{"id":14505,"date":"2011-05-23T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=14505"},"modified":"2011-05-15T22:24:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T02:24:03","slug":"this-week-in-film-history-05-22-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=14505","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Film History, 05.22.11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5010\" title=\"Film History: With Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/button-film-history.png\" alt=\"Movie FanFare: film-history\" width=\"170\" height=\"160\" \/>May 28, 1935<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Film Corporation unite to form 20th Century Fox, overseen by Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">May 28, 1941<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Animators and artists at the Walt Disney Studios launch an acrimonious two-month strike for pay raises and the right to unionize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">May 24, 1946<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Basil+Rathbone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Basil Rathbone<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Nigel+Bruce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nigel Bruce<\/a> have their final bow as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in <em>Dressed to Kill<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">May 26, 1952<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: The U.S. Supreme Court, declaring movies a form of free speech, strikes down a New York court&#8217;s ban on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Roberto+Rossellini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Roberto Rossellini<\/a>&#8216;s <em>The Miracle<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">May 25, 1957<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: In the wake of his break-up with partner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Dean+Martin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dean Martin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Jerry+Lewis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jerry Lewis<\/a>&#8216; first solo film, <em>The Delicate Delinquent<\/em>, is released.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">May 25, 1977<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: A week after <em>Time<\/em> magazine called it &#8220;the best film of the summer,&#8221; <em>Star Wars<\/em> opens in wide release and eventually tops record-holder <em>Jaws<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">May 25, 1979<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <em>Alien<\/em>, a sci-fi-horror opus, opens big to frightened crowds, as <em>Newsweek<\/em> critic Jack Kroll claims, &#8220;It&#8217;ll scare the peanuts out of your M&amp;Ms.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">May 24, 1991<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Feminist road movie <em>Thelma &amp; Louise<\/em>, starring<a title=\"Tough Girla of the Movies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/movie-buzz\/tough-girls-of-the-movies-when-theyre-bad-theyre-better\/\" target=\"_self\"> Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis<\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> (video: Tough Girls of the Movies)<\/span>, opens to controversy, strong reviews and okay business. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">May 23, 1993<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: The surreal, cyberpunk fantasy <em>Wax, Or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees<\/em> becomes the first film to be transmitted over the Internet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">May 23, 1994<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Quentin+Tarantino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Quentin Tarantino<\/a>&#8216;s violent drama <em>Pulp Fiction<\/em> wins the Palme d&#8217;Or at Cannes, and will go on to reignite the flagging career of co-star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=John+Travolta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Travolta<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 28, 1935: Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Film Corporation unite to form 20th Century Fox, overseen by Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. 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