On This Day: Globes for two goddesses. Plus a non-jolly green giant
Friday, March 10, 2017 at 12:50PM 
On this day in history as it relates to showbiz...
1892 One of Old Hollywood's most undersung but talented 1930s directors Gregory La Cava is born. Classics include Stage Door and My Man Godfrey
1913 Famed abolitionist and American hero Harriet Tubman dies of pneumonia. So glad she's getting biopic treatment soon. And twice over!
1938 The 10th annual Oscars are held with The Life of Emile Zzzzzola winning Best Picture and Louise Rainer taking her consecutive Best Actress prize but the most enduring anecdote was of course the theft of Alice Brady's Oscar for In Old Chicago.
1958 Sharon Stone is born in Pennysylvania
The 1959 Golden Globes (and more) are after the jump...
1960 The Golden Globes of 1959 are held (though it should be noted that there are conflicting reports and some say it was March 8th). Some Like it Hot was the big winner taking three prizes: Comedy Picture, Comedy Actor (Jack Lemmon), and Comedy Actress (Marilyn Monroe). Elizabeth Taylor won in Drama for Suddenly Last Summer; huge fan of that performance, I am! You?
Was 1959 the peak of Liz's beauty? You be the judge...
Here she is in 1959 at some glamorous event. Or possibly just a Tuesday night, who knows with Liz!
Curiously NONE of the Globe acting winners that year went on to win Oscars. It should also be mentioned that Ben-Hur was a big winner in Drama. Supporting Actor went to Stephen Boyd for his delicious turn as homoerotic Messala. He wasn't nominated for the Oscar but his non-Globe nominated costar Hugh Griffith was... and won. 1959 is one early example of the Globes being more insightful than the Oscars ... which happens occassionally and which they almost never get any credit for, probably because they make inexplicable or questionably motivated decisions just as often.
1962 Actress Jasmine Guy is born
1971 Jon Hamm is born in St Louis
1978 "The Incredible Hulk" premieres on TV with Bill Bixby as Bruce Banner. You wouldn't like him when he's angry and becomes Lou Ferigno, painted green.
1982 Silicon Valley star Thomas Middleditch is born
1983 Rafe Spall is born. He's the son of Timothy Spall which is always so hard to remember -- probably due to the slimming down and muscling up.
1984 Olivia Wilde is born
1997 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one of the greatest things that ever existed, premiered on TV. Happy 20th Buffyverse!
2017 Kong: Skull Island opening weekend. It's actually the 8th King Kong movie though only really a few of them are famous. Also opening today the adaptation of Julian Barnes novel The Sense of an Ending and the second mesmerizing Kirsten Stewart / Olivier Assayas collaboration, Personal Shopper.
P.S. have you seen Kristen Stewart's new haircut she wore to the premiere. Wowza!
Reader Comments (18)
The haircut reminds me of Demi Moore.
It reminds me of Lori Petty.
It reminds me of Brigitte Bardot.
Also, St. Louis Shout Out!!!! Fellow St. Louisan John Goodman is getting his star on the Walk of Fame at 1130 Pacific Time. I'm sadly at work, or would attend.
Curious that you would mention two supporting actors from Ben-Hur, but not Sam Jaffe, who was born on March 10, 1891.
Two more notables: Oscar oddity Barry Fitzgerald (1888) and Katie Hepburn's on-screen daughter and real-life niece Katharine Houghton (1945).
Wait, Rafe Spall is Timothy Spall's son?! How come I didn't know that? That may be weirder than the Skargsard family.
Gregory La Cava is great. He had a talent for getting fresh performances from actors. I love "Stage Door"--the comedy holds up beautifully after 80 years.
I hope there's some sort of Buffy anniversary post coming!
Jean Seberg
I was watching Taylor and Burton in "The VIPs" on TCM a really fun movie filled with stars including Orson Welles as movie producer, Louis Jourdan as gigolo and the very hot Rod Taylor. Liz looks ravishing
The redeeming factor of the Globes is, that they DID award Marilyn Monroe, and in one of her most iconic peformances...it's heartbreaking to know that the biggest screen icon - and a great actress, specially in comedy - died without even a nomination at the Oscars... I mean, not for "Bus Stop", "Some Like it Hot" or "The Misfits"... one can't help but wondering how long would have taken the AMPAS to finally recognise her, if she didn't die so young.
Liz 's beauty was foremost in the 50',s and ,60's. I thought she was the most beautiful in the movie "Elephant Walk.
that you didn't title this "i'll show you a [winning] pair of golden globes" disappoints me a little
spooky how our once fave tv show premiered on the birthday of the man who would star in its successor
@Jesus Alonso
No one then knew Monroe would transcend the stars of the era to become a continued cultural icon. It is something many cannot foresee because we only comprehend the now and before.
I bet Sharon Stone's birthday parties are fucking wild.
I'm partial to Taylor's gorgeousness in A Place in the Sun and Giant.
Jaragon: you are so right about Rod Taylor. Though his looks didn't last he was so sexy from the late 50's-late 60's.
Jill- " Elephant Walk" is one my favorite movies and yes LIz looks stunning...
Stewart's haircut is for that underwater disaster film she's doing