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REMEMBERING LEE MARVIN ~

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Lee Marvin, recruit training during World War ll

Lee Marvin 

   Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987)

Cat Bellou, 1965

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dirty dozen dvd
1967

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CLASSIC FILM RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1953

peter pan poster

Peter Pan produced by Walt Disney is the 14th film in the Walt Disney
Animated
Classics series
and was originally released by RKO Pictures,
the final Disney animated feature released through RKO before Walt
Disney’s founding of his own distribution company,
Buena Vista
Distribution
.

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New to Blu-Ray and DVD today

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MOVIE INSPIRATION DIES AT 88!

lavonne

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Lavonne "Pepper" Paire Davis
(May 29, 1924 – February 3, 2013)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lavonne "Pepper" Paire-Davis, a star of the All
American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s has died. Her
son, William Davis told the Associated Press she died of natural causes
in the Van Nuys section of Los Angeles on Saturday.

Paire-Davis was a model for the character played by Geena Davis in the
1992 hit "A League of Their Own," which also starred Rosie O’Donnell,
Madonna and Tom Hanks. as the team manager.

In 1944, Paire-Davis joined the league, created out of fear that World War
II would interrupt Major League Baseball, and played for 10 seasons. She
was a catcher and shortstop, and helped her teams win five championships.

lavonne team
The team 

                   

                      a league of their own film

 

 

 

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SITCOM DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1953

private secretary

The CBS-TV sitcom Private Secretary (also known as Susie) aired
from February 1, 1953 until September 10, 1957. It alternated with 
The Jack Benny Program on Sunday evenings at 4:30pm PST. The
series stars Ann Sothern as Susie MacNammara , a devoted
secretary to her
talent agent boss Peter Sands. played by
Don Porter
.


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LINDA BLAIR IS 54 TODAY!

linda blair baby

linda blair yng

Linda-Blair now

Linda Denise Blair is best known for her role of a possessed
child in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, for which she was
nominated for an
Academy Award and two Golden Globes,
winning one. Prior to fame, Linda was a child model from
the age of six.

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