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ANGELA CARTWRIGHT IS 61 TODAY

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Angela Cartwright
Angela Margaret Cartwright 

Actress Cartwright is best known as a child actress for her role as
Brigitta Von Trapp in the 1965 film The Sound of Music, as Danny
Williams’ stepdaughter Linda in the 1950s TV series Make Room
For
Daddy
(a role she played from 1957 to 1964), and as Penny
Robinson in the 1960s television series Lost in Space.

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SPIN-OFF DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1941

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Harold Peary as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve

The Great Gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast
from 1941 to 1957. It was one of broadcast history’s earliest
spin-off programs. The series was built around the character
Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a featured regular
of the NBC radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly
where the character was first introduced in the October 3,
1939 episode.

 

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BARBARA EDEN IS 82 TODAY

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Barbara Eden (Barbara Jean Morehead) is best known for starring 
in the title role on the NBC television
sitcom I Dream of Jeannie 
(1965-1970). At age 14, she began singing with local bands for $10
a night in local night clubs.

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Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden, I Dream of Jeannie

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CINDY WILLIAMS IS 66 TODAY

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Cynthia Jane "Cindy" Williams is best known for starring in the ABC-TV
situation-comedy series Laverne & Shirley, (1976-1983) in the role of
Shirley Feeney
, and for her role as Laurie Henderson in the classic
1973 film American Graffiti. 
 


After graduating college,Williams debuted as an actress through a
variety of commercials for Foster Grant sunglasses.

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VALERIE HARPER IS 74 TODAY

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Valerie Harper is best remembered for her roles as Rhoda Morgenstern
in the 1970s CBS television series The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-
1977) and its spin-off, Rhoda (1974-1978) and later as Valerie Hogan
in Valerie on NBC/CBS (1986-1991).

Harper was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009 and recent tests results
showed she has a rare type of incurable brain cancer. She is currently
undergoing chemotherapy to slow its progress.

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