Birthdays: Dr. Martin Luther King, Moliere, Gamal Abdel
Nasser, outlaw Cole Younger, Charro, Matthew Brady, drummer Gene Krupa, Lloyd
Bridges, Mario Van Peebles, Josef Broyer the mentor of Sigmund Freud, Margaret
O’Brien, Aristotle Onassis, Captain Beefheart, Dr. Edward Teller, Former Disney
animator and animation educator Dave Pruiksma
1936-THE DGA- Several top Hollywood directors including
Lewis Milestone, Ruben Mamoulian and William Wellman met at King Vidor’s house
and pledged $100 dollars each to form the Screen Director’s Guild, later the
Director’s Guild of America. It was a risky thing to do, previous attempts to
form a directors union were broken up with threats by the producers of a perpetual
blacklisting. Final recognition and contracts were signed by President Frank
Capra in 1940. One provision insisted on in the contract was that the
director’s credit be the final name in the opening titles before the movie
began. And so it remains.
1960- Walt Disney Presents Leslie Neilsen as Revolutionary War
guerrilla Francis Marion in the adventure series Swamp Fox.
1974- The first episode of Happy Days premiered with Ron
Howard as Richie Cunningham and Henry Winkler as Da Fonz.
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