Friday
Aug172018
Showbiz History: Wild at Heart, Treasure Island, Superbad, Etc...
Friday, August 17, 2018 at 9:00AM A dozen random things that happened on this day (Aug 17th) in showbiz history...
1920 Maureen O'Hara born on this day in Dublin. We've written about her frequently. We ♥️.
1934 The first (of many) sound film adaptations of Treasure Island the novel opens in movie theaters starring Oscar winners Lionel Barrymore and Wallace Beery, along with child star Jackie Cooper, himself already an Oscar nominee...the youngest Best Actor nominee of all time in point of fact. Cooper and Berry had previously co-starred in the instant classic tearjerker The Champ (1931) so the advertising pushed the reunion hard...