Birthdays: Benjamin Disraeli, Josh Gibson- the Home Run King
of the Negro Baseball Leagues, Pat Weaver-TV exec who created the Today Show
and father of Sigourney Weaver, Frank Zappa, Dr. Kurt Waldheim, Florence
Griffith Joyner, Chris Evert, Phil Roman, Jane Fonda is 76, Paul Winchell,
Keifer Sutherland is 47, Samuel L. Jackson is 65, Ray Romano is 56, Jane
Kaszmarek, Judy Delphy is 44, Jeffrey Katzenberg is 65
1914- The premiere of the first feature length film comedy-
Tilly’s Punctured Romance, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and a young
Charlie Chaplin.
1925- Sergei Eisenstein’s cinematic masterpiece Battleship
Potemkin premiered in Moscow. The films pioneering use of montage and
allegorical imagery intercut inspired a generation of filmmakers.
1933- Twentieth Century Fox signed 5 year old Shirley Temple
to a seven year contract.
1937-Walt Disney's " Snow White and the Seven
Dwarves" had its grand premiere at the Cathay Circle Theater. The first
feature length American cartoon, it became the box office champ of 1938, earning
4 times more than any other film that year.
1937- Ted Healy, former vaudeville partner of the Three
Stooges, was killed in a bar fight. One legend has it that actor Wallace Beery
and some gangsters did the fatal pounding. Another rumor is one of the
gangsters was young Albert Cubby Broccoli, who forty years later would produce
the Bond movies and win an Irving Thalberg Award at the 1982 Oscars. The Three
Stooges do much better without Healy.
1940- Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (44) died of a heart attack
at Hollywood columnist Sheila Graham's house.
She had just left the house to buy him some candy.
His last words were 'Hershey bars will be fine..."
1944- Walt Disney’s The Three Caballeros premiered in Mexico
City.
1971- Richard William's animated TV special "A
Christmas Carol" with Alastair Sim reprising his scrooge.
1979- Disney’s Sci-Fi flop The Black Hole opened in
theaters.
2012- The Walt Disney Company
spent $4.06 billion to buy Lucasfilm, ILM and the Star Wars rights. George
Lucas retires to do philanthropic pursuits.
2089- According to Ridley Scott,
today the good ship Prometheus lands on the Original Planet.
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