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HEEEERE’S JOHNNY’S MOVIE DEBUT

The 1964 film Looking For Love was Johnny Carson’s movie debut. Carson used
to joke that the movie was so bad it was transferred to flammable nitrate film stock.

 

 

 

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Connie Francis and Johnny Carson from the film Looking For Love.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST NEWS EVENTS

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ROSS SIMPSON


Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987)

                          

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MEREDITH BAXTER IS 69 TODAY


Meredith Ann Baxter was born in South Pasadena, California.

Baxter portrayed TV mom Elyse Keaton on the NBC sitcom Family Ties
with Michael J. Fox (1982-1989). She is a five-time Emmy Award nominee,
one of which was for playing the title role in the 1992 TV film A Woman
Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story.


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ACTRESS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1921

 


Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born in Bemidji, Minnesota.
(June 21, 1921 – February 28, 2011)

Jane Russell was one of Hollywood‘s leading sex symbols in the 1940s and
1950s. Her first film role in 1943 was the Howard Hughes production The
Outlaw
. In 1947, Russell delved into music before returning to films. After
starring in multiple films in the 1950s, Russell again returned to music while
completing several other films in the 1960s. She starred in more than 20
films throughout her career.

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From left: Bob Hope, Jane Russell and Bing Crosby.

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HELEN HUNT IS 53 YEARS YOUNG TODAY


Helen Elizabeth Hunt was born in California.

She co-starred with Paul Reiser in the NBC sitcom Mad About You
(1992-1999). She also appeared in the successful films, As Good
As It Gets (1997), Cast Away with Tom Hanks (2000), and Pay it
Forward
(2000). She went to several plays each week as a child,
and later practiced ballet and attended UCLA.


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