{"id":4004,"date":"2025-01-03T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2025-01-30T13:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:31:59","slug":"happy-birthday-ray-milland-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/01\/happy-birthday-ray-milland-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Ray Milland!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">January 3, 1907 \u2013 March 10, 1986<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born Alfred Reginald Jones in Glamorgan, Wales; Mr. Milland enjoyed a long film career that stretched from 1929 to 1985. He may be best remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945), or as the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1954) but it is his starring role as Dr. Xavier in the 1963 film directed by Roger Corman \u2013 X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES, and as Harry Flexner in 1973\u2019s TERROR IN THE WAX MUSEUM, that secures his status among the esteemed CDF Alumni.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-960\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ray-Milland_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Milland photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ray-Milland_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ray-Milland_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ray-Milland_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ray-Milland_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ray-Milland_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 3, 1907 \u2013 March 10, 1986 Born Alfred Reginald Jones in Glamorgan, Wales; Mr. Milland enjoyed a long film career that stretched from 1929 to 1985. He may be best remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945), or as the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,15,7,5,6,349,351,350],"class_list":["post-4004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-raymilland","tag-terrorinthewaxmuseum","tag-xthemanwiththexrayeyes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ray-Milland_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4005,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions\/4005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}