The Silver Screen Oasis

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

JOHNNY WEISSMULLER (1904 - 1984)

Birthday boy Johnny Weissmuller escorts his fifth wife Ailene Gates aboard ship

Roy Rogers finds a new steed to take Trigger’s place, Jerry Lewis in 1952

Clark Gable enjoys his favorite meal, which is tenderloin

Not so much in that heavier facial shot of Johnny Weissmuller (and isn't it amazing how in the Hollywood of yesteryear MGM didn't insist on changing or at least somehow shortening his surname?) but I can see a strong resemblance there with Paul Muni.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

TONY CURTIS (1925 - 2010)


LEO GORCEY (1919 - 1969)


PAULETTE GODDARD (1910 - 1990)


EDDIE ACUFF (1908 - 1956)

Birthday boy Tony Curtis with MM on the set of "Some Like It Hot"

I always thought of Tony Curtis as being pretty, but he does not look very pretty in that picture.

Fossy wrote:I always thought of Tony Curtis as being pretty, but he does not look very pretty in that picture.

True, but on his worst day he was still prettier than Jack Lemmon!

It's birthday boy Leo Gorcey with his Dead End Kids entourage Bernard Punsly, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Humtz Hall and Gabriel Dell on the Warner Bros. lot

lovely Gene Tierney in a shot from "The Egyptian"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

BRUCE DERN is 78 today


ROSALIND RUSSELL (1907 - 1976)
She refused to be placed in the Best Supporting Actress category when Columbia Pictures wanted to promote her for an Academy Award nomination for her role in "Picnic" (1955). Many felt she would have won had she cooperated.

Ann B. Davis

1926-2014 TV actress of Bob Cummings show, and The Bradys, winner of TV awards

RIP

Thanks Joe for the great pic of the Dead End Kids. Enjoyed them in their early films but they became a little harder to take once they transmuted into The Bowery Boys.

Sad that some of them led pretty tragic lives. I reckon Bernard Punsly probably ended up the most personally and professionally fulfilled of the group, eschewing show business for a successful medical career.

Nice shot of Miss Davis, too. She had a gorgeous smile. RIP sweet lady.

Birthday gal Rosalind Russell is amongst the sterling cast of "The Women"