on this day in movie related history...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 2:53PM 
Victor Garber as Thomas Andrews in TITANIC (1997)Happy February 7th! Especially if its your birthday.
We realize that not doing these posts every day possibly defeats the point but after realizing that two sort of infamous men were born on this day who both were featured in Best Picture winners, we kinda sorta had to start this again.
Birthdays and film-related anniversaries after the jump...
1812 Uber famous writer Charles Dickens born in the UK. Remember when Ralph Fiennes played him in The Invisible Woman?
1867 Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of / character within The Little House on the Prairie born in Wisconsin. Child star Melissa Gilbert would later be Golden Globe nominated playing her on TV.
1873 Thomas Andrews, who famously designed the RMS Titanic and went down with it to his watery death, born in Ireland. Awesome out actor Victor Garber (currently in Hello Dolly! on Broadway!) played him in 1997's epic Best Picture winner Titanic.
John Lone and Joan Chen at the Oscars for "The Last Emperor" though neither of them were nominated
1906 Puyi, the child emperor of China was born. The perpetually undervalued John Lone played him as a dethroned adult in 1987's epic Best Picture winner The Last Emperor. Where has twice Golden Globe nominated John Lone been? His last credit was 14 years ago (!!!)
1908 Olympian and film serial star Buster Crabbe (hubba hubba -you know how we feel about him) born in Oakland.
1940 Walt Disney's Pinnochio premieres!
1946 Brazilian powerhouse director Hector Babenco (Carandiru, Pixote, Kiss of the Spider-Woman) born in Argentina.
1960 Emmy winning TV star James Spader (Boston Legal, The Practice, The Blacklist) and briefly seedy/WASPy 80s movie star, born in Boston
1965 Actor/comedian Chris Rock born in South Carolina
1985 Actress Tina Majorino born in California. She's famous by the age of 9 with the one-two punch of great child acting in both When a Man Loves a Woman and Corrina Corrina in 1994. She's currently on the TV series "Scorpion"
1986 Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters opens in theaters to instant critical success and good leggy box office. Yes, well before the Oscars for the previous year had even been handed out. Get Out isn't the only February release to have survived until the end of its year. There are several of them over the years including near winner Cabaret (1972) and winner Silence of the Lambs (1991).
2003 Kate Hudson taught us How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, new in theaters
2014 The Monuments Men opens. Remember how that was a hit despite no one liking it and how no one remembers it existing so you're like "huh, I don't understand this question"?
Reader Comments (6)
Image searching Buster Crabbe. Holy hell that man was beautiful.
Gerber was so very good and lovely in Titanic.
* Garber is laugh-out-loud funny in Hello Dolly! and has exquisite chemistry with the hilarious Bernadette Peters. Having only seen him in Titanic (where he was SO memorable) and other great supporting parts, i never imagined him as such a charismatic leading man.
*Monuments Men is such an average, very forgettable movie i indeed never remember it as one of Clooney's directorial efforts (Suburbicon was also very meh so in my mind Clooney's last try at direction is still Ides of March). Though in a weird way it's kind of an achievement to direct both Blanchett AND Julianne Moore in forgettable performances !!!
Wasn't The Last Emperor the holder of the record for best Oscar perfect score (9/9) before The Return of the King (11/11), or did I make that up? I always have warm memories of watching that on VHS with my grandmother.
I believe that Garber started his career in musical theatre ("Anthony" in Sweeney Todd, "Jesus" in Godspell), so Hello, Dolly should be right up his alley.
Troy H.: You're right about The Last Emperor - although Gigi had achieved the same perfect score (9/9) for 1958. Both excellent films, in my view!
Yes he was Hustler! "Pinnochio" the film that scared the hell out of me as child and one of the Disney's true animated masterpieces