Birthdays: Leadbelly (Harlan
Ledbetter), Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, J. Carol Naish, Tele
Savalas, Christian Dior, Placido Domingo is 78, Wolfman Jack, Paul Scofield,
Robby Benson, Jack Nicklaus, Benny Hill, Emma Bunton- Baby Spice of the Spice
Girls, Gena Davis is 62, Ken Leung is 48
1916- The National Board of Review
outlawed nudity in Hollywood movies.
1930- Walt’s top animator Ub
Iwerks quit The Walt Disney Company.
1935- Disney animator Ollie
Johnston’s first day at the studio, at $17 a week.
1938 -Max Fleischer tells his New
York cartoon studio they are relocating to Florida.
1938- George Melies, the father of
Motion Picture Special Effects, died, He had been reduced selling trinkets in a
little store in a Paris train station, but had a bit of the rediscovery by the film
community in his final years. On his deathbed he gave his friends a drawing he
made of a champagne bottle popping. He said “Laugh, my
friends. Laugh with me, laugh for me, because I dream your dreams."
1943- Legendary big band drummer
Gene Krupa was arrested in San Francisco for sending a kid to get him some
marijuana. He served 84 of a 90 day sentence.
1959- Former 'Our Gang' child star
Charles 'Alfalfa" Switzer was killed in a bar in Mission Hills, Ca. He
pulled a knife on a man over a $50 debt on a hunting dog. The man then shot
him. He was 32. According to fellow Little Rascal Darla Hood, Switzer was a
brute who bullied the other children, and bitter his adult career never
blossomed.
1992-
Disney's Beauty and the Beast becomes
the first animated film ever to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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