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Mansfield, W. Duncan

W. Duncan Mansfield was an film and television editor, director, and screeplay writer. Born on September 15, 1971 in Hollywood, California, he worked for directors including Thomas H. Ince and Harold Lloyd. During his career, he edited fifty-one films, directed two, and wrote the screenplay for one. Mansfield also performed editing for the Howard Hughes-produced films The Age For Love (1931) and Cock of the Air (1932). He died on September 15, 1971 in Hollywood, California.

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Warren, Eda

American film editor Eda Warren was born in Denver, Colorado on October 17, 1903. She was one of the first women to be accepted in the film ediing process, and assisted on over sixty films for Paramount Pictures and Howard Hughes' RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Warren was also eleceted secretary of American Cinema Editors group in 1955. She died on July 15, 1980 in Los Angeles, California.

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Lloyd, Harold, 1893-1971

Harold Lloyd was an influential film actor and producer known for his sight gags and extreme stunts in his silent comedy films between 1913 and 1928, as well as his sound films between 1929 and 1938 before his retirement. After retiring, director Preston Sturges convinced him to return to acting, appearing in the Howard Hughes-produced The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947).

The film was re-edited and re-released as Mad Wednesday in 1950.

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Wagner, Max, 1901-1975

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.

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Van Cleef, Lee, 1925-1989

Notorious Western film villian Lee Van Cleef was born Clarence Leroy Van Cleef Jr. in Somerville, New Jersey to Marion Lavinia Gilbert Van Fleet and Clarence Leroy Van Cleef Sr. on January 9, 1925. Van Cleef attended Somerville High School before dropping out in order to elist in the United States Nacy in 1942. He worked as a sonarman on the U. S. S. Incredible in Mediterranean Sea, before moving to sweeping seabeds near Russia.

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