Birthdays: Giambattista Piazzetta, Bess Truman, Grant Wood,
Lord Randolph Churchill, Fyodor Chaliapin, Peter Tork, Oliver Reed, Chuck
Yeager, Woody Hayes, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Carol Lynley, Kim Novak is 81,
George Segal is 79, Peter Gabriel, Jerry Springer is 69 Stockard Channing is 69,
Kelly Hu, Mena Suvari
1867- The Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss Jr premiered
in Vienna.
1886- Artist Thomas
Eakins resigned his professorship at the Philadelphia Academy of Art in disgust
when he was attacked for having male nudes in his art class with women as
students.
1932- Free Eats, the first Our Gang short comedy to feature
Spanky MacFarland.
1933-comic character Blondie married Dagwood Bumstead.
1939- Producer David O. Selznick replaced directors on Gone
With the Wind. George Cukor was out, Victor Fleming was in after completing The
Wizard of Oz. Vivien Leigh liked Cukor who was known for directing women, but
Clark Gable convinced the producers that they needed an action director. About
15 minutes of George Cukor’s work remains in the picture. Victor Fleming loved Clark, but didn't get along with Vivien Leigh
and came to hate the controling Selznick. David O. brought in Sam Wood to
direct second unit when Fleming fell behind.
At the end Victor Fleming had one
more tantrum when Selznick proposed giving Wood and Cukor co- screen credit..
Yet despite it all, Gone with the Wind became a box office phenomenon. Years
later Clark Gable came up to Selznick at a party and said: "Maybe I'm wrong about disliking you David, 'Gone With the Wind'
keeps getting re-released and keeps me a star." Selznick once said:” My biggest fear is that all I shall ever
be remembered for is producing Gone With the Wind.”
1937- Hal Foster's comic hero Prince Valiant first appeared.
1959 -Happy Birthday BARBIE ! Mattel introduces the plastic
nymph, originally named by the German artist who created her 'Lily" but
changed to 'Barbie" by Mattel co-owner Ruth Handler who's daughter Barbara
was nicknamed that.
1964- The Invention of Cool Whip.
1996- The off-Broadway musical Rent by John Lawson,
premiered
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