Birthdays: Hans Holbein, Heinrich
Himmler, Caesar Rodney, Joe Hill, Andy Devine, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Henry
Wallace, June Allyson, Al Martino, Neils Bohr, Ameil Buraka, Johnny Cougar
Mellencamp, Toni Braxton, Yo Yo Ma
1927- Sam Warner, the Warner
Brother most responsible for committing the studio to gambling on a talking
picture process, died just as the 'Jazz Singer 'opened and made
Warner-Vitaphone a major Hollywood Studio. Jack Warner had earlier said
"Who the heck wants to hear actors talk?"
1947 The Actor's Studio opened,
teaching the Stanislavski Method, sometimes called Method Acting. The group
later suffered a feud between it’s two top teachers-Lee Strassberg and Sandy
Meisner. Ask any old actor if they were with Lee or Sandy, odds were they sided
with one and hated the other.
1957-Dick Clark’s T.V. show
American Bandstand debuts.
1960- The movie Spartacus opened. Producer/star Kirk
Douglas had been using blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo for the script,
smuggling him in and out of the lot for story meetings. Finally Douglas got fed
up and ordered Trumbo to be brought out in the open as the movie's true author.
This was considered the official end of the Hollywood Blacklist era, which had
lasted since 1947. After director Anthony Mann left the project, Douglas hired
Stanley Kubrick, who had such a hard time he afterwards left Hollywood never to
return.
1971- Walt Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks premiered in
London.
1982- London musical 'Cats' opened
on Broadway.
1993- Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" earned $ 712 million
dollars just in North American box office.
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