Opened in movie theaters 73 years ago today:
THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE (Allan Jones, Martha Raye, Joe Penner; directed by A. Edward Sutherland)
Review: “Disappointingly ordinary adaptation of Rodgers & Hart’s Broadway musical based on Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, but set in ancient Greece.” —Leonard Maltin
Trivia: The Broadway production of “The Boys from Syracuse” opened at the Alvin Theater on Noveembr 23, 1938 starring Eddie Albert and ran for 235 performances. —imdb.com
Don Murray
Born: July 30, 1929
Parents: Broadway performer and stage manager/dance director
Discovered by: film director Joshua Logan
Film debut: BUS STOP (1956)
Directed: THE CROSS AND THE SWITCHBLADE (1970)
Was once married to: actress Hope Lange
Recommended films: A HATFUL OF RAIN, ADVISE & CONSENT, BUS STOP
ON THIS DAY in 1945, Christopher Columbus became the first European to discover the island of Trinidad, during his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere. This event was referred to in the 1949 biographical film, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, starring Fredric March.
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