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| Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 - June 29, 1933) Born in Smith Center, Kansas, Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screewriter. After getting his start in vaudeville, he wound up at Keystone Studios, where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd. He mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered both Buster Keaton and Bob Hope. Overweight and a very heavy drinker, Arbuckle was given a screen nickname he hated - "Fatty." In 1921, Arbuckle and two friends threw a party in a San Francisco hotel room. One of the women they invited became ill and subsequently died. Rumors abounded and Arbuckle was accused of rape and murder and went through three trials before being cleared of all criminal charges. The scandal and trials pretty much wrecked his career, but he eventually found directorial work under the name William Goodrich. In 1932 Arbuckle signed a contract with Warner Brothers to star under his own name in a series of successful two-reel comedies. He finished filming on June 28, 1933. The next day he was signed by Warner Brothers to make a feature-length film. He reportedly said, "This is the best day of my life." He suffered a heart attack that night and died in his sleep. He was 46. Rosco Arbuckle was cremated and his ashed scattered in the Pacific Ocean. |
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| One of four 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth Baseball Cards Some of the most recognizable Babe Ruth baseball cards are from the 1933 Goudey set. This 240-card set produced by the Goudey Gum Company is one of the most popular baseball card sets of all time (along with the T206 set). It has been the subject of numerous reprints. Because no Babe Ruth cards were included in the 1934 set, the 1933 Ruth cards are even more valuable. Depending on card condition, the value of the Babe Ruth 1933 Goudey cards range from a few hundred dollars to over $20,000. |
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| Ginger Rogers (1911 - 1995) Born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri, Rogers was an only child who spent most of her youth in Kansas City. Her nickname, "Ginger," came from a younger cousin who called her Jinja. After her parents' divorce and her mother's remarriage, she took Rogers (her stepfather's last name) as her own last name. She performed in vaudeville and on Broadway. Her appearance in the play "Girl Crazy" made her an overnight star at age 19 and earned her a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. Rogers went on to star in 73 movies. While she's probably best known for "dancing backwards in high heels" with Fred Astaire, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1940 for her performance in Kitty Foyle. Married five times, she had no children. Ginger Rogers's ashes are interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California with her mother's, and just a short distance from the grave of Fred Astaire. |
 42nd Street Starring Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers |
| A 1933 American Warner Brothers musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley. The songs were written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics), and the script was written by Rian James and James Seymour, with Whitney Bolton (uncredited), from the novel by Bradford Ropes. |
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| June 25, 1933 Silly Symphonies Sunday comic strip Copyright (c) Al Taliafero Charles Alfred Taliaferro (August 29, 1905 – February 3, 1969), known simply as Al Taliaferro, was a Disney comics artist who used to produce Disney comic strips for King Features Synidcate. He drew the Donald Duck comic strips from 1938 until his death in Glendale, California. He also designed the Litter Not mascot for Glendale in 1967. To this day it remains the mascot for the Committee for a Clean and Beautiful Glendale. Taliaferro was posthumously honored with a Disney Legends award in 2003 |
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| June 24, 1933: Actor John Wayne (1907 - 1979) marries Josephine Saenz Saenz was the first of Wayne's three wives. She was a Panamanian diplomat's daughter. They had four children during their 12-year marriage. Wayne went on to marry two more Latinas: Esperanza (Chata) Baur Diaz and Pilar Weldy. He and Diaz had no children during their eight-year marriage. During their 17-year union, Wayne and Weldy had three children. Wayne's love of all things Latin was such that when he died, he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave overlooking the Pacific Ocean - facing south. A memorial stone placed in the cemetery near his grave had the inscription he’d always wanted written on it. It was in Spanish: “Feo, Fuerte, y Formal” (He was ugly, he was strong, he had dignity.). |
