Birthdays: St. Joan of Arc, Mountain man Jedediah Smith, Tom
Mix, Alexander Scriabin, Gustav Dore', Loretta Young, Earl Skruggs. Carl
Sandburg, Danny Thomas, Nancy Lopez, John DeLorean, Alan Watts, John Singleton,
Rowan Atkinson-Zazu in the Lion King is 58, Anthony Minghella
1849- the first cartoon cover of Punch Magazine.
1945- First Pepe Le Pew cartoon, "Odorable Kitty".
When the Warners producer who replaced Leon Schlesinger, Eddie Selzer, heard
the plans to do a short about a skunk he thundered: "Absolutely Not!
Nobody will like a cartoon skunk!" Chuck Jones recalled: "As soon as
he said no, I knew we just had to do it." Selzer's final opinion:"
Nobody'll laugh at that sh*t!" The short won an Oscar. Selzer later went on into network T.V.
1949- Composer Leonard Bernstein noted in his diary
that “JR (Jerome Robbins) called today with a novel idea- a modern version of
Romeo and Juliet set in the slums.” At first the musical was going to be
called East Side Story, then GangWay, finally West Side Story.
1956- Prince Rainier of Monaco announced his engagement to
movie star Grace Kelly.
1962- Bob Clampett's Beany and Cecil the Sea-Sick Sea
Serpent. This was the animated version of his popular puppet show.“So Long Kids, Wind Up Your Lids, We’ll look
for You Real Soooooon.”
1975-“ Ease on Down
the Road.-“ The musical The Wiz premiered on Broadway.
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