Birthdays: Benjamin Disraeli, Josh Gibson- the Home Run King
of the Negro Baseball Leagues, Pat Weaver-TV exec who created the Today Show
and father of Sigourney Weaver, Frank Zappa, Dr. Kurt Waldheim, Florence
Griffith Joyner, Chris Evert, Phil Roman, Jane Fonda is 78, Paul Winchell born
Pinkus Wilchinski, Keifer Sutherland is 49, Samuel L. Jackson is 67, Ray Romano
is 58, Jane Kaszmarek, Judy Delphy is 46, Jeffrey Katzenberg is 65
1914- The premiere of the first feature length film comedy-
Tilly’s Punctured Romance, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and a young
Charlie Chaplin.
1925- Sergei Eisenstein’s cinematic masterpiece Battleship
Potemkin premiered in Moscow. The films pioneering use of montage and allegorical
imagery intercut inspired a generation of filmmakers.
1933- Twentieth Century Fox signed 5 year old Shirley Temple
to a seven year contract.
1937-Walt Disney's " Snow White and the Seven
Dwarves" had its grand premiere at the Cathay Circle Theater. The first
feature length American cartoon, it became the box office champ of 1938, earning
4 times more than any other film that year.
1940- Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (44) died of a heart attack
at Hollywood columnist Sheila Graham's house.
She had just left the house to buy him some candy.
His last words were 'Hershey bars will be fine..."
1944- Walt Disney’s The Three Caballeros premiered in Mexico
City.
1971- Richard William's animated TV special "A
Christmas Carol" with Alastair Sim reprising his Scrooge.
1979- Disney’s Sci-Fi film The Black Hole opened in
theaters.
1982- Thom Riley, one of the stars of the TV cop show ChiPS
was busted for driving stoned on Quaaludes.
2012- The Walt Disney Company
spent $4.06 billion to buy Lucasfilm, ILM and the Star Wars rights. George
Lucas retired to do philanthropic pursuits.
2089- According to Ridley Scott,
today the good ship Prometheus lands on the Original Planet.
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