sweethearts & characters

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THE BRITISH INVASION: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, The Animals, The Small Faces, The Yardbirds, The Hollies, The Dave Clark 5, The Zombies

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"Is it safe?" Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man (John Schlesinger, 1976).

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Happy belated 98th birthday to character actor David Sheiner (January 13), one of 60s and 70s American television's best bad and good guys.

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Jocelyn Lane

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Barbara Stanwyck

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Promotional shot of Gene Tierney for TOBACCO ROAD (John Ford, 1941).

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Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler in MIN AND BILL (George W. Hill, 1930)

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Beautiful Jean Peters (1926-2000)

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Cathy O'Donnell and Farley Granger in They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948).

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Jean Brooks in The Seventh Victim (1943).

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Beautiful Gloria Dickson (1917-1945) perished in a house fire at age 27.

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Lovely Nancy Olson, still with us at 97.

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Jane Greer

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Ann Sothern by George Hurrell.

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These goofballs