World champion trick skater Phil Taylor jumps over daughter, Megan, 1930

Everybody is wearing their #SundayBest outfits today.

Yet another weird Olympic sport emerges

Folding a fitted sheet is harder than it looks

Jack demonstrates how to fold a wrestler like he's a fitted sheet.

scrapbook page with images from Faust

The Flying Gaonas trapeze troupe

Lee Marvin #BOTD in Cat Ballou (1965)

It's hard to keep up with all of these new Olympic Sports

Merle Oberon #BOTD is losing her head over this entourage of Antique Superheroes

There's a new sensation A fabulous creation A danceable solution To teenage revolution

George is humilated by another loss at arm wrestling to Martha

John Hubbard, Willie Best, and Adolphe Menjou Road Show (1941)

Adolphe Menjou in The Great Lover (1931)

Les Frères Jacques postcard signed by all four members

Adolphe Menjou #BOTD as Kismet in Man Alive (1945)

Vicky and Brenda let their husbands wear the fancy costumes today

Meanwhile, in an undisclosed location....

Alan Bates #BOTD as Petruchio in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of 'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1973)

If I Were King Of The Forest -not queen, not duke, not prince My regal robes of the forest would be satin, not cotton, not chintz I'd command each thing, be it fish or fowl, with a woof and a woof, and a royal growl! #MardiGras

Waiter, set down that skewer and fetch us some delcious pancakes! #PancakeDay

Jack Dempsey sparring with Panama Joe Gans

Sonny Bono #BOTD

One more day until Mardi Gras

They say it's your birthday We're gonna have a good time I'm glad it's your birthday Happy birthday to you www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhdO...

Harvey Korman #BOTD, second from right, in a 1968 skit on “The Carol Burnett Show,” in which some shapely legs — and then their owners — are revealed to the audience. From left, Betty Grable, Martha Raye, Jackie Gregory, Lyle Waggoner, Korman and Burnett.

Who's the leader of the club That's made for you and me? H-A-R-V-E-Y K-O-R-M-A-N

John Barrymore was such a big star that he got two birthdays. Happy birthday again, Mr. Barrymore!

Mr. Benny, Juliet is in *the other* play!

John Barrymore let out a sigh, as he agreed to admire Reginald Denny's airplane for the twentieth time.

#ValentinesDay Benny Hill as Cupid

John Barrymore #BOTD in Don Juan (1926)

Jack Benny #BOTD "To Be or Not to Be" (1942)

Kyrle Bellew as Hamlet, ca 1875-1880

Robin Hood themed Mardi Gras revelers ca 1960, color 35mm slide

Oliver Reed #BOTD and Jack Gwillim in Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)

William Shatner harps for the brooding Brutus, Lorne Greene #BOTD Julius Caesar, Stratford, Ontario, 1955.

Franco Zeffirelli #BOTD directing Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Flyer down in the center ring!

Anna Pavlova #BOTD performing The Fairy Doll at Covent Garden, 1925

Would you like to swing on a star?

Man overboard!

Argh, ye scurvy buckos!

Grown men with tears in their eyes would gather around the old prospector to hear the tales of how he fought off the invading army in his long johns, with nothing but a big metal spoon and his opium pipe.

Viktor Yarmenko 1991

Countdown to Mardi Gras

This looks like a job for Super Nose!