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DEAN STOCKWELL IS 78 TODAY

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Dean Stockwell (Robert Dean Stockwell)

Stockwell’s career spans over 65 years. He began as a child actor under contract
to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer he first came to the public’s attention in films such as
Anchors Aweigh (1945) and The Green Years (1946); as a young adult he played
a lead role in the 1957 Broadway and 1959 screen adaptations of Meyer Levin‘s Compulsion. More recently he became widely known for television roles, playing
Rear Admiral Albert  "Al" Calavicci in the 1989–1993 NBC television series
Quantum Leap.

 

 

 

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SHE WAS AN OPENING ACT IN 1964 ~

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Jackie DeShannon opening for The Beatles at The Hollywood Bowl on the
23 of August, 1964

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Up next were The Beatles

Jackie DeShannon’s biggest break came in February 1964 when she was an
opening act for The Beatles on their first US tour. She formed a band with slide
guitarist Ry Cooder, who briefly attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

DeShannon currently is an entertainment broadcast correspondent reporting
historical anecdotes and current Beatles band members’ news for Breakfast
with the Beatles on Sirius XM Satellite Radio on the weekends.


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Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder will be 67 on March 15

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Jackie is 72 (Aug. 21, 1941)

Contrary to the title, Breakin’ It Up On the Beatles Tour, the Liberty
Records LP was not recorded during a
Beatles tour.

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A bow from The Beatles

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ACTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1907

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  Robert George Young
(February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998)

Robert Young appeared in minor roles in silent films and toured with a
stock company before being discovered by an MGM talent scout. He
was in over 100 films between 1932 and 1951 and later played leading
roles in the series, Father Knows Best which ran on NBC radio from
1949 to 1954 and on CBS television from 1954 to 1960. and Marcus
Welby, M.D.on ABC-TV from 1969 to 1976.
 

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Robert Young with Jean Vander Pyl on radios “Father Knows Best”

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The TV cast of “Father Knows Best”

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ACTOR HAL HOLBROOK IS 89 TODAY

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                                   Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr.

Holbrook is most famous for his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight since 1954
and has played Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series. He was nominated for
a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for the 2007 film Into the
Wild.
Some of Holbrook’s latest films are Water for Elephants (2011), and the 
Steven Spielberg drama Lincoln (2012).

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THE SCHNOZ WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1893

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                         James Francis "Jimmy" Durante

                   (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980)

Durante was a singer, pianist, comedian, and actor. He was one
of America’s most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s
through the 1970s.

After the death of his wife, Jeanne Olsen, in 1943, he began the
ending of his radio program with the phrase, "Goodnight Mrs.
Calabash, wherever you are," as a tribute to her.

Jimmy Durante created the voice for Frosty the Snowman in the
1969 animated Christmas cartoon, Frosty the Snowman.

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