B-Days: Captain James Cook, Theodore Roosevelt, Dylan Thomas,
Nicolo Paganinni, Gerhard Von Gneisenau, Sylvia Plath, Roy Lichtenstein, John
Cleese is 75, Freddy De Cordova, Ruby Dee, Roberto Benigni, Bernie Wrightson
1947- The "You Bet Your Life" quiz show premiered
on ABC radio. "Say the Secret Word and Win Fifty Dollars". Comedian
Groucho Marx had struggled after his brothers act the Marx Brothers broke up.
During a live radio program with Bob Hope at one point Hope dropped his script.
Before he could pick it up Groucho stepped on the pages, threw his own away and
the two improvised their conversation. The result was much funnier that
anything anybody had written. The producer of the show John Guedel was so
impressed he hired Groucho and built a quiz show around him. It moved to TV in
1949.
1954- The" Disneyland" television show premieres.
Up until then the major Hollywood Studios were all boycotting the new upstart
medium of television, then mostly done in New York by blacklisted stage actors
and writers. Dori Schary of MGM called TV “ the Enemy”. Walt Disney is the
first to break ranks with the major film studios and get into television
production and even films the show in Technicolor, figuring television will
develop color broadcasting eventually.
1964- Sonny & Cher married. I got you babe!
1966- Bill Melendez's Peanuts TV special "It's the
Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'. This film was the last film score of jazz
musician Vince Guaraldi, who created the unique sound of Charlie Brown
cartoons.
1998- Disney released Lion King 2: Simbas Pride.
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