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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

PATTY ANDREWS is 93 today


VERA-ELLEN (1921 - 1981)


JIMMY WAKELY (1914 - 1982)


HUGH BEAUMONT (1909 - 1982)


EDGAR BERGEN (1903 - 1978)
with pal Charlie McCarthy


CHESTER MORRIS (1901 - 1970)

Lawd A'mighty, Chet, what are you doin' ?!!!!
I know you probably lost a poker hand or two to King Gillette, but this is not the way to get him back!
Grab that badger-brush & a basin of boilt water, Mister, and head for the lavatory; your folks hit the jackpot on the old gene pool - don't disgrace them now!
(Celebrities --- what ya gonna do with 'em ?!! )

Mr. Stan Laurel & Mr. Oliver Hardy, gentlemen indeed.

Alison, be very proud: Stan was indeed " a fine Lancashire lad" - and he & Pal Ollie now belong to us all, forever.

Gary Cooper: A Man's Man


Gary Cooper with FDRjr


Gary Cooper with Pablo Picasso


Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway

Coop to Papa: "Well . . coulda brought along that frat boy Dick Cheney . . bought you know how jumpy he gets in quail country . . !"

Irene Dunne checks her make up on the set of "The White Cliffs of Dover"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAL HOLBROOK is 86 today


ALAN BATES (1934 - 2003)


JEREMY SLATE (1926 - 2006)


KATHLEEN FREEMAN (1919 - 2001)


RAF VALLONE (1916 - 2002)


WAYNE MORRIS (1914 - 1959)


ARTHUR KENNEDY (1914 - 1990)


ARTHUR HUNNICUT (1910 - 1979)


MARC LAWRENCE (1910 - 2005)


MARY BRIAN (1906 - 2002)

Wow!!!! Joe, that photo of L&H is probably the best one I've ever seen. They look so intelligent, and handsome and dapper, like the attractive men they both were in real life. Look at Stan's virile face. And Babe Hardy really was a babe, wasn't he? Small wonder women found them so attractive. I'm in love all over again. Thanks so much for this.

I'd like to cast a vote of appreciation for the undersung Wayne Morris, who made "Aw, shucks" sweetness look so real. A very fine actor, who rarely got to do much more than look cute and sheepish. I was so impressed with his breakout performance in Paths of Glory, and his more typical work as Cagney's guileless gofer in The Time of Your Life.

Allow me to second Judith's praise of the picture of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy.

Judith, glad that you appreciated the Laurel & Hardy image, like I did.
Wayne Morris was certainly an appealing actor and it's a shame he was nipped in the bud so early.

Plus they made you laugh. Personally, I would love to encounter some of Babe's southern gentlemanly charm nowadays.

Claire Du Brey, Norman Foster, director Sam Wood, Polly Moran, assistant director
John Waters and Marie Dressler relax between scenes of "Prosperity"

I loved the picture of Laurel and Hardy too. I'm very proud of Stan Laurel's Lancashire origins, his birth place isn't too far from here, I intend to take the kids when they are old enough to enjoy it, I'm sure the tour guides will be given a run for their money that day. I can't stop asking questions in places like that. Stan is now commemorated with a statue in his birth town of Ulverston, I wish they'd put Oliver Hardy with him, it doesn't seem right to have one without the other.

FDR jnr looks pretty handsome in that picture, did he ever try out in movies.