Today’s Past in the Movies … April 17

April 17 †¦ What occurred in movie-land today in years past?

Born on thus day:

1914 – George Davis (Academy Award Winning Art Director: The Robe, All About Eve)
1918 – William Holden (Actor: Sunset Boulevard, Network)
1935 – Theo Angelopoulos (Director: Landscape in the Mist, Ulysses’ Gaze)
1954 – Rowdy Roddy Piper (Wrestler/Actor: They Live, Hell Comes to Frogtown)
1959 – Sean Bean (Actor: The Lord of the Rings, Equilibrium)
1964 – Lela Rochon (Actress: Harlem Nights, Boomerang)
1967 – Kimberly Elise (Actress: John Q, The Great Debaters)
1972 – Jennifer Garner (Actress: Elektra, The Kingdom, Juno)

Events on this day:

1924 – MGM Studios is created from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and the Mayer Company.