Actress Evelyn Ankers was #BornOnThisDay Aug. 17, 1918. Remembered for her film roles during the 1940s; The Wolf Man (1941), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Son of Dracula (1943) & Weird Woman (1944). Passed in 1985 (age 67) from #cancer #RIP #gonetoosoon #BOTD #HorrorCommunity

Actor Glenn Corbett was #BornOnThisDay, August 17, 1933. Known for his role in the #horror film, Homicidal (1961) & TV's #StarTrek episode "Metamorphosis" (1967) & his role on TV's #Dallas (1983–84, 1986–90). Passed 1993 (age 59) battling #lungcancer #RIP #GoneTooSoon #hunk #BOTD

Actor Wesley Eure was #BornOnThisDay August 17, 1951. Best known for his role in the TV daytime series, Land of the Lost (1974-'76) & Days of Our Lives (1974-'81) & for 3 films in 1978, C.H.O.M.P.S., The Toolbox Murders & Jennifer. BEST #birthday 74 years YOUNG #hunk #BOTD #LGBTQ

Actress, screenwriter, & playwright Mae West was #BornOnThisDay, Aug. 17, 1893. Known for her sexual freedom, her career spanned 7 decades, 1st vaudeville, then on the NYC stage & later Hollywood films, where she gained worldwide fame. Passed in 1980 (age 87) from a #stroke. #RIP

Actor Jack Pickford was #BornOnThisDay Aug. 18, 1896. The younger brother of Mary Pickford & also a top film star, by the late 1920s his career declined due to ongoing battles with alcohol, drugs & depression. Passed in 1933 (age 36) from neuritis & #alcoholism #RIP #GoneTooSoon

Actor Jesse Pearson was #BornOnThisDay Aug. 18, 1930. Known as "Birdie" in the 1963 film, Bye Bye Birdie. Worked as a TV actor but secretly wrote & directed 2 adult films, Pro-Ball Cheerleader (1979) & Legend of Lady Blue (1978). Passed in 1979 (age 49) #cancer #RIP #GoneTooSoon

Actor Byron Barr was #BornOnThisDay Aug. 18, 1917. Remembered for his film role as "Nino Zachetti" in Double Indemnity (1944) also the films Seven Were Saved (1947) & his only lead role, Tokyo Rose (1946). Passed in 1966 (age 49) cause of death remains unknown. #RIP #GoneTooSoon

Actor Grant Williams was #BornOnThisDay Aug. 18, 1931. Remembered for his lead role in the sci-fi film, The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) & on TV's Hawaiian Eye (1960-'63) & starred in the film, Brain of Blood (1972). Passed in 1985 (age 53) from #peritonitis #RIP #GoneTooSoon

Actress Gail Fisher was #BornOnThisDay, Aug. 18, 1935. She was one of the 1st black women to play a substantive role on TV & the 1st to win an Emmy Award. Remembered for her role on the TV series Mannix (1968-'75). Passed in 2000 (aged 65) from kidney failure. #RIP #GoneTooSoon

Actor Patrick Swayze was #BornOnThisDay, Aug. 18, 1952. Films, The Outsiders (1989), Dirty Dancing (1987), Ghost (1990),To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995). Once sober, he spoke of his battles with alcoholism, passed in 2009 (age 57). #Cancer #RIP #GoneTooSoon

Actress Shelley Winters was #BornOnThisDay Aug 18, 1920. Film,TV & stage roles spanned 7 decades, film roles; A Place in the Sun (1951) The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), Lolita (1962), A Patch of Blue (1965) & The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Passed in 2006 (age 85) #heartattack #RIP

Actress Olga Baklanova was #BornOnThisDay, August 19, 1893. Remembered for her film role as "Cleopatra" in Tod Browning's #cult #horror movie Freaks (1932), which features a cast of actual carnival sideshow . performers. Battling #Alzheimer's disease, passed in 1974 (age 81) #RIP

Actress Marie Wilson was #BornOnThisDay, August 19, 1916. Appeared in numerous films during the 1930s & 1940s but is remembered as the title character in the film (1949), radio (1947-54) & TV show My Friend Irma (1952-'54). Passed in 1972 (age 56) from #cancer. #RIP #GoneTooSoon

Actress Constance Worth was #BornOnThisDay Aug. 19, 1911. Australian actress, then Hollywood star in late 1930s. Stardom dropped to bit-parts & in 1942 she was "discovered" working as a waitress, leads followed then fell to bits, passed in 1963 (age 53) anemia #RIP #GoneTooSoon

Film star Colleen Moore was #BornOnThisDay, August 19, 1899. A major silent film star she, later was an investor in the stock market with Merrill Lynch & designed & curated her own "Dollhouse", on exhibit in Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry. Passed in 1988 (age 88) #RIP

Film & TV actress Jill St. John was #BornOnThisDay, August 19, 1940. Having appeared in numerous films & on TV she is best known for her film role as "Tiffany Case", the 1st American Bond girl in Diamonds Are Forever (1971), also wed to Robert Wanger #birthday 85 yrs YOUNG #BOTD

Singer, songwriter, composer & actor Isaac Hayes was #BornOnThisDay, Aug. 20, 1942. He released his 1st solo album in 1968 & his 1972 soundtrack to the movie Shaft went platinum & the single "Theme From Shaft" won both an Oscar & a Grammy Award. Passed 2008 (age 65) stroke #RIP

Actor & voice over artist Alan Reed was #BornOnThisDay, Aug. 20, 1907. Known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones (1960-'66) & various spinoff series. A heavy smoker, battling emphysema he passed in 1977 (age 69) from a heart attack. #RIP #GoneTooSoon #BOTD

Actress & author Jacqueline Susann was #BornOnThisDay August 20, 1918. Originally an actress, she later wrote her 1st novel, Valley of the Dolls (1966), which was 1 of the best-selling books in publishing history. Passed in 1974 (age 56) from #lungcancer. #RIP #GoneTooSoon #BOTD

Sending YOU all my sincere thanks on my #birthday, Aug. 20th, for your ongoing reciprocation; for the famous, the infamous, & those now forgotten who were #BornOnThisDay. Your daily responses are important & I am most grateful for your likes, humor & insightful comments. Dr. Buzz