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August 18, 1925<\/span>: MGM settles on the winner of a fan magazine contest to rechristen contract starlet Lucille LeSeur, and adds \u201cJoan Crawford<\/a>\u201d to the lexicography.<\/p>\n

August 16, 1926<\/span>: Up-and-coming starlet Clara Bow<\/a> inks a deal with Paramount, but refuses to sign the customary \u201cmorality\u201d clause.<\/p>\n

August 21, 1939<\/span>: RKO Pictures contracts with theater\/radio wunderkind Orson Welles<\/a>, allowing him to produce, direct, script and act in two projects of his choosing.<\/p>\n

August 16, 1950<\/span>: Sidney Poitier<\/a> makes his Hollywood debut, playing doctor in the crime drama No Way Out.<\/em><\/p>\n

August 16, 1956<\/span>: The screen\u2019s most famous vampire, Bela Lugosi<\/a>, dies at 73. In accordance with his wishes, he\u2019s buried in his Dracula cape.<\/p>\n

August 22, 1956<\/span>: Shooting begins on singer Elvis Presley\u2019s<\/a> first film, The Reno Brothers, which would come out later that year as Love Me Tender<\/em>.<\/p>\n

August 17, 1958<\/span>: Producer Roger Corman\u2018s juvenile delinquent drama The Cry Baby Killer<\/em> marks the screen debut of Jack Nicholson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

August 18, 1969<\/span>: Stand-up comic and part-time actor Woody Allen<\/a> debuts his first film as writer\/director\/star, Take the Money and Run<\/em>.<\/p>\n

August 16, 1977<\/span>: Elvis Presley<\/a> dies suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 42 in his Memphis home, Graceland.<\/p>\n

August 19, 1977<\/span>: Groucho Marx<\/a>, cigar-chomping leader of the Marx Brothers, dies at the age of 76 of pneumonia in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

August 17, 1979<\/span>: Amid protests and calls for its outright ban, the Monty Python troupe’s Life of Brian<\/em> opens.<\/p>\n

August 16, 1985<\/span>: On her 27th birthday, Madonna<\/a> maries actor boyfriend Sean Penn<\/a>. Their union\u00a0lasts four years and produces the box office bomb Shanghai Express<\/em>.<\/p>\n

August 20, 1986<\/span>: African-American filmmaker Spike Lee<\/a> wins acclaim for his debut feature, She\u2019s Gotta Have It<\/em>, which will draw attention to other black artists.<\/p>\n

August 21, 1987<\/span>: Stars Patrick Swayze<\/a> and Jennifer Grey<\/a> have the time of their lives in the surprise hit Dirty Dancing<\/em>, which opened on this date.<\/p>\n

August 16, 1995<\/span>: The film noir genre gets a \u201990s updating, and filmgoers learn “Who is Keyser S\u00f6ze?,”\u00a0with the\u00a0release of the plot-twisting whodunit The Usual Suspects.<\/em><\/p>\n

August 19, 2005<\/span>: TV comedy veteran Judd Apatow (Freaks and Geeks<\/em>) makes his feature directorial debut with the hit The 40-Year-Old Virgin<\/em>, starring Steve Carell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

August 19, 2012<\/span>: Tony Scott<\/a>, 68, director of The Hunger<\/em> and Top Gun<\/em>, takes his own life by jumping off a bridge in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Has it really been 20 years since audiences first asked the question “Who is Keyzer Soze?” with the premiere of the hit caper film The Usual Suspects? 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