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PAMELA REED…58 TODAY

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Actress Pamela Reed  is most known as the voice of Ruth Powers in various
episodes of FOX-TV’s The Simpsons, and as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s partner
in the 1990 ,filmed in Oregon movie Kindergarten Cop. She currently appears
as Marlene Griggs-Knope on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. Reed was
was born in Tacoma, Washington. 

 

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Pamela with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop

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Simpsons character Ruth Powers 

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Amy Poehler and Pamela Reed in a scene from Parks and Recreation

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ALI MACGRAW IS 73 TODAY

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Actress Ali MacGraw is best known for her role in the 1970 romantic
drama Love Story, for which she won a Golden Globe and received
an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She gained notice
in Goodbye, Columbus (1969).

 

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ALI ON TIME
January 11, 1971 issue of Time magazine

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PORTLAND’S JANE POWELL IS 82 TODAY

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Jane Powell, a singer, dancer and actress was born Suzanne Lorraine Burce
in Portland, Oeg. Her parents were Paul E. Burce, a Wonder Bread employee,
and Eileen Baker Burce, a housewife. Powell began dance lessons at the age
of two. She rose to fame locally as a singer and was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer while still in her teens. She was soon cast in musicals such as Royal
Wedding
, with Fred Astaire, A Date with Judy, with the late Elizabeth Taylor,
and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, with Howard Keel. Her movie career
was replaced with a busy theater and television career in the late 1950s. As
of 2010, Powell lives with her fifth husband, former child star Dickie Moore,
in New York City and Connecticut, and is still active in stage and TV work.

 

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Jane Powell with husband Dickie Moore

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Fred Astaire with Jane Powell

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DEBBY REYNOLDS TURNED 79 TODAY

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Debbie Reynolds, actress, singer, and dancer regularly appeared in movie
musicals during the 1950s. Her most high-profile film role was in Singin’ in
the Rain
(1952). Her recording of the song "Tammy" (from her 1957 film
Tammy and the Bachelor) earned her a gold record and was the best-
selling single by a female vocalist in 1957. It was number one for five
weeks on the Billboard pop charts. In the movie, the first of the Tammy
film sires, she co-starred with Leslie Nielsen. Her public divorce from
Eddie Fisher in 1959 when he went to marry her former friend Elizabeth
Taylor is well-known (see picture below).

 

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Shown left to right is Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

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ELIZABETH TAYLOR PERFUME AD

PASSION ELIZABETH TAYLOR

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