Animation Fun Facts for June 2, 2017

Birthdays: John Randolph, The Marquis DeSade, Martha Custis Washington, Thomas Hardy, Hedda Hopper, Sir Edward Elgar, Johnny Weismuller, Charlie Watts, Disney animation story artist Dick Heumer, Lotte Reinniger Marvin Hamlisch, Barry Levinson, Jon Peters, Dana Carvey, Garo Yepremian, Jerry Mathers the Beaver of the old TV show Leave it to Beaver is 69, Dayvid Haysbert is 63, Lasse Halstrom is 71

1896- Gugielmo Marconi took out a patent on wireless broadcasting - radio.

 At the time his device could be heard from almost 12 miles away!

1920- Eugene O’Neill won a Pulitzer Prize for his first play Beyond the Horizon.

1932- The Screen Publicists Guild formed

1940- Will Eisner's "The Spirit" comic first appears.

1956- Elvis Presley introduced his song “You Ain’t Nothin But a Hound Dog” on the Milton Berle TV show.

1961- Humorist writer George F. Kaufman died. He wanted on his headstone: 

"Over My Dead Body!"

1973- London animator Richard Williams closed down his Soho studio for a month so his staff could be lectured by Hollywood animation legends Art Babbitt, Chuck Jones and Ken Harris.

1996- Roy Coombs, who took over the job as host of the TV game show Family Feud after Richard Dawson, hanged himself with his bed sheets at Glendale Adventist Hospital.