Events in Film & TV on May 2

1932 Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)

1946 "The Postman Always Rings Twice" film based on the novel by James M. Cain, directed by Tay Garnett and starring Lana Turner and John Garfield is released

1957 Hammer Film Productions releases its 1st color horror title - "The Curse of Frankenstein" starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee

1960 Harry Belafonte's 2nd Carnegie Hall performance

1977 Revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "The King & I"', with Yul Brynner reprising the role he created in 1951, opens at Uris Theater, NYC; runs for 695 performances

1979 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers and Barbara Mandrell win

1984 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park with George", a fictionalized version of painter Georges Seurat's relationship with his grandson, starring Mandy Patinkin, opens at Booth Theater, NYC; runs for 604 performances, wins a Pulitzer Prize for Drama

1997 "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery", starring Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley, is released

1997 Police arrest transsexual prostitute Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy

2008 First film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe released: "Iron Man" directed by Jon Favreau, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark

2011 Flavor Flav is arrested on four outstanding misdemeanor warrants for various driving offenses

2019 Facebook bans Alex Jones (InfoWars), Milo Yiannopoulos (ex-Breitbart), Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam), Paul Nehlen and Laura Loomer for hate speech

2019 The cast of "The Big Bang Theory" are the first TV actors to be immortalized in cement outside Hollywood's Chinese theater in Los Angeles