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Paul Henreid was born Paul Georg Julius Freiherr von Hernreid Ritter von Wasel-Waldingau in Trieste, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the son of Marie Luise Heilig (Lendecke) and Baron Karl Alphons Hernreid, an aristocratic banker and financial adviser to Emperor Franz Josef, who was born to a Jewish family and whose name was changed from Carl Hirsch to Karl von Hernreid as he converted from Judaism to Catholicism in 1904 due to anti-semitism in Austria-Hungary.

Paul grew up in Vienna and studied at the prestigious Maria Theresa Academy (graduating in 1927) and the Institute of Graphic Arts. For four years, he worked as translator and book designer for a publishing outfit run by Otto Preminger, while training to be an actor at night. Preminger was also a protégé (and managing director) of Max Reinhardt. After attending one of Henreid's acting school performances, Preminger introduced him to the famous stage director and this led to a contract. In 1933, Paul made his debut at the Reinhardt Theatre in "Faust". He subsequently had several leading roles on the stage and appeared in a couple of Austrian films. Paul, like his character Victor Laszlo in Chuyện Tình Thế Chiến (1942), was avidly anti-fascist. He accordingly left continental Europe and went to London in 1935, first appearing on stage as Prince Albert in "Victoria the Great" two years later.

Henreid made his English-speaking motion picture debut in the popular drama Tạm biệt Mr. Chips (1939), as the sympathetic German master Max Staefel, who proves to be Chipping's truest friend and ally. After that, however, he became incongruously typecast as Nazi henchmen in An Englishman's Home (1940) and Night Train to Munich (1940). That year, he moved to the United States (becoming a citizen the following year) and quickly established himself on Broadway with "Flight to the West", as a Ribbentrop-type Nazi consul. His powerful performance led to radio work in the serial "Joyce Jordan-Girl Interne" and a film contract with RKO in 1941.

This marked a turning point in Paul Henreid's career. He finally escaped the stereotypical Teutonic image and began to play heroic or romantic leads, his first being Joan of Paris (1942), opposite Michèle Morgan, as French RAF pilot Paul Lavallier. Significantly, his next film, Now, Voyager (1942), defined his new screen persona: debonnaire, cultured and genteel, lighting two cigarettes simultaneously, then passing one to Bette Davis. According to Henreid, this legendary (and later often lampooned) scene was almost cut from the film because the director, Irving Rapper, had concerns about it. Next came "Casablanca", where Henreid played the idealistic, sensitive patriot Victor Laszlo; the poorly received Bronte sisters biopic Devotion (1946), as an Irish priest; and a stalwart performance as a Polish count and Ida Lupino's love interest, In Our Time (1944).

After several dull romantic leads, Henreid reinvented himself yet again. He played a memorably athletic and lively Dutch pirate, the 'Barracuda', in RKO's colourful swashbuckler The Spanish Main (1945). Another of his best later performances was as a sadistic South African commandant in the underrated film noir Rope of Sand (1949), which re-united him with his former "Casablanca" co-stars Peter Lorre and Claude Rains. After the Arabian Technicolor adventure, Thief of Damascus (1952), Henreid's star began to fade. His last noteworthy appearance during the fifties was as an itinerant magician in the oriental extravaganza Siren of Bagdad (1953) . The most memorable of several in-jokes, had Henreid lighting two hookahs (water pipes) for one of his harem girls, spoofing his famous scene from "Now, Voyager".

Outspoken in his opposition to McCarthyism and adhering to his rights under the First Amendment, he was subsequently blacklisted as a "communist sympathizer" by the House Committee on Un- American Activities. In spite of the damage this did to his career, he re-emerged as a director of second features and television episodes for Screen Gems, Desilu and other companies. In 1957, Alfred Hitchcock (in defiance of the blacklist) hired him to direct several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). Towards the end of his career, Paul Henreid directed his former "Now, Voyager" co-star Bette Davis in the camp melodrama Dead Ringer (1963) and toured with Agnes Moorehead on stage in a short-lived revival of "Don Juan in Hell" (1972- 73). Henreid died of pneumonia in a Santa Monica hospital in April 1992, after having suffered a stroke. He has the distinction of having not just one but two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for his films, and one for his television work.

Hollis Morrison was born on 25 September 1930 in New Hampshire, USA. He was an actor, known for McCloud (1970), How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) and That Girl (1966). He was married to June Frances Stacy. He died on 29 March 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Earl John Spencer was born on 24 January 1924 in Paddington, London, England, UK. He was married to Raine Spencer and Frances Shand Kydd. He died on 29 March 1992 in London, England, UK.

Archie F. Marshek was an American movie and TV editor whose 44-year career spanned six decades from 1927 to 1971. Born on February 15, 1902 in Cass Lake, Minnesota, he started his career at Joseph P. Kennedy's Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) in 1927. When Kennedy formed R.K.O. in 1929 by merging F.B.O. with the Keith-Orpheum vaudeville circuit and striking a deal with David Sarnoff of Radio Corporation of America in order to access his sound technology patents, Marshek moved to the new studio. He served as a staff editor at R.K.O.-Radio Pictures from 1929 to 1936 and then at Paramount Pictures from 1937 to 1967. He also was the associate producer on The Son of Kong (1933), his only foray beyond the movieola.

Marshek's main claim to fame is that he was the first editor to cut a three-strip, live-action Technicolor film, the 1934 short La Cucaracha (1934). The next year, he became the first to cut a full-length, three-strip Technicolor feature movie, Becky Sharp (1935). He worked with such top directors as King Vidor, Gregory La Cava, Lewis Milestone, and Rouben Mamoulian. He also was the editor for the feature film directing debuts of the Oscar-winning actors Anthony Quinn (The Buccaneer (1958)) and Marlon Brando (One-Eyed Jacks (1961)). At Paramount, he edited films featuring the studio's top stars, including Bing Crosby and Bob Hope both individually and as a team, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis as a team and Lewis as a solo act, and Elvis Presley.

Archie Marshek died on March 29, 1992 in Lawton, Oklahoma. He was 90 years old.

William L. (Bill) Hendricks was a Director of Public Relations at Warner Bros and a retired Marine Corps Reserve colonel who, in 1947, co-founded the well-known Toys For Tots gift program sponsored by the Marines. He was also a producer of short films at Warner Bros, as well as head of the studio's cartoon division between 1964 and 1969. In 1961 the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences gave him an honorary Oscar for producing the Marine Corps documentary "A Force in Readiness." In 1969, for his work on behalf of Toys for Tots he was awarded the United States military's Legion of Merit. Much liked and well respected, Hendricks was described as a quiet man who got things done. His wife Diane, who suggested starting the toy charity, died in 1988, and while the Hendricks had no children of their own, Bill told an interviewer in 1982 that he felt the grateful recipients of all those toys had become "our children."

Eberhard Wächter was born on 9 July 1929 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor, known for Der Graf von Luxemburg (1972), Die Fledermaus (1972) and Die Fledermaus (1986). He died on 29 March 1992 in Vienna, Austria.

Robert Dickens was born on 28 July 1937 in Romford, Essex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Kidnapped (1952), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and The Appleyards (1952). He was married to Eileen. He died on 29 March 1992.

Nick DeGenner was born on 22 November 1907. Nick died on 29 March 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.