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ACTOR SCOTT GLENN IS 73 TODAY

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Theodore Scott Glenn 

Glenn’s roles have included Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy (1980),
astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983), Emmett in Silverado
(1985), Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October (1990),
and Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

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ACTRESS PIPER LAURIE IS 82 TODAY

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Piper Laurie today

Piper Laurie (Rosetta Jacobs)

Laurie is best known for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks 
(1990-1991) and the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and
Children of a Lesser God (1986), all of which brought her Academy
Award
nominations. In 1991, she won a Golden Globe Award for her
portrayal of Catherine Martell in Twin Peaks.

CARRIE-Sissy-Spacek

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       Piper Laurie made a memorable performance as the mother 

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LEADING MAN BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1904

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               Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach)
        
               (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986)

Grant was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time
(after Humphrey Bogart) by the American Film Institute. He was
known for both comedic and dramatic roles; his best-known films 
include The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The 
Bishop’s Wife (1947), To Catch a Thief (1955), An Affair to 
Remember
(1957), North by Northwest (1959), and Charade
(1963).

Nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor Penny
Serenade
(1941) and None But the Lonely Heart (1944) and
five times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

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ROBERT DUVALL IS 83 TODAY

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Robert Duvall’s film debut in To Kill a Mackingbird, 1962
 

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Duvall in Apocalypse Now, 1979

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Actor/director Robert Selden Duvall has been nominated for six 
Academy Awards, winning one for his performance in Tender
Mercies (1983), six Golden Globes, winning four, and has had
multiple nominations and one win each of the
BAFTA, Screen
Actors Guild
Award, and Emmy Award. He received the National
Medal of Arts
in 2005.


 

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DETECTIVE SHOW BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1942

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Joseph Curtin and Alice Frost played Jerry and Pam North

In 1946, Mr. and Mrs. North received the first Best Radio Drama
Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Though the
program aired one time in 1941, it began a continuous original 
run on CBS from December 30, 1942 through December 1946.   

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The radio show Mr. and Mrs. North was based on a series of 
26 novels written by the husband-wife team of Frances and 
Richard Lockridge starting in 1940 and continuing until the 
the death of Frances in 1963.

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