The Silver Screen Oasis

Birthday gal Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth serve food to soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen. c.1942

Birthday boy Ray Mala was an Inupiat actor born in Candle, Alaska on December 27th, 1906. In 1925 Mala made his way to the Edendale neighborhood and got a job as a cameraman with Fox Film Corporation. In 1932, Mala was featured as an actor in Edwin Wing's "documentary," Igloo, which was distributed by Universal and became a hit. The following year, he appeared as "Mala the Magnificent" in the big budget MGM film, Eskimo. He went on to appear in many films, often in "Northerns" and also playing Pacific Islanders in other films. Mala also spent a considerable amount of time behind the camera as a cinematographer. He worked with Joseph LaShelle on many pictures including Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Laura (1944), The Fan (1949), Meet Me After the Show (1951) and Les Misérables (1952).
Sadly he died of a heart attack at age 45 in 1952.

Peter Lorre, birthday boy Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor & Humphrey Bogart share a group hug on
the set of The Maltese Falcon

Love the group hug, Joe!
Thank you for being a friend.

Professional Tourist wrote:Love the group hug, Joe!
Thank you for being a friend.

It was my pleasure, PT.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

MARTIN MILNER (1931 - 2015)


LEW AYRES (1908 - 1996)

Wife Judy, Stuart, Molly, Amy, and birthdauy boy Martin Milner - "Sure, stardom is swell, but so much depends on luck and timing, things like that. Love and marriage don't depend on luck. Those you have to earn, but once earned, they're yours for life!"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

DINA MERRILL is 92 today


JO VAN FLEET (1915 - 1996)

RUSS TAMBLYN is 81 today

Reunited:" West Side Story" co-stars George Chakiris, Rita Moreno and birthday boy Russ Tamblyn

so good to see them together, what a trio!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

THERESA HARRIS (1911 - 1985)


RHYS WILLIAMS (1897 - 1969)

TO ONE AND ALL AT THE SILVER SCREEN OASIS

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND ALL MEMBERS!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

CAROLE LANDIS (1919 - 1948) suicide


DANA ANDREWS (1909 - 1992)