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JAMES BROLIN IS 70 YEARS OLD TODAY

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James Brolin is a actor, producer and director, best known for his roles in soap operas,movies, and TV. He is the father of actor Josh Brolin and husband of
singer Barbra Streisand.

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James Brolin in Capricorn One (1978)

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From The Amityville Horror (1979)

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James Brolin, Barbra Streisand and Josh Brolin

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TV’S ‘’MEDIC’’ SPONSORED BY GE IN 1955

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Medic episodes were introduced and narrated by Richard Boone (above), playing Dr. Konrad Styner who sometimes also appeared in the stories. A total of 59 were aired
from September 1954 to November 1956 on NBC.

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CHERYL LADD IS 60 YEARS YOUNG TODAY

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Cheryl Ladd is a actress, singer and author. She is best known for her role as Kris Muntroe in the ABC television series Charlie’s Angels (1976- 1981). She was hired
prior to the shows second season to replace the departing Farrah Fawcett-Majors.

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ICONIC ACTRESS HAS TURNED 84 TODAY

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Gina Lollobrigida is an Italian actress who was one of the most popular European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was also an iconic sex symbol during
that time. Today, she remains an active supporter of Italian and Italian American
causes, particularly the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF). In 2008, she received the NIAF Lifetime Achievement Award at the Foundation’s Anniversary
Gala. she made her first American film, John Huston’s Beat the Devil, in 1953
with Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer jones. Another notable appearance was in
the 1956 circus drama Trapeze with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. In 1959
Gina co-starred with Frank Sinatra in Never So Few.In 1961 she made one of
her most popular films, the romantic comedy Come September, with Rock Hudson, Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin; for which she won a Golden Globe Henrietta Award,
World Film Favorite-Female.

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Gina in Trapeze

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Gina Lollobrigida in Beat the Devil

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LONGEST RUNNING DRAMA WENT TO TV ON THIS DATE IN 1952

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Guiding Light
(known as The Guiding Light before 1975, or simply GL) was a
daytime television drama, credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as
the longest running drama in television and radio history, running, from 1937
until 2009. It is also among the longest running broadcast programs in history
of any kind, across radio media for 15 years, and then television media for 57
years, being first broadcast five days after President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
second inauguration. It aired on radio from January 25, 1937, to June 29, 1956,
and debuted on CBS-TV on June 30, 1952 running for 57 years.

The series,originally sponsored by Procter and Gamble, was expanded from
15 minutes to a half hour in 1968, and then to a full hour show on November 7,
1977. On April 1, 2009, CBS announced that it canceled Guiding Light because
of low ratings. The show taped its final scenes on August 11, 2009, and its final
episode aired on September 18, 2009.  

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From left, the actors Herb Nelson, Ellen Demming, Susan Douglas and Lyle
Sudrow appeared in the television premiere of “Guiding Light” on June 30,
1952.

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