Himan Brown (far right) directing the first episode of “Marie, The
Little French Princess”.
CBS radio debuted "Marie, The Little French Princess." It was the first daytime
radio serial or soap. The 15-minute program aired for two years.
CREEM, "America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine", was a monthly publication
by Barry Kramer, a Detroit record store owner and founding editor Tony
Reay who was a clerk in the store. It suspended production in 1989 but
received a short-lived renaissance in the early 1990s as a glossy tabloid.
The single “Surfin’ U.S.A” peaked at number two in the chart of the Music
Vendor trade paper (within a year renamed Record World) and at number
three on both the Billboard and Cash Box charts. It was backed with "Shut
Down”. Billboard ranked "Surfin’ U.S.A." the number 2 song of 1963 and is
part of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock
and Roll list.
Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter)
(March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937)
Harlow’s first major appearance was in the Howard Hughes production
of Hell’s Angels (1930). She later signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
in 1932 and starred in a string of hit films including Red Dust (1932),
Dinner at Eight (1933), Reckless (1935), and Suzy (1936). She also
co-starred with William Powell, Spencer Tracy, and made six films with
Clark Gable. The American Film Institute ranked her as the 22nd greatest
female star of classic Hollywood cinema. Harlow died from kidney disease
at the young age of 26.
