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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEENA DAVIS ~ 55 TODAY

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Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis  is an actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and a women’s Olympics archery team semi-finalist. She is known for her roles in The Fly (1986), Beetlejuice (1988), Thelma & Louise (1991), and The Accidental Tourist (1988), for which she won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2004, she won the Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama for her role in Commander in Chief on ABC (2005 – 2006).

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                          Geena Davis as Veronica in The Fly

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     Geena with her 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting  Actress

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GEORGE BURNS WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1896

 
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George Burns ( Nathan Birnbaum), was a comedian, actor, and writer whose career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television along with his wife, Gracie Allen. George continued working until shortly before his death, in 1996 at the age of 100. 

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George Burns and Gracie Allen were the "first couple" of American comedy. From their early days in Vaudeville to the immensely popular "Burns & Allen" TV show, they continued working together until Gracie’s untimely death in 1964.The two had been married since 1926.

   
         
             The Burns and Allen Show was on CBS-TV from 1950 through 1958.
 

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SHELLEY FABARES TURNED 67 TODAY

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Shelley Fabares is the niece of Nanette Fabray. She began acting at age three and at age 10 made her television debut in an episode of Letters to Loretta. After guest-starring on various television series, Fabares landed the role of "Mary Stone" in the long-running ABC-TV family sitcom The Donna Reed Show (1958 – 1966).

Her national popularity led to a recording contract and two "Top 40" hits, including “Johnny Angel”, which went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, in April 1962. It sold over one-million copies and was awarded a Gold Disc.

Fabares left The Donna Reed Show in 1963 (she would return periodically until its end in 1966) to pursue a film career. She appeared in a number of motion pictures, including three Elvis movies: Girl Happy (1965), Spinnout  (1966), and Clambake (1967).

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ACTRESS TIPPI HEDREN TURNED 81 TODAY

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Tippi (Nathalie Kay) Hedren is an actress and former model. She is
primarily known her first big role in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 classic 
film The Birds.

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DANNY KAYE WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1913

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Danny Kaye (David Daniel Kaminsky) actor, dancer, and one of the
world’s best-known comedians. He died on March 3, 1987 at age 74.

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Danny Kaye’s grave marker is a bench at Kensico Cementery in
Valhalla, New York.

 

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