Events in Film & TV
Theatrical Finale
Sep 1 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" closes at Imperial theater, NYC. after 634 performances
Telethon
Sep 3 Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186
Venice Film Festival
Sep 4 47th Venice Film Festival: "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" directed by Tom Stoppard wins the Golden Lion
- Sep 7 Marjorie Judith Vincent (Ill), 25, crowned 64th Miss America 1991
Film Premiere
Sep 19 American gangster film "Goodfellas", directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta, premieres
- Sep 23 PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War
Music History
Sep 28 Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Sep 5 Jeremy Snider, American actor (Eric Jr-Bold & Beautiful), born in California
- Sep 6 DPR Ian [Christian Yu], Australian singer, rapper and director (So Beautiful), born in Sydney, Australia
- Sep 9 Melody Klaver, Dutch actress, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sep 10 Chandler Massey, American actor (Days of our Lives), born in Atlanta, Georgia
- Sep 19 Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress (Yatterman), born in Kumamoto, Japan
- Sep 21 Allison Scagliotti, American actress
- Sep 21 Christian Serratos, American actress
- Sep 27 Kylee Lin, American beauty pageant winner
Deaths in Film & TV
Irene Dunne (1898-1990)
Sep 4 American actress (Cimarron, Theodora Goes Wild), dies of heart failure at 91
- Sep 5 Beppo Brem, actor (Frontgockel), dies of heart failure at 84
- Sep 11 Ben Frank, American actor (Don't Answer the Phone), dies of a heart attack at 56
- Sep 12 Athene Seyler, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 101
- Sep 20 Jackie Moran, actor (Janie, Barefoot Boy), dies of cancer at 65
- Sep 24 Jay Currin, stuntman/actor (Back to the Beach, Serial), dies at 34
- Sep 27 Matvey Isaakovich Blanter, Russian-Soviet composer of popular songs and film music ("Katyusha"), dies at 87
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