Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
(August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996)
Gene Kelly choreographed his own dance routines in such hit 1940s and ’50s
films as Singin’ in the Rain, Anchors Aweigh, An American in Paris and On the
Town. He was ranked 15th on the American Film Institute’s list of the Greatest
Male Stars of All Time in 1999.
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Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Morehead in Tucson, Arizona)
Eden starred as Jeanie on the NBC sitcom I Dream of Jeanie from 1965 to
1970. She began singing with local bands at age 14 for $10 a night in local
night clubs and studied singing at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
and trained as an actress with the Elizabeth Holloway School of Theatre.
Barbara Eden made her big screen debut as an unaccredited extra in the
1956 film Back from Eternity and was first seen on TV in a 1956 episode
of the CBS series West Point.
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Valerie Kathryn Harper
Harper played Rhoda Morgenstern on the CBS sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore
Show (1970-1977) and on the spin-off series Rhoda (1974-1978). She earned
four Emmy Awards for her role as Rhoda across the two series. Her career in
roles began as a dancer and chorus girl in various Broadway productions
and made her big screen debut in the 1956 feature Rock Rock Rock!
On March 6, 2013, Harper announced that tests from a hospital stay revealed
she has a rare condition in which cancer cells spread into the meninges, the
membranes surrounding the brain. Last year Harper said she was responding
well to chemotherapy treatment.
The Midnight Special was a late-night musical variety series that aired on NBC
during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Burt Sugarman. It premiered as a special pilot on August 19, 1972, then began its run as a regular
series on February 2, 1973; its last episode was on May 1, 1981.The ninety-
minute program followed the Friday night edition of The Tonight Show Starring
Johnny Carson.
Camille Bohannon
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977)
