Birthdays: Wolf Tone, Jacques Offenbach, Lillian Hellman,
Errol Flynn, Audie Murphy,
Andre Watts, Cyndee Lauper, Bob Vila, Chet Atkins, Stephen
Frears, Brian Wilson, Robert Rodriquez, John Goodman, Martin Landau, John
Mahoney, Nicole Kidman is 49
1936- Mickey short Moving Day premiered.
1940- Artist Alberto Vargas signs a contract with Esquire
Magazine to paint the ‘Vargas Girls’ pin ups that made the magazine famous. He replaced
artist George Petty who was demanding $1,500 a week. Vargas was paid $75 a
week. Today an original Vargas goes for $350,000.
1941-Walt Disney's "the
Reluctant Dragon" premiered, with cartoonist's pickets around the
Pantages Theater in Hollywood. Police actually have to close part of Hollywood
Blvd. out of concern for what the rampaging animators might do. Ironically the movie was part documentary about how wonderful life was working
at the Disney studio.
1947- Benjamin Bugsy Siegel, the gangster creator of modern Las
Vegas, was murdered while reading his evening paper in his Beverly Hills home.
He had bought the mansion from opera singer George London for his girlfriend
actress Virginia Hill. The order to whack Bugsy was probably given by his old
friend Mayer Lansky. The Mob was fed up with Bugsy’s cost overruns to build Las
Vegas. The second owner of his Flamingo casino, Gus Greenbaum, had his throat
cut with a butcher knife. Despite all, the Flamingo and the Las Vegas Strip
went on to become a great success.
1948- The Ed Sullivan Show "Toast of the Town"
later to be “the Ed Sullivan Show” premiered. Sullivan's show was the showcase
that brought new acts like Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Signor Winces and the
Rolling Stones into the average American living room.
1975- Steven Spielberg’s movie Jaws opened, bringing back the monster-hit event movie.
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