Sugar Ray Leonard is 55, as is Bob Saget.
Jim Nance is 52.
Enya is 50. I confess to sort of liking her sound, but jeez does every song have to sound like every other?
Jane Parker (Tarzan’s Jane) and Mia Farrow’s mom was born on this date in 1911. That’s actress Maureen O’Sullivan.
One of the brightest of ingenues, the actress appeared in more than 60 films, from ”Tugboat Annie” to ”Pride and Prejudice,” starring with everyone from Robert Taylor to the Marx Brothers. But she was always identified with the lovely, legendary Jane, teaching the niceties of civilization and romance to the yowling Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs’s King of the Jungle. It was a notable pairing of opposites.
Her other movie successes included ”The Thin Man,” ”The Barretts of Wimpole Street,” Greta Garbo’s ”Anna Karenina,” ”A Day at the Races,” ”A Yank at Oxford,” ”The Crowd Roars” and ”David Copperfield” (with W. C. Fields).
Horace E. Dodge was born on May 17th in 1868; he should have been built Ford-tough, Dodge died at age 52. With his brother John, the Dodge Brothers supplied early automakers with engines, including Ford and Olds. In 1914, they began building their own vehicles, with a much more modern design. Ford bought out the Dodges, who were partners in the Ford Motor Company, for $25 million. John died in January 1920; Horace in December. Their widows eventually sold to Chrysler.
The New York Stock Exchange was founded on what is now Wall Street on May 17th in 1792.