Birthdays: Sam Houston, Alexander Graham Bell, Kurt Weill,
Desi Arnaz ( Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III ), Ted Geisel aka Dr.Suess,
Mikhail Gorbachov, Willis O'Brian, Moe Berg, Karen Carpenter, Lou Reed,
Jennifer Jones, John Cullum is 86, John Irving, Tom Wolfe, Jon Bon Jovi is 54,
Daniel Craig is 48, animator Stephen Chiodo
1922- A 21 year old veteran named Walt Disney after getting
out of the army began studying in the public library Edwin Lutz's book
"Motion Picture Animation and How it is Made". In Kansas City he and
his brother Roy persuaded the owner of a small chain of vaudeville theaters to
fund some cartoons. Today the Newman's Laff-O-Grams Company was formed. A year
later the Disney brothers would move to Hollywood and start a new enterprise
called the Walt Disney Company.
1933- Movie "KING KONG" premiered at the new Radio
City Music Hall in New York and the Roxy. Twas Beauty killed the Beast..
1947- Crusading Hollywood union organizer Herb Sorrell was
plucked off the street in Glendale by gangsters posing as police. They may not
have been just posing, many movie studios at the time hired off-duty LAPD at
doubletime rates to rough up troublesome employees. They drive Herb up to
Mulholland and work him over, leaving him by the side of the road. Shortly
after leaving the hospital, Sorrell was jailed for disturbing public peace.
1961- Pablo Picasso married his second wife Jacqueline. He
was 80, she was 35. Jacqueline cared for the increasingly reclusive artist and
kept even his family at a distance. When Picasso died in 1973 she turned away
many family members from the funeral. Jacqueline committed suicide in 1986.
1965- The movie The
Sound of Music opened at the Rivoli theater in Manhattan.
1973- The Women in Film organization founded.
1976- Francis Ford Coppola began shooting his epic film“
Apocalypse Now” in the Philippines. The film was plagued by cost overruns, a
typhoon and his Philippine Army helicopters frequently flying off to fight real
guerrillas in the middle of shooting, but somehow it all got done.
1982- Science Fiction writer Philip K. Dick died of a stroke
in Santa Ana California. The author of stories the movies Blade Runner,
Minority Report and Total Recall were based. Dick said he was at times
possessed by a superalien who appeared in his mind in a beam of pink light. His
autobiography was titled “ I am alive and you are dead.”
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