Birthdays: Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, Frederick the
Warlike of Saxony-1370, Ethel Kennedy is 88, Joel Grey is 84, Louise Lasser,
Mason Reese, Oleg Cassini, Cameron Mitchell. Norman McClaren, Bill Irwin, John
Milius, Jennifer Esposito
1914- George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion premiered at the
Haymarket in London.
1931- Dorothy Parker resigned her job as drama critic for
the New Yorker Magazine. Mrs Parker was known for her witty but caustic reviews
like “Her performance ran the gamut from A to B.” She married an actor named
Cambell and moved to Hollywood to become a screenwriter. While on her honeymoon
the magazine bugged her for some more fixes on an article. She sent a telegram
from Paris:
” Don’t bother me. F*cking busy. And visa-versa. “
1933- the Bauhaus directed by Mies Van Der Rohe was closed
down by the Nazis.
1950- First day filming on the movie All About Eve. As Bette
Davis said “Fasten your seatbelts, its
going to be a bumpy night.”
1955- WABD in New York and KTLA in Los Angeles began running
pre-1948 Warner Bros cartoon shorts in a half hour format, introducing the baby
boomer generation to the world of Bugs, Daffy and Porky.
1981- Valerie Bertinelli married rocker Eddie Van Halen.
1983- At that year’s Academy Awards the winner for Best
Animated Short was Polish artist Zybigniew Rybcyzinski for his film Tango.
During the ceremony he stepped outside for a smoke. When Security guards
refused to let him re-enter, he became combative, shouting the only English he
knew: ” I Have Oscar!” He wound up in and LA jail for assault and his Oscar wound up in the
bushes.
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