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Here are 10 things you should know about Otto Kruger, born 138 years ago today. His was a prolific and diverse career that spanned more than a half-century.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Gloria Holden, born 120 years ago today. After a brief stage career, she worked steadily in pictures and radio.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Mantan Moreland, born 121 years ago today. As with so many Black performers of the era, the range of his roles was limited but he made the most of them.

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Here are 10 things you should know about George Macready, born 124 years ago today. He had a knack for portraying elegantly villainous characters.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Don DeFore, born 110 years ago today. He enjoyed success on stage, in pictures and on radio and television over his 50-year career.

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Ya know who makes everything better? Franklin Pangborn, that's who.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Tom Tully, born 115 years ago today. The character actor enjoyed success on Broadway, in pictures, on the radio and in television.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Millard Mitchell, born 120 years ago today. He had as many Broadway credits as film roles in his too-brief career.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Regis Toomey, born 125 years ago today. His career on stage, screen and television spanned more than 60 years.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Reginald Owen, born 136 years ago today. He was one of the busiest character actors of the 1930s and '40s.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Joe E. Brown, born 132 years ago today. Best remembered today as millionaire Osgood Fielding III in SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959), Brown starred in dozens of feature-length comedies in the 1930s and ’40s.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Richard Gaines, born 119 years ago today. He enjoyed success in the theatre before turning to pictures and then TV.

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Here are 10 things you should know about C. Aubrey Smith, born 160 years ago today. He exemplified the stiff-upper-lip English gentleman on stage and screen.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Donald Meek, born 145 years ago today. He was perhaps the most aptly named character actor in Hollywood history.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Richard Carle, born 152 years ago today. Before becoming an in-demand character actor in Hollywood, he enjoyed a 40-year stage career.

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Here are 10 things you should know about George Sanders, born 117 years ago today. The smooth Sanders had an unmatched facility for playing sly cads, and we're always pleased to see his name in the opening credits of a motion picture.

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Here are 10 things you should know about George Chandler, born 125 years ago today. He amassed more than 450 film and TV credits in a career that spanned more than 50 years.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Donald MacBride, born 130 years ago today. The snaggle-toothed character actor was ubiquitous in the films of the 1930s and '40s.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Keye Luke, born 119 years ago today. A talented visual artist, he had no plans to pursue an acting career, but one came to him in serendipitous fashion.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Grant Mitchell, born 149 years ago today. He abandoned his law career for a life on the stage and later became a very busy character actor in pictures.

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