William Haines
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Charles William "Billy" Haines was an American actor and interior designer.
Publicity photo of Haines released for Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928)
Still from the film Mike (1926) with Haines and Sally O'Neil
Portrait of Haines featured in Screenland magazine, February 1931
Hopewell, Virginia
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Hopewell is an independent city surrounded by Prince George County and the Appomattox River in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 23,033. The Bureau of
William Haines
…home at the age of 14, accompanied by an unidentified young man whom Haines referred to as his "boyfriend". The pair went first to Richmond and then to Hopewell, which had a reputation for immorality. They got jobs working at the local DuPont factory, producing nitrocellulose for $50 a week. To supplement their…
Smokestacks rise from Hopewell's skyline, seen from Chesterfield County
The former Hopewell High School, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was renovated from 2009 to 2010 and now serves as an apartment building.