{"id":41627,"date":"2014-05-20T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=41627"},"modified":"2015-02-18T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T20:09:15","slug":"week-film-history-05-18-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=41627","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Film History, 05.18.14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">May 18, 1912<\/span>: The first feature film from what would go on to be a burgeoning cinema industry in India, <i>Pundalik<\/i>, opens in Bombay.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">May 19, 1927<\/span>: Grauman&#8217;s Chinese Theater opens. The first to leave their marks in cement: <a title=\"Twilight\u2019s Last Gleaming, Pickford Finds and More Coming Your Way\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/twilights-last-gleaming-pickford-finds-and-more-coming-your-way\/\">Mary Pickford<\/a>, Douglas Fairbanks and Norma Talmadge.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">May 21, 1942<\/span>:\u00a0 For the first time, <a title=\"James Cagney: George M. Cohan vs. Cody Jarrett\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/james-cagney-george-m-cohan-vs-cody-jarrett\/\">James Cagney<\/a> attends the premiere of one of his films: the patriotic song-and-dance extravaganza <i>Yankee Doodle Dandy<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">May 24, 1946<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Basil+Rathbone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Basil Rathbone<\/a> and Nigel Bruce have their final bow as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in <i>Dressed to Kill<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">May 22, 1949<\/span>: His work on <em>A Letter to Three Wives<\/em> lands Joseph L. 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