Today Jimmy Lydon is 95, Agnès Varda is 90, and Ted McGinley is 60. Today is also the birthday of Keir Dullea, Idina Menzel, Ruta Lee, Stephen Tobolowsky, Colm Meaney, Michael J. Pollard, Wynonna Judd, CeeLo Green, Duncan Jones, Antoine Fuqua, Ryûhei Kitamura, and the late Mel Blanc, Howard Hawks, Hugh Griffith, Clint Walker, Benny Goodman, Douglas Fowley, Franklin J. Schaffner, Meredith MacRae, Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry), Irving Thalberg, Christine Jorgensen, and Jamie Uys. Dooley Wilson died 65 years ago in 1953 at age 67. Claude Rains died 51 years ago in 1967 at age 77. Michel Simon died 43 years ago in 1975 at age 80.
Winchell's Film Column 