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AC/DC stops in Ipanema, Brazil, during a 1985 tour.

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Walter Cronkite swims in the Caribbean Sea in 1971.

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Lillian Gish's last professional appearance was a cameo on the 1988 studio recording of Jerome Kern's Show Boat, in which she affectingly spoke the few lines of The Old Lady on the Levee in the final scene. The last words of her long career were: "Good night.”

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Dorothy Gish (1898-1968) like her sister Lillian, was a major figure in silent films, particularly director D.W. Griffith’s classics.

She was more vivacious than her sister & returned to the stage with the rise of talking pictures. Her final film was The Cardinal (1963).

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October 14, 1893: Actress Lillian Gish is born in Springfield, Ohio.

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October 14, 1927: Actor Roger Moore is born in London.

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October 14, 1926: A. A. Milne's book "Winnie the Pooh" released.

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October 13, 1890: Novelist Conrad Richter is born. His work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods.

His novel The Town (1950), the last story of his trilogy The Awakening Land about the Ohio frontier, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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The things you love are as stupid as the things you hate and are easily interchangeable.

Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 19m

October 14, 1957: The Everly Brothers' single "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1.

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October 14, 1978: The 1st TV movie based on a TV series-"Rescue from Gilligan's Island"- premieres.

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Minot "Mickey" Jelke, heir to a multimillion dollar margarine fortune, was embroiled in a New York prostitution scandal in the 1950s.

He was convicted of inducing his girlfriend, Pat Ward, into a life of prostitution. He served 21 months for pandering.

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“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”

Lillian Gish

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October 14, 1960: Peace Corps is first suggested by John F. Kennedy in a speech at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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October 14, 1930: George Gershwin and Ira Gershin's musical "Girl Crazy" starring Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman premieres in NYC.

The orchestra included Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Red Nichols, Jimmy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden, & Gene Krupa among others.