October 25, 1925: France’s star of silent slapstick comedy Max Linder, 41,and his young wife are found dead in a Paris hotel, victims of an apparent suicide pact.
October 23, 1950: Al Jolson, legendary entertainer and star of the seminal talkie The Jazz Singer, dies in San Francisco at age 64.
October 24, 1955: The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down as overbroad the Kansas state censorship law used to ban The Moon Is Blue.
October 25, 1978: Low-budget shocker Halloween opens in select cities and will become one of the top independent films ever, taking in over $50 million.
October 24, 1984: The beloved “mother figure” from John Waters‘ off-the-wall films, Edith “Edie the Egg Lady” Massey, dies at 66.
October 26, 1984: Bodybuilder-turned-actor Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s career takes off when he opts to play the villainous cyborg in James Cameron‘s The Terminator.
October 28, 1986: Paul Newman returns to the role he played 25 years earlier in The Hustler, poolshark “Fast Eddie” Felson, in The Color of Money.
October 23, 1992: Video store clerk-turned-filmmaker Quentin Tarantino scores a hit with his debut feature, the blood-soaked caper drama Reservoir Dogs.