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Frank Yaconelli migrated to the States with his parents when he was one year old. The family initially settled in Boston. Frank was the oldest of 12 siblings and had to quit school after finishing the 6th grade. He and a younger brother became "street musicians" to help with the families expenses. When WW I broke out, Frank - who was underage - joined the army and served in the 92 Aero Squadron flying primarily out of the UK. He became a naturalized citizen along with many other soldiers during WW I.
After his service career, he moved to Hollywood and began his motion picture and vaudeville careers in the mid 1920s. He and his brother (Lou Yaconelli - aka Earl Douglas) had their own motion picture company in the 1920s but lost it during the depression and the advent of "Talkies!"
He served in both WW II and the Korean conflict as a USO Tour Director and performer and took his Vaudeville Act to virtually all of the key areas of conflict that our service men were stationed. At one point, he spent six months in the same USO group that featured Bob Hope.
He was given a Senate Resolution (posthumously) for "devoting a lifetime to unselfish service and entertainment to people all over the world and particularly for his many fine public services."- Actress
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Edna's parents were newspaper man Ira C. Tichenor and his wife Hattie L. Craig, who were married in Illinois in 1882. The Tichenors moved that year to St. Paul, Minnesota, where Ira was the wire editor at a newspaper. Their first child died sometime before 1901. Their second child Edna was born in St. Paul on April 1, 1901. The Tichenors moved to Los Angeles by 1904, where Ira was on the staff of the Los Angeles Times, and served a number of years as real estate editor of the Los Angeles Examiner, and later as financial editor of the Salt Lake City Telegram, before returning to Los Angeles. Edna graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, and married auto mechanic Robert J. Springer circa 1919. Her earliest movie credit is from 1923. Seven of her ten pictures were made at M-G-M, and four of those were for director Tod Browning. She is best remembered today as the dark-eyed companion of Lon Chaney's vampire in London After Midnight (1927), although she was also striking as a carnival sideshow performer posing as a giant spider with a woman's head in The Show (1927). Edna and Robert were divorced by 1930, and she was back living with her parents that year. Her movie acting career did not survive the silent era, and her last known work was as a stand-in for actress Dorothy Burgess in 1934.- Agnes del Sarto was born on 14 December 1892 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden [now Baden-Württemberg], Germany. She was an actress, known for Das gut gewürzte Hochzeitsmahl (1920). She was married to Alfred Schlageter. She died on 19 November 1965 in Basel, Kanton Basel Stadt, Switzerland.
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Bob Dyer was born on 2 July 1896 in Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor. He died on 19 November 1965 in Hollywood, California, USA.