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TONY CURTIS WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1925

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Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) (June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010)

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FILM ICON IS 82 TODAY

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Clint Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the
TV
series Rawhide (1959–1965). He rose to fame for playing the Man with
No
 Name in Sergio Leone‘s Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns during the 
late 1960s and as Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films. Eastwood won
Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture for
the films Unforgiven In 1992 and Million Dollar Baby in 2004. Eastwood
has contributed to over 50 films over his career as actor, director, and
producer.



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Clint in Dirty Harry

 

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Eastwood in Unforgiven

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Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino, 2008

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SHOWS FINAL EPISODE ON THIS DAY IN 1962

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The General Electric Theater was produced by MCA-TV/Revue, was broadcast
every Sunday evening at 9:00pm, EST, beginning February 1,
1953 and ending
May 27,
1962. Each of the estimated 209 television episodes was an adaptation
of a
novel, short story, play, film, or magazine fiction. On September 26, 1954,
Ronald Reagan debuted as the only host of the program.

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JAMES ARNESS WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1923

Actor James Arness (1956)

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          James King Arness
(May 26, 1923 – June 3, 2011)

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James Arness was best remembered for his portrayal of 
Marshal Matt Dillon on the CBS television series Gunsmoke
for 20 years (1955-1975).

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Johnny Carson, left, and ‘Gunsmoke’ actor James Arness on ‘The Johnny Carson Show’ in 1955-56.

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ACTRESS JOAN COLLINS IS 79 TODAY

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Joan Henrietta Collins is an English actress, author and columnist.  After
making her stage debut in A Doll’s House at the age of 9, she was trained
as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. At the age
of 22, Collins headed to Hollywood to begin a film career.

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on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 11, 1989.

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