Showbiz History: La Strada, It Chapter Two, The King's Speech
Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 9:30AM 7 random things that happened on this day, september 6th, in showbiz history...
← 1879 Max Schreck born in Berlin. He is immortalized by playing undead Orlok in Nosferatu. Later Willem Dafoe will be Oscar-nominated for playing him in all his creepy eccentric possibly actually vampiric glory in Shadow of the Vampire (2000).
1928 How's this for a weird bit of history? Warner Bros second talkie was released on this day (well, some accounts say August 15th... dates are so iffy the further back you go) and it was a horror film called The Terror. In '28 many theaters had yet to convert to sound so a silent version of the same picture was released the following month. The film is one of many lost films from the era.
1954 Federico Fellini's La Strada premieres at the tail end of the 15th annual Venice Film Festival...
