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Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 9:53AM 7 random things that happened on this day (Nov 14th) in showbiz history
1941 Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion premieres. It reaps three Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) winning Best Actress for Joan Fontaine.
1976 Network, one of the most electric and prescient movies of all time, premieres in both LA and NY before a nationwide bow two weeks later...
Friday, November 2, 2018 at 8:00AM 7 random things that happened on this day (November 2nd) in showbiz history
1755 Marie Antoinette is born. She'll become infamous in life and a household name all around the world after her death at 37 by guillotine. She's been played in the movies by Diane Kruger, Kirsten Dunst, Michèle Morgan, Norma Shearer, Jane Seymour, and more.
1921 Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" premieres on Broadway. The classic play will become a movie 9 years later starring Greta Garbo...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 9:00AM 9 random things that happened on this day (October 30th) in showbiz history
Rudolph Valentino cheekily decides you can't watch him undress in behind the scenes footage about his Sheik movies (he made two of them)1821 Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky born in Moscow. His work, particularly the Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment, has been adapted to film and television many time.
1921 The Sheik starring Rudolph Valentino premieres, inventing the male movie star sex symbol. The world swoons. Women faint.
1938 Orson Welles radio broadcast of HG Wells "The War of the Worlds" causes mass panic when people are convinced it's real...
Friday, October 26, 2018 at 11:52AM 5 random things that happened on this day (October 26th) in film history...
1881 The Gunfight at the OK Corral lasted just 30 seconds on this day but it's been immortal since via the movies and television where it's been depicted dozens of times, most famously in Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957) and Tombstone (1993).
1911 Mahalia Jackson, one of the all time greatest singers, born in New Orleans. You know what is weird in this day and age when you can find so many film clips on the internet. There is still no decent clip of her singing "Trouble of the World" from the Douglas Sirk masterpiece Imitation of Life (1959) online. Just multiple blurry filmed off the TV renditions...
Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 9:00AM 7 random things that happened on this day (October 25th) in showbiz history
Neil Simon & Marsha Mason
1881 Pablo Picasso is born in Malaga Spain. He's been played onscreen by everyone from Antonio Banderas to Anthony Hopkins. Okay so just guys named Tony... never mind.
1973 Legendary Playwright Neil Simon marries the then little-known actress Marsha Mason, who is acting in his Broadway production "The Good Doctor" just months after his first wife's death. Mason's screen career takes off the very next year with an Oscar nomination for Cinderella Liberty. Then she & Simon make films together that Oscar really loves for the next decade like Goodbye Girl, Only When I Laugh, and Chapter Two...
