Birthdays:
Captain George Vancouver, Eric Maria Remarque, John Dillinger, Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, Mike Todd, Billy Wilder, Joe Papp, Bill Blass, Oskar Fischinger,
Pistol Pete Maravich, Klaus Maria Brandauer is 72, Ed Bradley, Emmanuelle
Seigner, Prunella Scales, Meryl Streep is 66, Konrad Zuse, Kris Kristofferson
is 80, Matt Doherty, Floyd Norman is 81.
1955- Walt
Disney’s Lady and the Tramp released.
1966
– The film "Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?" opened. Based on the play by Edward Albee and starring Richard
Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. It was the first to use four letter words. Just a
year before comedian Lenny Bruce had gone to jail for saying the same words,
although everyone including President Johnson swore in everyday parlance.
1969- Singer
actress Judy Garland OD’s on sleeping pills. She was 47. Whether it was an
accident or a suicide we will never know. A pillhead from early age, she had
gotten hooked when MGM chief Louis B. Mayer ordered studio nurses to put her on
amphetamines so she would have the energy to finish the Wizard of Oz. Fellow
contract actress June Allyson explained- “You
didn’t argue when the nurses brought them to you. They told us they were
vitamins!”
1977- Walt
Disney’s The Rescuers opened in
theaters.
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