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She was a famous actress, singer and dancer, and was the number-one pinup girl of the World War II era. Some considered her Hollywood's greatest star at the height of Hollywood's greatest era. 20th Century Fox Studios insured her legs for $1,000,000 each. She was married to actor Jackie Coogan, and trumpeter/big band leader Harry James.

Frances Clara "Frank" Folsom was born in Buffalo, New York on July 21, 1864, and served as First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889, and 1893 to 1897. Her father Oscar was a law partner of Grover Cleveland. The future President bought "Frank" her first baby carriage, and administered the Folsom estate after Oscar died. Though Frank and her mother missed Cleveland's inauguration in 1885, they visited him at the White House that spring, and Frank and Grover's friendship turned into romance, despite 27 years' difference in age. They were married in the White House on June 2, 1886, making them the first and only couple to be wed in the executive mansion. Frances' charm as White House hostess won her popularity, and she held two receptions a week, including one on Saturday afternoons, when women with jobs were free to come. Five years after her husband's death at their home "Westland" in Princeton, New Jersey in 1908, she married Thomas J. Preston, Jr., a professor of archaeology, and she remained a figure of note in the Princeton community until her death October 29, 1947. She is buried with President Cleveland in Princeton Cemetery

Elizabeth Kortright, born June 30, 1768 at New York, New York, was descended from an old New York family with Dutch roots. She married 27-year-old then lawyer James Monroe on February 16, 1786 at age 17, and became the 5th First Lady of the United States (succeeding Dolly Madison) when Monroe was elected President in 1817. They remained in the White House from 1817 to 1825, and the wedding of their daughter, Maria Hester Monroe and Samuel L. Gouverneur, was the first to be held there. Elizabeth died at her home, Oak Hill, Virginia, on September 23, 1830, and was interred in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.