Born in 1934 in Lahaina, Maui, Hawai'i as the seventh of seven daughters of a sugar plantation crew boss, Rozita Villanueva Lee recalls a privileged life, because when her father became a boss, the family got electricity, a telephone, indoor plumbing, and fluorescent lighting in their house. The camps were organized by nationality: the Filipino workers and their families lived in one camp, and the Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and "haole" workers and their families each lived in their own.

Born and raised in Palm Desert, California, Cynthia Leung is the first Chinese-American woman elected as Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge; she was the only Asian child in her elementary school, and she grew up surrounded by the arts. She was the younger daughter of a Chinese brush artist mother and an architect father, and her older sister went to The Julliard School to study piano.

Mexican-American actor, Maxwell Sergius Wagner was most known for starring in most of Preston Sturges' films. Wagner was one of five children born to William Wallace Wagner and Edith Gilfillan in Torreon, Mexico on November 28, 1901. After his father died in the Mexican Revolution, the Wagner family moved to Salinas, California. He followed three of his brothers to Hollywood, California to work in the film industry.

Frank Lawrence was a film editor who worked on silent and early sound films between 1917 and 1936. Born on June 15, 1883, Lawrence worked for film companies including Vitagraph Studios and Universal City Studios. On 1918, he married Viola Lawrence, a fellow editor considered to be the first female film editor in Hollywood. During his career, Lawrence performed editing on films including Hell's Angels (1930). He died on July 28, 1960.

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American film star Evelyn Brent was born on October 20 between 1895 and 1901 in Tampa, Florida. She moved to Brooklyn, New York as a teenager where she earned jobs modeling. While in school, Brent visited the World Film Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey and was offered a job acting. She made her screen debut in A Gentleman from Mississippi (1914), and went on to star in films and television until 1960. She starred in Howard Hughes' adaptation of Rex Beach's novel The Mating Call in 1928.