Kathy Bates rose to prominence with her performance in Misery
(1990), for which she won both the Academy Award for Best
Actress and a Golden Globe.

Mel Brooks is 87 today

1962 high school photo 

       Don Grady (Don Agrati, June 8, 1944-June 27, 2012)

Grady, who was an original Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse
Club who played son Robbie Douglas on the ABC and CBS
sitcom My Three Sons, one of the longest-running family
sitcoms in history, died today in Thousand Oaks, Calif.,
after a battle with cancer. He was 68.

The wedding of Broadway singer Ethel Merman and Oscar winning actor Ernest 
Borgnine is one of the shortest in Hollywood history. The marriage began falling 
apart on their honeymoon and it was soon dissolved after 32 days.

Merman, who never again married, devoted a chapter of her autobiography to
the Borgnine marriage: It consisted of one blank page.

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Ernest Borgnine is 95 years old (Jan. 24)

Sonny & Cher Bono

By the third season of the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, the marriage of Sonny
and Cher, after 11 years, was beginning to unwind. The duo separated later that
year, a very public divorce followed and was finalized on June 27, 1975. Three
days later Cher married rock musician Gregg Allman, a founding member of
the Allman Brothers Band. That union lasted just three years.

Cher and Gregg Allman wedding photo

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Cher (Cheryl Sarkisian) turned 66 May 20