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

Stage, film, and TV actress Barbara Rush made her screen debut
in the 1951 movie The Goldbergs. She won the Golden Globe
Award for Most Promising Newcomer-Female for her role in 
1953 science fiction classic IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE.

Frank Sinatra’s appearance in this film was part of a
ten-minute short opposing anti-Semitism and racial
prejudice at the end of World War ll. It received an
honorary Academy Award and a special Golden
Globe Award in 1946.

Stage,television and film actress Brenda Vaccaro
is celebrating birthday number 71 today. Brenda
co-starred with Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight
in “Midnight Cowboy”(1969), for which she was
nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best
Supporting Actress.