Susanne Cupito in The TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Caeser and
Me”originally aired on CBS on April 10, 1964. Featuring Jackie
Cooper as Jonathan West, a ventriloquist who follows his
dummy’s (Little Caesar) directions for petty burglaries. She
was in two other zone episodes, “Valley of The Shadow” in
1963 and “Nightmare as a Child” in 1960.
Morgan Brittany (born Suzanne Cupito) is 74 years young.
Hattie McDaniel and Clark Gable from Gone with the Wind.
On February 29, 1940, Gone with the Wind was honored with
eight Oscars by the American Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences.
An epic Southern romance set during the hard times of the
Civil War, the movie swept the prestigious Best Picture,
Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction, Film
Editing, and Actress categories.
However, the most momentous award that night undoubtedly
went to Hattie McDaniel for her portrayal of “Mammy,” a
housemaid and former enslaved woman. McDaniel, who
won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, was the
first African American actress or actor ever to be honored
with an Oscar.
Born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1895, McDaniel demonstrated
her talents as a singer and actress while growing up in
Denver, Colorado.
She left school while a teenager to become a performer in
several traveling minstrel groups and in 1924 became one
of the first African American women to sing on U.S. radio.
With the onset of the Great Depression, she was forced to
take work as a ladies’ washroom attendant in a Milwaukee
club.
The club, which hired only white performers, eventually
made an exception and let her sing, and she performed
there for a year before setting her sights on Hollywood.
On August 26, 1951, McDaniel suffered a stroke,
complicated by diabetes and a heart ailment,
and was admitted to the Temple Hospital in
Los Angeles.
She died of breast cancer on October 26, 1952.
2005
Actress Dakota Fanning gained fame as child in "I Am Sam"
and later starred in "War of the Worlds" and "The Twilight
Saga."
Today, Dakota Fanning is active in both fashion and film
.
Kim Novaks a retired actress and painter. Her contributions to
cinema have been honored with two Golden Globe Awards, an
Honorary Golden Bear, a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement,
and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Novak began her career in 1954 after signing a contract with
Columbia Pictures, and quickly became one of Hollywood’s
top box office stars, appearing in Picnic (1955), The Man with
the Golden Arm (1955), and Pal Joey (1957).
She gained prominence for her role in Alfred Hitchcock‘s thriller
Vertigo (1958).
Catherine O’Hara (March 4, 1954 – January 30, 2026)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Catherine O’Hara, a gifted Canadian
comic actor and “SCTV” alum who starred as Macaulay
Culkin’s harried mother in two “Home Alone” movies and
created the dramatically ditzy character of Moira Rose in
the Emmy-winning comedy “Schitt’s Creek,” died Friday.
O’Hara died at her home in Los Angeles “following a brief
illness,” according to a statement from her agency, Creative
Artists Agency. Further details were not immediately available.
She was 71.
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