Birthdays: Stan Laurel, Willy Boskovsky, Joyce Carol Oates,
Nelson Doubleday, Brian Eno, animator Pete Burness, Martha Graham, Erich Segal,
Jack Albertson, Helen Traubel, Ron LeFlore, Laurie Metcalf, Sonia Braga is 64,
John Cho is 42.
1932- Broadway star Mae West heads west for Hollywood to
make movies.
1943- 54 year old actor Charlie Chaplin married his fourth
wife, 18 year old Oona O’Neill. In Hollywood Chaplin’s nickname was
“Chickenhawk Charlie” for his fondness for women of barely legal age. Oona did
remain his wife until the end of his life in 1971.
1947 –The 1st regular broadcast
network news show began-Dumont's "News from Washington".
1952- The CBS television comedy My
Little Margie premiered. It starred Gale Storm and Charlie Farrell.
1955- Disney’s Lady and the Tramp
premiered.
1959- Actor George Reeves, who played the 1950s television
Superman, went upstairs during a dinner party and shot himself with a Luger pistol. Actor Gig Young, who was a friend of Reeves,
said the actor 's career was going well and his love life was fine. He never
believed the actor would shoot himself. Gig Young shot himself in 1981.
1960- Alfred Hitchcock's thriller "Psycho"
premiered.
1967- The film “The Dirty Dozen” debuted.
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