Birthdays: Czar
Peter the Great, Benny Goodman, Mel Blanc, Stepin Fetchit, Boris Pasternak,
Irving Thalberg, Milt Neil, Howard Hawks, Gale Sayers, Michael J. Pollard,
Wynonna, Keir Dullea is 80, Ceelo Green is 41, Idina Menzel is 45
1919- Hollywood
entrepreneur Charles Tolman bought a natural declivity north of Hollywood Blvd
called Daisy Dell. People had been picnicking in the grass there for years. Now
Tolman wanted to build a concert amphitheatre. Conductor Hugo Kirchhofer
remarked “ It looks like a big bowl!” So it became the Hollywood Bowl
thereafter.
1930- The Lockheed
Terminal rededicated as Burbank Airport.
1955-
The New York chapter of the Catholic League of Decency pressured Loews Theater
on Broadway to take down a giant 30-foot billboard of Marilyn Monroe trying to
push her skirt down.
1962- Benjamin
Britten’s War Requiem had it’s first performance.
1972- Director
choreographer Bob Fosse filmed a live performance of Liza Minelli’s one-woman
show Liza with a Z. It was telecast in Sept. and became a sensation.
2003- Pixar’s Finding Nemo opened.
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