A 13yr Old Melanie Griffith With Her Pet Lion Neil (1971)
She began her career in the 1970s, appearing
in several independent thriller films before
achieving mainstream success in the mid-
1980s.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Mary Badham (71) is a actress who portrayed Jean Louise
"Scout" Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), for which
she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress. At the time, Badham (aged 10) was
the youngest actress ever nominated in this category.
Episode: The Bewitchin Pool, Release Date: 6-19-1964
Near the end of a weeklong national salute to Americans who
served in the Vietnam War, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
was dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by
thousands of veterans of the conflict.
The long-awaited memorial was a simple V-shaped black-granite
wall inscribed with the names of the 57,939 Americans who died
in the conflict, arranged in order of death, not rank, as was
common in other memorials.
The designer of the memorial was Maya Lin, a Yale University architecture student who entered a nationwide competition to
create a design for the monument.
Designer and sculptor Maya Ying Lin (64)
The Chinese/American was born in Athens, Ohio.
Maya Lin was still an undergraduate at Yale University
when she beat out more than 1,400 competitors in a
competition to design the memorial.
Drew Carey served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves from 1980-86,
and his experience has had a lasting impact on his life. Before he
was known for hosting The Price Is Right or starring in the hit sitcom
The Drew Carey Show, Carey was an active-duty Marine. His time in
the military instilled with discipline and determination, which helped
him pursue his dreams of becoming a comedian and actor.
After leaving the service in 1986, Carey began performing stand-up comedy around Cleveland and eventually made it to Hollywood
where he found success as one of America’s most beloved
funnymen.
