Birthdays: Harry Truman, Roberto
Rossellini, Leopold Bakhunin, Louis Gottschalk, Oscar Hammerstein, Ted
Sorenson, Sonny Liston, Toni Tennille, Ricky Nelson, Peter Benchley, Thomas
Pinchon, David Attenborough, Keith Jarrett, Alex Van Halen, Melissa Gilbert,
French illustrator Jean Giraud aka Moebius, Enrique Inglesias, Don Rickles is 88,
Bob Clampett
1878- David Hughes invents the
Microphone while trying to get over bronchitis.
1912- movie studio Famous Players
Lasky born. In 1914 they changed their name to Paramount Pictures.
1943-Tex Avery's "Red Hot
Riding Hood"- Ooohh Wolfy !
1962-"A Funny thing Happened
to Me on the Way to the Forum" opened on Broadway.
1962- Director Joe Mankiewicz shot
the climactic spectacle scene of Cleopatra –Elizabeth Taylor, entering Rome
through the Arch of Titus on a mobile sphinx surrounded by thousands of extras.
The shot had been delayed six months after a stunt woman fell off an elephant
and then the light in the Forum had not been right. When Elizabeth Taylor appeared
in the scene, the Italian extras were supposed to shout "Hail
Cleopatra!" but instead they shouted "Liz! Liz!"
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