Birthdays: English King Edward IV
(1442), President James Monroe, Lionel Barrymore, Oskar Schindler, Carolyn
Jones-aka Morticia Addams of the TV Addams Family, Ann Margaret is 75, Jay Leno
is 66, Saddam Hussein, Jean Redpath, James Baker III, Penelope Cruz is 42,
Jessica Alba is 37, Godzilla is 62- see below.
1925- T.S. Elliot landed a job at
Faber & Fabers Publishing. His enabled the poet to quit his job as a bank
teller at Lloyds and continue his literary career.
1937- Italy’s famed movie studio
Cinecitta’ opened.
1954- Happy Birthday Godzilla! The
movie by Ichjiro Honda was inspired when a Japanese fishing boat was fatally
exposed by radioactive fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test. Godzilla is an
Anglicized version of the Japanese Kohjira, which is a combination of Gorilla
and Whale. The parallels to the Hiroshima experience reached eerie levels when
the film has a long sequence of a funeral dirge sung to the dead of Tokyo as we
survey the devastation.
The famous roar was done by
rubbing a resin-covered glove down some bass fiddle strings. The film was later
released in the U.S. with American actor Raymond Burr (actually, Canadian
actor..) acting in inserted scenes. The complete Japanese version of the film
was not seen in North America until 2004.
1961-At La Scala, When tenor
Guiseppi Di Stefano took ill, a young schoolteacher from Modena took the lead
role in the opera La Boheme. Lucciano Pavarotti debuted.
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