The Technicolor adventure film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was the first
science fiction film shot in CinemaScope. The film was personally produced
by Walt Disney through Walt Disney Productions. It was also the first feature-
length Disney film to be distributed by Buena Vista Distribution.

Boris Karloff hosted a weekly children’s radio program over New York’s
WNEW during the early 1950s. He played children’s music and read stories
and riddles. The program,“Karloff’s Treasure Chest”, also became popular
with adults. 

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974)

Moorehead played the mother, Endora, on the ABC- TV series Bewitched
(1964-1972). She won Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress for
her roles in the 1945 movie Mrs. Tarkington and the 1965 film Hush…Hush,
Sweet Charlotte. She received four Academy Award nominations for Best
Supporting Actress from 1943 to 1965, but never became a winner. The 
actress graduated with a degree in Biology from Muskingum College in
Ohio.

 
Agnes Moorehead in a Twilight Zone episode, The Invaders (1961).

Moorehead performing in "Sorry, Wrong
Number" on a CBS-radio progam.

Karloff as Frankenstein

Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt in England) 
(November 23, 1887- February 2, 1969)

Horror actor Boris Karloff played the monster in the 1931 movie Frankenstein. He
also starred in the sequels Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Son of Frankenstein
in 1939. He was also the title monster in the 1932 horror film The Mummy. His best-known non-horror role is as the Grinch, as well as the narrator, in the animated
television special of Dr. Seuss‘s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966). Prior to becoming an actor, Karloff was employed as a farm laborer.

Tim Maguire

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is having her 53rd birthday today.

Foster graduated from Yale’s prestigious theater program magna cum laude
in 1985 and received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Yale in
1997.

1991