A September 6 birthday -- when Hollywood needed a soda jerk, a store clerk, a gaspump jockey, a mailman or a smalltown sheriff, it would very likely be
Irving Bacon (shown here with another character stalwart, Elizabeth Patterson)
Here is a YouTube tribute to today's Sept. 16 Birthday Girl. Looking at these, and other entries about this star at YouTube, I'm struck by how truly classic her "Look" is. I think you could take her out of any one of these shots and plunk her down in any decade of her life (including the present one), and she'd look absolutely appropriate and contemporary. It's more than just the hair and the makeup -- it's attitude and body language. Here's to
I've been posting the next day's birthdays the night before, because I'm having trouble posting these pictures from my office computer. I had put up Bill Hickey for the 19th, but I'd be really lax in my memorializing duties if I didn't mention a Sept. 18 birthday of note.
Voice actress extraordinaire June Foray (91 today)\