Birthdays: Roman Emperor Vitellius, Duke Albrecht
Wallenstein, Chief Justice John Marshall, Francis Scott Key, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, George Raft, Chief Joseph, Sheila MacCrae, Anthony Newley. Phil
Hartman, Mean Joe Greene, Billy Bletcher the voice of Pegleg Pete, Pedro
Almodovar is 65, Jim Henson, Brad Bird is 57.
1934- Frank Thomas’s first day as a Walt Disney Animator.
1936- Noel Coward's play 'Private Lives' opened.
1938- Bob Clampett's cartoon "Porky in Wackyland"
( Foo!)
1953-UPA's "Unicorn in the
Garden" directed by Bill Hurtz, based on the cartoon style and story by
James Thurber.
1953- The movie "The Robe" premiered, the first
movie in CinemaScope. It's success was part of a wave of 'Sword &
Sandal" epics and fostered many imitation wide screen processes-
Superama,VistaVision, Dynarama, WarnerVision, TotalScope-etc. There
had been earlier experiments with wide screen - Abel Gance's 1925 Napoleon,
which used three 35mm images shown simultaneously, and Cimmarron 1930, which
was a true wide screen 70mm film starring a very young John Wayne. It
was superceded by 1967 by the more advanced Panavision lens. For many years in
Hollywood we called a wide screen picture a "Scope" picture.
1960- The "Howdy Doody Time" children's show
canceled after thirteen years. The show remains a pivotal memory in the minds
of thousands of American baby-boomers who grew up in the fifties. As the last
song and the last credits rolled by, just before the cameras switched off,
Clarabell the mute clown goes up to the lens and in a haunting voice said;
"Goodbye, Kids."
1977- The TV series “The Love Boat “debuted.
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