*CANDIDS*

[Rita Hayworth]

Fabulous ... Professional Tourist - That's is the best picture of her and thanks for posting it.

Joe - I loved your Christmas Avatar too.

[mongoII]

Thanks, Eric. Thanks to the help of Moira Finnie, I got that wonderful Avatar.
And Agnes Moorehead is indeed lovely in that image from PT.

[mongoII]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

RYAN WHITE (1971 - 1990) My Hero
Ryan White was born in Kokomo, Indiana in 1971. A hemophiliac, Ryan regularly needed injections of blood products to survive. In 1985 at the age of 13, it was discovered that Ryan contracted the AIDS virus, sometime during the previous year, from tainted blood. His case got national attention when his school expelled him when they learned about his disease. Not wanting to lie down and die that easily, Ryan and his parents took the school to court, where they won the right for him to return to class. As a result of Ryan's courage and outspokenness to take on his own school board, be became one of the USA's most visible spokesperson on the AIDS crisis. During 1985-1989, he appeared at schools and AIDS fundraisers throughout the country and gave moving testimony before the President's Commission on AIDS. He was befriended by many celebrities, including Michael Jackson, Elton John, Phil Donahue and Elizabeth Taylor, AIDS activists themselves. Despite overwhelming international attention, Ryan never lost his sense of priorities with his schoolwork or life in general. AIDS finally claimed Ryan's life on April 8, 1990 at the age of 18.

[Professional Tourist]

Birthday girl AM is interviewed upon arrival at the 1949 Academy Awards.
[Husband Jack Lee looks on.]

[mongoII]

ET, I suppose that is the year she was up for "Johnny Belinda"?

[mongoII]

Michael and Vanessa Redgrave on a summer holiday at Torquay, Devon, in the south of England in 1947

[Professional Tourist]

I suppose that is the year she was up for "Johnny Belinda"?

Yes, that's right Joe -- AM was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Johnny Belinda in 1949. It was her third nomination of the 1940s -- her fourth and final nomination was received in 1965, for Hush, Hush. . . .

[moira finnie]

Beautifully done memory of Ryan White, Joe. Thank you for reminding us of that brave young man. I hope his family is still comforted by the memory of his spirit.

[mongoII]

Thanks, Moira. That kid just got to me, may he rest in peace.

[mongoII]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

ELLEN BURSTYN is 81 today


ELI WALLACH is 98 today


HURD HATFIELD (1917 - 1998)


ROD CAMERON (1910 - 1983)


FAY BAINTER (1893 - 1968)

[mongoII]

Birthday gal Fay Bainter presents Hattie McDaniel with her Oscar for
"Gone With the Wind" in 1940

[Professional Tourist]

Although Miss Bainter did present the Oscar to Miss McDaniel, I believe that photo is from the end of the 12th Academy Awards ceremony where they are posing with an Oscar statuette but not Miss McDaniel's. The awards for featured players were designed differently back then. Here are a couple of photos of Miss McDaniel with her Oscar :

[mongoII]

Jeff Chandler, Colleen Miller and director Jack Arnold essay some dance steps during filming of "Man in the Shadow"

[mongoII]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

MAXIMILIAN SCHELL is 83 today


DEWEY MARTIN is 90 today


JAMES MacARTHUR (1937 - 2010)


SAMMY DAVIS JR. (1925 - 1990)


LEE J. COBB (1911 - 1976)


FRANK FAYLEN (1905 - 1985)


JOHN QUALEN (1899 - 1987)

[mongoII]

Birthday boy Dewey Martin and wife songbird Peggy Lee