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Thomas Delmar was born on 11 November 1879 in Maryland, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Wyoming Wildcat (1925), The Rainbow Trail (1925) and Those Kids and Cupid (1915). He was married to Laura Delmar. He died on 3 June 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Hugh Kidder was born on 28 April 1880 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor, known for His Private Secretary (1933). He died on 3 June 1952 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
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Francis Read Kendall was born on 14 June, 1901, in Los Angeles, the son of Frank and Emma Kendall. His father worked for the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works.
Kendall began working as a copy boy for the Los Angeles Times when he was just fourteen. Upon his graduation from Los Angeles High School he became the youngest crime reporter on staff at the Los Angeles Record. Later he would work on the Sacramento Bee and the Fresno Bee before eventually returning to the LA Times in 1928. Kendall went on to become a well known newspaper reporter and Hollywood columnist.
In 1933 Kendall sold his story "Out On Bail" to Twentieth Century Productions, where it was later produced as Blood Money (1933).
When the United States entered the Second World War, Kendall left the LA Times and joined the US Marine Corps. After the war he worked as a studio publicist for Twentieth Century-Fox.
Francis Read Kendall died on 3 June, 1952, at the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital after suffering his second heart attack in a week. He was survived by his wife Marie.