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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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GARY COOPER WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1901

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   Gary Cooper (Frank James Cooper) (May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961)

Cooper’s career spanned from 1925 until shortly before his death, and
comprised more than one hundred films, one of which was in 1952 when
he played Marshall Will Kane in High Noon. Before fame, Cooper was a
newspaper editorial cartoonist in Helena, Montana.

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TV HOST BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1918

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   Jack Harold Paar
(May 1, 1918 – January 27, 2004) 

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                   Jack Paar was host of The Tonight Show 1957 to 1962

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TV DIRECTOR HAS DIED AT 84

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               Jack Shea ( August 1, 1928 – April 28, 2013)

 

Jack Shea, a TV comedy director for more than four decades who directed
ten Bob Hope overseas Christmas specials and multiple episodes of such
sitcoms as The Jeffersons, Silver Spoons and Sanford and Son, has died
from complications from Alzheimer’s. His wife of 59 years, TV screenwriter
Patt Shea, said he died Sunday in Los Angeles.

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SILENT FILM STAR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1893

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  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr.
(April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971)

Harold Lloyd was a actor and producer, famous for his silent comedy
films. He ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one 
of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era.

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