Birthdays: Harry Truman, Roberto
Rossellini, Leopold Bakhunin, Louis Gottschalk, Oscar Hammerstein, Ted
Sorenson, Sonny Liston, Toni Tennille, Ricky Nelson, Peter Benchley, Thomas
Pinchon, David Attenborough, Keith Jarrett, Alex Van Halen, Melissa Gilbert,
French illustrator Jean Giraud aka Moebius, Enrique Inglesias, Bob Clampett, Don
Rickles is 89
1824- Ludwig Von Beethoven
performed his Ninth (Choral) Symphony and Missa Solemnis in concert for the first
time. Even though he was stone deaf he was still in demand as a conductor. The
orchestra trained themselves to ignore the Maestro's baton waving and follow
the lead of the concert-master ( first violinist ). It was said when they finished and the audience
was cheering, poor Beethoven was still flapping his arms about and moaning the
melody, unaware of the sound of his own voice.
1878- David Hughes invents the
Microphone while trying to get over bronchitis.
1910-Russian-Jewish immigrant
glove salesman Schmuel Gelpfisch married Blanche Lasky, the daughter of
vaudeville performer Jesse Lasky. Gelpfisch later changed his name to Sam Goldfish,
then Goldwyn. He and his father in law Jesse Lasky went into the new flicker
business and started the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. They moved to
Hollywood and in 1915 they merged with Paramount Pictures and Goldwyn merged
into Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. Both became top Hollywood producers.
1912- movie studio Famous Players
Lasky born. In 1914 they changed their name to Paramount Pictures.
1943-Tex Avery's "Red Hot
Riding Hood"- Ooohh Wolfy !
1962-"A Funny thing Happened
to Me on the Way to the Forum" opened on Broadway.
1962- Director Joe Mankiewicz shot
the climactic spectacle scene of Cleopatra –Elizabeth Taylor, entering Rome
through the Arch of Titus on a mobile sphinx surrounded by thousands of extras.
The shot had been delayed six months after a stunt woman fell off an elephant
and then the light in the Forum had not been right. When Elizabeth Taylor appeared
in the scene, the Italian extras were supposed to shout "Hail
Cleopatra!" but instead they all shouted "Liz! Liz!"
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