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The stunning birthday gal Miss Lena Horne

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

LESLIE CARON is 83 today


OLIVIA de HAVILLAND is 98 today


FARLEY GRANGER (1925 - 2011)


CHARLES LAUGHTON (1899 - 1962)

Beautiful Photograph of Olivia who is 98 today, I wished she make it to 100.

Birthday boy and director Charles Laughton & Robert Mitchum on the set of “The Night of the Hunter”

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CONSTANCE FORD (1923 - 1993)

Hi Joe,

Fabulous picture of Constance Ford, a fine actress in all her films, but one who was not always given the glamour treatment.
It takes you to find the beauty and charm in the great character people.
As always - thank you...

Larry

Birthday boy Charles Laughton (looking rather like Winnie the Pooh ) hangs out with some pals, October 1951.

It was my pleasure, Larry. Constance Ford was always a favorite. Maybe not a glamour queen but one hell of an actress.

Nice image, PT. I bow to those four stars.

Birthday gal Leslie Caron's affair with Warren Beatty broke up her marriage to Peter Hall. A London court later named Beatty a co-respondent in the divorce and ordered him to pay “the costs of the case.”

Great picture of Director Laughton in action. Wish he'd done some more directing; the eerie Hunter certainly shows he had a flair for it.

Wonder if anyone knows how he came to direct that picture and/or why he never did another.

Wonder if anyone knows how he came to direct that picture and/or why he never did another.

Laughton and Paul Gregory had formed a production team for the stage. Gregory got a copy of a soon-to-be published book, The Night of the Hunter (David Grubb), and showed it to Laughton, who liked it. Laughton had wanted to direct a film, so he Jackson got a distribution deal with United Artists.

The previews were so-so, causing United Artists to promote another Mitchum movie, NOT AS A STRANGER, more heavily. The reviews ranged from "too arty" to "not sinister enough" to criticism of Mitchum's performance. Laughton was distraught over the box office failure, abandoned the project he was working on (an adaptation of Mailer's The Naked and the Dead), and never directed a film again.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

BROCK PETERS (1927 - 2005)


CATHERINE McLEOD (1921 - 1997)

Naughty Victor

Singer pianist Nina Simone and birthday boy Brock Peters relax between shows by frolicking in the sand at Takwa Bay Beach during a visit to Lagos, Nigeria

Gene Tierney enjoys some needle-work between takes of "The Left Hand of God."