{"id":38762,"date":"2013-12-23T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=38762"},"modified":"2013-12-05T09:53:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T14:53:27","slug":"week-film-history-12-22-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=38762","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Film History, 12-22-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 24, 1906<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Considered to be the first feature-length (70 minutes) motion picture, the Australian drama <i>The Story of The Kelly Gang<\/i> debuts in Melbourne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 26, 1913<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Less than two years after the sinking of the Titanic, the disaster comes to the screen as the basis for the lavish Danish drama <i>Atlantis<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 22, 1933<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: In only his second film appearance, stage hoofer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Fred+Astaire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fred Astaire<\/a> finds a dance partner in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Ginger+Rogers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ginger Rogers<\/a>, in RKO&#8217;s <i>Flying Down to Rio<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 25, 1946<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: On one of his least favorite days of the year&#8211; Christmas Day&#8211; famed screen comedian\/curmudgeon W.C. Fields dies at 67.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 26, 1951<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s landmark drama <i>Rashomon<\/i> is released in the U.S. and will set off a wave of interest in Japanese cinema in the West. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 22, 1971<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a title=\"Clint Eastwood \" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/tag\/clint-eastwood\/\">Clint Eastwood<\/a> debuts as <i>Dirty Harry<\/i> in a role that was once to feature Frank Sinatra. Despite controversy, the film will become a big hit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 26, 1973<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <i>The Exorcist<\/i> opens on a limited basis around the country. The supernatural shocker causes a sensation, eventually grossing $165 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 26, 1974<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Stage, television and movie comic legend (and sometime violinist) Jack Benny dies in Beverly Hills at the age of 79.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 25, 1977<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Actor-director-producer-writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Charles+Chaplin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Charles Chaplin<\/a>, once called &#8220;the most recognized face in the world,&#8221; dies in London at the age of 88. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 26, 1977<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Howard Hawks, whose directorial resume ran the gamut from <i>Bringing Up Baby<\/i> to <i>Red River<\/i>, dies at the age of 81. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 25, 1990<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s <i>The Godfather, Part III<\/i> opens, 14 years after the second Corleone family saga hit theaters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 25, 1992<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <i>The Crying Game<\/i> opens, and Miramax, its distributor, asks critics and audiences not to reveal the film&#8217;s big surprise.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was exactly 80 years ago that RKO released the musical Flying Down to Rio, fortuitously giving the second leads to Broadway hoofer Fred Astaire and contract actress Ginger Rogers. 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