This Day…

1936 – 8th Academy Awards: “Mutiny on the Bounty”, Victor McLaglen & Bette Davis wins

1937 – 9th Academy Awards: “The Great Ziegfeld”, Paul Muni & Luise Rainer wins

1933 – “King Kong” film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Fay Wray premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy in NYC

1934 – “It Happened One Night” directed by Frank Capra and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert opens at NY’s Radio City Music Hall (Academy Awards Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay 1935)

1965  – British folk-pop duo Chad and Jeremy guest star in “Patty Pits Wits, Two Brits Hits” episode of American TV sitcom “The Patty Duke Show”

1972 – Film adaptation of “Cabaret,” directed by Bob Fosse and based on John Kander and Fred Ebb‘s musical of the same name, is released, starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, and Joel Grey

1954  – 6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O’Connor & Eve Arden win

1969  – KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting

1915  – “The Birth of a Nation” the first 12-reel film in America, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish and Mae Marsh, premieres at Clune’s Auditorium in Los Angeles