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CHILD STAR IS 83 TODAY

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Shirley Temple Black is a film and TV actress, singer, dancer, and
autobiographer. She was a former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and
Czechoslovakia. Shirley began her film career in 1932 at the age of
three, and in 1934, skyrocketed to superstardom in Bright Eyes, a
feature film made specifically to showcase her talents. She received
a special Academy Award in February 1935, and film hits such as
Curly Top, and Heidi followed year after year during the mid to late
1930s. Shirley appeared in a few films in her mid to late teens, and
retired completely from films in 1950 at the age of 22. She is the
recipient of many awards and honors including Kennedy Center
Honors and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

 

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CHARLES GORDIN IS 62 TODAY

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Charles Grodin is a actor, comedian, author and former cable talk show host. During
his early film career he played an obstetrician in the 1968 horror film, Rosemary’s
Baby
. He gained recognition as a comedy actor when he played the lead role in the
1972 film The Heartbreak Kid. Gordin’s career took a turn in 1992, when he played family man George Newton in the children’s comedy Beethoven, opposite Bonnie
Hunt. The film was a box-office hit, and he reprised the role in the 1993 sequel.

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Charles Gordin with Jeannie Berlin from The Heartbreak Kid

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Gordin in Rosemary’s Baby

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TODAY IS BIRTHDAY 65 FOR HAYLE MILLS

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Hayley Mills is an English actress who began her acting career as a child
and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the British Academy
Academy Film Award for Most Promising newcomer for her role in Tiger
Bay
(1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Pollyanna (1960), and
Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year-Actress in 1961. During
her early career, she appeared in several films for Walt Disney. In the
1960s she began performing in theatrical plays, and played in more
mature roles.Hayley has continued to make movies and television
appearances.

 

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Hayley Mills in Tiger Bay

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STEVIE WONDER ON SESAME STREET ~ THIS DATE IN 1973

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RADIO CLIFFHANGER DEBUTED ON THIS DATE IN 1931

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Little orphan Annie debuted on WGN radio in Chicago and eventually aired
coast to coast on NBC’s Blue Network until 1942. For most of the shows run, 
Chicago actress Shirley Bell (below) played Annie. The initial sponsor of  
the show was chocolate flavored Ovaltine. Little Orphan Annie was one 
of the first comic strips adapted to radio. It was inducted into the Radio
Hall of Fame in 1990.

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Shirley Bell played Annie 

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The announcer for show was Pierre Andre

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The Little Orphan Annie secret decoder ring 

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