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DIAHANN CARROLL IS NOW 76

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Actress and singer Diahann Carroll starred in the NBC-TV series
Julia (1968-1971). She is the recipient of numerous stage and
screen awards and nominations. 

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DONALD SUTHERLAND IS 77 TODAY

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Donald McNichol Sutherland is a actor with a film career spanning nearly 
50 years. Some of Sutherland’s more notable movie roles included offbeat
warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, in 1967, and Mash and
Kelly’s Heroes both in 1970. He was also in the popular film Invasion of
the Body Snatchers
(1978). Donald Sutherland is the father of actor
Kiefer Sutherland.

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Donald Sutherland in Dirty Dozen

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Sutherland as seen in JFK

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Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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JAMES FRANCIS CAGNEY

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                    (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986)

James Francis Cagney, Jr. was a film actor  who, although he won acclaim
and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for
playing "tough guys.” In 1999, the American Film Institute  ranked him
eighth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. Cagney’s seventh film,
The Public Enemy (1931), became one of the most influential gangster
movies of the period, making him one of Warner’s and Hollywood’s biggest
stars. In 1938, Cagney received his first Academy Award for Best Actor
nomination for Angels with Dirty Faces , before winning in 1942 for his
memorable portrayal of George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy.  

Famous scene from The Public Enemy, 1931

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BARBARA STANWYCK

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                         (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990)

Barbara Stanwyck was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career 
as a skillful and versatile professional with a strong screen presence. After a short
but notable career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38
years in Hollywood, before turning to television. Her 1961 to 1962 series The
Barbara Stanwyck Show was not that big a success but earned her first Emmy
Award. The ABC-TV series The Big Valley (1965-1969) made her one of the
most popular actresses on television, winning her another Emmy. Barbara
Stanwyck is ranked as the eleventh greatest female stare of all time by the
American Film Institute.

 

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SCREEN LEGEND GINGER ROGERS

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                         (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995)

During her long career, Ginger Rogers made a total of 73 films, and is noted for  
her role as Fred Astaire’s romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of 
ten Hollywood musical films. She also achieved great success in a variety of
other film roles and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in
Kitty Foyle (1940). She ranks #14 on the AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars list of
actress screen legends.

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Ginger Rogers with Fred Astaire

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Ginger Rogers, Kitty Foyle

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