Birthdays: Lorenzo da Ponte
-libretist of Mozart's operas, Barry Fitzgerald, Claire Booth Luce, Heywoud
Hale Broun, James Herriot, Pablo de Sarrasate, Osama Ben Laden, Chuck Norris is
74, Shannon Tweed, Sharon Stone is 56, John Hamm is 43
1935- The First Smokey Stover comic
strip ( notary sojac).
1948- Zelda Fitzgerald, the
socialite wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, died in a fire at the mental
hospital where she had been committed for more than a decade.
1954- In a letter to studio heads
director Elias Kazan worried that young actor James Dean was “too odd” and
unpredictable to star in his movie “Rebel Without a Cause”.
1954- First day of shooting on
Stage 3 of the Giant Squid battle on Walt Disney’s production of Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. The director was Richard Fleischer, the son of
Disney’s onetime competitor Max Fleischer.
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