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Monday
Apr172017

On this day: Liz's first Oscar, Daffy's debut, and Juliet from the house of Capulet

On this day in history as it relates to showbiz...

1865 Mary Surratt arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of President Lincoln. Robin Wright played her in the movie The Conspirator

1912 Opera singer/actress Martha Eggerth (For Me and My Gal) born in Budapest. She died just a few years ago

1918 Great actor / star William Holden (Picnic, Sunset Blvd, Sabrina, Network)  born in Illinois...

1926 Oscar nominee Joan Lorring (The Corn is Green) born in Hong Kong

1937 Daffy Duke and Elmer J Fudd make their cartoon debuts in "Porky's Duck Hunt" released on this very day, They would both star in countless shorts thereafter.


Porky's Duck Hunt (1937) by voiceman91

 

1951 Olivia Hussey of Franco Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet fame born in Buenos Aires. She won the Globe for "Most Promising Newcomer". Wonder why the HFPA discontinued that prize?

1959 Sean Bean is born. Becomes very famous by dying at the end of season 1 movie 1 of Lord of the Rings and at the end of season 1 of Game of Thrones. He never gets to see things through!

 

1961 The Aparment takes Best Picture at the 1960 Oscars. Elizabeth Taylor wins her first Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 which everyone should see because she's wildly charimastic in it. Don't listen to the haters - "NO SALE!"

1967 Happy 50th birthday to the great actress Kimberly Elise (Beloved, For Colored Girls, Dope). She doesn't work anywhere close to enough given the size of her gift.

1972 Jennifer Garner is born. Later amasses a kind of sizeable devout fandom that I've never personally wrapped my head around. You?

1976 Actress/Director Maïwenn (My King, Polisse) born in France

1980 Happy 37th to the cutest male TV star Nicholas D'Agosto (Masters of Sex, Gotham, Trial and Error)

1985 Rooney Mara born. Becomes The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Later, like the rest of humanity, falls for Cate Blanchett

1987 Rumplestiltskin starring Amy Irving opens in movie theaters. Part of a long forgotten attempt by the Cannon Group to do a 16 film fairy tale franchise. Only 9 were completed. Fast forward 30 years and everyone is thinking in terms of long franchises and "universes"

1998 The Object of My Affection opens in movie theaters with Paul Rudd playing gay and Jennifer Aniston as his best girl who wishes they were more

2009 17 Again opens in movie theaters. Confession: I have never seen it. Funny or...?

2011 Game of Thrones premieres on HBO. Nobody ever shuts up about it thereafter.  

2015 Far From the Madding Crowd hits movie theaters. Becomes a sleeper hit. That was a good one, wasn't it? Well, I liked it at any rate.

How are you celebrating life on this fine Monday morning? 

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Reader Comments (12)

nicholas d'agosto is fucking hot

April 17, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMARIAHHHHHHH

I agree with you that Elizabeth Taylor was not as awful as many would have us believe, but the film really stank. That Oscar belonged to Deborah Kerr in The Sundowners.

April 17, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMarcos

Maiwenn -- perhaps best known as Diva Plavalaguna from The Fifth Element!

April 17, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterJames from Ames

""Most Promising Newcomer". Wonder why the HFPA discontinued that prize?"

Pia. Zadora.

April 17, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterpar

Butterfield is such a terrible movie. The Apartment should have won his & hers. In my personal awards, that would be Lemmon's second win in a row after Some Like It Hot.

April 17, 2017 | Unregistered Commentercal roth

I think par found the answer to your question regarding the Most Promising Newcomer Golden Globe.

Also born on this day: Writer and Meryl Streep character Karen Blixen (1885), and the directors Lindsay Anderson (1923) and Majid Majidi (1959), who directed the first Iranian film to get an Oscar nomination.

April 17, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMrW

I guess Nathaniel has deliberately blocked out the fact that Zadora "won" the Globe over Kathleen Turner.

April 17, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterJan

Oh, Object of My Affection. *sighs longingly for gay Paul Rudd*

April 17, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterScott

Jennifer Garner Shade!

April 17, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterRami

The knee-jerk reaction has always been Butterfield 8 is bad= Elizabeth Taylor was bad in it.
Not the case. Taylor was forced to make it, which probably enhanced her defiant portrayal. ET gives a classic star elevating a bad vehicle turn, much like Bette Davis in Dangerous, which also got her a consolation first Oscar.

April 17, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterrick gould

a) Yeah, Taylor isn't terrible in Butterfield 8, but she didn't deserve a win or nomination.

b) That Rumpelstiltskin thing is a fantastic fact.

April 18, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterArkaan

I wld totally replaced Liz's nom w Jean Simmons' turn in Elmer Gantry (who was unfairly snubbed), so tt Deborah Kerr wld finally won for her last nom role and a deserving win too.

Liz is not bad in BU8, but it is hardly her best work at all!! its def a consolation prize! I blamed the Trajectory!

April 22, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterClaran
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