DOROTHY MALONE ~ 86 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Malone’s film career began in the mid 1940s, and in her early years she played small roles, mainly in B-movies. After a decade in films, she became more popular as a
glamor image, particularly after her performance in Written on the Wind (1956),
which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her film career
peaked by the beginning of the 1960s, and she achieved later success with her
television role as Constance MacKenzie on Peyton Place on ABC-TV from 1964
to 1968. Less active in her later years, Malone returned to film in 1992 as Hazel 
Dobkins ( above) the friend of Sharon Stone’s character in Basic Instinct.

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ERNEST BORGNINE IS 94 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Ernest Borgnine is an  actor of both television and film. His career has spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, including his Academy Award-winning role in the 1955 film Marty. On television, he is best known for playing Quinton McHale in the 1962-66 ABC series McHales Navy, costarring in the mid-1980s action series Air wolf, and voicing the character Mermaid Man in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. Borgnine earned an Emmy nomination at age 92 for his work on the series ER on NBC from 1994 to 2009. In August 2009 he earned the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhode Island International Film Festival.

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                  Borgnine in a scene from The Flight of the Phoenix, 1965.

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                                         Ernest Borgnine in Air wolf

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BARNEY MILLER PREMIERED ON THIS DATE IN 1975

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Barney Miller was a situation comedy TV series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast on ABC-TV until May 20, 1982.
Decades after its cancellation, Barney Miller retains a devoted following among real-life police officers, who appreciate the show’s emphasis on dialogue and believably quirky characters, and its low-key portrayal of cops going about their jobs.

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THE KING FAMILY SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DATE IN 1965

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The King Family Show was a  musical variety  which featured The King Sisters and their extended musical family. The series  aired on ABC-TV until January 1966. The series was revived for a second time airing from March to September 1969.
After an appearance on The Hollywood Palace in August 1964 drew a reported 53,000 letters, ABC decided to give the Kings their own hour-long weekly series replacing The Outer Limits. The show starred the four King Sisters, Donna, Yvonne, Luise and Alyce. It also featured Alyce’s husband, actor Robert Clarke, and her sons. In all, some thirty-seven members of the King family, ranging in age from seven months to 79 years, were seen on the show.

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                                      The big band era four King Sisters

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEENA DAVIS ~ 55 TODAY

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Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis  is an actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and a women’s Olympics archery team semi-finalist. She is known for her roles in The Fly (1986), Beetlejuice (1988), Thelma & Louise (1991), and The Accidental Tourist (1988), for which she won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2004, she won the Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama for her role in Commander in Chief on ABC (2005 – 2006).

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                          Geena Davis as Veronica in The Fly

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     Geena with her 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting  Actress

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