Birthdays: Davy Crocket, Mae West, Marcus Garvey, Sam
Goldwyn- born Schmuel Gelbfisz, Harry Hopkins, Monte Wooley, Maureen O’Hara is
94, Boog Powell, Belinda Carlisle, Guillermo Vilas, V.S. Naipul, Jim Courier,
Donnie Wahlberg, Belinda Carlisle, Sean Penn is 53, Martha Coolidge is 68,
Robert DeNiro is 70
1908- D.W. Griffith signed a contract to begin directing
movies for Biograph Pictures. He was paid $50 dollars a week plus
royalties.
1941- EL GRUPO- Walt Disney and his artists arrive in Rio on
a ten week goodwill tour of South America, underwritten by a $70,000 government
grant. President Franklin Roosevelt was
worried that some South American countries might be sympathetic to the Nazis,
forcing the U.S. to worry about her backdoor. So FDR sent Nelson Rockefeller to
give the Latin American countries whatever they wanted to keep them out of the
world war. Among other things they wanted Donald Duck. Back in LA the federal
mediator Stanley White had worked out with Roy Disney that if they got Walt out
of town, they could settle the Disney animators strike. The name comes from
hotel footmen in Buenos Aires paging the artists as El Grupo Disney! The Three
Caballeros and Saludos Amigos result.
1962- The Beatles replaced drummer Pete Best with Ringo
Starr.
1969- The closing day of the Woodstock Rock Concert, Three
Days of Peace and Music. Jimmy Hendrix did his famous rendition of the Star
Spangled Banner.
1984- The Walt Disney Company informed it’s chairman Ron
Miller that they wanted his resignation. Disney had fallen to 14th in film box
office by then. Miller had been Walt’s son-in-law and he was he was once a tight
end for the LA Rams. Within two years of Michael Eisner taking power Disney was
number one.
1986- John Lasseter’s award wining short Luxo Jr, premiered
at Siggraph’86 Dallas.
1992- Famed film director Woody Allen admits he is having an
affair with Soon Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his long time lover Mia
Farrow. He is 60 and she is 21. But as the unrepentant Allen states: “The Heart
wants what it wants.” They’ve been married ever since.
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