On September 23, 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,
starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as a team of bank
robbers in the Old West, premiered in New York City.

The film was a commercial and critical success, receiving seven
Oscar nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director)
and winning in the categories of Best Screenplay (William
Goldman), Best Song (Burt Bacharach’s “Raindrops Keep
Falling on My Head”), Best Score and Best Cinematography.

The February 2020 issue of New York Magazine lists Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as among "the Best Movies
that Lost Best Picture at the Oscars."

Disney’s Mary Poppins was released in the US, featuring its
classic song “Spoonful of Sugar.”

The tune was inspired when writer Richard Sherman’s son
received an oral polio vaccine soaked into a sugar cube.

On August 10, 1939, The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland
and featuring words and music by E.Y. “Yip” Harburg and
Harold Arlen, received its world premiere in Green Bay,
Wisconsin. It would open widely in U.S. theaters some
two weeks later.

On July 28, 1978, National Lampoon’s Animal House, a
movie spoof about 1960s college fraternities starring
John Belushi, opened in U.S. theaters.

Produced with an estimated budget of $3 million,
Animal House became a huge, multi-million-dollar
box-office hit, spawned many cinematic imitations
and became part of pop-culture history with such
memorable lines as “Fat, drunk and stupid is no
way to go through life, son.”

John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982)

On July 6, 1994, the movie Forrest Gump opened in U.S. theaters.