Fantasia is widely acclaimed, and in 1998 the American Film
Institute ranked it as the 58th greatest American film in their
100 Years…100 Movies and the fifth greatest animated film
in their 10 Top 10 list. The film’s first of thirteen theatrical
roadshow engagements opened at the Broadway Theatre
in New York City. 

Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler)
November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000

Lamarr appeared in Ecstasy in 1933 and Samson and Delilah in
1949. She also appeared in Boom Town and Comrade X with
Clark Gable (1940). She was born in Austria and studied theatre
in Berlin.

At the Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s Sixth Pioneer Awards in
1997, Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil were honored with special
awards for their "trail-blazing development of a technology that has
become a key component of wireless data systems used for radio-
controlled torpedoes.

Hedy Lamarr in Samson and Delilah

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

Lancaster came to be regarded as one of the best motion picture actors
of his generation. He was nominated four times for Academy Awards and
won once for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960. In 1999, the American
Film Institute named Lancaster 19th among the greatest male stars of
all time.

1953

Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula

Bela Lugosi (Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó)

(20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956)

The Hungarian actor is best remembered for portraying
Count Dracula in the original 1931 film and for his roles in 
various other horror films. Lugosi dropped out of school
when he was twelve years old, and began appearing in
Shakespeare plays.

Linda Darnell (born Monetta Eloyse Darnell in Dallas, Texas)  

(October 16, 1923 – April 10, 1965)

Darnell was a leading lady in the 1940s who became known for her roles
in My Darling Clementine (1946) and The Mark of Zorro (1040). Her other
films include Forever Amber (1947) and Unfaithfully Yours (1948). She was
11 years old when she started work as a model, although she pretended to
be 16.