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Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959)

DeMille is acknowledged as a founding father of American
cinema and the most commercially successful producer-
director in film history.

On August 11, 1973, the nostalgic teenage coming-of-age
movie American Graffiti, directed and co-written by George
Lucas, opened in theaters across the United States. Set in
California in the summer of 1962, American Graffiti was
nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Director
and Best Picture, and helped launch the big-screen careers
of Richard Dreyfuss and Harrison Ford, as well as the former
child actor and future Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard.

The film’s success enabled Lucas to get his next movie made,
the mega-hit Star Wars (1977).

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.

The Wizard of Oz was a critical success and was nominated
for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning
Best Original Song for "Over the Rainbow" and Best Original
Score.

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Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
(June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)

Sam Elliott spent his teenaged years living in northeast Portland,
and graduated from David Douglas High School in 1962.  

After graduating from high school, Elliott attended college
at the University of Oregon as an English and psychology
major for two terms before dropping out. He returned to
Portland and attended Clark College in nearby Vancouver,
Washington.
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Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962)

On August 5, 1962, movie actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead
in her home in Los Angeles. She was discovered lying nude on her
bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were littered around the room.