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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Birthday MICHAEL GIROUARD! 🎂 My 1st college roommate, who convinced me to move to NYC. Got me my 1st job, took me to my 1st Broadway show & my 1st NYC dance club. Gone since '86, the laughter, memories and the endless fun we had is as fresh as if it were yesterday. ❤️

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Birthday LAURA NYRO! 🎂 My favorite singer-songwriter: haunting voice, unforgettable lyrics, and brilliant arrangements. Many covered her songs, but no one sang them like she did. She truly was - and always will be - the Goddess of Song. “Mercy on Broadway.”

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Birthday MONTGOMERY CLIFT! 🎂 3 Oscar noms, often playing sensitive characters in movies such as A PLACE IN THE SUN, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY & RED RIVER. Before the movies appeared in 13 Broadway plays including OUR TOWN. My Monty #MovieReview Playlist youtube.com/playlist?lis... #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Birthday Margarita Carmen Cansino aka RITA HAYWORTH! 🎂 Captivating in GILDA, COVER GIRL, & THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI. Her battle with Alzheimer’s raised awareness of the disease. Starred in SEPARATE TABLES with Burt Lancaster. 💖 My #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/RKRpSaXBIug?... #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Birthday gorgeous LINDA DARNELL! 🎂 Beautiful, talented & one of the classic Film Noir femme fatales. Loved her as Stella, the sultry waitress who drives men to distraction in Preminger’s FALLEN ANGEL. My favorite of her films. My #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/8Sjuyb92cjw?...

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Birthday adorable MARSHA HUNT! 🎂 50+ films from 1935 to 1949. Career stalled by the Hollywood blacklist. Dynamic Activist. Life is documented in MARSHA HUNT'S SWEET ADVERSITY. Delightful in PRIDE & PREJUDICE. My #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/VuH8bMCpLxo?si

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 5d

"Light the candles,
Get the ice out.
Roll the rug up,
It's today!"
It's DAME ANGELA LANSBURY's 100th Birthday! 🎂 Star of stage and screen, wonderful human being, and consummate artist. ❤️ So missed. My Lansbury Movie Review Playlist 👉 youtube.com/playlist?lis... #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Birthday JANE DARWELL! 🎂 She Played everything from beleaguered mothers to prison matrons. Meaner than mean in GONE WITH THE WIND. John Ford directed her to an Oscar in THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Loved her in THE RAINS CAME. 🥰 My #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/Q8ANYmFI8QU?si 🎬 #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Birthday, dear LILLIAN GISH! 🎂 🎬 🎭

Pioneer. Performed for more than 85 years in movies, theater and television.

"To become an actress, one cannot begin too soon."
- LILLIAN GISH, made her acting debut at 5 🥰

#MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 8d

Happy Birthday hunky CORNEL WILDE! 🎂 Solid actor known for ROAD HOUSE, THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH & his Oscar-nominated role in A SONG TO REMEMBER. He produced, starred in & directed THE NAKED PREY. Love him in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN. My #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/taWp-81NduU?... #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 8d

Happy Birthday ROBERT WALKER! 🎂 Hollywood’s sensitive “boy next door” in WWII stories like SINCE YOU WENT AWAY & THE CLOCK, stunned audiences as the charming yet chilling Bruno in Hitchcock’s STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. 🚂 My #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/uD5FvTdXkWo?... #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 9d

Farewell DIANE KEATON. 💔 Oscar winner for ANNIE HALL, brought depth & wit to many films, including THE GODFATHER trilogy, REDS, MANHATTAN, SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE, & MARVIN'S ROOM. Tony nom for PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. Signature style define a generation of film heroines. Loved her. #RIP #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 12d

I am only 99% perfect. 😜

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 12d

Happy Birthday exquisite actress LILA KEDROVA! 🎂 Deeply moving as Madame Hortense in ZORBA THE GREEK, earned an Oscar & a Tony. Critical & popular success onstage in 1950s France. Known for roles in films like TORN CURTAIN and THE TENANT, her talent consistently dazzled. #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 15d

NEW MOVIE REVIEW! 🌟 Step inside Hollywood’s golden age! My latest review explores the star-studded drama, GRAND HOTEL ('32). Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, & John Barrymore deliver unforgettable performances in this Oscar-winning classic. 🏩 Watch now! 👉 youtu.be/qGsIYkXkXck 🛎️ #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 16d

Happy Birthday GLYNIS JOHNS! 🎂 Adorable, South African, Tony winner with the beguiling, smoky voice who introduced Stephen Sondheim’s “Send In The Clowns” in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. Oscar nom in 1960 for THE SUNDOWNERS. “Isn’t it rich?” #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 17d

Happy Birthday CHARLTON HESTON! 🎂 100+ films in a 60-year career. Monumental as Moses & Ben-Hur, Oscar for his role in BEN-HUR. Memorable in PLANET OF THE APES. Terrific in THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH before he believed his own Press. My #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/SoghIgtM0to?... 🎪🐘 #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 18d

Farewell to Dame PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE 💔 Best known as Hyacinth Bucket in KEEPING UP APPEARANCES. Olivier Award for CANDIDE, a Tony nomination for DARLING OF THE DAY, Sublime in Alan Bennett's TALKING HEADS.

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 19d

Happy Birthday GROUCHO MARX! 🎂 One of the quickest minds in show biz history, dazzled in films like DUCK SOUP & A NIGHT AT THE OPERA with The Marx Brothers. Known for his caustic humor and trademark mustache. A comedy master. "I must confess, I was born at a very early age." 🥸 #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 20d

Happy Birthday Dame JULIE ANDREWS! 🎂 Beloved Academy Award winner for MARY POPPINS and captivated audiences in THE SOUND OF MUSIC, VICTOR/VICTORIA, and THE PRINCESS DIARIES, enchanting generations with her remarkable voice and presence on film and stage. #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 21d

Happy Birthday to 6-time Oscar nominee DEBORAH KERR & iconic director MICHAEL POWELL! 🎂 Former lovers, they worked brilliantly together in 2 British classics THE LIFE AND TIMES OF COLONEL BLIMP & BLACK NARCISSUS. A fabulous collaboration. My #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/9ZHaAuM_Uwk?... #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 22d

Happy Birthday LIZABETH SCOTT! 🎂 Famed for her smoky voice & film noir allure. Starred as a captivating heroine & femme fatale in classics like DEAD RECKONING & TOO LATE FOR TEARS. Breakthrough film was THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS. My #MovieReview 👉 youtu.be/bpSORDuko1A?...

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 22d

Happy Birthday GREER GARSON! 🎂 Personified the noble wife in American movies of the 1940’s. Seven Academy Award nominations, winning for a superb performance in MRS. MINIVER. My MRS. MINIVER #MovieReview youtu.be/l_1DCy4T-ms?... 💖 #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 23d

Happy Birthday BRIGITTE BARDOT! 🎂 French actress, model, & animal activist, rose to worldwide fame with AND GOD CREATED WOMAN. Celebrated as a sex symbol & muse of the 50s Riviera & New Wave, she starred in LE MÉPRIS and VIVA MARIA! 🇫🇷 Viva Bardot! #MovieSky

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Steve Hayes @stevehayestoq.bsky.social · 24d

Happy Birthday, Oscar winner, CLAUDE JARMAN Jr! 🎂 Remembered for his unforgettable performances in Clarence Brown’s THE YEARLING and INTRUDER IN THE DUST! 🎬

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