Birthdays: Maximillien Robespierre, Sigmund Freud, Rudolph
Valentino, Orson Welles, Robert Peary, Willie Mays, Stewart Granger*, Bob
Seger, Toots Schoor, Weeb Ewbank, Andriana Caselotti- the voice of Snow White,
Ruben Hurricane Carter, Christian Clavier, Tony Blair, George Clooney is 53.
*English actor Stewart Granger had to change his name to get
into Hollywood movies. His real name was Jimmy Stewart.
1919- Wizard of Oz creator L.Frank Baum died of heart
disease at 62. He was trying at the time to buy real estate in Los Angeles for
an Oz- theme amusement park.
1937- THE FLEISCHER STRIKE-Cartoonists vote to strike Max
Fleischers Studio after Max fires 13 animators for union activity and
complaining about the 6 day work week.
The strike was
settled several weeks later when parent company Paramount forced Max to
concede. Strikers sang "We're Popeye the Union Man! We're Popeye the Union
Man! We'll Fight to the Finish, Cause We Can't Live on Spinach ! We're
Popeye...etc."
1937- The Society of Motion Picture Art Directors formed.
1946- Curly Howard, was the most outrageous of the comedy
troupe The Three Stooges.
While people laughed at his antics, he lived a wild
Hollywood life, lots of clubs, drinking, smoking and girls. This day while
filming the short Halfwits Holiday, he suffered a massive stroke. He was only 42.
He survived 6 more years in deteriorating health, moved from hospital to
hospital by his brothers. He died in 1952 at age 48.
2001- Variety reported that the Walt Disney Company in
promoting their upcoming summer film Pearl Harbor, had canceled plans for Pearl
Harbor Happy Meals at McDonalds, as being in bad taste.
2003- A tornado destroyed the
factory in Jackson, Tennessee that produced most of the world’s supply of
Pringles Potato Chips.
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