This Day in Film History:
May 11
1927:
The organizational banquet of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is held, and 231 of the 300 men and women invited to the banquet accept membership into the Academy. Thomas Edison is given an honorary membership in the Academy.
Source: Historical Study of the Academy
1931:
Peter Lorre makes his official screen debut in Fritz Lang's M, starring as the psychotic Hans Beckert.
1931:
F W Murnau, leading light of the German Impressionist film movement, dies in a road accident in Santa Barbara, California
1955:
Revenge of the Creature opens. Clint Eastwood makes his screen debut as an uncredited lab technician.
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