On December 3, 1947, Marlon Brando’s famous cry of “STELLA!”
first booms across a Broadway stage, electrifying the audience
at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre during the first-ever performance
of Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire.

A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most critically acclaimed
plays of the twentieth century and Williams’s most popular work. 

The 23-year-old Brando played the rough, working-class Polish-
American Stanley Kowalski, and his violent clash with Blanche
DuBois (played on Broadway by Jessica Tandy),

Jessica Tandy with Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named
Desire.

Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Marlon Brando.

     
From Act Three, Scene Five.

Casablanca is a romantic drama film directed by Michael
Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman,
and Paul Henreid.

On November 21, 1980, 350 million people around the world
tuned in to television’s popular primetime drama “Dallas” to
find out who shot J.R. Ewing, the character fans loved to hate.
J.R. had been shot on the season-ending episode the previous
March 21, which now stands as one of television’s most famous cliffhangers.

The plot twist inspired widespread media coverage and left
America wondering “Who shot J.R.?” for the next eight
months.

The November 21 episode solved the mystery, identifying Kristin Shepard, J.R.’s wife’s sister-in-law and his former mistress, as
the culprit.

On November 21, 1976, Rocky, starring Sylvester Stallone as
the underdog prizefighter Rocky Balboa, debuted in New York
City. The movie, which opened in theaters across the United
States on December 3, 1976, was a huge box-office hit and
received 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best
Actor and Best Original Screenplay for the then-little known
Stallone. Rocky ultimately took home three Oscars, including
one for Best Picture, and made Stallone one of the biggest
stars in Hollywood.

Sylvester Stallone and Burgess Meredith

Stallone and Carl Weathers

The origin of Remington personal care products dates
back to 1937 when Remington Rand began to branch
out to electric shavers, starting with the Remington
Model E. The cordless shaver was introduced in 1960.        

1948