Photograph of celebrities invited to the White House by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to assist in the President's Birthday Ball fundraisers to fight infantile paralysis. Standing (left to right): Joan Fontaine, Martha Scott, Mary Martin, Virginia Field, Mary Pickford, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lucille Ball, Maria Montez, Jinx Falkenburg, Jeanne Cagney, Lily Pons, Patricia Collinge. Seated (left to right): Guy Lombardo, Brian Aherne, Grantland Rice, Roland Young, Red Skelton, John Garfield, Meyer Davis, Walter Pidgeon, Brian Donlevy.