Hedy at age 7

 
                   
                 Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler)  

                     (November 9, 1914-January 19, 2000) 

Hedy Lamarr was a contract star of MGM‘s “Golden Age.” The Hollywood
beauty appeared in Ecstasy in 1933 and Samson and Delilah in 1949. 

Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994)

Lancaster was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once for
his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960. He also won a Golden Globe for that
performance and BAFTA Awards for The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and
Atlantic City (1980). His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was the
most successful independent production company in Hollywood in the 1950s,
making movies such as Marty (1955), Trapeze (1956), and Sweet Smell of
Success (1957). He was named 19th among the greatest male stars of all
time by the American Film Institute in 1999.

Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry

1953

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss 

Dreyfuss is best known for starring in a number of film, television, and 
theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Grafitti 
(1973), Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and 
Mr. Holland’s Opus which was filmed in Portland, Oregon (1995).

Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for his role
in The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland’s
Opus.

Dreyfuss in Jaws

 
First episode

 
William Hooker Gillette

Based on the popular characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes aired on coast-to-coast radio 
beginning Monday October 20, 1930 and ran until June 5, 1955. Over 
time, there were 574 broadcasts on the NBC, Mutual and ABC network 
stations.

The original cast featured William Gillette as Holmes and Leigh Lovell
as Dr. Watson. The first sponsor was George Washington Coffee. The
announcer was Joseph Bell.

Claire Trevor and Edward G. Robinson

Big Town is a popular radio drama series that was broadcast until
1952. Edward Robinson played Steve Wilson, the managing editor 
for Illustrated Press until 1942 when Edward J.Pawley took over for
most of the remaining episodes. Claire Trevor portrayed Lorelei
Kilbourne, a society editor and Wilson’s  sidekick. She was replaced
by Ona Munson in 1940.

Big Town was rated No-one among all of the reporter-type drama
series on radio. It was also rated in the top 15 among all radio
programs broadcast and had a listening audience rated between
10 and 20 million people. The program was later adapted to both
film and television and a comic book published by DC Comics.