Today is the birthday of Ellen Burstyn, Tom Waits, Jeffrey Wright, Noam Chomsky, Nicholas Hoult, Jack Huston, Jennifer Carpenter, Mark Duplass, Shiri Appleby, James Keach, Emily Browning, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Rolston, Caleb Landry Jones, Kristofer Hivju, Patrick Fabian, Kenneth Colley, Jeff Nichols, Clive Russell, Priscilla Barnes, Abdellatif Kechiche, Larry Bird, Aaron Carter, Chris Crocker, and the late Eli Wallach, Ted Knight, Louis Prima, Patrice O’Neal, Leigh Brackett, Hurd Hatfield, Fay Bainter, Rod Cameron, Johnny Duncan, and Gordon Parks Jr. Joan Bennett died 31 years ago in 1990 at age 80. Harry Morgan died ten years ago in 2011 at age 96.
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