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Barbra Joan Streisand is 73 today.

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1928

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Shirley Temple Black (née Temple; April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014)

Shirley Temple was Hollywood’s number one box-office star from 1935 through
1938. As an adult, she entered politics and became a diplomat, serving as U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and later to Czechoslovakia, and as Chief of Protocol of
the United States
.

Temple began her film career in 1932 at the age of three. In 1934. She was the
recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Kennedy Center Honors
and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. She ranks 18th on the
American Film Institute‘s list of the greatest female American screen legends
of all time
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John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is78 today.

During high school,Nicholson was voted class clown and served an 
entire year’s worth of afternoons in detention.

He and Michael Caine were the only two actors to receive Academy
Award nominations in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s.

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OFFICIAL RELEASE ON THIS DAY IN 1977

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Annie Hall was screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival in March 1977, before
its official release. The film received widespread critical acclaim, and along with
winning the Academy Award for Best Picture, it received Oscars in three other categories: two for Allen (Best Director and, with Brickman, Best Original
Screenplay
), and Keaton for Best Actress. The film additionally won four
BAFTA awards and a Golden Globe. It ranks 31st on AFI’s list of the top
feature films in American cinema and fourth on their list of top comedy films.

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1893

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Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971)

Lloyd was an actor, comedian, film director/ producer, screenwriter,
and
stunt performer who is most famous for his silent comedy films. He
ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most
popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era. Lloyd made
nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and
1947.

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