Passing Angels - for February

[Mamie]

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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mamie4 5/14/03

Updated On: 2/1/08 at 05:20 AM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/1/08 at 5:23am

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for these!!!!!!

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 2/1/08 at 5:34am

Updated On: 1/27/09 at 05:34 AM

[TheatreDiva90016]

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...

[PalJoey]

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!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/1/08 at 9:14am

how wonderful!

[SNAFU]

Posted: 2/1/08 at 6:14pm

Wow Mr Mooney was really kinda hot when he was young!

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/1/08 at 6:39pm

LOL - I couldn't resist using that picture. He was 19 in that pic.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 2/1/08 at 6:55pm

It is a great picture! It is hard to see the character we all know and love in that face!

[Mamie]

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!)

[SNAFU]

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!

[supportivemom]

Posted: 2/1/08 at 9:38pm

Thank you Mamie for all of your hard work. I never heard of Andrea King. She was really beautiful.

[supportivemom]

Posted: 2/1/08 at 9:38pm

Thank you Mamie for all of your hard work. I never heard of Andrea King. She was really beautiful.

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/1/08 at 11:34pm

Thanks 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!)

[wexy]

Posted: 2/2/08 at 12:14am

Great as always.

[Glebb]

Posted: 2/3/08 at 11:20am

Thank you Mamie.
The Passing Angels thread are my absolute favorites!

[best12bars]

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.

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 11:29am

I can't ask for more than that!

[nitsua]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:21pm

What about Karen Carpenter?

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:25pm

I thought her birthday was March 2.

[nitsua]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:27pm

But didn't she die today?

OH! I never realized that we were celebrating birthdays.

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:30pm

Yeah. 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!