the State Historical Society of Missouri
Jane Ace, a radio actress whose birth name was Jane Epstein and who was known professionally as Jane Sherwood, was…
Zoë Byrd Akins was born on October 30, 1886, in Humansville, Missouri, the second of three children of Thomas…
![The Ben Bolt Theatre. [Courtesy of Danny Knouse]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-07/Ben-Bolt-Theatre.jpg?itok=Iuvb1pHX "The Ben Bolt Theatre. [Courtesy of Danny Knouse]")
The Ben Bolt Theatre was a spectacular building that stood for half a century as a notable…
![Jean Harlow in a publicity photo. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Collection Photograph File, ID# TH-190010]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/Jean-Harlow-Pub-Still.jpg?itok=M0S2n9G8 "Jean Harlow in a publicity photo. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Collection Photograph File, ID# TH-190010]")
Jean Harlow was born Harlean Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 3, 1911. Her…
![Geraldine Page and Rip Torn on stage in Strange Interlude. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Division, Friedman-Abeles Photograph Collection, #5026079]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-07/Geraldine-Page-and-Rip-Torn.jpg?itok=gFbkgm35 "Geraldine Page and Rip Torn on stage in Strange Interlude. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Division, Friedman-Abeles Photograph Collection, #5026079]")
Geraldine Page was born in Kirksville, Missouri, on November 22, 1924, to Leon Elwin Page,…
![An early edition of the Missouri Intelligencer and Boon’s Lick Advertiser, August 20, 1819. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Newspaper Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-07/Nathaniel-Patten-Boon%27s-Lick-Advertiser.jpg?itok=VICNuBv5 "An early edition of the Missouri Intelligencer and Boon’s Lick Advertiser, August 20, 1819. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Newspaper Collection]")
Nathaniel Patten Jr. could be characterized as Missouri’s quintessential pioneer country…
![Emil Preetorius. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, Portraits, N13088]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-07/Emil-Preetorius.jpg?itok=5WKYT3Ob "Emil Preetorius. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, Portraits, N13088]")
Emil Preetorius was a German-language journalist in St. Louis. Born in Alzey, Rheinhessen,…