This Day in Film History:
April 1
1883:
Horror legend Lon Chaney, Sr. is born Leonidas Chaney in Colorado Springs.
1883:
Wallace Beery, Academy Award-winning actor for the original version of the film The Champ, is born in Kansas City, Missouri.
1932:
Debbie Reynolds, movie star and mother of actress Carrie Fisher, is born Mary Frances Reynolds in El Paso, Texas.
1938:
Love may mean never to having to say you're sorry, but you should at least say Happy Birthday! Ali MacGraw is born today in Pound Ridge, New York.
1944:
MGM's cartoon Screwball Squirrel, directed by Tex Avery, is released. First appearance of Screwy Squirrel.
2003:
Hong Kong pop and film star Leslie Cheung leaps to his death from a hotel.
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