Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014)
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014)
On this day in 1973, the nostalgic teenage coming-of-age movie
American Graffiti, directed and co-written by George Lucas,
opened in theaters across the U.S. 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).
Wolfman Jack (Robert Weston Smith) appears as the D.J.
Harrison Ford
Dustin Lee Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman is a renowned method actor who won the Academy
Award for Best Actor for Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979 and Rain Man
in 1988. He had his breakthrough role as Benjamin Braddock in the
1967 classic The Graduate and also played leading roles in the films
Midnight Cowboy (1969), Tootsie (1982) and Outbreak (1996).
Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson)
(June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962
The movie "Animal House" made John Belushi a movie star,
inspired countless other comedies like it and made toga parties
cool.
John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982)