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Welcome to your Classic Movies Newsletter for the week of April 5, 2011.

This week: Updated tributes to Bette Davis, Gregory Peck and Spencer Tracy - all sharing the same birthday! Plus our annual salute to baseball movies.

This week we celebrate birthdays for living legends Francis Coppola (April 7, 1939), James Garner (April 7, 1928), John Gavin (Spril 8, 1931), Jean-Paul Belmondo (April 9, 1933), Harry Morgan (April 10, 1915), Omar Sharif (April 10, 1932), Max Von Sydow (April 10, 1929), and Joel Grey (April 11, 1932). For more information about birthdays for classic movie people living and dead, check out our birthday calendar:
Classic Birthdays

New/Updated Features

Classic Baseball Movies
From Joe E. Brown's clowning around to the lyrical Field of Dreams, Hollywood has long had a love affair with baseball. Here's a suggested watching list in honor of the opening of the baseball season.
Classic Baseball Movies

A Tribute to Spencer Tracy
He was one of the most respected actors in Hollywood and the first to win back-to-back Best Actor Oscars.
A Tribute to Spencer Tracy

A Tribute to Gregory Peck
We stand in tribute to the star of To Kill a Mockingbird, who played some of the best heroes in the movies.
A Tribute to Gregory Peck

A Tribute to Bette Davis
Often brilliant, sometimes annoying, but always fighting the good fight, Bette Davis was one of the greatest stars in Hollywood, as ten Best Actress Oscar nominations will attest.
A Tribute to Bette Davis

A Tribute to Doris Day
Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff had some tough breaks, but on screen she was almost always sunny and bright, and gave us many memorable moments and songs.
A Tribute to Doris Day

A Tribute to Marlon Brando
He had eight Oscar nominations and at least an equal number of roles that were universally panned. He influenced a generation of actors. We salute the man who many believe was America's greatest actor.
A Tribute to Marlon Brando

A Tribute to Alec Guinness
You may know him as Obi-Wan Kenobi, but when it came to pure acting, the force was always with him. One of the all-time greats.
A Tribute to Alec Guinness

A Tribute to Debbie Reynolds
A love letter to the perky, energetic, and most of all talented Ms. Reynolds, who continues to entertain us both on stage and with her wonderful collection of film memorabilia.
A Tribute to Debbie Reynolds

Elizabeth Taylor Dead at 79
She was a movie star in every sense of the word. She left us just after her 79th birthday celebrated last month. There was only one "Liz," and we will miss her!
A Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor

A Tribute to Gloria Swanson
She was once the highest-paid and most popular actress in America, but today she is remembered primarily for playing a character much like herself, in one of the most popular movies of all time.
A Tribute to Gloria Swanson

A Tribute to Joan Crawford
Though modern audiences may know her mostly from her later, more unsympathetic roles, Joan Crawford was at one time the leading actress in Hollywood, and was voted #10 on the AFI list of all-time favorite actresses.
A Tribute to Joan Crawford

Please Visit the Classic Movies DVD Store
Classic films on commercial DVD, mostly from the Warner Archive Collection, priced at up to 25% off the usual retail price. These are almost all one-of-a-kind titles at this point (ie., we only have one copy of most of them), so be sure to order soon. We have just added several dozen new titles, so be sure to visit soon!
Check out the complete list.

New on DVD

We've just added three more new titles to last week's list, including a Blu-Ray release of Fiddler on the Roof, and two more titles from the Warner Archive Collection: Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952) and Merry Andrew (1958). Last week we added Little Nellie Kelly (1922), The Unfinished Dance (1947), While the City Sleeps (1956-Remastered), The Age of Innocence (1934), and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956-Remastered). Visit the link below for more information:
New On DVD

Parting Words

Coming up next week: Updated tributes to Rod Steiger, Charlie Chaplin and William Holden, plus our annual salute to Easter and Passover movies.

Brad Lang
Classic Movies
http://www.classicmovies.org

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