On This Day

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On this day 2nd June

38 years ago the actor James Crane died aged 78. Between 1919 and 1939 he appeared in only 13 pictures including Lady and Gent.

53 years ago the actor Burr Caruth died aged 87 he asppeared in 52 pictures many of which were B westerns and included in his repetoire Dark Command, New Frontier Red River Range and Overland Stage Raiders. Apart from that I know very little about either of them.

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Arthur

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No matter how many times I tried yesterday I could't get on to the site yesterday as it kept coming up error and saying it wasn't connected to the server whatever that means.

So anyway albeit a day late

On this day 3rd June

103 years ago the actor Eddie Acuff was born he was in Flame of the Barbary Coast.

On the same day:-

another actor Ted Tetzlaf was born. He appeared in Arizona (the film not the place).

96 years ago the actress Paulette Goddard was born she appeared in Reap the Wild Wind

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Paulette Goddard was a child model who debuted in "The Ziegfeld Follies" at the age of 13. She gained fame with the show as the girl on the crescent moon, and was married to a wealthy man by the time she was 16. After her divorce she went to Hollywood in 1931, where she appeared in small roles in pictures for a number of studios. A stunning natural beauty, Paulette could mesmerize any man she met, a fact she was well aware of. One of her bigger roles in that period was as a blond "Goldwyn Girl" in the Eddie Cantor film The Kid from Spain (1932). In 1932 she met Charles Chaplin, and they soon became an item around town. He cast her in Modern Times (1936), which was a big hit, but her movie career was not going anywhere due to her relationship with Chaplin. They were secretly married in 1936, but the marriage failed and they were separated by 1940. It was her role as Miriam Aarons in The Women (1939), however, that got her a contract with Paramount. Paulette was one of the many actresses tested for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), but lost the part to Vivien Leigh, and instead appeared with Bob Hope in The Cat and the Canary (1939), a good film but hardly in the same league as GWTW. The 1940s was Paulette's busiest period. She worked with Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940), Cecil B. DeMille in Reap the Wild Wind (1942) and Burgess Meredith in The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946). She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in So Proudly We Hail! (1943). In the early 1940s she was one of Paramount's top stars. Tat star faded in the late 1940s, however, and she was dropped by Paramount in 1949. After a couple of "B" movies, she left films and went to live in Europe, where she married German novelist Erich Maria Remarque in the late 1950s. She was coaxed back to the screen once more, although it was the small screen, for the 1972 television movie The Snoop Sisters (1972) (TV).

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Pauline Marion Goddard Levy was born in Whitestone Landing, New York on June 3, 1910. She was a beautiful child who began to model for local department stores before she made her debut with Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies at the age of 13. For three years she astounded audiences with her talent. She married Edgar James when she was 15 but the union was doomed to failure and was dissolved in 1930. By then Paulette had begun to make her mark on Hollywood with a small bit appearance in the film BERTH MARKS in 1929. Her age of 15 didn't help her in getting better parts. She would continue in bit roles in films such as THE GIRL HABIT (1931), THE MOUTHPIECE, and YOUNG IRONSIDES both in 1932. For the next four years she searched for parts but came up empty handed. It wasn't until 1936 that Paulette would, again, appear in a motion picture in MODERN TIMES. Once again she found herself with a bit part. Finally, after ten years, she gained a decent part in 1939's THE WOMEN. Paulette thought that maybe her career was finally taking off. Her next film she played Joyce Norman in THE CAT AND THE CANARY which was intended to be a send off vehicle for Bob Hope. It did not only that but established Paulette as a genuine star. Her performance won her a ten year contract with Paramount Studios which was one of the premier studios of the day. Her next feature film was with the great Fred Astaire in the acclaimed musical SECOND CHORUS in 1940. Later that year she once again teamed up with Bob Hope with the film THE GHOST BREAKERS. And once again the movie was a huge hit. This was just the beginning because the 1940's was the decade that kept her busy and in the public eye of America's movie going public. Motion pictures such as THE GREAT DICTATOR in 1940 with future husband Charlie Chaplin, POT O' GOLD (1941), and THE LADY HAS PLANS (1942) were added to her already sparkling resume. In 1943, Paulette was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the film SO PROUDLY WE HAIL! She didn't win but it solidified her as a top draw. Although the 1944 film, STANDING ROOM ONLY, didn't bring in the crowds at the box-office, the production is still remembered as a delightful comedy with Fred McMurray, a must see for any film buff. Paulette reached the pinnacle of her career in Mitchell Liesen's KITTY in 1945. The film was a hit with moviegoers as Paulette played an ordinary English woman transformed into a duchess. The film was filled with plenty of comedy, dramatic and romantic scenes that appealed to virtually everyone. As Abby Hale in 1947's UNCONQUERED, Paulette, once more, found herself with a profit making flick. This Cecil B. DeMille film paired her with Gary Cooper in the 18th century romatic drama. The critics weren't to keen on it but the public could have cared less. They loved this long running(146 minutes) movie. The 1950's were not to good on Paulette's career as she appeared in only six feature films, the last being CHARGE OF THE LANCERS in 1954. She would not be seen again on the silver screen until 1964 in TIME OF INDIFFERENCE. Her career was just about finished although she did appear in a made for TV film called THE SNOOP SISTERS as Norma Treet. That one was forgettable. Paulette retired from the film world for good. On April 23, 1990 she died of massive heart failure in Ronco, Switzerland at the age of 78.

90 years ago the actor John Kellogg was born he played a reporter in Without Reservations.

88 years ago the film editor Robert swink was born he worked on Rooster Cogburn and The Cowboys.

and finally 16 years ago the actor Tom Brown died aged 75 he was in Central Airport.

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Arthur

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On this day 4th June

111 years ago the actor Russell Hicks (insert) was born he was in A Man Betrayed, Flame of the Barbary Coast and Seven Sinners

107 years ago the actor Lane Chandler was born he appeared in 345 pictures including In Old Oklahoma, Red River and Reap the Wild Wind

this is what IMDB has to say about his career:-

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American actor who had a brief flirtation with stardom before settling into character roles and bit parts. Born in rural South Dakota (according to government records, though some sources say Walsh County, North Dakota) as Robert C. Oakes, the son of a horse rancher, he moved with his family to Culbertson, Montana (not his birthplace as some sources have it), where he grew up. The family moved again and he graduated from high school in Helena. A brief attendance at Montana Wesleyan College was interrupted by the offer of a job driving a tour bus in Yellowstone National Park.

Drifting down to Los Angeles in the early 1920s, he got work as an auto mechanic, but his ranch-honed cowboy skills got him bit parts in pictures at Paramount when director John Waters offered him work in a series of Westerns. Paramount recognized possibilities in the tall, rugged, handsome cowboy and put him (with a new name, Lane Chandler) into leading roles, first in Westerns, then in contemporary films opposite some of the biggest star actresses of the time, Clara Bow, Greta Garbo, Betty Bronson, and Esther Ralston. As silent films were phased out, Chandler found his stock slipping at Paramount. He began appearing in lower-budgeted Westerns, first in leads, then as second leads to stars such as John Wayne and Jack Hoxie.

A favorite of director Cecil B. DeMille, Chandler worked in many DeMille films, often in tiny bit parts, though he claimed these were his favorite parts. Eventually Chandler no longer commanded roles of any substance and he spent the remaining 35 years of his career in small supporting parts, playing in hundreds of films, often uncredited. A stalwart of television Westerns of the 1950s, he was a familiar face to movie fans for nearly fifty years. An astute businessman with industrial and property holdings, he died in Los Angeles in 1971 at 72.

70 years ago the actor Bruce Dern (2nd insert) was born. In the two pictures he was in with John Wayne he was killed in the War Wagon in a gunfight with Wayne and Kirk Douglas, but in the Cowboys he was responsible as Long Hair for shooting Wayne in the back.

55 years ago Tony curtis (who never appeared with John Wayne on screen) married Janet Lee=igh (who did) Incidentally Janet Leigh's maiden name was Morrison.

40 years ago Lucien Littlefield died aged 64 he featured in Born to the West.

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Arthur

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On this day the 5th June

114 years ago the actor Jerry Mandy was born he was in Girls Demand Excitement

104 years ago the costume designer Walter Plunkett was born he did the costume for The Wings of Eagle and How the West Was Won

101 years ago John Abbott was born, with wide starring eyes he appeared in The Greatest Story Ever Told.

96 years ago Herb Vigran was born he was in Cancel My Reservation.

94 years ago Gregg Barton was born he appeared in Jet Pilot and Flying Tigers

92 years ago the composer and actor Stan Jones was born. A former Ranger he wrote Ghost Riders in the Sky, he worked on Rio Grande and The Horse Soldiers.

75 years ago Jarma Lewis was born she appeared as the girl in the bath in The Conqueror.

53 years ago William Farnum died aged 76 he was in The Spoilers.

33 years ago Max Terhune died aged 82 he was in a number of the Three Mesquiteer pictures.

25 years ago the actor Philo McCullough died aged 87. One of the original Tarzans he also played the outlaw leader in The Lawless Nineties.

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Arthur

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On this day 6th June

It should be remembered that 62 years ago the greatest invasion force the world had ever seen were swarming over the Normandy beaches marking the beginning of the end for the Axis powers and bringing freedom to Europe in what would be The Longest Day.

108 years ago the actor Walter Able was born a star of both silent and sound he was a founder member and one time president of the Screen Actors Guild. He was also Colonel Fuller in Island in the Sky.
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88 years ago the actor Richard Crane was born he appeared in Flying Tigers

106 years ago the actor Lester Matthews was born in Nottingham he appeared as the cardinal in Trouble Along the Way and
31 years ago he died aged 75.
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44 years ago Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams died aged 63 among many films he was in The Alamo and The Comancheros.
The son of a rancher-turned-politician, Guinn Williams was given the nickname "Big Boy" (and he was, too - 6' 2" of mostly solid muscle from years of working on ranches and playing semi-pro and pro baseball) by Will Rogers, with whom he made one of his first films, in 1919. Although his father wanted him to attend West Point (he had been an officer in the Army during World War I), Williams had always wanted to act and made his way to Hollywood in 1919. His experience as a cowboy and rodeo rider got him work as a stuntman, and he gradually worked his way up to acting. He became friends with Rogers and together they made around 15 films together. Williams starred in his own series of silent westerns and easily made the transition from silents to talkies. Although he also starred in a series of low-budget westerns in the early and mid-1930s, he really came into his own as a supporting player in the late 1930s and early 1940s, especially at Warner Bros., where he made such resoundingly successful westerns as Dodge City (1939) and Santa Fe Trail (1940) with his friends Errol Flynn and Alan Hale. Williams specialized in the somewhat dim and quick-tempered but basically decent sidekick, a role he would play for the next 20 years or so. He also made films other than westerns, and was in, for example, A Star Is Born (1937) and played strongly against type as a vicious, sadistic killer in The Glass Key (1935). In the early 1960s Williams' health began to deteriorate, which was noticeable in his last film, The Comancheros (1961), in which he had a small part and, sadly, did not look well at all. He died of uremic poisoning shortly afterwards.

32 years ago Blance Yorka died aged 86 she was in Lady For A Night.

30 years ago the actor Victor Varconi dies aged 85. He was in Dakota and Reap the Wild Wind.
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This slickly handsome Hollywood character player was born modestly on the Hungarian/Rumanian border line to farming parents. Christened Mihály Várkonyi, his career, following training at Budapest's commercial college and dramatic school, thrived for a time on the Transylvanian stage where he played nominal leads in such productions as "Liliom" at the Hungarian National Theatre in Budapest. His rising popularity as a matinée idol led to film roles, making his debut in Sárga csikó (1913) [The Yellow Colt]. He had changed his marquee name to the more internationally friendly Michael Varkonyi by the time he branched out into German/Austrian co-productions such as Arme Violetta (1920) [Camille] opposite Pola Negri.

In 1924, during Europe's continuous political upheaval, Victor arrived on the American soil and sought fame and fortune as a Hollywood actor. Based on his exceptional work as the "Angel of the Lord" in the German/Austrian version of Sodom und Gomorrha (1922), Cecil B. DeMille cast him in his first U.S. film opposite established star Leatrice Joy in Triumph (1924), billed now as Victor Varconi. He proceeded to work for DeMille on a number of silent films, including Changing Husbands (1924), Feet of Clay (1924), The Volga Boatman (1926) and The King of Kings (1927) as Pontius Pilate. Elegant and impeccably mannered in style and nature, Varconi went on to share the screen with some of silent film's loveliest and talented ladies, including Ms. Joy, Agnes Ayres, Marie Prevost, Jetta Goudal and Phyllis Haver. Of note is his portrayal of cuckold husband Amos opposite Haver's flashy jailbird Roxie Hart in the silent version of Chicago (1927). His last major silent role was that of Lord Horatio Nelson in The Divine Lady (1929) co-starring Oscar-nominated Corinne Griffith as Emma (Lady) Hamilton.

The Hungarian Varconi had a decent voice for sound but his noticeably thick accent completely altered the course of his career. Instead of romantic leading man status, he regressed slightly to poised ethnic character roles -- often playing foreign or royal dignitaries, continental cads or cultivated villains. The forced move probably added years to his Hollywood life. World War II utilized his talents playing nefarious Axis commanders in spy intrigue and war dramas. In The Hitler Gang (1944), he was quite skillful portraying Nazi Deputy Rudolf Hess. Varconi also appeared in many of DeMille's talking epics such as The Plainsman (1936) (as an Indian chief), Reap the Wild Wind (1942), Unconquered (1947) and Samson and Delilah (1949).

As his film career dissipated, Varconi turned more and more to stage work and radio writing. Among his Shakespearean theatre endeavors were roles in "Hamlet," "Romeo and Juliet," "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Richard III." He also moved occasionally into TV in the 50s, then retired. Varconi published his memoirs "It's Not Enough to Be Hungarian" shortly before suffering a fatal heart attack at age 85 in 1976.

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27 years ago the actor James Nusser died aged 74 he had appeared in Cahill U.S. Marshall

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Arthur

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On this day after yesterdays marathon time has to mean I will be brief.

But on this day June 7th

91 years ago the German actor Til Kiwe was born he was in The Longest Day

89 years ago Dean Martin was born he appeared in Rio Bravo and the Sons of Katie Eder.

33 years ago Lane Bradford died he was a chieftan in The conqueror.

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Arthur

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On this day 8th June

95 years ago the special effects man Howard Lydecker was born he worked on Rio Grande.

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Arthur

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As the year goes on and I began to research this subect more thouroughly I put more people on last years list so I am now picking up the remnants that I missed originally. The format of 'On this day' will probably be limited in future to one or two people at most until it reaches the time when I have included almost everyone and it will cease.

But until then -

On this day 9th June

39 years ago the supporting actor George Bruggerman died aged 62. He played Clem in Rio Bravo.

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Arthur

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On this Day10th June

116 years ago the director William A Sieter was born he directed The First Rebel.

After trawling the IMDB searching for someone who had a connection with John Wayne it like waiting for a bus - you wait an hour and then two come at once for lo and behold the very next entry gives us

117 years ago the actor Cliff Cark was born, he appeared in 206 pictures including Fort Apache and Operation Pacific.

21 years ago the veteran actor George Chandler died aged 86. One of the many actors of the 20s 30s and 40s who were always on screen but you couldn't put a name to, he appeared in 430 films including The High and the Mighty, Island in the Sky Tall In The Saddle In Old Oklahoma and The Life of Jimmy Dolan.

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On this day 11th June

116 years ago the art directer James Basevi was born. One of John Fords favourites he worked with the director on a number of pictures including Three Godfathers, Fort Apache She Wore A Yellow Ribbon and his last picture The Searchers.

123 years ago the actress Virginia Brissac was born. A veteran of 142 pictures, she appeared in Idol of the Crowds and Operation Pacific.

137 years ago the actor Frank Sheriden was born he was in Conflict.

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On this day 12th June:-

85 years ago the actress Vera Ralston was born. Formerly a Chezoslovakian ice dancer she came to the United States and married Herb Yates the head of Republic Studios. She made two films with John Wayne The Fighting Kentuckian and Dakota an experience he was not prepared to repeat a third time.

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99 years ago the supporting actor Jack Lee was born he was in They Were Expendable

104 years ago the actor Lee Morgan was born he played an uncredited role in Rio Grande.

116 years ago Junius Matthews was born he was a porter in Without Reservations.

117 years ago the actress Grace Goodall was born she was in California Straight Ahead.

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25 years ago Evelyn Knapp died aged 72 she starred with John Wayne in His Private Secretary.

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3 years ago Gregory Peck died aged 87 he was in How the The West Was Won.

44 years ago John Ireland died aged 82. Married to Joanne Dru he played Cherry Valance in Red River.

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On this day June 13th

87 years ago the actor Richard Collier was born he played Skinny Sourdough in North to Alaska.

118 years ago Harry tyler was born, a veteran supporting actor he appeared in 342 pictures including In Old California, he was a waiter in Big Jim McLaine and Pat Cohan in The Quiet Man.

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19 years ago the actress Geralding Page died aged 62 she was John Wayne's love interest in Hondo although off camera he disliked her with a passion.

Here is what IMDB has to say about her.

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Considered by many to be one of the greatest American actresses of all time, Geraldine Page was a master craftswoman who seemed to bring out the most inner detail of the character she was playing. Her dedication to her craft has earned her the respect of many of today's great actors including Meryl Streep and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Geraldine Sue Page was born on November 22, 1924 in Kirksville, Missouri to Dr. Leon Elwin Page, an osteopathic physician and Pearl Maize Page, a homemaker. She had an older brother named Donald. The family moved to Chicago when Page was five years old. Growing up, her interests and hobbies always were directed toward the arts. She tried writing and painting while younger, but that proved to be too frustrating. She wanted to be a concert pianist, but her family couldn't afford all that training. While she was still a preteen, she joined the drama club at her church and soon found her passion. She began reading all kinds of plays as well as reading about actors. She was fascinated with the careers of actresses like Lucille La Verne, Maude Adams, and Eva Le Gallienne.

Upon graduation from high school in 1942, she entered the Goodman Theater School, where she performed in just about everything students could perform in, as well as earning money working for a children's theater group. When she completed the three year program in 1945, she and several other students organized a summer stock theater in Lake Zurich, Illinois. After the summer season she headed for New York City. Unfortunaltly, by Christmas she was working three part time jobs just to get by and not finding any work as an actress. She returned to Chicago that winter and accepted a position as a part time instructor in the theater department at DuPaul University for the spring semester. After another summer at Lake Zurich, Miss Page headed for New York again, this time joining a stock company in Woodstock, New York. She spent the next two years spending summers at Lake Zurich, and the rest of the time performing in Woodstock playing everything from young girls to grandmothers.

In 1948, she made her New York city debut with an Off-Broadway production of "Seven Mirrors." She spent the next four years performing with Off-Broadway groups and summer stock in New Jersey. She also performed character parts on radio shows. In 1952 she had the lead in an Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "Summer and Smoke". That production caused a sensation, not only with critics but with a growing audience marking the first big hit Off-Broadway. Page won the Drama Critics Award, becoming the first person from a non-Broadway production to receive such an award.

Page put off a number of film offers and instead played leading roles on radio and television and made her Broadway debut in January 1953 in Vina Delmar's play "Mid-Summer." Although the play was dismissed by most critics, she was hailed by critics for her portrayal of an uneducated woman married to a schoolteacher.

In the fall of 1953, she made her film debut opposite John Wayne in the western "Hondo." Although she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, she wasn't offered any good parts in Hollywood and returned to New York.

During the 1950s, Page's theater career flourished. She played a variety of roles on Broadway including a vindictive wife of a homosexual in "The Immoralist," to a lonely spinster in "The Rainmaker." She also made frequent radio and television appearances and honed her craft at the Actors Studio. It was in the fall of 1959 that Page starred opposite Paul Newman in Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth." Her role as a pathetic fading movie star earned universal praise, her first Tony Award nomination, and interest again from Hollywood. It was also when she met and married one of her co-stars, actor Rip Torn.

In 1961 she starred in the film version of "Summer and Smoke" and in 1962 in "Sweet Bird of Youth." She earned consecutive Golden Globe awards as well as Academy Award nominations for these two performances.

From now on, Page divided her time between the stage and the screen. Her selectivity was high, whatever the medium. She turned down many famous roles, including the role of Martha in the original Broadway production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and the role of the mother in the film version of "The Exorcist." She was first and foremost a character actress who believed in repertory. She tended to accept parts that were very different from the one she had just played and often liked to rotate between leading roles and supporting roles.

Despite the fact that she was such a highly respected stage actress, very few of her Broadway productions after "Sweet Bird of Youth" were hits, and often closed after just a few performances. The few productions that were hits included revivals of "Strange Interlude" and "The Three Sisters." Most of her better stage work through the rest of her life came in productions Off-Broadway, or in regional theaters across the country. She liked touring the United States and performing theater in states and cities often neglected by Broadway touring companies. In the 1960s, some of her notable film work included "The Happiest Millionaire," "What ever happened To Aunt Alie" and "You're A Big Boy Now." She earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for the latter. She also won two Emmy Awards for television work.

In the 1970s one of her few hits on Broadway was as a drunken banker's wife in "Absured Person Singular." This role netted her a second Tony Award nomination. One of her bigger triumphs on the stage was the Sancturay Theater Compnay which she and her husband Rip Torn founded off-Broadway. Although it only lasted a couple of years, it gave young actors a chance to work, and many of the productions were given rave reviews by critics. Some of her more memorable film roles in the 1970s included her role as a nosy matchmaker in "Pete 'n' Tillie" (Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress) as a controversial religious leader in "The Day of the Locust" as the voice of the villain Madame Medusa in "The Resueres" and as the suicidal mother in "Interiors" (Oscar nomination as Best Actress).

In the 1980s she began teaching acting at the Pelian Theater School. In 1982 she had another triumph on Broadway as Mother Superior in "Agnes of God" a role which earned her a third Tony Award nomination. In 1983 she co-founded the Mirror Repertory Compnay, an Off-Broadway theater group dedicated to preserving the art of repertory theater. She performed and directed in a variety of productions with the group. She continued to work in films despite her hectic theater schedule. One of her film roles in 1984 was a scene stealing bit part as a chain smoking mother of a murdered cop in "The Pope of Greenwich Village." She received an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress. With that she became the first woman to receive seven Oscar nominations for acting without a single win. In 1985, she starred in the independent film "The Trip To Bountiful." Based on Horton Foote's play, it tells the story of a 60 year old woman who yearns to run away from her cramped city apartment that she shares with her son and daughter -in-law, to see the old country town where she grew up. Page's performance was hailed by critics and she began to rack up a number of award nominations. She was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, making it her eighth try for the golden boy. Although Meryl Streep looked like a sure bet for "Out Of Africa" many critics predicted Page would emerge as the dark horse winner. When F. Murray Abraham opened the envelope on Oscar night he announced "Ladies and gentlemen, I consider this woman the greatest actress in the English language. The winner is Geraldine Page in The Trip To Bountiful!" As Page hurried to find her shoes which she had kicked under her seat, Meryl Streep led the long standing ovation for her.

In the 1980s she received a number of other honors. She received several lifetime achievement awards from various theater groups. In 1983, she was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. The only thing that seemed to be missing was a Tony Award. In the spring of 1987, Page took a break from the Mirror Theater, to return to Broadway in a revival of "Blithe Spirit" For her leading performance as the wacky medium, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. Many critics predicted her to be the sentimental favorite for the award. She did not win. Six days after the Tony Awards ceremony, she died of a heart attack leaving behind her husband and their three children. She was 62 years old. A memorial service was held at a Broadway theater and numerous actors and celebrities payed their respects including Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, and Paul Newman among others. Ronald and Nancy Reagan had flowers sent from the White House to the memorial service.

Page dedicated her life to her craft and is regarded as one of the most important actresses of the 20th century. She appeared in 28 films, 16 Broadway plays, memorable teleplays and radio plays, and innumerable repertory, stock, regional and Off-Broadway performances. As People magazine noted: "Geraldine Page wasn't resting on her laurels at the time of her death, she was on a role. After a performance she asked 'I wasn't overdone was I?' Then she added with smile 'wasn't I exquisite?' As ever she was".

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On this day June 14th

79 years ago Robert L Jacks was born he produced The Undefeated.

86 years ago Robert 'Bob' Anderson was born he played the Radio Announcer in Without Reservations.

117 years ago the actor Eddie Waller was born he played the Stagecoach Driver in the 1945 picture Dakota.

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Hi On this day 15th June

17 years ago Victor French died aged 54 Seen on television in Little House on the Prarie and Highway to Heaven , he was also Ketcham in Rio Lobo.

31 years ago William Austin died aged 91 he played a newspaper man in College Coach.

56 years ago the actress Nan Grey married the singer Frankie Laine.

69 years ago the German actor Curd Jurgens married Lulu Baslar

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On this day 16th June

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39 years ago the British actor Reginald Denny died aged 75 he had appeared in Seven Sinners.

27 years ago the director Nicholas Ray died aged 67 he directed Flying Leathernecks

15 years ago John Wayne's friend Rueben Padilla died aged 81 he had played Santa Anna in The Alamo. A business man rather than an actor he appeared in only two pictures.

103 years ago the actress Ona Munsen bas born.She only appeared in twenty-two pictures two of them Dakota and Lady From Louisiana with John Wayne. Perhaps her most famous role was that of the tart with a heart Belle in Gone With The Wind.

90 years ago the actor Phil Chambers was born. He made his screen debut playing a Bishop in Trouble Along the Way.

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On this day 17th June

140 years ago the actor Reginald Barlow was born. He appeared in 85 pictures including His Private Secretary and New Frontier.

132 years ago Grant Mitchell was born he featured in Central Airport.

110 years ago the supporting actor Art Mix was born. A veteran of the screen between 1924 and 1946 he appeared in nearly two hundred pictures nearly all of which were westerns and in nearly all of which he played a villain of one description or another. Included amongst these were In Old California, Winds of the Wasteland and Sagebrush Trail.

Coming into the 20th Century 95 years ago Edmund Glover was born his career spanned twenty-four years between 1940-1964 and during this time he only amassed 46 pictures and television works. He was un-credited in Back To Bataan.

46 years ago the director Arthur Rosson died aged 73. He was co-director on Red River his first screen credit. I thought that Howard Hawks worked alone on the picture, we all learn something new every day.

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On this day 18th June:-

135 years ago the actor Edmund Breese was born. Between 1914-1935 he appeared in 129 pictures including the part of Frank Stratton in The Hurricane Express.

123 years ago the actress Mary Alden was born. She played Tom Brown's mother in Brown of Harvard.

111 years agothe actor Ivan Lebedeff was born he appeared in two early John Wayne pictures Men Without Women and Hollywood Handicap.

59 years ago Sam Appel jnr died aged 75 he appeared in 47 pictures included the minor role of a juror in Reap the Wild Wind.

39 years ago the actor William Tracy died aged 49 he was in Wings of Eagles.
This is what IMDB has to record about his career.

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Pittsburgh-born actor William Tracy was born on December 1, 1917, and began performing professionally as a youth. Trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, he appeared in musical and comedy roles until his big break arrived in 1937 at age 19 when he took over the role of fidgety military school "plebe" Misto Bottome in the hit Broadway show "Brother Rat." The following year he recreated the role in the film version of Brother Rat (1938) that had him in good standing company alongside up-and-coming Warner Bros. actors 'Wayne Morris' (I) , Priscilla Lane, Eddie Albert (also from the Broadway show) and both Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, who would marry a short time later. William's second film assignment for Warners was playing 'Pat O'Brien' (I) 's as a young adult in the classic yarn Angels with Dirty Faces (1938).

Hal Roach saw promise in the tousle-haired, innocent-looking youth with the slightly squealy voice and signed him up for a some WWII comedy programmers teamed up with actor Joe Sawyer. He and the tough-looking Sawyer played Sgts. "Dodo" Doubleday and William Ames, respectively, in the flimsy but fun misadventures of two soldiers at odds with each other, with Tracy's character having a photogenic memory which gets him into all sorts of expected trouble. Audiences took to the escapism and Roach obliged by churning out by recreating the characters in _About Face (1941)_, Hay Foot (1942), Fall In (1942) and _Yanks Ahoy! (1943).

Tracy is best remembered, if at all, for playing the lead role in the film adaptation of the popular comic strip Terry and the Pirates (1940). Featured roles in such classics as The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Tobacco Road (1941), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) and George Washington Slept Here (1942) also endeared him to the public as the amiable but somewhat dull-witted fellow. Offers started drying up in post war years, however, and an attempt to re-team Tracy and Sawyer's sergeant characters with the second-string As You Were (1951) and Mr. Walkie Talkie (1952)_ fell flat.

Tracy went on to appear on TV and was featured in the cast "Terry and the Pirates" (1952), not as the lead this time but in the role of Hotshot Charlie. From there he faded away into obscurity. He died in 1967 at age 49 in Los Angeles.

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As an actor he appeared in the 1940 Serial adaptation of the Milton Canniff comic strip TERRY AND THE PIRATES, and, a dozen years later, he co-starred in the T.V. adaption of the same comic strip, but as Hot Shot Charlie (Charles C. Charles) to John Baer's portrayal of Terry.

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On this day 19th June:-

89 years ago the supporting actor Ray Hyke was born he appeared in red River and Operation Pacific.

1960 the stuntman and horse trainer Bert Dillard died he had appeared in A Lady Takes A Chance.

and by coincidence

15 years ago the star of that picture Jean Arthur (insert) died aged 90.
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Now back into sequence:-

40 years ago the comedian Ed Wynn died aged 79 he had played old Abin in The Greatest Story Ever Told.

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On this day June 20th

59 years ago theactor Aldo Ray married Shirley Green.

43 years ago the actor Gordon Jones died aged 52 a big man he played Matt Douglas in McLintock.

29 years ago the actor Abner Bibberman died aged 68. Born in Milwaulkee he looked asian and made a good living playing Japanese soldiers, Chinese and Hawaiian characters. true to type he was the Japanese Officer in the school room in Back to Bataan. Later he became an acting coach.

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On this day 21st June:-

89 years ago the actor Russell Wade was born he appeared in Tall in the Saddle

127 years ago the actor De Witt Jenning was born he was in The Big Trail and The Deciever.

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