuberculosis. To make extra money Irene decided to open a dress shop. In 1933 she was asked to design the clothes for Lili Damita in Goldie Gets Along (1933). She quickly became one of Hollywood's top costumes designers. Irene had a passionate affair with actor Gary Cooper. She later said he was the only man she really loved. In 1936 she married Eliot Gibbons, a writer. Irene became the head costume designer at MGM, where she created iconic costumes for Lana Turner and Judy Garland.
She was nominated for an Academy Award in 1948 for her work on B.F.'s Daughter (1948). Eventually she left MGM to open her own fashion house. Unfortunately her marriage to Elliot was troubled and they began living apart. In 1960 Irene's close friend Doris Day asked her to design the clothes for Midnight Lace (1960). She received her second Academy Award nomination for her work on the film. By this time Irene had a serious drinking problem and was suffering from depression. On November 15, 1962 Irene checked into the Knickerbocker hotel in Hollywood. She committed suicide by jumping out of a bathroom window. Irene was sixty-one years old. In her suicide note she wrote ""I'm sorry. This is the best way." She was buried next to her first husband at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.- Sharon DeBord was born on 2 December 1939 in Baker, Oregon, USA. She is an actress, known for That Tennessee Beat (1966), Killer's Delight (1978) and General Hospital (1963).
- Catherine Cotter was born on 19 September 1917 in Baker City, Oregon, USA. She was an actress, known for Rescue Squad (1935) and Seeing the World (1927). She was married to Paul Toien. She died on 14 August 1972 in Glendale, California, USA.
- Johnstone White was born on 4 August 1892 in Baker, Oregon, USA. He was an actor, known for Tough to Handle (1937), Shed No Tears (1948) and Desperate Cargo (1941). He died on 7 April 1969 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Damon Knight was a force of nature in the field of science fiction. He moved to New York City when he was 17 to live with science-fiction fans, writers and editors. He started the Science Fiction Writers of America. With his wife Kate Wilhelm, he influenced generations of writers at writers workshops. He also wrote many works of fiction, including a clever little story called "To Serve Man", which later appeared as To Serve Man (1962), one of the best-known and highly-regarded episodes of that series.
- E. Kerrigan Prescott was born on 25 March 1931 in Baker City, Oregon, USA. He was an actor, known for Fiend Without a Face (1958) and Great Performances (1971). He was married to Karen B. Ingethron and Margret Friedrich Schaefer. He died on 20 January 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- Sally Stanford was born on 5 May 1903 in Baker City, Oregon, USA. She was a writer, known for Lady of the House (1978) and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). She died on 1 February 1982 in Greenbrae, California, USA.
- Music Department
- Actor
- Composer
Ray Pohlman was born on 22 July 1930 in Baker Township, Iowa, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Constantinople (1977), Snoopy Come Home (1972) and The Hoyt Axton Country Western Boogie Woogie Gospel Rock and Roll Show (1975). He was married to Barbara. He died in November 1990.- William Stack has been often mistaken as British in the scant bio information available on him - he could imitate many a British accent. He was actually born in Oregon. But like many Americans who wished to become serious stage actors and seeing New York as overly competitive, he went to London as a young man. Not much is known about his career there, but with many theaters (almost fifty) and companies around, the opportunities for a talented young man were there. From the craze for post cards with the subject of photos - and especially those of actors
- that ensued between about 1890 and 1914, there exist pictures of
But by 1930 Stack was back in America - and not to Broadway (perhaps in a touring company, but at least not on record as a principal), as was a stage actor's usual course. He did end up in early Hollywood sound pictures - those with marginal sound quality - first with Fredric March as the star in Sarah and Son (1930). With a rich stage actor's voice and accents to apply where needed - and appreciated as audio technology improved - he appeared in from four to ramping up to as many as ten pictures per year through the 1930s. Moving into his 50s, bald and dignified, his roles were focused as featured character pieces - assured doctors, lawyers, judges, nobles, and several butlers. He was one of the Crawley clan in Becky Sharp (1935), the first feature-length three-color film. He perhaps gained press from being in one movie of some scandalous notoriety - Tarzan and His Mate (1934) in which Maureen O'Sullivan appeared to swim nude (somebody else in a body stocking). Although he had a few lines as a white hunter, in this and other films (of note, MGM's first and most famous version of Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935), Stack was not credited for his always believable characterizations.
The year 1936 provided Stack with some his most memorable historical roles. He played the French general Montcalm of the French and Indian War in the popular The Last of the Mohicans (1936) with Randolph Scott. The same year he played a much richer character in the film adaptation of the play Mary of Scotland (1936) directed by John Ford. Along with an assemblage of some of the best character actors of Hollywood, Stack played one among a rogues' gallery of self-seeking Scottish lords who included: Robert Barrat, Gavin Muir (another American who spent time in England and was often thought to be British), and Ian Keith. Stack is able to be most Shakespearean, vying in Scottish brogue with his fellow conspirators as the sly Lord Ruthven. Although Stack appeared in many of the best A pictures of the later 1930s, many did not give credit for his great acting skills. There were only a few movies into the 1940s, before he retired - leaving film history all the richer for his screen presence. - Linda Thomas-Greenfield was born on 22 November 1952 in Baker, Louisiana, USA.
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Lewis H. Moomaw was born on 5 May 1889 in Baker, Oregon, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Chechahcos (1923), The Golden Trail (1920) and Under the Rouge (1925). He was married to Maude Irene Simpson. He died on 22 August 1980 in San Diego, California, USA.- Robert James Cosgriff was born on 25 June 1898 in Baker, Oregon, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Roaring Timber (1937), Naval Academy (1941) and Caught in the Act (1941). He died in 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Additional Crew
Fenton Hamilton was born on 31 October 1904 in Baker City, Oregon, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Black Caesar (1973), God Told Me To (1976) and The Limit (1972). He died on 22 July 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA.