Mickey Rooney was born Joseph Yule, Jr., to a vaudeville family in Brooklyn,
New York. He began performing at the age of 17 months as part of his parents
routine. He has won multiple awards, including an Honorary Academy Award,
a Golden Glove and an Emmy Award. He became a superstar as teenager
for the Andy Hardy films for MGM from 1937 to 1958. Mickey Rooney has
had one of the longest careers of any actor, spanning almost 90 to date. He
has the distinction of being the last surviving male star from 1930s Hollywood. 

 
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Deborah "Debby" Anne Boone is a singer and stage actress who is best known
for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Live”, which spent a record ten weeks at the
top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She won a Grammy Award the following year
for Best New Artist. Debby’s career focused on the country music scene resulting
in the number one country hit, “Are You on the Road to Lovin’ Me again”. In the
1980s, she began recording Christian music which resulted in four Top 10
Contemporary Christian albums along with two Grammys. Debby Boone is
the third of four daughters born to singer-actor Pat and Shirley Boone,
daughter of country music star Red Foley.

 
Debby Boone with her father Pat Boone

Actress Lauren Bacall ( born Betty Joan Perske) became a leading lady in
the 1944 film To Have And Have Not which starred her husband Humphrey
Bogart. She appeared in The Big Sleep (1946), and How Marry a Millionaire
(1943), just to name a few. Becall also worked in the Broadway musical
Woman of the Year in 1981. Her performance in the film The Mirror Has
Two Faces (1996)  earned her a Golden Globe Award as well an Academy
Award nomination.  In 1999, she was ranked #20 of the 25 actresses on the
AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars list. Lauren Bacall was selected by the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Academy Honorary Award
at the inaugural Governors Awards in 2009.

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall from To Have and To have Not

Actor Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas and moved to New
York to become an actor, making his Broadway debut in 1969’s A Patriot
for Me. In 1970, he landed his first film role playing a college student in
Love Story. His best known films include The Fugitive (1993) and it’s
sequel U.S. Marshals (1998), the Men in Black films (1997 & 2002),
The Hunted ( filmed in Portland -2003), and No Country for Old Men
(2007). A second sequel to Men in Black, Men in Black lll, is scheduled
for release in 2012. Tommy Lee Jones has received three Academy
nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for The Fugitive.

Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive

Jones with costar Will Smith in Men in Black

Tommy Lee Jones in a scene from No Country For Old men

Bob Newhart, is a stand-up comedian and actor. He became well-known in
the 1960s when his album of comedy monologues The Button-Down Mind
of Bob Newhart. It was a worldwide bestseller and reached #1 on the
Billboard pop music charts and remains the 20th best-selling comedy
album in history. Newhart later went into acting, starring in two long-
running and prize-winning sitcoms, The Bob Newhart Show on CBS
from 1972 to 1978 and Newhart from 1982 to 1990, also on CBS.