Events in Film & TV
- Dec 12 NBC & RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Dec 21 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", the first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles
Radio Premiere
Dec 25 Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st "Symphony of the Air" concert over NBC Radio
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Dec 4 Donnelly Rhodes, Canadian actor (Da Vinci's Inquest, Danger Bay), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba (d. 2018)
- Dec 4 Max Baer Jr, American actor (Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies), born in Oakland, California
- Dec 8 James MacArthur, American actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2010)
- Dec 9 Darwin Joston, American actor (Assault on Precinct 13), born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (d. 1998)
- Dec 12 Connie Francis [Concetta Franconero], American singer and actress (Where the Boys Are), born in Newark, New Jersey
- Dec 13 Rob Houwer, Dutch director and producer and actor (OK, Professor Columbus), born in The Hague, Netherlands
- Dec 15 Karen Morrow, American actress (The Boy in the Plastic bubble, Ladies' Man), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Dec 16 Joyce Bulifant, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show - "Marie Slaughter"), born in Newport News, Virginia
Jane Fonda (85 years old)
Dec 21 American stage and screen Academy and Emmy Award-winning actress (Barbarella; Klute, 9 to 5), exercist (Jane Fonda's Workout), and political activist, born in NYC, New York
- Dec 29 Barbara Steele, English actress (Black Sunday, 8½), born in Birkenhead, Cheshire
Anthony Hopkins (85 years old)
Dec 31 Welsh actor (Elephant Man, QB VII, Magic, Bounty), born in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales
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