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Tom Arnold was born in Ottumwa, Iowa, to Linda (Graham) and Jack Arnold. After his parents divorced, he was raised by his father. In 1983, he got his first taste of stand-up comedy when he performed at open microphone nights at the University of Iowa. Tom's comedy career had its ups and downs over the next several years until 1988, when he entered the Minneapolis Comedy Competition and won first place. With this victory in hand, he decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue a stand-up comedy career. Once he hit Los Angeles, things happened fast. That same year, he was hired as a staff writer for Roseanne Barr's TV sitcom Roseanne (1988) and began to appear regularly on the show as "Arnie Thomas". He and Roseanne Barr were married in 1990, with Arnold converting to Judaism prior to the marriage. They formed Rapello County Productions to develop projects for themselves.

The couple's marriage, together with their sometimes outrageous behavior, attracted media attention - and especially that of the tabloids - like a magnet. In 1994 conditions between the two deteriorated and they went through a very public, and acrimonious, divorce. Tom has been married twice since then and is the co-host of Fox Sports Net's talk show The Best Damn Sports Show Period (2001). He also does voiceover work, and provides the voice for the "Oven Mitt" character in the TV commercials for the Arby's restaurant chain.

Beverley Owen was born Beverley Ogg in Ottumwa, Iowa, on Thursday, May 13th, 1937. In high school and college, she was always doing television, theatre, and radio programs. She then moved to New York to pursue an acting career after graduating from the University of Michigan. She was fired many a time for her lack of typing skills while working at CBS, and for Ed Sullivan. She later became senior typist for the children's program, Captain Kangaroo (1955) show. She did many small parts in shows until she got the role of "Marilyn Munster" on The Munsters (1964). But after just thirteen episodes, were filmed, she left the show to get married. She is now divorced, but has two daughters, Polly and Kate. She is not always recognized as "Marilyn" because, on the show, she wore a blonde wig. In 1989, she got her master's degree in Early American History.

Born Mildred Linton in Ottumwa, Iowa on December 12, 1909, Karen Morley was adopted by a well-to-do family who moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1920s. She enrolled at Hollywood High School and studied for a career in medicine at UCLA, but a class in theater changed her career ambitions.

After studying at Pasadena Playhouse, she was signed by Fox Studios and her big chance came when producer Howard Hughes selected her to play the blond moll in the 1932 crime epic, Scarface (1932), Morley was put on a contract by MGM and starred in such early 1930s movies as Mata Hari (1931) (with Greta Garbo), Arsène Lupin (1932) (with John Barrymore), Dinner at Eight (1933) (with Jean Harlow), as well as films with Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery and Boris Karloff. In 1934, Morley left MGM after arguments about her roles and her private life, including her intention to start a family and her marriage to director Charles Vidor. She continued working as a freelance performer, appearing in King Vidor's Our Daily Bread (1934), Michael Curtiz' Black Fury (1935) and Pride and Prejudice (1940).

In 1947, her screen career came to a halt when she testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and refused to answer questions about her possible enrollment in the Communist Party. Afterward, she continued promoting left-wing causes and married actor Lloyd Gough. In 1954, she ran unsuccessfully as a New York lieutenant governor candidate for the American Labor Party. Morley died March 8, 2003 at the Motion Picture Country House in Woodland Hills.

Rob Rutledge is a national Picture Car Coordinator for Film, TV and Print. As owner of USAMovieCars.com, Rob provides Picture Vehicles on screen for such TV shows as The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, 20/20, movies such as Condition of Return, Genesis Fall of the Crime Empire, Jack Beans, and print ads for the US Govt, numerous Fortune 500 clients and others over the past decade.

In addition Rob has cast projects nationwide for clients such as the NFL, Amazon, the US Govt, multiple Airlines, and many others.

Rob became a published author (computer software) on a national level at age 12, retired at 40, and began a new life in the film industry 6 years later.

Rob was born in Ottumwa, Iowa USA on June 18th, 1969. Rob now resides in Phoenix, Arizona, is a big supporter of animal rescue projects, and has a beagle named Olivia.

Owl City was born on 5 July 1986 in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA. He is a music artist and composer, known for Wreck-It Ralph (2012), Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013).

Kay Arnold was born on 26 May 1942 in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Carpool (1996) and Roseanne (1988). She died on 22 July 2014.

Peter M. Thompson was born on 9 November 1920 in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for A Double Life (1947), Ridin' the Outlaw Trail (1951) and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955). He died on 9 October 2001 in Palm Springs, California, USA.

Maryesther Denver was born on 10 May 1918 in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), The Fortune Cookie (1966) and Project X (1968). She died on 3 June 1980 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Wayne Songer was born on 26 April 1913 in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Shower of Stars (1954) and The Jack Benny Program (1950). He died on 23 December 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Shirley Johns was born on 3 March 1931 in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA. She is an actress, known for Summer Holiday (1948) and Cynthia (1947).

Hal Walker was born on 20 March 1896 in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA. He was an assistant director and director, known for The Stork Club (1945), Sailor Beware (1952) and Duffy's Tavern (1945). He was married to Irene Walker. He died on 3 July 1972 in Tracy, California, USA.

The television movie "The Tuskegee Airmen" was written from his war experiences and later picked up by studios. The character played by Laurence Fishburne was based upon Mr Williams.

According to information from Fort Des Moines, Robert flew 50 combat missions from Italy with the 100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group of the 15th Air Force.

The pilots had to fight racism just to risk their lives fighting America's enemies, the display says. According to historic documents in use at the time, the display said, black people would not make good soldiers. When a desperate military finally let the men fly escort missions, they were so successful that bomber pilots would request only the red-tailed P-51 Mustang fighter planes to guard them from the enemy.

Williams was awarded, among other medals, the Distinguished Flying Cross. Williams was confirmed as having shot down an enemy plane in 1944. The following year, he shot down another one.

Donald E. Keyhoe was born on 20 June 1897 in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA. He was a writer, known for Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950) and Beyond Belief (1976). He died on 29 November 1988 in New Market, Virginia, USA.

Joshua Hunter Lowe was born on 11 November 1990 in Ottumwa Iowa. Joshua Hunter is an executive.

Adam Podraza was born on 14 April 1987 in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA. He is an actor, known for The Bag Man (2005).

Born and raised in a house surrounded by the corn fields of Iowa and a nearby meat packing plant, Nick dreamed of... escaping the corn fields of Iowa. He attended the University of Iowa for two years before transferring to Ithaca College for Film. After graduation he moved to L.A. where he lived on a broken-down school bus in a director's driveway while he searched for an apartment while swiftly climbing the rungs of the proverbial film industry ladder.

Nora Bryant McCue was born on February 19, 1880, at Ottumwa, Iowa, the daughter of William Dunbar and Lily Bryant Head McCue. Her family moved to Madison, Wisconsin, when she was a small child, where her father worked for a local railroad line and later as a clerk at the federal courthouse. Nora was the salutatorian of her senior class at Madison Central High School in 1898 and went on to attend the University of Wisconsin, where she majored in history. It was said that Nora, who was a tall, striking brunette, cut quite a figure on campus while walking Cedric, her Great Dane. Nora's father was appalled when a few years earlier she had spent $50 of her savings to purchase Cedric, then a two-month-old puppy.

On August 1, 1904, she married Henry Elmer Willsie (1875-1948), in Madison. Willsie was a consulting mining engineer and inventor who would later help develop a gas mask for the military during World War I. It was while she and her husband were living in Arizona that Nora began her writing career by submitting western stories and articles under the name "Honore Willsie" to Collier's magazine and Harper's Weekly. Her first novel, "Heart of the Desert: Kut-Le of the Desert", was published in 1913. The following year she began a five-year stint as editor of The Delineator, a women's magazine about "Fashion, Fine Arts and Culture".

She and Willsie divorced in December of 1922. On April 25, 1923, she married publisher William Morrow at her Gramercy Park home in New York City. Morrow, who was born on June 15, 1872, at Belfast, Ireland, would go to found the New York based publishing house William Morrow and Company. The couple later adopted three children-- a son, Richard, and two daughters, Felicia and Anne.

Through 10 years of meticulous research, she became an authority on the life of Abraham Lincoln and is best known for her "Great Captain" trilogy: "Forever Free" (1927), "With Malice Toward None" (1928) and "The Last Full Measure" (1930). She was also the author of "Benefits Forgot: A Story of Lincoln and Mother Love" (1917), "Forever Free" (1927) and "Mary Todd Lincoln: An Appreciation of the Wife of Abraham Lincoln " (1928).

Honore's other books include "Still Jim" (1915); "Lydia of the Pines" (1917); "The Forbidden Trail" (1919); "The Enchanted Canyon" (1921); "Judith of the Godless Valley" (1922); "The Devonshires" (1924); "The Exile of the Lariat" (1925); "We Must March" (1925); "The Father of Little Women" (1927), a biography of Bronson Alcott; "Splendor of God" (1929), a biography of Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson; "Just a Dog's Life" (1929), a biography of Cedric, her Great Dane; "Tiger Tiger" (1930), a biography of temperance leader John B. Gough; "Black Daniel: The Love Story of a Great Man" (1931), a story about Daniel Webster; "Judith of the Godless Valley" (1931) and "Yonder Sails the Mayflower" (1934). Her last book, "Demon Daughter" (1939), is thought to be based on one of her daughters who was somewhat neurotic.

The Morrows lived several months out every of year in a 16th-century estate in Brixham, a small town in the county of Devon, in southwest England. After her husband passed away on 11 November 1931, Honore and her three children lived there full time, for the next eight years.

Honore was visiting a sister, Mrs. Manley Chester, when she died on 12 April, 1940 of influenza at the Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven, Connecticut. She was survived by all three of her children.

Jason Black was born on 15 August 1972 in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA.

Buzzy Potts was born on 8 August 1903 in Ottumwa, Idaho. He was an actor, known for The Greatest Show on Earth (1952). He died on 9 March 1973 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.

Glenn D. Puder was born on 10 November 1911 in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA. He was married to Dorothy Puder. He died on 19 December 2011 in Napa, California, USA.

Tara Lynn Diveley-Watts was born on 26 November 1983 in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA. Tara Lynn is known for Outsourced (2010), Rules of Engagement (2007) and Melissa & Joey (2010). Tara Lynn has been married to Derick Watts since 28 October 2017.

Kamryn Ryan specializes in feature film production in the areas of development distribution. She graduated from Drake University with degrees in International Relations, Film, Japanese, and East Asia Studies. She has worked as a production assistant on a number of films and interned with the Cannes Film Festival in 2019.

Kamryn's area of interest is in cross-cultural communication and the arts.

Bob Gough was born on 3 June 1910 in Ottumwa Iowa. He was a cinematographer, known for Green Acres (1965), The Rat Patrol (1966) and Siren of Atlantis (1949). He died on 8 July 1975 in California, USA.