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Alec Guinness was born Alec Guinness de Cuffe in London, England in 1914 (his mother was unwed, and "de Cuffe" was his mom's maiden name). After a brief career in advertising, he became a stage actor at 22, starting in John Gielgud's Hamlet as Osric. In 1938, he played the lead in Hamlet, and in 1939 he played Romeo. He played many other Shakespearean roles, and was Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations in 1939. Alec was a seaman in the Navy from 1941 to 1945. After the war he did more stage work, in both secondary and lead roles, opposite the top English actors of the day. After his movie role in Great Expectations in 1946 (where he repeated his stage role), he was a memorable Fagin in Oliver Twist. In 1949, he played eight different characters in the wonderful black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, and he followed with a string of truly great performances, including The Lavender Hill Mob (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), The Man in the White Suit and The Ladykillers in 1955. In 1957, he played the lead in The Bridge On The River Kwai (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), in a truly amazing performance. He played important roles in several epic pictures that followed, including Lawrence of Arabia, The Fall of the Roman Empire and Doctor Zhivago. He played the role of the blind butler in the silly Murder by Death. While making Murder by Death, he read the script for George Lucas' Star Wars. He didn't want to do the movie, but Lucas badly wanted a major star, and he offered Guiness $150,000 plus 2% of profits, and Guinness agreed, and became Obi-Wan Kenobi (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), but with the stipulation his character would die before the end of the movie, so he would not have to appear in the inevitable sequels (which he actually did appear in)! In 1988, he starred in Little Dorrit (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), and he continued acting until 1996, and he passed away in 2000 at the age of 86. He is surely one of the very finest actors ever, and he left behind a truly remarkable body of work! AND Sandy Dennis was born Sandra Dale Dennis in Hastings, Nebraska in 1937. She went to high school with Dick Cavett, and was in some community theater, and moved to New York to become an actress when she was just 19. She studied under Uta Hagen at the Actor's Studio, and got a part in the TV soap opera The Guiding Light. The following year she got an understudy role on Broadway in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and appeared in the show when it went on tour. After a few more stage roles, she made her film debut in Splendor in the Grass, playing an important role. But she did not parlay this success into more films, and instead went back to Broadway for five years! She found major success as the social worker in A Thousand Clowns, winning the Tony Award. In 1966, she returned to the movies in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, where she and George Segal managed to hold their own against the harrowing Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and both Dennis and Taylor won Oscars (hard luck Burton did not win only because he was up against Paul Scofield in his once-in-a-lifetime performance in A Man For All Seasons). This time Dennis stayed with movies, but her choices were quirky and not very commercial. She made Up the Down Staircase (intended to be like To Sir With Love, which came out that same year, but Dennis did not play the teacher in a very upbeat way at all), The Fox (where she played a lesbian, a formerly taboo subject in mainstream movies), Sweet November (the ultimate "odd couple" romance), That Cold Day in the Park (perhaps Robert Altman's oddest movie, and that's saying a lot), and others. She finally made a mainstream movie in 1970, Neil Simon's The Out of Towners (opposite Jack Lemmon), but true to form she immediately returned to quirky odd movies and more stage acting. She lived with jazz musician Gerry Mulligan (who was ten years older than her) for a decade, and a few years after they broke up she lived with Eric Roberts (who was 19 years younger than her) for five years. She never married, and had no children, and for the last seven years of her life she lived alone, with 30 or more cats, resembling one of the neurotic characters she played, and she passed away in 1992, at just 54. No one could deny that Sandy Dennis was a superb actress, but she had zero sex appeal (even in her romantic roles!), and her neurotic ways of performing (one wondered if she was acting or if that was who she really was!) made her a polarizing figure, with some liking her very much and others finding her outright repellant. She played quirky intensely neurotic characters perfectly, but none of them were very likable at all! AND Carol Channing was an actress and comedienne from the 1950s to the 1990s. Some of her movies include: Thoroughly Modern Millie (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Thumbelina, and Edie & Pen. She passed away in 2019 at the age of 97 AND Bert Lahr was an actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. He is best known for his portrayal of the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. Some of his other movies include: Montague the Magnificent, Josette, Always Leave them Laughing, The Second Greatest Sex, and The Night They Raided Minsky's. He passed away in 1967 at the age of 72.

Important Added Info: Note that this news photo has a faint New York Times stamp on the back, and it has printed information indicating that it was taken at the 1964 Tony Awards ceremony, and these four actors are shown each holding their Tony Award!

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