Irene Dunne, at about two years old.

Irene Marie Dunn, born in Louisville, Kentucky 
    (December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990)

Irene Dunne was a film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early
1950s. She was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best
Actress, for her performances in Cimarron (1931), Theodora Goes Wild
(1936), The Awful Truth (1937), Love Affair (1939) and I Remember
Mama (1948). Dunne was named to the International Best Dressed
List Hall of Fame in 1958. The actress played piano at an early age
and hoped to become an opera singer. 

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer

Christopher Plummer is a theatre, film and television actor who
made his film debut in 1958’s Stage Struck. He went on to  a
successful film career that has spanned over five decades
with film performances such as The Return of the Pink
Panther (1975), Murder by Decree (1979), and Star Trek
VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Plummer has won numerous awards and accolades for his work
and is both the oldest actor and person ever to win an Academy
Award. He won an Oscar in 2012 at the age of 82 for the movie
Beginners.

Christopher Plummer and General Chang from Star Trek VI

Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams
(December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012)

Andy Williams released seventeen Gold- and Platinum-certified
albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a television variety
show, from 1962 to 1971 on NBC, and numerous TV specials.

Before fame, Andy and his brother performed on multiple radio
stations as The Williams Brothers (below).  

The Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri is named after the
song he is most known for singing—Johnny Mercer and Henry
Mancini‘s "Moon River".

The Williams Brothers with Andy, third from the left

Ben-Hur, a remake of the 1925 silent film with the same name, premiered at
Loew’s State Theatre in New York City. It was the fastest-grossing as well as
the highest grossing film of 1959 and also had the largest budget at $15.175
million with the largest sets built for any film produced at the time.

Charlton Heston

Double Fantasy, released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, is the seventh
and final studio album released by Lennon in his lifetime. The album is
notable for its association with Lennon’s murder three weeks after its
release. It became a worldwide commercial success, and went on to win
the 1981 Album of the Year.

John Lennon at the studio mixing board