Though best known for the 51 films he made, Dean Martin was a prizefighter, steel mill laborer, gas station attendant and card shark before seeing the first glimmer of fame. It came when he teamed up with comedian Jerry Lewis in 1946. The duo were to become one of Hollywood’s truly great teams. They lasted 11 years together, and starred in 16 movies. They were unstoppable, but personality conflicts broke up the team. Even without Lewis, Martin was a true superstar.
One of his best remembered films is in Ocean’s Eleven 1960 in which he played Sam Harmon alongside the other members of the legendary Rat Pack: Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford!
Paul Newman, a major figure in American cinema who created indelible characters for more than half a century, died Friday at his home near Westport, Conn., after a lengthy battle with cancer, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was 83.
Graced with physical beauty, striking blue eyes and a sinewy masculinity, Newman proved time and again that he was more than just a handsome face in films that became cultural touchstones, films such as The Hustler (1962), Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
Newman also was a talented director of theatrical and television movies including The Glass Menagerie (1987) and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972). His face graces the labels of a line of food products, Newman’s Own, the proceeds from which benefited various charities.
Newman also was an avid race car driver. At 82, he finished fourth in the Glen Nationals last year, driving a Corvette with 640 horsepower and a top speed of 185 miles per hour.
Even so, advancing age caused him to announce his retirement from acting last year. “You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your invention,” he said on ABC’s Good Morning America in May 2007. “So that’s pretty much a closed book for me.”
Not counting voice work, such as he did for Cars in 2006, his last film was the TV movie Empire Falls in 2005.
After several media outlets reported that Newman was gravely ill with lung cancer and was receiving outpatient treatment in New York, his spokesman released a statement in June that did not mention illness. “Newman says he’s doing nicely,” the spokesman said.
Nevertheless, the next day, friend and business partner A.E. Hotchner was quoted by the Associated Press as saying Newman had told him 18 months earlier that he had cancer. Hotchner later insisted he’d been misquoted, telling Access Hollywood: “I saw him last week and he seemed fine. I have no knowledge of any diagnosis or doctors.” Source
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Taken from the Sy Devore Site- Known as the “tailor to the stars” until his death in 1966, Sy Devore was almost as famous in Hollywood as the men he dressed.
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Eventually his star clientele included Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, Desi Arnaz, Danny Thomas, Rock Hudson, Richard Burton, Nat King Cole, David Janssen, Sidney Poitier, Eddie Fisher and Robert Conrad. Even Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson bought his clothes.
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Born January 24, 1943, in Dallas, Texas. Starting out in Hollywood in the early 1960s, Sharon Tate appeared in a recurring role on the television show, Beverly Hillbillies, and in bit parts in movies, including The Americanization of Emily (1964) and The Sandpiper (1965). In 1965, she landed her first real movie role in Eye of the Devil, starring David Niven and Deborah Kerr. While filming the movie in London, she met the movie director Roman Polanski after auditioning successfully for his horror spoof, The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967). The couple began a romantic relationship, and were married in January 1968.
Sharon Tate’s breakthrough performance came in the hit 1967 film, Valley of the Dolls, based on the best-selling novel by Jacqueline Susann and co-starring Patty Duke and Susan Hayward. Also in 1968, she appeared in Don’t Make Waves with Tony Curtis, and had a starring role in the comedy The Wrecking Crew, with Dean Martin. With the success of Valley of the Dolls and Polanski’s creepy thriller, Rosemary’s Baby (1968), they became one of the most visible couples in Hollywood.
After completing filming on 12+1 (released in 1970) in Italy in 1969, Tate returned to Los Angeles, where she and her husband were renting a house on Cielo Drive in Bel Air. Polanski remained at the couple’s home in England, working on his latest film. On August 9, 1969, the 26-year-old Tate (then eight months pregnant) was brutally murdered in her home, along with three houseguests and a teenage delivery boy, by a group of people who were later revealed as part of the “Manson family,” a murderous cult driven by the apocalyptic fantasies of its deranged leader, Charles Manson. Manson and four of his followers were convicted of those murders (along with two others) and sentenced to death in 1971; after California’s temporary abolition of the death penalty in 1972, they are now serving life sentences and have repeatedy been denied parole. Biography courtesy of Biography.com
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Ray Bolger was born and grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, a middle-class neighborhood. His father was a house-painter, his mother a homemaker. He was inspired by the vaudeville shows he attended when he was young to become an entertainer himself. He began his career as a dancer. His limber body and ability to ad lib movement won him many starring roles on Broadway in the 1930s.
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Born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, Coolidge was the son of a village storekeeper. He was graduated from Amherst College with honors, and entered law and politics in Northampton, Massachusetts. Slowly, methodically, he went up the political ladder from councilman in Northampton to Governor of Massachusetts, as a Republican. En Buy Zithromax route he became thoroughly conservative.
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NEW YORK — Roger Clemens gained entrance into one of the most exclusive clubs in sports Friday, becoming the 21st pitcher in Major League history to win 300 games, as the Yankees defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-2, in front of a sold-out crowd at Yankee Stadium.
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“I’m real fortunate that I had the opportunity to do it here in this stadium and in this uniform,” said Clemens. “I just couldn’t have drawn it up any better.”
Clemens became the first pitcher since Nolan Ryan in 1990 to reach 300 wins, tying Hall-of-Famers Early Wynn and Lefty Grove for 19th place on the all-time victory list. Clemens is the second pitcher to win No. 300 at Yankee Stadium, but the first Yankee to win it in front of the home fans.
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