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Birthday gal Claudette Colbert dances with Gary Cooper at a Hollywood event

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CLAYTON MOORE (1914 - 1999)

The Mexican Spitfire Lupe Velez entertains birthday boy Clayton Moore, the future Lone Ranger

Birthday boy Clayton Moore & Jay Silverheels relax on the set of "The Lone Ranger"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HENRY SILVA is 87 today


JACKIE COOPER (!922 - 2011)

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JANIS PAIGE is 93 today


TOMMY 'Butch' BOND (1926 - 2005)


LAUREN BACALL (1924 - 2014)

Proof that TRUE beauty lasts for ever: A year before her death, birthday gal Lauren Bacall posed for this unflinching portrait. And, every line on her proud, defiant face is a lesson in how to embrace growing old.

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ANNE BANCROFT (1931 - 2005)


RODDY McDOWALL (1928 - 1998)

Birthday gal Anne Bancroft, 1959, at a school for the blind, preparing for her role as Annie Sullivan in the "Miracle Worker" on Broadway

Robert Mitchum and birthday boy Roddy McDowall, They were both participating in a charity baseball game in Los Angeles.

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ROBERT BLAKE is 82 today


GRETA GARBO (1905 - 1990)

Birthday gal Greta Garbo stood with 150 others at the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization in New York to take the oath of allegiance and become an American citizen.

Birthday boy Robert Blake as Baretta with his pet cockatoo Fred

Birthday gal Greta Garbo in one of her last photos before her death in 1990.

Charles Laughton captured by Alfred Eisenstaedt
in New York, June 1952.