Camille Bohannon

Warner Brothers introduced Vitaphone, a sound film system, in New York with
the release of the silent feature Don Juan starring John Barrymore. The film 
had been retrofitted with a symphonic musical score and sound effects.

A Vitaphone projection setup at a 1926 demonstration. Engineer E. B. Craft
is holding a soundtrack disc. The turntable, on a massive tripod base, is at 
lower center.

   Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965)

Actress Clara Bow was a silent film star during the 1920s who came
to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex
symbol. She appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies, including hits
such as Mantrap (1926), It (1927) and Wings (1927). It was her role 
in the film It that brought her global fame and the nickname. Bow died
of a heart attack at the age of 60.

                                 
                                           Sandy Kozel

U.S. Marines cheer after raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi at
Iwo Jima

Iwo Jima Statue, U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Washington D.C.

    William Surrey Hart (December 6, 1864 – June 23, 1946)

Hart was a successful Shakespearean actor on Broadway who also
appeared in the original 1899 stage production of Ben-Hur. He went
on to become one of the great stars of the motion picture western. He 
entered films in 1914 where, after supporting roles in two short films,he
achieved stardom as the lead in the feature The Bargain.

Fascinated by the Old West, he acquired Billy the Kid‘s "six shooters"
and was a friend of legendary lawmen Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. 

              
                Hart in Ben-Hur