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March 28, 1920<\/span>: Broadway legend John Barrymore<\/a> moves to center stage of the film world with his portrayal of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde<\/i>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

March 25, 1932<\/span>: Olympic swimming champ Johnny Weissmuller<\/a> is Tarzan the Ape Man<\/i> and Maureen O’Sullivan Jane in the first in MGM’s jungle adventure series.<\/span><\/p>\n

March 24, 1939<\/span>: Basil Rathbone<\/a> and Nigel Bruce<\/a> make the first of 14 screen pairings as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

March 28, 1941<\/span>: The first movie adaptation of a comic book superhero appears with the first episode of Republic’s serial The Adventures of Captain Marvel<\/i>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

March 25, 1943<\/span>: Japanese director Akira Kurosawa<\/a>‘s first film, Sanshiro Sugata<\/i>, is released. <\/span><\/p>\n

March 24, 1949<\/span>: Laurence Olivier<\/a>‘s production of Hamlet<\/i> becomes the first non-Hollywood film to win the Best Picture Academy Award.<\/span><\/p>\n

March 25, 1954<\/span>: From Here to Eternity<\/i> takes eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and a Best Supporting Actor statue for “comeback kid” Frank Sinatra<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

March 27, 1973<\/span>: Apache Indian Sacheen Littlefeather appears at the Academy Awards ceremony to decline Marlon Brando<\/a>‘s Oscar for The Godfather<\/i> on his behalf. <\/span><\/p>\n

March 29, 1976<\/span>: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest<\/i> becomes the first film since 1934’s It Happened One Night<\/i> to take home all five major Oscars.<\/span><\/p>\n

March 29, 1978<\/span>: Annie Hall<\/i> wins four Oscars, but writer\/director\/star Woody Allen<\/a> skips the ceremony to play clarinet in a New York jazz club. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

March 28, 1979<\/span>: The China Syndrome<\/i>, a drama about a nuclear disaster, gets a boost 12 days after it opens when a meltdown occurs at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island. <\/span><\/p>\n

March 30, 1981<\/span>: Obsessed with Taxi Driver<\/i> star <\/span>Jodie Foster<\/a>, loner John Hinckley shoots President Ronald Reagan<\/a> outside a Washington, D.C., hotel.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

March 29, 1982<\/span>: Katharine Hepburn<\/a> wins a record-setting fourth Academy Award, and an ailing Henry Fonda<\/a> wins his first, for On Golden Pond<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

March 24, 1986<\/span>: Steven Spielberg<\/a>‘s The Color Purple<\/i> ties a dubious Academy Award record when it fails to win a single Oscar, despite 11 nominations.<\/span><\/p>\n

March 30, 1986<\/span>: Vaudeville dancer-turned-perennial screen tough guy James Cagney<\/a>, 86, dies of cardiac arrest on his New York farm.<\/span><\/p>\n

March 24, 1993<\/span>: An $8.9 million award is returned against Kim Basinger<\/a> in the breach of contract suit over her withdrawal from Boxing Helena<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been 74 years since Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce first prowled the London Fog as Holmes and Watson. 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