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LOUISE FLETCHER IS 82 TODAY

 


Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.


Estelle Louise Fletcher was born in Birmingham, Alabama.

Louise Fletcher won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Nurse
Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). She worked as a secretary
by day and took acting lessons by night.


Jack Nicholson from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1911

 


Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McMath)
Born in Independence, Missouri  (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995)

Ginger Rogers appeared as the dance partner of Fred Astaire in a number
of classic movie musicals such as Top Hat (1935), Swing Time (1936), and
The Gay Divorcee (1934). She originally wanted to become a school teacher
but, became involved with vaudeville and Broadway acts as a dancer and
an actor before moving to Hollywood.

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ITALIAN ACTRESS IS 89 TODAY


Luigina "Gina" Lollobrigida

Gina Lollobrigida appeared in movies in Italy and America, including Hotel
Paradiso
(1966). In 2008, she was awarded the National Italian/American
Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. She made her big screen debut
in the 1946 film Lucia di Lammermoor and placed third the 1947 Miss Italia
Pageant.

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Ms Lollobrigida in the movie Soloman and Sheba
Gina Lollobrigida starred opposite Yul Brinner in Soloman and Sheba (1959).

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TV ACTRESS IS DEAD AT 87

Ann Morgan Guilbert Ann Morgan Guilbert Photos 2011 Independent Spirit
Ann Morgan Guilbert (October 16, 1928 – June 14, 2016)

NEW YORK (AP) –  Ann Morgan Guilbert, beloved as the next-door
neighbor on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and seen recently on
CBS’ comedy "Life in Pieces," has died.

Her daughter Nora Eckstein said Guilbert died of cancer in Los
Angeles on Tuesday.  


Original airing on CBS: October 3, 1961 – June 1, 1966.

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