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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CHRISTIAN BALE IS 37 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Christian (Charles Philip) Bale is an English actor who, In addition to starring
in big budget Hollywood  films,  has played in films produced by independent
producers and art houses. Bale first caught the public eye at the age of 13,
when he was cast in the starring role of Steven Spielberg’s 1987 film Empire
of the Sun. He has
recently received critical acclaim for his performance in
The Fighter
(2010),earning him several awards including the Golden Globe
for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture and a  nomination for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Christian Bale as a lost English boy in a Japanese interment
camp during World War ll. 

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                  Bale as Batman in The Dark Knight (2008)

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                Psychological thriller,The Machinist (2004)

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JAMES CROMWELL IS 71 TODAY

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James Oliver Cromwell  is a  film and television actor. Some of his more notable roles are in Babe (1995), for which he earned Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, L.A. Confidential (1997), The Green Mils (1999), and in the television series Six Feet Under (2003-2005). He has been nominated for an Oscar, three Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards during his career.

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                                                Cromwell in Babe

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      James Cromwell as George H.W. Bush in the Oliver Stone film W. (2008)

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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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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIANE LANE ~ 46 TODAY

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Film actress Diane Lane, Born and raised in New York City, made her screen debut at the age of 13 in George Roy Hill’s 1979 film A Little Romance, starring opposite Sir Laurence Olivier (above photo).  Soon after, she was featured on the cover of Time magazine. She has since appeared in several notable films, including the 2002 film Unfaithful, which earned her Academy Award, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. She has been married to actor Josh Brolin since 2004.

 

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            Diane on Time magazine cover-August 13, 1979

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