The Big Trail, Wayne’s first role as a leading man (1930).

Born Marion Michael Morrison, Wayne’s family moved to Glendale,
California, when he was six years old. As a teen, he rose at four in
the morning to deliver newspapers, and after school he played
football and made deliveries for local stores. When he graduated
from high school, he hoped to attend the U.S. Naval Academy, But
after the school rejected him, he accepted a full scholarship to play
football at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

In the summer of 1926, Wayne’s football coach found him a job as
an assistant prop man on the set of a movie directed by John Ford.

Ford started to use Wayne as an extra, and he eventually began to
trust him with some larger roles

CAMILLE BOHANNON

SANDY KOZEL

Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby Jr. Born
on this day in 1903.  (Died 1977)

Months before its release, Orson Welles’ landmark film Citizen
Kane began generating such controversy that Radio City Music
Hall eventually refused to show it. Instead, Citizen Kane, now
revered as one of the greatest movies in history, made its
debut at the smaller RKO Palace Theater on May 1, 1941.

Felix Anthony Silla (January 11, 1937 – April 16, 2021)

(Foe News) – Felix Silla, a versatile actor best known for his
role as hairy Cousin Itt on ABCTV’s “The Addams Family,”
died Friday after battling pancreatic cancer. He also played
the robot Twiki on the NBC sci-fi series Buck Rogers in the
25th Century.