The Last Waltz

 On November 25th, 1976, Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson and Rick Danko performed live for the last time as The Band. The concert took place at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

The Band

A parade of top notch talent at the time joined them on stage including but not limited to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton and Joni Mitchell. 

Martin Scorsese filmed it and a documentary was released nearly two years later. In 2019 the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry. 

Also on this date:

Beverly Washburn was born in 1943

Candy Darling

 Candy Darling was born on November 24th, 1944. 

Candy Darling (1944-1974)

Best known for her work with Andy Warhol, she is also the subject of the second verse of Lou Reed’s 1972 song “Walk on the Wild Side”.  

Flesh (1968)

Women in Revolt (1971)
with Holly Woodlawn and 
Sissy Spacek in her first movie as an extra

Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)

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Amanda Wyss was born in 1959

Related:

Taylor Mead 

Boris Karloff

On November 23rd, 1887, Boris Karloff was born in Surrey, England. 

Boris Karloff (1887-1969)

Frankenstein’s monster

With Dwight Frye and 
Edward Van Sloan in
Frankenstein (1931)

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
with
Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester and Ernest Thesiger 

The Mummy (1932)
with Bramwell Fletcher and Edward Van Sloan

Scarface (1932)

Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)
with Angelo Rossitto

Narrator and Voice of Grinch in
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

Also on this date:

Dominique Dunne was born in 1959

Jamie Lee Curtis

 On November 22nd, 1958, THE Final Girl was born. 

Jamie Lee Curtis

Halloween (1978) 
with P.J. Soles and Nancy Loomis

Terror Train (1980)
with Vanity

With Tom Atkins in The Fog (1980)

Prom Night (1980)
with Leslie Nielsen 

Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
with Tommy Lee Wallace

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
with Janet Leigh

Knives Out (2019)

Also on this date:

Stephen Geoffreys was born in 1964

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John Carpenter

Jamie Lee Curtis

P.J. Soles

Donald Pleasence

Nancy Loomis

Debra Hill

Tommy Lee Wallace

Tony Moran

Will Sandin 

Hell’s Bells (1929)

On November 21st, 1929, Walt Disney released the animated short Hell’s Bells. 

It is the 4th in a series of 75 animated musical shorts entitled Silly Symphonies. 

The accompanying music used throughout the majority of the short is Funeral March of a Marionette by French composer Charles Gounod. This piece of music would later be used as the theme for the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. 

Little demons milking fire from a demon cow

Cerberus the 3 headed dog

The voice of Satan is provided by Walt Disney himself. 

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Frankenstein was released in 1931

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Skeleton Dance

Ghost Town Frolics

The Day After

 On November 20th, 1983, The Day After premiered on ABC. 

The movie coldly and methodically showed us what the aftermath of a nuclear exchange would be like. 

More than 100 million people tuned in. 

The movie even aired in communist Russia 3 years later during negotiations with the US for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. 

The movie so moved President Reagan and other lawmakers that it may have helped to facilitate the eventual signing of the treaty. 

Steve Guttenberg 

Also on this date:

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving premiered in 1973

Rocky and Bullwinkle

 On November 19th, 1959 The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (originally titled Rocky and His Friends) premiered on ABC.

Also on this date:

Roger Beltran was born in 1953

Sleepaway Camp

 On November 18th, 1983 Sleepaway Camp was released in US theaters. 

Sleepaway Camp

Felissa Rose

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Jackie Kong’s The Being was also released in 1983