This Day in Film History:
June 16
1890:
Stan Laurel, half of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, is born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, Cumbria, England.
1955:
Walt Disney's animated feature film Lady and the Tramp is released.
1991:
John Singleton's first film, Boyz N the Hood, has its first showing in Australia. The movie is released in the US in July of this year, earning critical acclaim and stirring controversy for its frank portrayal of gang life in South Central Los Angeles.
1991:
Hume Cronyn dies at age 91 at his home in Fairfiled, Conneticut. The actor, best known to modern audiences from his role in Cocoon, was husband to actress Jessica Tandy through her death in 1994. Cronyn received a supporting actor Oscar nomination for 1944's The Seventh Cros..
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