Events in Film & TV
Film Premiere
Dec 15 "Gone With The Wind", drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, premieres in Atlanta (Best Picture 1940, inflation not adjusted highest-grossing film of all time)
Film Release
Dec 30 "Of Mice and Men", starring Burgess Meredith as George, Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie, is released
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Dec 5 Horst Bastian, German writer and screenwriter, born in Exin (d. 1986)
- Dec 14 Marilyn Cooper, American actress (Broadway Bound, Survivors), born in NYC, New York
- Dec 17 Novella Nelson, American actress (Antwone Fisher, Purlie, Chiefs), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2017)
- Dec 18 Henrica M. L. "Wiesje" Backer, Dutch dancer, actress and playwright
- Dec 20 Kathryn Joosten, American actress (Desperate Housewives), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2012)
- Dec 27 John Amos, American actor (Good Times; Roots; Coming to America; The West Wing), born in Newark, New Jersey
Deaths in Film & TV
Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)
Dec 12 American actor (The Mark of Zorro, 3 Musketeers, Robin Hood), dies from a heart attack at 56
- Dec 19 Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director (The White), dies at 57
