Tuesday
Dec222020
Showbiz History: Ralph Fiennes, Waiting to Exhale, and Moment by Moment,
Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 12:32PM random things that happend on this day, December 22nd, in showbiz history
1932 The Mummy, the fourth "classic monsters" picture from Universal (following Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, and Frankenstein) and the second to star Boris Karloff ("Karloff the Uncanny"), arrives in theaters. It was only a modest success and received no official sequels but was instead "rebooted" though they weren't using the term back then, with The Mummy's Hand (1940).
1939 Two years after Disney premiered the US's first animated feature, Snow White, another animated feature makes it to movie theaters via Paramount Pictures: David Fleischer's Gullivers Travels...