Rrrr! Go Juliet! 
The term “Pollyanna” now usually means someone whose optimism is excessive to the point of naivete or refusing to accept the facts of an unfortunate situation.
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Indeed- this is him the year they married.
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The original Disney movie of Pollyanna featured veteran actors Agnes Moorehead, Adolphe Menjou and Jane Wyman; a mostly black cast remake featured Butterfly McQueen, Brock Peters and Phylicia Ayes Allen-Rashad in the same roles.
Brock Peters played a traitorous Starfleet admiral in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, and later played Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks)'s father in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Dale Peters played bass on the James Gang song Funk #49.
Dale Evans was Roy Rogers’s wife, and appeared in many movies with him as a singing cowgirl.
Dale Evans’s horse was named Buttermilk.
Buttermilk’s distinctive taste comes from it being fermented. It was traditionally popular in warm climates such as the American South because it spoiled more slowly than regular milk.
Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States, whose birthday was yesterday, often drank a glass of buttermilk and ate an apple for lunch in the White House.
Abraham Lincoln is claimed by three states: Kentucky (where he was born), Indiana (where he grew up), and Illinois (where he lived as an adult).
Mary Todd Lincoln, a compulsive shopper, purchased more than 1,000 pairs of gloves while First Lady.
Doper Mangetout collects pictures of lost gloves.
In episode 7 of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, entitled “You’re No Fun Anymore”, a giant man-eating blancmange from space attempts to win the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
Henry VIII was one of the first famous tennis enthusiasts; he built a court at Windsor Castle and played the game with Anne Boleyn among other partners.
“Eight Arms to Hold You” was the working title for what became the Beatles film “Help!”.
SOS replaced CQD as the international distress call.
S.O.S Pads, now manufactured by Clorox Corp, were intentionally named with the final period missing, so that the name could be trademarked. The name stands for “Save Our Saucepans”.
Harold Bride and Jack Phillips, the wireless operators for the Titanic, sent both CQD and SOS as distress signals; Phillips died in the sinking but Bride managed to swim to a lifeboat.
Morgan Robertson’s 1898 book Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan depicts a shipwreck with an eerie amount of similarities with the Titanic.
Clash of the Titans has been remade with Sam Worthington as Perseus, Ralph Fiennes as Hades and Liam Neeson as Zeus and is scheduled for an April 1, 2010 release.
In their first season in the American Football League, the New York Jets were called the New York Titans. Their first coach was Hall of Fame quarterback Sammy Baugh.