Birthdays: Gore Vidal, Mikail Lermontov, Harvey Kurtzman,
Chubby Checker, James Herriot, Eleanor Duse, Emily Post, Leo McCarey the
director of the Marx Brothers Duck Soup and many Laurel & Hardy shorts,
Steven Reich, Dave Winfield, Tommy Lee, Neve Cambell, Clive Owen is 50
1941- Warner Bros. THE MALTESE FALCON "premiered.
Screenwriter John Huston asked if he could direct an adaptation of this old
Dashell Hammett story, which had been already made into movies twice. This
version became the most famous. The name was kept despite producer Hal Wallis
wanting to change it to THE GENT FROM FRISCO.
1955- 'Good Morning, Captain.' The Captain Kangaroo kiddy
Show debuted on television.
1955- The Mickey Mouse Club TV show premiered. “Who’s the
leader of the Band that’s Made for you and me…?”
1957-Walter Lantz's The Woody Woodpecker T.V. show debuts.
1957- Jayne Mansfield met Greta Garbo and asked for her autograph.
1961- The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered. It made stars of Van
Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore and was written by ex-Sid Caesar writer Carl Reiner
and Rocky & Bullwinkle writer Alan Burns.
1992- Bald Irish pop star Sinead O’Connor caused a fuss by
tearing up a picture of the Pope on the show Saturday Night Live. She was later
booed off stage during a concert at Madison Square Garden.
2003- The Siegfried and Roy
magic show in Las Vegas comes to an end after a large Bengal Tiger attacks Roy
Horn and tears his throat open in front of an audience. Most thought it was
part of the act.
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