We need escapism now more than ever so on this July 17th let's looks back into Showbiz History for easier things to think about then the here and now.
ten random things that happened on this day in showbiz history...
1899 Oscar winning James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy) born in New York City
1935 Two famous actors share this birthday: Donald Sutherland born in Canada and Diahann Carroll born in the Bronx. Happy 83rd to both of them!
← 1942 Lana Turner marries restaurateur and ladies man Stephen Crane (he dated several famous actresses, married two of them). Get this: between July 1942 and August 1944 they married, got an anullment, got remarried, had a baby (Lana's only child, Cheryl), and then got divorced! Lana lived a tumultuous life...
1958 Wong Kar Wai born in Shanghai. Makes one of the rare perfect movies 42 years later (In the Mood for Love)
1959 Legendary singer Billie Holliday dies at 44 of cirrohsis of the liver
1981 A big weekend as three famous movies all opened: the romantic comedy Arthur, the teen sex drama Endless Love, and the comedy Zorro the Gay Blade all hit theaters.
1985 Tom Cullen, star of gay classic Weekend and man of Tatiana Maslany, born in Wales
2009 (500) Days of Summer opens in limited releases while Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince hogs screens on its own opening day.
2015 Mr Holmes opens in limited release. An Oscar campaign for Sir Ian McKellen doesn't pan out (in the new documentary McKellen: Playing the Part you'll learn that Sir Ian wasn't too pleased about this!). Yours truly attended one of those campaign events and snapped this pic of Sir Ian with famous co-stars and friends:
2020 Supposedly a Bob's Burgers animated movie is going to open on this day! That show is genius but the immediate question is: Does it need a movie?