Passing Angels - for February
Passing Angels - for February
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#1Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/1/08 at 5:20am
Some of the wonderfully talented ladies and gentlemen of the past who all celebrated their birthdays in February. They're gone - but their contributions to the entertainment world will make them live forever in our hearts and our memories:
Clark Gable (2/01/1901 – 11/16/1960)
Andrea King (2/01/1919 – 4/22/2003)
Gale Gordon (2/02/1906 – 6/30/1995)
Joey Bishop (2/03/1918 – 10/17/2007)
Ida Lupino (2/04/1918 - 8/03/1995)
Red Buttons (2/05/1919 – 7/13/2006)
Ronald Reagan (2/06/1911 – 6/05/2004)
Buster Crabbe (2/07/1908 – 4/28/1983)
Eddie Bracken (2/07/1920 – 11/14/2002)
Dame Edith Evans (2/08/1888 – 10/14/1976)
Lana Turner: 2/08/1921 - 6/29/1995)
Audrey Meadows (2/08/1924 - 2/03/1996)
Jack Lemmon (2/08/1925 – 6/27/2001)
James Dean (2/08/1931 – 9/30/1955)
Ronald Coleman (2/09/1891 – 5/19/1958 )
Brian Donlevy (2/09/1901 – 4/05/1972)
Carmen Miranda (2/09/1909 - 8/05/1955)
Gypsy Rose Lee (2/09/1914 - 4/26/1970)
Jimmy Durante (2/10/1893 – 1/29/1980)
Dame Judith Anderson: 2/10/1898 - 1/03/1992)
Lon Chaney, Jr (2/10/1906 – 7/12/1973)
Kim Stanley (2/11/1925 – 8/20/2001)
Eva Gabor (2/11/1926 - 7/04/1995)
Lorne Greene (2/12/1915 – 9/11/1987)
Forrest Tucker (2/12/1919 – 10/25/1986)
“Tennessee” Ernie Ford (2/13/1919 – 10/17/1991)
Eileen Farrell (2/13/1920 – 3/22/2002)
Oliver Reed (2/13/1938 – 5/02/1999)
Jack Benny (2/14/1894 – 12/26/1974)
Lois Maxwell (2/14/1927 – 9/29/2007)
Vic Morrow (2/14/1932 – 7/23/1982)
Gregory Hines (2/14/1946 – 8/09/2003)
John Barrymore (2/15/1882 – 5/29/1942)
Cesar Romero (2/15/1907 – 1/01/1994)
Katherine Cornell (2/16/1898 – 6/09/1974)
Hugh Beaumont (2/16/1909 – 5/14/1982)
Gretchen Wyler (2/16/1932 – 5/27/2007)
Sonny Bono (2/16/1935 – 1/05/1998 )
Arthur Kennedy (2/17/1914 – 1/05/1990)
Kathleen Freeman (2/17/1919 - 8/23/2001)
Alan Bates (2/17/1934 – 12/27/2003)
Jack Palance (2/18/1919 – 11/10/2006)
Merle Oberon (2/19/1911 - 11/23/1979)
Lee Marvin (2/19/1924 – 8/29/1987)
Edward Albert (2/20/1951 – 9/22/2006)
Ann Sheridan (2/21/1915 - 1/21/1967)
Robert Young (2/22/1907 – 7/21/1998 )
John Mills (2/22/1908 – 4/23/2005)
Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin (2/22/1962 – 9/04/2006)
Marjorie Main (2/24/1890 – 4/10/1975)
George Harrison (2/24/1943 – 11/29/2001)
Jim Backus (2/25/1913 – 7/09/1989)
William Frawley (2/26/1887 – 3/03/1966)
Madeleine Carroll (2/26/1906 – 10/02/1987)
Jackie Gleason (2/26/1916 – 6/24/1987)
Tony Randall (2/26/1920 – 5/17/2004)
Betty Hutton (2/26/1921 – 3/11/2007)
Margaret Leighton (2/26/1922 - 1/13/1976)
Johnny Cash (2/26/1932 – 9/12/2003)
Marian Anderson (2/27/1897 – 4/08/1993)
Franchot Tone (2/27/1905 – 9/18/1968 )
Mary Frann (2/27/1943 - 9/23/1998 )
Zero Mostel (2/28/1915 – 9/08/1977)
Dinah Shore (2/29/1916 - 2/24/1994)
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#2re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/1/08 at 5:23amTHANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for these!!!!!!
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#3re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/1/08 at 5:41am
My cat, Mr. Howl, is curled up right next to me, waiting for me to come to bed.
And Lovey is meowing in the bedroom.
Kids...
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#4re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/1/08 at 8:29am
Thank you, Mamie. I'm a February baby--the 28th--and I forgot that Zero Mostel and I share a birthday. Also Vincente Minnelli and Bernadette Peters and Tommy Tune.
And this year is a leap year!
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#6re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/1/08 at 6:14pmWow Mr Mooney was really kinda hot when he was young!
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#7re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/1/08 at 6:39pmLOL - I couldn't resist using that picture. He was 19 in that pic.
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#8re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/1/08 at 6:55pmIt is a great picture! It is hard to see the character we all know and love in that face!
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#9re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/1/08 at 8:22pm
Almost every picture of Gale Gordon I've seen shows his left eyebrow arched. That's the main difference. (Also it needs a mustache!)
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#10re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/1/08 at 8:42pm
Yes the arched eyebrow, 'stache and the receding hair line. I can see it now with the side by side.
You have an incredible library of pictures thanks for sharing them!
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
#11re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/1/08 at 9:38pmThank you Mamie for all of your hard work. I never heard of Andrea King. She was really beautiful.
#12re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/1/08 at 9:38pmThank you Mamie for all of your hard work. I never heard of Andrea King. She was really beautiful.
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#13re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/1/08 at 11:34pmThanks Mom. Best12bars brought Andrea King to my attention after last year's post. She was an actress at Warner Brothers and a very good friend of Besty's. He keeps a web site in her honor and I got that beautiful photo from his site. (I hope he doesn't mind too much!)
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wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#14re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/2/08 at 12:14amGreat as always.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#15re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/3/08 at 11:20am
Thank you Mamie.
The Passing Angels thread are my absolute favorites!
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#16re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:42am
Mamie, I don't mind at all! What a lovely way to stumble onto an old friend. Thank you for remembering her in your February tribute.
I've been thinking a lot about Andrea lately, because she would have been 89 last Friday. I miss her friendship, her wisdom and her humor terribly. And on Saturday, I met with "Diva" in between his shows at the Pantages, and we walked right past her star on the Walk of Fame. I hadn't seen it in years, and I pointed it out to him.
Then, to find your tribute today... It made me smile a lot.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#17re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/4/08 at 11:29am
I can't ask for more than that!
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#18re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:21pm
What about Karen Carpenter?
"Writing is like prostitution. First, you do it for love, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money." ~ Moliere
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#19re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:25pmI thought her birthday was March 2.
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#20re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:27pm
But didn't she die today?
OH! I never realized that we were celebrating birthdays.
"Writing is like prostitution. First, you do it for love, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money." ~ Moliere
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#21re: Passing Angels - for February
Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:30pmYeah. I'm not entirely sure why but I've always been irritated by people who memorialize the deaths of others. I believe in celebrating their lives - not their deaths. Thus - the angels birthday thread!
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