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
93, if Anne Frank had survived she would be 88 today, Clyde Geronimi,
Richard
Sherman of the Sherman Bros is 89
1949- The first LA parking ticket.
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. The cast was put up
at the swankiest hotels in Rome for months of shooting, and Liz Taylor had to
have her chili from Chasens restaurant in Beverly Hills flown in. Director Joe
Mankewicz said "Cleopatra was the toughest three pictures I ever
made!" When Liz Taylor saw the finished film, she threw up.
Fox had to cut 2,000 jobs and
almost went bankrupt. The area of LA known as Century City with its huge
shopping mall used to be the Fox backlot before Cleopatra. 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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