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This Day in Film History:
August 3


1929:

Having debuted in New York five months earlier, The Coconuts, the first Marx Brothers movie, opens nationwide.

1940:

Martin Sheen, originally Ramon Estevez, star of Apocalypse Now, father of Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez, and most loved by the Box Office Prophets as their favorite president, is born in Dayton, Ohio.

1978:

B horror movie Piranha premieres.





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