October 30, 1943 –A very funny war-time Bugs Bunny Cartoon, Falling Hare, directed by Bob Clampett, was released on this date. In the early 1940s, Walt Disney was developing a feature film based on Roald Dahl’s book Gremlin Lore, and asked the other studios to refrain from producing gremlin films. While most of the studiosContinue reading “Falling Hare dropped into theatres”
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The Case of the Stuttering Pig opened
October 30, 1937 – A good early Looney Tunes Halloween treat, The Case of the Stuttering Pig, directed by Frank Tashlin, and starring Porky Pig, was released on this date. https://livid.com/watch/Hy2iVinDObl1 When the picture of Uncle Solomon is shown, it’s a drawing of Oliver Hardy as a pig.
Quack Shot premiered
October 30, 1954 – The Merrie Melodies short, Quack Shot, directed by Bob McKimson and starring Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd, was released on this date. https://livid.com/watch/ILr5Je3GTm_c Many of the sight gags would be reworked in future Roadrunner and Coyote shorts.
Daffy Dilly premiered
October 30, 1948 – The Merrie Melodies short, Daffy Dilly, directed by Chuck Jones and starring Daffy Duck, was released on this date. Daffy uses “sufferin’ succotash!” here, which would become Sylvester the cat’s trademark phrase..
Psst – it might remind you of Bewitched
October 30, 1942 –Rene Clair’s second Hollywood film, the delightful romantic comedy, I Married A Witch, starring, Veronica Lake, Fredric March, Susan Hayworth, and Robert Benchley, premiered on this date. Dalton Trumbo was a contributing writer, but left because his interpretation of the novel differed from that of producer Preston Sturges. Sturges also left theContinue reading “Psst – it might remind you of Bewitched”
A Lion In Winter opened
October 30, 1968 –The wonderfully acted treachery among the 12th Century Royals, A Lion In Winter starring Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn and Anthony Hopkins opened in the US on this date. Although Katharine Hepburn and Peter O’Toole had met several years earlier, and she was a great admirer of his work, she had no intentionContinue reading “A Lion In Winter opened”
I guess they forgot it was a radio program
October 30, 1938 — The War of the Worlds was the Halloween episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. Directed by wunderkind Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells’s classic novel The War of the Worlds (1898). Welles’s adaptation is arguably the most well-known radioContinue reading “I guess they forgot it was a radio program”
Bunkies, please don’t hand these out tomorrow
Surprise, surprise, it’s National Candy Corn Day today. The famous candy is said to have been invented in the United States by George Renninger a candymaker at the Wunderlee Candy Company in Philadelphia, in the 1880s and it was originally made by hand. Nowadays, it’s mass produced by Jelly Belly® using a recipe unchanged sinceContinue reading “Bunkies, please don’t hand these out tomorrow”
In case you need to distract yourself
October 29, 1268 –16-year old Conradin, the Duke of Swabia, the last legitimate male heir of the German Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings and Holy Roman Emperors, was executed along with his best friend, Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily. But what the hell do you care, Halloween is in two daysContinue reading “In case you need to distract yourself”
It was a lovely affair
October 29, 1974 –Rhoda and Joe got married on this date. The Rhoda’s Wedding episode, which was a crossover episode with the Mary Tyler Moore Show, broke records for ratings when it aired.
