{"id":42751,"date":"2014-07-22T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=42751"},"modified":"2015-01-14T16:04:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T21:04:52","slug":"week-film-history-07-20-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=42751","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Film History, 07.20.14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 22, 1934<\/span>: After seeing MGM&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Manhattan Melodrama<\/em>\u00a0at Chicago&#8217;s Biograph Theater, gangster John Dillinger is gunned down outside by G-men.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 20, 1938<\/span>: The major film studios are named to a governmental antitrust lawsuit over their dominance in both production and distribution of motion pictures.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 23, 1947<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">:<\/span> The subject of anti-Semitism is dramatized in RKO&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Crossfire<\/em>\u00a0and, in November, by 20th Century Fox&#8217;s Oscar-winning\u00a0<em>Gentleman&#8217;s Agreement<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 23, 1948:<\/span> Film pioneer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=D.W.+Griffith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">D.W. Griffith<\/a>, 73, who last directed in 1931, dies. Studios observe a three-minute moment of silence during his funeral five days later.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 20, 1950<\/span>: Playing a wheelchair-bound WWII veteran in his screen debut , newcomer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Marlon+Brando\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marlon Brando<\/a>\u00a0wows audiences and critics in\u00a0<em>The Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 20, 1951<\/span>: After a 16-year run, the Time, Inc.-produced newsreel series\u00a0<em>The March of Time<\/em>\u00a0no longer marches on.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 25, 1952<\/span>:\u00a0<em>High Noon<\/em>, the western that would garner\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Gary+Cooper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gary Cooper<\/a>\u00a0an Oscar for his performance as the retired sheriff faced with a fateful showdown, opens.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 22, 1959<\/span>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Steve+Reeves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steve Reeves<\/a>\u00a0first flexes his pecs to American audiences in the Italian-made\u00a0<em>Hercules<\/em>, beginning a flood of imported &#8220;sword-and-sandal&#8221; actioners.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 26, 1960<\/span>: Art director Cedric Gibbons, who took home the Oscar statuette (which he designed) 11 times, dies at the age of 67.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 23, 1962<\/span>: After a six-year stint producing independent films, former studio V.P. Darryl Zanuck is now at the helm of a financially-troubled 20th Century-Fox.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 23, 1966<\/span>: After what one writer called &#8220;the world&#8217;s longest suicide,&#8221; troubled actor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Montgomery+Clift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Montgomery Clift<\/a>, 45, is found dead in his New York brownstone.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 20, 1973<\/span>: Mystery surrounds the death of martial arts star\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Bruce+Lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bruce Lee<\/a>, 32, the cause of which will be attributed to a brain edema.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 24, 1980<\/span>: British comic actor Peter Sellers, star of\u00a0<em>The Pink Panther<\/em> and <em>Being There<\/em>, dies of a heart attack at 54.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 23, 1982<\/span>: A helicopter crash on the set of\u00a0<em>Twilight Zone-The Movie<\/em>\u00a0results in the deaths of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Vic+Morrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Vic Morrow<\/a>\u00a0and two child actors.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 22, 1983<\/span>: With 89-year-old\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Abel+Gance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Abel Gance<\/a>\u00a0in attendance, the restored edition of his 1927 epic\u00a0<em>Napoleon<\/em>\u00a0has its &#8220;re-premiere&#8221; in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">July 24, 1998<\/span>: Director\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Steven+Spielberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steven Spielberg<\/a>\u00a0and star\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Tom+Hanks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tom Hanks<\/a>\u00a0acquaint a new generation with the drama and sacrifice of World War II in\u00a0<em>Saving Private Ryan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like gladiator movies? 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