EXORCIST STAR IS 52 YEARS OLD TODAY

Linda%20Blair main

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.

linda-blair Exorcist 
            Exorcist poster
            BLAIR WITH THE DEVEL

posted by Bob Karm in Awards,BIRTHDAY,Hoor/Sci-Fi,MOVIES and have No Comments

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEENA DAVIS ~ 55 TODAY

geena-davis yearbook

       Geena_Davis_Biography

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 in the fly
                          Geena Davis as Veronica in The Fly

      thelma-and-louise

   geena and award  
     Geena with her 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting  Actress

posted by Bob Karm in Awards,BIRTHDAY,Comedy,MOVIES,TV and have No Comments

FAYE DUNAWAY BECAME 70 TODAY

Faye-Dunaway in the happening
Actress Fay Dunaway’s big screen break came in 1967 with The Happening. 

faye-dunaway bonnie and clyde
Faye Dunaway co-starred in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and was
nominated for an Academy Award for her performance.
 

faye d in chinatown  
                      Fay Dunaway in China Town (1974)

network-faye-dunaway1
Faye Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best
Actress for her role in Network (1976)

Faye_Dunaway today

posted by Bob Karm in BIRTHDAY,MOVIES and have No Comments

NICOLAS CAGE HAS TURNED 47

nicolas cage school
A Beverly Hills High School photo of Nicolas Cage

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). 

Leaving-Las-Vegas-movie-02 
Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue from the film Leaving Los Vegas

posted by Bob Karm in BIRTHDAY,MOVIES and have No Comments

LORETTA YOUNG WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1913

farmers daughter film
loretta in the farmers daughter
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. 

loretta-young-show-loretta-young-1953-1961  
                  Publicity photo for The Loretta Young Show

posted by Bob Karm in BIRTHDAY,DEATH,MOVIES,TV and have No Comments