Birthdays: Galileo, French King
Louis XV, Michael Praetorius, Susan B. Anthony, Charles Tiffany, John
Barrymore, Jane Seymour, Cesar Romero, Gale Sondergard, Melissa Manchester, Chris
Farley, Claire Bloom, Chris MacDonald, Marissa Berenson is 71, Matt Groening is
64
1947- During the anti-Communist
witch hunt, the FBI revoked the visa of famed documentary filmmaker and founder
of the National Film Board of Canada John Grierson because they thought his
politics were too lefty.
1950- Walt Disney’s Cinderella opened in general theater
release.
1954- Future President and b-movie
star Ronald Reagan tried doing a stand-up act at the Las Vegas Ramona Room with
the "Honey Brothers", a comedy troupe similar to Abbot &
Costello.
1984- Touchstone Pictures created,
so the Walt Disney Company could do more adult PG movies. Their first film was Splash, starring a tastefully topless
Darryl Hannah.
1994- After months of insane
bidding, Viacom’s Sumner Redstone beat out QVC’s Barry Diller to buy Paramount Pictures.
The cost was $20 billion, although the studio’s net worth was estimated at $8
billion. When asked, Diller replied: “What’s done is done. Next.”
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