Birthdays: Bonnie Prince Charlie, Branch Rickey, George Roy
Hill, Dr. Samuel Mudd, Jenny Agutter, Uri Geller, Irene Dunne, Cecil Cooper,
Albert Dekker, Amby Paliwoda, Charlie Callas, John Spencer, Harvey Firestone,
John Spencer, Elsie De Wolfe, Jonah Hill is 32.
1892- According to Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days
this was the day Phileas Fogg returned to London to complete his trip.
1920- English song & dance man Leslie Townes became an
American citizen and changed his name to Bob Hope.
1937- Nazis Josef Goebbels noted in his diary that this day
he sent his boss Adolph Hitler a Christmas present of a dozen Mickey Mouse
Cartoons from America. Officially der Fuehrer called Mickey ‘vermin’ but
privately enjoyed his animated antics.
1950- Harvey premiered starring James Stewart and a 6 foot
invisible rabbit.
1952- Bridgette Bardot married director Roger Vadim.
1955- Sir Lawrence Olivier’s film version of Richard III
premiered.
1962- The Osmond Brothers premiered on the Andy Williams
Show.
1957- Elvis Presley received his draft notice. G.I. Blues!
1968- Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day premiered.
1970- ELVIS MEETS NIXON or "The President Meets the
King." Citizen Presley volunteers his services in the war on drugs and
gave Nixon a gold plated 44 cal. pistol. The President thanked him with a White
House security officer's badge for his collection of police badges. A recent
biography of Presley described the dozen or so patent medicines he was on while
Nixon was naming him honorary chairman of the War on Drugs.
1971- Twentieth Century Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck blames
his own son CEO Richard Zanuck for Fox's monetary problems and fires him. This
sets off a power struggle among the board of directors. When Zanuck's estranged
wife Libby throws her support against the mogul, Darryl F. Zanuck is overthrown
and fired from his own company. He was the last of the original Hollywood
moguls.
1974 Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too came out with the film
Island at the Top of the World.
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