Showbiz History: The Children's Hour, Little Shop, and a Gyllenhalic holiday
6 random things that happened on this day, December 19th, in showbiz history...
1915 Edith Giovanna Gassion born in Paris and immediately abandoned by her mother. She would be raised by prostitutes and would become the famous songbird Edith Piaf, her last name slang for "sparrow", and eventually an international icon. Her life was dramatized (in excruciatingly non-linear fashion as was the fad in the mid Aughts) in 2007's La Vie En Rose which won Marion Cotillard the Best Actress Oscar. Like her contemporary Judy Garland she would struggle with addiction and die at age 47 years in the 1960s.
1961 The now infamous drama The Children's Hour opens in theaters on its way to 5 Oscar nominations...