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ACTRESS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1917

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June Allyson (born Eleanor Geisman in The Bronx, New York) 
(October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006)

Allyson began her career as a dancer on Broadway in 1938. She
signed with MGM in 1943, and rose to fame the following year in
Two Girls and a Sailor. She won the Golden Globe Award for Best
Actress
for her performance in the 1951 film Too Young to Kiss.

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1908

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Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana)  
(October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942)

Lombard was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s. She
made her film debut at age twelve in The Perfect Crime (1921). In October
1924, at the age of 16, she signed a contract with the Fox Film Corporation,
and got her first break the following year opposite Edmund Lowe in the
successful drama Marriage in Transit.

The successful career of Carole Lombard ended at age 33 when she died
in an airplane crash.

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James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955)


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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1904

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Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson Fogelson (9-29-1904 to 4-6-1996)

British born actress Greer Garson won an Oscar Award for her role in
Mrs. Miniver in 1942. She received seven Academy Award nominations
and was acclaimed as one of the top box office draws of the 1940s. She
intended to become a teacher, studying French and literature in college,
but instead became a Hollywood star.

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1903

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Claudette Colbert, circa 1920s (1)

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Claudette Colbert (Emilie Chauchoin)

(September 13, 1903-July 30, 1996)


Colbert co-starred with Clark Gable in the film It Happened One Night
(1934) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She
intended to become a fashion designer before acting on Broadway.

In 1999, the American Film Institute voted Colbert the "12th Greatest
Female American Screen Legend"
in cinema.



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