Thursday, January 3, 2019

Movies for the Day, Friday, January 4, 2019

Today's movies mark the birthday of Jacob Grimm, a College Bowl anniversary, and National Skating Month.

Which of today's movies would you watch?








Sleeping Beauty (1959) is the animated classic
Disney version of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
Jacob Grimm was born January 4, 1785, and Wilhelm G.
Grimm was born February 24, 1786.





Sleeping Beauty











The General Electric College Bowl 
(1959-1970) was a college quiz bowl in
which college teams participated for
scholarships.  It won an Emmy for
Outstanding Program Achievement in the
filed of Panel, Quiz or Audience Participation.
It was hosted most prominently by Allen
Ludden (pictured), who was born October 5,
1917.  The original run was from January 4,
1959, to June 14, 1970.


The General Electric College Bowl











Ice Castles (1979) is about an ice skating
young woman whose dreams are shattered by
an accident that leaves her blind.  January is
National Skating Month.






Ice Castles



























































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