Birthdays: Eddie Rickenbacker, Rev
Jesse Jackson, Juan Peron, David Carradine, Arthur Babbitt -the creator of
Goofy, Chevy Chase is 72, Paul Hogan, Ruben Mamoulian, Edward Zwick, Johnny
Ramone, Sigourney Weaver is 66, Matt Damon is 45
1929- British Imperial Airways
shows the first in-flight movie.
1933- HOLLYWOOD ACTOR'S FIRST MASS
PROTEST- When Franklin Roosevelt created the NRA to fix wages and prices to try
and solve the Depression, he even went as far as to try to regulate Motion
Picture rates and fees. The catch was the rates were drafted with the advice of
friends of the studio heads in Washington. The actors went ballistic when they
saw new rules such as a ceiling cap on actors salaries of $100,000 a year (the
producers had no such cap), restriction of actors independent agents, and terms
of an old salary contract would stay in effect even after the contract expired
until it was renegotiated.
This night at the El Capitan theater on Hollywood Blvd. hundreds of
moviestars met to draft a petition calling for rewriting of the codes. The
activists included Paul Muni, Frederic March, Jeanette MacDonald, Groucho Marx
and Boris Karloff. SAG president Frank Morgan (the Wizard of Oz) was considered
politically too far left to face Roosevelt, so he stepped down in favor of
comedian Eddie Cantor, who had helped Vaudeville acts unionize. In previous
meetings at the El Capitan the earth tremors from the Great Long Beach
Earthquake the previous March made actors reconvene in the Grauman's Chinese
parking lot across the street. Cantor
went to the president's retreat at Warm Springs Georgia with the petition and
had the hated articles taken out of the code.
1935- Ozzie Nelson married
Harriet.
1957- Jerry Lee Lewis recorded his
hit Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Fire.
1971- John Lennon first released
the song Imagine.
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