Showbiz History: Dead Poets, The Crown, and Annie Potts' Debut
Saturday, June 2, 2018 at 9:30AM Happy birthday June 2nd-ers! Here's what was happening in showbiz or showbiz-related history on the day you were born...
1740 The Marquis de Sade is born. Lives on in immortal infamy and morphs into Geoffrey Rush in 2000 for the SAG & Golden Globe nominated Quills. I always forget that that movie WON Best Picture at the NBR and then wasn't even Oscar nominated for Best Picture (a thing that doesn't happen super often.)
1865 The American Civil War reaches a major turning point signalling the end (basically) when the final Confederate army ceases to exist with a surrender in Missississippi. There's a million movies on the matter (well, not that event in particular). The wounds have obviously become reinfected of late, so expect even more.
1904 Athlete and movie star Johnny Weismuller born in Austria-Hungary (in what is now Romania)...