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ACTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1907

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  Robert George Young
(February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998)

Robert Young appeared in minor roles in silent films and toured with a
stock company before being discovered by an MGM talent scout. He
was in over 100 films between 1932 and 1951 and later played leading
roles in the series, Father Knows Best which ran on NBC radio from
1949 to 1954 and on CBS television from 1954 to 1960. and Marcus
Welby, M.D.on ABC-TV from 1969 to 1976.
 

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Robert Young with Jean Vander Pyl on radios “Father Knows Best”

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The TV cast of “Father Knows Best”

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ACTOR HAL HOLBROOK IS 89 TODAY

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                                   Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr.

Holbrook is most famous for his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight since 1954
and has played Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series. He was nominated for
a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for the 2007 film Into the
Wild.
Some of Holbrook’s latest films are Water for Elephants (2011), and the 
Steven Spielberg drama Lincoln (2012).

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HEARD FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THIS DAY IN 1943

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"My True Story" debuted on ABC radio and ran for seventeen years. The daily
program was presented in cooperation with "True Story" magazine, the source of
the stories for the radio series. The magazine, first published in 1919. was said to
be one of the earliest in today’s genre of confession magazines and continued on
radio for nearly 19 years.   

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ACTRESS KIM NOVAK IS 81 TODAY

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Kim Novak (Marilyn Pauline Novak)

Novak made her film debut in the film noir Pushover (1954), starring Fred
MacMurray
and Philip Carey. She starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo
(1958). Before fame Kim Novak worked as a dental assistant, sales clerk,
and an elevator operator. 

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ACTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1891

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Ronald Charles Colman
(February 9, 1891 –  May 19, 1958)

Colman’s career spanned from silent films to talkies and was
nominated for Academy Awards for his roles in Condemned
and Bulldog Drummond. He won the 1948 Academy Award
for Best Actor for his role in A Double Life. He was one of
the few actors who graduated from silent films to talking
films. He made his first appearance on the professional
stage in 1914.

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    Roland Colman with his Best Actor Academy Award

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