Linda Denise Blair is best known for her role as the possessed child, Regan in the 1973 blockbuster The Exorcist. She was nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, winning one. She reprised her role in the 1977 sequel, Exorcist ll: The Heretic.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEENA DAVIS ~ 55 TODAY
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).
Geena Davis as Veronica in The Fly
Geena with her 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
FAYE DUNAWAY BECAME 70 TODAY
Actress Fay Dunaway’s big screen break came in 1967 with The Happening.
Faye Dunaway co-starred in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and was
nominated for an Academy Award for her performance.
Fay Dunaway in China Town (1974)
Faye Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best
Actress for her role in Network (1976)
NICOLAS CAGE HAS TURNED 47
A Beverly Hills High School photo of Nicolas Cage
Actor, producer and director Nicolas Cage has appeared
in over 60 films including Raising Arizona (1987), Face/Off
in 1995, and National Treasure (2004). At the age of 32,Cage
became the fifth youngest actor to win the Academy Award
for Best Actor for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas (1995).
Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue from the film Leaving Los Vegas
LORETTA YOUNG WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1913
Loretta Young began as a child actress, she had a long and varied
career in films from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 Best Actress
Academy Award for her role in the 1947 film The Farmer’s
Daughter, and received an Oscar nomination for work in
Come to the Stable, in 1950. Loretta then moved to what
was then the relatively new medium of television, where
she had a dramatic anthology series from 1953 to 1961
called The Loretta Young Show. The series earned
three Emmy Awards. Loretta died August 12, 2000.
Publicity photo for The Loretta Young Show
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