Birthdays: Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, Frederick the
Warlike of Saxony-1370, Ethel Kennedy is 87, Joel Grey is 83, Louise Lasser,
Mason Reese, Oleg Cassini, Cameron Mitchell. Norman McClaren, Bill Irwin, John
Milius, Jennifer Esposito
1950- First day filming on the movie All About Eve. As Bette
Davis said “Fasten your seatbelts, its
going to be a bumpy night.”
1955- WABD in New York and KTLA in Los Angeles began running
pre-1948 Warner Bros cartoon shorts in a half hour format, introducing the baby
boomer generation to the world of Bugs, Daffy and Porky.
1981- Valerie Bertinelli married rocker Eddie Van Halen.
1983- At that year’s Academy Awards the winner for Best
Animated Short was Polish artist Zybigniew Rybcyzinski for his film Tango.
During the ceremony he stepped outside for a smoke. When Security guards
refused to let him re-enter he became combative, shouting the only English he
knew: ” I Have Oscar!” He wound up in jail for assault and his Oscar wound up
in the bushes.
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