Dustin Lee Hoffman is a actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since
1960. Hoffman began his acting career in the Pasadena Playhouse. He got the
favorable attention of critics for the 1966 Off-Broadway play Eh? for which he
won a Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award. Hoffman’s first film break
role was The Graduate in 1967. Other movies that followed included Midnight
Cowboy (1969), All The Presidents Men and Marathon Man both in 1976. He 
has won two Academy Awards, one for his role in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), 
and the other for his performance in Rain Man (1988). He is also received 
five Golden Globes, three BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards’, a Genie 
Award and an Emmy Award. Dustin Hoffman also received the AFI Life
Achievement Award in 1999.

Dustin Hoffman with Anne Bancroft in a scene from The Graduate

Hoffman with costar Tom Cruse

Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982)

Billy Joe "B. J." Thomas is a popular singer known for his chart-topping hits
in the 1960s and 1970s such as “Hooked on a Feeling” in 1968 and in 1969
the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid featured Thomas singing the
Burt Bacharach/Hal David song “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”, which
won the Academy Award for best original song that year and became the
number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1970.

The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.

Original 1943 poster for the movie that was based on the best selling
novel of the same name.

Beach Party was the first of several beach party party films from American International Pictures (AIP) that were made with the teen audience in mind. It was directed by William Asher and starred Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, and Annette Funicello. The film is often credited with starting the beach party film genre. Beach
Party was the highest grossing film AIP had made to that date, earning more its
opening weekend than any of its competition.

 
                    (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989)

Lucille Désirée Ball  was a comedian, film, television, stage and radio
actress who is best remembered as Lucy McGillicuddy Ricardo, wife of
“Ricky” ( her actual husband Desi Arnaz) in the CBS-TV sitcom I Love
Lucy which ran from 1951 to 1957. Lucy was one of the most popular
stars in America with one of Hollywood’s longest running careers,
especially on television. She began acting in the 1930s on radio
and in B-movies.

Lucy received thirteen Emmy Award nominations with four wins. She
was among the first recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Award. She
received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979, the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986 and the
Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
in 1989.

Lucy with husband Desi Arnaz

Filming an episode on the set of I Love Lucy