Who are those people?

[ostaralight]

Meh... Me trying to understand, really. Preparing for "Flight of the Hindenburg" larp on Chimera, the larp convention, and so trying to learn more on what I got myself into;-))) Looks like the organizers made a mix of real people, fictional people, and original characters. The full list is:

Al "Scarface" Capone An unbelievably

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[slothphil]

Names I recognise and can say something about without Googling:

Amelia Earhart -- real female pilot, who vanished towards the end of a round-the-world flight in the late '30s
Little Orphan Annie = carton character
Anne + Charles Lindbergh -- Charles was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic. Their young son was kidnapped and killed, so descriptions are basically real-world. Lindbergh was somewhat pro-Fascist.
Bette Davis -- famous actress
Algy Lacey, James Bigglesworth -- Biggles books are probably not well-known now, but were once popular stories of WWI/WWII air combat (plus quite a few post-war stories)
Victor Frankenstein = creator of Frankenstein's monster.
Elliot Ness = famous Prohibition-era US lawman ("The Untouchables")
Frank Nitti -- real gangster
Hermann Goering = WWI German ace and WWII head of the Luftwaffe and friend of Hitler
Bugs Moran = real gangster
"Sky Captain" = pulp hero, I think
Joseph Kennedy = real US politician, father of President John F Kennedy, Attorney General(?) Robert Kennedy and Senator Edward Kennedy
Manfred von Richthofen = top WWI German ace - "the Red Baron"
Marion Davies = real person (I recognise her from an Al Stewart song)
Orson Welles is a real person -- known for causing some amount of panic in the US via a radio presentation of The War of the Worlds
Rick Blaine -- character in the movie classic Casablanca
William Ranolph Hearst -- real-world ultra-rich person

A couple of other names ring a vague bell but I can't place them.

[ostaralight]

Victor Frankenstein = creator of Frankenstein's monster.

Argh! I should have understood! Was totally confused by the female gender, and forgot that the original doctor's name was Victor! (and this is after seeing Van Hellsing so often, ohh)

Frank Nitti -- real gangster... Bugs Moran = real gangster

Aha, now that you said it I can remember hearing those somewhere, probably in some gangster movies.

Hermann Goering = WWI German ace and WWII head of the Luftwaffe and friend of Hitler

*headbang* Shame on me! I didn't recognize him because of the unfamiliar name spelling, but I certainly know well who he is!

Joseph Kennedy = real US politician, father of President John F Kennedy, Attorney General(?) Robert Kennedy and Senator Edward Kennedy

I suspected they were somehow related...

Manfred von Richthofen = top WWI German ace - "the Red Baron"

Keeps ringing a bell... Maybe I've heard somewhere...

Orson Welles is a real person -- known for causing some amount of panic in the US via a radio presentation of The War of the Worlds

Aha! Right, now I have an idea;-)

Thanks, I feel much more knowledgeable now;-)))

[slothphil]

Don't try the quiz questions in my LJ, then -- they'll probably reverse that feeling! Going to have to make the next one a little bit easier.

*hugs*