Orson Wells was a film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. Welles 
found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 
radio adaptation of H.G. Well’s novel, The War of the Worlds.The radio drama
was performed on the Mercury Theater of the Air. His first film with RKO was
Citizen Kane in 1941, in which he starred as Charles Foster Kane. It is felt by 
many to be  the greatest film ever made. Another Wells masterpiece is Touch
of Evil (1958). On October 10, 1985, Wells did his final interview on The Merv
Griffin Show (below).

LOS ANGELES (AP) Jackie Cooper, the former child movie star who
won a best actor Oscar nomination at the age of 9 for “Skippy” and
grew up to play The Daily Planet editor in Christopher Reeve’s four
“Superman” movies, has died. His son John Cooper said his father
died Tuesday of natural cause at a nursing facility in Santa Monica,
California. He was 88.

Bing Crosby was a singer and actor  born in Tacoma, Washington who became
one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century. He has over half a
billion records in circulation. Crosby won an Academy Award for Best Actor for
his role for his role as Father Chuck O’Malley in the 1944 motion picture Going
My Way, and was nominated for his reprise of the role in The Bells of St. Mary’s
the following year, becoming the first of four actors to be nominated twice for
playing the same character. In 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. Crosby is one of the 22 people to have three stars on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.

From the 1956 MGM musical High Society

The 1975 summer blockbuster thriller Jaws was directed by master film
maker Steven Spielberg and was based on Peter Benchley’s novel of the
same name. Principal photography began on May 2, 1974 on the island of
Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The location was reportedly chosen for the
sandy bottom of that part of the ocean. This helped the prop sharks to operate
smoothly and still provide a realistic location.

Filming a close up of one of the prop sharks

 
Director Spielberg in one of the prop sharks

From left to right : Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Steven Spielbert, and Richard
Dreyfuss during the filming of Jaws.

1957