Birthdays: Egon Scheile, John
Roebling the builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, Uta Hagen, Chick Corea, Sir
Anthony Eden, Jim Nabors, Vic Damone, David Rockefeller, Irwin Allen, Marv
Albert, Arthur Fellig-better known as Weegee, Sherry Stringfield, Former President George Herbert Walker Bush is
92, if Anne Frank had survived she would be 87 today, Clyde Geronimi,
Richard
Sherman of the Sherman Bros is 88
1616- Pocahontas, now called Lady
Rebecca Rolfe, landed in England with her husband and son Thomas.
1962- In Modesto California, a
teenage film student named George Lucas was almost killed in a car accident.
1963- Twentieth Century Fox premiered
the Elizabeth Taylor -Richard Burton epic CLEOPATRA. Costing $44 million, $400
million in modern money, four times more than the average film, it remains in
comparable dollars the costliest disaster in movie history. Fox had to cut 2,000 jobs and
almost went bankrupt. On the plus side,
Andy Warhol said Cleopatra was the most influential movie of the 1960s because
suddenly every woman had to have heavy black eyeliner, light lipstick and
Egyptian style straight bobbed hair and bangs.
1999-
Disney’s Tarzan premiered.
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