Otis Turner: Director of First Oz Movies
November 29 was the D.O.B. of theatrical and cinematic Jack-of-All-Trades Otis Turner (1862-1918). What a name! Suggesting on the one hand a mash-up of James Otis and Turn: Washington's Spies, on the other perhaps a merge of Otis Redding and Ike Turner. This Turner was from Indianapolis. He first went in the stage at age […]