Birthdays: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Jenny Lind the Swedish
Nightingale, George Westinghouse, Janet Gaynor, Carol Lombard, Karol
Szymanowski, Thor Heyderthal, wrestler Bruno Sammartino, Britt Eckland, Le
Corbusier, Elizabeth Shue is 54, Sean William Scott,
Jeremy Sisto is 43, Ioan Guffrudd is 44
1880- First classes at University of
Southern California or USC.
1889- Paris' naughty nightclub the Moulin Rouge opened.
1921- In London the society known as PPEN established, for
Poets, Playwrights, Editors and Novelists.
1927-"THE JAZZ SINGER" with Al Jolson debuts.
Okay, somebody made a sound picture in 1924, and also something called
"Footlights of New York" from 1926 but hey, you know what?- who cares!
THIS was the movie that made "Talkies" a reality. The success
of this film turned Warner Bros from a minor film company into a major
Hollywood studio. Within a year of this opening, all but a handful of major
movie theaters were showing sound movies. 26 year old Walt Disney was in the
audience at that opening night, and it made him realize he needed to put sound
in his cartoons.
1959- “Pillow Talk” premiered, the
first romantic comedy pairing Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Stanley Shapiro won a
best screenplay Oscar for it. The film typified the wink-wink attitude about
sex before the 1960’s Sexual Revolution and defined Doris Day’s reputation as
the wholesome, girl-next-door archetype.
1966- California became the first
state to officially declare LSD illegal.
Hippies in San Francisco celebrate by rallying in Golden Gate Park in
the thousands, and all taking a tab together.
1971- William Freidkin’s gritty cop movie the FRENCH
CONNECTION premiered. The film won best picture, director and actor Oscars,
made a major star out of Gene Hackman. One unforeseen result was the movie
stimulated interest in pursuing the investigation of the real French-Corsican
Mafia heroin trafficking in the US. That mob was soon broken up. The two real
life detectives the film was based on- Eddie Egan and Sonny Corso, booth
retired from the NYPD and pursued careers in show biz.
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