Born on this date: Leo Carrillo in 1881; Louella Parsons in 1881; Hoot Gibson in 1892; Dick Purcell in 1908; Lucille Ball in 1911; Dorothy Dare in 1911; Pamela Blake in 1915; Robert Mitchum in 1917; Jacqueline Laurent in 1918; Ella Raines in 1920; Jackie Kelk in 1923; and Barbara Bates in 1925.
All links lead to each actor’s IMDb page, set to open in a new tab.
Classic Movie Daily subscribers will find images of Hoot Gibson, Lucille Ball, and Jacqueline Laurent inside today’s issue, plus a few smaller “birthday” pics at the bottom of this page.
TCM TV Alerts through tomorrow at 7 am:
These titles play on TCM’s US schedule and all quoted times are for my own local Eastern time zone.
—TCM Summer Under the Stars goes modern with Michael Caine on Thursday. Here’s TCM’s own coverage of Caine on their Summer Under the Stars microsite.
—6:00 am, Little Women (1933) begins a 24-hour run of Katharine Hepburn movies (and Dick Cavett appearance) on Friday (TCM.com page). More on what follows tomorrow.
Cliff’s Note
Keep scrolling through today’s mailing for a “Lightning Review” mixed among today’s images, plus the Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers clippings that I promised yesterday—those ten clippings make that one pretty long, so I’ve placed it last.
Have a great day,
Cliff
Leave a Reply