Birthdays: Stan Laurel, Willy Boskovsky, Joyce Carol Oates,
Nelson Doubleday, Brian Eno, animator Pete Burness, Martha Graham, Erich Segal,
Jack Albertson, Helen Traubel, Ron LeFlore, Laurie Metcalf, Sonia Braga is 65,
John Cho is 43.
1932- Broadway star Mae West heads west for Hollywood to
make movies.
1943- 54 year old actor Charlie Chaplin married his fourth
wife, 18 year old Oona O’Neill. In Hollywood Chaplin’s nickname was
“Chickenhawk Charlie” for his fondness for women of barely legal age. Oona did
remain his wife until the end of his life in 1971.
1947 –The 1st regular broadcast TV network news show began-Dumont's "News from Washington".
1952- The CBS television comedy My
Little Margie premiered. It starred Gale Storm and Charlie Farrell.
1955- Disney’s Lady and the Tramp
premiered.
1959- Actor George Reeves, who played the 1950s television
Superman, went upstairs during a dinner party and shot himself with a Luger
pistol. Actor Gig Young, who was a
friend of Reeves, said the actor 's career was going well and his love life was
fine. He never believed the actor would shoot himself. Gig Young shot himself
in 1981.
Many of Reeves friends also wonder if it was a suicide
because Reeves had been dating a socialite named Toni Mannix who’s husband
Eddie Mannix of MGM had mob connections. The bullet entrance wound didn’t have
the customary powder burns of a suicide and there were other bullet holes in
the floor and ceiling. Also the gun in Reeves hands had been wiped clean of
fingerprints.
1960- Alfred Hitchcock's thriller "Psycho"
premiered.
1967- The film “The Dirty Dozen” debuted.
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