Notes Section

Notes Section: Explains any references used in Ingrid's Diary


January 6, 1939 Friday
Chick Webb: William Henry Webb, usually known as Chick Webb (February 10, 1905–June 16, 1939) was a jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_Webb)


January 7, 1939 Saturday
Loretta Young: (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Young)
Richard Marius Joseph Greene: (25 August 1918[1] – 1 June 1985) was a noted English movie and television actor.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Greene)
"Kentucky": Kentucky is a 1938 Technicolor film with Loretta Young, Richard Greene, and Walter Brennan. It was directed by David Butler. It is a Romeo and Juliet story of lovers Jack and Sally, set amidst Kentucky horseracing, in which a family feud goes back to the Civil War and is kept alive by Sally's Uncle Peter.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_%28film%29)


January 10, 1939 Tuesday
Ethel Barrymore Colt:(August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. (Related to Drew Barrymore)
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Barrymore)
Bettina Cerf: Actress on Broadway
(Source: http://brazil.broadwayworld.com/bwidb/people/Bettina_Cerf/)
Jitney Players: An outstanding group of traveling actors/actresses; founded by Alice Keating Cheney, with Executive Secretary Ethel Barrymore Colt, and members including Franklin Downing, Francis Mann, Bettina Cerf, Douglas Rowland, Virginia Keller, Pan Harrison, King Donovan, and Jabez Gray.
(Source: Palm Beach Daily News, March 4, 1938, http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1961&dat=19380304&id=E4EhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iYsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3888%2C4513637)
(A big thanks to Chrissy Marshall Roberts for finding the information on the Jitney Players!)



Bettina Cerf: Actress on Broadway
Thomas Francis Dorsey: (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing".

Shirley Temple: Shirley Temple, or Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928) is a former American film and television actress, autobiographer, and public servant.
Charles Farrell: Charles Farrell (August 9, 1901 – May 6, 1990)was an American film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor.
"Just Around the Corner": Just Around the Corner is a 1938 American musical film directed by Irving Cummings. The screenplay by Ethel Hill, Darrell Ware, and J. P. McEvoy was based on the novel Lucky Penny by Paul Girard Smith. The film focuses on the tribulations of little Penny Hale (Temple) and her architect father (Farrell) after he is forced by circumstances to accept a job as janitor.
Connie Bennett (Constance Bennett): Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965) was an American actress.
Vincent Price:Vincent Leonard Price II (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
"Service De Luxe": Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for is a man who can take care of himself.

Thomas Francis Dorsey: (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing".
Jane Withers:Jane Withers (born April 12, 1926) is an American actress best known for being one of the most popular child film stars of the 1930s and early 1940s, as well as for her portrayal of "Josephine the Plumber" in a series of TV commercials for Comet cleanser in the 1960s and early 1970s.

"Sweethearts": Sweethearts is a 1938 musical romance directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.
Jeanette MacDonald: (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime).
Nelson Ackerman Eddy: (June 29, 1901 - March 6, 1967) was an American singer and movie star who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs.
"Nancy Drew Detective": Nancy Drew and Ted Nickerson solve a kidnapping case of a wealthy elderly lady. Ted has to disguise himself as a nurse while Nancy beomse a "widow" in order to locate the lady they are rescuing.
Bonita Granville: (February 2, 1923 – October 11, 1988) was an American film actress and television producer.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonita_Granville)



A rumble seat, dicky seat, dickie seat or dickey seat is an upholstered exterior seat which hinges or otherwise opens out from the rear deck of a pre-World War II automobile, and seats one or more passengers.

One Man's Family: a long-run American radio soap opera, was heard for almost three decades (1932 to 1959).
Joseph Louis Barrow: (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981), better known as Joe Louis, was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949.
John Henry Lewis: (1914-1974) was an African American boxer who was the world Light Heavyweight champion from 1935 to 1939.

"Son of Frankenstein":is the third film in Universal Studios' Frankenstein series and the last to feature Boris Karloff as the Monster as well as the first to feature Bela Lugosi as Ygor.
"The Mad Miss Manton": is a 1938 screwball comedy and mystery film starring Barbara Stanwyck as fun-loving socialite Melsa Manton (Stanwyck) and Henry Fonda as newspaper editor Peter Ames.
Barbara Stanwyck: (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra.
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was one of the most famous American film and stage actors, best known for his roles as plain-speaking philosophical idealists.
"Idiot's Delight": (1939) is a Hollywood film, with a screenplay adapted from the 1936 Robert E. Sherwood play, by Sherwood himself.
William Clark Gable: (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American Film Actor, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday.
Edith Norma Shearer: (August 10, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress.
Mr. Moto Picture: Mr. Moto is a fictional Japanese secret agent created by the American author John P. Marquand.

Lux Radio Theater: a long-run classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934-35); CBS (1935-54) and NBC (1954-55).
Mademoiselle: an influential woman's magazine first published in 1935 by Street and Smith and later acquired by Conde Nast Publications.

Wings of the Navy: is a 1939 drama directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Olivia de Havilland and John Payne. Submarine officer Jerry Harrington (John Payne) goes to Pensacola to train as a flying cadet, just like his father and his brother, longtime airman Cass Harrington (George Brent). Jerry ends up falling for his brother's girlfriend, Irene Dale (Olivia de Havilland).
John Payne:(May 28, 1912 - December 6, 1989) was an American film actor who is mainly remembered as a singer in 20th Century Fox musical films, as well as his leading role in Miracle on 34th Street.
George Brent: (March 15, 1899 - May 26, 1979) was an Irish film and television actor in American cinema.
Olivia De Haviland: (born July 1, 1916) is an American film and stage actress. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. Along with her sister, de Havilland is one of the last surviving female stars from 1930s Hollywood. She is also the last living lead cast member from Gone with the Wind.
Honolulu: is an American musical film that was released by MGM in 1939. The film stars dancer Eleanor Powell and Robert Young, and was directed by Edward Buzzell. Inspired by stories about doppelgängers and identical twins such as The Prince and the Pauper, Honolulu features Young in a dual role as Brooks Mason—a top movie star—and as Hawaiʻi-based businessman George Smith.
Robert Young: (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American actor, best known for his leading roles of Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best (NBC and then CBS) and physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC).
Eleanor Powell: (November 21, 1912 – February 11, 1982) was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Powell)


February 17, 1939
Hal Kemp: (March 27, 1904 - December 21, 1940)was a jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, composer, and arranger.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Kemp)
Judy Star: A female vocalist. (http://www.examiner.com/swing-and-big-band-in-national/the-big-band-vocalists-female-5)

February 18, 1939
The Hit Parade: an American radio program. (Thank you to TGL for the help on this one!)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Hit_Parade)


February 20, 1939
"Stage Door": a play that tells the story of several would be actresses living in New York City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_Door)
Ginger Rogers:(July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers)
Rosalind Russell: (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress of stage and screen. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Russell)
Adolph Manjou:(February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Menjou)


February 21, 1939
Sub Deb Club: a type of sorority like group of high school girls (http://books.google.com/books?id=1EkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA87&dq=sub-deb&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=4&as_miny_is=1945&as_maxm_is=4&as_maxy_is=1945&num=30&as_brr=0&as_pt=MAGAZINES&rview=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false)
Jalna:  is a novel by the Canadian writer Mazo de la Roche. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalna_(novel))
Mademoiselle: an influential women's magazine first published in 1935. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mademoiselle_(magazine))


February 25, 1939
Yes, My Darling Daughter:a romance, comedy featuring Jeffrey Lynn, Priscilla Lane, and Fay Bainter (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032149/)


February 27, 1939
Ceiling Zero: a radio show featuring the voices of James Cagney and Ralph Bellamy. (http://movieclassics.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/ceiling-zero-old-time-radio-version/)


March 1, 1939
One Man's Family: a long running American radio soap opera. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Man's_Family)
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