On This Day in Film & TV for August 19
Events in Film & TV
- 1948 9th Venice Film Festival opens
- 1950 ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch)
- 1969 Film adaptation of Arlo Guthrie's song "Alice's Restaurant", directed by Arthur Penn, and starring Guthrie premieres
- 1970 31st Venice Film Festival opens
- 1978 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
- 1980 Willy Russell's play "Educating Rita" premieres in London starring Julie Walters
- 1991 Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA
- 1993 26th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Doubletree Hotel
- More Events in Film & TV
Matthew Perry
Groucho MarxWeddings in Film & TV
- 1956 Actor Christopher Plummer (26) weds actress Tammy Grimes (22) at Cherokee Castle in Sedalia, Colorado
- 1973 American singer and actor Kris Kristofferson (37) weds fellow singer Rita Coolidge (28); divorce in 1980
- 1993 Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin
Divorces in Film & TV
More Weddings & Divorces in Film & TV
August in Film & TV History
The Wizard of Oz
Publicity still of the Wizard of Oz, showing the Tin Man, Scarecrow, Dorothy and Cowardly Lion
August 15, 1939
How Paula Yates Discovered Her Real Father
Controversial television presenter Paula Yates married pop star Bob Geldof on this day. Fate decided she would not remain happy ever after
August 31, 1986
The Best Quentin Tarantino Quiz
Do you know the answer to every Tarantino question? Including which Tarantino film script was leaked prior to filming? Or which actor is his most frequent collaborator?
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