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    *CANDIDS* 2

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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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    INGRID BERGMAN  (1915 - 1982)

     

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    JACKIE 'BUTCH' JENKINS  (1937 - 2001)

     

    Butch left films at the age of eleven when he developed a nervous stutter which never left him, even as an adult.
    His childhood earnings were well invested for him, leaving him independently wealthy while still in his 30s.
    In 1970: "I have never regretted leaving the picture business and am very grateful to my mother for taking me away from it. I enjoyed the first few years of acting in movies but I certainly don't miss it. In fact, when I've had offers to return a few times, I wasn't even tempted. There may be a better way to live than on a lake with a couple of cows, a wife, and children but being a movie star is not one." He died in his sleep at age 63.

    *CANDIDS* 2

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    Birthday boy Charles Boyer and the love of his life, his wife Pat.
    It was the classic opposites attract situation, apparently. He was the rising star with a liquid French accent and brooding eyes; she a tiny, piquant B-Movie actress.
    They met at one of the reserved Boyer's rare appearances at a Hollywood party in the early 1930s, and married a few weeks later in 1934.
    Boyer and Paterson's relationship was a happy, functioning marriage until a true tragedy struck them in 1965. Their son Michael, who apparently inherited the volatile passionate streak that Boyer projected on camera, took his own life in a game of Russian Roulette after his fiancee left him. The death of their only child predictably shook the heartbroken parents, and though their love for each other never waned as sadly often happens in relationships where children are lost, they never again had that easygoing gaiety that made their marriage so delightful.
    Then in the late '70s Pat became terminally ill with cancer. Boyer acted the chivalrous cavalier up to the end. He told her doctor never to let her know how seriously she was ill, and never let on himself, joking with her and pampering her on her deathbed. When she passed away in 1978, he quietly and calmly saw to the details of her funeral, contacting the necessary people, all the while genial and collected.
    Then two days later he killed himself, overdosing on barbituates. So sad.

     
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