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jdb1 · Post by **jdb1** » August 30th, 2008, 8:53 pm

Our next August 30th birthday girl is the irrepressible
Joan Blondell

jdb1 · Post by **jdb1** » August 30th, 2008, 8:55 pm

And the baby in this group of August 30th Classic Hollywood birthdays

Fred MacMurray

ken123 · Post by **ken123** » August 30th, 2008, 10:29 pm

Judith,
Thanks for the beautiful pic of the gorgeous Joan.

jdb1 · Post by **jdb1** » August 31st, 2008, 11:47 am

August 31 marks the birthday of
Richard Basehart

myrnaloyisdope · Post by **myrnaloyisdope** » August 31st, 2008, 12:14 pm

Great Joan pic.

jdb1 · Post by **jdb1** » September 2nd, 2008, 5:20 pm

Sept. 2 is the birthday of dancer (and model for Disney's Snow White)

Marge Champion

jdb1 · Post by **jdb1** » September 4th, 2008, 10:27 am

Here is a September 4 birthday -- writer, director, actor, voice artist:

Howard Morris

jdb1 · Post by **jdb1** » September 5th, 2008, 6:44 pm

September 5 marks the birthday of

Darryl F. Zanuck

jdb1 · Post by **jdb1** » September 6th, 2008, 2:14 pm

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)

jdb1 · Post by **jdb1** » September 13th, 2008, 10:49 am

A September 13 birthday:

Claudette Colbert

jdb1 · Post by **jdb1** » September 16th, 2008, 12:22 pm

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

Lauren Bacall

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myrnaloyisdope · September 16th, 2008, 10:49 pm

Regarding Claudette, I swear those cheekbones have emotions unto themselves.

jdb1 · Post by **jdb1** » September 17th, 2008, 9:15 pm

Here's a Sept. 18 birthday:

Garbo

jdb1 · Post by **jdb1** » September 18th, 2008, 7:41 pm

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)\

jdb1 · Post by **jdb1** » September 18th, 2008, 8:42 pm

And here is a Sept. 19 birthday

Actor and teacher William Hickey

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