Melvin (Mel) James Brooks (Kaminsky)

Mel Brooks is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker. With a career
spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and
director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A
recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 18 entertainers to
win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award,
an Academy Award ("Oscar"), and a Tony Award. He received a
Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in
2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film
Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a
BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award
in 2023.

He began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar‘s
variety show Your Show of Shows from 1950 to 1954.

1974

1974

On June 27, 1939, one of the most famous scenes in movie history 
was filmed: Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara parting in Gone with
the Wind. Director Victor Fleming also shot the scene using the
alternate line, “Frankly, my dear, I just don’t care,” in case the film censors objected to the word “damn.” The censors approved the
movie but fined producer David O. Selznick $5,000 for including
the curse.

Victor Lonzo Fleming
(February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949)

1979

1979

From “Falling Down” (1993)

Frederic Fenimore Forrest Jr.
(December 23, 1936 – June 23, 2023)

Frederic Forrest, known for roles in "Apocalypse Now,"
“Falling Down” and "The Rose," died on Friday at his
home in Santa Monica, California.

On June 23, 1989, Tim Burton’s noir spin on the well-known story
of the DC Comics hero Batman was released in theaters.

Michael Keaton (below) starred in the film as the multimillionaire
Bruce Wayne, who has transformed himself into the crime-fighting
Batman after witnessing his parents’ brutal murder as a child.

On this day in history, June 20, 1975, the movie
"Jaws," directed by Steven Spielberg, opened
in theaters in the United States. 

Stars: Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss

Director Steven Spielberg.