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Gladys McConnell (October 22, 1905[note 1] – March 4, 1979) was an American film actress and aviator.
She was a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1927.[2] WAMPAS was a Hollywood promotional campaign that selected thirteen "baby stars" (slang at the time for starlets) as most likely to gain success. Others in the 1927 group included Iris Stuart, Natalie Kingston, Sally Phipps, and Rita Carewe. About 1924, McConnell became an aviator who began flying in Portland. Aside from Ruth Elder, she logged more air hours than any woman in the film colony. She was once hostess on a Maddux Airlines passenger plane for an aerial breakfast party. McConnell also flew to various location settings to make films with actors like Harry Langdon and Ken Maynard
Walter Frederick Seely was born in 1886 and photographed stars primarily during the 1910s to the 1930s. He worked for the Witzel Studio (of Los Angeles) who were popular for their Ziegfeld girls.
Trained as a landscape painter, Seely had co-directed the Redwood Gallery in Eureka with his brother Ed Seely from 1907 to 1911, so knew how to run a studio. Seely stayed with Witzel until setting up an independent gallery under his own name in 1920 and created the most daringly designed images produced under the Witzel brand. His fine arts background inclined him to horizontal formats and reclining figures.