On June 1, 1967, the Beatles released their eighth album,
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a concept album
that marked a new creative peak for the Liverpudlian
superstars and that would become a critical favorite in
the history of rock ‘n’ roll.
Norma Jeane Mortenson—who will become better known
around the world as the glamorous actress and sex symbol
Marilyn Monroe—was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles,
California. She was later given her mother’s name, and
baptized Norma Jeane Baker.
She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films
grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2024) by
her death in 1962.
Her final film was The Misfits (1961), written by Arthur Miller
and co-starring Montgomery Clift and Clark Gable (it would
also be Gable’s final appearance on-screen).
Arch Oboler and Boris Karloff on Lights Out.
Lights Out is an old-time radio program devoted mostly to
horror and the supernatural.
Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by
Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks,
at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947
and the series eventually made the transition to television.
Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs,
predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum.
Wyllis Oswald Cooper
(January 26, 1899 – June 22, 1955)
Best known to his many fans for one of his most memorable
screen incarnations—San Francisco Police Inspector “Dirty”
Harry Callahan—the actor and Oscar-winning filmmaker Clint
Eastwood is born on May 31, 1930, in San Francisco, California.
With his father, Eastwood wandered the West Coast as a boy
during the Depression. Then, after four years in the Army
Special Services, Eastwood went to Hollywood, where he got
his start in a string of B-movies.
For eight years, Eastwood played Rowdy Yates in the popular
TV Western series Rawhide, before emerging as a leading man
in a string of low-budget “spaghetti” Westerns directed by
Sergio Leone: Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More
(1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).
(FOX NEWS) – Loretta Swit, who starred as quick-witted Major
Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the TV series "M*A*S*H," has
died. She was 87.
A spokesperson for the actress confirmed to Fox News Digital
that Swit passed away on Friday at her home in New York City.
The suspected cause of death is natural causes.
The war comedy/drama TV series aired on CBS from
September 17, 1972, to February 28, 1983.
