Walter Leland Catlett was born to a locally prominent San Francisco, California family in 1889. He won his first stage role as a thirteen year-old in a comedic opera; this early stage career lasted over twenty years. He moved to Hollywood in the early 1920s to make films and by 1930 was in demand as a character actor. After a foray behind the camera, directing a series of comedy shorts for RKO, Catlett returned to acting. His film career spanned another thirty years and 163 films. Catlett died in 1960.

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In kind with many character actors of his generation, Clarence Hummell Wilson spent the first decades of his acting career touring in stage productions. Born Wilson Hummell in 1876, Clarence Wilson launched his film career in 1920 with Duds, eventually accumulating 198 films to his credit. Wilson died in Los Angeles, California in 1941.

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Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. "Funerals Set for Three N.H. Citizens". Hollywood, California. October 7, 1941. pg. 2.

Sidney Cutner was born in Russia in 1903 and immigrated with his parents in 1906. Cutner's path to music composition and orchestration is unclear, but by 1934 he was working in Hollywood as an independent composer and orchestrator for both smaller and major studios. Between 1934 and 1970, Cutner composed or orchestrated music for almost 400 film titles. He died in 1971.

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Actor Louis Wolheim was born on March 28, 1880 in New York, New York to Lena and Elias Wolheim, although earlier census records indicate he was born in Russia and arrived in the United States in 1888. Wolheim was best known for his role as Katcinsky in the 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). He also starred in Howard Hughes' films Two Arabian Knights (1927) and The Racket (1928).