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BOND GIRL JILL ST. JOHN IS 71 TODAY

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Actress Jill St. John is best known for her role as Tiffany Case, the lead
Bond girl in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Jill continues to act, primarily
in television sitcoms and made-for-TV movies. She has worked on five
films with her husband actor Robert Wagner. Jill St. John is the author
of The Jill St. John Cookbook (1987).

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Jill as Bond girl Tiffany Case with costar Sean Connery

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ROBERT REDFORD IS 75 TODAY

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Robert Redford, is a, film director, producer, businessman, model,
environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film
Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing the 
film Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. His
most popular films include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Great Gatsby (1974), and
All the President’s Men (1976).

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Robert Redford with costar Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid

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ROBERT DE NIRO HAS TURNED 68 TODAY

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Robert De Niro, Jr. is a actor, director and producer. His first major film role
was in 1973’s Bang the Drum Slowly. In 1974 DeNiro played the young Vito
Corleone in the The Godfather Part ll, a role that won him the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1980 he earned an Academy Award
for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake La Motta in the Martin Scorsese film
Raging Bull. He was also nominated for an Oscar for Taxi Driver (1976),
Cape Fear
(1991), and The Deer Hunter (1978). Robert’s role in Scorsese’s
Goodfellas (1990) earned him a BAFTA nomination. He also has earned four
nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Musical
or Comedy, one of them being for his role in Analyze This (1999). De Niro has
directed A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006).

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De Niro in Raging Bull

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ARLENE DAHL IS 86 TODAY

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Arlene Carol Dahl is a actress and former MGM star who reached the
peak of her popularity in the 1950s. Some of her most successful films
include: Reign of Terror (1949), Three Little Words (1950), Woman’s
World
(1954), Slightly Scarlet (1956), and Journey to the Center of the
Earth
(1959). In 1953, Dahl hosted The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse, a
dramatic anthology series on ABC-TV. She is the mother of actor
Lorenzo Lamas.

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REMEMBERING ROBERT MITCHUM

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                     (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997)

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was a film actor, author, composer and
singer who is #23 on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest male
American screen legends of all time. He appeared in Charles Laughton’s
only film as director, The Night of the Hunter (1955). Mitchum also starred
in Thunder Road (1958), Cape Fear (1962), and the Howard Hawks western
El Dorado (1966). Robert Mitchum recorded a song he had written for the
film Thunder Road, titled “The Ballad of Thunder Road”. The country-styled
song became a modest hit for Mitchum, reaching #69 on the Billboard Pop
Singles Chart.

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Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter

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Robert Mitchum from Cape Fear


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John Wayne (left) with Robert Mitchum in El Dorado



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