Showbiz History: '98's American History X, '80s Harry Hamlin

8 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

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.

1943 Federico Fellini (23) and Giulietta Masina (22) marry in Italy. A scriptwriter and a radio actress at the time, they will become legends.

American History X, Baby Boom, Harry Hamlin, and more after the jump...

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Horror Actressing: Greta Gerwig in "The House of the Devil"

by Jason Adams

When I wrote up last week's entry in our "Great Moments in Horror Actressing" series, about the latest greatest entry in what I dubbed the "Horror Movie Funny Friend Hall of Fame," I didn't intend to make a series-within-series out of it... even though I did name-check several other favorite performances that fit within this kind of role, up to and including today's entry. I didn't intend it but why fight it when today is the great Greta Gerwig's birthday, and her work in Ti West's 2009 low-key Satanic Panic shocker The House of the Devil is one of its finest examples...

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