The Bee Gees made their US television debut when they appeared on The
Ed Sullivan Show. They performed "To Love Somebody" and "Words."
Barry Alan Crompton Gibb is 67 and the last surviving
member of the Bee Gees.
At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest and
persuaded her family to let her move to New York. Her father, William
Bankhead, used his influence and connections to help secure Tallulah’s
first stage role, a nonspeaking, one scene walk-on part in the comedy
The Squab Farm. It only played the Bijou theater for three weeks.
Tallulah’s comments on the play from her autobiography: "A mute
child in a flop. That was my beginning."
Michael Edward "Mike" Love is an original member of The Beach Boys,
formerly The Pendleton’s (1958-1961), which he helped found. He still
actively writes, records, and performs with the band to this day.
The daily syndicated comic strip Dennis the Menace was originally
created, written and illustrated by Hank Ketcham. It debuted in 16
newspapers and was distributed by Post-Hall Syndicate. It is now
written and drawn by Ketcham’s former assistants, Marcus Hamilton
and Ron Ferdinand, and distributed to at least 1,000 newspapers
in 48 countries and in 19 languages by King Features Syndicate,
usually running a single panel on weekdays and a full strip on
Sundays.
Jon Provost (Jonathan Bion Provost)
Provost is best known for his role as young Timmy Martin in the CBS
series, Lassie (1957-1964). His acting career began at age two when
cast as Jane Wyman and Sterling Hayden’s son in the 1953 film So Big.
At 14 years of age Provost decided to end his career in show business,
but made a decision to return to do some television work in 1990. His
Career has taken variety of directions since.
According to his website, the check shirt and jeans he wore for seven
years on Lassie hang in The Smithsonian next to Archie Bunker’s chair.