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REMEMBERING RAY MILLAND

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Ray Milland (Alfred Reginald Jones) January 3, 1907–10 March 10, 1986

Milland’s screen career ran from 1929 to 1985. He is best remembered for his
Academy Award–winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend
(1945), He was the first Welsh actor to win an Oscar and gave the shortest
acceptance speech of any Oscar winner. Milland was also the leading man
opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind (1942), and played
the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder (1954),

 



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VICTORIA PRINCIPAL IS 63 TODAY!

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Victoria Principal

Victoria Principal is best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing
on the CBS nighttime soap opera Dallas from 1978 to 1987.

 

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DRAMA SERIES LEFT THE AIR ON THIS DAY IN 1954

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"The Shadow" premiered on the CBS radio network on July 31, 1930 as
the narrator for a radio program called “Detective Story Hour” based on a
magazine of the same name.The radio drama series temporarily moved to 
NBC radio in October 1932. After returning to CBS it disappeared from the 
airwaves on March 27, 1935 and later began airing over the new Mutual
Broadcasting System as a half-hour series called “The Shadow” on
Sunday evenings and continued there until the final episode on
December 26, 1954.

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A 22-year-old Orson Welles was the voice of The Shadow
(Lamont Cranston) from September 1937 to October 1938.

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RALPH FIENNES TURNED 50 TODAY!

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Ralph Fiennes now

Ralph (Nathaniel Twisleton Wykeham) Fiennes’ portrayal of Nazi
war criminal
Amon Goeth in Schindler’s List (1993), earned him
a nomination for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor,
and won the
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

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FILM PREMIERED ON THIS DAY IN 1959

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On the Beach is a post-apocalyptic drama film directed by Stanley Kramer
and written by
John Paxton. Kramer won the 1960 BAFTA for best director
and Ernest Gold won the 1960 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Score.

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Stanley Kramer

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