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Armour and Company Ad - February 1943 1941: In a radio broadcast, Churchill warns Bulgaria against joining the Tripartite pact. 1941: Admiral Darlan becomes Vichy Vice-Premier. 1941: British troops occupy El Agheila, 500 miles inside Libya. *Lillian Cornell 1942: Chiang Kai-shek meets with Sir Stafford Cripps, the British viceroy in India. 1942: By dawn the Japanese 5th and 18th Divisions have firmly established themselves on the island and begin to advance south-east towards Singapore city. 1943: The Red Army captures Belgorod. (READ NY TIMES ARTICLE) 1943: The World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an American victory over Japanese forces. Lillian Cornell 1944: The Allies begin a bombing campaign against the French railway system in an attempt to disrupt the enemys reinforcement plans during the forthcoming invasion of Europe. 1944: The Germans capture Aprilia in the Anzio beachhead. Lillian Cornell 1945: British and Canadians troops smash the first of the main Siegfried Line defence zones. The last Rhine bridge is blown in the Colmar Pocket. Half the German Nineteenth Army were evacuated, but General De Lattre's forces have taken 22,000 German prisoners since the 20th January. 1945: The Red Army encircles Elbing and Posen. Lillian Cornell *Lillian Cornell (born June 2, 1918) is a singer who appeared in supporting roles in Paramount and Universal musicals during the early 1940s.

SSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I'm trying to sleep here! Damn loud kids, probably on my snow covered lawn too. Maybe they'll get stuck and freeze to death! Serve 'em right the little noisy bastages!!!

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Morning. Snowing. Nuff said. Hell has frozen over. The New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl.

Camel Cigarette Ad - February 1942 1941: The House of Representatives passes H.R. 1776 (Lend-Lease) by a vote of 260 to 165. 1941: Laval declines Petain’s offer of Cabinet seat in the Vichy Government. 1941: Force H from Malta bombards Genoa, without hindrance from the Italian Navy or Air force. 1941: The first convoy of the newly formed Afrika Korps under the command of Lieutenant General Rommel leaves Naples for Tripoli in Libya. *Monica Lewis 1942: The Soviet North West Front finally cut all land communication for 90,000 troops of the German 2nd and 10th Corps at Demyansk, as the 11th and 1st Shock Armies link up on the river Lovat, about 25 miles to the west of Demyansk. 1942: The Japanese land on the western side of Singapore Island, encountering only minimal resistance. Monica Lewis 1943: The Russians take Kursk and continue their advance. 1943: British-Indian forces led by British General Orde Wingate begin guerrilla operations against Japanese in Burma. 1943: Japanese complete their evacuation of Guadalcanal. Monica Lewis 1944: The RAF uses a massive 12,000b bomb ‘Tall-Boy’, in a raid on the Gnôme-et-Rhône works in Limoges. 1944: Plans for invasion of France, Operation 'Overlord' are confirmed. 1944: The Russians capture of Nikopol. The surrounded German forces in the Korsun pocket are invited to surrender by the Russians. 1944: The Australians complete the occupation of the Huon Peninsula in New Guinea. Monica Lewis 1945: UK civilian war casualties up to September 1944 are reported as 57,468 killed and 89,178 injured. 1945: Generalmajor Karl Marthinsen, the head of the State Police is assassinated in his car at Blindernveien, Oslo by the resistance movement, Milorg. The Germans execute 29 Norwegians in retaliation. Monica Lewis 1945: 50,000 British and Canadians troops with 500 tanks and 1,034 guns launch a new offensive into the Reichswald, to the Southeast of Nijmegen. 1945: Konev breaks out of his Oder bridgehead north of Breslau, with six armies. 1945: Paraguay declares war on Germany. Monica Lewis *Monica Lewis was born May 5, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois. She started her career as a radio personality and vocalist in New York City and quickly signed to Decca and later Capitol Records, recording hit renditions of songs like "Autumn Leaves," "People Will Say We're in Love," and "A Tree in the Meadow." Lewis also appeared in the very first episode of The Ed Sullivan Show, in its initial run as Toast of the Town. Contracted to MGM, she had a brief film career in the 1950s, starring in a series of ill-received musicals. She had a supporting role in the 1957 Jack Webb movie, "The DI". For almost two decades, Monica Lewis was a certified pop music and pop culture phenomenon - the rhapsodic vocal essence of the Jazz Age. She was the idealized, wholesomely sexy sound and image of apple-pie America, lending a melodious voice of hope to thousands of U.S. troops through two of the 20th century's greatest wars. She was the magazine cover girl with the mile-wide smile and the ad world's Most Wanted with the million-dollar legs. On the screen, she was Hollywood's top second banana - galvanizing legendary actors with her sass, brass, song and dance while posing a blonde, bodacious threat to Lana Turner. On the airwaves, she was the undisputed Banana Numero Uno, singing her way into TV and radio history as the oh-so-a-peelin' cartoon persona of the venerable Chiquita label. Monica eagerly volunteered her talent for the war effort, becoming the darling of U.S. servicemen worldwide through the war bond drive, military radio broadcasts and a 1951 USO tour of South Korea with celebrated entertainer Danny Kaye. Back at home she delighted the masses as a chart-topping jukebox chanteuse and Burlington Mills hosiery's "Miss Leg-O-Genic." Glamorous gams aside, she was the advertising world's favorite face: Piel's Light Beer, Camel Cigarettes, and General Electric were among the many major companies which sold their products with Monica's visage. Her 14 years as the (Watch Video-YouTube) was as unforgettable as it was unprecedented. Lewis was married to film producer Jennings Lang from 1956 through his death in 1996, with whom she had three children. Her marriage to Lang afforded her a number of supporting roles and cameos in disaster films of the 1970s, including roles in the Lang-produced disaster films, Earthquake, Airport '77, Rollercoaster and The Concorde: Airport '79.

That old Priest died between two assholes too!

Morning. 20F with a high of 27F and cloudy. Snow later tonight through Tuesday. 4-8 inches are now being forecast.

US Army Recruiting Service Ad - February 1942 1941: The Italian troops stay between Agedabia and El-Agheila. 1941: General Graziani ask Mussolini for substitution as a commander of the Italian forces at North Africa, and as Libyan Governor. Adele Jergens 1942: After just over 2 weeks of frenetic action, Rommel's counter-offensive comes to a halt in front of the Gazala line, a series of self supporting fortified boxes running south from Gazala for a 100 miles to Bir Hacheim. Although not complete, it presents too much of an obstacle for the Afrika Korps who by this time are running low on fuel and reserves. 1942: Malta has 17 air raid alerts in a span of 24 hours. 1942: Lt. General Percival, the commander at Singapore, says city will be held to the last man. The Japanese launch a feint landing on Pulua Ubin Island to the east of Singapore. 1943: The government announced that shoe rationing would go into effect in two days, limiting each purchaser to three pairs for the remainder of the year. 1944: The first operational ‘Schnorkel’ U-boat arrives in the Atlantic. 1944: The Germans begin a full-scale counter-attack against the Anzio Beachhead. They hoped to push the Allies back into the sea. 1945: The Germans blow up the floodgates in the Ruhr, flooding the area West of Cologne and preventing the use of assault floating bridges by Allies. 1945: Russian attacks north of Königsberg are blocked with the help of naval gunfire by the cruisers Scheer and Lützow. *Born in Brooklyn on November 26, 1917 (some sources cite 1919 and 1922), beautiful Adele Jergens first rose to prominence in the late 1930s, when she was named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 World's Fair, held in New York. After a few years of working as a model and chorus girl, Jergens landed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1944. One of the first changes Columbia made was to bleach Jergens' brunette hair blond. The Bottle-blonde bombshell of 1940s and 1950s "B" films who gained entry into Hollywood via the modeling and chorus girl venues. She typically played hardcore floozies, burlesque dancers, and the like. Went on to TV and played sexy foils to Red Skelton, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, among others. After a few small roles, Jergens landed a starring role in the 1945 film A Thousand and One Nights opposite Cornel Wilde. The studio tended to cast her in comedies such as The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947); The Fuller Brush Man (1948); and Beware of Blondie (1950; with Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton). In 1949, she met and married actor Glenn Langan (The Amazing Colossal Man). They remained married until his death in 1991. Their only child, actor Tracy Langan, predeceased his mother. Adele Jergens passed away on November 22nd 2002 in Camarillo, California, at the age of 84 from natural causes.

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Morning all. Cloudy and 25F with 15F windchill. We ended up with no new snow yesterday. Just a short period of flurries. Most of the snow stayed south and east of Cedar Rapids. Snow possible Monday and Tuesday.

Rita Hayworth RC Cola Ad - 1946 1940: The Finnish 9th Division finally manages to encircle the Russian 54th Division in Kuhmo. 1941: House of Commons vote for war credits of £1,600,000,000. *Rita Hayworth 1941: Hitler makes one last appeal to the Spanish leader, General Franco, to enter the war. 1941: The Bishops of Norway start the Church’s struggle against the occupying German forces. Rita Hayworth 1941: Australian forces capture Benghazi along with six senior Italian Generals. Italian forces make repeated attempts to break through the weak British blocking forces at Beda Fomm, but cannot. 1941: Adolf Hitler sends Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to North Africa to help the Italian forces. Rita Hayworth 1942: The British are pushed back to Gazala. The British Commonwealth forces lose 40 tanks, 40 field guns and 1,400 troops. This was a disaster for the Allies in more ways than one. Now the Allied convoys to Malta must pass between Axis occupied Crete and Axis airfields in Benghazi. 1943: Russians cut off Army Group A by reaching Yeysk on the Sea of Rostov. 1943: The Americans outflank the retreating Japanese on Guadalcanal. Rita Hayworth 1944: The Japanese pressure in Arakan forces the British to retreat. 1944: Kwajalein Island in the Central Pacific falls to U.S. Army troops. Rita Hayworth 1945: The 1st Belorussian Front makes further advances to reach the Oder between Küstrin and Frankfurt. 1945: General MacArthur announced the imminent recapture of Manila while his staff planned a victory parade. But the battle for Manila had barely begun. Rita Hayworth *Margarita Carmen Cansino was born in New York on October 17, 1918 into a family of dancers. Her father, Eduardo was a dancer as was his father before him. He immigrated from Spain in 1913. Rita's mother met Eduardo in 1916 and were married the following year. Rita, herself, was trained as a dancer in order to follow in her family's footsteps. She joined her family on stage when she was 8 when her family was filmed in a movie called La fiesta (1926) (aka La Fiesta). It was her first film appearance, albeit uncredited, but by no means was it to be her last. Rita was seen dancing by a Fox executive and was impressed enough to offer her a contract. Rita's "second" debut was in the film Cruz Diablo (1934) at the age of 16. She continued to play small bit parts in several films under the name of "Rita Cansino" until she played the second female lead in Only Angels Have Wings (1939) when she played "Judy McPherson". By this time, she was at Columbia where she was getting top billing but it was the Warner Brothers film The Strawberry Blonde (1941) that seemed to set her apart from the rest of what she had previously done. This was the film that exuded the warmth and seductive vitality that was to make her famous. Her natural, raw beauty was showcased later that year in Blood and Sand (1941) filmed in Technicolor. She was probably the second most popular actress after Betty Grable. In You'll Never Get Rich (1941) with Fred Astaire, in 1941, was probably the film that moviegoers felt close to Rita. Her dancing, for which she had trained all her life, was astounding. After the hit Gilda (1946), her career was on the skids. Although she was still making movies, they never approached her earlier work. The drought began between The Lady from Shanghai (1947) and Champagne Safari (1952). Then after Salome (1953), she was not seen again until Pal Joey (1957). Part of the reasons for the downward spiral was television, but also Rita had been replaced by the new star at Columbia, Kim Novak. After a few, rather forgettable films in the 1960s, her career was essentially over. Her final film was The Wrath of God (1972). Her career was really never the same after Gilda (1946). Her dancing had made the film and had made her. Perhaps Gene Ringgold said it best when he remarked, "Rita Hayworth is not an actress of great depth. She was a dancer, a glamorous personality and a sex symbol. These qualities are such that they can carry her no further professionally". Perhaps he was right but Hayworth fans would vehemently disagree with him. Rita, herself, said, "Every man I have known has fallen in love with Gilda and wakened with me". By 1980, Rita was wracked with Alzheimer's Disease. It ravaged her so, that she finally died on May 14, 1987 in New York City. She was 68.

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Wouldn't it be nice if whenever we messed up our life we could simply press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start all over? Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they can in prison? Why do I have to swear on the Bible in court when the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed outside? Bumper Sticker of the Year: 'If you can read this, thank a teacher -and, since it's in English, thank a soldier' And remember: Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with 'Guess' on it. So I said 'Implants?' She hit me.. How come we choose from just two people to run for president and over fifty for Miss America? Now that food has replaced sex in my life, I can't even get into my own pants. I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose fitting clothing. If I HAD any loose fitting clothing, I wouldn't have signed up in the first place! When I was young we used to go 'skinny dipping,' now I just 'chunky dunk.' Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference. Wouldn't you know it.... Brain cells come and brain cells go, but FAT cells live forever.

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Morning. 29F with a high of 32F. Snow today, though prediction reduced to 2 inches or less.

Baron Mannerheim (READ ARTICLE) 1940: British and French governments agree to land an expeditionary force in northern Norway without regard for Norway's neutrality in order to aide Finland, although in eventuality was never carried out. 1941: Adolf Hitler writes to Mussolini. In the letter goes is satisfaction for the work of the Italian officers at command operations in North Africa and he offers his help with one division with the condition of the Italian troops not to retreat to Tripoli. Airesearch Ad - February 1942 1941: An advanced column of armoured cars from the 7th Armoured Division intercept the Italian retreat about 70 miles south of Benghazi. 1943: Mussolini sacks his son-in-law, Count Ciano from Foreign Ministry and takes control himself. Hedy Lamarr 1944: U.S. troops reach the outskirts of Cassino, but are repulsed. 1944: The ‘Chindits’ begin moving towards Indaw, 100 miles behind the Japanese lines in Burma. 1945: RAF balloon command to be disbanded as the air raid threat lessens. 278 V1's have been claimed by balloons. Hedy Lamarr 1945: Red Army troops approach Elbing and Marienburg in East Prussia. 1945: MacArthur orders a containment in the northern Philippines, as the main effort is directed to the capture of Manila. 1945: The Australians land on the Japanese stronghold of New Britain, East of New Guinea. Hedy Lamarr *Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria-Hungary on November 9, 1914, to Jewish parents Gertrud (née Lichtwitz), a pianist and Budapest native who came from the "Jewish haute bourgeoisie", and Lemberg-born Emil Kiesler, a successful bank director. She studied ballet and piano at age 10. When she worked with Max Reinhardt in Berlin, he called her the "most beautiful woman in Europe". Soon the teenage girl played major roles in German movies, alongside stars like Heinz Rühmann and Hans Moser. In early 1933 she starred in Gustav Machatý's notorious film Ecstasy, a Czechoslovak film made in Prague, in which she played the love-hungry young wife of an indifferent old husband. Closeups of her face in orgasm, and long shots of her running nude through the woods, gave the film notoriety. On 10 August 1933 she married Friedrich Mandl, a Vienna-based arms manufacturer 13 years her senior. In her autobiography Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr described Mandl as an extremely controlling man who sometimes tried to keep her shut up in their mansion. The Austrian fascist bought up as many copies of the film as he could possibly find, as he objected to her nudity and "the expression on her face". (Lamarr later claimed the looks of passion were the result of the director poking her in the bottom with a safety pin.) Mandl prevented her from pursuing her acting career, and instead took her to meetings with technicians and business partners. In these meetings, the mathematically-talented Lamarr learned about military technology. Otherwise she had to stay at Castle Schwarzenau. She later related that, even though Mandl was part-Jewish, he was consorting with Nazi industrialists, which infuriated her. In Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr wrote that fascist dictators Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler both attended Mandl's grand parties. She related that in 1937 she disguised herself as one of her maids and fled to Paris, where she obtained a divorce, then moved on to London. According to another version of the episode, she persuaded Mandl to allow her to attend a party wearing all her expensive jewelry, later drugged him with the help of her maid, and made her escape out of the country with the jewelry. First she went to Paris, then met Louis B. Mayer in London. After he hired her, at his insistence, she changed her name to Hedy Lamarr, choosing the surname in homage to a beautiful film star of the silent era, Barbara La Marr, who had died in 1926 from a drug overdose. She made 18 films from 1940 to 1949 even though she had two children during that time (in 1945 and 1947). She left MGM in 1945; Lamarr enjoyed her biggest success as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1949, with Victor Mature as the Biblical strongman. However, following her comedic turn opposite Bob Hope in My Favorite Spy (1951), her career went into decline. She appeared only sporadically in films after 1950, one of her last roles being that of Joan of Arc in Irwin Allen's critically panned epic The Story of Mankind (1957). The publication of her autobiography Ecstasy and Me (1967) took place about a year after accusations of shoplifting, and a year after Andy Warhol's short film Hedy (1966), also known as The Shoplifter. The controversy surrounding the shoplifting charges coincided with an aborted return to the screen in Picture Mommy Dead (1966). The role was ultimately filled by Zsa Zsa Gabor. In the ensuing years, Lamarr retreated from public life, and settled in Florida. She returned to the headlines in 1991 when the 78 year old former actress was again accused of shoplifting, although charges were eventually dropped. Lamarr became a naturalized citizen of the United States on April 10, 1953. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Hedy Lamarr has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6247 Hollywood Blvd. Lamarr died in Altamonte Springs, Florida (near Orlando) on January 19, 2000. Her son Anthony Loder took her ashes back to Austria and spread them in the Wienerwald forest, in accordance with her wishes. Frequency-hopping Spread-spectrum Invention Avant garde composer George Antheil, a son of German immigrants and neighbor of Lamarr, had experimented with automated control of musical instruments, including his music for Ballet Mecanique, originally written for Fernand Léger's 1924 abstract film. This score involved multiple player pianos playing simultaneously. Together, Antheil and Lamarr submitted the idea of a secret communication system in June 1941. On August 11, 1942, U.S. Patent 2,292,387 was granted to Antheil and "Hedy Kiesler Markey", Lamarr's married name at the time. This early version of frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam. The idea was ahead of its time, and not feasible owing to the state of mechanical technology in 1942. It was not implemented in the USA until 1962, when it was used by U.S. military ships during a blockade of Cuba after the patent had expired. Perhaps owing to this lag in development, the patent was little-known until 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave Lamarr an award for this contribution. In 1998, Ottawa wireless technology developer Wi-LAN, Inc. "acquired a 49 percent claim to the patent from Lamarr for an undisclosed amount of stock" (Eliza Schmidkunz, Inside GNSS); Antheil had died in 1959. Lamarr's and Antheil's frequency-hopping idea serves as a basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology, such as COFDM used in Wi-Fi network connections and CDMA used in some cordless and wireless telephones. Similar patents had been granted to others earlier, such as in Germany in 1935 to Telefunken engineers Paul Kotowski and Kurt Dannehl who also received U.S. Patent 2,158,662 and U.S. Patent 2,211,132 in 1939 and 1940. Blackwell, Martin and Vernam's Secrecy Communication System patent from 1920 (1598673) does seem to lay the communications groundwork for Kiesler and Antheil's patent which employed the techniques in the autonomous control of torpedoes. Lamarr wanted to join the National Inventors Council, but she was told that she could better help the war effort by using her celebrity status to sell War Bonds. She once raised $7,000,000 at just one event.

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Can we agree to not agree on every frickin' detail of this add-on? There is no way anybody can get the real world modeled exactly into a piece of software. Everyone sees things differently to begin with. Maybe when 3D software and hardware technology advances things will improve. But let's respect each others opinions, be thankful that we STILL have PC game developers working on these projects, and we still have PC flight sim enthusiasts that enjoy these products! Both need each other, or both will cease to be able to continue their job as a developer and as a customer. We now return you to your regularly scheduled progamming...

Morning all. 25F with a high temp of 32F. Snow moving in tonight with 2-3 inches through Friday.

Allison Aircraft Engines Ad - February 1942 1941: The Battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sail from the Baltic to the Atlantic, causing absolute havoc to shipping routes and timetables. 1941: RAF reconnaissance planes report that the Italians are beginning to evacuate Benghazi in a withdrawal towards El Agheila. The 7th Armoured Division is given immediate instructions to advance from Mechili across the desert in order to cut off the Italians escape route. *Anne Jeffreys 1941: The United Service Organization (U.S.O.) is formed to cater to armed forces and defense industries. 1942: The Afrika Korps recaptures Derna. Hahas Pasha forms a new Egyptian Cabinet, becomes the Military Governor and dissolves Parliament the next day. Anne Jeffreys 1942: The British refuse to surrender at Singapore, heavy bombardment by Japanese continues for 4 days. 1943: Red Army troops achieve a landing near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. Anne Jeffreys 1944: The Germans start their offensive to relieve the Korsun pocket. 1944: Chinese advances in Hukawng Valley, continue while the Japanese offensive on Arakan front gains strength in order to push the British back into India. Anne Jeffreys 1944: US forces take Kwajalein Island in Marshall's, losing 486 killed and 1,495 wounded, but inflicting 8,386 casualties on the Japanese. 1945: The U.S. First Army takes the first of seven Ruhr dams. Belgium is now reported as completely free of German troops. Anne Jeffreys 1945: A Summit Conference between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt opens at Yalta in Crimea, to discuss plans for the treatment of postwar Germany, its division into zones of occupation, reparations and the future Polish western border. 1945: U.S. troops storm into Manila. Anne Jeffreys *Anne Jeffreys was born Anne Carmichael on January 26, 1923 in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Firmly managed by her mother, she trained in voice at a fairly early age and received her first break in the entertainment field after signing with the John Robert Powers agency in New York as a junior model. In the interim, she prepared herself for an operatic career and made her debut in a production of "La Boheme" in 1940. The following year, however, Anne won a role in the musical review "Fun for the Money" that was to be staged in Hollywood. This, in turn, led to her first movie role in the tuneful Rodgers & Hart adaptation of I Married an Angel (1942) starring her singing idols Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in their last cinematic pairing. Put under contract respectively by Republic then RKO studios, Anne was utilized as a plucky heroine in a flux of 40s "B" westerns and crimers opposite such stalwarts as Robert Mitchum and Randolph Scott. Also among her roles was the part of Tess Trueheart in the Dick Tracy series with Morgan Conway as the steel-jawed hero, and a co-star role opposite Frank Sinatra in the war-era musical Step Lively (1944). None of these, however, were able to propel her into the "A" ranks and her film career quickly dissipated by the end of the 40s. In the meantime, Anne continued to prod her vocal skills with symphonic and stage appearances including "Tosca" at the Brooklyn Opera House, Kurt Weill's "Street Scene" and the Broadway musical "My Romance". Divorced in 1949, Anne met handsome actor Robert Sterling during an extended run (887 performances) of "Kiss Me Kate" on Broadway. She and Sterling married in 1951 and had three sons. In an attempt to revive their flagging careers, the singing couple toured nighteries and hotels in the early 1950s with a highly successful club act. This led to them being cast as sly, engagingly cavalier spirits in the classic "Topper" (1953) sitcom. Anne played Marion Kirby ("the ghostess with the mostest") alongside Sterling's dapper husband George. Successfully, undertaking the ectoplasmic roles originated on film by Constance Bennett and Cary Grant, the two were an absolute hit as the party-hearty ghosts who reclaim their home to the dismay of current owner Leo G. Carroll. Anne and Robert weren't able to recreate that same kind of magic when they subsequently co-starred in the short-lived series "Love That Jill" (1958). In the 1960s Anne semi-retired to raise her family, but occasionally took on musical leads ("Camelot", "The King and I") both on Broadway and in regional productions. She later returned full time to TV and became known for her chic, gregarious, sometimes double-dealing matrons on soap operas ("Bright Promise" (1969) and "General Hospital" (1972)). She was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her supporting work in "The Delphi Bureau" (1972) adventure series, and appeared occasionally as the mother of David Hasselhoff on "Baywatch" (1989). Unlike her husband, who retired decades ago (he died in 2006), Anne remains a tireless performer past age 80. Still quite a beauty, she has been recognized over the years for her civic and humanitarian efforts.

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