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Wow! What a date filled with birthdays of some the greatest film actors and multiple Oscar winners in Hollywood history.

 

I saw this last year and I believe this is the day with the greatest actors birthdays.   Tracy and Davis alone would put a day at the top but adding Douglas (Get-TV is having Douglas featured on Thursdays and the more I see this guy the more I like him),  and Huston is a great actor in both leading parts and as a supporting player.

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Walter Huston said, "Hell, I'm not paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad ones sound good."

 

Gregory Peck sat with him on the set of Duel in the Sun, swapping baseball and boxing stories. Huston told him, "Give 'em a good show, and always travel first class."

 

One of Huston's Toronto homes still stands, having recently been renovated, a beautiful two story red brick structure that sold for two million dollars a couple of summers ago. Huston's father had commissioned to have the house built in 1889.

 

Huston never forgot his Toronto roots after becoming a star, frequently returning to the city of his birth and youth. Years ago I came across a small autograph album in a Toronto antique store. Among the autographs in it was this one:

 

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There were a considerable number of autographs in the album by show biz people (about 40), but I noticed that Huston was the only one that made a point of addressing the album owner by name when he gave her his autograph. Walter Huston, a class act all the way.

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Gregory Peck!  First time I saw him was in a movie that he later called a clinker, "Days Of Glory."  Granted the subject wasn't too popular; he played a Soviet fighter who fell in love with a refugee ballerina and died under a burning tank with her, as she was being sworn in as his comrade in arms.  Okay, it was a clinker.  But I took a look at that face and went back about six times that week to watch that wretched movie just to see him.  Incredible.  That and the voice were enough to make me fall in love irrevocably.

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Tracy and Hepburn:  Did I tell this story before?  A friend went to the Motion Picture Home to interview Henry Ephron, who told him Tracy was on the set of "Desk Set" talking to Ephron's wife Phoebe, a little flirtatiously, when Katharine came clicking over to tell him he was wanted on the set, and clicked away again.  He said to Phoebe, looking after Katharine, "She's never forgiven me for Ingrid Bergman."

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     Sadly Joi Lansing was another buxom beautiful blonde who tragically died young. I believe she died of cancer. I remember her from "The Beverly Hillbillies" when she played the wife of either Earl Flatt or Lester Scruggs. She had a good singing voice too.

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Birthday boy James Garner and Lois Clarke: a true love story, married 56 years

 

 

James Garner and his wife had an interfaith marriage. Garner was a Methodist and his lovely wife Lois was Jewish. Their 56 year happy marriage wasn't the longest in Hollywood marriages.

Eli Wallach was Jewish and his lovely wife Anne Jackson was Catholic. Their interfaith marriage lasted 66 years.

Karl Malden a Christian and his lovely Jewish wife had an interfaith marriage that lasted 71 years.

 

It's great to know that these outstanding, well respected actors lead normal, happy lives and had these loving, exceptionally long marriages.

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