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She's considered an American icon in the world of entertainment although most contemporaries have no idea who she is until her legendary risqué "fan dance" is brought up. Then they put two and two together. Burlesque star Sally Rand was born in the Ozark region (Missouri) in 1904, her father a corporal in the Spanish-American War and her mother a Pennsylvania Dutch Quaker.
Inspired by the legendary ballerina Anna Pavlova, Sally became interested in dance at a young age and left home to join a carnival as a teen. She invariably became a cigarette girl, chorine, café dancer, artist's model and circus performer (Ringling) through a series of introductions. She subsequently joined a repertory theater company and took acting seriously for the first time. During the 20s she appeared in a number of stage shows. Films came her way as she was able to score work (due to her agile background in the circus) from Mack Sennett and Hal Roach in a few of their daredevil slapstick shorts. A Wampas Baby Star of 1927, she joined mentor Cecil B. DeMille's stock company and entered feature films with a new name that DeMille gave her -"Sally Rand."
She decorated a number of silents, including westerns with Hoot Gibson and others, but a pronounced lisp hurt her career come the advent of sound. It was at this juncture that the shapely dame decided to work on incorporating her talent for dancing back into her career. With the right mixture of enticement, imagination and intricate feathery placement, Sally Rand came upon her secret formula to success. As an exotic burlesque performer, she not only winningly ignited male libidos but found a steady gig for the rest of her days. A long-standing job at the Paramount Club in 1932 is where the idea of her "fan dance" was created. Her "Lady Godiva" stunt at the Chicago's World's Fair had her arrested on lewd charges but she was eventually released. All the brouhaha just increased her notoriety. She later created the "bubble dance" in which she did a taunting dance with a huge five foot specially constructed translucent bubble to the delight of male audiences.
In the 1930s she also appeared in legit plays including a stint as Sadie Thompson in "Rain" in 1935 opposite Humphrey Bogart. She would appear in later years at various revues, expositions and fairs still teasing and playing "hide and peek" with the guys, her act seldom straying from its original concept. She was arrested a few more times than she was married (at least three husbands can be credited to her marriage account). She continued to appear on stage doing her fan dance past age 60 and once replaced an ailing burlesque star Ann Corio in the stage show "This Was Burlesque" in the 1960s. She also shared the stage with burlesque topliners Tempest Storm and Blaze Starr. Sally's final appearance took place in Kansas City in 1978 and she died the following year.- Actor
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Frank Hansen was born on 26 May 1973 in Elkton, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for Wrath of Man (2021), Righteous Kill (2008) and Music and Lyrics (2007).- Actress
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Ashley Brooks was born on 14 April 1986 in Elkton, Maryland, USA. She is an actress, known for Candy (2017), Hercules Saves Christmas (2012) and Pit Boss (2010).- Music Department
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- Composer
Bernard Pretty Purdie was born on 11 June 1939 in Elkton, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Smokin' Aces (2006).- Special Effects
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- Stunts
Born and raised in rural Elkton, Maryland, the "Marriage Capital" of the East Coast, where elopers would run from neighboring States for a no-wait wedding, Harry Woolman, an aspiring motorcycle daredevil, would ride his cycle backwards or standing on his head, at the outskirts of town attracting the matrimony-bound to stop and ask for directions, when he would offer to guide them to one of the 24-hour chapels for tips. One of these clients was a Hollywood producer down from New York City who invited Woolman look him up for a job if he was ever in California.
Woolman was a long-time Hollywood stuntman and special effects innovator, doubling for such notables as Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, William Bendix, and John Carradine. He also appeared in occasional roles such as the motorcycle police officer in the Abbott & Costello comedy, "The Time of Their Lives".
Headlining as a daredevil on the racetrack circuit with Ed "Lucky" Teter & his Champion Hell Drivers, Woolman survived over 3,000 head-on collisions and was featured numerous times on the television program "You Asked For It", doing everything from jumping a house with a car to being blown up in a paper coffin by 20 sticks of dynamite.
During the 60s, 70s & into the early 80s, Woolman turned to special effects, particularly gunfights and explosions.- Sound Department
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Dennis Maitland was born on 31 March 1931 in Elkton, Maryland, USA. He was a production manager, known for The Quick and the Dead (1995), Moonstruck (1987) and Multiplicity (1996). He was married to Marja Maitland. He died on 1 April 2011 in New York, USA.- Actress
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- Director
Kelley Slagle was born on 11 September 1971 in Elkton, Maryland, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Of Dice and Men (2014), The Old World (2006) and Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons & Dragons (2019).- Julian C. Smith was born on 11 September 1885 in Elkton, Maryland, USA. He was married to Mary Lee and Harriotte Byrd. He died on 6 November 1975.
- Larry Webster was born on 18 January 1969 in Elkton, Maryland, USA.
- Kenneth R. Lang, Ph.D. is a retired detective and currently serves as a criminal justice professor, accomplished author, and consultant. During his 25-year law enforcement career, he served 2-years with the Havre de Grace Police Department before becoming employed with the Baltimore County Police Department. During his tenure with BCoPD, he spent 15 years investigating violent crimes, including rapes, robberies, and murders.
During his law enforcement career, Dr. Lang completed his education earning a bachelor and master's degree from Columbia Southern University with honors in Criminal Justice Administration and his Doctor of Philosophy in 2019 through Walden University.
Dr. Lang is also an accomplished author having releases his Homicide Series trilogy from 2011-2012. His books, Walking Among the Dead, Standing In Death's Shadow, and Death Comes Uninvited, attained recognition from The Author's Show in 2011 who awarded Lang with 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading. In 2013, the Distance Education Training Commission (DETC) recognized Lang's writing contributions to criminal justice profession and awarded him with the 2013 DETC Famous Alumni Award.
Since his retirement from law enforcement in 2014, Dr. Lang served as an assistant professor at the University of Valley Forge where he developed and implemented the criminal justice program. Dr. Lang is now an assistant professor at Glenville State College in Glenville, WV and a legal consultant for the Law & Crime Trial Network. - Dwayne Henry was born on 16 February 1962 in Elkton, Maryland, USA.