Today is the birthday of Henry B. Walthall (1878-1936). Walthall was the son of a wealthy Alabama cotton planter, raised in a plantation manor house and raised by tutors — excellent training for one of his most famous roles as a founding Klansman in The Birth of a Nation (1915). (But maybe not so good [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:16AM on March 16, 2013