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Category Archives: Academy Awards
At 75, ‘Gone With The Wind’ Marks Yet ‘Another Day’
by KATHY LOHR Listen to the Story at All Things Considered Hulton Archive/Getty Images Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone with the Wind was published 75 years ago this month. A 1936 promotional poster for the book shows heroine Scarlett O’Hara running through the streets as Atlanta burns. June 29, 2011 As a child growing up just south [...]
First Academy Awards ceremony May 16, 1929
On this day in 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out its first awards, at a dinner party for around 250 people held in the Blossom Room of the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California.
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JOAN CRAWFORD DIES, May 10, 1977
May 10, 1977: On this day in 1977, the legendary actress Joan Crawford dies of a heart attack in her New York City apartment. Born Lucille Fay Le Sueur (her birth year has been variously recorded as 1904 or 1908), Crawford was a nightclub dancer who broke into Broadway musicals in the Jazz Age of the 1920s. [...]
Oprah Winfrey Biography
An article from Biography.com ( 1954 – )
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