{"id":19885,"date":"2012-03-05T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=19885"},"modified":"2012-11-13T10:41:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T15:41:22","slug":"this-week-in-film-history-03-04-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=19885","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Film History, 03.04.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA; color: red;\">March 10, 1910<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=D.W.+Griffith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">D.W. Griffith<\/a> launches the Hollywood film industry with <em>In Old California<\/em>, the first film to be made in the new municipality.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 5, 1919<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Pioneering black producer\/director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Oscar+Micheaux\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Oscar Micheaux<\/a> releases his first film, <em>The Homesteader<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 5, 1922<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: A &#8220;strange symphony of terror&#8221; is unleashed on screens across the world with the debut of Germany&#8217;s <em>Nosferatu<\/em>, a unauthorized adaptation of <em>Dracula<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 10, 1922<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Hollywood hires former postmaster general Will H. Hays to oversee &#8220;moral and artistic standards in motion picture production.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 10, 1932<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Paramount Pictures abandons the East Coast for Hollywood, shutting down its Astoria, Long Island studios. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 5, 1936<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Writer Dudley Nichols becomes the first person to refuse an Oscar (for Best Adapted Screenplay for <em>The Informer<\/em>) during a boycott of the Academy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 7, 1945<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Barry+Fitzgerald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barry Fitzgerald<\/a> becomes the first actor to receive two Academy Award nominations for the same role, for <em>Going My Way<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 9, 1945<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Filmed over a seven-month period during the Nazi occupation of France, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Marcel+Carne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marcel Carne<\/a>&#8216;s masterpiece, <em>Les Enfants du Paradis<\/em>, premieres in Paris. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 10, 1947<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Ronald+Reagan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ronald Reagan<\/a> is elected president&#8230;of the Screen Actors Guild, and a month later will agree to notify the FBI of any communist activity in the union. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 9, 1955<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: After bit parts on TV and in film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=James+Dean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">James Dean<\/a> becomes an overnight sensation with his starring film debut in <em>East of Eden<\/em>, which premieres today. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 5, 1960<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: After a two-year stint, rock &#8216;n&#8217; roller and movie star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Elvis+Presley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Elvis Presley<\/a> is released from the U.S. Army and will begin filming <em>G.I. Blues<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 5, 1962<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=George+C.+Scott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">George C. Scott<\/a> becomes the first actor to refuse an Oscar nomination (for <em>The Hustler<\/em>), in protest of fellow actors&#8217; practice of campaigning for awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 9, 1977<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Protesting <em>Mohammad, Messenger of God<\/em>, a group of Black Muslims takes hostages at Washington, D.C., theaters showing the epic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 5, 1982<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Comedian and former <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=John+Belushi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Belushi<\/a>, 33, is found dead from a drug overdose in a Los Angeles hotel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 7, 1988<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: The actor known as &#8220;the most beautiful woman in the world,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=John+Waters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Waters<\/a> mainstay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Divine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Divine<\/a>, dies of a heart attack at 42.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 9, 1996<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: A few weeks after celebrating his 100th birthday, cigar-loving comedian and Academy Award-winner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=George+Burns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">George Burns<\/a> passes away. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">March 7, 1999<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Stanley+Kubrick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stanley Kubrick<\/a>, 70, iconoclastic director of <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>, dies four months before the opening of his final film, <em>Eyes Wide Shut<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 10, 1910: D.W. 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