Birthdays: St. Thomas Becket,
Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Lord North, Samuel Beckett, Dame Eudora Welty, Al
Green, Jack Cassidy, Butch Cassidy, Franklin W. Woolworth, Howard Keel, Don
Adams, Ricky Schroeder, Peabo Bryson, Ron Perleman, Stanley Donen, Alfred Butts
the inventor of Scrabble, Disney animator Glen Keane is 60
1870- New York's Metropolitan
Museum of Art opens.
1939- The film Wuthering Heights
starring Lawrence Olivier and Merle Oberon premiered. Sam Goldwyn was disgusted
by the headaches to bring this Charlotte Bronte novel to the Hollywood Screen.
When asked if he planned to adapt more 19th Century novels for film he replied:
"Don’t bring me no more scripts by
guys who write with feathers!"
1949- Lead character designer and
story artist Joe Grant resigned from Disney Studios, not to return until 1989.
1953- A British ex-intelligence
officer turned newspaperman named Ian Fleming was bored with his life. He
resolved to write a novel about his ideal of the ultimate spy. Looking for a
suitably bland name, his favorite book on birdwatching was written by someone
named James Bond. Great name! His wife thought the story was too vulgar. This
day, the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, came out and was an instant hit.
1964- Sidney Poitier became the
first African American to win an Oscar for Best Actor for the film Lilies of
the Field. The first Oscar for any black actor or actress went to Hattie McDaniel
as Best Supporting Actress for Gone With the Wind in 1939. Best actress was not
won until Halle Berry in 2002.
1967- Columbia Picture’s bizarre
version of Casino Royale premiered. Several directors, Orson Welles, Ursula
Andress, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen and David Niven, Richard Williams titles, and
Dusty Springfield ‘s song The Look of Love.
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