The weekend is beginning so have fun. Since today is BUtterfield 8's 56th anniversary, let Liz's "Gloria Wandrous" be your spirit guide. Whatever you're planning for tonight, wake up unashamed tomorrow!
More On this Day in Showbiz History goodies after the jump
1842 Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln are wed. Some 160 years later Sally Field and Daniel Day Lewis absolutely kill it while playing them
Mini OSCAR WINNING ACTOR MEDLEY on this day in the 1910s...
1913 Oscar winner Gig Young (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?) born in Minnesota
1918 Oscar winner Art Carney (Harry & Tonto) born in Mount Vernon
1919 Oscar winner Martin Balsam (A Thousand Clowns) born in the Bronx
1934 Two time Oscar nominated cinematographer Miroslav Ondrícek is born in Prague. His grand career included Amadeus, Ragtime, A League of Their Own, The Firemen's Ball, and Hair. Cinephiles over 35 might remember that at one point it felt like every famous cinematographer in Hollywood was Czech!
1937 Loretta Swit is born. Takes over the "Hot Lips Houlihan" role in M*A*S*H* from Oscar nominated Sally Kellerman and is nominated for 10 Emmys and wins 2 of them
1946 Super talented cinematographer Frederick Elmes is born in New Jersey. His films include Blue Velvet, Hulk, Paterson, Wild at Heart, The Ice Storm, Synecdoche NY, and In the Gloaming among many others. He has never been nominated for an Oscar
1969 Matthew McConaughey born in Texas. First words "alrightalrightalright". We interviewed him in person and his eyes were so dangerous/intense up close!
1971 Indian actress Tabu (The Namesake, Life of Pi, Astitva, Haider) is born
1982 Rising actor Chris Greene (Loving, Birth of a Nation, Atlanta) is born in Mount Vernon
1994 Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein opens in theaters to skeeve people out with its makeup designs
2005 An expectation dashing weekend at the movies as Disney's nadir Chicken Little and Sam Mendes 'whatsthis?' military drama Jarhead both open. But at the least the latter gave us eternal gifs of Jake Gyllenhaal in nothing but a Santa cap
2008 Barack Obama elected President, the first African American president of the US. May we have a similar first time excitement this Tuesday by electing the first woman! #ImWithHer
2011 The Muppets film franchise is revived in theaters with Amy Adams and Jason Segel as its too-adorable humans and Walter as its new muppet ("why?" on the latter). The film wins Best Original Song at the Oscars the following February for "Man or Muppet" by Bret McKenzie who we interviewed about it
2016 Dr Strange, Loving, Hacksaw Ridge (reviewed), Trolls, and Peter and the Farm open in movie theaters. See something and report back!