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JAMIE FARR IS NOW 78!

JAMIE FARR BABY

Jamie Farr

Jamie Farr was born Jameel Joseph Farah in Toledo, Ohio. He is best
known for having played the role of cross-dressing Corporal, later
Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger in the CBS television sitcom M*A*S*H
from 1972 to 1983..

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One of Farr’s first film roles (far left) was in 1955, in Blackboard Jungle,
billed as Jameel Farah.

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KATHY BATES IS 64 TODAY

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kathy-bates

Kathy Bates rose to prominence with her performance in Misery
(1990), for which she won both the
Academy Award for Best
Actress
and a Golden Globe.

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LEGENDARY SCREENWRITER IS DEAD AT 71

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              Nora Ephron (May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012)

(Fox News)-Author, director and screenwriter Nora Ephron died today
in a New York hospital from complications from the blood disorder
myelodysplasia, with which she was diagnosed six years ago.

Nora Ephron is best remembered for her romantic comedies and was
a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay
for three films: Slikwood (1983), When Harry Met Sally (1989), and
Sleepless in Seattle (1993). Her most recent film was Julie & Julia in
2009.  

 

silkwood

sleepless-in-seattle-poster

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MARIETTE HARTLEY TURNED 72 TODAY

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Mariette Hartley portraying Zarabeth in the third season Star Trek
episode “All Our Yesterdays” (Mar. 1969)

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Mariiette Hartley began her career in her teens as a stage actress. Her
film  career began with the western Ride the High Country (1962),

Ride the High country

mariette hartley ride

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ACTRESS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1907

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     Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) 

his girl friday poster
1940


 

 

Rosalind Russell
1943

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