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Dana Hill, born Dana Lynne Goetz (May 6, 1964 – July 15, 1996)
She was known as a voice actress with a raspy voice, whose childlike appearance limited her to playing adolescent roles into her thirties. Hill is best known for having played Audrey Griswald in National Lampoon’s European Vacation, and roles in Shoot the Moon and Cross Creek. By the middle 1980s, she had been nominated for numerous young actress awards for her film and television work. In addition to her film work, she also appeared on stage. In 1982, she starred alongside Tony Award-winner Pearl Bailey, in the acclaimed live NBC theater presentation of "The Member of the Wedding." She was a regular voice in the popular series "Duckman," and throughout the early 1990s, was featured in a host of other TV-shows and features. Hill was also a diabetic, and in 1996 the disease worsened and she slipped into a diabetic coma. She suffered a stroke and died at 32 years old that July.

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Today is the birthday anniversary of filmmaker Tod Browning. He joined a traveling circus while still a teenager, performing as a clown and contortionist. In 1915 he began acting at the Biograph studio and appeared in the modern sequence of D.W. Griffith's classic Intolerance; he also served as one of Griffith's assistants on that monumental project. Browning began directing in 1917, frequently co-writing his films. His first film with actor Lon Chaney, The Unholy Three, was a hit and led to several memorable silent melodramas with the great character actor, including The Unknown, London After Midnight (which Browning remade in 1935 as Mark Of The Vampire), and West Of Zanzibar. By the 1930s Browning was specializing in horror and directed two classics of the era: Dracula with Bela Lugosi, and the astounding Freaks. The latter, a shocker set among the freaks of a traveling sideshow, was far too disturbing for its time and was quickly yanked from theaters; only in the 1960s did the film come to be hailed as a masterpiece.

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Donald McNichol Sutherland CC (July 17, 1935 – June 20, 2024)
In a film career spanning over seven decades, Sutherland received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. He is cited as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination, but received an Academy Honorary Award in 2017. Sutherland rose to fame after starring in films such as The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), and Kelly's Heroes (1970). He subsequently starred in many films both in leading and supporting roles, including Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), The Day of the Locust (1975), Fellini's Casanova (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), 1900 (1976), Animal House (1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Ordinary People (1980), Eye of the Needle (1981), A Dry White Season (1989), Backdraft (1991), JFK (1991), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Without Limits (1998), The Italian Job (2003), and Pride & Prejudice (2005). More recently, Sutherland portrayed President Snow in The Hunger Games franchise.
Sutherland also received accolades for his television roles. For his portrayal of Colonel Mikhail Fetisov in Citizen X (1995) he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He played Adam Czerniaków in Uprising (2001), and Clark Clifford in Path to War (2002) earning the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC) in 1978, a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2012 and received the Companion of the Order of Canada (CC) in 2019. He was the father of actors Kiefer Sutherland, Rossif Sutherland, and Angus Sutherland. Sutherland died on June 20, 2024 in Miami, Florida at the age of 88 following a long illness.

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Carole Lombard - 1940

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Winner of 4 Academy Awards and a truly remarkable performance by Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard!

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Howard Hesseman (February 27, 1940 – January 29, 2022)
He played DJ Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati, Captain Pete Lassard in Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, Sam Royer on One Day at a Time, and schoolteacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class. Hesseman made his television debut with two small guest roles on the final season of The Andy Griffith Show in 1968. That same year he appeared in five episodes of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Over the course of his career, Hesseman had small guest appearances in several beloved shows, including That 70s Show, ER and Boston Legal, among several others. His last credited TV role came in 2017, where he appeared in two episodes of the ABC comedy Fresh Off The Boat. Hesseman received Emmy nominations in 1980 and ’81 for his work on CBS’ WKRP in Cincinnati, which ran for four seasons (1978-82). With his shades, moustache and slouch, he became a countercultural icon. Hesseman also reprised his role as “Dr. Johnny Fever” in 10 episodes of the two-season reboot The New WKRP in Cincinnati (from 1991 to 1993). Hessman died from complications of colon surgery in Los Angeles, California, on January 29, 2022, at the age of 81.

07/17/2025

"That’s enough. You don’t talk to people like that." — John Wayne, 1967.

At a swanky Hollywood steakhouse in 1967, the clinking of silverware was interrupted by shouting.

A well-dressed businessman was berating a young, visibly nervous waiter.
He slammed his palm on the table. He raised his voice.
Insults poured out. The entire restaurant fell into an uncomfortable silence.

Until a chair scraped the floor.

From a quiet corner of the room, John Wayne — seated with a few studio friends — calmly stood up.
Six foot four. Rugged. Composed.
He walked slowly toward the man’s table. The room held its breath.

With his unmistakable baritone, he said simply:
“That’s enough. You don’t get to talk to people like that.”

The businessman shrank in his seat. Muttered. Avoided eye contact.
Wayne didn’t look at him again.
He turned to the waiter, who was visibly shaken. Put a hand on his shoulder.
And said:
“You handled that better than most would.”

He slipped a folded bill into the waiter’s apron, nodded, and walked back to his table.
Never broke stride.

A quiet wave of applause followed him.
Not loud. Just genuine.

Long before he was The Duke, John Wayne was Marion Morrison—the son of a pharmacist in Iowa.

He hauled ice. Cleaned up after horses. Hauled equipment for Hollywood sets.
He knew what it meant to sweat, to serve, to be invisible in the eyes of the powerful.
And he never forgot.

Years later, while directing The Alamo (1959), a crew gaffer was being publicly chewed out by an executive.
Wayne stopped the entire set. Walked straight over.

“If you can’t respect the people holding the lights,” he said,
“you don’t belong near the camera.”

The crew never forgot it.
Everyone walked a little taller that day.

On The Shootist (1976), a nervous young actor was overwhelmed by sharing scenes with John Wayne.
Wayne noticed — and quietly invited him to lunch in his trailer.
Just black coffee and sandwiches.

He said:
“Show up early. Keep your head down. And treat the grips and drivers better than the producers.
The ones who do the real work — they’ll remember you.”

One night in El Paso, he was at a bar during a film shoot when he saw a man get aggressive with a woman near the jukebox.
Wayne didn’t yell. He just walked over.

The man turned, saw who it was—and backed off immediately.
Wayne helped the woman get her things and asked the bartender to call her a cab.

No reporters. No cameras. No interviews.
Just decency.

John Wayne played heroes on screen.
But off screen — when no one was looking — he still showed up as one.

In a town built on image, he walked like a man grounded in something real.
And the people who worked behind the scenes — the ones you never hear about —
they’re the ones who remember the most.

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Loretta Young and Douglas Fairbanks Jr - 1931

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Steve McQueen and Sam Peckinpah during the filming of The Getaway - 1972

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John Wayne and Ward Bond: A Friendship Forged in Football, Films, and Loyalty 🤠💔

In 1959, Rio Bravo hit theaters — and though fans didn’t know it then, it would be Ward Bond’s final film with John Wayne, the 22nd movie they made together.

Just a year later, Bond died suddenly of a heart attack at age 57. Wayne, devastated, delivered his eulogy:

“We were the closest of friends, from school right on through. … He was a wonderful, generous, big-hearted man.”

Their friendship went back over 30 years.

They first met as college football players at USC, long before Hollywood called. Later, they became two of the most iconic Western stars in history, appearing in 23 films together — more than almost any other on-screen duo.

Their bond was built on mutual respect, loyalty, and plenty of hard living. Bond, known for his rough personality and sharp tongue, could be controversial, but Wayne admired his honesty and stood by him through everything. Both were close friends of director John Ford, who often cast them side by side.

When Bond passed, Wayne took charge of arranging the funeral and even paid for his headstone, which reads:

"Wardell Edwin Bond – Beloved Husband and Friend. ‘It’s not the years in your life, but the life in your years that counts.’”

It’s said that Bond’s death was one of the few times John Wayne openly wept.

For all his on-screen toughness, The Duke never forgot the man who had been his teammate, co-star, and best friend for more than three decades.

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Wardell Edwin Bond, known as Ward Bond (April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960)
His appearance and easygoing charm were featured in more than two hundred films and the series Wagon Train from 1957 to 1960. Among his best-remembered roles are Bert, the cop, in James Stewart's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Captain Clayton in John Wayne's The Searchers (1956). Bond made his screen debut in Salute and thereafter was a busy character actor, playing over 200 supporting roles. He appeared in 31 films released in 1935 and 23 in 1939. Rarely playing the lead in theatrical films, he starred in the television series Wagon Train from 1957 until his death in 1960. He was frequently typecast as a friendly policeman or as a brutal thug. He had a long-time working relationship with directors John Ford and Frank Capra, performing in such films as The Searchers, Drums Along the Mohawk, The Quiet Man, and Fort Apache for Ford, with whom he made 25 films, and It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life, and Riding High for Capra. Among his other well-known films were Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Sergeant York (1941), They Were Expendable (1945), Joan of Arc (1948), in which he was atypically cast as Captain La Hire, Rio Bravo (1959), and Raoul Walsh's 1930 widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail, which also featured John Wayne's first leading role. Bond died on November 5, 1960, from a massive heart attack; he was 57 at the time of his death.

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A stunning photograph of Nancy Carroll - publicity still for the movie Hot Saturday 1932

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