Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr.
(16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977)

On April 16, 1889, future Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin 
was born Charles Spencer Chaplin in London, England.

Chaplin, one of the most financially successful stars of early
Hollywood, was introduced to the stage when he was five.

Barbra Streisand plants a kiss Duke’s cheek after presenting
him with his career’s only Academy Award.

On April 7, 1970, the legendary actor John Wayne wins his first—
and only—acting Academy Award, for his star turn in the director
Henry Hathaway’s Western True Grit.

Wayne appeared in some 150 movies over the course of his long
and storied career.

John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison)
(May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979)

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004)

Considered one of the most influential actors of the
20th century, Marlon Brando received numerous
accolades throughout his career which spanned
six decades, including two Academy Awards, two
Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy
Film Awards. Brando was also an activist for many
causes, notably the civil rights movement and
various Native American movements.

Bob Steele (Robert Adrian Bradbury)
(January 23, 1907 – December 21, 1988)

Steele was born in Portland, Oregon, into a vaudeville family.

His parents were Robert North Bradbury and the former Nieta
Quinn. He had a twin brother, Bill, also an actor.

After years of touring, the family settled in Hollywood in the
late 1910s, where his father soon found work in the movies,
first as an actor, later as a director.

Steele’s career began to take off in 1927, when he was hired
by production company Film Booking Offices of America to
star in a series of Westerns. Renamed Bob Steele, he soon
made a name for himself, and in the late 1920s, 1930s and
1940s starred in B-Westerns for almost every minor film
studio,

Steele is said to have been the inspiration for the character
"Cowboy Bob" in the Dennis The Menace comic strip.

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Elvis Presley swears in to the U.S. Army, March 24, 1958. (Associated Press photo/Public Domain)