On this day: Liz's first Oscar, Daffy's debut, and Juliet from the house of Capulet
Monday, April 17, 2017 at 8:00AM On this day in history as it relates to showbiz...
1865 Mary Surratt arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of President Lincoln. Robin Wright played her in the movie The Conspirator
1912 Opera singer/actress Martha Eggerth (For Me and My Gal) born in Budapest. She died just a few years ago
1918 Great actor / star William Holden (Picnic, Sunset Blvd, Sabrina, Network) born in Illinois...
1926 Oscar nominee Joan Lorring (The Corn is Green) born in Hong Kong
1937 Daffy Duke and Elmer J Fudd make their cartoon debuts in "Porky's Duck Hunt" released on this very day, They would both star in countless shorts thereafter.
Porky's Duck Hunt (1937) by voiceman91
1951 Olivia Hussey of Franco Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet fame born in Buenos Aires. She won the Globe for "Most Promising Newcomer". Wonder why the HFPA discontinued that prize?
1959 Sean Bean is born. Becomes very famous by dying at the end of season 1 movie 1 of Lord of the Rings and at the end of season 1 of Game of Thrones. He never gets to see things through!
1961 The Aparment takes Best Picture at the 1960 Oscars. Elizabeth Taylor wins her first Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 which everyone should see because she's wildly charimastic in it. Don't listen to the haters - "NO SALE!"
1967 Happy 50th birthday to the great actress Kimberly Elise (Beloved, For Colored Girls, Dope). She doesn't work anywhere close to enough given the size of her gift.
1972 Jennifer Garner is born. Later amasses a kind of sizeable devout fandom that I've never personally wrapped my head around. You?
1976 Actress/Director Maïwenn (My King, Polisse) born in France
1980 Happy 37th to the cutest male TV star Nicholas D'Agosto (Masters of Sex, Gotham, Trial and Error)
1985 Rooney Mara born. Becomes The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Later, like the rest of humanity, falls for Cate Blanchett
1987 Rumplestiltskin starring Amy Irving opens in movie theaters. Part of a long forgotten attempt by the Cannon Group to do a 16 film fairy tale franchise. Only 9 were completed. Fast forward 30 years and everyone is thinking in terms of long franchises and "universes"
1998 The Object of My Affection opens in movie theaters with Paul Rudd playing gay and Jennifer Aniston as his best girl who wishes they were more
2009 17 Again opens in movie theaters. Confession: I have never seen it. Funny or...?
2011 Game of Thrones premieres on HBO. Nobody ever shuts up about it thereafter.
2015 Far From the Madding Crowd hits movie theaters. Becomes a sleeper hit. That was a good one, wasn't it? Well, I liked it at any rate.
How are you celebrating life on this fine Monday morning?
Reader Comments (12)
nicholas d'agosto is fucking hot
I agree with you that Elizabeth Taylor was not as awful as many would have us believe, but the film really stank. That Oscar belonged to Deborah Kerr in The Sundowners.
Maiwenn -- perhaps best known as Diva Plavalaguna from The Fifth Element!
""Most Promising Newcomer". Wonder why the HFPA discontinued that prize?"
Pia. Zadora.
Butterfield is such a terrible movie. The Apartment should have won his & hers. In my personal awards, that would be Lemmon's second win in a row after Some Like It Hot.
I think par found the answer to your question regarding the Most Promising Newcomer Golden Globe.
Also born on this day: Writer and Meryl Streep character Karen Blixen (1885), and the directors Lindsay Anderson (1923) and Majid Majidi (1959), who directed the first Iranian film to get an Oscar nomination.
I guess Nathaniel has deliberately blocked out the fact that Zadora "won" the Globe over Kathleen Turner.
Oh, Object of My Affection. *sighs longingly for gay Paul Rudd*
Jennifer Garner Shade!
The knee-jerk reaction has always been Butterfield 8 is bad= Elizabeth Taylor was bad in it.
Not the case. Taylor was forced to make it, which probably enhanced her defiant portrayal. ET gives a classic star elevating a bad vehicle turn, much like Bette Davis in Dangerous, which also got her a consolation first Oscar.
a) Yeah, Taylor isn't terrible in Butterfield 8, but she didn't deserve a win or nomination.
b) That Rumpelstiltskin thing is a fantastic fact.
I wld totally replaced Liz's nom w Jean Simmons' turn in Elmer Gantry (who was unfairly snubbed), so tt Deborah Kerr wld finally won for her last nom role and a deserving win too.
Liz is not bad in BU8, but it is hardly her best work at all!! its def a consolation prize! I blamed the Trajectory!