Today in Ginny starts with a correction from yesterday. I failed to include guitarist George Van Eps in the birthday montage even though I wrote about him. He’s the guy with the guitar in today’s grouping.
Russian born actress Rita Gould (1890) was a dietician in THE WOMEN (1939). Apparently she had a bigger impact on the stage, I’m guessing, since all the photos I found are either from plays or vaudeville. She doesn’t seem to have had a type in Hollywood, playing everything from salesladies to sculptors in a 20 year career.
Sheila Darcy (1914) was in two films with our Ginny, playing a “bit role” in SCANDAL STREET (1938) and a nurse in MEN WITH WINGS (1938). Darcy makes up one half of a husband/wife TIG team as she married Preston Foster, who starred with Ginny in THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT (1937).
Pauline Lord (1890) was a Broadway star signed by Paramount to play Mrs. Wiggs in MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH (1934). She would only appear in two films and then would return to the stage. It makes for an interesting record. Two films with top billing in each and nothing else. Seen here with Virginia, who was in her first featured role.
Actor Sherry Hall (1892) was a field official-I assume that means airfield-in MEN WITH WINGS. His was a long career of uncredited roles. He seemed to like playing court clerks a lot, from westerns to the Perry Mason series. the photo is of him as a dentist in Laurel and Hardy’s THE DANCING MASTERS.
John Graham Spacey (1897) is, according to IMDb, Kevin Spacey’s great-great-uncle. So we’ll go with it. He was a businessman in MAID OF SALEM (1937). Born in Derbyshire, he played a lot of Englishmen in American films. He was Sir John Cowell in THE STORY OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL and his final role was as a British officer in WATERLOO BRIDGE.
Violinist, conductor, composer Victor Young (1899) did a lot of soundtrack work in Hollywood. He won an Oscar for AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS and was nominated another 21 times. He also won a Golden Globe and an Emmy. He was not nominated for SOULS AT SEA (1937).
Don Terry (1902) gets a large star spot just because that how the montage worked out. He was Dixon a crooked fisherman in BARNACLE BILL (1941). Born Donald Prescott Loker he was a former athlete turned actor, working in a coal yard while attending Harvard. Don became the rough and tumble hero Don Winslow in DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY and DON WINSLOW OF THE COAST GUARD. In later life, he was a noted philanthropist and Board chairman of the Donald P. Loker Cancer Treatment Center in Los Angeles and founding member of the Southern California Cancer Center and California Museum of Science and Industry Foundation.
