Birthdays:
Captain George Vancouver, Eric Maria Remarque, John Dillinger, Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, Mike Todd, Billy Wilder, Joe Papp, Bill Blass, Oskar Fischinger,
Pistol Pete Maravich, Klaus Maria Brandauer is 70, Ed Bradley, Emmanuelle
Seigner, Prunella Scales, Meryl Streep is 64, Konrad Zuse, Kris Kristofferson
is 78, Matt Doherty, Disney legend Floyd Norman is 79.
1955- Walt
Disney’s Lady and the Tramp released.
1966
– The film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opened. Based on the
play by Edward Albee and starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. It was
the first to use four letter words. Just a year before comedian Lenny Bruce had
gone to jail for saying the same words, although everyone including President
Johnson swore in everyday parlance.
1969- Singer
actress Judy Garland OD’s on sleeping pills. She was 46. Whether it was an
accident or a suicide we will never know. A pillhead from early age, she had
gotten hooked when MGM chief Louis B. Mayer ordered studio nurses to put her on
amphetamines so she would have the energy to finish the Wizard of Oz. Fellow
contract actress June Allyson explained- “You
didn’t argue when the nurses brought them to you. They told us they were
vitamins!”
1977- Walt
Disney’s The Rescuers opened in
theaters. The last work of animator Milt Kahl.
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