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ANGELA LANSBURY IS 90 TODAY


Angela Brigid Lansbury was born in London, England.

Lansbury is a Golden Globe-winning actress who played Jessica Fletcher
on the Murder, She Wrote series on CBS-TV (1984-1996). She also gained
recognition for her role in the Broadway musical Mame (1966) and provided
the voice of the teapot Mrs. Potts in the 1991 animated film Beauty and the
Beast. Angela Lansbury was nominated for an Oscar for her role in the 1945
film The Picture of Dorian Gray.


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MUSIC SHOW DEBUTED ON TV IN 1955

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country-music stage concert in Nashville,
Tennessee
, which was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay
as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM.

From October 15, 1955 to September 1956, ABC-TV aired a live, hour-long
television version of the Opry once a month on Saturday nights, sponsored
by Ralston-Purina, pre-empting one hour of the 90-minute Ozark Jubilee. 

From "Grand Ole’ Opry" in 1955. It’s the first TV appearance of
Patsy Cline.

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John J. (Cougar) Mellencamp is 64 years old today.

Singer-songwriter Mellencamp has been nominated for more than ten
Grammy Awards, winning one. Billy Joel helped induct him into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. Johnny Cash called Mellencamp "one of
the 10 best songwriters" in music.

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MOVIE RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1967

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The Fastest Guitar Alive is a MGM motion picture starring singer Roy Orbison
in his only starring role as an actor. As a musical western, the story is set near
the end of the American Civil War with Orbison portraying a Southern spy with
a bullet-shooting guitar.

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