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“I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman”—Susan Hayward. Born this day, (June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975)

Susan was born in Brooklyn, New York with the name, Edythe Marrenner.
In 1924, seven year old Susan was hit by a car, suffering a fractured hip and broken legs that put her in a partial body cast. Doctors told her she might never walk again. However, after six months, she was able to get around on crutches and after a year was able to return to school.

Susan’s first of five Academy Award Best Actress nominations was for, Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947).
Through the 1950s as she received nominations for My Foolish Heart (1949), With a Song in My Heart (1952), and I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955), winning the Academy Award for her portrayal of death row inmate Barbara Graham in I Want to Live! (1958).

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“I truly believe that one of the reasons why I look and feel so well is because I've very few inhibitions. I don't care about age. Life is too short to worry about what other people think”-Mamie Van Doren.
Happy 92nd Birthday to Mamie!
Born this day, February 6, 1931.

#92

07/29/2025

Remembering Jayne Mansfield today, April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967.

Jayne was only 34 years old when she died in a car accident.
On the night of June 28, 1967, Jayne was in Biloxi, Mississippi, for an engagement at the Gus Stevens Supper Club.
After midnight, Jayne, her attorney and partner Sam Brody (age 40),three of her children, Miklós (age 8), Zoltán (age 6), and Mariska (age 3) and her four Chihuahua dogs left in a 1966 Buick Electra 225.
Driving the car was a 19 year old from the club named Ronald B. Harrison. They were headed to New Orleans where Jayne was to appear on WDSU’s Midday Show.

Their car was traveling between 60 and 80 miles per hour when it crashed into the rear of a Johnson Motor Freight Lines tractor-trailer around 2:00 A.M.

Jayne, the two men in the front seat and two of the dogs died instantly. The children, asleep in the rear seat, survived with minor injuries.

It is often claimed that there was fog from a mosquito spraying truck on the road. But according to Richard M. Rambo, who was driving the truck that their car crashed into, stated that the road was clear.

Mava Fountain, who pulled onto the scene shortly after the accident (and wound up taking Jayne’s children to the hospital with her boyfriend) testified that there was no fog on the road.

The police report claims that there were no marks on the road, indicating that Ronnie had not attempted to stop, further supporting that he may have been asleep.

Also, Jayne was not decapitated, she was wearing a blonde wig which was thrown off of her head which led to those rumors.

After her death, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recommended requiring an underride guard on tractor trailers sometimes known as a “Mansfield Bar”

Photo 8: Jayne with her children, Jayne Marie, Miklós Hargitay Jr., Zoltán Hargitay, Mariska Hargitay and Tony Cimber.

Photo 9 & 10 with Sam Brody.

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Ida Lupino. Born this day, February 4, 1918– August 3, 1995

Ida was the first female filmmaker working in the 1950s during the Hollywood studio system.

She directed more than 100 episodes of television shows in a variety of genres, including westerns, supernatural tales, situation comedies, murder mysteries, and gangster stories. She was the only woman to direct an episode of the original The Twilight Zone series ("The Masks")

She directed films like The Hitch-Hiker and The Bigamist to episodes of Bewitched, and the pilot of Gilligan’s Island.

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“You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed”—Joan Crawford. Remembering Joan today, who passed away on May 10, 1977.

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Karen Carpenter looked so beautiful and happy on her wedding day.
Karen met Thomas Burris at a dinner in Ma Maison restaurant. He was 9 years her senior (39), divorced and had an 18 year old son.
In June 1980 after dating just two months they were engaged.

Days before their wedding rehearsal dinner, Thomas admitted to Karen that he had a vasectomy before meeting her. This news destroyed her plans to start a family.

Karen wanted to cancel the wedding, but her mother Agnes would not let her. Her mother had financed most of the wedding expenses and the invitations had been sent. She told Karen she could not back out. They married in August 1980.

During the marriage Thomas was also blamed for hurling physical and verbal abuse toward her, calling her “a bag of bones”.
According to one of Karen’s close friends, Karen Kamon, the marriage was the worst thing to have ever happened to Karen.

They separated after just 14 months. Karen filed for divorce on October 28, 1982.
Even after the separation, Thomas lived on Karen’s fortune and borrowed up to $50,000 (The equivalent of $201,000 in 2024) It reached the point where all Karen was left with stocks and bonds.

Karen died in February 1983.

I cannot find any current information about her ex-husband.

#1980

07/29/2025

Rehearsal photos of The Honeymooners. October 1, 1955 –
September 22, 1956

Audrey Meadows auditioned for Jackie Gleason and was initially turned down for being too young and too pretty to be a blue-collar housewife.

Audrey refused to accept no for an answer. To prove she could portray Ralph’s long-suffering wife, she reportedly hired a photographer to take pictures of her looking disheveled with no makeup on while she stood in a kitchen holding a frying pan.
The pictures were so different that Jackie Gleason reportedly didn’t recognize her the first time he looked at the photos, and she was hired.

Rehearsal photos of The Honeymooners. October 1, 1955 –
September 22, 1956

Audrey Meadows auditioned for Jackie Gleason and was initially turned down for being too young and too pretty to be a blue-collar housewife.

Audrey refused to accept no for an answer. To prove she could portray Ralph’s long-suffering wife, she reportedly hired a photographer to take pictures of her looking disheveled with no makeup on while she stood in a kitchen holding a frying pan.
The pictures were so different that Jackie Gleason reportedly didn’t recognize her the first time he looked at the photos, and she was hired.

They look so different in nice clothes in their “apartment”

Notice that they are holding ci******es. Audrey died this day, February 3, 1996 of lung cancer.

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Battle of the Network Stars was series of competitions in which television stars from ABC, CBS and NBC would compete in various sporting events.
A total of 19 of these competitions were held between 1976 and 1988, all of which were aired by ABC.
Regular events included swimming, kayaking, volleyball, golf, tennis, bowling, cycling, 3-on-3 football, the baseball dunk, running, and the obstacle course.

Photo 1-
1977- Top Row: Dick Van Patten (Eight is Enough), Erik Estrada (CHiPs), Jimmy Walker (Good Times) and Dan Hagarty (The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams).
2nd Row: Valerie Bertinelli (One Day at Time), Melissa Gilbert (Little House on the Prairie), Scott Baio (Happy Days), Kristy McNichol (Family)
3rd row: Gary Burghoff (MASH), Joyce Dewitt (Three’s Company), Cloris Leachman (The Mary Tyler Moore Show), Dick Clark.

2- Gabe Kaplan (Welcome Back Kotter) and Robin Williams (Mork & Mindy)

3- Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman)

4- Gabe & Joyce DeWitt (Three’s Company)

5- Heather Locklear (T.J. Hooker)and Scott Baio (Happy Days)

6- Lou Ferrigno (The Hulk) and Billy Crystal (Soap)

7- David Letterman, Levar Burton (Roots), Lou Ferrigno (Hulk) Tim Reid, MacLean Stevenson, Valerie Bertinelli, Pat Klous and Charlene Tilton.

8- Farrah Fawcett (Charlie’s Angel’s)

9- Valerie Bertinelli (One Day at A Time)
10- Tom Selleck (Magnum P.I)

It took me a long time to remember these actors and shows, please don’t steal my caption.
I also realized that I have a lot of useless information in my head, and I would not be able to name one person on current television. 🤔

07/29/2025

“Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing”
—Clark Gable. Born this day, (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960)

The many women Clark shared the screen with.

-Grace Kelly & Ava Gardner
-Hedy Lamarr
-Joan Crawford
-Carole Lombard (his future wife)
-Jean Harlow
-Lana Turner
-Vivien Leigh
-Yvonne DeCarlo
-Susan Hayward
-Marilyn Monroe (The Misfits, the final film for both of them)

07/29/2025

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother”—Abraham Lincoln. Happy Mother’s Day 2021. 🌼

Priscilla Presley
Natalie Wood
Lucille Ball
Grace Kelly
Lauren Bacall
Vivien Leigh
Jayne Mansfield
Judy Garland

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07/29/2025

Remembering Farrah Fawcett today. (February 2, 1947 – June 25, 2009)

Farrah was diagnosed with a**l cancer in 2006.
She died at 2:28 a.m. on June 25, 2009, at age 62, in Saint John’s Health Center, Santa Monica, California.

News of Farrah’s death was largely overshadowed by media coverage of the death of music icon Michael Jackson, which occurred twelve hours later on the same day.

Farrah was a huge fan of Van Morrison. When she was too sick to attend one of his concerts, Van Morrison taped it especially for her. It was one of the last things she ever watched.

🎗

07/29/2025

The two Taylor’s. Elizabeth Taylor, and Robert Taylor in Conspirator. 1949

This film created some controversy over the age difference between Robert Taylor, who was 38 and Elizabeth Taylor, who was only 16 at the time of production.

According to MGM records, the film earned $859,000 in the US and Canada and $732,000.

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