June Gardner
Albert Gardner( December 31,1930 – November 19, 2010), known as June Gardner or Gentleman June Gardner, was an American jazz and R&B drummer from New Orleans.
Born in New Orleans, he started his professional career after leaving school, and toured with Lil Green before joining Edgar Blanchard's band.
In the early 1950s he joined Roy Brown's band and played with Brown throughout the decade before linking up with Sam Cooke in 1960.
He worked as a studio musician in New Orleans, playing on Lee Dorsey's 1966 hit" Working in the Coal Mine" among many others, and in 1968 released an album under his own name," Bustin' Out".
He joined Lionel Hampton's orchestra, before forming his own band, June Gardner and the Fellas.
He also performed at the New Orleans Jazz& Heritage Festival.
He died in New Orleans in 2010, aged 79.
Paul Mares
Paul Mares( June 15, 1900 – August 18, 1949), was an American early dixieland jazz cornet& trumpet player, and leader of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
Mares was born in New Orleans.
His father, Joseph E. Mares, played cornet with the military band at the New Orleans lakefront and ran a fur and hide business.
Like many New Orleans cornetists of his generation, Joe Mares's main influence was" King" Joe Oliver.
About 1919 cornetist Abbie Brunies was offered a job playing in Chicago, and passed the offer on to Mares.
( Brunies thought his New Orleans position of doubling driving a taxi-cab and playing music was more secure than prospects in Chicago.)
Mares established himself as a respected band leader over a group of wild and strong willed musicians, as The New Orleans Rhythm Kings( N.O.R.K.) became one of the best regarded bands in Chicago in the early 1920s.
In late 1924 Mares returned to New Orleans.
He decided to play music on the side while taking over the running of his family fur& hide business.
He ran the business well and with his prosperity purchased 3 homes for himself and his relatives in New Orleans' new suburb of Metairie, Louisiana.
Mares's Metairie home was the site of a legendary jam-session in 1929 where Bix Beiderbecke and the other jazz playing members of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra jammed with the local New Orleans jazz musicians.
Mares also ran a restaurant in New Orleans called" The Chicago Bar- B- Q".
In the early 1930s he returned to Chicago where he opened up his" New Orleans Bar- B- Q" there.
The" P.M. New Orleans Bar- B- Q" became a gathering place for Chicago jazz musicians and home to numerous jam sessions, which Mares occasionally joined in.
Jan Aronson
Jan Aronson( born 1949) is a New Orleans- born artist working and living in New York City.
Paul Soniat
Paul Soniat is the Director of the New Orleans City Park Botanical Gardens.
He was born at the old Touro Hospital in New Orleans.
His family has been in New Orleans since 1727 and he grew up and later lived on the street bearing his family name.
Paul is a self- taught piano player, and has released two CDs, absorbing the sights, sounds, and flavor of New Orleans.
His first CD, titled" Born in New Orleans", was released in April 2005.
His second CD was released after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast and the New Orleans' levees failed.
This second CD is appropriately titled" Below the Water Line".
Night in New Orleans
Night in New Orleans is a 1942 American crime film directed by William Clemens and written by Jonathan Latimer.
The film stars Preston Foster, Patricia Morison, Albert Dekker, Charles Butterworth, Dooley Wilson and Paul Hurst.
The film was released on July 1, 1942, by Paramount Pictures.
James Z. Spearing
James Zacharie Spearing( April 23, 1864 – November 2, 1942) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, based in New Orleans.
Born in Alto in Cherokee County, Texas, Spearing moved with his parents in 1866 to New Orleans, where he attended public schools.
He left school and went to work in 1877.
In 1886, he obtained a degree from Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans.
That same year, he was admitted to the bar and began his legal practice in New Orleans.
He served as member of the Orleans Parish School Board from 1908 to 1912 and again from 1916 to 1920 and as president in 1919 and 1920.
Between the parish school board terms, he was a member of the Louisiana State Board of Education from 1912 to 1916.
He was an alternate delegate to the 1912 Democratic National Convention, which nominated the Wilson- Marshall ticket, which handily won the electoral votes of Louisiana.
Spearing was elected to the Sixty- eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of H. Garland Dupré.
He was reelected to the Sixty- ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy- first Congresses and served from April 22, 1924, to March 3, 1931.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1930.
Thereafter, he resumed the practice of law in New Orleans, where he died and is interred at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.
Lisette Verea
Lisette Verea (August 27, 1914 - August 27, 2003) was a Romanian-born cabaret singer and actress, known for her appearance in the Marx Brothers film, "A Night in Casablanca" (1946).
Peter Pasetti
Peter Pasetti( 1916–1996) was a German stage, television and film actor.
He played a number of leading roles in post-Second World
War productions such as the operetta film" A Night in Venice"( 1953).
From the late 1950s he appeared increasingly on television.
William Clemens (film director)
William Clemens (September 10, 1905 – April 29, 1980) was an American film director.
Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Clemens began his Hollywood career as a film editor in 1931.
His first directing project was "Man Hunt" in 1936.
His major credits include "On Dress Parade" with the Dead End Kids, two Perry Mason mysteries ("The Case of the Velvet Claws" and "The Case of the Stuttering Bishop"), three films featuring detective Tom Lawrence,
a.k.a.
"
The Falcon," four films based on the Nancy Drew series, and "Calling Philo Vance" in 1940.
Clemens' final project was "The Thirteenth Hour" in 1947.
He died in Los Angeles, California in 1980.
Daniel Buckner Price
Daniel Price( 1975- 2003) was a successful New Orleans- born artist working and living in San Francisco, California.
He was murdered while protecting his wife late at night on December 19, 2003.

Question: Where was the director of film Night In New Orleans born?
Answer: Saginaw, Michigan