Timelines for year 1907
Agnes Carpenter
Has three sisters: Jenny Tyrell (b. 1907) - Audrey Tatum (b. 1919) - Bernice Rudolph (b. 1922)
A.H. Van Buren
A.H. Van Buren was a well-respected Broadway director, who began there as an actor in 1907 starring in the lead role in a revival of "Ben Hur." He would venture into directing in 1925 while occasionally being coaxed back on stage. He completed his career there involved in the monster hit, "Life With Father" (3224 performances, running from late 1939 through July, 1947) and it's sequel, "Life With Mother" (a solid hit with 262 performances) in the same role as "Dr. Humphreys.".
Ty Cobb
Won 12 batting titles in 13 seasons, including nine in a row (1907-1915; 1917-1919); both are major league records.
Member of 1907-1909 American League Champion Detroit Tigers teams.
Edward Everett Horton
Joined a Gilbert and Sullivan stock company in 1907 on Staten Island and performed in several shows, including "The Mikado". He went on to join several theatre companies in the 1910s, including the Orpheum Players in Philadelphia, The Baker Stock Company in Oregon, and the Crescent Theatre in Brooklyn.
Mary Miles Minter
At the time Mary (nee Juliet Reilly) entered show business around 1907, there was quite a stigma attached to the acting profession. Though Mary's parents were separated, her father forbade his wife and children to use his name of Reilly on stage. All three ended up with the last name of Shelby, which came from relatives on Mary's mother's side of the family. By 1911 "Little Juliet Shelby" became a well-known Broadway child actress.
Christopher Walken
His mother, Rosalie, was Scottish-American. She lived to be 102 years old (May 16, 1907 - March 26, 2010).
Julia Ward Howe
She was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (in 1907).
Barbara Eden
Step-father, Harrison Connor Huffman (b. 19 November 1907)
Her step-father, Harrison Connor Huffman was born on Wednesday, November 19th, 1907.
Mabel Trunnelle
Had considerable stage experience by the time she moved into films in 1907 at age 28. Met and married husband Prior while performing in stock and before entering films.
Bill Bixby
His grandfather, Wilfred Everett, was a physician and surgeon, and was a University of California-Davis graduate in 1907.
Elinor Glyn
After getting married she wrote sentimental romance novels to help make ends meet. These were only moderately successful. Then she decided to go all out and write a selacious novel about a three-week love affair between an exotic woman and an upper-class man. "Three Weeks" was an instant scandal in 1907. Like "Lady Chatterly's Lover" and "Peyton Place", it was vilified from the world's pulpits while becoming a worldwide smash (although not as well written as either of those books). Initially banned for a time in the United States and Great Britain, "Three Weeks" provided Madame Glyn, as she was sometimes called, with lifetime financial security.
Kathy Bates
Bates' grandfather, Memphis attorney Finis Langdon Bates, wrote the book "The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth" in 1907. It is said to be Bates' non-fiction account of hearing a deathbed confession from a man who claimed to be Abraham Lincoln's assassin, Booth, who had escaped capture and lived under another name out west. (source: pbs.org).