“The RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day” later “The Dennis Day Show,” debuted on the NBC-TV on February 8, 1952. Day was the singer on Jack Benny’s program.

William Duncan (December 16, 1879 – February 7 or 8, 1961)

The first performer at a Super Bowl halftime show was Carol Channing in 1970. The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Minnesota Vikings 23-7. #Superbowl #HalftimeShow

Birthday remembrance - Charlie Ruggles #botd

Lana Turner and John Garfield during a lunch break on set of THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946).

Nobody could stop Harold Lloyd running with the football.

Jack Nicholson with the Rev. Jesse Jackson during #Superbowl XXVII where Dallas Cowboys defeated the Buffalo Bills at Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena (1/31/93)

Adopt not shop. #PuppyBowl XXII starting now.

D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation premiered at Clune’s Auditorium in Los Angeles on February 8, 1915.

Remembering Audrey Meadows on her birthday #botd

Happy 94th birthday John Williams 🎵 “Without John Williams, bikes don’t really fly, nor do brooms in Quidditch matches, nor do men in red capes. There is no Force, dinosaurs do not walk the Earth, we do not wonder, we do not weep, we do not believe.” - Steven Spielberg

Swoon. ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ on @netflix.com

On February 8, 1960, construction began on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. E.M. Stuart, president of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, proposed the Walk as a means to “maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamour and excitement in the four corners of the world.”

James Dean was born today in 1931. #botd Here are a few of Dennis Stock’s iconic photos of the actor from 1955.

Burt Reynolds in Robert Aldrich’s THE LONGEST YARD (1974), a terrific football movie.

Stars at “America Calling” radio broadcast for Greek War Relief #OnThisDay in 1941: Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, Gable, Lombard, Myrna Loy, Reginald Owen, Lewis Stone, Ann Rutherford, Tyrone Power, Fay Holden.

T minus 1 hour to #PuppyBowl XXII

Ginger Rogers on an ad for the “Big, money-saving” 1936 Dodge

Meant 33 obviously. It only seemed like 333

Director King Vidor, born today in 1894 #botd

Gene Tierney on Silver Screen Magazine in February 1942

Porter Hall always sees something he shouldn’t. #NoirAlley #ViceSquad #TCMParty

#NowWatdhing this week’s #NoirAlley offering on #TCM, VICE SQUAD with Edward G. Robinson and Paulette Goddard. Directed by Arnold Laven, this is a new-to-me #filmnoir #TCMParty

Greer Garson for DESIRE ME (1947), director uncredited

It’s Laugh and Get Rich Day

Lana Turner was born on February 8, 1921 #botd

Jack Lemmon ❤️ a goat was #botd in 1925. aurorasginjoint.com/2024/05/24/i...

The Marx Brothers Super Bowl kickers…

Clara Bow is Nasa Springer in John Francis Dillon’s CALL HER SAVAGE (1932).

Brooks West and Eve Arden and their children in Palm Springs in 1956. Brooks and Eve were married for 333 years, from 1951 until his death in 1984.

From Hollywood and Highland in 1937

Newlyweds Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Crawford photographed by Ruth Harriet Louise, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first female staff photographer, in 1929.

Dale Evans (October 31, 1912 – February 7, 2001)

Jane Fonda made her TV acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads" on February 7, 1961. Fonda had debuted on Broadway in "There Was a Little Girl" and made her film debut in "Tall Story," both in 1960.

Bing Crosby recorded "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records on February 7, 1944.

“This Is Tom Jones” premiered on ABC-TV on February 7, 1969, featuring the popular Welsh singer in a variety series that ran for 65 episodes over two years.

William Demarest and Eddie Bracken in Preston Sturges’s under-appreciated but delightful HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (1944).

Constance Bennett on The New Movie Magazine in February 1933

Remembering Brooks West who died on February 7, 1984 at the age of 67. Pictured here with his wife, Eve Arden.

Buster Crabbe was born on February 7, 1908 #botd

Arline Judge (February 21, 1912 – February 7, 1974)

One more sleep

Loretta Young promotional photo for KISMET (John Francis Dillon, 1930)

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another" (Our Mutual Friend). - Charles Dickens, #botd in 1812

Birthday remembrance - Gloria Talbott who married a monster from outer space in 1958. #botd

Alma Reville is served the original version of fettuccine Alfredo by its creator, Alfredo di Lelio, in Rome ca. 1952. Reville’s husband Alfred Hitchcock looks on. #NationalFettuccineAlfredoDay

Albert Finney (May 9, 1936 – February 7, 2019)

Rosa 'Ingrid Bergman' for #RoseDay

Remembering Eddie Bracken on his birthday #botd

Charlie Chaplin debuted his most famous character, the Tramp, on February 7, 1914 with the release of the Keystone comedy short KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE, directed by Henry Lehrman. #OnThisDay