Starring Mary Martin as Maria and Theodore Bikel as Captain
von Trapp, the original Broadway production of The Sound
of Music premiered at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November
16, 1959, where it won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical
and Best Leading Actress. It later moved to the Mark Hellinger,
where it would end its lauded run on June 15, 1963 after 1,443
performances.
On November 15, 1956, Love Me Tender, featuring singer Elvis
Presley in his big-screen debut, premiered in New York City at
the Paramount Theater. Set in Texas following the American
Civil War, the film, which co-starred Richard Egan and Debra
Paget, featured Elvis as Clint Reno, the younger brother of a
Confederate soldier.
Originally titled The Reno Brothers, the movie was renamed
Love Me Tender before its release, after a song of the same
name that Reno sings during the film.
(FOX NEWS) – The house from the film "A Christmas Story"(2007)
has officially been put up for sale in Cleveland, Ohio.
The sale in its entirety makes up 1.3 acres of property, according
to a listing posted Monday on achristmasstoryhouse.com.
Chad Whitmer, the listing agent from the Northeast Ohio-based commercial real estate company Hoff and Leigh, said the listing
includes the house, the Bumpus house, the gift shop, museum
and a number of vacant lots that have been acquired by the
home’s current owner over the years.
Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the
moon, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with
astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr.; Richard F. Gordon, Jr.; and
Alan L. Bean aboard. President Richard Nixon viewed the
liftoff from Pad A at Cape Canaveral, the first president to
attend the liftoff of a manned space flight.
Thirty-six seconds after takeoff, lightning struck the ascending
Saturn 5 launch rocket, which tripped the circuit breakers in the command module and caused a power failure. Fortunately, the
launching rocket continued up normally, and within a few
minutes power was restored in the spacecraft.
December 12, 1969
