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Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 9:00AM Five random things that happened on this day, October 24th, in showbiz history
50th anniversary today for TROG
1941 Spooks Run Wild, starring Bela Lugosi and part of the film franchise "East Side Kids" opens in theaters.
1970 50TH ANNIVERSARY. Trog, infamous Joan Crawford's last film, hits theaters...
Sunday, October 18, 2020 at 10:00AM 7 random things that happened on this day, October 18th, in showbiz history. If it's your birthday, happy birthday!
1910 E.M. Forster's masterpiece Howards End is published. It will later become another masterpiece in a different medium with the Oscar-winning Merchant Ivory film version in 1992.
1920 Greek superstar Melina Mercouri born on this day in Athens 100 years ago. Happy Melina Mercouri Centennial...
Saturday, October 17, 2020 at 9:30AM 8 random things that happened today, October 17th, in showbiz history
shot of the audience at the jampacked world premiere of "Mr Smith Goes to Washington" (image source)
1920 Montgomery Clift born in Nebraska 100 years ago today. He becomes a professional actor at 15 and a dazzling movie star by 28. We hope you've been watching/reading along our daily Centennial celebration series. We're almost finished and we're proud of it.
1939 Mr Smith Goes to Washington has its world premiere in Washington DC (fitting) before opening in movie theaters two days later..
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 8:31AM 
8 random things that happened on this day, October 14th, in showbiz history
1930 The Gershwin musical Girl Crazy opens on Broadway, introducing the standards "Embraceable You" "But Not For Me" and "I Got Rhythm" into the American songbook. Future movie star Ginger Rogers was in the original cast! It was adapted to film twice, first in 1932 and then with Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland in 1943.
1960 Did you know that Doris Day didn't only make comedies? A thriller called Midnight Lace, was new in theaters that weekend with Doris in danger!
Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, and Roddy McDowall co-starred and Doris Day was nominated for Best Actress, Drama at the Golden Globes. How about that? If you've seen it do tell...
Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 8:00AM 6 random things that happened on this day, October 10th, in showbiz history
1956 Giant with its gargantuan running time and trifecta of iconic stars -- Taylor, Dean, Hudson (plus Mineo & McCambridge!) --gets its world premiere in NYC. It will open for Thanksgiving in movie theaters and lead Oscar nomination morning with 10 citations. Sadly it will lose Best Picture to a much lesser movie, Around the World in 80 Days. But these things happen in Oscar annals.
1963 From Russia With Love, the second Bond film, has its world premiere in London and goes on to become an even bigger hit than the franchise launch Dr No.
