at theaters: august 13, 1942

Opened in movie theaters 71 years ago today:

BAMBI (Walt Disney)

Review: “Bambi (Disney; RKO-Radio) may not be “the best picture I have ever made, and the best ever to come out of Hollywood” (as Walt Disney claims, but it is in many respects the best of his six full-length cartoon movies.” —TIME magazine

Trivia: The backgrounds for the film were inspired by the Eastern American woodlands. One of the earliest and best-known artists for the Disney studio, Maurice “Jake” Day, spent several weeks in the Vermont and Maine forests, sketching and photographing deer, fawns, and the surrounding wilderness areas. —wikipedia

Quote: “Man was in the forest.”

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starDate: alfred hitchcock

ALFRED HITCHCOCK, director

Born: August 13, 1899, present-day London
His father: was a greengrocer
First film job: silent film title card designer
Early influences: directors F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang
Directorial debut: NUMBER 13 (1922; now lost)
Married to: his assistant director, Alma Reville, 54 years
His favorite film: SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943)
Recommended films: NORTH BY NORTHWEST, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, THE LADY VANISHES, THE 39 STEPS, REAR WINDOW, PSYCHO, SHADOW OF A DOUBT, THE 39 STEPS, REBECCA, NOTORIOUS, TO CATCH A THIEF, ROPE, SABOTAGE, THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956 & 1934), VERTIGO.

movieDate: august 13, 1899

ON THIS DAY in 1899, director Alfred Hitchcock was born in London. Segments of Hitchcock’s life were dramatized in the 2012 Sacha Gervasi film, HITCHCOCK, starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren.

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