2003 Hope Lange, actress, movie version of Peyton Place, dies at 70
2002 Kim Hunter, actress, movie version of A Streetcar Named Desire,
2002 Signe Hasso, actress, original movie version of Heaven Can Wait, dies at 91
2001 Jack Lemmon, actor, movie version of The Odd Couple, dies at 76
2001 Deborah Walley, actress, the second movie Gidget, dies at 57
2000 Walter Matthau, actor, The Odd Couple movie version, dies at 79
2000 Michaela Odone, creative mother, ispired the movie Lorenzo's Oil, dies at 60
1998 US movie box office hits record $6.24 billion for year
1998 U.S. movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)
1997 For 1st time U.S. movie box office receipts pass $6 billion
1997 Linda Stirling, B movie actress, dies at 75
1997 MTV Movie Awards
1996 Cubby Alberto Romolo Broccoli, movie producer, dies at 87
1996 MTV Movie Awards
1995 Miklos Rozsa, Hung movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), dies at 88
1994 G Waller, German/Swiss movie journalist (NRC/Variety), dies at 82
1994 MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings
1994 Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55
1994 Thomas Davis, U.S. movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D, dies at 26
1994 Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters
1994 Sony Theaters and Cineplex (New York City) hike movie ticket prices to $8.00
1993 Stanley Myers, English movie composer (Deer Hunter), dies at 63
1993 Jose L Guarner, Spanish movie reviewer, dies at 56
1993 Jay Scott, [Jeffrey Scott Beaven], US/Canada movie critic, dies at 43
1993 Alexander Mnouchkine, French movie producer (Professional), dies at 83
1992 Alan Balsam, U.S. movie editor (Divine Madness), dies
1992 Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot
1992 Richard Hunt, puppeteer/actor (Muppet Movie), dies of AIDS at 40
1990 Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer, dies
1990 "Jetson's the Movie" with Tiffany, premieres
1990 Return To Green Acres TV movie airs
1989 The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days)
1989 Movie "Batman" premieres
1989 Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by right-to-lifers
1988 "Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad"
1988 Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released
1986 Hall B Wallis, U.S. movie production (Barefoot in Park), dies at 87
1985 1st AIDS theme TV movie - "An Early Frost"
1985 Carol Wayne, Johnny Carson's teatime movie hostess, dies at 42
1983 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war
1983 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," released in Germany
1982 Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network
1982 Movie "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" released (highest grossing film)
1982 Movie "Annie" premieres
1981 Abel Gance, french movie director (J'accuse), dies at 92
1980 UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting
1980 "Blues Brothers" movie with Dan Akwoyd and John Belushi opens
1978 1st lesbian theme TV movie - "Question of Love"
1978 1st TV movie from a TV series - "Rescue from Gilligan's Island"
1978 Jack L Warner, U.S. movie production (Warner Bros), dies at 86)
1978 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
1978 Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie"
1977 Movie "Star Wars" debuts
1976 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany
1976 Adolph Zukor, Hungarian/U.S. fur trader/movie producer, dies at 103
1976 1st quadrophonic movie track: "Ladies and Gentlemen the Rolling Stones"
1975 Bernard Herrmann, U.S. movie composer, dies at 64
1974 Marcel Pagnol, French writer/movie (Topaz), dies at 79
1974 Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters
1972 1st gay theme TV movie - "That Certain Summer"
1971 TV movie "Brian's Song," airs for 1st time on ABC-TV
1971 Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie"
1971 Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
1971 Gilbert M Anderson, actor (1st Movie Cowboy), dies at 88
1970 "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters
1970 Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premieres in UK
1970 Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres
1970 Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"
1969 Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
1966 Actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California
1966 Montgomery Clift, movie actor (From Here to Eternity), dies
1965 Beatles movie "Help" opens in New York City
1965 Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
1963 Movie "Cleopatra" opens in New York
1961 Walt Disney's movie "Grey Friars Bobby" premieres
1961 1st movie to become a TV series - How to Marry a Millionaire
1961 1st in-flight movie shown, TWA
1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
1960 "Misfits" premieres, final movie for Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe
1959 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach)
1958 Harry Revel, movie composer (Sitting Pretty, Gay Divorcee), dies
1958 John Bloom, [Joe Bob Briggs], drive-in movie critic
1958 Harry Warner, U.S. movie pionier (Warner Bros), dies at 81
1956 Alexander Korda, English movie producer (Henry VIII), dies at 62
1954 Auguste Lumiere, French photograph/movie pioneer, dies at 81
1953 "House of Wax," 1st 3-D movie, released (New York City)
1953 "Bwana Devil," the 1st 3-D movie, opened in New York
1953 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres
1952 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil," premieres in Hollywood
1951 "La Vie Commence Demain," which depicted artificial insemination and is the 1st X-rated movie, opened in London
1950 Leonard Maltin, born in New York City, movie critic, Entertainment Tonight
1946 Gene Siskel, movie critic, Siskel and Ebert
1944 1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, New York City
1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released
1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox
1940 Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio," released
1940 Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio," premieres (New York City)
1939 Larry Linville, Ojai California, actor, Frank Burns-M*A*S*H, Blue Movie
1938 Rex Reed, Ft. Worth, Texas, movie critic/actor, Myra Breckinridge
1937 Claude Lelouch, movie director, A Man and A Woman, Cat and Mouse, Bolero
1935 Dennis Christopher George Potter, playwright, Karaoke, Midnight Movie
1934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up and Cheer"
1934 1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of Orange," premieres
1932 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)
1932 Richard Lester, movie director, Hard Day's Night, Help!, Petulia
1931 Peter Batty, TV/movie producer
1931 1st theater built for rear movie projection (New York City)
1931 1st Dracula movie released
1931 Vic Morrow, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Combat, Roots, Twilight Zone the Movie
1929 George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester New York)
1928 Andrew Sarris, movie critic, Village Voice
1927 "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (New York City)
1927 Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released and bombed
1926 Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies in New York at 31
1926 Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system
1926 1st talkie movie "Don Juan" at Warner Theatre, New York
1925 Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow
1925 Robert Heppener, composer, Hymns and Conversations, Movie Music
1925 Ed van der Elsken, movie photographer, Een liefdesgeschiedenis
1923 Marcel Marceau, born in Strasbourg, France, mime, Barbarella, Silent Movie
1922 1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in New York City
1922 Judith Crist, New York, movie critic, TV Guide
1922 Elmer Bernstein, born in New York City, movie music composer, Robot Monster
1921 Amsterdam's Tuschinski movie theater opens
1920 Ray Harryhausen, movie special effect artist, Clash of Titans
1919 Pauline Kael, movie critic, New York Times, For Keeps
1919 Army Archerd, Hollywood columnist/TV host, Movie Game
1913 1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago
1912 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released
1912 Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies
1911 Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader, Vatican movie bureau
1910 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1908 1st horror movie (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) premieres in Chicago
1907 Miklos Rozsa, born in Budapest, Hungary, movie composer, Atomic Cafe, Fedora
1907 Charles Boost, movie critic
1906 Lew Grade, British TV mogul, ATV, /movie producer, Boys from Brazil
1906 Harry Ritz, U.S. comic, Ritz Brothers-Silent Movie
1900 Mervyn LeRoy, movie producer, Devil at 4 O'Clock
1900 Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer
1900 Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
1899 Hal Wallis, movie producer, Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park
1897 Rouben Mamoulian, movie director/author, Mark of Zorro, Applause
1897 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Brno Austria, movie composer, Violanta
1896 1st movie theater in U.S. opens, charging 10 cents for admission
1896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (New York City)
1896 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
1895 World's 1st movie theater opens in Paris
1895 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, New York City)
1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters
1893 Alexander Korda, British movie producer, 3rd man
1893 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ
1893 Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
1892 Jack Warner, U.S. movie studio head, Warner Bros
1890 Man Ray, U.S. statues artist/photographer/movie, dada
1882 Samuel Goldwyn, [Goldfish], movie producer, MGM
1880 Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet/movie critic, Alcoola
1880 Mack Sennett, movie creator, Keystone Kops
1875 D. W. Griffith, movie producer/director, Birth of a Nation
1873 Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive, Paramount
1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
1862 Auguste Lumiere, made 1st movie, Workers Leaving Lumiere Factory
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