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On this day 17th September the sun is shining and for the third time this season Portsmouth are sitting at Number One in the English Premiership, they are unbeaten and haven't conceeded a goal all season.
103 years ago the actress Dolores Costello was born. The link with John Wayne is tenuous as they were both in Noahs Ark, one in a leading role the other Wayne in the swimming tank along with Andy Devine and thousands of other extras.
From IMDB
QuoteDolores Costello was once known as the "Goddess of the Silent Screen" but will probably be better remembered today as Drew Barrymore's grandma. She was born in 1905 (or 1906) to Maurice and Mae Costello. Her father began his film career in 1908. He would become soon become the most popular matinee idol of his day. He gave Dolores and her sister Helene their screen debut in 1911. Dolores appeared in numreous pictures throughout the 1910's and the early 20's mostly with her father and sister. She later appeared on the New York stage with her sister in the "George White Scandals" of 1924. They were then signed on to Warners Bros. where Dolores met her future husband John Barrymore.
Barrymore soon made Dolores his costar in THE SEA BEAST in 1926. During their lengthy kissing scene in this picture Dolores fainted in John's arms. They married in 1928 despite the misgivings of her mother who would die the following year at the age of forty five. They had two children DeDe in 1931 and John Drew Barrymore the following year. Dolores took time off from her movie career in the early 30's so she could raise her young children. Her sister Helene and her new husband actor Lowell Sherman sucessfully convinced Dolores to Divorce Barrymore in 1935, mainly because of his drinking.
After the divorce Dolores continued to act in several big budget pictures and career seemed to be back on track. Her physical appearance however was greatly damaged due to harsh studio make up. The skin on her cheeks were in the process of deteriorating forcing her into early retirement. She lived in semi seclusion on her Southern Californian avocado farm called Fall Brook Ranch. Alot of her memorbila and papers from both the Barrymore and Costello family were destroyed in a flood.
40 years ago the writer Paul Wellman died aged 70. An expert on things western he wrote the Comancheros.
13 years ago the actor James Griffths died aged 77. He played the Salvation Army man in North to Alaska and a gambler in How The west Was Won.
11 years ago the actor Grady Sutton died aged 89, he was Malcolm Scott in A Lady Takes A Chance, and also had a small role in Brown of Harvard.
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Grady Sutton was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and arrived in California in 1924. He got his first break in Hollywood from director William A. Seiter who used him as an extra in The Mad Whirl (1925) starring May McAvoy. Grady remained in Hollywood for the next 55 years. He specialized in playing naive, slightly befuddled young men, adding comedic bits to comedies and dramas. His most famous association came from appearing in four movies with W.C. Fields: The Pharmacist (1933), Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935), You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) and The Bank Dick (1940). He can also be seen in such classics as My Man Godfrey (1936), Stage Door (1937), Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939), Anchors Aweigh (1945), White Christmas (1954) and A Star Is Born (1954). He was also a regular on "The Egg and I" (1951) and "The Pruitts of Southampton" (1966) television series. In total, he appeared in over 200 feature films and short subjects spanning 1924 to 1979. His final film appearance was in Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979). In 1994 he moved to the Motion Picture and Television Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California where he died September 17, 1995, of natural causes.[quote]
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