July 8, 1932 –
Tod Browning’s groundbreaking shockfest Freaks, featuring genuine carnival sideshow performers, premieres at the Rialto theater in New York on this date.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a member of the MGM writing department at the time the movie was in production. It is said that one day, as he came into the studio commissary for lunch and saw the Hilton sisters, one reading the menu and the other seemingly understanding it, he was horrified, became nauseous, and left the lunchroom. He would later go on to write of a studio filming a “circus” picture.
The Haus of Dcaligari 