Treva Roles was born March 10, 1928 to Louis and Katherine Smith, and spent her childhood in Erie, Pennsylvania and Chicago, Illinois with five other siblings. During the Great Depression, Roles’s father used his entrepreneurial skills to turn his traveling salesman profession into a family business, selling personal inventions. Eventually, he decided to sell the business, and buy a motel out west to retire. The motel ended up being the Fair Price Motel in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Roles soon moved out to help the family run it.

For Kelly Benavidez (b. 1976), life began in the northern California community of Daly City in a Spanish-speaking household. Her parents, Amelia and Genaro Benavidez, were among the few Latinos in their area at the time. Her parents felt strongly about immersing Kelly and her older brother in their Mexican culture. They made the important decision to return to Jalisco, Mexico with their young children.

English novelist and screenwriter Ernest Bowen Pascal was born on January 11, 1896 to Annette Sara Sterner and Goodrigde Sinderby Brown, also known as Julian Pascal) in London, England. He was most known for his novels that became films during the silent era and into the beginning of the sound era. He penned novel The Age for Love, which Howard Hughes turned into a film starring Billie Dove in 1931 that is now lost. He also contributed on a 1947 RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. film detailing the travels of Lewis and Clark.