Tag: Katharine Hepburn
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This Day in Pop Culture for December 12
Interracial marriage was the basis for 1967’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” film which was released on this day in pop culture history.
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This Day in Pop Culture for December 4
The movie “On Golden Pond” was released on this day in 1981. One year later, Nick Vujicic was born.
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This Day in Pop Culture for April 14
It was on this day in 1865 that President Abraham Lincoln was shot at the theatre and in 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg!
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This Day in Pop Culture for February 20
1952: ‘The African Queen’ Arrives in Theaters Though the film, The African Queen opened at the Fox Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills on December 26, 1951 (in order to qualify for the 24th Academy Awards), it did not open nationally until this day in 1952. The British-American adventure film which starred Humphrey Bogart and Katharine…
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This Day in Pop Culture for February 16
1938: Bringing Up Baby Many years ago RKO Radio Pictures released the Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant screwball comedy, Bringing Up Baby. The story involves a paleontologist, a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard named Baby. Based on a short story written by Hagar Wilde (and published in Collier’s Weekly magazine), it is said that the…
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