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August 4, 1954 –Douglas Sirk’s first Technicolor gift for film goers, Magnificent Obsession, was released on this date. Rock Hudson never knew that Jane Wyman had served as an FBI informer under the code name T-10, providing the names of actors within the motion picture industry whom they believed to be communist sympathizers.

August 4, 1942 –The Paramount Picture film, Holiday Inn, directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby was released in theaters on this date. Kemmons Wilson, who founded the Holiday Inn motel chain in 1952, named it after this movie. The Connecticut Inn set for this film was reused by Paramount 12Continue reading “The film that started a motel chain”

It’s St. Sithney Day. He is the patron saint of mad dogs. Make of this what you wish: A Breton folk story, states that God asked Sithney to be the patron saint of girls seeking husbands, but Sithney said he would rather be the patron saint of mad dogs and get some rest. (And youContinue reading “Apparently he’s also a gin”

August 3, 1926 – I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I’m a singer. So I sing. Anthony Dominick Benedetto, last of the great saloon singers was born onContinue reading “Tony Bennett”

August 3, 1963 –Allan Sherman released Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp), in the US on this date. Sherman was a writer on The Steve Allen Show and created the game show I’ve Got a Secret. He went on to record comedy albums. The song won a 1964 Grammy Award for comedy. AndContinue reading “Ah, sweet mysteries of life.”

August 3, 1966 – Following the end of the series, Columbia Pictures released the animated film, The Man Called Flintstone, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and featuring the voice work of Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl, and Gerry Johnson, on this date. This was the last Hanna-Barbera theatrical cartoon for ColumbiaContinue reading “The Man Called Flintstone premiered”

August 3, 1979 –A sequel to the George Lucas film American Graffiti, More American Graffiti, directed by Bill L. Norton and starring, Candy Clark, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith, Bo Hopkins, and Harrison Ford, opened in the US on this date. George Lucas was the executive producer ofContinue reading “More American Graffiti premiered”

August 3, 1929 –Four famous vaudevillian performers took a chance on the new medium of ‘talking pictures‘ with the general release of the film, The Cocoanuts, starring the Four Marx Brothers Chico, Groucho, Harpo and Zeppo, on this date,. Filmed on a stage in New York City. Sound films were still so new that soundproofingContinue reading “The Cocoanuts opened”

The first Saturday in August is National Mustard Day (in my home it is National Moutarde Day, we leave the ‘s‘ off for savings.) In case you didin’t know, Mustard is a condiment made from the seeds of a mustard plant (white or yellow mustard, Sinapis hirta; brown or Indian mustard, Brassica juncea; or blackContinue reading “Clear the decks – we have a lot to celebrating to do”

August 2, 1985 –Universal Pictures released the sci-fi comedy film Weird Science, directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock and Ilan Mitchell-Smith, on this date. In the scene where Bill Paxton is speaking to Kelly LeBrock while interrogating everyone over what had happened the previous night, in the background, Suzanne SnyderContinue reading “Weird Science premiered”