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It detonated, blowing off the thumb and first finger of his right hand and also temporarily blinding him. (Lloyd's brother would lose one eye in a separate movie accident in 1932). For the rest of his career, Lloyd concealed his missing fingers with a prosthetic glove. [12] The Skywayman (1920).
On the evening of September 30, 1955 in Conway, Arkansas, college student Jimmy J. watches the film East of Eden alone in a theater. The next day at football practice, he hears that the film's star, James Dean, was killed in a road accident in California around the same time that Jimmy J. was viewing the film.
Long Journey Back is a 1978 made-for-TV coming-of-age drama film based on the Gilchrest Road, New York crossing accident in which a Nyack High School bus was struck and sliced down the middle by a train, killing 5 people and injuring more than 40 others.
The Things of Life (French: Les Choses de la vie) is a 1970 romantic drama film directed by Claude Sautet, based on the 1967 novel Intersection by Paul Guimard.The film centers around a car accident experienced by Pierre (Michel Piccoli), an architect, and the events before and after it. [2]
A 1955 national survey of disc jockeys labeled the song as the "most whistleable tune". [35] Hollywood producers learned that a publicized title song could have value in attracting audiences to movie theaters. [36] Therefore, the song's "haunting strains" were played on the radio and on recordings in the years after the film's release. [34]
Obi Ndefo, an actor who had recurring roles on “Dawson’s Creek” and “Stargate SG-1,” died on Aug. 28 in a hospital in the Los Angeles area. He was 51. Obi Ndefo’s sister, Nkem Ndefo ...
2 June – Corry Brokken, Dutch singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1957 winner, 83 [17] 26 July – Roye Albrighton, German musician , 67 [18] 27 July – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer, 87 [19] 7 August – Dolores Vargas, Spanish singer, 80 [20] 22 August – Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician, 94 [21]
Art cinemas, or independent movie theaters, in New York City are known for showing art house, independent, revival, and foreign films. Manhattan. Angelika Film Center;