Happy Birthday, Gary Cooper (May 7th, 1901 - May 13th, 1961)
“I looked at it this way. To get people to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don’t mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.”
Happy Birthday, Orson Welles, (May 6th, 1915 - October 10th, 1985)
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”
Happy Birthday, Rudolph Valentino (May 6th, 1895 - August 23rd, 1926)
“Women are not in love with me, but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.”
Happy Birthday, Ian Stephen McCulloch May 5th,1959
“I only ever wanted, from the age of 13, to be the greatest singer of the best band in the world.”
Happy Birthday, Mary Astor - (May 3rd, 1906 - September 25th, 1987)
“There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who`s Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor Type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who`s Mary Astor?”
Happy Birthday, Harold Clayton Lloyd (April 20th, 1893 - March 8th, 1971)
“There is more magic in a pair of horn-rimmed glasses than the opticians dream of, nor did I guess the half of it when I put them on in 1917.” - Harold Lloyd
Happy Birthday, Harold Clayton Lloyd (April 20th, 1893 - March 8th, 1971)
“Laughter is the Universal language. It establishes a common identity among people - regardless of other differences. It is the sweetest sound in the whole world.” - Harold Lloyd
| — | Charles Chaplin (April 16th, 1899 - December 25th, 1977) |
Charlie Chaplin reenacts his famous table ballet from “The Gold Rush” (1925)
Happy Birthday (April 16th, 1889 - December 25th, 1977)
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Happy Birthday, Mary Pickford (April 8th, 1892 - May 29th, 1979)
“I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast and let his heart’s blood turn the white rose red. Maybe this sounds very sentimental, but for anybody who has loved a career as much as I’ve loved mine, there can be no short cuts.”
Lucille Fay LesueurJoan Crawford (March 23rd, 1904 - May 10th, 1977) Happy Birthday!“You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise, you’ll be destroyed”
