1. Performing Arts and Theater History
The Great Gabbo 1927
Performing Arts and Theater History

3. Director: James Cruze
Coming from a Mormon family in Utah, James Cruze was reportedly part Ute Indian. He worked as a fisherman to pay his way through drama school. Among his former wives were actresses Betty Compson (also from Utah) and Marguerite Snow. He was also married to Alberta McCoy (died on July 7, 1960), who is interred in the Columbarium at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (unmarked). Many of the films Cruze directed in the 1920s and 1930s have been lost. He directed a large variety of films, from Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle slapstick two-reelers to suspense thrillers to big-budget epics. In 1929 he appeared before a grand jury in Los Angeles that was investigating an accident on one of his films in which one man was killed and others were injured, one of many run-ins Cruze had with the law. He used the name Cruze on screen, but in real life remained James Bosen.

4. Erich Von Stroheim \ Gabbo
After spending some time working in his father's hat factory, he emigrated to America around Working in various jobs he arrived in Hollywood in and got work in D.W. Griffiths' company as a bit player.
 He then started on 'Greed', which when completed was unrealizable being 42 reels with a running time of 7 hours. It was eventually cut down to 10 reels.
Gloria Swanson fired him from her production of 'Queen Kelly' when with no sign of the film nearing completion the costs had risen to twice the budget partly due to him re-shooting scenes that had already been passed by the Hays office. Which still had a striking effect on audiences.
It was the end for him as a director

5. George Grandee :
Voice of Otto

6. Betty Compson/ Mary
A mining engineer's daughter, blond, blue-eyed Betty Compson began in show business playing violin in a Salt Lake City vaudeville establishment for $15 a week.
In 1919, Betty was signed by writer/director George Loane Tucker to co-star opposite Lon Chaney as Rose in The Miracle Man (1919).
From 1921, Betty also owned her own production company. She went on to make several films in England between 1923 and 1924 for the director Graham Cutts.
During the late 1920's, Betty appeared in a variety of dramatic and comedic roles.
 In later years, Betty Compson developed her own a cosmetics label and ran a business in California, producing personalized ashtrays for the hospitality industry.

7. Donald Douglas/ Frank
Donald Douglas was born on August 24, 1905 in Kinleyside, Scotland. He was an actor, known for Murder, My Sweet (1944), Deadwood Richard (1940) and Fast Company (1938). He died on December 31, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.