Rudolph Valentino
(nicknamed The Latin Lover)
(May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926)

1922
Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta
AMC Theatres announced Thursday that it will play Grease in 135
of its theaters this weekend as a way of paying tribute to the
Paramount film’s iconic star, the late Olivia Newton-John. She
died Aug. 15 at her ranch in Southern California.
The cost per moviegoer will be $5, with $1 of every ticket sold
going to AMC’s charitable fund, AMC Cares. The proceeds will
be donated to breast cancer research.
First released in 1978, Grease is still considered one of the most enduring film musicals of all time.



Charles Robert Redford Jr. is a actor, director and producer
and the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy
Award from four nominations, a British Academy Film Award,
Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2014, two Golden Globe
Awards, the Cecil B. DeMille Award and Time named him one
of the 100 most influential people in the world. He’s 36 today.
Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford’s television
career began in 1960, including an appearance on The
Twilight Zone in 1962 (below).
The Twilight Zone episode: "Nothing in the Dark."
1969
Actor and producer Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. is particularly
known for his nine collaborations with filmmaker Martin Scorsese,
and is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy
Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and
a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.
In 2009, De Niro received the Kennedy Center Honor, and he also
received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack
Obama in 2016. De Niro is 79 years old today.
1970
Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter (1978)
De Niro in Godfather Part 2 (1974)
Raging Bull (1980)
Cape Fear (1991)
Singer Madonna Louise Ciccone is 64 years young today.
The singer, songwriter, and actress is referred to as the "Queen
of Pop". Rolling Stone listed her among its greatest artists and
greatest songwriters of all time.