Jeanette ("Jan") Keller was born June 25, 1924. She wrote for the soap opera "The Secret Storm." During the mid-1940s, she was a lead in the play "The Drunkard," the longest-running stage show in Los Angeles. She also wrote the lyrics for "My Rumble Seat Gal" for the Dick Van Dyke movie "The Runner Stumbles." She was married to Oscar-award winning composer Ernest Gold from 1975 until his passing in 1999. Jeanette Gold passed away on September 9, 2014, in Glendale, California.

James Vincent D'Arc was born in Los Angeles, California on August 7, 1950. In the early 1970s, D'Arc was accepted into Brigham Young University, where he majored in history. A film appreciation class taught by Dr. Charles M. Metten in 1973 motivated D’Arc to receive a PhD in film history from BYU in 1986. During his time as a student, he was also hired in what was then called the "Archives and Manuscripts Division” at BYU, where he began gathering film-related materials for the Archives. During 1990 D'Arc was also employed as a professor of film in BYU's Theatre and Media Arts College in addition to his position as a curator. James D'Arc retired from BYU in August 2017.