Birthdays: Roman Emperor Didius
Julianus, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Thomas Paine, William Claude Dunkenfeld
known as W.C. Fields, Victor Mature, Paddy Chayefsky, Tom Selleck is 70, Ed
Burns, Bill Peet, Greg Louganis, John D Rockefeller Jr., Claudine Longet, John
Horsely (1817) the inventor of the Christmas Card-1842, Oprah Winfrey is 61,
Heather Graham is 45.
1813- Jane Austin’s novel Pride
and Prejudice first published.
1845- Edgar Allen Poe's poem the
Raven first published. Nevermore.
1920- Walt gets a job. Nineteen
year old Walt Disney and his buddy Ub Iwerks were hired by a local Kansas City Slide
Company to draw ads for newspapers and slides for theaters.
1936- Dictator Benito Mussolini
lays the first stone of Cinecitta’ Movie Studios.
1957- Patsy Cline recorded
"Walkin' After Midnight."
1959- Disney's " SLEEPING BEAUTY " opened. Despite
earning the fifth highest box office for that year, it finished $5 million
behind what it cost to make. The
animation staff had swollen to it's largest to finish the production. It’s
disappointing box office soured Walt Disney on feature animation. After the
film was finished the studio had a massive layoff, dropping from 551 to just
75. Staff level will not return to these same levels until 1990.
1964- Stanley Kubrick's nuclear
comedy "DR STRANGLOVE –OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE
BOMB." premiered. It's use of hand held camera for action sequences and
cutting inspired by the European New Wave ushered in a new style in Hollywood
cinema.
1977- Comic TV. star of
"Chico and the Man " Freddy Prinze (23) blew his brains out. Some
said he suffered from a survivor's depression about why he had succeeded in
life while all his friends from the Barrio were dead from gang killings or
drugs. Family members said that he was just stoned on Quaaludes and was
clowning around.
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