Thursday, May 11, 2023

Tom Sito's Animation ALmanac for May 11, 2023


Birthdays: Salvador Dali', Jean Jerome, Chang and Eng Bunker-the original Siamese Twins-1811, Baron Munchausen, Irving Berlin, King Oliver, Martha Graham, Dr. Richard Fenyman, Mort Sahl, Foster Brooks, Denver Pyle, Henry Morgenthau, Doug McClure, Randy Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Rev Louis Farrakhan, Albert Hurter, Phil Silvers, Margaret Kerry the model for Walt Disney’s Tinkerbell is 94


1934- The Howard Hawks screwball comedy Twentieth Century premiered with John Barrymore and Carol Lombard. 



1935-Disney Silly Symphony Water Babies. Directed by Wilfred Jackson.


1945- After Nazi Germany surrendered, the Nazi-collaborator governor of occupied Norway, Josef Treboven, committed suicide by sitting on a stick of dynamite. When Wiley E. Coyote does it, it’s funny. But Norwegian Nazis? Pretty messy.


1956 -  The Pinky Lee Show last airs on NBC-TV.


1968 - actor Richard Harris attempted a singing career, releasing the song "MacArthur Park".


1972 -On the Dick Cavett talk show rock star and peace activist John Lennon said his phone had been tapped by FBI. It turns out it was, but at the time we all thought he was just paranoid from too many drugs.


1981- The musical play CATS opened in London.


1981- Bob Marley died of brain cancer at age 36. Marley and his group the Wailers, made Jamaican Reggae mainstream in pop music. 



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