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Born April 20, 1890 • Birmingham • England
Died March 4, 1945 (aged 54) • London • England
Earl Carroll
American showman
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
British actor, director, writer, and composer
Detail of portrait of Charles Dibdin, oil on canvas, by Thomas Phillips, 1799; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Charles Dibdin
British composer, author, actor and manager
Sir Charles Blake Cochran
British theatrical producer
Frank Benson, 1882.
Sir Frank Benson
British actor
Sir Huw Pyrs Wheldon
British executive
Jacob J. Shubert
American theatrical manager
Lee Shubert
American theatrical manager
Sam S. Shubert
American theatrical manager
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Hubert Ogunde
Nigerian playwright, actor, and musician
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker
French entertainer
Irving Thalberg; Norma Shearer
Irving Thalberg
American motion-picture executive
Laura Keene, lithograph.
Laura Keene
British actress
Louis B. Mayer.
Louis B. Mayer
American producer
Ames, Winthrop
Winthrop Ames
American theatrical producer and director
Samuel Goldwyn
American filmmaker and producer
Talma, lithograph by G. Engelmann
François-Joseph Talma
French actor and theatrical manager
Michael Todd
Michael Todd
American showman
Pathé
Charles Pathé
French producer