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August 6, 1926<\/span>: The first film released with Vitaphone sound, Warner Bros.\u2019 Don Juan <\/em>with John Barrymore<\/a>, features sound effects and an orchestral score.<\/p>\n

August 3, 1929<\/span>: The Four Marx Brothers<\/a>–Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo–make their screen debuts in Paramount’s The Cocoanuts<\/em>.<\/p>\n

August 9, 1930<\/span>: The Fleischer Studio\u2019s Betty Boop sashays onto the screen (as a dog!) in the cartoon short Dizzy Dishes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

August 6, 1932<\/span>: The world\u2019s first film festival begins as part of the Venice Biennale, with A Nous la Liberte<\/em> considered \u201cmost entertaining.\u201d<\/p>\n

August 4, 1956<\/span>: The concluding chapter in the history of movie serials is written with the release of the genre\u2019s final entry, Columbia\u2019s Blazing the Overland Trail<\/em>.<\/p>\n

August 7, 1957<\/span>: Oliver Hardy, corpulent, tie-twiddling half of the acclaimed comedy team with Stan Laurel, dies at age 65.<\/p>\n

August 6, 1959<\/span>: Preston Sturges<\/a>, screenwriter\/director of The Lady Eve<\/em>, Sullivan\u2019s Travels<\/em> and other distinctive farces of the \u201940s, dies at age 60.<\/p>\n

August 5, 1962<\/span>: The body of Marilyn Monroe<\/a>, 36, is discovered by her maid in the bedroom of her Brentwood, Ca., home, the victim of an apparent drug overdose.<\/p>\n

August 3, 1965<\/span>: British actress Julie Christie’s\u00a0star continues to rise with her performance as an ambitious, self-absorbed fashion model in John Schlesinger’s Darling<\/em>.<\/p>\n

August 6, 1969<\/span>: The first mainstream studio film to be directed by an African-American, Gordon Parks’<\/a> The Learning Tree<\/em>, based on his novel, is released.<\/p>\n

August 9, 1969<\/span>: A massacre in the Hollywood Hills claims Roman Polanski’s<\/a>\u00a0wife, Sharon Tate, and four others; the \u201cManson Family\u201d will be convicted in Jan. 1971.<\/p>\n

August 6, 1992<\/span>: Harold Russell sells one of the two Oscars he won for The Best Years of Our Lives<\/em> for $60,500 at an auction.<\/p>\n

August 6, 1999<\/span>: M. Night Shyamalan’s supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis, opens and shocks\u00a0audiences with its “twist ending.”<\/p>\n

August 5, 2000<\/span>: Sir Alec Guinness, whose film work\u00a0ranged from\u00a0The Bridge on the River Kwai to Star Wars, dies in his native England\u00a0at the age of \u00a086.<\/p>\n

August 8, 2004<\/span>: Fay Wray, who co-starred with “the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood” in 1933’s King Kong, passes away at age 96.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was 85 years ago this week that four madcap siblings known as Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo burst onto film screens in The Cocoanuts. There’s no “secret word” needed to read about this and other notable cinematic anniversaries inside. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":43325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1227],"tags":[1347],"coauthors":[1711],"class_list":["post-43323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-this-week-in-film-history","tag-movie-history"],"yoast_head":"\nThis Week in Film History 8\/3\/14<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This Week in Film History: A look at film history over the years. Classic movies and actors and actresses and the history they made. 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