CANDIDS II

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Birthday gal Fredi Washington with Louise Beavers in their finest roles in "Imitation of Life" 1934

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Today's Christmas Eve birthday girl Ruth Chatterton, as profiled in Cosmopolitan magazine, 1917 and 1919:





Images courtesy of NYPL.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

AVA GARDNER (1922 - 1990)

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Birthday gal Ava Gardner and Mickey Rooney, in 1941

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Merry Xmas! Love that picture of Barbara and Fred which I have never see before.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HUMPHREY BOGART (1899 - 1957)

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Christmas baby Humphrey Bogart poses with co-star
Ruth Gordon for their play "Saturday's Children," 1927.

Photo courtesy of MCNY.

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Today's birthday boy Elisha Cook, Jr. in a still for the play
"Ah, Wilderness," 1933, where he created the role of RIchard Miller.
[The gent in center is George M. Cohan.]

Photo courtesy MCNY.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

RICHARD WIDMARK (1914 - 2008)


ELISHA COOK JR. (1903 - 1995)

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The Widmark Family in happier times; Wife Jean, daughter Anne, and birthday boy Richard Widmark (c.1955).

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Birthday boy Elisha Cook Jr. looks like he is ready to be done in...again

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Jean-Ann-Dick Widmark . . . my favorite family I ever had the privilege of knowing. Bless them all.

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Today's birthday girl Marlene Dietrich appears in a series of cigarette cards for Carreras of London, 1937.

Photo courtesy of NYPL.

[To see the entire series, click here. ]

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

RAY MALA (1906 - 1957)


MARLENE DIETRICH (1901 - 1992)


SYDNEY GREENSTREET (1879 - 1954)