Birthdays: Joachim Pachebel, Gentleman Jim Corbet, Sir Roger
Casement, Seiji Ozawa, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Walter Reuther founder of the
United Auto Workers, Englebert Humperdinck- the 19th century
composer, Conway Twitty, Jack Hawkins, Leonard Slatkin, Yvonne DeCarlo, Gloria
Estefan, Mike Lah, Boxcar Willie, Richard Farnsworth, Lily Tomlin is 74
1913 - George Bernard Shaw’s play
"Androcles & the Lion," premieres in London.
1919- Pat Sullivan's 'Feline Follies" cartoon staring
Felix the Cat.
Felix is the first
true animated star, not depended on a previous newspaper comic strip. His body
prototype, a black peanut shape with four fingers, will be the standard for
years to come. By 1926 he was the most popular star in Hollywood after Chaplin
and Valentino. Lindbergh had a Felix doll in his plane and it has been
speculated that Groucho Marx copied his famous strut. The first television
image broadcast by scientists in 1926 was of a Felix doll.
1928- Paul Terry premiered his sound cartoon RCA Photophone
system for a short called "Dinner Time". Young studio head Walt
Disney came by train out from Los Angeles to see it. He telephoned his studio
back in L.A." My Gosh, Terrible! A
Lot of Racket and Nothing Else!" He said they could continue to
complete their first sound cartoon "Steamboat Willie".
1939- FIRST CANNES FILM FESTIVAL- The premiere film event in
Europe had been the Venice Film Festival but western democracies tired of the
bias of the judges for Fascist and Nazi films. For example Walt Disney was
annoyed his Snow White, the box office and critical champ of 1938, lost out to
Leni Reifenstahl's Olympia. So the little French Riviera city was chosen as the
site for a new festival. Two days after opening World War II was declared and
the festival shut down until 1946.
1955- Phillip Loeb was a TV star, playing Papa on the show
The Goldbergs on radio and television. But the book Red Channels listed him as
a Communist. He was blacklisted and the show dropped by CBS and NBC. This day
Loeb checked into the Hotel Taft and swallowed a bottle full of sleeping pills.
1956- Elvis Presley bought his momma a pink Cadillac.
1977 - 1st TRS-80 Model I computer
sold
1979 – An LA Court ordered retired
TV star Clayton Moore to stop wearing his Lone Ranger mask in public
appearances. Paramount was pushing it’s remake the Legend of the Lone Ranger
starring Klinton Spillsbury, so they wanted the old man to stop competing for
the spotlight. Today that movie, as well as the 2013 movie are forgotten, while
many still fondly remember the TV show,
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