Birthdays: Egon Scheile, John Roebling the builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, Uta Hagen, Chick Corea, Sir Anthony Eden, Jim Nabors, Vic Damone, David Rockefeller, Irwin Allen, Marv Albert, Arthur Fellig-better known as Weegee, Sherry Stringfield, Former President George Herbert Walker Bush is 94, if Anne Frank had survived she would be 89 today, Clyde Geronimi, Richard Sherman of the Sherman Bros is 90
1616- Pocahontas, now called Lady Rebecca Rolfe, landed in England with her husband and son Thomas.
1949- The first LA parking ticket.
1962- In Modesto California, a teenage film student named George Lucas was almost killed in a car accident.
1963- Twentieth Century Fox premiered the Elizabeth Taylor -Richard Burton epic CLEOPATRA. Costing $44 million, $400 million in modern money, four times more than the average film, it remains in comparable dollars the costliest disaster in movie history.
Fox had to cut 2,000 jobs and almost went bankrupt. The area of LA known as Century City with its huge shopping mall used to be the Fox backlot before Cleopatra.
On the plus side, Andy Warhol said Cleopatra was the most influential movie of the 1960s because suddenly every woman had to have heavy black eyeliner, light lipstick and Egyptian style straight bobbed hair and bangs.
1981- Steven Spielberg’s movie Raiders of the Lost Arkpremiered.
1999- Disney’s Tarzanpremiered.
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