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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

SELENA ROYLE (1904 - 1983)

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Lovely portrait of birthday gal Selena Royle with her canine

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Birthday girl Selena Royle appears in the Theatre Guild's production of
Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End", 1934.

Photo courtesy of the New York Public Library.

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Birthday gal Selena Royle and John Garfield in the taut drama "He Ran All the Way".
Following her appearance in He Ran All the Way (1951), however, her career came to a screeching halt when she was branded a Communist sympathizer during the McCarthy-era hysteria. Refusing to appear before the "subversive"-hunting House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, she instead sued the American Legion, which had published the infamous "Red Channels" that listed her name. She valiantly campaigned to restore her image and won, but the damage had already been done. She made only two films in its aftermath. Sad indeed,
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

LUCILLE LA VERNE (1872 - 1945)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

NORMAN LLOYD is 101 today

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Birthday boy Norman Lloyd in his twilight years

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TWO SUPERIOR LADIES

MARIE DRESSLER (1868 - 1934)


EDNA MAY OLIVER (1883 - 1942)

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Today's birthday boy Claude Rains works on Broadway in the play "The Camel Through the Needle's Eye," 1929.
Co-stars include Mary Kennedy (pictured), Morris Carnovsky, Miriam Hopkins, and Henry Travers.

Photo courtesy of the New York Public Library.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

CLAUDE RAINS (1889 - 1967)

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Birthday boy Richard Burton gets into a sword fight -- while playing Hamlet on stage, 1964. [Courtesy NYPL]

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Birthday boy Claude Rains and director James Whale take tea on the set of "The Invisible Man."

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Birthday boy Claude Rains with wife Frances and daughter Jessica in 1939.

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Birthday boy Claude Rains with wife Frances and daughter Jessica in 1939.

According to the IMDb, Frances was wife # 4. Rains had six wives -- like Henry VIII. But he had his only child with Frances.

Apparently her parents named her Jennifer, but she took 'Jessica' as her professional name as there was already a 'Jennifer Rains' in Actors' Equity.

Along with film historian David Skal, she wrote a biography of her father "Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice," published in 2008.