Ernest Hemingway - Ernest will one day be the author of such masterpieces as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea. But before the fame and notoriety, Hemingway was working as an ambulance driver during WW1. 
 

J. R. R. Tolkien – John will famously be known as the beloved author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. During WW1  Tolkien was peer pressured into enlisting and went reluctantly to war. In the Trenches of World War I, he writes what becomes The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales, the foundations of Middle Earth and The Lord of the Rings.
 

Agatha Christie – Agatha is the prolific mystery writer who created Hercule Poirot and Ms. Marple, author of Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile and And Then There Were None, Christie has just experienced her first major success with the publication of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. In 1926, she vanished for 11 days.
 

Arthur Conan Doyle – Arthur is the author of The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle is near the end of his life and career when Agatha Christie goes missing. Asked to find her he uses all the skills of Sherlock Holmes to hunt down the missing writer.

Margaret Hamilton – Margaret is currently cast as the infamous Wicked Witch of the West in the new technicolor film, The Wizard of Oz. There are more films on her horizon, but the experience of filming this fantastic movie pushes her to her limits. 
 

James Whale – James is the director of Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Old Dark House and Showboat. Before his illustrious career in film, Whale worked in theatre in England before moving to the United States to become a Hollywood director. His career carried him through the 1930’s. He was the first openly gay director in Hollywood. 
 

Judy Garland – Judy is a rising bright but tragic star of Hollywood’s golden age, she is best known for playing Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. She is a teenager in this career making role but history will show that her star did not always shine brightly. 
 

Billie Burke – Billie takes the technicolor screen as Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz. Burke has worked on Broadway, radio, and in both the silent and talkie film era. She was married to Broadway producer, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and was up for an Academy Award in the same year as filming on The Wizard of Oz.
 

David Bowie – David needs no introduction. Actor, rock star, queer icon, Bowie was the prolific song writer of numerous albums including The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Low, Diamond Dogs, Scary Monsters, and Station to Station. Currently he is opening The Elephant Man on Broadway in the role of John Merrick. 
 

John Lennon – John: one of The Beatles, the band that took the 60’s by storm. Lennon’s later life is defined by his relationship with Yoko Ono and his political activism. Lennon was assassinated by Mark David Chapman in December of 1980 in front of the Dakota in New York City, where he lived with Yoko.