Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Animation Fun Facts for Aug 10, 2021


Birthdays: Alexander Glauzunov, Billie Holiday, Eddie Fisher, Leo Fender, Herbert Hoover, Polish King Jan III Sobieski, Norma Shearer, Rhonda Fleming, Jimmy Dean, Justin Theroux, Rosanna Arquette is 62, Antonio Banderas is 61


1629- Spanish painter Diego Velasquez traveled to Italy to study the Renaissance Masters on the advice of his buddy, painter Peter Paul Rubens.


1787- Mozart completes his Eine Kleine Nachtmusik -A Little Night Music.


1788- Mozart’s on a roll! This day he completed his Jupiter Symphony #41. It was his last symphony. He never heard it performed in his lifetime



1948 – Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC.


1970 - Jim Morrison is charged in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"


1972 - Paul & Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession.


1981- The animated movie Heavy Metal opened in theaters.


1984- Famed New Yorker cartoonist and former Disney artist Virgil “Vip” Partch died in a car crash with his wife, outside of Valencia, California.


1987- Clara Peller, the elderly actress who gained last minute advertising fame by saying Where's the Beef? died at 86.  The director and writer of the spots was the father of J.J. Sedelmier, who created the Ambiguously Gay Duo and other TV Funhouse animations for SNL.


2001- Warner Bros film Osmosis Jones opened in general theaters. 


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