On This Day in Film & TV for May 17
Events in Film & TV
- 1938 Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
- 1939 1st televised baseball game is broadcast on NBC, with Princeton defeating Columbia 2-1
- 1957 10th Cannes Film Festival: "Friendly Persuasion" directed by William Wyler wins the Palme d'Or
- 1963 Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in NYC, to become WWWF champ
- 1966 KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1970 Anonymous buyer purchases one of the pairs of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" for $15,000 at MGM Studio auction, and donates them to the Smithsonian Institution
- 1975 NBC pays $5M for rights to show "Gone With The Wind" one time
- 1976 28th Emmy Awards: "The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & Michael Learned win
- More Events in Film & TV
Dennis Hopper
Bob Saget
Craig Ferguson
Trent ReznorWeddings in Film & TV
- 1923 Actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (21) weds assistant director Rudolf Sieber (26) in Berlin, Germany
- 1997 Actor Sylvester Stallone weds actress Jennifer Flavin in London
- 2008 Singer-songwriter and actress Ashlee Simpson (23) weds rock band Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz (28) in Encino, California
More Weddings & Divorces in Film & TV
Deaths in Film & TV
- 1943 Montagu Love, actor (Wind), dies at 65
- 1974 Charles Braswell, American actor (Only Game in Town), dies at 49
- 1985 Hugh Burden, actor (Night of Laughing Dead), dies at 72
- 1992 George Hurrell, Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer at 87
May in Film & TV History
Miss Atomic Pageant
Linda Lawson is the winner of the 1955 Miss Atomic Pageant, with a mushroom cloud crown for good measure
May 1, 1955Silence is Golden At The First Oscars
The first Academy Awards ceremony took place on this day before just 250 guests. All the movies nominated for what would become known as an Oscar were silent
May 16, 1929The 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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