The Silver Screen Oasis

Youthful birthday boy George E. Stone before his first mustache

It's a trim Raymond Burr with Barbara Payton in "Bride of the Gorilla"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

NANCY KWAN is 76 today


BRUCE BENNETT (1906 - 2007) 100 years

Birthday boy Bruce Bennett - senior citizen

Birthday gal Nancy Kwan with her first husband Peter Pock

Her only son, Bernie Pock, died June 5, 1996 after he contracted aids from a relationship with an older woman whom he later married. Nancy Kwan penned a book entitled, "Celebration of a Life: Memories of my Son".

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

CONSTANCE TOWERS is 82 today


DAVID HEDISON is 88 today


JAMES STEWART (1908 - 1997)

Birthday boy David Hedison - senior citizen

Birthday boy James Stewart hangs out with the lovely Norma Shearer at MGM

Birthday gal Constance Towers out with husband of 40 years, John Gavin

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

RAYMOND BURR (1917 - 1993)


LOLA LANE (1906 - 1981)


ROBERT MONTGOMERY (1904 - 1981)

Birthday boy Robert Montgomery with Rosalind Russell on the set
of "Night Must Fall"


Robert Montgomery as Danny in "Night Must Fall"

Birthday boy Raymond Burr, co-star Barbara Hale and his lifelong partner
Robert Benevides

In the mid-1950s, Burr met Robert Benevides (born 1929), a young actor and Korean War veteran, on the set of Perry Mason. According to Benevides, they became a couple around 1960. Benevides gave up acting in 1963 and later became a production consultant for 21 of the Perry Mason TV movies. Together they owned and operated an orchid business and then a vineyard, in the Dry Creek Valley. They were partners until Burr's death in 1993.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

LAURENCE OLIVIER (1907 - 1989)

Birthday boy Laurence Olivier with his two children Richard and Tamsin (mom is Joan Plowright)

In the book "Melting the Stone: A Journey Around My Father" by his son Richard Olivier, Richard describes Laurence as being more interested in his work than in his children; he never looked back fondly on his career and would actually become depressed when he didn't have a job.

Bogie had the same insecurity when it came to his career, Joe. When no offers were forthcoming through agent Swifty Lazar, Bogie would sit in his usual booth at Romanoff's and actually lament: "Well, I guess no one wants me."