This Day in Showbiz History…December 18

ON THIS DAY IN 2022:

Brad Pitt (pictured) blows out 59 birthday cake candles today, while Rolling Stones member Keith Richards turns 79, Christina Aguilera turns 42 and singer Sia turns 47.  Also celebrating today are director Steven Spielberg (76), actor Ray Liotta (68) and actresses Katie Holmes (44) and Rachel Griffiths (54). Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Billie EiIish turns 21 today,

Today also marks the birthday of Betty Grable, who made 42 films in the 1930s and 1940s, and was 56 when she died in 1973. Long a sex symbol, Grable’s famous swim suit poster was later included in the Life magazine project, “100 Photographs that Changed the World, reports Wikipedia.

On this day in 1968, Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland ended their marriage after four years.

On the theatre scene, on this day in 1969, Katharine Hepburn starred as designer Coco Chanel in the Andre Previn musical Coco, at Broadway’s Mark Hellinger Theatre, where it had 329 performances.

The top single of the week on the South African Springbok Radio Top 20 on this week, in 1970, was Looky, Looky by Giorgio. It crowned the chart for four weeks. Just saying…