Starring - Notable Historical Events
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Starring - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1913-03-25 |
Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC) starring Ed Wynn |
1921-02-06 |
"The Kid," starring Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, released |
1921-11-13 |
"Sheik", a silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, is released |
1930-04-01 |
"Blue Angel" starring unknown Marlene Dietrich premieres in America |
1931-02-14 |
The original "Dracula", starring Bela Lugosi as the titular vampire, is released |
1939-03-31 |
"The Hound of Baskervilles", starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson for the first time, is released |
1939-10-17 |
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", starring Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur, is released |
1939-12-30 |
"Of Mice and Men", starring Burgess Meredith as George Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie, is released |
1940-10-15 |
"The Great Dictator", a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released. |
1941-05-01 |
"Citizen Kane", directed & starring Orson Welles, premieres in NY |
1942-02-05 |
"Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn & Tracy opens at Radio City |
1944-05-04 |
"Gaslight", starring an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her film debut, is released |
1944-10-11 |
"Laura", starring Gene Tierney, is released |
1945-09-28 |
"Mildred Price" starring Joan Crawford opens at Strand |
1946-05-16 |
Musical "Annie Get Your Gun" starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC |
1948-01-23 |
Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens |
1949-06-25 |
Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny. |
1949-09-28 |
"My Friend Irma" is 1st of 12 films starring Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis |
1949-09-29 |
Elia Kazan's "Pinky" starring Ethel Waters opens at Rivoli |
1949-12-08 |
"On the Town", the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Ann Miller and Vera-Ellen, is released |
1950-08-10 |
"Sunset Boulevard", starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson, premieres at Radio City Music Hall |
1950-12-20 |
"Harvey" starring James Stewart premieres in NY |
1951-10-15 |
"I Love Lucy", starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, debuts on CBS |
1952-02-08 |
"RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV |
1952-03-27 |
"Singin' in the Rain", a musical comedy starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, is released |
1953-08-27 |
"Roman Holiday", starring Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, and Eddie Albert, is released |
1953-09-29 |
"Make Room for Daddy" starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV |
1954-04-26 |
The Japanese film "Seven Samurai", starring Toshiro Mifune, is released |
1954-07-28 |
"On the Waterfront", starring Marlon Brando, is released |
1954-09-29 |
"Barefoot Contessa" starring Ava Gardner premieres at the Capitol |
1954-09-29 |
"Star is Born" starring Judy Garland & James Mason premieres |
1955-06-12 |
"Mr Peepers" (TV Comedy) starring Wally Cox airs for last time on NBC |
1955-10-20 |
"No Time for Sergeants" opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith |
1957-10-02 |
"The Bridge on the River Kwai", starring William Holden and Alec Guinness, is released |
1957-10-21 |
Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens |
1958-05-08 |
"Dracula", starring Christopher Lee as the titular vampire, debuts |
1958-05-09 |
Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo", starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, is released |
1959-03-29 |
"Some Like It Hot", starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, is released |
1960-06-16 |
"Psycho", starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, and Vera Miles, opens in NY |
1960-09-29 |
"My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV |
1961-09-28 |
"Hazel" starring Shirley Booth debuts on NBC-TV |
1961-10-18 |
"West Side Story", the film adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical, starring Natalie Wood, is released |
1962-12-16 |
David Lean's film "Lawrence of Arabia" premieres, starring Peter O'Toole |
1962-12-25 |
"To Kill a Mockingbird", the film adaptation on the novel by Harper Lee, starring Gregory Peck, is released |
1963-09-29 |
"My Favorite Martian" starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV |
1964-09-18 |
"The Addams Family", starring John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy, and Jackie Coogan, premieres on ABC |
1964-09-26 |
"Gilligan's Island", starring Bob Denver as Gilligan, debuts on CBS |
1965-03-02 |
One of the most popular musical films of all time, "The Sound of Music", starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, is released |
1965-09-18 |
"I Dream of Jeannie", starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, premieres on NBC |
1966-01-12 |
"Batman", starring Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, and Cesar Romero as The Joker, debuts on ABC |
1966-09-08 |
"That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV |
1966-12-30 |
The cult classic "One Million Years B.C.", starring Raquel Welch, is released |
1967-11-01 |
"Cool Hand Luke", starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, is released |
1967-12-20 |
"The Graduate" starring Dustin Hoffman & Anne Bancroft premieres |
1969-07-06 |
Filming begins on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger |
1972-01-14 |
"Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV |
1972-03-15 |
"The Godfather", starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premieres in New York |
1973-12-26 |
Horror film "The Exorcist," starring Linda Blair & rated X, premieres - 1st horror film to be nominated for Best Picture |
1974-01-18 |
"$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV |
1974-06-20 |
"Chinatown", starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, is released |
1974-12-20 |
"The Godfather Part II", starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, is released |
1975-11-19 |
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher is released |
1976-02-08 |
"Taxi Driver", starring Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster, is released |
1976-09-22 |
"Charlie's Angels" starring Farrah Fawcett debuts |
1977-04-20 |
"Annie Hall", starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, is released |
1977-12-14 |
"Saturday Night Fever" starring John Travolta, premieres in NYC |
1978-01-28 |
"Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV |
1978-03-10 |
"The Incredible Hulk", starring Bill Bixby as David Banner, premieres on CBS |
1978-06-11 |
"Grease" starring John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John opens |
1978-10-25 |
"Halloween", starring Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut, is released |
1979-02-23 |
"The Deer Hunter", starring Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken, is released |
1979-05-25 |
"Alien", starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, is released |
1979-08-15 |
"Apocalypse Now", starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen, is released |
1980-09-17 |
"Divine Madness" starring Bette Midler, premieres |
1980-12-19 |
"Raging Bull", starring Robert De Niro as boxer Jake LaMotta and Cathy Moriarty as his wife, is released |
1981-06-12 |
"Raiders Of The Lost Ark" starring Harrison Ford premieres |
1982-06-11 |
"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", starring Drew Barrymore, is released |
1982-09-26 |
"Knight Rider", starring David Hasselhoff, debuts on NBC |
1984-01-04 |
"Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV |
1985-06-13 |
"Prizzi's Honor", starring Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, and Anjelica Huston, is released |
1985-09-14 |
"The Golden Girls", starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, debuts on NBC |
1985-09-29 |
"MacGyver" starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV |
1986-02-08 |
The crime film "A Better Tomorrow", starring Yun Fat Chow, premieres in Hong Kong |
1989-06-02 |
"Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams premieres |
1989-06-12 |
"Doctor Doctor," TV Comedy starring Matt Frewer, debuts on CBS-TV |
1989-09-19 |
"Doogie Howser, M.D.", starring Neil Patrick Harris as a teenage physician, debuts on ABC |
1989-09-22 |
"Baywatch", starring David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson, debuts on NBC |
1990-03-21 |
"Normal Life" starring Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV |
1990-03-21 |
"Sydney" starring Valerie Bertinelli premieres on CBS-TV |
1990-03-31 |
"Carol & Company" starring Carol Burnette premieres on NBC-TV |
1990-04-09 |
"Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV |
1990-05-31 |
Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles |
1990-09-19 |
"Goodfellas", starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta, is released |
1991-02-14 |
"The Silence of the Lambs", starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, is released |
1991-12-20 |
"Father of the Bride", starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, and Martin Short, is released |
1992-06-19 |
"Batman Returns", starring Michael Keaton as Batman, Danny Devito as the Penguin, and Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, is released |
1993-06-11 |
"Jurassic Park" (starring Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum) opens, sets box office weekend record of $502 million |
1993-09-29 |
"Grace Under Fire" starring Brett Butler debuts on ABC-TV |
1993-12-15 |
"Schindler's List", starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes, is released |
1994-07-06 |
"Forrest Gump", starring Tom Hanks, robin wright, and Gary Sinise, is released |
1994-09-23 |
"The Shawshank Redemption", starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, is released |
1995-11-13 |
"GoldenEye", starring Pierce Brosnan as James Bond for the first time, debuts |
1996-04-29 |
"Rent", starring Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs, opens at Nederlander Theater NYC |
1996-05-24 |
"Spy Hard" starring Leslie Nielsen is released |
1996-06-14 |
"Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released |
1996-06-28 |
"Nutty Professor" starring Eddie Murphy opens in theaters in the USA |
1996-08-26 |
"7th Heaven", starring Jessica Biel, debuts on The WB |
1996-12-20 |
The horror classic "Scream", starring Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox, is released |
1997-04-25 |
The disaster film "Volcano", starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche, is released |
1998-06-05 |
"The Truman Show", starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, and Ed Harris, is released |
1998-08-05 |
The American spin-off "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", starring Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and Wayne Brady, debuts on ABC |
1999-01-10 |
"The Sopranos", starring James Gandolfini as mobster Tony Soprano, debuts on HBO |
1999-03-31 |
"10 Things I Hate About You", a modernization of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger, is released |
1999-08-02 |
"The Sixth Sense", starring Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, and Haley Joel Osment, premieres |
1999-09-08 |
"American Beauty", starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, and Thora Birch, premieres in Los Angeles |
2001-05-18 |
DreamWorks Pictures "Shrek", starring Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz in voice-over roles, debuts |
2001-08-03 |
The Princess Diaries, starring Anne Hathaway in her film debut, is released |
2001-10-02 |
"Scrubs", starring Zach Braff as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian, premieres on NBC |
2001-10-28 |
The indie cult hit "Donnie Darko", starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is released |
2002-05-03 |
"Spider-Man", starring Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin, premieres |
2002-12-20 |
"Gangs of New York", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz, is released |
2002-12-27 |
"Chicago", starring Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere, and Catherine Zeta Jones, is released (2002 Best Picture winner) |
2003-06-10 |
"Wicked", starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, officially opens at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco |
2003-10-30 |
"Wicked" premieres on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, |
2004-07-30 |
"Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle", starring Kal Penn and John Cho, is released |
2005-01-23 |
"Numbers", starring Rob Morrow and David Krumholtz, debuts on CBS |
2005-07-15 |
"Wedding Crashers", starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, premieres |
2005-09-11 |
"Pride & Prejudice", the film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel of the same name, starring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet, is released |
2005-12-09 |
"Brokeback Mountain", starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, is released |
2006-09-26 |
Martin Scorsese's "The Departed", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Mark Wahlberg, premieres in New York City |
2006-10-11 |
"30 Rock", starring Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, and Tracy Morgan, debuts on NBC |
2007-09-21 |
"Into the Wild", starring Emile Hirsch, is released |
2007-09-21 |
"Into the Wild", starring Emile Hirsch, is released |
2007-10-05 |
"Michael Clayton", starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, and Tilda Swinton, is released |
2008-05-02 |
The critically acclaimed "Iron Man", starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, is released |
2009-12-06 |
Final Broadway performance of "A Steady Rain", starring Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig |
2009-12-18 |
James Cameron's "Avatar", starring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, is released |
2011-09-16 |
The critically acclaimed "Drive", starring Ryan Gosling, is released |
2011-09-20 |
"New Girl", starring Zooey Deschanel, debuts on Fox |
2013-02-01 |
"House of Cards", starring Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood and Robin Wright as his wife, is released on Netflix |
2013-11-27 |
"Frozen", the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released |
2013-12-25 |
"The Wolf of Wall Street", starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill, is released |
2014-01-12 |
"True Detective", a crime-drama starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, debuts on HBO |
2014-02-17 |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon premieres on NBC |
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Starring - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1910-10-27 |
Frederick De Cordova, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
1918-12-02 |
Milton Delugg, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
1919-12-05 |
Hal Goldman, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
1927-05-21 |
Willis Holman, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
1930-12-08 |
Wendell E. Niles Jr., The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
1931-02-01 |
John Bambridge, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
1936-02-16 |
Robert Waldman, The Adventures of a Man in Search of a Heart: A Joleron Production Starring the Tin Woodman from the Land of Oz |
1936-05-11 |
George Tricker, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
1944-12-19 |
Vince Brocato, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
1963-10-22 |
Brian Boitano, Brian Boitano Skating Spectacular Starring Barry Manilow |
1969-03-04 |
Jon Petersson, Starring Maja |
1978-9-18 |
Mauricio Magaña, And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself |
1979-11-10 |
Moa Silén, Starring Maja |
1980-02-19 |
David Knoell, Disaster! A Major Motion Picture Ride... Starring You! |
1987-03-11 |
Wes Tate, Queen's Friday Female Panel Starring Lisa Ling, Katherine Schwarzenegger and More. Plus, Celebrity Chef, Gordon Ramsay! |
1987-12-26 |
Björn Davidsson, Starring Maja |
1988-12-09 |
Zandra Andersson, Starring Maja |
Starring - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1959-11-18 |
Arthur Q. Bryan, Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends |
2001-06-27 |
Hal Goldman, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
2001-09-15 |
Frederick De Cordova, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
2014-06-25 |
George Tricker, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
2015-04-06 |
Milton Delugg, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
