生于柏林。他在未到好莱坞以前就在柏林电影界的冲印部门工作，剪接尤为特长，有一段时期当过卡通片的设计者，也干过电影记者，写出过很多改进影艺的文章，因此乌发公司请他担任制片，后来美国环球公司又邀请他去当导演。1936年他应聘到好莱坞，还是个年轻的小伙子，第一部片子是《春闺三凤》，...
生于加拿大的温尼伯，但是在加利福尼亚州长大。1936年在音乐短片《每个星期天》中初登银幕，同年由她主演的影片《满庭芳》获得巨大的成功。后来她到英国拍片，并在1939年至1942年成为英国最卖座的女明星。1938年，她与米盖．罗纳同获美国电影艺术与科学院授予的特别奖。1948年退出影坛。
学过声乐，并在小歌剧中任歌唱演员，二十岁开始成为百老汇的优秀演员和无声片时代的明星。她在银幕上扮演一些罗曼蒂克的角色，是第一次世界大战期间片酬最高的明星之一。三十年代后主要从事电影演出，扮演性格角色。曾以《芝加哥大火记》（1937）获第十届奥斯卡最佳配角金像奖。1939年因癌症去世。
米沙·奥尔，美国电影演员，生于俄国，原名米沙·昂斯库夫斯基。1920年他的外祖父，小提琴家利奥波德·奥尔把他带到了美国，最初在纽约伦理道德文化学校读书，后转学戏剧，在百老汇有过演出。1928年，导演弗兰克·塔特尔请他在影片《老发生事故》中扮演角色，从此开始连续出演了几年的小角色，多...
Leonid Kinskey, originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, performed across Europe and much of Latin America before his arrival in the United States. By 1932 he landed a small role as a radical in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy, Trouble in Paradise (1932). The next year he played an agitator in Duck Soup (1933). He went on to play small parts, nearly always foreigners and often comedic, in over sixty films, including Genflou in Les Misérables (1935), the snake charmer in the well-known scene from The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), an Arab in The Garden of Allah (1936), Ivan in The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938), and Pierre in That Night in Rio (1941). His final film role was Dominiwski in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). Kinskey's most famous role was as Sascha, the humorous bartender at Rick's Cafe Americaine, in Casablanca (1942). The part had originally been given to Leon Mostovoy; Kinskey replaced him because (1) he was funnier than Mostovoy, and (2) by his own testimony, he was a drinking buddy of the star Humphrey Bogart. His contract guaranteed him two weeks at $750 a week. He died on 8 September 1998, in Fountain Hills, Arizona, aged 95.
