On August 25, 1939, The Wizard of Oz, which will become one of
the best-loved movies in history, opened in theaters around the
United States.

Based on the 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,
by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), the film starred Judy Garland as
the young Kansas farm girl Dorothy, who, after being knocked unconscious in a tornado, dreams about following a yellow brick
road, alongside her dog Toto, to the Emerald City to meet the
Wizard of Oz. Along the way, Dorothy encounters a cast of
characters, including the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly
Lion and the Wicked Witch of the West.

SANDY KOZEL

Rudolph Valentino 
(nicknamed The Latin Lover)
(May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926)

1922

Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta

AMC Theatres announced Thursday that it will play Grease in 135
of its theaters this weekend as a way of paying tribute to the
Paramount film’s iconic star, the late Olivia Newton-John. She
died Aug. 15 at her ranch in Southern California.

The cost per moviegoer will be $5, with $1 of every ticket sold
going to AMC’s charitable fund, AMC Cares. The proceeds will
be donated to breast cancer research.

First released in 1978, Grease is still considered one of the most enduring film musicals of all time.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Charles Robert Redford Jr. is a actor, director and producer
and the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy
Award from four nominations, a British Academy Film Award,
Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2014, two Golden Globe
Awards, the Cecil B. DeMille Award and Time named him one
of the 100 most influential people in the world. He’s 36 today.

Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford’s television
career began in 1960, including an appearance on The
Twilight Zone in 1962 (below).

The Twilight Zone episode: "Nothing in the Dark."

1969

Actor and producer Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. is particularly
known for his nine collaborations with filmmaker Martin Scorsese,       
and is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy      
Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and      
a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.       

In 2009, De Niro received the Kennedy Center Honor, and he also
received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack 
Obama in 2016. De Niro is 79 years old today.
       

1970

Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter (1978)

De Niro in Godfather Part 2 (1974)

Raging Bull (1980)

Cape Fear (1991)