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This Day in Film History:
September 8

1925:

Peter Sellers is born in Southsea, Hampshire, England.

1965:

Dorothy Dandridge, the first black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award (for 1954's Carmen Jones), commits suicide in Los Angeles.

1977:

The great Zero Mostel succumbs to a heart attack in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.




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