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Birthdays & Passings for August 31st

Happy Birthday! Fredric March (1897) Arthur Godfrey (1903) Dore Schary (1905) Richard Basehart (1914) G.D. Spradlin (1920) Buddy Hackett (1924) James Coburn (1928) Noble Willingham (1931) At Rest: Joseph Mell (1977) Rick Vallin (1977) Lucille Fletcher (2000) David Frost (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for August 30th

Happy Birthday! Raymond Massey (1896) Shirley Booth (1898) John Eldredge (1904) Sarah Selby (1905) Joan Blondell (1906) Fred MacMurray (1908) Julie Bishop (1914) Maury Thompson (1916) At Rest: Charles Coburn (1961) William Talman (1968) Del Moore (1970) Wesley Lau (1984) Julie Bishop (2001) Charles Bronson (2003) Glenn Ford (2006)

Birthdays & Passings for August 29th

Happy Birthday! Richard LeGrand (1882) Lurene Tuttle (1907) Barry Sullivan (1912) Willard Waterman (1914) Ingrid Bergman (1915) Isabel Sanford (1917) Dick O'Neill (1928) Esther Sutherland (1932) At Rest: Jean Hagen (1977) Ingrid Bergman (1982) Lee Marvin (1987)

Birthdays & Passings for August 28th

Happy Birthday! Stanley Andrews (1891) Charles Boyer (1899) Tol Avery (1915) Jack Kirby (1917) Nancy Kulp (1921) Donald O'Connor (1925) Roxie Roker (1929) Ben Gazzara (1930) At Rest: Anissa Jones (1976) Jan Clayton (1983) Ruth Gordon (1985)

Birthdays & Passings for August 27th

Happy Birthday! Byron Foulger (1899) A. Cameron Grant (1901) Martha Raye (1916) Emily Daniels (1919) At Rest: Gracie Allen (1964) Bennett Cerf (1971) Tol Avery (1973) Raymond St. Jacques (1990) Greg Morris (1996) Susan Peretz (2004)

Birthdays & Passings for August 26th

Happy Birthday! Jim Davis (1909) Jan Clayton (1917) June Whitley Taylor (1921) Michael Jeter (1952) At Rest: Larry Keating (1963) Charles Boyer (1978) Knox Manning (1980) Ted Knight (1986)

Birthdays & Passings for August 25th

Happy Birthday! Michael Rennie (1909) Don DeFore (1913) Van Johnson (1916) Mel Ferrer (1917) Graham Jarvis (1930) At Rest: Carl Barks (2000)

Birthdays & Passings for August 24th

Happy Birthday! Gil Perkins (1907) Durward Kirby (1911) Hal Smith (1916) At Rest: Amanda Randolph (1967) Leonard Frey (1988) Margie Liszt (1992) E.G. Marshall (1998) Mary Jane Croft (1999) Jane Greer (2001) Barbara Miller (2003) Ann Richards (2006) Steve Franken (2012) Claire Malis (2012) Julie Harris (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for August 23rd

Happy Birthday! John Gallaudet (1903) Gene Kelly (1912) At Rest: Rudolph Valentino (1926) Francis X. Bushman (1966) Hank Patterson (1975) Sebastian Cabot (1977) Kathleen Freeman (2001) Brock Peters (2005) Robert Symonds (2007) Bea Silvern (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for August 22nd

Happy Birthday! Jay Novello (1904) Lesley Woods (1910) Alma Beltran (1919) Ray Bradbury (1920) Lois Hall (1926) At Rest: Sebastian Cabot (1977) Colleen Dewhurst (1991) Joan Gerber (2011)

Birthdays for August 21st

Happy Birthday! Marie Blake (1895) Argyle Nelson (1901) Bob Jellison (1908) Tom Tully (1908) Bill Idelson (1919) Jack Weston (1924)

Birthdays & Passings for August 20th

Happy Birthday! Fred Kelsey (1884) Ralph Berger (1904) Alan Reed (1907) Loretta King (1917) Jacqueline Susann (1918) At Rest: Walter Reed (2001) Kim Stanley (2001) Phyllis Diller (2012)

A Death in the Family

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May 16, 1937 - August 17, 2015 In Memoriam Remembers: Yvonne Craig

Birthdays & Passings for August 19th

Happy Birthday! Barry Kelley (1908) Marie Wilson (1916) At Rest: Alastair Sim (1976) Groucho Marx (1977) Hermione Baddeley (1986) Hayden Rorke (1987) Lee Sholem (2000) Don Hewitt (2009) Lee Thompson Young (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for August 18th

Happy Birthday! Shelley Winters (1920) Lester Fletcher (1922) Patrick Swayze (1952) At Rest: Jeep Swenson (1997) Bud Yorkin (2015)

Birthdays & Passings for August 17th

Happy Birthday! Mae West (1893) Lili Valenty (1900) Glenn Corbett (1933) At Rest: Vivian Vance (1979) Pearl Bailey (1990) Yvonne Craig (2015)

Birthdays & Passings for August 16th

Happy Birthday! Lucien Littlefield (1895) Glenn Strange (1899) Gloria Blondell (1910) Fess Parker (1924) Lois Nettleton (1927) Eydie Gorme (1928) Robert Culp (1930) At Rest: Bela Lugosi (1956) Paul Lukas (1971) Veda Ann Borg (1973) Amanda Blake (1989) John Doucette (1994) Phil Leeds (1998) Jeff Corey (2002) William Windom (2012)

Birthdays & Passings for August 15th

Happy Birthday! Ethel Barrymore (1879) Julia Child (1912) Elizabeth Kerr (1912) At Rest: Will Rogers (1935) Lisa Robin Kelly (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for August 14th

Happy Birthday! E.J. Andre (1908) Alice Ghostley (1924 or 1926) At Rest: Joan Harrison (1994) Bruno Kirby (2006) Gloria Winters (2010) Ron Palillo (2012) Phyllis Thaxter (2012)

Birthdays & Passings for August 13th

Happy Birthday! Bert Lahr (1895) Regis Toomey (1898) Alfred Hitchcock (1899) Tristram Coffin (1909) Jane Webb (1925) Raymond Serra (1936) At Rest: H.G. Wells (1946) Jane Darwell (1967) Argyle Nelson (1970) Joe E. Ross (1982) Julia Child (2004) Tony Jay (2006)  

Birthdays & Passings for August 12th

Happy Birthday! Marion Lorne (1883) Joe Besser (1907) Jane Wyatt (1910) Marjorie Reynolds (1916) Bob Carroll, Jr. (1918) Douglas Croft (1926) Deborah Walley (1941 or 1943) At Rest: Henry Fonda (1982) Ross Elliott (1999) Loretta Young (2000) Merv Griffin (2007)

Birthdays & Passings for August 11th

Happy Birthday! Lloyd Nolan (1902) Mike Douglas (1925) At Rest: Anne Ramsey (1988) Peter Cushing (1994) Phil Harris (1995) Mike Douglas (2006) George Furth (2008) Henry Polic II (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for August 10th

Happy Birthday! Jack Haley (1898) Ray Walker (1904) Richard Reeves (1912) Noah Beery, Jr. (1913) Jeff Corey (1914) Eddie Fisher (1928) Kate O'Mara (1939) At Rest: Douglas Kennedy (1973) Eydie Gorme (2013)

Birthdays & Passings for August 9th

Happy Birthday! Charles Farrell (1900) Tom Tyler (1903) At Rest: Harry Davenport (1949) Sharon Tate (1969) Gregory Hines (2003) Bernie Mac (2008) George DiCenzo (2010) Al Freeman, Jr. (2012)  

Birthdays & Passings for August 8th

Happy Birthday! Dayton Lummis (1903) Sylvia Sidney (1910) Rosetta LeNoire (1911) William Asher (1921) Esther Williams (1921) Rory Calhoun (1922) At Rest: Damian O'Flynn (1982) Richard Deacon (1984) Louise Brooks (1985) Alan Napier (1988) Maureen Reagan (2001) Edna Skinner (2003) Fay Wray (2004) Barbara Bel Geddes (2005) Patricia Neal (2010)

Birthdays & Passings for August 7th

Happy Birthday! Billie Burke (1884) Ernestine Wade (1906) Jane Adams (1918) Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer (1927) Richard Levinson (1934) At Rest: Oliver Hardy (1957) Joi Lansing (1972) John Anderson (1992) Brion James (1999) Maury Thompson (2000) Peter Jennings (2005) Lois January (2006)

A Special Birthday Rememberance on August 6th

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August 6, 1911 - April 26, 1989 Remembering the Queen of Comedy on the occasion of her 104th birthday! In Memoriam Remembers: Lucille Ball

Birthdays & Passings for August 5th

Happy Birthday! Reginald Owen (1887) Joan Hickson (1906) Robert Taylor (1911) Parley Baer (1914) Selma Diamond (1920) Ethel Winant (1922) Don Matheson (1929) At Rest: Suzan Ball (1955) Carmen Miranda (1955) Marilyn Monroe (1962) Charles Quigley (1964) Sir Richard Burton (1984)

Birthdays & Passings for August 4th

Happy Birthday! Louis Armstrong (1901) At Rest: Pearl White (1938) Sam Katzman (1973) Frank Fontaine (1978) Victor Mature (1999) Lorenzo Music (2001) Frank Maxwell (2004)  

Birthdays & Passings for August 3rd

Happy Birthday! Irene Tedrow (1907) Frances Morris (1908) Jean Hagen (1923) At Rest: Carolyn Jones (1983) Ida Lupino (1995) Christopher Hewett (2001) Danni Sue Nolan (2002) James T. Callahan (2007) Bubba Smith (2011)

Birthdays & Passings for August 2nd

Happy Birthday! Myrna Loy (1905) Gary Merrill (1915) Carroll O'Connor (1924) Peter O'Toole (1932) At Rest: J. Farrell MacDonald (1952) Totie Fields (1978) Cathleen Nesbitt (1982) Frank Faylen (1985) Shari Lewis (1998) Lesley Woods (2003) Fred Pinkard (2004)

Birthdays & Passings for August 1st

Happy Birthday! Alice Frost (1905) Henry Jones (1912) Arthur Hill (1922) Dom DeLuise (1933) At Rest: Strother Martin (1980)