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MARGE CHAMPION is 96 today

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ALAN LADD (1913 - 1964) suicide?

Birthday boy Alan Ladd wife Sue, daughter Alana and son David in 1952

According to his biography, the end of his love affair with June Allyson, his co-star in The McConnell Story (1955), led to Ladd's late-life depression.
In November 1962 he was found unconscious lying in a pool of blood with a bullet wound near his heart. In January 1964 he was found dead, apparently due to an accidental combination of alcohol and sedatives.
Sad indeed.

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MITZI GAYNOR is 84 today

Birthday gal Mitzi Gaynor out on the town with Ethel and Lucy
(not Ethel Mertz)

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RAQUEL WELCH is 75 today


GLORIA HOLDEN (1903 - 1991)
wonderful as "Dracula's Daughter"

After Her Performance on Broadway, birthday gal Raquel Welch is
visited backstage by friend Andy Warhol

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OTTO KRUGER (1885 - 1974)
Superb character actor

Jean Darling 1922-2015 RIP
( one the last survivors of Our Gang series)

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PETER LAWFORD (1923 - 1984)

Young Peter Lawford, whose mother frequently dressed him as a female.
Yikes!

Photograph of John F. Kennedy and birthday boy Peter Lawford. Lawford was Kennedy's brother in law and was his connection to Hollywood. He served as a liaison between Hollywood and the Kennedy White House during the golden age of Camelot.

Lawjord has something of a bodyguard here

almost impossible to recognize Lawford as a "girl', his mother surely wished a baby girl