"Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis was featured in the 1957 movie
Jamboree. It was written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer. The single
was ranked as the 96th greatest song ever by Rolling Stone. It sold one
million copies in its first 10 days of release and became one of the best-
selling records in the United States, as well as one of the world’s best-
selling records of all time.
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SINGLE RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1957
ACTRESS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1917
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
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.
ACTOR COVERED ON THIS DAY IN 1980
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