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George William Bailey was born on August 27, 1944 in Port Arthur, Texas. Although Bailey started college at Lamar University in Beaumont, he eventually transferred to Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He did not complete his studies. He worked at local theater companies during the mid 1960s until his move to California, sometime in the 1970s. Here he began his work on such television series as Starsky and Hutch (1975), Charlie's Angels (1976) and CHiPs (1977). He eventually got a movie debut role in the Chuck Norris movie A Force of One (1979) before landing the role of Luther Rizzo in M*A*S*H (1972). In 1993, he returned to Texas to study again, this time at Southwest Texas State University. In 1994, he graduated with a Bachelor's degree of Fine Arts, Theatre and, for the 1999-2000 school year, he was the Artist in Residence.

While in his 30s, Bailey went prematurely gray, leading to roles of characters much older than his actual age. Although he prefers dramatic acting, his most famous role will always be that of Captain Thaddeus Harris in Police Academy (1984). Since his goddaughter was diagnosed with leukemia, he has worked voluntarily for the Sunshine Kids Foundation, organizing trips for young cancer sufferers. In 2001, he was announced as the executive director of the foundation.

No shrinking violet this one, but despite her talent, vivacity and sheer drive, lovely and alluring blonde Evelyn Keyes would remain for the most part typed as a "B" girl on the silver screen. In spite of her ripe contributions to such superior pictures as Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), The Jolson Story (1946), Mrs. Mike (1949), The Prowler (1951) and 99 River Street (1953), she received no significant awards during her career. In fact, film-goers seem to remember her best not for one of these exceptional co-starring parts, but for her bit role as Scarlett O'Hara's kid sister in Gone with the Wind (1939), American's most beloved epic film. Evelyn also kept Hollywood alive and kicking with two sensationalistic memoirs that chronicled her four dicey marriages, numerous affairs with the rich and famous, and negative takes on the Hollywood studio system.

Evelyn Louise Keyes was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on November 20, 1916 (for decades she would deceive the public as to her real age). Her father died when she was two, and she and her only brother and three sisters grew up living with her mother and her grandmother in Atlanta, Georgia. Taking voice, dance and piano lessons, she was hopeful of becoming a ballerina. Instead, she entered a beauty pageant or two and worked as a chorus girl before relocating to California at age 20. Shortly after her arrival in Los Angeles, a chance meeting with the legendary Cecil B. DeMille led to a Paramount Pictures contract. Stories differ as to how she met De Mille. Hollywood folklore has it that she was "discovered" by a talent scout in true Lana Turner fashion while eating at a restaurant. Another, more believable story has it that she hooked up with one of De Mille's former writers, which led to an introduction.

Nevertheless, she was groomed as a starlet and initially placed in bit and/or unbilled roles. De Mille first gave her a small part in his pirate epic The Buccaneer (1938), then placed her rather obscurely in his sprawling railroad saga Union Pacific (1939). It was David O. Selznick who gave her the bit part of whiny, bratty Suellen O'Hara, who loses her beau to the more calculating Scarlett in "Gone with the Wind". This led directly to her signing with Columbia Pictures. In 1938, just prior to the filming of GWTW, she married businessman Barton Bainbridge, her first of four. The marriage soured within a year or so, however, after she took up with Budapest-born director Charles Vidor, who directed three of her pictures: The Lady in Question (1940) (her first at Columbia), Ladies in Retirement (1941) and The Desperadoes (1943). This second marriage lasted about as long as the first (1943-1945), supposedly due to Vidor's infidelities.

At Columbia Evelyn hit pin-up status and sparked a number of war-era pictures. She played Boris Karloff's daughter in the crime horror Before I Hang (1940) and a blind woman who befriends the hideously scarred Peter Lorre in the excellent The Face Behind the Mask (1941). Still, she could not rise above her secondary status. For every one nifty "B" picture that could propel her into the higher ranks, such as Dangerous Blondes (1943), there was always a low-caliber western (Beyond the Sacramento (1940)), adventure (A Thousand and One Nights (1945)) or musical (The Thrill of Brazil (1946)) lurking about to keep her humble.

In the post-war years, a third tempestuous but highly adventurous marriage (1946-1950) to Hollywood titan John Huston made the tabloid papers practically on a weekly basis. They divorced after four years. She did some of her best work during this period, particularly as the wife of Al Jolson opposite Larry Parks' splendid impersonation. She also showed she had a strong range and earned snappy notices alongside Dick Powell in the film noir Johnny O'Clock (1947) as well as the title comedy character in The Mating of Millie (1948) co-starring Glenn Ford.

Her last (and just as questionable) marriage was to another "father figure" type, musician Artie Shaw, a womanizer if ever there was one who had already had been discarded by trophy wives Ava Gardner and Lana Turner (and five others) by the time he and Evelyn married in 1957. She had pretty much put her career on the back burner by this point. Surprisingly, this marriage lasted longer than any of their previous ones. The couple separated in the 1970s but did not divorce until 1985.

Evelyn returned to the acting fold every once in while. Scarcely on stage (she once played Sally Bowles in a theatrical production of "I Am a Camera" in 1953), she joined up with Don Ameche in a 1972 tour of the musical "No, No, Nanette". She also would show up on an episode of The Love Boat (1977) or Murder, She Wrote (1984) every now and then. She remained childless (there was one adopted child, Pedro, by Huston, but they were estranged).

Very much the traveler, Evelyn lived sporadically all over the world, including France, England and Mexico, and spoke Spanish and French fluently. She was also a writer and published a Hollywood-themed novel in her later years. Her GWTW association and tell-all memoirs in 1977 and 1991 kept her a point of interest right up until the end. Not surprisingly, this firecracker of a lady passed away on the 4th of July -- at age 91 of uterine cancer at an assisted-living residence in Montecito, California.

Phyllis Davis was one of the loveliest faces in Hollywood during the late 60s-early 80s. She grew up in Nederland, Texas. The family lived on the second floor of her parents' mortuary business. Phyllis and her two younger brothers learnt how to be quiet during services, as the floors would creak. Phyllis attended Lamar College briefly, then went to Los Angeles in the mid-'60s to pursue a career in film and TV. She attended acting classes at the Pasadena Playhouse. Phyllis' first break began with small parts in Elvis Presley movies. Love, American Style (1969) were holding auditions for the show. 200 actresses had already been tested and rejected. Phyllis put on a bathing suit and was hired on the spot. After a five season run with Love, American Style (1969), Phyllis started to get some small movie roles. Phyllis was hired - and actually signed a contract, for the James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever (1971), only to be told shortly afterwards the producers had dropped her, and hired Lana Wood to replace her. Still, Phyllis received residual checks for the film, as she had a signed contract. She had a chance encounter with Candy Spelling, wife ofAaron Spelling, who was then casting for a new TV series called, Vega$ (1978). Phyllis got the role of Beatrice, or Bea, for the series' run. After working on a regular series, Phyllis appeared in a few Aaron Spelling made-for-TV movies. Sadly, Phyllis kept her battle with cancer extremely private,, and after her passing away in 2013, there was some confusion as to which 'Phyllis Davis'had died.

Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for a business college. As an overweight teenager, she was a folk-music devotee (especially Odetta, Leadbelly and Bessie Smith). After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School, she attended Lamar State College and the University of Texas, where she played auto-harp in Austin bars.She was nominated for the Ugliest Man on Campus in 1963, and she spent two years traveling, performing and becoming drug-addicted. Back home in 1966, her friend Chet Helms suggested she become lead singer for Big Brother and the Holding Company, an established Haight-Ashbury band consisting of guitarists James Gurley and Sam Andrew, bassist Peter Albin and drummer Dave Getz). She got wide recognition through the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, highlights of which were released in Monterey Pop (1968), and with the band's landmark second album, "Cheap Thrills". She formed her "Kosmic Blues Band" the following year and achieved still further recognition as a solo performer at Woodstock in 1969, highlights released in Woodstock (1970). In the spring of 1970, she sang with the "Full Tilt Boogie Band" and, on October 4 of that year, she was found dead in Hollywood's Landmark Motor Hotel (now known as Highland Gardens Hotel) from a heroin-alcohol overdose the previous day. Her ashes were scattered off the coast of California. Her biggest selling album was the posthumously released "Pearl", which contained her quintessential song: "Me & Bobby McGee".

Barbara Read was born on 29 December 1917 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), Three Smart Girls (1936) and The Spellbinder (1939). She was married to William Talman, Willard Edward Josephy, John Pershing Crawford and William Paul III. She died on 11 December 1963 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.

Jimmy Johnson was born on 16 July 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for The Waterboy (1998), Funny People (2009) and The Shield (2002). He was previously married to Rhonda Rookmaaker and Linda Kay Cooper.

Robin Hines was born in Port Arthur, Texas, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for True Blood (2008), Ghost Whisperer: The Other Side (2007) and The Young and the Restless (1973).

Jeff Doucet was born on 3 February 1959 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA. He died on 16 March 1984 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

Ken Webster is the artistic director of Hyde Park Theatre in Austin, Texas. He has been nominated for 43 B. Iden Payne Awards and 16 Critics' Table Awards for acting, directing, and producing. He has received twelve B. Iden Payne Awards, including a 2004 award for directing The Drawer Boy and a 2003 award for directing Quake at HPT. He also received a 2007 Austin Critics' Table award for his performances in St. Nicholas and Thom Pain (based on nothing). Webster also received the 2003 Austin Critics' Table Award for directing Something Someone Someplace Else and Marion Bridge for HPT and was awarded the 1999 Critics' Table John Bustin Award for "conspicuous achievement." His directing credits for HPT include The Pillowman, You're No One's Nothing Special, Lonely, The Evidence of Silence Broken, Chopper, The Glory of Living, Radio:30, Blue Surge, Blur, and the world premieres of Ham, Art Stripped Naked, and Perdita . His acting credits include The Pillowman, The Water Principle, Vigil, and House for HPT. His recent film and television acting credits include Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly. and Friday Night Lights. Webster was recently inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame.

Robert H. Hensley has worked under two names -- Jericho Brown and Bob Henry.

Robert H. Hensley was born in Port Arthur, Texas in 1936. His father was John Coleman Hensley Sr, a Pharmacist who worked for Massingill Drug Corp. as a detail man in Southern Louisiana. His mother was a math teacher and taught Math in several large high schools. Both of his parents went to Baylor - His father to Baylor Pharmacy College and mother to Mary Hardin Baylor.

He started college at Louisiana College at Pineville. After playing football, basketball and running track at Lafayette High School, Robert went to Louisiana College on an athletic scholarship for 2.5 years.

He went to University of Louisiana at Lafayette for 1 year. Then he attended Baylor University for 2 quarters, and finally got my BS in Theology and Philosophy at Dallas Baptist University.

Robert was a recording artist and made records from 1957 to 1970.

He went into the ministry in November 1970, and started a half-way house, youth ministry, where he ministered to young hippy kids. Most of the youth were living on the streets of Hollywood, and strung out on every kind of drug.

In 1971, he came to Grand Prairie Texas, to sing and help with a big crusade, and stayed to start a ministry called the True Vine.

Robert married his wife (Pamela) in 1973. They have 5 children, and 6 grandchildren. All of his children have a call on their lives, and they sing, and preach and share the love of Jesus where ever they can.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias was born on 26 June 1911 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Pat and Mike (1952), Babe (1975) and The Wonder Girl (1933). She was married to George Zaharias. She died on 27 September 1956 in Galveston, Texas, USA.

Rhonda Fisekci was born on 8 June 1961 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada. She is a casting director and actress, known for Black Summer (2019), Wynonna Earp (2016) and Tin Star (2017). She has been married to Semih Fisekci since 28 December 1985. They have two children.

Michael Joplin was born on 25 May 1953 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA.

Leah Rhodes started her working life rather modestly as a window dresser in her home town and in San Antonio. After moving from Texas to California in 1926 she gained on-the-job experience in the Warner Brothers wardrobe department, eventually becoming apprenticed to the legendary Orry-Kelly. By 1939, she was officially signed under contract as a fully-fledged costume designer and began to work on A-grade features, effectively replacing Orry-Kelly who had been drafted for wartime military service. Rhodes remained at Warners until 1950, then headed the costume department at Universal, followed by a spell at Paramount. She also designed for television and for specialty shows in Las Vegas. On Broadway, she collaborated with Edith Head on the costumes for "Edwin Booth" (1959), directed by José Ferrer.

Many of her designs played an important part in creating screen history, as, for example, Lauren Bacall's gowns for The Big Sleep (1946) which set the standard for the Bacall 'look' in subsequent films. Leah's rich, colourful costumes also added immensely to the lavish Technicolor swashbuckler Adventures of Don Juan (1948), for which she, and co-designers Marjorie Best and Travilla, deservedly shared an Academy Award.

Connie Madigan was born on 4 October 1934 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Ice Hockey in the Rose City (1996), Winterhawks (1997) and Kings of the Road: The Story of the Portland Buckaroos (2010). He died on 2 January 2024 in Canada.

Tad Tadlock was born in Port Arthur, TX. She was the featured dancer on the weekly TV series Your Hit Parade (1950) for years. She left the show in the late 1950s along with choreographer Tom Hansen, Claire Gundermann and other dancers to form "The Tom Hansen Singers and Dancers", and she became the featured dancer on The Arthur Murray Party (1950). She later choreographed many of Merv Griffin's Dance Fever (1979) shows with Deney Terrio.

A graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts, Kaylon Hunt has been recognized for his body of work in both acting and filmmaking. His work has been featured in top national media outlets and publications including IndieWire, Essence, and Variety Magazine, which deemed him "One to Watch" in their Hollywood New Leaders issue. Hunt has produced a number of award-winning projects including Turbo, which won an Emmy Foundation College Television Award, and his first directorial effort, Hero Story, which has toured at festivals across the globe. Formerly a math major, Hunt has self-taught skill-sets such as programming and visual effects. He is an avid fan of technology and art, and finding innovative ways to blend the two together.

Justin P. Slaughter is an American actor, Aviator and Recording artist known for 90 Feet From Home (2019), Meteor (2021) and Egress (2022). He is over Business Development & Talent at IAJ Media. He is also a Certified Personal Trainer and owner of "JSlaughterFITNESS". Not only is he a Personal Trainer but he's also a Fitness Model, Prep Coach for Bodybuilding Athletes. Justin is also a Voice Actor and Song Writer; his debut single is entitled "Oh (Move Ya Body)" Produced by Vinny D.

Pimp C was born on 29 December 1973 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA. He was a composer, known for 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Shaft (2000) and Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996). He died on 4 December 2007 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Born in Port Arthur, Texas in 1997 as Vincent Angel Galvan Jr. He is an actor, known for Night Intruder (2017), and Hilariously Colored (2019). In 2018, he began studying at The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts earning a AOS in acting, and continues to work after pursuing his education.

In 1946 and 1947 Robert Rauschenberg studied at the Kansas City Art Institute. He then left America and moved to Paris. There he continued his art studies at the Académie Julian in 1947. The following year he returned to America and attended Black Mountain College until 1949. There he was a student of the German-American painter and designer Josef Albers. He also studied at the Art Student's League with the American painter and art writer Robert Motherwell, the Polish-born painter Jack Tworkov and the American painter Franz Kline.

Rauschenberg was inspired by the Dadaist works of the German painter, sculptor and poet Kurt Schwitters, by the ready-mades of the French artist Marcel Duchamp and by the style of the American composer John Cage; This resulted in "white" and "black" pictures in the first half of the 1950s. Rauschenberg then made his collages in an expressionist painting style, which he combined with textile materials or photographs. Already in these works the connection to his later Combine Paintings was clearly noticeable. In the mid-1950s, Rauschenberg made his debut with the first works of this kind - he combined his expressionist paintings with everyday objects from mass production such as radios, clocks, bottles and light bulbs.

In this connection, the three-dimensional objects appeared alienating and strange. His best-known work, "Monogram", comes from a series made between 1955 and 1959 and depicts a ram with a car tire. These works had a strong influence on the pop art movement of the 1960s. With his three-dimensional works of art, Rauschenberg helped a new realism to break through against the prevailing Abstract Expressionism. Especially through his use of images of personalities in American life such as John F. Kennedy in the work "Retroactive I" (1964), Rauschenberg intended to bring art closer to reality. At the beginning of the 1960s, Rauschenberg tried his hand at screen printing black and white series images.

Then he put on some multimedia shows in collaboration with John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham. The artist's aim was to expand the existing possibilities of traditional art forms. In the 1970s and 1980s, Robert Rauschenberg returned to the collage technique and also produced lithographs and other graphics. For example, in the early 1970s he created cardboard wall works using packing boxes and returned to a more abstract formal language. In 1981 he created the work "Rauschenberg Photographs", a work with photographs on which he concentrated during this time. From 1985 to 1991, Rauschenberg went on the exhibition tour "ROCI" - "Rauschenberg Oversaes Culture Interchange", which took him through international countries.

In 1993 he received the USA National Medal of Art. A major Rauschenberg retrospective followed from September 1997 to March 1999, which was shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Menil Collection, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa. A large solo exhibition followed from December 2005 to May 2007, which was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Musée national d'art moderne, Center Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm was shown.

Mitsuharu Inoue was born on 15 May 1926 in Port Arthur, China. He was a writer, known for Apart from Life (1970), Tomorrow - ashita (1988) and A Dedicated Life (1994). He died on 30 May 1992 in Japan.

General Prince Jerry Whittredge was born on November 21, 1949 in Port Arthur,Texas. After earning a Bachelor of Science at Lamar University, he joined the Marine Corp as an enlisted man to see combat first hand. His assignment was to parachute into North Vietnam when pilots where shot down and bring them home. After saving 34 pilots, he was captured and became a POW. In 1975 he was awarded the Medal of Honor. The Marine Cops then attached him to the CIA as an employee where he flew reconnaissance/combat missions in an F-14A+ Tomcat. With this expertise he advised Clint Eastwood on the movies The Eiger Sanction and later Firefox. Then moving into the strange world of extra terrestrials, he advised Sigourney Weaver and Tom Skerritt on the movie Alien. Continuing to advise in Hollywood and intelligence work at the CIA his dual careers expanded until his CIA retirement in 2005. He has continued in the Marine Corps working on counter-intelligence in several assignment. In addition, he moved closer towards his love of film and began producing short documentaries and writing scripts. The Prince title was established in 2010 and comes from his heritage in the Royal House of Windsor.

Andy Ratoucheff was born on 21 November 1903 in Port Arthur, Russia. He was an actor, known for Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers (1953), Pufnstuf (1970) and H.R. Pufnstuf (1969). He died on 2 February 1982 in Hillsborough, Florida, USA.

Duriel Harris was born on 27 November 1954 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Superboy (1988), Convicts (1991) and The NFL on CBS (1956).