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Tony Curtis, birthday boy Jeff Chandler & Sammy Davis Jr. fooling around

Can you restore the photograph?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

RICHARD LONG (1927 - 1974)


PATRICE WYMORE (1926 - 2014)

Errol Flynn poses with his wife, birthday gal Patrice Wymore and his 3 daughters
(Wymore is holding her daughter with Flynn)

Looks like birthday boy Richard Long wants to wallop Rock Hudson (wonder why?)

Sisters Lana and Natalie Wood in 1955

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

ROGER SMITH is 82 today


PEGGY CUMMINS is 89 today


GARY GRAY (1936 - 2006)


BETTY GRABLE (1916 - 1973)


GLADYS COOPER (1888 - 1971)

Birthday gal Betty Grable and her "How To Marry A Millionaire" (1953) co-star Marilyn Monroe emerge from a Hollywood restaurant. Grable who was 20th Century Fox’s blond bombshell for most of the 1940’s was being “replaced” by Monroe. Grable was relieved as she was getting tired of fighting with Daryl F. Zanuck, Fox’s studio chief. Supposedly she told Marilyn privately, “Honey, I’ve had my time in the spotlight, now it’s your turn!” What a gal.

Birthday boy Roger Smith with his wife of 47 years Ann-Margret

Once upon a time birthday gal Gladys Cooper was young and beautiful

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

EDMUND PURDOM (1924 - 2009)


RALPH RICHARDSON (1902 - 1983)

birthday boy Sir Ralph Richardson on his way to a tree-planting event in Hyde Park, central London, 1976.

Wow Joe -- Gladys Cooper was a honey!

I remember her best as the invalid haunted by phone calls from the grave on "The Twilight Zone" episode Night Call (scripted by my fave, Richard Matheson).

As for Sir Ralph Richardson . . . As the Crypt Keeper in the 1972 film "Tales from the Crypt" I trust he exercised caution on that motorbike . . . recalling "who" caused the fate that befell Richard Greene in the "Wish You Were Here" episode.

Yesterday it was Betty Grable Birthday
Here's some great photos ...

Part 1 of 2





Bringing Christmas Cheer! ... One of my Favorite Pictures of Her!







Pretty in Pastel Pinks and Lavender Hues too

Yesterday it was Betty Grable Birthday
Here's some great photos ...

Part 2 of 2




Famous Pin-Up Picture Colorized



Young Betty Grable ... My favorite here


Unusual Photo of her here ... had this for 3 years now!




Enjoy these ...

Betty Grable was the one of his "serious" romances that George Raft sincerely wished had led to the next level: Marriage.

Grable herself said she fell so hard for George that she would have married him the first week she met him. They became the Hollywood Dream Couple back in the early 40s and despite all of George's efforts to get his so-called wife Grayce to divorce him, she remained stubborn and (I suspect) selfish. She was taking in a good ten percent of George's earnings, and he was making good money at the time. George and Betty's romance was inevitably to fizzle and ended rather sadly when she refused to accept an expensive coat that George had bought for her, which George's pal, Mack Gray, on George's instructions, laid across her doorstep rather than have be brought back to him. The good news is that after a tension that developed following George's discovery of the romance between Betty and Harry James all hard feelings came to an end and the threesome were occasionally to be seen socializing together.

Still . . . it's interesting to speculate on how things would have turned out had George and Betty become a married couple.