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...ur Crandall}}''' ({{star}}October 20, 1834 – {{dag}}August 3, 1920) was an American inventor and toy-maker. He had taken out over 150 patents on toys in his 75 {{cat|American inventors|Toy inventors|Toy designers}}

The players included Hollywood legends and the all-but-forgottens, oddball inventors and secret agents, and of course a parade of well-proportioned young women, Los Angeles was founded by the Spanish in 1769 and become an American city in 1850. The Santa Monica Mountains, called in later days the Hollywoo

...e Michael Cohan''' ({{star}}July 3, 1878 – {{dag}}November 5, 1942) was an American entertainer, [[playwright]], composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and ...e a Grand Old Flag". As a composer, he was one of the early members of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). He displayed remarka

...Fox in the end credits of the TV series Futurama), is one of the six major American film studios. Located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of ...on Owens, the U.S. rights to the Tri-Ergon system invented by three German inventors, and the work of Theodore Case. This resulted in the Movietone sound system

'''Hedy Lamarr''' (November 9, 1913 - January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and communications technology innovator. Though known primarily for Lamarr wanted to join the National Inventors Council but she was told that she could better help the war effort by using

...'' (/ləˈrɔɪ/; {{star}}October 15, 1900 – {{dag}}September 13, 1987) was an American film [[director]] and [[producer]]. In his youth he played juvenile roles i ...'s personnel. She arranged for the six-year-old LeRoy to serve as a Native-American papoose in the 1906 stage production of The Squaw Man. LeRoy attributed his

...d Louis Lumière are generally credited with the birth of modern cinema,[5] American cinema soon came to be a dominant force in the emerging industry. As of 201 ...ing a set of still cameras placed in a row. Muybridge's accomplishment led inventors everywhere to attempt to make similar devices. In the United States, Thomas