Today’s Past in the Movies … April 30

April 30 †¦ What occurred in movie-land today in years past?

Born on this day:

1908 – Eve Arden (Actress: Mildred Pierce, Night and Day, Grease 1 & 2)
1926 – Cloris Leachman (Actress: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
1940 – Burt Young (Actor: Rocky, Chinatown, Once Upon a Time in America)
1946 – Bill Plympton (Animator: The Tune, I Married a Strange Person!, Mutant Aliens)
1954 – Jane Campion (Director: The Piano, The Portrait of a Lady, Holy Smoke!)
1956 – Lars von Trier (Director: Europa, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark)
1965 – Adrian Pasdar (Actor: Top Gun, Near Dark, Carlito’s Way)
1982 – Kirsten Dunst (Actress: Interview With the Vampire, Spider-Man films)

Died on this day:

1974 – Agnes Moorehead (Actress: Citizen Kane, Dark Passage, How the West Was Won)
1989 – Sergio Leone (Director: A Fistful of Dollars, Once Upon a Time in the West)

Events on this day:

1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford are the first celebrities to leave concrete footprints in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
1938 – The cartoon Porky’s Hare Hunt, which introduced Happy Rabbit, debuts in front of feature films in movie theaters. Happy Rabbit would later become Bugs Bunny.