Birthdays: Jean Paul Marat, Queen Victoria, Walt Whitman,
Emmanuel Leutze, Gary Burghoff, Priscilla Presley, Patti LaBelle, Tommy Chong
of Cheech & Chong, Peter Ellenshaw, Kristin Scott Thomas is 57, Alfred
Molina is 64, Jim Broadbent is 68, John C. Reilly is 52, Bob Dylan is 76
1866 - Berkeley, California
founded, named for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne.
1929- The Marx Brothers first movie comedy” The Coconuts”
premiered.
1950- Married movie star Ingrid Bergman shocked American
morality by having an open love affair with neorealist film director Roberto
Rosselini. This day they were finally married but the outcry of conservatives
about this “Apostle of Degradation” was such that her image needed a makeover.
So she played Saint Joan of Arc.
1989- In Los Angeles, a
spectacular fire destroyed the Art-Deco-Moderne all-wood landmark, the Pan
Pacific Auditorium.
1991- Tri-Star Pictures 75 million-dollar flop "Hudson Hawk" opened.
Star Bruce Willis,
whose own salary was $17 million, blamed the film’s costs on union filmworkers’
salaries. He would return to his car after a day’s shooting to find it covered
with animal excrement. The film almost sank his career. Willis’ next two films,
"Death Becomes Her" and 'Pulp Fiction", he did for scale. In
2000 he gave a $100,000 dollar donation to the SAG/AFTRA strike fund.
1991- Ridley Scott’s Thelma
& Louise opened.
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