Michael Caine has appeared in more than 160 films over 
a career spanning eight decades and is considered a
British film icon. 

He has received many awards including two Academy
Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards,
and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

As of 2017, the films in which Caine has appeared have
grossed over $7.8 billion worldwide. Caine is one of only
five male actors to be nominated for an Academy Award
for acting in five different decades.

Caine is known for his performance as Ebenezer Scrooge
in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992).
    
   

1988

2005

On March 13, 1942, the Quartermaster Corps (QMC) of the United
States Army began training dogs for the newly established War
Dog Program, or “K-9 Corps.”

Well over a million dogs served on both sides during World War
I, carrying messages along the complex network of trenches and providing some measure of psychological comfort to the soldiers.

"Oppenheimer" led the night with the most nominations,
netting 13 at the beginning of the night. The film took
home seven awards.

Starring Irish actor Cillian Murphy (47) as J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon.

The movie was written, produced, and directed by
Christopher Nolan.

     
    
    
Ray Milland (Alfred Reginald Jones)
(3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986)

Ray Milland was a Welsh-American actor and film director
who is often remembered for his portrayal of an alcoholic
writer in Billy Wilder‘s The Lost Weekend (1945), which
won him Best Actor at Cannes, a Golden Globe Award,
and ultimately an Academy Award.

       
Milland died of lung cancer at the Torrance Memorial
Medical Center in Torrance, California, on 10 March
1986. He was 79  years old. In line with his instructions,
no funeral was held.          
 

His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered
into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Redondo Beach, California.  

Burns started smoking cigars when he was 14.

On March 9, 1996, the legendary cigar-chomping performer
George Burns dies at his home in Beverly Hills, California,
just weeks after celebrating his 100th birthday.

George Burns is one of the few entertainers whose career
successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film and television.

 
                                                             Zenith Console Floor Radio
                                                             Model 11S474, 1940s.

Burns and Allen’s radio show was inducted into the National Radio
Hall of Fame in 1994.

Burns is also a member of the Television Hall of Fame, where he
and Gracie Allen were inducted in 1988.

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show premiered on
CBS on October 12, 1950 and ran through 1958. 

1977