Saturday
Feb202021
Showbiz History: France loves KStew, and infamous 'Chicago' trials, real and fictional
Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 10:00AM 5 random things that happened on this day, February 20th, in showbiz history...
two Oscar-winning Roxies, Ginger Rogers & Renée Zellweger
1939 A shameful moment in US history: an American Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden. Footage from this event became the basis of the recently Oscar nominated doc short "A Night at the Garden".
1942 The film Roxie Hart adapted from the play "Roxie" opens with Ginger Rogers playing the murderous showgirl. Roxie would go on to pop culture immortality with the long running musical adaptation of the play and its Oscar winning counterpart, called simply Chicago...