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Birthdays & Passings for May 31st

Happy Birthday! Fred Allen (1894) Madge Blake (1899) Don Ameche (1908) Barbara Pepper (1915) Fritzi Burr (1924) Jim Hutton (1934) At Rest: Albert Reed (1986) Arlene Francis (2001) Hank Ketcham (2001) Jean Stapleton (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for May 30th

Happy Birthday! Doris Packer (1904) Mel Blanc (1908) Peter Leeds (1917) Madeline Lee (1923) Meredith MacRae (1944) At Rest: Robert Sterling (2006) Clarice Taylor (2011)

Birthdays & Passings for May 29th

Happy Birthday! Bob Hope (1903) Vivi Janiss (1911) Stacy Keach, Sr. (1914) Marilyn Borden Thiel (1932) Rosalyn Borden (1932) At Rest: John Barrymore (1942) Dame May Whitty (1948) Fanny Brice (1951) George Fenneman (1997) Harvey Korman (2008) Dennis Hopper (2010)

Birthdays & Passings for May 28th

Happy Birthday! Marshall Reed (1917) Glenn Quinn (1970) At Rest: Rhys Williams (1969) Roy Roberts (1975) Don MacLaughlin (1986) Lurene Tuttle (1986) Norman Bartold (1994) Phil Hartman (1998) Martha Scott (2003) Eddie Barth (2010) Gary Coleman (2010)

Birthdays & Passings for May 27th

Happy Birthday! Dashiell Hammett (1894) Dolores Hope (1909) Vincent Price (1911) Ann Nelson (1916) Steve Franken (1932) At Rest: Ruth McDevitt (1976) Florida Friebus (1988) Meg Gallagher (2000) Paul Gleason (2006) Gretchen Wyler (2007) Jeff Conaway (2011)

Birthdays & Passings for May 26th

Happy Birthday! Charles Winninger (1884) Al Jolson (1886) Paul Lukas (1891) John Wayne (1907) Carleton G. Young (1907) Ben Alexander (1911) Jay Silverheels (1912) James Arness (1923) Bud Molin (1925) At Rest: George E. Stone (1967) Anne Haney (2001) Eddie Albert (2005) Phyllis Flax (2007) Art Linkletter (2010)

Birthdays & Passings for May 25th

Happy Birthdays! Bennett Cerf (1898) Lee Sholem (1913) Jeanne Crain (1925) Claude Akins (1926) Beverly Sills (1929) Dixie Carter (1939) At Rest: Donald Crisp (1974) Vic Tayback (1990) Dan Seymour (1993) Hillary Brooke (1999) Charles Nelson Reilly (2007)

Remembering one half of a classic duo

Her career spanned six decades and beyond... Among her many achievements she made us laugh on such programs as "Rhoda", "Archie Bunker's Place", "The King of Queens" and "Sex and the City." Her more serious side can be found in appearances on "Murder, She Wrote" and "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit"  September 20, 1929 - May 23, 2015 In Memoriam Remembers: Anne Meara 

Birthdays & Passings for May 24th

Happy Birthday! Elsa Maxwell (1881) Lilli Palmer (1914) Heavy D (1967) At Rest: Edward Mulhare (1997) Dick Martin (2008) Lee Rich (2012)

Birthdays & Passings for May 23rd

Happy Birthday! James Gleason (1882) Herbert Marshall (1890) Scatman Crothers (1910) Artie Shaw (1910) Betty Garrett (1919) Edna Skinner (1921) Rosemary Clooney (1928) Mary Fickett (1928) At Rest: Moms Mabley (1975) Elliott Lewis (1990) Harry Townes (2001) Anne Meara (2015)

Birthdays & Passings for May 22nd

Happy Birthday! Sir Laurence Olivier (1907) Johnny Olson (1907) Sid Melton (1917) Merry Anders (1932) Paul Winfield (1939) At Rest: Fred Allen (1955) Joan Davis (1961) Margaret Rutherford (1972) Jane Dulo (1994) Whitman Mayo (2001)

Birthdays & Passings for May 21st

Happy Birthday! Robert Montgomery (1904) Hilda Haynes (1912) Dennis Day (1916) Raymond Burr (1917) David Groh (1939) At Rest: John Garfield (1952) Earle Ross (1961) Vinton Hayworth (1970) Sir John Gielgud (2000) Stephen Elliott (2005) Howard Morris (2005) Joan Alexander Stanton (2009)

Birthdays & Passings for May 20th

Happy Birthday! James "Jimmy" Stewart (1908) Jerry Hausner (1909) Gardner Fox (1911) George Gobel (1919) At Rest: Leonard Penn (1975) Gilda Radner (1989) Stephen Jay Gould (2002) J.D. Cannon (2005)

Passings for May 19th

At Rest: Ronald Colman (1958) Luana Walters (1963) Robert Webber (1989) Henry Corden (2005) Phyllis Avery (2011)

Birthdays & Passings for May 18th

Happy Birthday! Meredith Wilson (1902) George E. Stone (1903) Perry Como (1912) Pernell Roberts (1928) At Rest: Andy Clyde (1967) Richard Hale (1981) Daws Butler (1988) Elisha Cook, Jr. (1995) Elizabeth Montgomery (1995) Wayne Allwine (2009) Steve Forrest (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for May 17th

Happy Birthday! Artie Auerbach (1903) At Rest: Lawrence Welk (1992) Tony Randall (2004) June Taylor (2004) Frank Gorshin (2005)

Birthdays & Passings for May 16th

Happy Birthday! Henry Fonda (1905) Liberace (1919) Jack Dodson (1931) At Rest: Margaret Hamilton (1985) Sammy Davis, Jr. (1990) Jim Henson (1990)

Birthdays & Passings for May 15th

Happy Birthday! Joseph Cotten (1905) James Mason (1909) Howard Morton (1925) At Rest: Andrew Duggan (1988) Barbara Stuart (2011)

Birthdays & Passings for May 14th

Happy Birthday! Del Moore (1916) Ruth Berle (1921) Richard Deacon (1921) At Rest: Billie Burke (1970) Hugh Beaumont (1982) Rita Hayworth (1987) Frank Sinatra (1998) Ray Stricklyn (2002) Robert Stack (2003) Anna Lee (2004)

Birthdays & Passings for May 13th

Happy Birthday! Robert Middleton (1911) Beatrice Arthur (1922) At Rest: Gary Cooper (1961) Frank Jenks (1962) Dan Blocker (1972) Selma Diamond (1985) Frank Aletter (2009) Dr. Joyce Brothers (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for May 12th

Happy Birthday! Katharine Hepburn (1907) Cleo Morgan (1919) Tom Snyder (1936) George Carlin (1937) At Rest: Tor Johnson (1971) Robert Reed (1992) Perry Como (2001)

Birthdays for May 11th

Happy Birthday! Irving Berlin (1888) Margaret Rutherford (1892) Phil Silvers (1911) Doodles Weaver (1911) Foster Brooks (1912) Denver Pyle (1920) Natasha Richardson (1963)

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!   Let's celebrate this day by remembering 30 of television's most remembered moms! Nancy Hughes McClosky played by: Helen Wagner (1918-2010) "As the World Turns" (1956-2010) Mother to: Bob, Susan, Donald & Penny Alice Grayson Horton played by: Frances Reid (1914-2010) "Days of Our Lives" (1965-2007) Mother to: Addie, Mickey, Bill, Marie & Tommy Lila Quartermaine played by: Anna Lee (1913-2004) "General Hospital" (1978-2003) Mother to: Alan & Tracy Eloise Curtis played by: Theresa Merritt (1922-1998) "That's My Mama" (1974-1975) Mother to: Curtis & Tracy June Cleaver played by: Barbara Billingsley (1915-2010) "Leave It to Beaver" (1957-1963) "The New Leave It to Beaver" (1983-1989) Mother to: Wally & Theodore Morticia Addams played by: Carolyn Jones (1930-1983) "The Addams Family" (1964-1966) Mother t

Birthdays & Passings for May 10th

Happy Birthday! Fred Astaire (1899) Nancy Walker (1922) At Rest: Joan Crawford (1977) Susan Oliver (1990) Roy Rowan (1998) Craig Stevens (2000) Deborah Walley (2001) Norma Zimmer (2011)

Birthdays & Passings for May 9th

Happy Birthday! Edith Meiser (1898) Mike Wallace (1918) Royce Wallace (1925) Ray Young (1940) Kevin Peter Hall (1955) At Rest: Marion Lorne (1968) Alice Faye (1998) Alan King (2004) Lena Horne (2010)

Remembering Jeanne Cooper

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October 25, 1928 - May 8, 2013 Two years later... In Memoriam Remembers: Jeanne Cooper

Birthdays & Passings for May 8th

Happy Birthday! Arthur Q. Bryan (1899) At Rest: Laverne Andrews (1967) Dolph Sweet (1985) George Peppard (1994) Ed Gilbert (1999) Dana Plato (1999)

Birthdays & Passings for May 7th

Happy Birthday! Selmer Jackson (1888) Gary Cooper (1901) Darren McGavin (1922) Anne Baxter (1923) John Ingle (1928) Totie Fields (1930) Robert Hegyes (1951) At Rest: Charles King (1957) Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (2000) Machiko Soga (2006)

Recent Passings

Remembering those that left us recently: Lesley Gore Leonard Nimoy Windell D. Middlebrooks Gregory Walcott Richard L. Bare James Best Ben Powers Geoffrey Lewis Jayne Meadows Allen Grace Lee Whitney Ellen Albertini Dow

Birthdays & Passing for May 6th

Happy Birthday! Rudolph Valentino (1895) Raymond Bailey (1904) Frank Nelson (1911) Bill Quinn (1912) Dana Hill (1964) At Rest: Al Jarvis (1970) Ned Wever (1984) Charles Farrell (1990) Marlene Dietrich (1992) Virginia Capers (2004) Maurice Marsac (2007)

Citizen Welles

May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985 Celebrating what would've been the 100th birthday of a beloved and inspiring performer... In Memoriam Remembers: Orson Welles