![Bud Abbott](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bud-Abbott_main-170x120.jpg)
While official wisdom has it that William Alexander ‘Bud’ Abbott was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey on the 2nd of October, 1895, his […]
![Carl Laemmle](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Carl-Laemmle_main-170x120.jpg)
Born Karl Lämmle on 17th January, 1867 in Laupheim, Württemberg, Carl Laemmle was one of the great pioneers of the American film industry, and […]
![Carl Laemmle Jr](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Carl-Laemmle-Jr_main-170x120.jpg)
Born Julius Laemmle on 28th April, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois, Carl Laemmle Jr was the son of Universal Pictures founder, Carl Laemmle, and was […]
![Carla Laemmle](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Carla-Laemmle_main-170x120.jpg)
Carla Laemmle was born Rebekah Isabelle Laemmle on 20th October, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. Of German Jewish descent, she took the adjunctive format of […]
![Cedric Hardwicke](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Cedric-Hardwicke-170x120.jpg)
Cedric Hardwicke – or, to be more correct, Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke – was born in the English town of Lye on the 19th […]
![Charles Dickens](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Charles-Dickens_main-170x120.jpg)
The acclaimed English novelist and social critic Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on the 7th of February 1812. While his seminal works of […]
![Charles Laughton](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Charles-Laughton_main-170x120.jpg)
English stage and film actor and director Charles Laughton was born on the 1st of July, 1899 in Scarborough, in Yorkshire’s North Riding, England. […]