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Mulrooney, Edward P. (1874-1960)
Edward P. Mulrooney was the former Police Commissioner of New York City, New York between 1930 and 1933. He was born on July 24, 1874 in Union City, New Jersey to Irish immigrants. Mulrooney joined the Police Department in 1896 and was most well known for serving as New York State's first chariman of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board in 1933, immeidately after the repeal of Prohibition. A speech by Mulrooney speech on gun control was used for a foreward for the Howard Hughes-produced film Scarface (1932).
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Hand, Herman, 1875-1961
Austrian-born composer who immigrated to the United States in 1900. Hand worked as a musician and composer with several orchestras until 1928, when he moved to Hollywood to work as a composer and arranger in the film industry. Between 1928 and his death in 1951, Herman Hand contributed to over ninety film scores, including Howard Hughes' 1942 western, The Outlaw and the Oscar award-winning adventure Lost Horizons (1937).
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Wilde, Hagar (1905-1971)
Hagar Wilde was born in Ohio in 1905. She was a successful short-story writer when Howard Hughes hired her to write the dialogue script for the Age of Love in 1931. Wilde is best known for co-writing scripts for two of Howard Hawks most well-known comedies, Bring Up Baby (1938) and I was a Male War Bride (1949), both starring Cary Grant. Wilde died in 1971.
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Daffron, Polly. "Introducing Hagar Wilde". The Time Dispatch. Richmond, Virginia. June 28 1931, pg. 32.
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Newman, Robert V. (Robert Vivian), 1903-1982
Robert V. Newman was a film studio exective who worked with Paramount Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Productions, and Howard Hughes. Born on July 21, 1903 in New Haven, Connecticut, he produced broadway shows before arriving in Hollywood, California in 1942 to assist in film production. In 1972, he was hired as a general manager within Hughes' corporations. Newman died on April 26, 1982 in Los Angeles, California.
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Dvorak, Ann, 1911-1979
Ann Dvorak was a film actor active between 1932 and 1951. Born on August 2, 1912 as Anna McKim in New York, New York, Dvorak first appeared on film as the titular character of Ramon (1916) at the age of five. In 1932, she was cast as as Francesca "Cesca" Camonte in Scarface and Mary Way in Sky Devils, both produced by Howard Hughes. Dvorak continued to act until she retired in 1951. Dvorak died on December 10, 1979 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Brylawski, E. Fulton (1925-2017)
Edward Fulton Brylawski was born in Washington, D. C., on July 29, 1925, the son of copyright attorney Fulton M. Brylawski and his wife, Celeste Weil. He followed in his father's footsteps, earning his law degree from Yale University and joining his father's law firm. Specializing in copyright law, most of Brylawski's efforts surrounded his work with major motion picture studios and individuals involved in film. He retired in the 1990s and died on June 6, 2017.
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Ramsden, Frances, 1920-2000
Frances Ramsden was an actor in three films between 1944 and 1947. Born on March 20, 1920 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ramsden is best known for her leading role in the Howard Hughes and Preston Sturges film The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947), her last film before leaving the movie industry. She appeared once more in the documentary Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius to discuss Lloyd. Ramsden died on September 16, 2000 in Los Angeles, California.
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Dieterich, Ludwig M., Dr., 1867-1935
Dr. Ludwig M. Dieterich was an engineer known for his patents on color photography. Dieterich was born on September 4, 1867 in Graz, Austria to Rudolt von Dieterich and Malvine Rose Kiewicz. He naturalized as a United States citizen on December 29, 1905, and married Herma Bohm in 1895. Dieterich's work was used for the film coloring process in Multicolor, Limited, a company owned by Howard Hughes. Dieterich died on December 29, 1935 in Los Angeles, California.
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