Events in Film & TV on January 24

Music History

1933 Noël Coward's stage comedy "Design for Living", starring Alfred Lunt; Lynn Fontanne, and Coward himself, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC; runs for 155 performances

Film Release

1939 Adventure film "Gunga Din", based on the poem by Rudyard Kipling and starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is released

Film Release

1940 "The Grapes of Wrath", directed by John Ford and based on John Steinbeck's novel of the same name, starring Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell, is released

Music History

1959 Dmitri Shostakovich's comedy "Cheryomushk" premieres in Moscow

1959 WHCT TV channel 18 in Hartford, CT (IND) begins broadcasting

Pro Wrestling

1963 Buddy Rogers & Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ & Thesz becomes NWA champion

1964 CBS purchases 1964 & 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million
1966 WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
1975 "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV

Golden Globes

1976 33rd Golden Globes: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Jack Nicholson, & Louise Fletcher win

Golden Globes

1986 43rd Golden Globes: "Out of Africa", Jon Voight, & Whoopi Goldberg win

1988 1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins
1988 4th Sundance Film Festival: "Heat and Sunlight" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
1988 NBC premiere of fact based "The Murder of Mary Phagan"