Silent Wierdness

1883-1945 Winfield R. Sheehan, who is mostly and rightly remembered (when he is remembered at all) as a rather hard boiled Fox stu...

1882-1962 Silent film starlet and fashion icon Valeska Suratt (yes that was her birth name) was born on this date in Owensville, I...

1791-1833 Composer Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold was born was on this date in France, he was of Alsatian descent, and came from a ...

1896-1977 Howard Winchester Hawks was born into a wealthy industrial family in Goshen, Indiana; the eldest of five children.  In 1...

1892-1973 Born in Baltimore, Maryland into a prominent doctor's family; Gombell had by 1912 made her successful stage debut. T...

1909-1964 Born Francis Healey Albertson in Fergus Falls, Minnesota; his family moved around quite a bit, before settling in Los An...

1898-1964 Born Rudolph Mayer in Krakau, Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (in what would now be Poland), to Jewish parents.  ...

1920-2014 Born Joseph Yule Jr. in New York City to vaudevillian parents, he was literally born into "the business."  At ...

Interior of a very early glass ceiling studio When you need lighting--what better way to get it than from the sun?  While the very fir...