Birthdays: Abigail Adams, Alexander Borodin, Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, Gen. George Patton, Pat O’Brien, Kurt Vonnegut, Rene Clair, Carlos
Fuentes, Jonathan Winters, Stubby Kay, Demi Moore is 52, Leonard DiCaprio is 40
1937- Animation production wrapped on Disney’s first feature
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
1938- The first day of shooting on the film 'The Wizard of
Oz". Judy Garland met 125 little people hired to be the Munchkins. Judy's
energy was fading under the heavy work schedule so L.B. Mayer ordered her put
on Benzadrine (speed) every morning and Valium pills to sleep. June Alysson,
another young MGM actress at the time said: "The studio nurse would give
it to you and tell you it was vitamins." Judy Garland became a heavy drug
addict and died of an overdose in 1969 at 47 years old.
1940- The Birth of the Jeep. The army introduces its first
General Purpose vehicle-G.P. or Jeep, a name coinciding with a character in
E.C. Segar's Popeye cartoons.
1954- Tolkein’s second book of the Lord of the Rings: The
Two Towers, first published.
1978- The renovated Hollywood Sign is unveiled. The second O
was paid for by rock star Alice Cooper in memory of his idol, Groucho Marx.
1980- 'Heaven's Gate" Michael Cimino's $44 million
dollar flop opened. Cimino originally said he could do the film for $8 million.
Critic Pauline Kael said: "It's the kind of movie you want to deface. You
want to draw mustaches all over it."
1992- Premiere of Walt Disney’s Aladdin.
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