Caged

Eleanor Parker (Actor) .. Marie Allen

Born: June 26, 1922
Died: December 09, 2013

Trivia: Ohioan Eleanor Parker chose a career in acting when she was still in her teens and began appearing in professional stage productions in Cleveland and at California's Pasadena Playhouse. Signed at Warner Bros. in 1941, the red-haired actress was given the slow buildup in such B's as The Mysterious Doctor before graduating to leads in prestige pictures like Pride of the Marines (1945). As the sluttish Mildred in the 1946 remake Of Human Bondage, Parker was not nearly as effective as Bette Davis in the 1934 version, but she learned from this comparative failure and matured into a versatile actress, equally adept at comedy and heavy dramatics. She was Oscar nominated for Caged (1950), in which she plays an utterly deglamorized prison inmate; Detective Story (1951), wherein, as Kirk Douglas' wife, she agonizingly harbors the secret of a past abortion; and Interrupted Melody (1955), in which she portrays polio-stricken opera diva Marjorie Lawrence. Though she tended toward down-to-earth portrayals, Eleanor could be flamboyantly sexy if required, like her performance as a tempestuous lover in Scaramouche. Still regally beautiful into the 1960s and 1970s, Eleanor Parker was always worth watching no matter if the role was thankless (the Countess in Sound of Music [1965]) or "Baby Jane"-style horrific (the terrorized, elderly cripple in Eye of the Cat [1969]). Parker spent the majority of her career in the 1970s and '80s in TV movies and the occasional guest appearance on television series like Hawaii Five-O and The Love Boat before retiring from acting in 1991. She died in 2013 at age 91.

Hope Emerson (Actor) .. Evelyn Harper

Born: October 27, 1897
Died: April 25, 1960

Trivia: When the call went out for an actress to play a circus strongwoman capable of lifting both a chair and Spencer Tracy in 1949's Adam's Rib, there was but one performer who could logically fit the bill: character actress Hope Emerson, who scraped the ceiling at 6' 2" and weighed in at 230 pounds. Emerson made her Broadway debut as the leader of the Amazons in Lysistrata. Her performance in the Fred Stone musical Smiling Faces led to her screen bow in the 1932 filmization of that property. During the 1940s, Emerson gained fame as the radio voice of Borden's Elsie the Cow. After years in vaudeville and the legitimate stage, Emerson returned to films as a homicidal masseuse in the New York-filmed Cry of the City (1948). She went on to play the feuding Mrs. Hatfield in Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy (1948), and the implicitly lesbian prison matron in Caged (1950), an assignment which earned her an Oscar nomination. In 1958, Emerson was cast as Mother, owner of the nightclub where the beauteous Lola Albright was featured songstress, on the popular TV private eye series Peter Gunn. She left this series in 1959 to take a larger role as a housekeeper named "Sarge" on the weekly sitcom The Dennis O'Keefe Show. Shortly after filming the last O'Keefe episode, Hope Emerson died of a liver ailment at the reported age of 51.

Agnes Moorehead (Actor) .. Ruth Benton

Born: December 06, 1900
Died: April 30, 1974
Birthplace: Clinton, Massachusetts, United States

Trivia: At age three Agnes Moorehead first appeared onstage, and at 11 she made her professional debut in the ballet and chorus of the St. Louis Opera. As a teenager she regularly sang on local radio. She earned a Ph.D. in literature and studied theater at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She began playing small roles on Broadway in 1928; shortly thereafter she shifted her focus to radio acting, becoming a regular on the radio shows March of Time, Cavalcade of America, and a soap opera series. She toured in vaudeville from 1933-36 with Phil Baker. In 1940 she joined Orson Welles's Mercury Theater Company, giving a great boost to her career. Moorehead debuted onscreen as Kane's mother in Welles' film Citizen Kane (1941). Her second film was Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination; ultimately she was nominated for an Oscars five times, never winning. In films, she tended to play authoritarian, neurotic, puritanical, or soured women, but also played a wide range of other roles, and was last onscreen in 1972. In the '50s she toured the U.S. with a stellar cast giving dramatic readings of Shaw's Don Juan in Hell. In 1954 she began touring in The Fabulous Redhead, a one-woman show she eventually took to over 200 cities across the world. She was also active on TV; later audiences remember her best as the witch Endora, Elizabeth Montgomery's mother, in the '60s TV sitcom Bewitched. Moorehead's last professional engagement was in the Broadway musical Gigi. She died of lung cancer in 1974. She was married to actors John Griffith Lee (1930-52) and Robert Gist (1953-58).

Ellen Corby (Actor) .. Emma

Born: June 13, 1911
Died: April 14, 1999

Trivia: By the time she first appeared as Grandma Walton in 1971, American actress Ellen Corby had been playing elderly characters for nearly thirty years--and she herself was still only in her fifties. The daughter of Danish immigrants, Ellen Hansen was born in Wisconsin and raised in Philadelphia; she moved to Hollywood in 1933 after winning several amateur talent shows. Her starring career consisted of tiny parts in low-budget Poverty Row quickies; to make a living, Ellen became a script girl (the production person responsible for maintaining a film's continuity for the benefit of the film editor), working first at RKO and then at Hal Roach studios, where she met and married cameraman Francis Corby. The marriage didn't last, though Ellen retained the last name of Corby professionally. While still a script girl, Ellen began studying at the Actors Lab, then in 1944 decided to return to acting full time. She played several movie bit roles, mostly as servants, neurotics, and busybodies, before earning an Oscar nomination for the role of Trina the maid in I Remember Mama (1948). Her career fluctuated between bits and supporting parts until 1971, when she was cast as Grandma Walton in the CBS movie special The Homecoming. This one-shot evolved into the dramatic series The Waltons in 1972, with Ms. Corby continuing as Grandma. The role earned Ellen a "Best Supporting Actress" Emmy award in 1973, and she remained with the series until suffering a debilitating stroke in 1976. After a year's recuperation, Ellen returned to The Waltons, valiantly carrying on until the series' 1980 cancellation, despite the severe speech and movement restrictions imposed by her illness. Happily, Ellen Corby endured, and was back as Grandma in the Waltons reunion special of the early '90s.

Betty Garde (Actor) .. Kitty Stark

Born: January 01, 1904
Died: January 01, 1989

Trivia: American actress Betty Garde, is best known for playing the original Aunt Eller in the Broadway production of Oklahoma! (1943). During the 1930s, she appeared often on Broadway and frequently acted in radio productions such as "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." Beginning in 1930, she appeared in a few films through the early 1960s and also worked on television.

Jan Sterling (Actor) .. Smoochie

Born: April 03, 1921
Died: March 26, 2004

Trivia: Born into a prosperous New York family, Jan Sterling was educated in private schools before heading to England, where she studied acting with Fay Compton. Billed as Jane Sterling, she made her first Broadway appearance at the age of fifteen; she went on to appear in such major stage offerings as Panama Hattie, Over 21 and Present Laughter. In 1947, she made her movie bow--billed as Jane Darian for the first and last time in her career--in RKO's Tycoon. Seldom cast in passive roles, Sterling was at her best in parts calling for hard-bitten, sometimes hard-boiled determination. In Billy Wilder's searing The Big Carnival (1951), she played Lorraine, the slatternly, opportunistic wife of cave-in victim Richard Benedict, summing up her philosophy of life with the classic line "I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons." In 1954, Jan was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Sally McKee, a mail-order bride with a questionable past, in The High and the Mighty. In a prime example of giving one's all to one's art, Sterling submitted to having her eyebrows shaved off for a crucial scene; her brows never grew back, and she was required to pencil them in for the rest of her career. Also in 1954, Sterling travelled to England to play Julia in the first film version of George Orwell's 1984; though her character was a member of "The Anti-Sex League," Sterling was several months pregnant at the time. Having no qualms about shuttling between films and television, she showed up in nearly all the major live anthologies of the 1950s. She was also a panelist on such quiz programs as You're In the Picture (1961) and Made in America (1964). Married twice, Sterling's second husband was actor Paul Douglas. Jan Sterling retired from films in favor of the stage in 1969; she returned before the cameras in 1976 to portray Mrs. Herbert Hoover in the TV miniseries Backstairs at the White House.

Lee Patrick (Actor) .. Elvira Powell

Born: November 22, 1906
Died: November 21, 1982

Trivia: At age 13 she debuted on Broadway and went on to do much work onstage. She appeared in one film in 1929, then went back to Broadway and was not in another film until 1937; after that she was in numerous movies, usually in character roles but occasionally playing leads. In the '50s she costarred in such TV series as Topper and Mr. Adams and Eve. After retiring from the screen in 1964 she returned once more: she portrayed Sam Spade's secretary Effie in The Black Bird (1975), a comic remake of The Maltese Falcon; she had played Effie in the 1941 Humphrey Bogart version.

Olive Deering (Actor) .. June

Born: October 11, 1918
Died: March 22, 1986

Trivia: Olive Deering was a very busy actress in theater, radio, and television from the early '30s until the 1970s. The sister of actor/director Alfred Ryder, she was born in New York and educated at the Professional Children's School, and made her stage debut in 1933, at the age of 15, with a mute walk-on role in a production of Girls in Uniform. She played a key role in Moss Hart's wartime stage piece Winged Victory (though not in the film version in which, ironically, her brother had a part). Her notable stage performances included working opposite Paul Muni in a revival of Elmer Rice's play Counselor-at-Law, with Maurice Evans in Richard II, and in Marc Blitzstein's No for an Answer. She also received excellent notices for her work in a Los Angeles production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer. Deering's movie work was sporadic, starting with an uncredited role in Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement; she appeared in John Cromwell's Caged, but her most visible work was in a pair of Cecil B. DeMille epics, Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments, and was in movies as late as 1972. Much of Deering's career off the stage, however, was focused on radio -- she played hundreds of roles in that medium -- and on television, on which she was playing dramatic roles as early as 1948, on anthology series such as Philco Television Playhouse, Goodyear Television Playhouse, and Alcoa Presents. She also did episodes of Perry Mason, Sam Benedict, and Ben Casey, though her most memorable and visible work (thanks to home video) was as the hysterical runaway wife in The Outer Limits episode "The Zanti Misfits." Deering died of cancer in 1986.

Jane Darwell (Actor) .. Isolation Matron

Born: October 15, 1879
Died: August 13, 1967
Birthplace: Palmyra, Missouri, United States

Trivia: American actress Jane Darwell was the daughter of a Missouri railroad executive. Despite her father's disapproval, she spent most of her youth acting in circuses, opera troupes and stock companies, making her film debut in 1912. Even in her early thirties, Darwell specialized in formidable "grande dame" roles, usually society matrons or strict maiden aunts. Making an easy transition to talking pictures, Darwell worked primarily in small character parts (notably as governesses and housekeepers in the films of Shirley Temple) until 1939, when her role as the James Brothers' mother in Jesse James began a new career direction--now she was most often cast as indomitable frontierswomen, unbending in the face of hardship and adversity. It was this quality that led Darwell to be cast in her favorite role as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), for which she won an Oscar. Darwell continued to work until illness crept upon her in the late 1950s. Even so, Darwell managed to essay a handful of memorable parts on TV and in movies into the 1960s; her last film role was as the "Bird Woman" in Disney's Mary Poppins (1964).

Gertrude Michael (Actor) .. Georgia

Born: June 01, 1911
Died: December 31, 1964

Trivia: Often cast as tough, defensive women, Gertrude Michael was a pianist before beginning her acting career. Even in her very early twenties, Michael conveyed a tangy "Don't tread on me!" attitude, and as such proved a worthy foil for Mae West in I'm No Angel (1933). She was more sedate (but no less emphatic) as Calpurnia in DeMille's Cleopatra (1934). In 1934, Michael played the leading role of an ex-jewel thief in The Notorious Sophie Lang, reviving the characterization for the sequels The Return of Sophie Lang (1936) and Sophie Lang Goes West (1937). Gertrude Michael alternated film, TV, and stage work until the early '60s; her last picture was 1962's Twist All Night.

Sheila Stevens (Actor) .. Helen

Joan Miller (Actor) .. Claire

Born: January 01, 1909
Died: January 01, 1988

Trivia: Canadian actress Joan Miller started out on-stage. In 1931, she moved to London to work in theater. Six years later, she scored a role on the newly created British Broadcasting Corporation television network's first entertainment show, Picture Page Girl. Though she primarily continued working on-stage, she also made frequent appearances on radio, television, and in a few films during the '40s, '50s, and '60s.

Marjorie Crossland (Actor) .. Cassie

Born: January 01, 1947
Died: January 01, 1954

Gertrude W. Hoffman (Actor) .. Millie

Born: January 01, 1870
Died: January 01, 1966

Lynn Sherman (Actor) .. Ann

Queenie Smith (Actor) .. Mrs. Warren

Born: January 01, 1897
Died: August 05, 1978

Trivia: Pixieish stage and screen soubrette Queenie Smith was a Broadway favorite in the 1920s, most notably as star of the 1925 George Gershwin musical Tip Toes (1925). She came to films in the mid-1930s, playing virtually the same role in two period musicals, the 1935 Bing Crosby/W.C. Fields concoction Mississippi and the 1936 version of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Show Boat. As her youthful rambunctiousness matured into middle-aged feistiness, Queenie was seen in dozens of tiny roles, usually cast as a nosy neighbor, landlady, housekeeper or (in later years) retirement-home resident. In 1970, she and nonagenarian actor Burt Mustin were teamed as a long-married couple on the TV comedy-sketch series The Funny Side. One of the last and best of Queenie Smith's film roles was the scatological scrabble player in the 1978 Goldie Hawn-Chevy Chase vehicle Foul Play (1978).

Naomi Robison (Actor) .. Hattie

Esther Howard (Actor) .. Grace

Born: April 04, 1892
Died: March 08, 1965

Trivia: Switching from Broadway to Hollywood in 1931, actress Esther Howard was an expert at portraying blowsy old crones, man-hungry spinsters and oversexed dowagers. Utilizing her wide, expressive eyes and versatile voice for both broad comedy and tense drama, Howard was equally at home portraying slatternly tosspot Mrs. Florian in Murder My Sweet (1944) as she was in the role of genteelly homicidal Aunt Sophie in Laurel and Hardy's The Big Noise (1944). She was a regular participant in the films of writer/director Preston Sturges, playing everything from an addled farm woman in Sullivan's Travels (1942) to the bejeweled wife of "The Wienie King" in The Palm Beach Story (1942). From 1935 to 1952, Esther Howard was a fixture of Columbia's short-subject unit, usually cast as the wife or sweetheart of comedian Andy Clyde.

Marlo Dwyer (Actor) .. Julie

Born: March 25, 1908
Died: September 28, 1999

Trivia: As Wilma Francis, this dark-haired starlet began her screen career as a chorus girl at Warner Bros. and later played second leads in quite a few potboilers. She is perhaps better known as Marlo Dwyer, the alias she used in such well-remembered low-budget thrillers as The Man With Two Lives (1942) and Missing Women (1951). In between her many screen assignments, Francis/Dwyer took time out to appear in the 1946 Broadway show Loco and later popped up on such television series as Stories of the Century and Cannon.

Wanda Tynan (Actor) .. Meta

Peggy Wynne (Actor) .. Lottie

Olive Carey (Actor) .. June

Born: January 01, 1895
Died: January 01, 1988

Trivia: Olive Carey began her long career acting in silent films under the name Olive Golden. She made her film debut in 1913 with The Sorrowful Shore. She later became one of D.W. Griffith's original stock players. Golden married cowboy star Harry Carey in 1916 and went on to play the female lead in many of his silent westerns. She is said to have had a role in helping illustrious director John Ford get his start; she even worked as his manager. From the '30s through 1947, she was semi-retired, but following her husband's death in 1947, she staged a comeback using her married name. She is best remembered for appearing opposite John Wayne in The Searchers and The Alamo.

Frances Morris (Actor) .. Mrs. Foley

Born: August 03, 1908

Trivia: American actress Frances Morris was seen in small utility roles from 1934 to 1961. At first, Morris was cast as gun molls, stewardesses, secretaries, receptionists, and maids. She was exceptionally busy in the 1940s, essaying a variety of WAVES and WACs. The following decade, she was seen in maternal roles (some of them actually given character names) in both films and TV. One of Frances Morris' better assignments was the sympathetic prison warden in the 1952 Loretta Young starrer Because of You.

Edith Evanson (Actor) .. Miss Barker

Born: January 01, 1899
Died: November 29, 1980

Trivia: American character actress Edith Evanson began showing up in films around 1941. Cast as a nurse, it is Evanson who appears in the reflection of the shattered glass ball in the prologue of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Her larger screen assignments included Aunt Sigrid in George Stevens' I Remember Mama (1948) and Mrs. Wilson the housekeeper in Hitchcock's Rope (1948). Hitchcock also directed her in Marnie (1964). Edith Evanson is best remembered by science fiction fans for her lengthy, uncredited appearance as Klaatu's landlady Mrs. Crockett in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).

Yvonne Rob (Actor) .. Elaine

Ann Tyrrell (Actor) .. Edna

Eileen Stevens (Actor) .. Infirmary Nurse

Born: January 07, 1982

June Whipple (Actor) .. Ada

Sandra Gould (Actor) .. Skip

Born: July 23, 1921
Died: July 20, 1999

Trivia: Veteren performer Sandra Gould was probably best known for her recurring role as Gladys Kravitz on the popular TV series Bewitched. Gould started her acting career at the age of nine, appearing on stage and on radio. She was a very prolific presence on radio as an adult performer. When she made the switch to television, she was just as hardworking. Some of the many programs she was featured on include The Twilight Zone, The Flintstones (on which she voiced the character of Betty Rubble), and My Three Sons. Later in life, she made appearances on the Kirstie Alley sitcom Veronica's Closet, as well as on another, more popular NBC sitcom, Friends. She passed away from a stroke, in Burbank, CA, on July 20, 1999, shortly before her 83rd birthday.

Grace Hayes (Actor) .. Mugging Matton

Born: January 01, 1895
Died: January 01, 1989

Trivia: American singer/actress Grace Hayes was a popular chanteuse and vaudeville performer during the 1930s. She started her film career in 1930 appearing opposite Paul Whiteman in The King of Jazz. She appeared occasionally in films after that through 1950. As a singer, some of her better known songs include "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby" and "Sunny Side of the Street." In the 1940s, she established the star-studded San Fernando Valley hot-spot-- the Grace Hayes Lodge--where she also performed.

Taylor Holmes (Actor) .. Sen. Donnolly

Born: May 16, 1872
Died: September 30, 1959

Trivia: Actor Taylor Holmes first made a theatrical name for himself on the Keith Vaudeville Circuit. In the course of his subsequent five-decade Broadway career, Holmes starred in over 100 plays, usually in light comedy roles. Making his film debut in 1917, he played the title role in the 1918 adaptation of Ruggles of Red Gap, then made scattered screen appearances before settling down in Hollywood permanently in 1947. Most often employed by 20th Century-Fox, he showed up in such flashy roles as gullible millionaire Ezra Grindle in the Tyrone Power melodrama Nightmare Alley (1947). He also played more than his share of shyster lawyers (most memorable in 1947's Kiss of Death) and absent-minded professors. Holmes was the father of actors Phillips and Ralph Holmes. Outliving his wife and both his sons, Taylor Holmes died at the age of 85; his last assignment was the voice of King Steffan in Disney's animated feature Sleeping Beauty (1959).

Don Beddoe (Actor) .. Commissioner Walker

Born: July 01, 1903
Died: January 19, 1991

Trivia: Dapper, rotund character actor Don Beddoe was born in New York and raised in Cincinnati, where his father headed the Conservatory of Music. Beddoe's professional career began in Cincinnati, first as a journalist and then an actor. He made his Broadway debut in the unfortunately titled Nigger Rich, which starred Spencer Tracy. Beddoe became a fixture of Columbia Pictures in the 1930s and 1940s, playing minor roles in "A"s like Golden Boy, supporting parts ranging from cops to conventioneers in the studio's "B" features, and flustered comedy foil to the antics of such Columbia short subject stars as The Three Stooges, Andy Clyde and Charley Chase. Beddoe kept busy until the mid-1980s with leading roles in 1961's The Boy Who Caught a Crook and Saintly Sinners, and (as a singing leprechaun) in 1962's Jack the Giant Killer.

Charles Meredith (Actor) .. Chairman

Born: August 27, 1894
Died: November 28, 1964

Trivia: A handsome, dark-haired silent-screen leading man with a widow's peak, Charles Meredith appeared opposite some of the era's great leading ladies, including Marguerite Clark, Blanche Sweet, Mary Miles Minter, Katherine MacDonald, and Florence Vidor. Between 1924 and 1947, Meredith concentrated on the legitimate stage, then returned to film as a distinguished character actor, playing the judge in Joan Crawford's Daisy Kenyon (1947), the High Priest in DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949), and an admiral in Submarine Command (1952). Continuing well into the television era, the veteran actor had continuing roles in two short-lived series: Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954) and Erle Stanley Garner's Court of Last Resort.

George Baxter (Actor) .. Jeffries

Born: January 01, 1903
Died: January 01, 1976

Guy Beach (Actor) .. Mr. Cooper

Born: January 01, 1887
Died: January 01, 1952

Harlan Warde (Actor) .. Dr. Ashton

Born: January 01, 1917
Died: March 01, 1980

Trivia: American general purpose actor Harlan Warde came to films in 1941 and remained before the cameras until the mid-'60s. During WWII, Warde played many a young man in uniform. Afterwards, he showed up in supporting roles as detectives, doctors, and ministers. One of Harlan Warde's last assignments was the recurring part of Sheriff Brannon on the TV Western series The Virginian (1962-1971).

Bill Hunter (Actor) .. Guard

Barbara Esback (Actor) .. Matron

Marjorie Wood (Actor) .. Matron

Born: January 01, 1881
Died: January 01, 1955

Evelyn Dockson (Actor) .. Matron

Hazel Keener (Actor) .. Matron

Born: October 22, 1904
Died: August 07, 1979

Trivia: A former Miss Hollywood and a 1924 WAMPAS Baby Star, American actress Hazel Keener is remembered as the vamp in Buster Keaton's The Freshman (1925) and as cowboy star Fred Thomson's leading lady in six above-average Westerns released by FBO. A former member of the Pasadena Community Players, Keener doubled for leading lady Katherine MacDonald and appeared in Harry Langdon two-reelers under the name Barbara Worth. In an effort to escape B-Westerns, she returned to that moniker in the late 1920s, but without much success. When offers even for cheap Westerns dried up in the early 1930s, Keener turned to playing bit parts, essaying a variety of secretaries, nurses, telephone operators, and mothers in hundreds of films until the 1950s. She later became a lay minister with the Church of Religious Science.

Jane Crowley (Actor) .. Matron

Gail Bonney (Actor) .. Inmate

Born: January 01, 1900
Died: January 01, 1984

Doris Kemper (Actor) .. Inmate

Lovyss Bradley (Actor) .. Inmate

Born: January 01, 1905
Died: January 01, 1969

Ezelle Poule (Actor) .. Inmate

Margaret Lambert (Actor) .. Inmate

Eva Nelson (Actor) .. Inmate

Rosemary O'Neil (Actor) .. Inmate

Jean Calhoun (Actor) .. Inmate

Nita Talbot (Actor) .. Inmate

Born: August 08, 1930

Trivia: Durable leading lady Nita Talbot spent the first decade or so of her career playing "slick chicks" and sharp-witted career girls. In films from 1956, she was afforded a wealth of varied screen roles, from the love-starved switchboard operator in A Very Special Favor (1966) to the brassy Madame Esther in Buck and the Preacher (1972). A TV-series perennial, Talbot was seen as Mabel Spooner opposite Larry Blyden's Joe Spooner in Joe and Mabel (1956), unregenerate con artist Blondie Collins on The Thin Man (1957), resourceful girl Friday Dora on The Jim Backus Show (1960), snooty socialite Judy Evans in Here We Go Again (1973) and ultracyncial Rose in Starting from Scratch. Nita Talbot was also a familiar face on the daytime-drama scene, with long-running roles in Search for Tomorrow and General Hospital.

Marie Melesch (Actor) .. Inmate

Pauline Creasman (Actor) .. Inmate

Joyce Newhard (Actor) .. Inmate

Helen Eby-Rock (Actor) .. Inmate

Sheila Stuart (Actor) .. Inmate

Claudia Cauldwell (Actor) .. Inmate

Tina Menard (Actor) .. Inmate

Born: August 26, 1904

Carole Shannon (Actor) .. Inmate

Gladys Roach (Actor) .. Inmate

Virginia Engels (Actor) .. Inmate

Born: January 01, 1916
Died: January 01, 1956

William Haade (Actor) .. Laundryman

Born: March 02, 1903
Died: December 15, 1966

Trivia: William Haade spent most of his movie career playing the very worst kind of bully--the kind that has the physical training to back up his bullying. His first feature-film assignment was as the arrogant, drunken professional boxer who is knocked out by bellhop Wayne Morris in Kid Galahad (37). In many of his western appearances, Haade was known to temper villainy with an unexpected sense of humor; in one Republic western, he spews forth hilarious one-liners while hacking his victims to death with a knife! William Haade also proved an excellent menace to timorous comedians like Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello; in fact, his last film appearance was in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (55).

Ruth Warren (Actor) .. Miss Lyons

Trivia: From 1930 to 1934, American actress Ruth Warren was a contractee at Fox Studios. A slight woman with wide eyes and pursed lips, Warren essayed sizeable character roles in such Fox films as Lightnin' (1930), Six Cylinder Love (1931), and Zoo in Budapest (1933). She played bit roles from 1935 until her retirement in 1958. Laurel and Hardy buffs will remember Ruth Warren as the gossip-dispensing Mrs. Addlequist in Our Relations (1936).

Davison Clark (Actor) .. Doctor

Born: January 01, 1880
Died: January 01, 1972

Trivia: From 1931's Vice Squad onward, American character actor Davison Clark could be seen onscreen as scores of lawyers, doctors and big-city officials. One of Clark's meatier assignments (albeit still a minor one) was as Horace Greeley in The Mighty Barnum. As an member of Cecil B. DeMille's unofficial stock company, Clark essayed bits in DeMille's The Plainsman (1936), The Buccaneer (1938), Union Pacific (1939), The Story of Dr. Wassell (1947), Unconquered (1948) and Samson and Delilah (1949). Davison Clark made his last film appearance in the 1951serial Zombies of the Stratosphere.

Pauline Drake (Actor) .. Doctor's Wife

Born: July 06, 1905

Gracille LaVinder (Actor) .. Visiting Room Matron

Billy Wayne (Actor) .. Ada's Father

Born: February 12, 1897

Trivia: American small-part player Billy Wayne was active from 1935 to 1955. Wayne spent most of his film career at Universal, with a few side trips to Fox and Paramount. He was often cast as a chauffeur, usually an all-knowing or sarcastic one. Billy Wayne also played more than his share of cabbies, sailors, reporters, photographers, and assistant directors (vide W.C. Fields' Never Give a Sucker an Even Break).

Doris Whitney (Actor) .. Woman Visitor

Grayce Hampton (Actor) .. Woman

Born: January 01, 1875
Died: January 01, 1963

Helen Mowery (Actor) .. Woman

Born: April 25, 1922

Trivia: A blonde leading lady of Columbia Pictures B-movies, Helen Mowery starred opposite the company's leading cowboy hero, Charles Starrett, three times: The Fighting Frontiersman (1946), Across the Badlands (1950), and The Kid From Broken Gun (1952). She later did television guest-starring roles on such shows as Science Fiction Theater, Perry Mason, M-Squad, Men Into Space, Sea Hunt, and Lock Up.

Helen Spring (Actor) .. Woman

Born: January 01, 1970
Died: January 01, 1978

Frances Henderson (Actor) .. Woman

William Hunter (Actor) .. Guard

Died: January 01, 1967