Wednesday
Sep162020
Showbiz History: CinemaScope, Recycled Comedy, and Jennifer Tilly
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 12:00PM 9 random things that happened on this day in showbiz history...
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1936: Henry Fonda (then 31 years old and a fresh new face at the movies) marries his second wife, socialite Francis Ford Seymour (then 28). Their marriage will be unhappy and end tragically in 1950 (with her suicide), but their union will produce one of the great inventions of the 20th century: Jane Fonda.
1953: Biblical epic The Robe starring Richard Burton and Jean Simmons, world premieres in New York. It's the first movie shot in CinemaScope, "the new dimensional photographic marvel you can see without glasses"...