Happy 93rd Birthday John Astin! Born March 30, 1930...
Over 145 film and TV roles incl Move Over Darling (Clyde Prokey), That Touch of Mink (Mr. Everett Beasley), TV's I'm Dickens, He's Fenster - and of course TV's Gomez Addams!
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Happy 89th Birthday Shirley Jones! Born March 31, 1934... Over 105 roles incl Elmer Gantry, The Music Man, Carousel, Oklahoma (Film Debut), Bedtime Story, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Cheyenne Social Club -& of course TV's Shirley Partridge!
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Happy 94th Birthday Mel Brooks!
Born Today, June 28, in 1926 -
Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, To Be Or Not To Be, Spaceballs, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Dracula Dead and Loving It - & the voice of Albert Einstein in 2014's Mr. Peabody & Sherman"
Happy 93rd Birthday Barbara Bain! Born September 13, 1931...
Over 80 roles including TV's Space: 1999 - & of course Cinnamon Carter on TV's Mission Impossible!
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Happy 88th Birthday Carol Burnett! Born Today, April 26, in 1933...
"I saw it in the window and I just couldn't resist it!" -Carol Burnett as Miss Starlett in Went With the Wind...
Happy 94th Birthday Angela Lansbury! Born October 16, 1925 -
100+ film/TV roles incl Gaslight, The Manchurian Candidate, The Long Hot Summer, State of the Union, The Harvey Girls, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Death on the Nile, Nanny McPhee - and of course TV's Murder She Wrote!
Happy 86th Birthday Dustin Hoffman! Born Today, August 8, in 1937... Over 80 film/TV roles incl The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, All the President's Men, Marathon Man, Kramer vs Kramer, Tootsie, Rainman, I Heart Huckabees, Meet the Fockers...
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Happy 88th Birthday Maggie Smith! Born December 28, 1934... Over 70 roles & still going strong! The VIPs, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Murder by Death, Death on the Nile, Gosford Park, California Suite, First Wives Club, the Harry Potter films - & of course TV's Downton Abbey!
Happy 76th Birthday Tim Matheson! Born Dec 31, 1947... over 190 roles incl The Hardy Boys, Yours Mine and Ours, Animal House - & TV's The Virginian, Jonny Quest (voice), Hart of Dixie, West Wing & Virgin River...
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Happy 91st Birthday John Astin! Born March 30, 1930...
"Cara mia!" :) Over 145 film and television roles including Move Over Darling (Clyde Prokey), That Touch of Mink (Mr. Everett Beasley) - and of course TV's Gomez Addams!
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Happy 85th Birthday Maggie Smith! Born December 28, 1934...
Over 70 film and TV appearances and still going strong! The VIPs, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Murder by Death, Death on the Nile, First Wives Club, Harry Potter films -- and TV's Downton Abbey...
Happy 96th Birthday William Daniels! Born March 31, 1927... The Graduate (Dustin Hoffman's father), 1776 (John Adams), A Thousand Clowns (Albert) - and of course Dr Mark Craig on St Elsewhere, KITT on Night Rider & Mr Feeny on Boy Meets World...
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Born Today, May 30, in 1908, Mel Blanc...
Some of the most iconic, lovable & despicable characters in the history of cartoons :) Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Porky Pig, Barnie Rubble & Dino!
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Happy 92nd Birthday Barbara Eden! Born Today, August 23, in 1931... Over 80 roles including From the Terrace, All Hands on Deck, The Brass Bottle - & of course TV's Harper Valley PTA (film too), TV's How to Marry a Millionaire -- and I Dream of Jeannie!
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Born Today, Dec 25, in 1899, Humphrey Bogart - Over 85 films incl Angels with Dirty Faces, The Roaring Twenties, Casablanca, Dark Passage, Sabrina, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen, Key Largo, The Big Sleep...
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Happy 90th Birthday David McCallum! Born September 19, 1933... Over 130 roles including The Great Escape, A Night to Remember, The Greatest Story Ever Told, TV's The Replacements - & of course Donald Mallard on NCIS and Illya Kuryakin on The Man From UNCLE!
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Happy 77th Birthday Hayley Mills! Born Today, April 18, in 1946... Over 50 film and television roles including The Parent Trap, Pollyanna, The Moon-Spinners, That Darn Cat, The Trouble with Angels, The Truth About Spring...
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Happy 90th Birthday Carol Burnett! Born Today, April 26, in 1933... Over 80 roles including Pete n Tillie, Annie 1982, TV's Mad About You and Better Call Saul - & of course The Carol Burnett Show and Eunice on Mama's Family!
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Happy 71st Birthday Angela Cartwright! Born Today, September 9, in 1952...Over 25 film and television roles including Danny Thomas' daughter in Make Room for Daddy, Penny Robinson in Lost in Space - & of course Brigitta Von Trapp in The Sound of Music!
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Happy 91st Birthday to the lovely & talented Rita Moreno! Born Today, December 11, in 1931... Over 140 roles incl Singin' in the Rain, The King and I - & of course Anita in West Side Story! Also TV's Electric Company, Nine to Five, Oz, Happily Divorced and One Day at a Time...
Happy 89th Birthday Sophia Loren! Born Sept 20, in 1934 -
Over 90 film/TV roles incl Two Women, Marriage Italian Style, Desire Under the Elms, Houseboat, It Started in Naples, That Kind of Woman, The Pride and the Passion, Heller in Pink Tights...
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Born Today, June 7, in 1917, Dean Martin... Over 65 roles incl My Friend Irma, The Stooge, Scared Stiff, Money From Home, The Caddy, Rio Bravo, Ocean's 11, Robin & the 7 Hoods, The Silencers, The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts & The Dean Martin Show...
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Born Today, June 10, in 1922 the Legendary Judy Garland... Meet Me in St Louis, Harvey Girls, Andy Hardy films, Easter Parade, In the Good Old Summertime, The Clock, Summer Stock, A Star is Born, Judgment at Nuremberg - & of course The Wizard of Oz!
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Wow! Happy 100TH BIRTHDAY Glynis Johns! Born Oct 5, in 1923... Over 90 film/TV roles including 49th Parallel, The Court Jester, Papa's Delicate Condition, The Sundownersm While You Were Sleeping - & of course Mrs Banks in Mary Poppins!
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Happy 97th Birthday Mel Brooks! Born Today, June 28, in 1926 - Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part 1... began career as a comic & a writer for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, created/wrote (w/Buck Henry) Get Smart :)
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Happy 99th Birthday Eva Marie Saint! Born July 4, 1924... Over 80 roles incl On the Waterfront, Raintree Country, North by Northwest, The Sandpiper, Grand Prix, The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming, Grand Prix, Superman Returns...
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Born Today, Dec 24, in 1922, Ava Gardner - Over 65 film/tv roles incl One Touch of Venus, Mogambo (Oscar Nomination), The Killers, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Barefoot Contessa, The Sun Also Rises, The Night of the Iguana, Bhowani Junction...
Happy 87th Birthday James Darren! Born June 8, 1936...
50 film and television roles including Gidget, Guns of Navarone, The Gene Krupa Story, Operation Mad Ball - and of course Officer Jim Corrigan on TJ Hooker!
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Happy 88th Birthday Robert Duvall! Born Jan 5, 1931...
Over 140 roles incl To Kill a Mockingbird, Bullitt, True Grit, MASH, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Great Santini, Tender Mercies, Network, A Civil Action, The Natural, Gods and Generals, The Apostle, Secondhand Lions...
Happy 88th Birthday Dame Julie Andrews! Born October 1, 1935... 40+ roles incl Americanization of Emily, Torn Curtain, Thoroughly Modern Millie, SOB, Victor Victoria, Princess Diaries, TV's Bridgerton -& of course Mary Poppins & The Sound of Music!
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Born Today, June 1, in 1926, the Legendary Marilyn Monroe -
"All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent."
30+ roles incl All About Eve, Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch, Bus Stop, Some Like It Hot, The Misfits...
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Happy 72nd Birthday Kurt Russell! Born March 17, 1951... Film Debut in 1963 as the boy who kicks Mike (Elvis Presley) in It Happened at the World's Fair... Top Disney star during '60s & '70s... later Escape From NY, Silkwood, Backdraft, Overboard...
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Happy 88th Birthday Russ Tamblyn! Born Dec 30, 1934 - Over 85 roles incl Father of Bride 1950, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Peyton Place, High School Confidential, West Side Story, The Haunting - & Dr Jacoby on TV's Twin Peaks...
The Apartment premiered in NYC at at the Astor & Plaza theaters, 63 years ago today on June 15, 1960... The NY Times called it 'a gleeful, tender and even sentimental film' calling Jack Lemmon's performance 'grand' & Shirley MacLaine's 'splendid'...
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Born Today, August 23, in 1912, Gene Kelly... Dancer, Actor, Singer, Director, Producer, Choreographer & Legend! Cover Girl, Anchors Aweigh, On the Town, Summer Stock, An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain, The Pirate, Inherit the Wind, Brigadoon
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Born Today, April 15, in 1933 Elizabeth Montgomery - Over 65 film and TV roles including The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (Film Debut, 1955), Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed - and of course Samantha Stephens on TVs Bewitched!
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I am SO very sorry to report that Doris Day has passed away... such a classy lady, who brought joy to so many of us movie and music fans. WE WILL MISS YOU! Thank you for so many years of wonderful entertainment...
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Born Today, June 14, in 1909 Burl Ives - 55+ roles incl Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Big Country, East of Eden, Desire Under the Elms, Brass Bottle, Ensign Pulver, TV's The Bold Ones: The Lawyers - & Sam the Snowman in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer!
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Happy 90th Birthday Julie Newmar! Born Today, August 16, in 1933... Over 75 film and TV roles, including, Li'l Abner, The Marriage-Go-Round, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Mackenna's Gold - and of course was Catwoman on TV's Batman from 1966-1967!
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Born Today, April 2, in 1914 Sir Alec Guinness - 60+ roles incl The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The Swan, The Prisoner, The Ladykillers, A Passage to India, Murder by Death - & of course Star Wars' Obi-Wan Kenobi!
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Born Today, June 20, in 1928, Martin Landau - Over 165 roles including Pork Chop Hill, North by Northwest, Cleopatra 1963, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Nevada Smith, Ed Wood - and of course Rollin Hand on TV's Mission Impossible!
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Born Today, Apri 7, 1928, James Garner - 95+ roles incl The Thrill of It All, Americanization of Emily, The Children's Hour, Support Your Local Sheriff, The Great Escape, Marlowe, Murphy's Romance, The Notebook & of course Jim Rockford & Maverick!
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The Public Enemy was released nationally in the US 92 years ago today, on May 15, 1931... In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"...
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Born Today, June 10, in 1895, Radio/Film/TV Pioneer Hattie McDaniel... a pioneer & true inspiration... Over 95 roles incl China Seas, Show Boat, The Shopworn Angel, The Great Lie - and of course Gone with the Wind!
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Happy 86th Birthday Donald Sutherland! Born Today, July 17, in 1935... Over 175 roles incl The Dirty Dozen, MASH, Kelly's Heroes, Klute, The Eagle Has Landed, Animal House, Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978, JFK, Ordinary People, Backdraft, Space Cowboys, The Hunger Games...
Happy 81st Birthday Dolores Hart! Born October 20, 1938... Loving You, Wild Is the Wind, 1958 King Creole, Where the Boys Are... at age 24, Hart left Hollywood to become a nun at the Abbey of Regina Laudis monastery in Connecticut...
Happy 97th Birthday Doris Day! Born April 3, in 1922...
40 roles including Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, The Thrill of It All, Send Me No Flowers, Calamity Jane, Man Who Knew Too Much, Midnight Lace, On Moonlight Bay & of course The Doris Day Show...
Happy 74th Birthday Veronica Cartwright! Born April 20, 1949... Over 155 roles including The Children's Hour, The Birds, TV's Daniel Boone, Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978, Alien, The Right Stuff...
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Happy 91st Birthday Robert Duvall! Born Jan 5, 1931...
Over 140 roles incl To Kill a Mockingbird, Bullitt, True Grit, MASH, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Great Santini, Tender Mercies, Network, The Natural, Gods & Generals, The Apostle, Secondhand Lions & more in production
Happy 84th Birthday Ali MacGraw! Born April 1, 1939... 15 roles including A Lovely Way to Die (Debut) followed by Goodbye Columbus and then of course Love Story (Best Actress Nomination)
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Born Today, April 1, in 1932, Debbie Reynolds - Over 80 roles incl The Tender Trap, The Mating Game, How the West Was Won, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The Singing Nun, Goodbye Charlie, Divorce American Style - and of course Singin' in the Rain!
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Happy Birthday Teri Garr! Born Today, Dec 11, in 1944 (or 47)... nine Elvis Presley movies including Viva Las Vegas, Kissin Cousins and Roustabout... and of course Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Tootsie, Mr Mom and Young Frankenstein!
Born Today, May 15, in 1909 James Mason - Over 150 roles incl Madame Bovary, Prisoner of Zenda, A Star Is Born 1954, 20K Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, North by Northwest, Lolita, Georgy Girl, Lord Jim, The Verdict...
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