Birthdays: Giambattista
Piazzetta, Bess Truman, Grant Wood, Lord Randolph Churchill, Fyodor Chaliapin,
Peter Tork, Oliver Reed, Chuck Yeager, Woody Hayes, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Carol
Lynley, Kim Novak is 83, George Segal is 81, Peter Gabriel, Jerry Springer is 70,
Stockard Channing is 71, Kelly Hu, Mena Suvari
1867- The Blue
Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss Jr premiered in Vienna.
1886- Artist Thomas Eakins resigned his
professorship at the Philadelphia Academy of Art in disgust when he was
attacked for having male nudes in his art class with women as students.
1914-ASCAP founded.
1932- Free Eats, the
first Our Gang short comedy to feature Spanky MacFarland.
1933-comic character
Blondie married Dagwood Bumstead.
1939- Producer David
O. Selznick replaced directors on Gone With the Wind. George Cukor was out,
Victor Fleming was in after completing The Wizard of Oz. Vivien Leigh liked
Cukor who was known for directing women, but Clark Gable convinced the
producers that they needed an action director. About 15 minutes of George Cukor’s
work remains in the picture. Victor Fleming loved
Clark, but didn't get along with Vivien Leigh and came to hate the controlling
Selznick. David O. brought in Sam Wood to direct second unit when Fleming fell
behind.
At the
end Victor Fleming had one more tantrum when Selznick proposed giving Wood and
Cukor co- screen credit.. Yet despite it all, Gone with the Wind became a box
office phenomenon. Years later Clark Gable came up to Selznick at a party and
said: "Maybe I'm wrong about
disliking you David, 'Gone With the Wind' keeps getting re-released and keeps
me a star." Selznick once said:”
My biggest fear is that all I shall ever be remembered for is producing Gone
With the Wind.”
1935-German
immigrant Bruno Richard Hauptman found guilty of the kidnap-murder of the
Lindbergh baby and electrocuted. The chief of police in the town of Bergen New
Jersey where the murder occurred was the father of Desert Storm General Norman
Schwarzkopf.
1937- Hal Foster's
comic hero Prince Valiant first appeared.
1959 -Happy Birthday
BARBIE ! Mattel introduces the plastic nymph, originally named by the German
artist who created her 'Lily" but changed to 'Barbie" by Mattel
co-owner Ruth Handler who's daughter Barbara was nicknamed that.
1964- The Invention
of Cool Whip.
1996- The
off-Broadway musical Rent by John Lawson, premiered
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