Jamie Lee Curtis was born in Santa Monica, California, to actor Tony
Curtis and actress Janet Leigh.
Her film debut was in the 1978 John Carpenter horror film Halloween. It
was considered the highest grossing independent film of its time and
earned Curtis the title, "scream queen".
The cast of “The Goldbergs” during rehearsal of the popular radio show
The program debuted on the NBC Blue Network as “The Rise of the Goldbergs”,
later known as “The Goldbergs” when it moved to CBS in 1936. It was devised by
writer-actress Gertrude Berg as a domestic comedy featuring the home life of a
Jewish tenement family, supposedly located in the Bronx. In addition to writing
the scripts and directing each episode, Berg starred as the Jewish matriarch
Molly Goldberg.
Gertrude Berg
Japanese Emperor Hirohito
Ben-Hur is a remake of the 1925 silent film with the same name. It won
a record 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, unequaled until
Titanic in 1997 and by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in
2003.
Love Me Tender is a black-and-white CinemaScope motion picture directed by
Robert D. Webb, and released by 20th Century Fox on November 15, 1956.The
film, named after the song, stars Richard Egan, Debra Paget, and introduces
Elvis Presley in his first theatrical release. It is in the Western genre with
musical numbers. The film was originally to be titled The Reno Brothers,
but when advanced sales of Presley’s "Love Me Tender" single passed
one million, a first for a single, the film title was changed to match. Despite
critical reaction, it takes in nearly $4 million in just two months.
