Friday
Feb122021
Showbiz History: Annie Get Your Gun and What We Do in the Shadows
Friday, February 12, 2021 at 9:00AM 6 random things that happened on this day, February 12th, in showbiz history...
1949 Annie Gets Your Gun starring Ethel Merman closes on Broadway after a nearly three year run. The troubled film adaptation directed by George Sidney (a replacement for Busby Berkeley who was fired) and starring Betty Hutton (a replacement for Judy Garland who was fired) arrives the following year.
1959 The Black Orchid starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn opens in theaters. Sophia Loren had won the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival the previous summer...