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Gray was known in the film business as a dependable "player" and to the public as a doting son. Throughout his Hollywood career he lived with his parents or his mother until his marriage in 1935. Built the home he shared with his parents, Henry and Mamie Gray. Henry died in 1932, Larry continued to share a home with his mother until Dolores Del Rio introduced him to Maria Luisa Figueroa and a "romance blossomed into an engagement." (Los Angeles Times. August 8, 1935)

Jaime Bravo was born on 8 September 1932 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Love Has Many Faces (1965). He was married to Monica Ann Henriette Lindkvist and Ann Robinson. He died on 2 February 1970 in Zacatecas, Mexico.

Bertrand Russell was born on 18 May 1872 in Ravenscroft, Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. He was a writer, known for Reductio: Adventures in Ideas (2019), Filosofix (2018) and Aman (1967). He was married to Edith Finch, Patricia Spence, Dora Russell and Alys Pearsall. He died on 2 February 1970 in Penrhyndeudraeth, Merioneth, Wales, UK.

Tin Pan Alley lyricist and composer, best remembered for co-writing the Looney Tunes theme song "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" in collaboration with Cliff Friend. Franklin became an accomplished professional pianist by the age of thirteen, employed by various New York publishing houses. He later worked as an accompanist in vaudeville and eventually freelanced as a solo performer in nightclubs on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1934 he joined ASCAP and began writing songs for big bands (including Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians and Isham Jones) as well as for Warner Brothers cartoons. In tandem with Cliff Friend, he went on to provide catchy numbers for many of the early Porky Pig and Daffy Duck shorts. Notable compositions include "You Can't Stop Me from Dreaming" (twelve weeks at number 1 on the Lucky Strikes Cigarette Hit Parade Radio Show in 1937), "Anniversary Waltz" (a number one hit for Decca in 1947), "When My Dreamboat Comes Home" and "Floating on a Bubble".