IT’S JOHN TRAVOLTA’S BIRTHDAY ~ 57 TODAY

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John Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the ABC-TV series
Welcome Back, Kotter (1975 – 1979) and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (1978). His career faced a resurgence in the 1990s with his role in Pulp Fiction (1994), and he has since continued starring in many Hollywood films.Travolta has twice been nominated for the Academy Award For Best Actor.The first, for his role in Saturday Night Fever and the second for Pulp Fiction. He won the Golden Globe Award For Best Actor-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his 1995 performance in Get Shorty.

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John Travolta as Vinny Barbarino in Welcome Back Kotter

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John Travolta with Olivia Newton-John in Grease

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Travolta in Pulp Fiction

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MIA FARROW IS 66 TODAY

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Mia Farrow  has appeared in more than forty-five films and won numerous awards,
including a Golden Globe award and seven additional Golden Globe nominations.She
is also notable for her extensive humanitarian work. In 2008 she was selected by Time
magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.  

Mia Farrow’s first leading film role was in Rosemary’s Baby (1968), which was a critical and commercial success at the time and continues to be widely regarded as a classic
of the horror genre. Her performance earned numerous awards, including a Golden
Globe for New Star of The Year-Actress, and established her as a leading actress.

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                                     Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby

MIA FARROW UNICEF

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MARY STEENBURGEN TURNED 58 TODAY

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Mary Nell Steenburgen has starred in over fifty films spanning thirty years
of movie production. Her big break came when she was discovered by Jack
Nicholson who cast her as the lead in his second directorial production, the
1978 western Goin’ South. Mary’s third film in 1980 was Melvin and Howard
which earned her and Academy Award and a Golden Globe both for Best
Supporting Actress. She had a leading role in the 1979 film Time After Time
and made other appearances in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape in 1993 and she
was Doc Brown’s (Christopher Lloyd) love interest in Back to the Future Part lll.

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Christopher Lloyd and Mary Steenburgen in Back to the Future Part lll

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          Mary in a scene from Melvin and Howard

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MORGAN FAIRCHILD BECAME 61 TODAY

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Actress Morgan Fairchild’s first acting job was as a double for Faye Dunaway during location filming for the movie Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Fairchild has also performed in live theater and played guest roles in television comedies. In 1980, she scored her first regular primetime role as Constance Weldon Carlyle on the NBC-TV soap opera
Flamingo Road. She was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her role. In
addition to acting, Fairchild is a board member of the Screen Actors Guild. 
 
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GAME SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DATE IN 1950

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What’s My Line? a panel game show which originally ran on the CBS Television
Network from 1950 until it’s cancellation in 1967. It is the longest-running game
show in the history of U.S. prime time television. It was hosted by John Charles
Daly with panelists Dorothy Kilgallen. Arlene Francis, and Bennett Cerf. 

The show won three Emmy Awards for “Best Quiz or Audience Participation Show”
in 1952, 1953 and a Golden Globe for Best TV show in 1962. After it was 
cancelled by CBS in 1967, it returned in syndication as a daily production
returned in syndication as a daily production which ran from 1968 until 1975.

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