Events in Film & TV
Film Release
1957 Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens in Memphis, Tennessee
Elvis Presley
Event of Interest
1961 Barbra Streisand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones"
Barbra Streisand
Film Premier
1964 Film version of "My Fair Lady" directed by George Cukor and starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn premieres in New York (Academy Awards Best Picture 1965)
- 1965 KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
Event of Interest
1975 Elton John is given a star in Hollywood
Elton John
Event of Interest
2018 Julia Louis-Dreyfus is presented with the Mark Twain Prize, comedy's top honor, at a ceremony in New York
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Birthdays in Film & TV
- 1895 Edna Purviance, American silent film actress, worked with Charlie Chaplin (The Kid), born in Paradise Valley, Nevada (d. 1958)
- 1902 Lillian Bronson, American actress (Next Voice you Hear), born in Lockport, New York (d. 1995)
- 1905 Carleton Young, American actor (Reefer Madness, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), born in Westfield, New York (d. 1994)
- 1911 Peter Graves, British actor (Paradise Lagoon, Admirable Crichton), born in London, England (d. 1994)
- 1916 Andrea Checchi, Italian actor (The Lady Without Camelias, Two Anonymous Letters), born in Florence, Tuscany (d. 1974)
- 1924 Joyce Randolph, American actress (Trixie-Honeymooners), born in Detroit, Michigan
- 1926 Leonard Rossiter, British actor (Rising Damp, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1984)
- 1931 Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor and director known as the "Elvis Presley of India" (Amaran, Brahmachari, Vidhaata), born in Bombay, British India (d. 2011)
- 1933 Georgia Brown, [Lillian Getel], actress (Study in Terror, Fixer)
- 1940 Julie Parrish, Middlesboro Ky, actress (Good Morning World, Capitol)
Judith Sheindlin
1942 Judith Sheindlin, Jurist and Television personality (Judge Judy), born in Brooklyn, New York
Judith Sheindlin
- 1943 Paula Kelly, American dancer and actress (Liz-Night Court), born in Jacksonville, Florida
- 1945 Everett McGill, actor (Jezebel's Kiss, Silver Bullet), born in Miami, Florida
- 1948 Tom Everett, American actor
- 1952 Patti Davis [Patricia Ann Reagan], singer/actress/writer, Ronald and Nancy's daughter
- 1953 Eleonora Giorgi, actress (Nu de Femme, To Forget Venice), born in Rome, Italy
Carrie Fisher
1956 Carrie Fisher, American actress (Princess Leia in Star Wars, When Harry Met Sally...) and writer (Postcards from the Edge), born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 2016)
Carrie Fisher
Kim Kardashian
1980 Kim [Kimberly] Kardashian, American TV personality (Keeping Up with the Kardashians), born in Los Angeles, California
Kim Kardashian
Weddings in Film & TV
Wedding of Interest
1977 Actor Peter Boyle (42) weds Loraine Alterman at the United Nations chapel in Manhattan
Peter Boyle
- 1995 "Family Ties" actress Meredith Baxter (48) weds screenwriter Michael Blodgett (56) in Los Angeles
Deaths in Film & TV
- 1777 Samuel Foote, British actor, dramatist and theatre manager (Mirror), dies at 57
- 1906 Helena Amelung [Georgette A], Dutch actress (Scapegoat), dies at 55
- 1945 Henry Armetta, Italian-American actor (The Black Cat, Bell for Adano, Big Store), dies from a heart attack at 57
- 1965 Marie McDonald, American singer and actress known as "The Body Beautiful" (Promises Promises), dies of an accidental drug overdose at 42
- 1966 Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95
- 1971 Raymond Hatton, American actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer), dies of heart attack at 84
- 1989 Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (b. 1910)
- 2003 Fred Berry, African-American actor (Rerun-What's Happening), dies at 52
- 2005 Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress, shot at 16
- 2012 Dann Cahn, American film editor, dies of natural causes at 89
- 2015 Marty Ingels, American comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster), dies at 79
October in History
![The Tragedy of Aberfan]()
The Tragedy of Aberfan
One hundred and sixteen young children died on this day when an avalanche of coal tip waste and debris thundered down a hillside and engulfed their school.
October 21, 1966![Jumping Jacques Makes First Parachute Descent]()
Jumping Jacques Makes First Parachute Descent
Daredevil André-Jacques Garnerin took to the sky in a hydrogen balloon on this day and after cutting himself adrift performed the first ‘parachute’ descent.
October 22, 1797![Test of Time for the Date of Creation]()
Test of Time for the Date of Creation
The assertion by a 17th Century bishop that the universe was created on this day in the year 4004 BC was put to the test in a famous trial in the United States.
October 23, 4004 BC![The Charge of the Light Brigade, a Brave and Foolish Tale]()
The Charge of the Light Brigade, a Brave and Foolish Tale
The Charge of the Light Brigade is infamous as an act of bravery in the face all insurmountable odds. An event immortalized in poetry by Alfred Tennyson.
October 25, 1854
