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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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MICHAEL BIEHN IS NOW 55

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Michael Connell Biehn is best known for his roles in James Cameron’s science
fiction action films The Terminator (1984) as Kyle Reese, Aliens (1986) as Cpl.
Dwayne Hicks, and The Abyss (1989) as Lt. Coffey. He also had a role in the film Tombstone (1993). Biehn was also in the cast of the Emmy Award-winning NBC
television series Hill Street Blues which aired from 1981 to 1987.  

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Michael Biehn in Aliens

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G-MEN DEBUTED ON THIS DATE IN 1935

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Phillips Haynes Lord

Gang Busters was a dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national
program that brings you authentic police case histories." It premiered on
NBC as G-Men, sponsored by Chevrolet, on July 20, 1935. After the title
was changed to Gang Busters January 15, 1936, the show had a 21-year
run through November 20, 1957. 

The  writers worked with the FBI so that they could use case files as script
material. All scripts based directly from actual police records and had to
be approved by the Bureau first. The show was created by Phillips H. Lord
(above) who was a script writer, radio voice actor and screen performer.

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