Walt Disney’s first ever 3-D cartoon “Melody” premiered at
the Paramount Theater in Hollywood. It was a short (10-min)
distributed by RKO. The film was the first in a proposed series
of shorts teaching the principles of music.

On with the Show! is a 1929 musical film released by Warner Bros. It is the
first ever all-talking all-color feature length movie, and the second color
movie released by Warner Bros. It debuted in New York City.

Theater lobby card

A frame from a surviving 20 second color fragment found in 2005

Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence
Officer. He is best remembered for creating the fictional British spy James Bond
and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character,
which are one of the best-selling series of related novels of all time having sold  
over 100 million copies worldwide. This year, Fleming became the world’s first
English-speaking writer to have an International Airport named in his honor. The
airport, Ian Fleming International Airport, near Oracabessa, Jamaica was opened
on January 12th. 

Ian Fleming’s James Bond

(AP)…After spending weeks in a coma thought to be brought on by a prescription drug overdose, “Taxi” star Jeff Conaway has died. He was 60 years old.

Conaway, who is perhaps best known for his role as Kenickie in the 1978 iconic film “Grease,” fell into a coma after the reported overdose and was taken to a hospital on May 11. He never woke up.

On Thursday, Radar Online reported that the family of the star, who had a long and public battle with drug addiction, was looking to take him off of life support. Doctors
had previously told the family that no brain activity was detected from the star.

Jeff Conaway in Grease

Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was a actor, well known for his roles in horror
films. His first venture into the genre was in the 1939 Boris Karloff film
Tower of London. 

The longest-running and best known radio incarnation of Simon Templar
as The Saint was Vincent Price, who played the character in a long-running
series that was broadcast between 1947 and 1951 on no fewer than three
networks: CBS, Mutual and NBC. After Price left the series in May 1951, he
was replaced by Tom Conway.