Today is the birthday of Oprah Winfrey, Tom Selleck Heather Graham, Katharine Ross, Sara Gilbert, Edward Burns, Sam Trammell, Justin Hartley, Adam Lambert, and the late W.C. Fields, Anton Chekhov, Victor Mature, Ernst Lubitsch, Dorothy Malone, Paddy Chayefsky, and John Forsythe. Alan Ladd died 57 years ago in 1964 at age 50. Freddie Prinze died 44 years ago in 1977 at age 22. Jacques Rivette died five years ago in 2016 at age 87.
Winchell's Film Column 