Before we say farewell to 2008, there’s one more 100th anniversary worth mentioning. December 18th marked a century since the birth of the great British actress Celia Johnson (1908-1982), best remembered as the star of the David Lean classic Brief Encounter (1945). One of the great love stories of the screen, Brief Encounter is blessed [...]

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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lew Ayres, who died in 1996 at the age of 88. Though never a star of the first rank, he had a very long and impressive career, acting with everyone from Garbo (in 1929′s The Kiss) to Mary Tyler Moore (in a guest shot on her [...]

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