March 29, 1982: Katharine Hepburn wins a record-setting fourth Academy Award, and an ailing Henry Fonda wins his first, for On Golden Pond. March 31, 1915: The nascent serial genre has its first true star when Pearl White plays the hazard-plagued heroine of The Perils…
Read more →March 18, 1910: An important entry in the nascent horror genre is the Edison Company’s Frankenstein, with stage veteran Charles Ogle as the monster. March 24, 1939: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce make the first of 14 screen pairings as…
Read more →March 11, 1931: The German director of Nosferatu and Sunrise, F.W. Murnau, 42, is killed in a car accident on the Santa Barbara Highway. March 13, 1934: Walt Disney, accepting his prize for The Three Little Pigs, is the first…
Read more →March 10, 1910: D.W. Griffith launches the Hollywood film industry with In Old California, the first film to be made in the new municipality. March 5, 1919: Pioneering black producer/director Oscar Micheaux releases his first film, The Homesteader. March 5,…
Read more →March 1, 1984: William Powell, consummate urbane leading man of the ’20s through the ’40s, dies at age 91. February 27, 1932: Elizabeth Taylor, one of the greatest actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age was born on this day in 1932. Taylor…
Read more →February 25, 1906: Future Universal Pictures president Carl Laemmle enters the moving pictures business with Chicago’s first nickelodeon, the White Front Theater. February 22, 1934: A Depression-weary American public flocks to Frank Capra‘s comedy It Happened One Night, starring Claudette…
Read more →February 18, 1913: The Edison Film Co. introduces its synchronized film-phonograph Kinetoscope process for showing “sound films” in New York. February 14, 1927: Director Alfred Hitchcock first tries his hand at suspense with The Lodger, based on the Jack the…
Read more →February 8, 1915: D.W. Griffith‘s Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, opens. At a White House screening, President Woodrow Wilson calls it “like writing history with lightning.” February 8, 1926: The New York Sun is the first to…
Read more →February 2, 1922: Hollywood has a real whodunit on its hands when Paramount Pictures director William Desmond Taylor is found slain. February 1, 1929: MGM’s The Broadway Melody premieres in Hollywood, becoming the first musical with an original score. February…
Read more →January 27, 1918: Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle lord debuts on screen in Tarzan of the Apes, starring former Arkansas peace officer Elmo Lincoln. January 22, 1928: The John Ford melodrama Mother Machree features, as an unbilled extra, former prop man…
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