Shirley Temple Black is a film and TV actress, singer, dancer, and
autobiographer. She was a former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and
Czechoslovakia. Shirley began her film career in 1932 at the age of
three, and in 1934, skyrocketed to superstardom in Bright Eyes, a
feature film made specifically to showcase her talents. She received
a special Academy Award in February 1935, and film hits such as
Curly Top, and Heidi followed year after year during the mid to late
1930s. Shirley appeared in a few films in her mid to late teens, and
retired completely from films in 1950 at the age of 22. She is the
recipient of many awards and honors including Kennedy Center
Honors and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

Actor Jack Nicholson is also a film director, producer, and writer.He has been
nominated for Academy Awards 12 times. He has won the Academy Award for
Best Actor twice, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and for As Good
as it Gets (1997). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the
1983 film Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for the most acting
wins by a male actor (three), and second to Katharine Hepburn for the most acting
wins overall (four). He is also one of only two actors nominated for an Academy
Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade from the 1960s to
2000s (the other one being Michael Caine). In 1994, he became one of the
youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement
Award. Nicholson’s first big acting break came in 1969 with the Peter Fonda
and Dennis Hopper film Easy Rider.

Pictured left to right: Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper
from Easy Rider

Nicholson in The Shining (1980)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Jarre, who wrote the screenplays for the movies
Rambo: First Blood Part ll (1985), Glory (1989), and Tombstone (1993), has
died at the age of 56. His aunt, Patty Briley Bean, told the Los Angeles Times
that Jarre died unexpectedly of heart failure on Sunday, April 3 at his Santa
Monica home.  

‘Moondog’ Alan Freed

Charles Grodin is a actor, comedian, author and former cable talk show host. During
his early film career he played an obstetrician in the 1968 horror film, Rosemary’s
Baby. He gained recognition as a comedy actor when he played the lead role in the
1972 film The Heartbreak Kid. Gordin’s career took a turn in 1992, when he played family man George Newton in the children’s comedy Beethoven, opposite Bonnie
Hunt. The film was a box-office hit, and he reprised the role in the 1993 sequel.

Charles Gordin with Jeannie Berlin from The Heartbreak Kid

Gordin in Rosemary’s Baby