Birthdays: Galileo, French King
Louis XV, Michael Praetorius, Susan B. Anthony, Charles Tiffany, John
Barrymore, Jane Seymour, Cesar Romero, Gale Sondergard, Melissa Manchester,
Chris Farley, Claire Bloom, Chris MacDonald, Marissa Berenson is 69, Matt
Groening is 62
1947- During the anti-Communist
witch hunt, the FBI revoked the visa of famed documentary filmmaker and founder
of the National Film Board of Canada John Grierson because they thought his
politics were too lefty.
1950- Walt Disney’s Cinderella
opened in general theater release.
1954- Future President and b-movie
star Ronald Reagan tried doing a stand-up act at the Las Vegas Ramona Room with
the "Honey Brothers", a comedy troupe similar to Abbot &
Costello.
1984- Touchstone Pictures created,
so the Walt Disney Company could do more adult PG movies. Their first film was Splash, starring a tastefully topless
Darryl Hannah.
1994- After months of insane
bidding, Viacom’s Sumner Redstone beat out QVC’s Barry Diller to buy Paramount
Pictures. The cost is $20 billion, although the studio’s net worth was
estimated at $8 billion. When asked, Diller replied: “What’s done is done.
Next.”
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