Birthdays: William Makepeace Thackeray,
Chill Wills, Nelson Mandela, James Brolin, Elizabeth McGovern, Screaming Jay
Hawkins, Hume Cronyn, Red Skelton, Hunter H. Thompson, Clifford Odets, Paul
Verhoeven, John Glenn is 93, Vin Diesel is 47.
1939-MGM tried a sneak preview of
the film The Wizard of Oz. Afterward they debated cutting the song Somewhere
Over the Rainbow as slowing down the pace. Finally they decided to leave it in.
The film debuted in August to wild success and acclaim.
1939- RKO pictures signed Orson
Welles to direct movies in Hollywood. That Hollywood signed a 24 year old radio
star who never directed a movie, and gave him complete freedom was an amazing
deal.
1950- Walt Disney’s live action
film Treaure Island Premiered, with Robert Newton as Long John Silver, Capt
Jack Sparrow’s role model. Arrrr-mateys!
1964- Bob McKimson’s "A False
Hare", the last Bugs Bunny theatrical short for Warner Bros until 1985.
1966- Bobby Fuller who made the
hit song "I fought the Law and the
Law Won" was found in LA in his mothers Oldsmobile beaten and dead
from "forcible inhalation of gasoline"- huffing.
1998-
Pokemon the First movie released in Japan, stoking the Pokemon craze.
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