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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAIL RUSSELL (1924 - 1961) RAND BROOKS (1918 - 2003

Birthday gal Karen Sharpe with her husband, director Stanley Kramer

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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOPHIA LOREN is 81 today KAREN SHARPE is 81 today

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

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.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANCES FARMER (1913 - 1970) RAY DANTON (1931 - 1992)

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

Birthday boy Robert Blake as Baretta with his pet cockatoo Fred

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.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBERT BLAKE is 82 today GRETA GARBO (1905 - 1990)

Thank you Dothery and Laffite for your input. It was delightful.

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

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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNE BANCROFT (1931 - 2005) RODDY McDOWALL (1928 - 1998)

roof 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.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANIS PAIGE is 93 today TOMMY 'Butch' BOND (1926 - 2005) LAUREN BACALL (1924 - 2014)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKIE COOPER (1922 - 2011)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HENRY SILVA is 87 today

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

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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAYTON MOORE (1914 - 1999)

It seemed to me that she didn't mind getting messed up in the good movie "Three Came Home" in which she gave a fine performance,

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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAUDETTE COLBERT (1903 - 1996) GLADYS GEORGE (1900 - 1954)