Birthdays: Wolf Tone, Jacques Offenbach, Lillian Hellman,
Errol Flynn, Audie Murphy,
Andre Watts, Cyndee Lauper, Bob Vila, Chet Atkins, Stephen
Frears, Brian Wilson, Robert Rodriquez, John Goodman, Martin Landau is 86, John
Mahoney is 74, Nicole Kidman is 47
1936- Mickey short Moving Day premiered.
1940- Artist Alberto Vargas signs a contract with Esquire
Magazine to paint the ‘Vargas Girls’ pin ups that made the magazine famous. He
replaced artist George Petty who was demanding $1500 a week. Vargas was paid
$75 a week. Today an original Vargas goes for $200,000.
1941-Walt Disney's "the Reluctant Dragon"
premiered, with cartoonist's pickets around the Pantages Theater in Hollywood.
Police actually have to close part of Hollywood Blvd. out of concern for what
the rampaging animators might do. Future UPA producer Steve Bosustow drove up
in a limo and picketed in tuxedo and top hat. His chauffeur was Maurice Noble,
the designer of the RoadRunner cartoons. Ironically the movie was part
documentary about how wonderful life was working at the Disney studio.
1948- The Ed Sullivan Show "Toast of the Town"
later to be “the Ed Sullivan Show” premiered. Sullivan's show was the showcase
that brought new acts like Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Signor Winces and the
Rolling Stones into the average American living room. Prior to this, Mr.
Sullivan was a columnist and radio show personality who co-authored "Red
Channels", a book accusing dozens of his compatriots as Communists..
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