Showbiz History: Mutiny on the Bounty, 8 Mile, and our oldest living Oscar winner

7 random things that happened on this day, November 8th, in showbiz history

1847 Bram Stoker born on this day in Ireland. His 1897 Dracula will go on to become a legendary epistolary novel and of course a beloved batshit crazy movie that we wrote about twice recently

1935 Mutiny on the Bounty premieres in NYC. It becomes the #1 box office hit of 1935 and holds two Oscar records...

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Mercedes McCambridge: All the King's Men (1949)

Manuel here kicking off our centennial celebration of under appreciated (and under discussed!) Oscar winning actress Mercedes McCambridge.

We begin with her film debut which also happens to be her Oscar-winning vehicle, All The King's Men. She'd been doing radio work consistently for over a decade but this was as big a break as they got. The film is a political parable about that most rare of characters, the honest politician (Broderick Crawford as Willie Stark), who succumbs to corruption on his way to the top only to be punished by his deeds. It's Shakespearean in essence and all the more powerful for being based on a real-life politician, Louisiana governor, Huey Long (the inspiration behind Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name).

It's a testosterone-fueled film with only two gals...

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