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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

FRANCES FARMER (1913 - 1970)


RAY DANTON (1931 - 1992)

One of the books I had the pleasure of reading was about birthday gal Frances Farmer. I had always heard the stories and even saw a clip from the show, "This is Your Life" that featured her very dark life. She was a hopeful, shining star in Hollywood that soon fell into the depths of her mental illness, causing years of chaos, bitterness and deep sadness
The horrors of the mental institutions she inhabited were almost beyond description. However, she was very deft in describing the torturous and inhumane treatment she received during her stay in these facilities. I promise you, it's a story you won't soon forget. I know I haven't.
May she rest in peace.

Birthday boy Ray Danton with wife Julie Adams and one of their 2 sons (Mitchell & Michael)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

SOPHIA LOREN is 81 today


KAREN SHARPE is 81 today

Birthday gal Sophia Loren with husband Carlo Ponti and sons Carlo Jr. and Edouardo

Birthday gal Karen Sharpe with her husband, director Stanley Kramer

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

GAIL RUSSELL (1924 - 1961)


RAND BROOKS (1918 - 2003)

Guy Madison and his new bride, birthday girl Gail Russell, enjoying the Hollywood nightlife, 1949.

Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford and birthday boy Rand Brooks at a "Gone With the Wind" reunion
(all three stars are now deceased)

Birthday girl Gail Russell fails a sobriety test in 1957 after crashing her car into Jan’s coffee shop on Beverly Blvd.

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ALLAN 'ROCKY' LANE (1909 - 1973)


MARTHA SCOTT (1912 - 2003)


PAUL MUNI (1895 - 1967)

Edward G. Robinson, Sylvia Sydney, and birthday boy Paul Muni confer prior to the opening performance of "We Will Never Die" - 1943

Birthday boy Allan Lane has been a mystery almost as long as he's been seen on a movie screen. His audiences have been varied over many, many years. Some know him as the never officially recognized voice of TV's famous talking horse, Mister Ed.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

MICKEY ROONEY (1920 - 2014)


WALTER PIDGEON (1897 - 1984)

Birthday boy Walter Pidgeon and Frank Morgan cheating at cards...Nahhhhhh