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A TOP CHILD STAR PASSED ON THIS DAY

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Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

 

Natalie Wood’s drowning probed as ‘suspicious’, as her sister breaks silence on Robert Wagner ...

Natalie Wood (July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981)

Natalie was a actress who began her career in film
as a child and successfully transitioned to young
adult roles.

As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress
for her role in
Rebel Without a Cause (1955), followed by a part
in
John Ford‘s The Searchers (1956).

At the age of only 43, Wood drowned in the Pacific
Ocean
near Santa Catalina Island during a break
from production of her would-be comeback film
Brainstorm
(1983).

Remembering Natalie Wood on her birthday, here in WEST SIDE STORY (‘61) | Turner classic movies ...
Natalie Wood in WEST SIDE STORY (1961)

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THEN AND NOW – ACTRESS MARY BADHAM

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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

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Mary Badham (71) is a actress who portrayed Jean Louise
"Scout" Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), for which
she was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress
. At the time, Badham (aged 10) was
the youngest actress ever nominated in this category.

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Episode: The Bewitchin Pool, Release Date: 6-19-1964

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‘’BARETTA’’ TV STAR HAS DIED AT AGE 89

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Robert Blake, as ‘Mickey’ in the "Our Gang", shorts (1942).

Blake was known for playing Detective Baretta,  who lived with his cockatoo Fred in a hotel.  
Robert Blake in “Baretta” which ran on ABC-TV from 1975 to 1978.

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Actor Robert Blake, best known as the star of the 1970s TV drama
Baretta and the crime film In Cold Blood (1967), died Thursday at
his home in Los Angeles. He had long-term heart issues and spent
the last few years listening to jazz music, playing his
guitar and
watching classic movies.


Robert Blake 'Mickey' Whoopee cap from Our Gang.

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TRACY STRATFORD IS A LIVING DOLL TODAY

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Tracy Stratford as seen in “Living Doll”, the 126th episode (season 5)

of the CBS television
anthology series The Twilight Zone. Original air
date was November 1, 1963.

 

Noblemania:
Tracy Allison Stratford was born January 19, 1955 in Los Angeles, Calif.


Tracy Stratford also appeared on TV’s Ben Casey (1961) and The
New Loretta Young
Show
(1962).

 


June Foray (born June Lucille Forer)
(September 18, 1917 – July 26, 2017)

In 1960, June Foray provided the voice for Mattel‘s original Chatty Cathy doll; capitalizing on this, Foray also voiced the malevolent
“Talky Tina” doll in the Twilight Zone episode Living Doll“.

 

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Telly Savalas with the Living Doll. 

 

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IT MADE HISTORY ON THIS DAY

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On this day in 1932, the 22-month-old son (right) of aviator Charles Lindbergh (left) was kidnapped. The child was found dead in May.

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Bruno Richard Hauptmann
(November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936)

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The Andy Griffith Show aired on CBS from
October 3, 1960, to April 1, 1968.

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Ronald William Howard is 65 years-old today.

Director, producer, and actor who first became
known as Andy Griffith‘s son Opie on The Andy
Griffith Show
and also played teenager Richie
Cunningham on Happy Days. His 2001 film A
Beautiful Mind
received the Academy Award for
Best Picture and earned Howard the Academy
Award for Best Director. He also directed the
films Apollo 13 (1995) and Dr. Seuss’ How the
Grinch Stole Christmas
 (2000).

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Happy Days, the original television sitcom aired first-run
from January 15, 1974 to September 24, 1984 on
ABC,

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