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SITCOM DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1953

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Private Secretary
(also known as Susie) aired from February 1,
1953 to September 10, 1957 on CBS, alternating with The Jack
Benny Program
on Sundays at 7:30pm EST. The series stars
Ann Sothern as Susan Camille "Susie" MacNamara, devoted
secretary to handsome talent agent Peter Sands, played by
Don Porter.

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LEADING MAN BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1904

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               Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach)
        
               (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986)

Grant was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time
(after Humphrey Bogart) by the American Film Institute. He was
known for both comedic and dramatic roles; his best-known films 
include The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The 
Bishop’s Wife (1947), To Catch a Thief (1955), An Affair to 
Remember
(1957), North by Northwest (1959), and Charade
(1963).

Nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor Penny
Serenade
(1941) and None But the Lonely Heart (1944) and
five times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

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ACTRESS FAYE DUNAWAY IS 73 TODAY

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Dorothy Faye Dunaway 

Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 
1976 film Network. She was previously nominated for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), 
and Chinatown (1974). She has starred in numerous other films, including The 
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Little Big Man (1970), and The Towering
Inferno (1974),

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ACTRESS KIM BASINGER IS 60 TODAY

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Kimila Ann "Kim" Basinger

Basinger won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors 
Guild Award for Best
Supporting Actress
for her performance in L.A.
Confidential
(1997). She also played a major role in Batman in 1989.

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BURT LANCASTER’S BIRTHDAY

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Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994)

Lancaster was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once for
his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960. He also won a Golden Globe for that
performance and BAFTA Awards for The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and
Atlantic City (1980). His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was the
most successful independent production company in Hollywood in the 1950s,
making movies such as Marty (1955), Trapeze (1956), and Sweet Smell of
Success
(1957). He was named 19th among the greatest male stars of all
time by the American Film Institute in 1999.

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Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry

 

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