Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
(June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)

   
1939

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota hometown of Judy Garland, the actress who wore a pair of ruby slippers in "The
Wizard of Oz," is raising money to purchase the prized footwear
after it was stolen from a local museum and then later turned
over to an auction company.

Grand Rapids, Minnesota, where the late actress was born in
1922, is fundraising at its annual Judy Garland festival, which
kicks off Thursday. The north Minnesota town is soliciting
donations to bring the slippers back after an auction company
takes them on an international tour before offering them up to prospective buyers in December.

Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
(June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)

1939

Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
(June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)

Judy Garland was a actress, singer, and dancer.  she received
a Golden Globe Award, a Special Tony Award and was one of
twelve in history to receive an Academy Juvenile Award.

Garland won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for her
1961 live recording, Judy at Carnegie Hall; she was the first
woman to win that award.

Throughout her career she recorded, her signature song, and
the Christmas classic "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."

Garland’s birthplace in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, is now a museum dedicated to her life and career.

NEW YORK (AP) — Janis Paige, a popular actress in Hollywood
and in Broadway musicals and comedies who danced with Fred 
Astaire, toured with Bob Hope and continued to perform well into 
her 80s, has died. She was one of the last surviving stars from
the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Paige , born in Tacoma, Washington, died Sunday of natural
causes at her Los Angeles home.

Bob Hope and Janis Paige in Saigon,Vietnam  
for the annual Christmas show in 1964.

1957

Norma Jeane Mortenson—who will become better known around
the world as the glamorous actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe
was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California.

Marilyn is still considered one of the most iconic
beauties of the world.