Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky)
(February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974)
Jack Benny Show skit with Mel Blanc
Benny had been a vaudeville performer before becoming
a national figure with The Jack Benny Program, a weekly
radio show that ran from 1932 to 1948 on NBC and from
1949 to 1955 on CBS.
Chuck Yeager and his Bell X-1 experimental supersonic plane, named
after his wife.
Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager is a retired major general in the
United States Air Force and former test pilot. He was the first pilot
to travel faster than sound in 1947.
Nov.-Dec. 2010
Yeager is depicted by actor Sam Shepard in the 1983 film "The Right Stuff".
Maud Adams from “The Man with the Golden Gun”
Maud Adams (Maud Solveig Christina Wikström) know for
her Bond girl roles in The Man the Golden Gun (1974), and
the title character in Octopussy (1983).
Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. is most know for his roles
in the movies; Deliverance (1972), The Longest Yard (1974),
and Smokey and the Bandit (1977). On the 29th of January,
Reynolds was hospitalized with influenza.
Actress Mia Farrow (Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow) gained wide
acclaim for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the ABC-TV soap opera
Peyton Place (1964–1966). She also gained recognition for her short-
lived marriage to singer Frank Sinatra. Her most memorable film role
was as the woman pregnant with Satan’s baby in the 1968 Roman
Polanski movie Rosemary’s Baby, for which she was nominated for
a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for Best Actress.
Frank Sinatra and his bride Mia
.
Filming a scene for Rosemary’s Baby, director Roman Polanski behind the
camera.
