Animation Fun Facts for Sept 19, 2012

Birthdays: Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius, Saladin, "Momma" Cass Elliot, Looney tunes director Frank Tashlin, Dr. Ferry Porsche- inventor of the Porsche race car, Twiggy– real name Leslie Hornby, William Golding author of The Lord of the Flies,Adam West is 84, Frances Farmer, David McCallum, Jeremy Irons is 64 the voice of Scar in The Lion King, Jimmy Fallon is 38. 1931- The Marx Brothers comedy “ Monkey Business” premiered. 1942- Chuck Jones cartoon The Dover Boys, released. 1945- Little Shirley Temple, now all grown up, married actor John Agar, who she met on the set of John Ford's film Fort Apache. The RKO studio turned the marriage into a media circus by inviting 12,000 people. John Ford teased Agar mercilessly, calling him Mr. Temple. John and Shirley divorced within two years. Shirley Temple did a few more small roles, remarried and became a diplomat and John Agar went on to star in a number of sci-fi flicks like 'Tarantula", The Brain from Planet Aurous" and built his own theme dinosaur park by an Arkansas freeway "John Agar's House of Kong'.