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Jun.29.2012
On this date in 1967, Blonde bombshell actress Jayne Mansfield is killed when the car in which she is riding strikes the rear of a trailer truck on Interstate-90 east of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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May.29.2012
On this date in 1903, actor/ comedienne Bob Hope is born.
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May.16.2012
On this day in 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out its first awards, at a dinner party for around 250 people held in the Blossom Room of the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California. The brainchild of Louis B. Mayer, head of the powerful MGM film studio, the Academy was...
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May.10.2012
On this date in 1977, legendary actress Joan Crawford dies at her New York City apartment.
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May.07.2012
On this date in 1901, Gary Cooper, the star of High Noon and other classic Westerns, is born in Helena, Montana.
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May.04.2012
On this day in 1929, Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston--who will one day be better known to legions of film fans as Audrey Hepburn is born near Brussels, Belgium.
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Apr.15.2012
On this day in 1990, the beautiful, enigmatic Swedish film star Greta Garbo dies at the age of 84, in New York City.
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