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COWBOY STAR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1880

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         Thomas Edwin "Tom" Mix  (Thomas Hezikiah Mix)  

          (January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940)

Mix was the star of many early Western movies. Between 1909 and 1935,
Mix appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent movies. He
was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having helped
define the genre for all cowboy actors who followed.

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           1932

Grauman tom mix 

At Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, renamed TCL Chinese Theatre on January
2013.

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PROLIFIC ACTOR IS 98 TODAY

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Eli Wallach in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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Eli Herschel Wallach


Wallach is a veteran film, television and stage actor whose career has spanned
more than six decades, beginning in the late 1940s. For his performance as
Silva Vacarro in Baby Doll (1956), he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer
and a Golden Globe nomination. Among his most famous roles are Calvera in
The Magnificent Seven (1960), Guido in The Misfits (1961), and Tuco in The
Good,
the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Wallach received an Honorary Academy
Award
at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards, presented on November 13, 2010.

 

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SILENT FILM STAR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1864

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    William Surrey Hart (December 6, 1864 – June 23, 1946)

Hart was a successful Shakespearean actor on Broadway who also
appeared in the original 1899 stage production of Ben-Hur. He went
on to become one of the great stars of the motion picture western. He 
entered films in 1914 where, after supporting roles in two short films,he
achieved stardom as the lead in the feature The Bargain.

Fascinated by the Old West, he acquired Billy the Kid‘s "six shooters"
and was a friend of legendary lawmen Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. 



knight of the trail dvd


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                Hart in Ben-Hur


 

 

 

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WESTERN ICON BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1859

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                     William H. Bonney
 
(William Henry McCarty, Jr.) 

                          (November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881) 

Bonney became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West. According to legend,
he killed 21 men, but it is generally believed that he killed between four and nine

men. He himself was shot dead at age twenty-one by legendary sheriff Pat Garrett.


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                         Pat Garrett

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ELVIS PRESLEY’S FILM DEBUT ON THIS DAY IN 1956

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Love Me Tender
is a black-and-white CinemaScope motion picture directed by
Robert D. Webb, and released by 20th Century Fox on November 15, 1956.The
film, named after the song, stars Richard Egan, Debra Paget, and introduces
Elvis Presley in his first theatrical release. It is in the Western genre with
musical numbers. The film was originally to be titled The Reno Brothers,
but when advanced sales of Presley’s "Love Me Tender" single passed
one million, a first for a single, the film title was changed to match. Despite
critical reaction, it takes in nearly $4 million in just two months.

love me tender theater

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