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Hollywood Legends
Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) Legendary Silent Screen
Star/ the Greatest / Hollywood Icon
Virginia Rappe (1895-1921) Silent Screen Actress/ Victim in
First Hollywood Scandal
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (1883-1939) Screen Legend, famous
for his swashbuckling antics
Tyrone Power (1914-1958) Legendary Screen Star
Nelson Eddy (1901-1967) Legendary Singing Star/ Actor
Paul Muni (1896-1967) Academy Award Winning Actor
Adolphe Menjou Legendary Actor/ A Star is Born
William Deane Tanner (1873-1922) Silent Film Director/ Victim of Unsolved Murder
Renee Adoree (1899-1933) Silent Screen Star/ Top box office star of the 20’s, best
known for ‘The Big Parade’
Harry Cohn (1891-1958) Columbia Pictures President/ Pioneer Producer
Jesse Lasky (1880-1958) Pioneer Producer/ President of Famous Players-Lasky (which later became Paramount Pictures)
Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959) Legendary Pioneer Film Director/ Producer
Jayne Mansfield Legendary Actress/ Starlet
Peter Finch (1917-1977) Academy Award Winning Actor, posthumously
Norma Talmadge (1894-1957) Legendary Silent Screen Star
Constance Talmadge (1898-1973) Silent Screen Star/ Producer
Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer (1927-1959) Child Star/Our Gang/Actor
Darla Hood (1931-1979) Child Star/ "Our Gang"/ Actress
Elmo Lincoln (1889-1952) Cinema’s First Tarzan
Joan Hackett (1933-1983) Leading Lady/ Academy Award Nominee
James Burrows (1855-1935) Pioneer Actor/ Vaudevillian
Louis Wolheim (1881-1931) Pioneer Motion Picture Actor, ‘The Sin Ship’
Gertrude Claire (1852-1928) Veteran Stage/ Silent Screen Actress/ joined the first Motion Picture company organized in Los Angeles
Peter Lorre (1905-1964) Legendary Character Actor/ Maltese Falcon/ Casablanca
Eleanor Powell (1913-1982) Legendary Tap Dancer/ Broadway Star/ Actress
Marion Davies ( 1897-1961) Early Screen Star/ Hearst Companion
Agnes Ayres (1898-1940) Silent Screen Star/ The Sheik/ Clarence/ The Ten Commandments (C.B. Demille’s silent version)
Clifton Webb (1893-1966) Esteemed Character Actor/ Academy Award Nominee
Frank E. Woods (1860-1939) Motion Picture Pioneer/ First credited Screenwriter
Florence Lawrence (1888-1938) World’s first Movie Star, aka, "the Biograph Girl"
John Huston (1906-1987) Legendary Director/ Academy Award Winner
Janet Gaynor (1906-1984) First Academy Award Winning Actress/ A Star is Born
Louis Calhern (1895-1956) Distinguished Character Actor/ Academy Award Nominee
Victor Fleming (1883-1949) Legendary MGM Director/ ‘Gone With The Wind’ and ‘The Wizard of Oz’
William H. Crane (19th/20th Cent.) Veteran Stage/ Silent Screen Actor, ‘Three Wise Fools’
Mel Blanc (1908-1989) Man of 1000 Cartoon Voices / Warner Bros./ Looney Tunes/ Merry Melodies
June Mathis Writer/ Producer/ Discovered Valentino
Jesse Lasky Jr. Producer/ Writer for C.B. DeMille
William DeMille (1878-1955) Playwright/ Director/ Founded USC Drama Dept.
Bebe Daniels (1901-1971) Crossover star from Silent to Sound Eras
Barbara La Marr (1896 - 1926) Silent Screen Star/ the "Girl Who Was Too Beautiful"
Ben Lyons (1901-1979) Influential Studio Executive/ Discovered naming talent, such as Marilyn Monroe/ Married to Bebe Daniels
Gregg Toland (19th/20th Cent.) Revolutionary Cinematographer/ ‘Citizen Kane’
Arthur Lake (1908-1987) Popular Character Actor/ Dagwood in Blondie series
Woody Herman (1913-1987) Big Band Leader/ Legendary Clarinet-Playing Band
Nelson Riddle (1921-1985) Big Band Leader/ Hollywood’s most noted Composer/Academy Award Winner for ‘The Great Gatsby’/ Played most often for Sinatra
Pioneers/ Industrialists/ Prominent Citizens
Arthur Letts ( 1862-1923) Founder of the Broadway Stores
Oliver Ivers (19th/20th Cent.) Pioneer Oil Tycoon
Andrew Whitaker (1828-1902) Founded Buena Park
Harvey & Daeida Wilcox (19th Cent.) Founded the town of Hollywood
Mrs. Daida Wilcox Beveridge ( 19th Cent. -1914) Gave Hollywood Its Name/Founder of the City
Betty Rathbun (19th/20th Cent.) Native Californian Indian, taken capture and sold as a slave
William Andrews Clark, Jr. (19th/20th Cent.) Founder of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
General Harrison G. Otis (1837-1917) Los Angeles Times Founder/ Civil War Veteran
Cornelius Cole (1822 - 1924) Civil War-Era Congressman / Settled in Hollywood
Eliza A. Otis (1833-1904) Los Angeles Times Founder-Owner / California Poet
Mary Love Gower (1852-1932) Hollywood Pioneer/ First Hollywood School teacher
Jerry Illich (1850-1902) Prominent Early Restauranteur, Delmonico’s of Los Angeles
Asa K. Waters (19th/20th Cent.) Early Civic Improvements Advocate
Griffith J. Griffith (1850-1919) Griffith Park Land Donor/ Notorious Early Citizen
Harry Chandler (1864-1944) Los Angeles Times Inheritor/ Prominent Citizen
Wilson C. Weddington (1847-1923) Founder of Lankershim (North Hollywood)
Elmer Berger (19th/20th Cent.) Inventor of the Rear View Mirror
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (1905-1947) Infamous Mobster / Founder of Modern Las Vegas
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