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June 6, 1933 – The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.

California Drive-In, 1930s

Gary Cooper looking fascinated as he reads What Every Young Mother Should Know in Now and Forever, 1933.

The Hollywood Book Club

May 3, 1933

James Brown is born in Barnwell, South Carolina, but will be raised in Augusta, Georgia.

On April 29, 1933 WILLIE NELSON was born. Already as a child he began to play and sing country music, and at only ten years debuts in a Bohemian orchestra, playing the polka. In his long career he has also worked as an actor, both for film and TV, participating in nearly forty films, in some of which also in the leading role.

Leonard Nimoy as Spock on “The Carol Burnett Show” (1967)

(Watch the skit here: https://youtu.be/wVH8xgxY9Uw)

Carol Burnett  -  b. April 26, 1933

Surrealist Table - Alberto Giacometti, c. 1933

Photoplay, August 1957, featuring Jayne Mansfield

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Jane Mansfield  -  b. April 19, 1933  -  d. June 29, 1967

Remembering Elizabeth Montgomery on her birthday

Elizabeth Montgomery  -  b. April 15, 1933  -  d. May 18, 1995

Morton Subotnick  at work

Morton Subotnick  -  b. April 14, 1933

APRIL 12th, 1933

Famous soprano MONTSERRAT CABALLE’ is born in Barcelona, Spain

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Sight and Sound

Jean-Paul Belmondo  -  b. April 9, 1933

Director William Seiter, Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel confer during the filming of the cab ride scene for Sons of the Desert (1933)

From helping invent the original videotape recorder to innovating movie sound for films like A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and STAR WARS, Ray Dolby was a lifelong innovator. 

Read a brief history on the man who revolutionized the television, music, and motion picture industries.

Ray Dolby  -  b. Jan. 18, 1933  -  d. Sept. 12, 2013

Helen Mirren & John Boorman

John Boorman  -  b. Jan. 18, 1933

Susan Sontag (born Susan Rosenblatt, 16 January 1933 – 28 December 2004)

Power, 1933 Edward Bruce ( 1879 - 1943 )

Original poster for Flying Down to Rio (Thornton Freeland, 1933). This was Ginger Rogers’ and Fred Astaire’s first film together. They were third billed on the poster, but their dancing created such a sensation that in their next picture, The Gay Divorcee, 1934, their names were the only names above the title.