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Birthday boy S.Z. Sakall and Judy Garland look serious on the set of "In the Good Old Summertime". (one of my favorite images)

Birthday gal Bonita Granville in a glamor shot

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BONITA GRANVILLE (1923 - 1988) FRANK ALBERTSON (1909 - 1964) CONNIE GILCHRIST (1901 - 1985) S.Z. SAKALL (1883 - 1955)

Ida Lupino sits with co-star and birthday gal Andrea King on the set of "The Man I Love" (they look very much alike here)

Birthday boy and senior citizen Stuart Whitman

Birthday boy Clark Gable with the love if his life Carole Lombard

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STUART WHITMAN is 87 today NANCY GATES is 89 today ANDREA KING (1919 - 2003) BRUCE GORDON (1916 - 2011) CLARK GABLE (1901 - 1960)

Thanks for the correction, Fred. I corrected it.

Alan Jay Lerner brings their small daughter, Liza, with him when he visits his wife, Nancy Olson, on the set of "The Boy from Oklahoma". Liza sits on the lap of director Michael Curtiz

Radio’s Quiz Kid Joel Kupperman, starring in "Chip Off the Old Block", meets Lon Chaney Jr. in his "The Mummy’s Ghost" garb on the Universal lot

Birthday boy John Agar with wife Shirley Temple and daughter Susan

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUZANNE PLESHETTE (1937 - 2008) JEAN SIMMONS (1929 - 2010) JOANNE DRU (1922 - 1996) MARIO LANZA (1921 - 1959) JOHN AGAR (1921 - 2002) TALLULAH BANKHEAD (1902 - 1968) PERCY HELTON (1894 - 1971)

Jane Greer, James Cagney and birthday gal Dorothy Malone, the star trio of "Man of a Thousand Faces"

Director John Ford shows Constance Towers how to punch John Wayne in a scene from "The Horse Soldiers"

Birthday boy John Ireland out on the town with wife Joanne Dru

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VANESSA REDGRAVE is 78 today GENE HACKMAN id 85 today DOROTHY MALONE is 90 today JOHN IRELAND (1914 - 1992) HUGH MARLOWE (1911 - 1982)

Birthday boy W.C. Fields famously observed that “any man who hates kids and dogs can't be all bad” but he got along nicely with his co-star in "IT'S A GIFT" (1934)

Betty Hutton and birthday boy Victor Mature in a still from "Red, Hot and Blue"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATHARINE ROSS is 74 today VICTOR MATURE (1913 - 1999) W.C. FIELDS (1880 - 1946)

Abdullah Abbas gives Dale Robertson a rubdown between shots of "The Farmer Takes a Wife"

Director Frank Capra (right) congratulates Harry Davenport for his performance in "Meet John Doe". Screenwriter Robert Riskin smiles his approval. Harry looks tall in that photo.

Ann Savage and birthday boy Tom Neal in a still from "Detour"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM NEAL (1914 - 1972) SAM McDANIEL (1886 - 1962) Hattie's brother

Birthday boy Troy Donahue and wife Suzanne Pleshhette out on the town

Birthday boy Sabu introduced Basil Rathbone, Ellen Drew and director Tim Whelan to his favorite delicacy, fresh coconut in 1941