{"id":6009,"date":"2010-01-17T05:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T09:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=6009"},"modified":"2014-01-08T10:50:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T15:50:36","slug":"this-week-in-film-history-01-17-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=6009","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Film History 01-17-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 19, 1907<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <em>An Exciting Honeymoon<\/em> and <em>The Life of a Cowboy<\/em> are the first films to be reviewed in the entertainment trade magazine <em>Variety<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 18, 1923<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Drug addiction claims leading man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Wallace+Reid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wallace Reid<\/a>, whose morphine dependency followed an injury suffered in a train crash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 22, 1928<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=John+Ford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Ford<\/a> melodrama <em>Mother Machree<\/em> features, as an unbilled extra, former prop man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=John+Wayne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Wayne<\/a> in his first film appearance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 20, 1929<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: The release of <em>In Old Arizona<\/em>, directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Irving+Cummings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Irving Cummings<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Raoul+Walsh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Raoul Walsh<\/a>, marks the first time a sound film was shot on location.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 23, 1932<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Educational Films Corporation signs 3 \u00bd-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Shirley+Temple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shirley Temple<\/a> to appear in a series of film take-offs called <em>Baby Burlesks<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 20, 1933<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Because of a memorable nude swimming scene, Austrian actress Hedy Kiesler (soon to be known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Hedy+Lamarr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hedy Lamarr<\/a>) causes a sensation with the release of <em>Ecstasy<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 21, 1938<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Pioneering French filmmaker and visual effects master Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s dies at the age of 76. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 19, 1952<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Curly+Howard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jerome &#8220;Curly&#8221; Howard<\/a>, most manic of the Three Stooges, shuffles off this mortal coil at age 49. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 23, 1952<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Precedent-setter James Stewart chooses to share in the profits of Universal&#8217;s <em>Bend of the River<\/em> rather than accept a fixed salary. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 19, 1953<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: After months of campaigning, Frank Sinatra is signed by Columbia to play Maggio in <em>From Here to Eternity<\/em> at a cut-rate $8,000 a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 20, 1964<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: A lethal combination of alcohol and depressants claims the life of &#8217;40s tough guy Alan Ladd, 50, whose career had been in decline over the last decade. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 19, 1966<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Director Otto Preminger loses his battle in New York court to prevent <em>Anatomy Of A Murder<\/em> from being edited for television or broadcast without commercials. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 17, 1984<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: The rights of VCR owners to tape programs off TV are upheld by the Supreme Court, which rules such use does not violate copyright laws. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 18, 1985<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Filmmaking siblings Joel and Ethan Coen put a modern spin on the film noir genre with their debut feature, <em>Blood Simple<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">January 20, 1990<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Barbara Stanwyck, star of <em>Stella Dallas<\/em> and <em>Double Indemnity<\/em>, dies in Santa Monica of heart failure at the age of 82.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 19, 1907: An Exciting Honeymoon and The Life of a Cowboy are the first films to be reviewed in the entertainment trade magazine Variety. 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