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.

Born in Dallas, Texas in 1897, Jesse Bennett (J. B.) Alexander was an aviation executive who taught Howard Hughes to fly in 1927 and served as Chief of Aeronautics for Hughes' film Hell's Angels between 1927 and 1930. Alexander later founded the Harlow Aircraft Manufacturing Company, worked as a regional manager for the young American Airways, and patented designs for imporvements in aviation control technology. He died in 1976.

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