Biography Category
(s n´ t) (KEY) , 1884–1960, American movie director and producer, b. Danville, Que. In 1909 he began working for D. W. Griffith at the Biograph Com...
1891–1964, American composer and lyricist, b. Peru, Ind., grad. Yale, 1913. Porter’s witty, sophisticated lyrics and his affecting melodies place ...
(Charles Christopher Parker, Jr.), 1920–55, American musician and composer, b. Kansas City, Kans. He began playing alto saxophone in 1933, and after...
American film comedy team. The duo consisted of Stan Laurel, 1890–1965, b. Ulverson, England, whose real name was Arthur Stanley Jefferson; and Oliv...
(j rdä´n br ´n ) (KEY) , 1548–1600, Italian philosopher, b. Nola. He entered the Dominican order early in his youth but was accused of heresy an...
1906–75, dancer and singer, b. St. Louis, Mo., as Freda Josephine McDonald. In 1923 and 1924 she appeared in Broadway chorus lines. She became a sen...