Tag: The Real McCoys
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STANLEY FARRAR
October 4, 1910 Stanley Farrar was born in Alameda, California, on October 4, 1910. He moved to Los Angeles, where he worked in radio, and he also appeared as a character actor in films and television shows. His first screen role was an uncredited background appearance in 1947′s Fear in the Night starring Paul Kelly…
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LUCY CLOWNS AGAIN!
September 29, 1962 On September 29, 1962, Lucille Ball again graced the cover of TV Guide. This was just one of her 39 TV Guide covers, having appeared on the very first national edition in 1952. The unique and memorable cover photo – which seems to capture the 51 year-old Ball leaping in mid air…
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PHIL ARNOLD
September 15, 1909 Philip Arnold was a prolific character actor born on September 15, 1909 in Hackensack, New Jersey. He appeared in approximately 200 films and television shows between 1938 and 1968 – in bit parts most of the time. Perhaps most famously, Arnold was a regular in the “Three Stooges” movies doing six films…
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RETA SHAW
September 13, 1912 Reta M. Shaw was born in South Paris, Maine, on September 13, 1912. Her father was an orchestra leader. Shaw’s younger sister was actress Marguerite Shaw. The daughter and granddaughter of women who believed in spiritualism, Shaw reportedly once told a newspaper interviewer that she had been “brought up on a ouija board." She…
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IRVING BACON
September 6, 1893 Irving Bacon was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, as Irving Von Peters. He was a character actor who appeared in hundreds of films, mostly as bewildered small-town blue collar workers. His film debut came in 1923 with a small role in a silent film of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie starring Blanche Sweet. He appeared…