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Adorée, Renée, 1898-1933
French born silent film star Renée Adorée was boen in Lille, France on September 30, 1898 to Victorine Lamarr and Jean De La Fonte as Jeanne de la Fonte. She began working in a circus at the age of 5, and eventually she went on to become a dancer. She arrived in Hollywood, California in 1920, and soon began acting. She starred in 45 films, including Howard Hughes' The Mating Call (1928).
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Cunningham, Lodge
Lodge Cunningham worked as a sound technician on several shorts in 1929 before Howard Hughes hired him to serve as the sound engineer for his full-length feature, Hell's Angels. Cunningham went on to record and engineer movie sound on a total of 106 films and television shows before retiring to operate a restaurant in Red Mountain, California. He died in 1991.
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Nick Rogers. "In the Audience: Just Listen to This". Accessed December 15, 2021. http://www.news-ridgecrest.com/news/story.pl?id=0000006854
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Brent, Evelyn, 1899-1975
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.
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Alexander, J. B. (Jesse Bennett), 1895-1976
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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