100th BIRTHDAY

Claire Trevor

AMERICAN ACTRESS

• BORN: March 8, 1910, New York City, New York
• DIED: April 8, 2000, Newport Beach, California
• CAUSE OF DEATH: Respiratory ailments
• BURIAL: Ashes scattered at sea

Click below to watch Claire Trevor in a scene from Dead End (1937)

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100th BIRTHDAY

David Niven

British-born Actor

• BORN: March 1, 1910, London, England
• DIED: July 29, 1983, Château-d’Oex, Switzerland
• CAUSE OF DEATH: Lou Gehrig’s disease
• BURIAL: Château-d’Oex Cemetery, Château-d’Oex, Switzerland

Click below to see David Niven in The Bishop’s Wife (1947)

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100th BIRTHDAY

Joan Bennett

AMERICAN ACTRESS

• BORN: February 27, 1910, Palisades, New Jersey
• DIED: December 7, 1990, Scarsdale, New York
• CAUSE OF DEATH: Heart attack
• B URIAL: Pleasant View Cemetery, Lyme, Connecticut

Click below to watch Joan Bennett in a scene from “Scarlet Street” (1945) 

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100th BIRTHDAY

Dorothy Janis

AMERICAN ACTRESS

BORN: February 19, 1910, Dallas, Texas

Currently living in Arizona

Click below to watch Dorothy Janis and Ramon Novarro in a scene from “The Pagan” (1929)

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100th BIRTHDAY

Michael Kanin

Kanin won an Oscar (along with his wife Fay Kanin) for

Best Screenplay for “Woman of the Year” (1942) 

AMERICAN SCREENWRITER

• BORN: February 1, 1910, Rochester, New York
• DIED: March 12, 1993, Los Angeles, California
• CAUSE OF DEATH: Unknown
• BURIAL: Hollywood Forever Cemetery, New Beth Olam, Corr T-J-1-3, Crypt 4762

Click below to see the trailer for “Woman of the Year”

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100th BIRTHDAY

Irene Sharaff

AMERICAN COSTUME DESIGNER

• BORN: January 23, 1910, Boston, Massachusetts
• DIED: Auguts 10, 1993, New York City, New York
• CAUSE OF DEATH: Unknown
• BURIAL: Unknown

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100th BIRTHDAY

Dizzy Dean

AMERICAN BASEBALL PLAYER

• BORN: January 16, 1910, Lucas, Arkansas
• DIED: July 17, 1974, Reno, Nevada
• CAUSE OF DEATH: Heart attack
• BURIAL: Bond Cemetery,  Bond, Mississippi

Click below to see Dizzy Dean pitch

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100th BIRTHDAY

Luise Rainer

GERMAN-BORN ACTRESS

BORN: January 12, 1910, Dusseldorf, Germany

Currently living in London 

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Click below to see Luise Rainer as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

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100th BIRTHDAY

Patsy Kelly

AMERICAN ACTRESS

• BORN: January 12, 1910, Brooklyn, New York
• DIED: September 24, 1981, Woodland Hills, California
• CAUSE OF DEATH: Cancer
• BURIAL: Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, New York, New York

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Click below to see Patsy Kelly in a scene from “There Goes My Heart” (1938)

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100th BIRTHDAY

Richard Cromwell

AMERICAN ACTOR

né LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh

• BORN: January 8, 1910, Los Angeles, California
• DIED: October 11, 1960, Hollywood, California
• CAUSE OF DEATH: Liver cancer
• BURIAL: Santa Ana Cemetery, Santa Ana, California – Plot: Section P, Lot 7, Space 17

Click below for duel scene from “Jezebel” (1938) between Richard Cromwell and George Brent’s characters

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