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ACTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1905

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     Henry Jaynes Fonda
(May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982)

Henry Fonda was named the sixth-Greatest Male Star of All Time by the
American Film Institute.

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1957

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FILM ICON BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1901

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   Frank James (Gary) Cooper (May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) 

Cooper’s career spanned from 1925 until shortly before his death in
1961, with more than one hundred films to his credit. He received five
 
Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning twice for Sergeant
York
and High Noon. He also received an Honorary Award in 1961 from
the Academy.

The American Film Institute’s 100 Years…100 Stars ranked cooper at 
#11 among males from the Classical Hollywood cinema period. In 2003,
his performances as
Will Kane in High Noon (1952), Lou Gehrig in The
Pride
of the Yankees (1942), and Alvin York in Sergeant York (1941) 
made the AFI’s 100 Years…
100 Heroes and Villains list, all of them
as heroes.



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Gary Cooper in Sergeant York



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Cooper in High Noon

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POPULAR SINGER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1903

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       Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)

Bing Crosby was one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, 
with over half a billion records in circulation. He won an
Academy Award for
Best Actor
for his role as Father Chuck O’Malley in the 1944 motion picture
Going My Way
, and was nominated for his reprise of the role in The Bells of
St. Mary’s
the next year, becoming the first of four actors to be nominated
twice for playing the same character. In 1963, Crosby received the first
Grammy Global Achievement Award. 

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Bing Crosby and co-star Barry Fitzgerald with their Oscars from
Going My Way.

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Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney (1960 – 62)

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AL PACINO IS 72 TODAY

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Scent of a Woman (1992)

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Scent of a Woman won Al Pacino the Academy Award for Best
Actor
in 1993

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SUPPORTING ACTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1915

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Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca
(April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001)

Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and
writer. He starred in many critically acclaimed films, including Zorba the
Greek
(1964), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and The Guns of Navarone
(1961).
Quinn won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice;
for Viva Zapata! in 1952 and Lust for Life in 1956.

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