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The massive success of Jaws was eclipsed just two years later by another legendary blockbuster and film franchise. The George Lucas science-fiction film Star Wars hit theater screens in May 1977, and became a major hit, growing in ticket sales throughout the summer and the rest of the year. In time earning some $460 million, the good versus ...
April 11 - Cathy O'Donnell, 46, American actress, Ben-Hur, The Best Years of Our Lives; April 18 Gay Seabrook, 69, American actress, Bedtime Worries, Wild Poses; Glenn Tryon, 71, American actor and director, Lonesome, Miss Mink of 1949; April 19 - George Blair, 64, American director, Duke of Chicago, Streets of San Francisco
American International Pictures / Hammer Film Productions / Fantale Films Roy Ward Baker (director); Tudor Gates (screenplay); Ingrid Pitt , George Cole , Kate O'Mara , Peter Cushing , Dawn Addams , Douglas Wilmer , Pippa Steel , Madeline Smith , Jon Finch , Ferdy Mayne , Kirsten Lindholm , John Forbes-Robertson , Shelagh Wilcocks, Harvey Hall ...
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1885 – American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invented a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use. L'homme Machine, was directed by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey; it is the oldest black and white animated known film.
AFI defined an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work." [2] 2000: AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs — funniest American films
November 5 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers die that week, which is the fifth consecutive week the death toll is below 50; 431 are reported wounded that week, however).