The first Emmy Awards ceremony was held on January 25, 1949
at the Hollywood Athletic Club.

The awards recognize excellence in television (which in the
1940s was a novel medium).

Hollywood’s first television academy had been founded three
years earlier by Sydney Cassyd, a former film editor for Frank
Capra who later worked as a grip at Paramount Studios and
an entertainment journalist.

Sydney Cassyd (1908 – 2000) 

       

Kevin Michael Costner, actor,singer and filmmaker, is 70 years
old today.  

Born in Lynwood, California, Costner has received various
accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden
Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Costner rose to prominence starring in such films as The
Untouchables (1987), Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams
(1989), JFK (1991), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991),
The Bodyguard (1992), and A Perfect World (1993).

Kevin Costner directed and starred in the western epic
Dances with Wolves (1990), for which he won two
Academy Awards: Best Picture and Best Director.

2000

2019

Bruce Willis showed his appreciation for those keeping
everyone in Los Angeles safe during the devastating
fires.  (Emma Heming Willis Instagram)

The "Die Hard" star was making a rare public appearance since announcing his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis in 2023.
(FOX NEWS)

On January 16, 1942, the actress Carole Lombard, famous for her
roles in such screwball comedies as My Man Godfrey and To Be
or Not to Be, and for her marriage to the actor Clark Gable, was
killed when the TWA DC-3 plane she is traveling in crashed en - 
route from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. She was only 33.

Doug Scroggins of Las Vegas spent years documenting the crash
site on Mount Potosi which is 35 miles southwest of Las Vegas.

Scroggins said "Flight 3 crashed near the 8,300-foot level of Mount Potosi with flaps retracted, and the plane in level flight. Something happened inside that cockpit and happened so fast that the pilot
could not react.”

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.

1939

A TWA DC-3, similar to the accident aircraft.

1948 EVERSHARP PEN AD.

Eversharp is an American brand of writing implements founded
by Charles Rood Keeran (below) in 1913 and marketed by Keeran 
& Co., based in Chicago.  

The company continued until 1957 when it was acquired by
Parker Pen, which continued to use the Eversharp brand for
a time.

Charles Rood Keeran (1883 – 1948)

The 1948 film with Humphrey Bogart shown in the above ad.