Birthdays: Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen, Mao Tse Tung,
Charles Babbage, Admiral Dewey, Richard Widmark, Steve Allen, Henry Miller,
Carlton Fisk, Chris Chambliss, Alan King, Phil Spector, Fred Schepsi, Jared
Leto is 43
1924- Baby Frances Gumm first appeared on a stage at 2 1/2
years old. Grown up she would change her name to Judy Garland.
1926- Young artist Al Hirschfeld had made his first regular
caricature for the Broadway Stage. A drawing of actor Sasha Guitry. A friend
took it to The New York Tribune and sold it. He figured here's a nifty way to
make a living, so soon he was selling to all the papers including the New York
Times.
He will keep doing caricatures of Broadway greats into the
millennium and became a legend himself. In the American Theater a Hirschfeld
caricature of you meant you had arrived and were a real star. At age 94 he
remarried and drew the cast of Ally McBeal for TV Guide. In 2003 he died just
shy of age 100, drawing to the end.
1938- Young playwright Thomas Williams moved from Saint
Louis to New Orleans and changed his name to Tennessee Williams.
1939- Walt Disney Animation moves from Hyperion to the new
Burbank Studio lot. The buildings are designed like hospital wards, so in case
he hits economic trouble, Disney could sell them to the planned St. Joseph's
Hospital across the street. Animator Ward Kimball said it was the first time he
worked in a studio where all the furniture matched. The old Hyperion Studio was
bulldozed in 1966, the year of Walt Disney’s death.
1941- Goofy cartoon, the Art of Self Defense, premiered.
1944- Tennessee Williams play the Glass Menagerie premiered
in Chicago.
1963- The death of Gorgeous George Wagner, the first
wrestler to adopt a flamboyant character.
1966- The first Kwanzaa Festival was organized by African
studies professor Dr Marulanga Karenga at Cal State Long Beach to celebrate
African-American culture.
1973- The horror film The Exorcist starring Linda Blair
premiered. Merry Christmas! Have some pea soup!
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