Passing Angels - June

[Mamie]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:05pm

Some of the wonderfully talented ladies and gentlemen of the past who all celebrated their birthdays in June. They're gone - but their contributions to the entertainment world will make them live forever in our hearts and our memories:

Frank Morgan (6/01/1890 – 9/18/1949)


Joan Caulfield (6/1/1922 - 6/18/1991)


Marilyn Monroe (6/1/1926 - 8/5/1962)


Cleavon Little (6/01/1939 – 10/22/1992)


Johnny Weissmuller (6/02/1904 – 1/20/1984)


Josephine Baker (6/3/1906 - 4/12/1975)


Paulette Goddard (6/3/1911 - 4/23/1990)


Leo Gorcey (6/03/1917 – 6/02/1969)


Colleen Dewhurst (6/3/1926 - 8/22/1991)


Rosalind Russell (6/4/1907 - 11/28/1976)


Robert Merrill (6/04/1919 – 10/23/2004)


Dennis Weaver (6/04/1924 – 2/24/2006)


Robert Lansing (6/05/1929 – 10/23/1994)


Spalding Gray – (6/05/1941 – 1/10/2004)


David Dukes (6/06/1945 – 10/09/2000)


Jessica Tandy (6/7/1909 - 9/11/1994)


Dean Martin (6/07/1917 – 12/25/1995)


Dolores Gray- (6/07/1930 – 6/26/2002)


Robert Preston (6/08/1918 – 3/21/1987)


Alexis Smith (6/8/1921 - 6/9/1993)


Robert Cummings (6/09/1910 – 12/2/1990)


Judy Garland (6/10/1922 - 6/22/1969)


Hattie McDaniel (6/10/1895 - 10/26/1952)


Basil Rathbone (6/13/1892 – 7/21/1967)


Mary Wickes (6/13/1916 - 10/22/1995)


Paul Lynde (6/13/1926 – 1/10/1982)


Burl Ives (6/14/1909 – 4/14/1995)


Dorothy McGuire (6/14/1919 - 9/13/2001)


Stan Laurel (6/16/1890 – 2/23/1965)


Jeanette MacDonald (6/18/1901 - 1/14/1965)


Keye Luke (6/18/1904 – 1/12/1991)


Richard Boone (6/18/1917 – 1/10/1981)


Moe Howard (6/19/1897 – 5/04/1975)


Mildred Natwick (6/19/1908 - 10/25/1994)


Pat Buttram (6/19/1915 – 1/08/1994)


Errol Flynn (6/20/1909 – 10/14/1959)


Audie Murphy (6/20/1924 – 5/28/1971)


Al Hirschfeld (6/21/1903 – 1/20/2003)


Maureen Stapleton (6/21/1925 - 3/13/2006)


Judy Holliday (6/21/1921 - 6/07/1965)


Gower Champion (6/22/1921 – 8/25/1980)


Ed Bradley (6/22/1941 – 11/09/2006)


Freddie Prinze (6/22/1954 – 1/29/1977)


Bob Fosse (6/23/1927 – 9/23/1987)


Peter Lorre (6/26/1904 – 3/23/1964)


Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan (6/27/1927 – 1/23/2004)


Pat (Noriyuki) Morita (6/28/1933 – 11/24/2005)


Gilda Radner (6/28/1946 - 5/20/1989)


Nelson Eddy (6/29/1901 – 3/06/1967)


Ruth Warrick (6/29/1915 - 1/15/2005)


David Wayne (6/30/1914 – 2/09/1995)


Susan Hayward (6/30/1919 - 3/14/1975)



Updated On: 6/4/07 at 02:05 PM

[DG]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:19pm

Thanks for the memories, Mamie - and the tears. So many that were lost too soon

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:29pm

Another GREAT one Mamie..thank you. I love that I share my B-day with Gilda Radner...she was a brilliant comedienne.

[shameless]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 4:36pm

Bump!

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 4:44pm

You always post the most gorgeous photos.

[RobbO]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 6:03pm

tremendous mamie! thank you.

[Mamie]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 6:07pm

Thank you all.

Posted: 6/1/07 at 6:21pm

Judy Garland & Gilda Radner in the same month, can you imagine?!?!!?

not to mention Paul Lynde, Maureen Stapleton, Hirschfeld, Roz Russell, Hattie MacDaniel, Ruth Warick, Peter Lorre, its just pioneer after pioneer...

so many greats have come before us.
we should all do what we can to be worthy of them.

[Mamie]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 6:24pm

Both Dorothy AND the wizard!

[C is for Company]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 6:27pm

So many good tributes, thanks for the great thread as usual.

[Glebb]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 11:27pm

Yay Mamie!
Thanks!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 11:33pm

I never realized that Moe Howard was a Gemini. We're in good (and wacky) company, Mamie!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/4/07 at 12:05am

Did someone say...



...Dolores Gray?

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 6/4/07 at 1:26am

I can't believe that It's been 3 years already since Spaulding Gray died. It still saddens me.

[feinstein9]

Posted: 6/4/07 at 1:50am

PJ, that is picture is something else. Mamie, I have to say, not only are the pictures you find beautiful, but I admire that you celebrate the months in which they were born. Too often we mourn death dates to the extent that they over-shadow birthdays. After all, these people will live!

Ms. Penny-- His passing saddens me as well. Did you see the play "Stories Left to Tell"?

[hannahshule]

Posted: 6/4/07 at 6:36am

Thanks Mamie, I always look forward to these at the beginning of each month!
Stunning photos all around!

Posted: 6/4/07 at 7:00am

.....i never will forget Jeanette Mac Donald.....

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/4/07 at 8:08am

Yeah. I know what you mean. Just to think of her, it gives my heart a "Pang!"

But seriously, if you have never experience what was great about Jeannette--this is the exciting "Beyond the Blue Horizon" sequence from Ernst Lubitsch's Monte Carlo--one of the most exciting musical numbers ever filmed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz2Sse9XasU

[RobbO]

Posted: 6/4/07 at 8:46am

superb!

Updated On: 6/4/07 at 08:46 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/4/07 at 8:57am

Wow, Rosalind Russell would have been 100 years old today.

It's the centennial of her birth!

Updated On: 6/4/07 at 08:57 AM

[Glebb]

Posted: 6/4/07 at 9:09am

[RobbO]

Posted: 6/5/07 at 2:39pm

thank you for taking the time to do this, mamie.

[Mamie]

Posted: 6/5/07 at 8:02pm

It is truly my pleasure.

[Glebb]

Posted: 6/10/07 at 9:47am

Bump.

[Blonde]

Posted: 6/10/07 at 10:51am

so many wonderful people. thank you for this post.