Birthdays: Patty
Smith Hill 1868- The composer of the song Happy Birthday to You, Edward
Steichen, Gloria Swanson, Sarah Vaughn, Maria Schneider, Mies Van der Rohe,
Snooky Lanson, Wilhelm Roentgen the discoverer of X-Rays, Nathaniel Currier of
Currier & Ives, Donald Duck artist
Carl Barks, cellist Mtisislav Rostropovich, Michael York is 71, Quentin
Tarantino is 50, Mariah Carey is 43
1908- Bud Fisher's comic strip Mutt & Jeff born.
1940- “Rebecca,” the first Hollywood movie by Alfred
Hitchcock opened.
1952-U.P.A.’s cartoon “Rooty-Toot-Toot” premiered. It’s
music score was by jazzman Phil Monroe, the first African American to receive a
screen credit for scoring a movie.
1952- “Singing in the Rain” starring Gene Kelly, Debbie
Reynolds and Donald O’Connor premiered.
1973- In one of the more celebrated stunts in Hollywood
history, when Marlon Brando won an Oscar for his role in The Godfather, he sent
a buckskin clad model named Sashin Littlefeather to refuse the award, and
deliver a protest about treatment of Native Americans.
1978- The first draft script of the film Norma Rae
completed. The film dramatized the life of Christa Lee Jordan, a mill worker
who was blackballed by the J.P. Stevens millworks for wanting a union.
25th anniversary, March 25, 1989, Who Framed Roger Rabbit earned
four Oscars at the Academy Awards. Sound Effects, Visual Effects, Film Editing
and a special one for Richard Williams for the animation.
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