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2000 Beah Richards, actress, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, dies at 74

2000 Marguerite Churchill, actress, in Broadway's Dinner at Eight, dies at 90

1993 Aben Kandel, screenwriter (Dinner at 8), dies of heart failure at 96

1992 Sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews)

1992 Mike Frankovich, U.S. producer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies

1991 Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner," premieres in London

1984 William Keighley, dir (Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94

1976 Romney Brent, actor and writer (Dinner at the Ritz), dies at 74

1973 Cecil Kellaway, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 78

1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium

1963 Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74

1963 Hindemith and Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in New York City

1956 John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner

1954 TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson and Sons

1953 Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner"

1945 George Barbier, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 80

1945 Katharine Houghton, born in Hartford, actress, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

1943 Wallace Shawn, New York City, actor, My Dinner with Andre, Princess Bride

1942 John Barrymore, U.S. actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8), dies at 60

1939 George Kaufman/Moss Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner," premieres in New York City

1939 Judy Chicago, Cohen, Chicago, artist, Dinner Party

1934 Marie Dressler, actress (Dinner at 8, Anna Christie), dies at 64

1932 During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes

1932 George Kaufman and Edna Ferbers "Dinner at 8," premieres in New York City

1911 Jean Harlow, aka Harlean Carpentier, born in Kansas, 30s' sex goddess, in Dinner at 8

1909 Suzanne G Charpentier, born in Paris, actress, Dinner at Ritz

1907 Marie Dressler, actress, Anna Christie, Dinner at 8

1902 Nora Swinburne, born in England, actress, Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River

1902 Romney Brent, Saltillo Mexico, actor and writer, Dinner at the Ritz

1888 Monty Wooley, New York City, actor, Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner

1887 Alexander Woollcott, New Jersey, short story writer, Man Who Came to Dinner

1886 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, New York (tuxedo)

1886 Wallace Beery, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor, Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8

1885 Frances Parkinson Keyes, novelist, Dinner at Antoine

1874 Grant Mitchell, Columbus, Ohio, actor, Man Who Came to Dinner


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