Showbiz History: André Holland, Where the Boys Are, Stan & Ollie

6 random things that happened on this day, December 28th, in showbiz history

1934 Big stars missing the Christmas box office but opening on this day in time for New Years Eve in movie theaters were Shirley Temple in Bright Eyes, Bing Crosby in Here is My Heart, and Katharine Hepburn in Little Minister.

1944 Sailors on leave musical comedy On the Town opens on Broadway. It will become a Gene Kelly movie five years later and be added to the National Film Registry two years ago...

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Showbiz History: Lost in Translation, Eyes of the Mummy, and Clive Owen

10 random things that happened on this day, October 3rd, in showbiz history

1918 CENTENNIAL ALERT: Ernst Lubitsch's The Eyes of the Mummy, starring Pola Negri and future Oscar winner Emil Jannings, premieres in Germany. It will take four years to make it to the US. You can watch this early horror film in its entirety on YouTube. It's not very good but Lubitsch would go on to a brilliant career directing screwball comedies. Negri plays a girl rescued from captivity in an ancient Egyptian temple but her nightmare is only just beginning!

1929 Actress Jeanne Eagels, the star of The Letter that year, dies of a drug overdose at 39, after which she becomes the first (and still only) actress ever Oscar-nominated posthumously...

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