Birthdays: Tyrone Power, Karl Marx, Elizabeth Cochrane
called Nellie Bly, Soren Kierkegard, Alice Faye, James Beard, Michael Palin is
74, Pat Carroll the voice of Ursula, Patrick Ewing, John Rhys Davies is 73, Lance Henriksen is 77,
Brian Williams, Disney artist Floyd Gottfredson
1945- Happy Birthday Yosemite Sam! Hare Trigger, the first
cartoon to feature the red mustachioed desperado premiered.
1953- Broadway Director Jerome Robbins was riding high after
directing hits like On the Town and King & I, when he was labeled a
Communist. To save his career, this day he testified before Joseph McCarthy’s
House UnAmerican Activities Committee and named names. One actress he finked
on, Margaret Lee said” I’ve just been
stabbed by a wicked fairy”. Ironically, Jerome Robbins went on to direct
two of his biggest hits “A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum and the Fiddler on the Roof using blacklisted actors like Zero Mostel,
Beatrice Arthur and Jack Gilford, who all hated him.
1968- Albert Dekker, star of monster movies like Dr.
Cyclops, was found hanged in his bathroom, handcuffed, and wearing ladies
lingerie. A narcotics needle was sticking in his arm. The police declared it
an “ auto-erotic episode that had gone
wrong."
1975- Anne Rice’s novel The Interview With The Vampire first
published.
1983-At a regional Comicon, the first edition comic of
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came out and sold out within two hours.
2006- Walt Disney Company formally acquired Pixar Studio.
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