One of the original 13 colonies, New Jersey achieved statehood on December 18, 1787. To celebrate the anniversary of that event this week’s Friday Foto Follies is dedicated to the Garden State, which got that moniker for being a leading producer of cranberries, blueberries and tomatoes. But the state can also boast having produced great talent in the arts. Here are a few faces from New Jersey you may recognize. In tribute.
New Jersey Born:
Flip Wilson
Lee Van Cleef
Natalie Schafer
Franklin Pangborn
Ozzie Nelson
Thomas Mitchell
Norman Lloyd
Ernie Kovacs
Brian Keith
Michael Douglas
Betsy Blair
Joan Bennett
Jane Wyatt
Roy Scheider
Dorothy Gibson
Dorothea Lange
Norman Mailer
Nelson Riddle
Bruce Springsteen
Ricky Nelson
Sarah Vaughan
John Forsythe
Budd Abbott
Abbott and Costello
Sandra Dee
Lou Costello
Frank Sinatra
Jack Nicholson
Paul Robeson
Jerry Lewis
Meryl Streep
Count Basie
Connie Francis
Dore Schary
Dorothy Parker
Ernie Kovacs
Eva Marie Saint
Franklin Pangborn
Gordon MacRae
Jack Warden
Joe Pesci
Mel Ferrer
Norma Talmadge
Ozzie Nelson
Richard Conte
Ricky Nelson
Roscoe Lee Browne
Sterling Hayden
Sue Ane Langdon
Victor Moore
Once upon a screen... 
Whoa! What an impressive group of people! I had no idea New Jersey was responsible for all this talent.
I knew some of them, Ruth, but was also surprised at how many. And I didn’t even include them all.
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