生于加拿大蒙特利尔,早年接受过钢琴和舞蹈训练,14岁时在选美时获胜。第一次世界大战期间,她和妹妹随母亲来到纽约。1923年被米高梅公司的制片人欧文.索尔伯格发掘,签下长期的演出合同。1925年起担当主角,她先后以《他们的私欲》、《弃妇》、《自由花》、《闺怨》、《铸情》、《绝...
莱斯利·霍华德(Leslie Howard),原名Leslie Howard Stainer。1893年的4月3日,Leslie Howard Stainer 出生于 福雷斯希尔(Forest Hill),他的父亲是匈牙利人,母亲是英格兰人,他是5个兄弟姐妹中的长子。Leslie参加了第一次世界大战,但是1917年他被诊断出患有战斗疲劳(神经机能病的症状),被遣送回家,随后他接受了治疗。
约翰·巴里摩尔,美国电影演员,1882年2月14日生于纽约市,出身于舞台世家,父亲莫里斯·巴里摩尔、母亲乔治亚娜·德鲁,哥哥莱昂纳多、姊姊埃塞尔都是美国著名的舞台演员,最初的时候约翰·巴里摩尔在纽约一家报馆画漫画,受家庭影响及个人努力,1903年进入戏剧界,不久,他的地位与成就就已胜过了哥哥和姐姐。她在莎士比亚戏剧《理查三世》(1920)和《哈姆雷特》(1922)中扮演主角,演技使观众为之倾倒。
Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1892, but three years later his family was forced to flee the country because his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy at a time when Dutch-British conflicts were leading to the Boer War. The Rathbones escaped to England, where Basil and his two younger siblings, Beatrice and John, were raised. Their mother, Anna Barbara (George), was a violinist, who was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, of British parents, and their father, Edgar Philip Rathbone, was a mining engineer born in Liverpool.