Jim Shumate
Jim Shumate( October 21, 1921 – October 10, 2013) was a fiddler that played with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys from 1943 – 1945.
Shumate's main influences were Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, Curly Fox, and his uncle who played the fiddle while he was growing up.
Shumate joined the band after Bill Monroe heard him playing on the radio station WHKY from downtown Hickory, North Carolina, and asked him to join the Blue Grass Boys.
Howdy Forrester, who was Bill Monroe's fiddle player at the time, gave his notice and was going into the Navy.
At age 20, Shumate became the fiddler for the Blue Grass Boys, and he sang bass on gospel songs.
During this time, the Blue Grass Boys were also a baseball team, so they would arrive early to towns they were playing at and challenge the local baseball team.
Unfortunately, there were no recordings made while Shumate was in the Blue Grass Boys.
During a visit to Nashville, Shumate met Earl Scruggs, who he knew because they were both from Hickory, North Carolina, and encouraged Scruggs to audition for Bill Monroe.
During the time that Scruggs auditioned for Monroe, the band members were Jim Shumate, Lester Flatt, Sally Ann Forrester, Jim Andrews.
By the next week, Howdy Forrester had returned from the Navy.
He came back to play fiddle for the Blue Grass Boys and Jim Shumate left to work in the furniture business in North Carolina.
Although Shumate convinced Earl Scruggs to audition for Monroe's band, he did not end up playing when Scruggs joined.
In 1948, the band members of the Blue Grass Boys changed again.
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs started their own band, The Foggy Mountain Boys, with Cedric Rainwater and Jim Eanes.
Soon after, Jim Shumate joined them and played the fiddle on their first recording session.
That same year, he competed against some of the best fiddlers in the United States and won the National Fiddler's Convention in Richlands, Virginia.
He was known for his innovative, bluesy fiddle style and his mastery of syncopation and speed.
In 1995, Jim Shumate received a North Carolina Folk Heritage Award.
He performed as a solo artist, composed sacred songs, and also played with his band, Sons of the Carolinas.
In his final years, Jim had been battling kidney failure and dementia.
On October 7, 2013 he became very ill.
The next day, he took a serious fall and was taken to the hospital.
He was later transferred to Catawba Regional Hospice near his home in Hickory, North Carolina where he died at the age of 91.
William C. McGann
William C. McGann (April 15, 1893 – November 15, 1977) was an American film director.
He directed 52 films between 1930 and 1942.
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died in Los Angeles, California.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Ordinary Heroes (1986 film)
Ordinary Heroes is a 1986 television drama film directed by Peter H. Cooper.
It premiered on ABC on October 19, 1986.
The film is a remake of the 1945 film" Pride of the Marines", but set in the Vietnam War instead of World War II.
Frank J. Grass
Frank J. Grass( born May 19, 1951) is a retired United States Army general who served as the 27th Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
Cleo Davis
Cleo Davis( March 9, 1919 – July 17, 1986) was an American musician who gained prominence as" the original Blue Grass Boy".
The creator of the" Blue Grass Boys" was Bill Monroe, also known as The Father of Bluegrass.
Davis' performing career spanned 48 years as a singer and instrumentalist, and greatly influenced the bluegrass music and bluegrass artists of today.
Pride of the Blue Grass (1939 film)
Pride of the Blue Grass is a 1939 American drama film directed by William C. McGann and written by Vincent Sherman.
The film stars Edith Fellows, James McCallion, Granville Bates, Aldrich Bowker, Arthur Loft and William Hopper.
The film was based on an actual 15-year-old blind horse, Elmer Gantry, who was co-billed as a star and played himself.
Gantry was bought and trained as a show horse by wrangler Eleanor Getzendaner but became blind at the age of 13 following two years of experiencing periodic ophthalmia, after which she patiently trained him to jump.
The film was released by Warner Bros. on October 7, 1939.
Jim Ellis (swimming coach)
James Ellis( born 1948) is an American swim coach and subject of the feature film" Pride".
Pride of the Blue Grass (1954 film)
Pride of the Blue Grass is a 1954 American drama film directed by William Beaudine and starring Lloyd Bridges, Vera Miles and Margaret Sheridan.
It is also known by the alternative title Prince of the Blue Grass.

Question: What is the place of birth of the director of film Pride Of The Blue Grass (1939 Film)?
Answer: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania