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JERRY MATHERS IS 66 TODAY

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Gerald Patrick "Jerry" Mathers

Mathers is best remembered for his classic role as a child on the CBS/ABC 
television show, Leave It To Beaver from 1957-1963. He made a PET milk
commercial at the age of 2 and was also a model for a department store ad.

Jerry Mathers later became a successful banker and real estate investor
and reentered the entertainment industry in 1978. 

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LISA WHELCHEL IS 51 YEARS YOUNG TODAY

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Lisa Diane Whelchel

Whelchel is best known for portraying Blair Warner on The Facts of Life
which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1988. She was a Mousekeeter on The
New Mickey Mouse Club. Her Christian album “All Because of You” earned
her a Grammy Award Nomination for Best Inspirational Performance. She
was a contestant on the twenty-fifth season of Survivor and came in 2nd
place.

 


“All Because of You” (1984)

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LAUREN CHAPIN IS 69 TODAY

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Former child star Lauren Ann Chapin rose to fame for playing Kathy “Kitten”
Anderson on the long-running CBS television series Father Knows Best
(1954-1960). She had her first acting role on a 1952 episode of Lux Video
Theatre
when she was seven. Chapin wrote the book “Father Does Know
Best-The Lauren Chapin Story” in 1988. 

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DWAYNE HICKMAN IS 80 TODAY

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Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver as Dobie Gillis and Maynard G.
Krebs in  "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"

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Dwayne Bernard Hickman

Hickman played the title role in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis on CBS
from 1959 to 1963. He also played Chuck MacDonald on the NBC sitcom
The Bob Cummings Show from 1955 to 1959. After the show left NBC, it
was syndicated as Love That Bob. 

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PHIL SILVERS WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1911

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                  Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985)

Silvers played the role of a military con man Sergeant Bilko on CBS-TV’s
sitcom The Phil Silvers Show (1955-1959). He began his entertainment
career at age eleven, singing in local theaters whenever projectors would
break. Phil Silvers has been called ‘The King of Chutzpah’.

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