Yvette Mimieux is shown above in a scene from 1960 film version of H.G.
Wells’ classic novel, The Time Machine. She was also in Where the Boys
are, 1960. Yvette later appeared in many TV series and made-for-TV
movies. She is now an anthropologist and a real estate investor.
YVETTE MIMIEUX ~ 69th BIRTHDAY TODAY
BOB EUBANKS IS 73 YEARS OLD TODAY
Radio and television personality Bob Eubanks is the host of the show
The Newlywed Game on ABC-TV and has been on and off since 1966.
Eubanks was one of California’s most popular DJ’s on KRLA in
Pasadena during the 1960’s.
ERIN GRAY IS 61 YEARS OLD TODAY
DANNY THOMAS WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1912
The career of comedian Danny Thomas began on radio in the 1940’s
playing the brother-in-law Amos on The Bickersons with stars Don
Ameche and Francis Langford. Danny is best know for the TV sitcom
The Danny Thomas Show (Make Room for Daddy). It ran from 1953 to
1957 on ABC and on CBS from 1957 to 1964. Thomas is the founder
of ST. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He died on February 6,
1991 of heart failure.
Danny and his daughter Marlo Thomas pose with the statue of St.Jude
WILD KINGDOM DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1963
WILD KINGDOM was hosted by Zoologist and zoo curator Marlin Perkins.
The half-hour nature program aired Sundays on NBC-TV until 1971, when
it went into syndication. Perkins was host for most of the show’s history
until he was forced to retire in 1985 for health reasons. Perkins died the
following year at the age of 81. Jim Fowler, seen below, a long-time
assistant of Marlin’s became the host.
Marlin Perkins with one of his many animal friends
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