Janet Gaynor (Laura Augusta Gainor)
(October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984)
Janet Gaynor was one of the most popular silent film actresses who
won the first ever Academy Award for Best Actress. She is also the
only actress to receive one Oscar for multiple performances in the
same year. After graduating high school, she worked at a shoe
store in Los Angeles.
Douglas Fairbanks presenting the very first Best
Actress Oscar to Janet Gaynor
Charlton Heston (John Charles Carter)
(October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008)
Hollywood super star Charlton Heston appeared in 100 films over the course
of 60 years. His best know films include The Ten Commandments (1956),
and Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1959.
Heston as Moses
1973
Susan Abigail Sarandon (Tomlin) has worked in movies and television
since 1969. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role
in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. Sarandon was nominated four
other times for past films.
Deborah Anne Boone
Debby Boone is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life," which spent
a then record ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and led to her
winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year. Boone later
recorded country music resulting in the 1980 No. 1 hit, "Are You on the Road to
Lovin’ Me Again". In the 1980s, she recorded Christian music which garnered her
four top 10 Contemporary Christian albums as well as two more Grammys.
Debby and her father Pat Boone
George Robert "Bob" Newhart tearfully holds up his Emmy. The comedian
turned 84 September 5.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Newhart, among TV’s most enduring stars with shows stretching back more than five decades, wept as he finally captured his first Emmy
Award.
Newhart, 84, was honored at Sunday’s creative arts Emmy ceremony for his guest
role last season on "The Big Bang Theory" as Professor Proton, a down-on-his-luck former host of a children’s science show.
"This is my seventh shot at this…I just love this very much," he said, gazing tearfully
at the trophy in his hand as the audience gave him a standing ovation.
Bob Newhart receives applause from cast member on the set of “The Big Bang
Theory”
