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Post by ARENA on Aug 3, 2017 6:26:52 GMT
 Rona Anderson (born 3 August 1926) is a Scottish stage, film, and television actress. Her first stage appearance took place at the Garrison Theatre in April 1945. She also appeared in the original production of Whose Life Is It Anyway?. Anderson's first major film was the 1948 drama Sleeping Car to Trieste. In 1951, she married fellow actor Gordon Jackson, |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2017 11:31:08 GMT
Gina G is 47 today, Australian singer who represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest in the days when we stood a chance of winning
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Post by aubrey on Aug 3, 2017 13:20:25 GMT
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known as P. D. James, was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starring police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh.  I like her stuff, though she can sometimes lapse into descriptions of things like "an unpretentious village shop" that sells fresh pasta. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2017 15:04:41 GMT
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known as P. D. James, was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starring police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh. I like her stuff, though she can sometimes lapse into descriptions of things like "an unpretentious village shop" that sells fresh pasta. I think she wrongly saw herself as another Agatha Christie |
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Post by aubrey on Aug 3, 2017 15:10:21 GMT
I think she was a better writer than Christie in general, and her books usually have a good atmosphere to them. I think what she was aiming at was more Dorothy L Sayers than Christie - The Nine Tailors was one of her favourite books (and one of mine).
I don't mean to dismiss Christie - I've got one of her Marple books on the go (Bertram's).
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Post by rondetto on Aug 3, 2017 15:46:17 GMT
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Post by rondetto on Aug 3, 2017 15:51:21 GMT
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Post by marispiper on Aug 3, 2017 16:47:42 GMT
^^^
I never knew he was married to Cathy MGowan (now with Michael Ball)
He used to be a heart-throb in the 60s but has looked in pretty bad shape in recent years.
73 is not old these days.
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Post by ARENA on Aug 4, 2017 7:17:38 GMT
Maureen "Mo" Starkey Tigrett, née Mary Cox, (4 August 1946 – 30 December 1994) was the first wife of The Beatles' drummer, Ringo Starr. She met Starr at The Cavern Club, where The Beatles were playing, when she was a trainee hairdresser in Liverpool. Starr proposed marriage at the Ad-Lib Club in London, on 20 January 1965. They were married at the Caxton Hall Register Office, London, in 1965 (so was I)  |
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Post by ARENA on Aug 5, 2017 6:52:00 GMT
Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890), sometimes incorrectly referred to as John Merrick, was an English man with severe deformities who was exhibited as a human curiosity named the Elephant Man. He became well known in London society after he went to live at the London Hospital. Merrick was born in Leicester and began to develop abnormally during the first few years of his life.  |
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Post by rondetto on Aug 5, 2017 12:15:54 GMT
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Post by ARENA on Aug 6, 2017 6:34:55 GMT
Mike Sarne (born 6 August 1940) is a British actor, director and former pop singer. Sarne was born Michael Scheuer at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London. Active in the 1960s as singer, he is best known for his 1962 UK novelty chart topper, "Come Outside" (produced by Joe Meek), which featured vocal interjections by Wendy Richard.  |
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Post by ARENA on Aug 7, 2017 6:52:01 GMT
Shobna Gulati (born 7 August 1966) is a British actress, writer, and dancer of Indian origin, best known for playing Anita in Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies, and Sunita Alahan in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2006, a role to which she returned at the end of 2009.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2017 8:19:17 GMT
Melanie Sykes is 47 today. Famous for co hosting a TV show with Des O'Connor, and the Boddingtons advert
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Post by ARENA on Aug 8, 2017 7:07:05 GMT
Earl Cameron, CBE (born August 8, 1917) is a Bermudian actor. He is known as one of the first black actors to break the "colour bar" in the United Kingdom, along with Cy Grant. He also had repeated appearances on many British science fiction programmes of the 1960s, including Doctor Who, The Prisoner and The Andromeda Breakthrough. Cameron was born in Pembroke, Bermuda.  Why not add your birthday to this thread on the day.We 'll toast you with a G&T> |
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