ON THIS DAY IN 2025:
Marilyn Monroe (pictured) was the star, alongside Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, of the classic screen comedy, Some Like It Hot, released on this day in 1959.
At the 48th Academy Awards, on this day in 1978, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest became only the second film, after 1934’s It Happened One Night, to win the five major Oscars – for best film, actor (Jack Nicholson), actress (Louise Fletcher), director (Milos Forman) and adapted screenplay (Laurence Hauben and Bo Goldman). The only other films to take Oscars in these five important categories were 1991’s Silence of the Lambs and 1934’s It Happened One Night.
Italian actor Terrence Hill of the Trinity western movies turns 86 today, while actor Christopher Lambert turns 68 and Monty Python member Eric Idle turn 82. Musician Vangelis, of Chariots of Fire fame, was born in Greece on this day in 1943. He died of heart failure, apparently linked to Covid-19 complications, in May 2022.
American actor Richard Chamberlain, born on March 31 in 1929, died on this day in 2025, two days before his 91st birthday. The actor, who was gay, became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr Kildare, which ran from 1961 to 1966 and also starred in the mini-series The Thorn Birds, Shogun and Centennial. Chamberlain also performed classical stage roles and worked in musical theatre.
It was on this day in 1986 that records by The Beatles were officially allowed to go on sale in Russia, while on this day in 1827, some 20 000 people reportedly attended the Vienna burial of composer Ludwig von Beethoven.
On this day in 1988, They Say It’s Gonna Rain by Hazell Dean was crowning the Springbok Radio chart, where it remained for one week. Just saying…
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