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Janet Gaynor (born Laura Augusta Gainor; October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American film, stage and television actress as well as an accomplished oil painter. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Gaynor began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films .
Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress and singer. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles on stage over her career, including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949), the title character in Peter Pan (1954), and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1959).
Andrews married Janet Murray on December 31, 1933. [15] Murray unfortunately died almost two years later in October 1935 as a result of pneumonia . [ 15 ] Their son, David, was later a radio announcer and musical director who himself died early from a cerebral hemorrhage in February 1964 at the age of 30. [ 16 ]
Conceived as a vehicle for Namath (who had retired from the Los Angeles Rams after the 1977 NFL season), the show focused on the misadventures of Joe Casey, a washed-up professional basketball player who now teaches history at Waverly High School (in Eastville, Wisconsin) and coached the school's basketball team, the Waverly Wonders.
In I Dream of Jeannie's 1965 pilot, Larry Hagman's astronaut character crash lands on a desert island where he accidentally frees Barbara Eden's Jeannie from her bottle, seen here in a promo photo ...
Larry Martin Hagman (September 21, 1931 – November 23, 2012) was an American film and television actor, director, and producer, best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1978–1991 primetime television soap opera Dallas, and the befuddled astronaut Major Anthony Nelson in the 1965–1970 sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.
Hagman was the only actor to appear on all 357 of the original series, and he reprised the role of J.R. Ewing on the spinoff Knots Landing, the 2004 televised reunion special The Return to ...
Larry Hagman, the man who played oil tycoon J.R. Ewing in the TV drama "Dallas," was known as the life of the party. But before his death in 2012, he might've been steeped in regret.