{"id":38758,"date":"2013-12-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=38758"},"modified":"2013-12-02T10:09:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T15:09:44","slug":"week-film-history-12-08-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=38758","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Film History, 12-08-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 11, 1930<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: A protest of <i>All Quiet on the Western Front<\/i> by members of the Nazi Party in Berlin will lead to the banning of the film from Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 9, 1937<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: In a poll conducted by gossip columnist Ed Sullivan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Clark+Gable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Clark Gable<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Myrna+Loy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Myrna Loy<\/a> are crowned &#8220;King and Queen of Hollywood.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 12, 1939<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a title=\"Douglas Fairbanks Movies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Douglas+Fairbanks\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Fairbanks<\/a>, dashing and athletic leading man of the silent era and co-founder of United Artists, dies of a heart attack at age 56.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 14, 1939<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Seventy-five years after General Sherman set it ablaze, the city of Atlanta is lit up again&#8211; for the world premiere of <i>Gone with the Wind<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 12, 1941<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Lon+Chaney+Jr.\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lon Chaney, Jr.<\/a> follows in his father&#8217;s frightening footsteps, playing the title role in <i>The Wolf Man<\/i> and reviving Universal&#8217;s horror genre. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 8, 1949<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Scandal erupts around <a title=\"actress Ingrid Bergman rumors from columnist Hedda Hopper \" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/tag\/ingrid-bergman\/\">actress Ingrid Bergman when columnist Hedda Hopper <\/a>reports she&#8217;s pregnant by director Roberto Rossellini. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 10, 1962<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: A relatively-unknown Peter O&#8217;Toole stars in David Lean&#8217;s highly-anticipated, 70mm epic <i>Lawrence of Arabia<\/i>, which makes its debut in London today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 11, 1963<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <i>The Cardinal<\/i>, the first film released in Panavision 70, a process which enlarges 35mm film to 70mm and is then projected onto a wide screen, debuts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 12, 1972<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Audiences flip for <i>The Poseidon Adventure<\/i>. Its success will lead to a rash of disaster films, many made by <i>Poseidon<\/i> producer Irwin Allen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 10, 1978<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a title=\"Ed Wood, Jr. Classic B Movie Director\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/tag\/edward-d-wood\/\">Ed Wood, Jr., auteur of such classic turkeys as <i>Plan 9 from Outer Space<\/i> <\/a>and <i>Glen or Glenda<\/i>, dies in Hollywood at the age of 54. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 8, 1982<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Eddie Murphy becomes the latest Saturday Night Live regular to jump to big-screen stardom with the action-comedy <i>48 Hrs.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 11, 1991<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Despite success with <i>Dances with Wolves<\/i> and <i>The Silence of the Lambs<\/i>, Orion Pictures files for bankruptcy protection in federal court. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 74 years ago that they were marching on Atlanta&#8230;to the Fox Theater, to be precise, for the world premiere of Gone With the Wind. 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