Birthdays: King Henry V of England, John Dryden, Sir Issac
Walton-author of the Compleat Angler, Melanie Griffith, Whitney Houston, David
Steinberg, Bob Cousy, Jill St. John, Robert Shaw, Robert Aldrich, Sam Elliot is
70, Gillian Anderson is 46, Pamela Lyndon Travers –the creator of Mary Poppins,
Marvin Minsky, Eric Bana is 47, Audrey Tautou is 36, Philippe Bergeron is 55
1919- The first story of Zorro
appeared in All Story Weekly magazine. Created by Johnstom McCulley.
1930- Max Fleischer's cartoon "Dizzy Dishes"
introduces Betty Boop. A singing star named Helen Kane sued Fleischer claiming
that they stole her distinctive Boop-Ooop-a-Doop from her, but the case was
thrown out when it was revealed Kane had stolen it herself from another singer.
Betty was supposed to be a dog character to match her male couterpart Bimbo.
But Animator Grim Natwick had done a lot of drawing of girls in Paris and New
York and turned the character into a saucy little flapper.
1944- Antoine Du Saint-Exupery, the author of the Little
Prince, died when he crashed his fighter plane. He was not shot down by the
Germans, he was just a terrible pilot. The main protagonist of the little
prince is an aviator who crashes his plane.
1947 -The British government in an attempt to bolster
revenue for their shattered postwar economy, announced a 300% import tariff on
Hollywood films. The Big Eight-Hollywood studios retaliate by stopping the
export of movies to Britain. The British film industry has a heyday and Disney
starts producing films locally in Britain like 'Rob Roy Highland Rogue' and
such.
1963 - Britains rock & roll TV
show, Ready Steady Go, premieres.
1967- Joe Orton, English
actor/playwright (Leaf, Murdered), died at age 34.
1993- Heidi Fleiss, The” Hollywood Madam” arraigned for
prostitution. The film community shuddered when she threatened to reveal the
names of her clients in her “black book”. Most were suppressed except actors
Charlie Sheen and Sean Penn who admitted as much early on. Fleiss
wrote a memoir called “Pandering” and still thinks prostitution is an honorable
profession. “I ran an 85% cash business.”
1995- Rocker Jerry Garcia died,
the Grateful Dead broke up.
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