733) Lionel Atwill

Lionel Alfred William Atwill (1885 – 1946). English stage and film actor.
He became a star in Broadway theatre by 1918 and made his screen debut in 1919.
He acted on the stage in Australia before becoming involved in U.S. horror film roles in the 1930s, including leading roles in Doctor X (1932), The Vampire Bat, Murders in the Zoo and Mystery of the Wax Museum (all 1933), and perhaps most memorably as the one-armed Inspector Krogh in Son of Frankenstein (1939), a role famously parodied by Kenneth Mars in Mel Brooks' 1974 satire Young Frankenstein. He appeared in four subsequent Universal Frankenstein films, as well as many other of the studio's beloved chillers.
His other roles include a romantic lead opposite Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's The Devil Is a Woman (1935), a crooked insurance investigator in The Wrong Road (1937) for RKO, Dr. James Mortimer in 20th Century Fox's film version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), and Professor Moriarty in the Universal Studios film Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943). He also had a rare comedy role in Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 classic To Be or Not to Be and that same year menaced Abbott and Costello in Pardon My Sarong.

- "Incidentally, Atwill's light red hair earns him a lasting nickname: Pinky."   https://books.google.it/books…

- "Acquired the nickname "Pinky" due to his reddish-tinged hair, which darkened over the years."   https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0041172/bio

732) Frank Fay

Frank Fay (born Francis Anthony Donner; 1891 –1961). American vaudeville comedian and film and stage actor of Irish origins. For a time he was a well known and influential star, but later fell into obscurity, in part because of his abrasive personality and fascist political views. He is considered an important pioneer in stand-up comedy. He played the role of "Elwood P. Dowd" in the Broadway play Harvey by the American playwright Mary Coyle Chase. He is best known as actress Barbara Stanwyck's first husband. Their troubled marriage is thought by some to be the basis of the 1937 film A Star Is Born, in which the previously unknown wife shoots to stardom while her husband's career goes into sharp decline.

- "With his tousled red hair, his pale blue eyes and his rambling tongue, Fay is as Irish as someone out of The Dubliners." https://books.google.it/books…

- "... the director ordered Fay's red hair to be dyed black..." https://books.google.it/books…

- "I want two children, a little boy with red hair as Frank's and a little girl." https://books.google.it/books…

731) Ida Lupino

 Ida Lupino (1918 – 1995). English-American actress, singer, director, and producer. She is widely regarded as one of the most prominent, and one of the only, female filmmakers working during the 1950s in the Hollywood studio system. With her independent production company, she co-wrote and co-produced several social-message films and became the first woman to direct a film noir with The Hitch-Hiker in 1953. She is also the first female star to direct herself in a sound film (The Bigamist, 1953)
Throughout her 48-year career, she made acting appearances in 59 films and directed eight others, working primarily in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948. She also directed more than 100 episodes of television productions in a variety of genres including westerns, supernatural tales, situation comedies, murder mysteries, and gangster stories. She was the only woman to direct episodes of the original The Twilight Zone series, as well as the only director to have starred in the show.
Lupino was born in Herne Hill, London, to actress Connie O'Shea (also known as Connie Emerald) and noted music hall comedian Stanley Lupino, a member of the theatrical Lupino family, a centuries-old theatrical dynasty dating back to Renaissance Italy.

- "She had auburn hair and violet eyes framed by half-inch-long lashes." https://www.nytimes.com/…/ida-lupino-film-actress-and-direc…

- "She let her bleached blonde hair return to its original auburn..."  https://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/…/ida-lupino-dont-me…/

- "... the teen star dropped her Paramount contract, scrubbed her face, reverted back to her natural auburn hair and went freelance." https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/apr/22/artsfeatures2

730) Blanche Mehaffey

Blanche Mehaffey (1908 – 1968). American showgirl and film actress.
She started as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies before coming to Hollywood to play comedy roles in motion pictures. Show producer Florenz Ziegfeld said she possessed the most beautiful eyes in the entire world. She was among the Baby Stars of 1924 chosen by the Wampas. Others in the group were Clara Bow, Dorothy Mackaill, and Hazel Keener.

- "A 1924 WAMPAS Baby Star, red-haired Blanche Mehaffey had a movie career that lasted from about 1923 - 1938." http://www.b-westerns.com/ladies42.htm

- "Her hair was an auburn color." https://www.morebooks.de/…/blanche-m…/isbn/978-613-6-71773-9

- "... had red hair and appeared in several Westerns..." https://books.google.it/books…

729) Ethel Shannon

 Ethel Shannon (1898 – 1951). American actress. She appeared in over 30 silent movies in the early 20th century.

- "In August 1935, an article in the Los Angeles Times stated that the "piquant red-haired" actress was coming out of her retirement..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Shannon

- "Red-haired leading lady of the silents." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788281/bio

- "The red-haired, blue-eyed acress had stage experience with E. H. Sothern and Maude Adams."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Like her IT girl costar, Clara Bow, Ethel was also a red head." http://silenceisplatinum.blogspot.com/…/miss-ethel-shannon.…

728) Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe (1819 – 1910). American poet and author, best known for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". She was also an advocate for abolitionism and was a social activist, particularly for women's suffrage.
She attended lectures, studied foreign languages, and wrote plays and dramas. Howe had published essays on Goethe, Schiller and Lamartine before her marriage in the New York Review and Theological Review.
She was inspired to write "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" after she and her husband visited Washington, D.C., and met Abraham Lincoln at the White House in November 1861. During the trip, her friend James Freeman Clarke suggested she write new words to the song "John Brown's Body", which she did on November 19. The song was set to William Steffe's already-existing music and Howe's version was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. It quickly became one of the most popular songs of the Union during the American Civil War. 
She was the founder and from 1876 to 1897 president of the Association of American Women, which advocated for women's education and in 1908 che was the first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.
After her death, her children collaborated on a biography, published in 1916. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

- "He had some fanciful theories about the traits of character usually found in conjunction with red hair. As he and I were both distinguished by this feature, I was much pleased to learn from him that "the highest effort of nature is to produce a rosso." https://novelonlinefull.com/…/reminiscences_1819…/chapter_11

- "Visitors coming to see her mother would shake their heads and say "Poor little Julia! what a pity she has red hair!" https://www.juliawardhowe.com/

- "At an early age, the energies of this precocious, red-haired child were diverted to studies."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "... between strolls alongside the Pantheon and discussions of the character traits signified by their identical red hair..." https://books.google.it/books…

727) Horace Binney Wallace

Horace Binney Wallace (1817 – 1852). American attorney, critic of art and literature and author. He was a member of the Bar of Philadelphia.
Wallace published under a number of pseudonyms during his career, including "William S. Somner", "William Landor" and "John H. Meredith". He contributed to many magazines including Graham's Magazine, Godey's Lady's Book, and The Knickerbocker. He is well known for having published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine at the same time as Edgar Allan Poe, with whom he corresponded. Poe wrote that "He is an elaborately careful, stiff, and pedantic writer, with much affectation and great talent. Should he devote himself ultimately to letters, he cannot fail of high success."
He died at the age of thirty-five in the Hotel des Bains, Paris. His obituary, written by his uncle Horace Binney, says his nephew's cause of death was related to a "diseased cerebral action, induced by some lesion of the blood-vessels in the brain," but it was later revealed that he died by suicide, having cut his throat.

- "She probably also hadn't recalled him at first, because he gave no great physical impression: rather slight, with curling ginger hair and a polite but reserved bearing." https://books.google.it/books…

- "With bright red hair, Wallace playfully advocated the innate superiority of the rosso."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "He was slight of build, with red hair."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "He had some fanciful theories about the traits of character usually found in conjunction with red hair. As he and I were both distinguished by this feature, I was much pleased to learn from him that "the highest effort of nature is to produce a rosso." https://novelonlinefull.com/…/reminiscences_1819…/chapter_11