Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand

With a career spanning over six decades, Barbara has achieved
success in multiple fields of entertainment and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.  

Dolly Marshall, left, and Clarice Lafreniere.

The highest civilian honor in the United States has been awarded
to two of Oregon’s own.

Clarice Lafreniere and Dolly Marshall were granted a Congressional
Gold Medal. It was part of a ceremony honoring hundreds of Rosie
the Riveters.

Lafreniere learned about the Pearl Harbor attack over the radio,
the same day that she gave birth to her daughter. Two years
later she was working as a welder and burner at the Kaiser
shipyard on Swan Island in Portland.

Marshall was was in high school when she worked as a plane
spotter in New Jersey.
(by KATU Staff)

Rosie The Riveter by Norman Rockwell (1943) 

On April 7, 1949, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South
Pacific opened at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway in New
York City. The romantic musical about World War II, which
touches on controversial racial themes, goes on to run for
almost five years, becoming one of the most popular musicals
of the 1950s.

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis ( April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989)

Davis was an American actress of film, television, and theater,
regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, 
and noted for her  performances in a range of film genres, from
contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films
and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes
were her roles in romantic dramas.

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the
first person to accrue ten Academy Award nominations for
acting, and the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement
Award from the American Film Institute.

In 1999, Betty Davis was placed second on the American Film
Institute’s list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood
cinema.

Davis with President Ronald Reagan (her co-star in 1939’s
Dark Victory) in 1987, two years before her death.

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This 1989 movie is best known for being the last film of Bette Davis, who withdrew from the project after filming began,
citing major problems with the script, Cohen’s direction, and
the way she was being photographed.

Cohen later claimed she really dropped out due to ill health
but avoided publicizing the truth for fear it would affect
potential future employment. Davis disputed this claim.

Clocking in at three hours and 32 minutes, William Wyler’s
Technicolor epic Ben-Hur was the behemoth entry at the
32nd annual Academy Awards ceremony, held on this day
in 1960, at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.

Setting an Oscar record, the film sweeps 11 of the 12
categories in which it was nominated, including Best
Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Charlton Heston).

Wyler’s 1959 film was the latest dramatic adaptation of the
mega-bestselling novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ,
published in 1880 by Lew Wallace. Wallace, a former
general in the American Civil War, wrote his most
successful novel after experiencing a new awakening
of his Christian faith.