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"To the great, proud people of #Iran I say the hour of your freedom is at hand … when we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations." #Trump

"Seize control of your destiny. Rise up!"

"This is a free country. It just ain't possible for a couple of guys like Joe and me to get a raw deal like this. Our laws are made to protect people like us, not to hurt 'em." #USA

Let Us Live (1939)

2 March 1919 – 2009 Jennifer Jones, (b. Phylis Isley), 90, US actress.

Oscar Song of Bernadette (1943) Oscar nominated: Since You Went Away (1944) * Love Letters * Duel in the Sun * Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

Cluny Brown * Portrait of Jennie * Ruby Gentry * The Towering Inferno (1974)

2 March 1917 – 1967 David Goodis, 49, (Stroke), US author, screenwriter.

Dark Passage (1947) * The Unfaithful (+ screenplay) * The Burglar (+ screenplay) * Nightfall * Shoot the Piano Player * The Burglars * And Hope to Die * Moon in the Gutter * Descente aux enfers * Street of No Return (1989)

2 March 1914 – 1990 Martin Ritt, 76, US director.

Edge of the City (1957) * The Black Orchid * The Long Hot Summer * Hud (OscarNom) * The Spy Who Came in from the Cold * Hombre * Sounder (OscarNom) * Pete 'n' Tillie * The Front * Norma Rae (OscarNom) * Cross Creek * Nuts * Stanley & Iris (1990)

1 March 1954 – Ron Howard, 72, US filmmaker.

Actor: American Graffiti (1973) Happy Days (1974-84)

Grand Theft Auto (1977) Cocoon * Willow * Apollo 13 * How the Grinch Stole Christmas * A Beautiful Mind (Oscars Director + Producer) * Frost/Nixon (Director + Producer OscarNom) * Rush * Genius (2017)

1 March 1934 – 1983 Joan Hackett, 49, (Cancer), US actress

Ben Casey (1962) * The Group * Will Penny * Support Your Local Sheriff * How Awful About Allan * The Last of Sheila * The Terminal Man * Mourning Becomes Electra * Only When I Laugh (OscarNom) * Tales of the Unexpected (TV 1983 'Scrimshaw')

1 March 1927 – 2023 Harry Belafonte, (b. Bellanfanti), 96, US singer, blacklisted actor. Three Grammys, One Emmy, and Tony Award.

Bright Road (1953) * Carmen Jones * Island in the Sun * Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) * Buck and the Preacher (1972) * Kansas City (1996) * Bobby * BlacKkKlansman (2018)

1 March 1910 – 1983 David Niven, 73, English-US actor.

Dodsworth (1936) Wuthering Heights (1939) #WW2 First of the Few * A Matter of Life and Death * The Bishop's Wife (1947) Carrington VC * Around the World in 80 Days * Separate Tables (Oscar) Pink Panther * Casino Royale * Murder by Death (1976)

29 February 1920 – 2016 Michèle Morgan, (b. Simone Roussel), 96, (24 birthdays), French-US actress, singer, artist.

Le Quai des brumes (1938) Passage to Marseille * The Chase * La Symphonie Pastorale * The Fallen Idol * Fabiola * Proud and Beautiful * Les Grandes Manœuvres * Everybody's Fine (1990)

29 February 1896 – 1975 William A. Wellman, 79, US filmmaker. #WW1 pilot (1917–19) Lafayette Flying Corps

Wings (1927) Public Enemy * A Star Is Born * Beau Geste * Roxie Hart * Lady of Burlesque * Ox-Bow Incident * Yellow Sky * Battleground * High and the Mighty * Track of Cat * Blood Alley (1955)

29 February 1940 – For her performance in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel (then age 46), became the first African American to win an #Oscar

Despite her historic win she had to sit at a segregated table, at the back of the hall, in the whites-only venue in LA.
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#HannahSpencer "British #GreenParty politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Gorton and Denton since 26th February 2026 by-election.

She owns four greyhounds she rescued from racing."

27 February 1900 – 2026 British #LabourParty RIP

"Britain is not broken because of migration. Britain is broken because of inequality".

Turnout was high for a By-election 47.62% - only slightly lower than at the 2024 general election, 47.8%.

#HannahSpencer #GreenParty wins with of majority 4,402

28 February 1957 – John Turturro, 69, US actor

Do the Right Thing (1989) Miller's Crossing * Barton Fink * Quiz Show * The Big Lebowski * O Brother, Where Art Thou? * Transformers * The Night Of * Name of the Rose * The Plot Against America * The Jesus Rolls (+ director) Batman * Severance (2022–)

28 February 1928 – 1976, Stanley Baker, 48, Welsh actor, producer.

Knights of the Round Table (1953) * Richard III (as Henry Tudor) * A Hill in Korea * Hell Drivers * Blind Date * The Criminal * Guns of Navarone * Eva * Man Who Finally Died * Zulu * Accident * Robbery * Girl with the Pistol (1968)

"The wealthiest nation in the world is a failure unless it's the healthiest nation in the world. That means the best medical care for the lowest income groups. The American dream is not just making money it's the wellbeing and freedom of the individual throughout the world." (1948) #StateOfTheUnion

Nobel laureates arrive in Stockholm to accept their awards, among them US novelist Paul Newman who formulates a theory that physics prize winner Edward G Robinson has been replaced by an impostor in this Irving Wallace Cold War espionage thriller. (The Prize 1963)

#DianeBaker Happy 88th Birthday 🎂

27 February 1900 – British #LabourParty founded.

Created gradually after laws of 1867 and 1884 giving hundreds of thousands of worker class voting rights, it would take 28 years and further voting rights, particularly for all women over 21 in 1928, for #Labour to become largest party in Parliament.

27 February 1932 – 2011 Elizabeth Taylor, 79, English born US actress, humanitarian

Oscars: BUtterfield 8 (1961) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1967) OscarNom: Raintree County * Cat on a Hot Tin Roof * Suddenly Last Summer (1960)

National Velvet (1944) * A Place in the Sun * Cleopatra (1963)

27 February 1930 – Joanne Woodward, 96, US actress. Paul Newman ​(m. 1958; died 2008)

One Oscar: The Three Faces of Eve (1957) Oscar nominations: Rachel, Rachel (1968) * Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams * Mr & Mrs Bridge (1990)

A Kiss Before Dying (1956) * The Long, Hot Summer * Empire Falls (2005)

27 February 1910 – 1990 Joan Bennett, 80, US actress.

27 February 1932 – 2011 Elizabeth Taylor, 79, English born US actress, humanitarian.

Father of the Bride 1950 and its sequel Father's Little Dividend 1951 (starring Spencer Tracey) in which Joan Bennett played Elizabeth Taylor's Mother.

27 February 1910 – 1990 Joan Bennett, 80, US actress.

27 February 1932 – 2011 Elizabeth Taylor, 79, English born US actress, humanitarian.

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (Joan in 1933 and Elizabeth in 1949, who both played Amy March)

27 February 1910 – 1990 Joan Bennett, 80, US actress

Little Women (1933) Woman on the Beach * Hollow Triumph (The Scar) The Reckless Moment * Father of the Bride * We're No Angels * Dark Shadows * Suspiria (1977)

Fritz Lang's Man Hunt * Woman in the Window * Scarlet Street * Secret Beyond the Door

27 February 1905 – 1968 Franchot Tone, 63, US actor

Marriages: Joan Crawford ​(1935-39)​ Jean Wallace ​(1941-48) Barbara Payton ​(1951-52, d. 1967)​ Dolores Dorn ​(1956-59)

He died of lung cancer in 1968. His first wife Joan Crawford helped in his care, medical expenses, and, arranged his funeral.

27 February 1905 – 1968 Franchot Tone, 63, (Cancer) US actor

Today We Live (1933) The Lives of a Bengal Lancer * Mutiny on the Bounty * Three Comrades * Five Graves to Cairo * Phantom Lady * Dark Waters * Jigsaw * I Love Trouble * The Man on the Eiffel Tower * Advise & Consent * Ben Casey (1965-68)

27 February 1903 – 1980 Reginald Gardiner, 77, English-US actor, singer.

Marie Antoinette (1938) * The Flying Deuces * The Great Dictator * A Yank in the RAF * The Man Who Came to Dinner * Christmas in Connecticut * Cluny Brown * Halls of Montezuma * Androcles and the Lion * Do Not Disturb (1965)

27 February 1902 – 1968 John Steinbeck, 66, US author. Nobel Prize Literature (1962)

Of Mice and Men * The Grapes of Wrath (Pulitzer Prize) * The Moon Is Down * #Hitchcock Lifeboat (Original Screenplay) * The Red Pony (+ screenplay) * East of Eden (1952) * Viva Zapata! (Screenplay) The Wayward Bus

"By the end of his first term #Trump accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency averaging 21 false claims a day. Especially striking is how the tsunami of untruths rose the longer he served and became increasingly unmoored from truth."

#StateOfTheUnion
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"You don't know how to ease our pain. You don't know what that sound is callin'. It's the sound of tears fallin'. You don't know how to play the game. You cheat. You lie. You make me wanna cry."

"CRY ...!"

#Trump #StateOfTheUnion #Gaza #EpsteinTrumpCoverUp
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