This Day in Film History:
May 9
1937:
Screen Actors Guild representatives meet with studio mogul Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM, demanding that SAG be recognized as the official barganing representatives of actors. Mayer agrees, and SAG's strength is cemented.
Source: The Politics of Glamour
1940:
Director James L. Brooks, Oscar-winning director of Terms of Endearment and perhaps better loved by the Prophets for exec producing The Simpsons, is born in North Bergen, New Jersey.
1951:
Warner's cartoon Rabbit Fire, starring Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, and directed by Chuck Jones, is released. The first in a trilogy of 'verbal warfare' cartoons featuring Bugs and Daffy.
1973:
Almost completely deaf during filming, Edward G. Robinson appears in his final film as Soylent Green opens nationwide. The film debuted April 19th in New York.
1987:
Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers wed.
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