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• During a 1937 production at Old Vic Theater in England, the theater’s founder suddenly died of a heart attack just before the play opened. Laurence Olivier starring in the lead role missed death by seconds when a sandbag accidentally fell from the ceiling. The curse provided wonderful publicity, ensuring the success of the run. • In 1948 during a production in Connecticut, Diana Wynyard as Lady Macbeth announced she thought the curse was ridiculous, which is the worst possible way to tempt a curse. She decided it was silly to play her sleepwalking scene with her eyes open, and instead tried it with her eyes closed. She walked off the edge of the stage during the next performance and fell 15 feet. Battered and bruised, she continued the performance. • In a 1942 production starring John Gielgud, four people involved in the production died, including two of the Witches and the man playing Duncan. • Two days after the show opened at the Portuguese National Theatre, the theatre burned down and it took six years to rebuild.

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• A Russian version of the play scheduled to be filmed in Georgia was cancelled when nine members of the crew died of food poisoning on location. • During a 1971 production at the Mercer O’Casey Theatre, no less than seven burglaries and one fire marred the three-month run. • Abe Lincoln was quoting passages from the play concerning the assassination of Duncan to his friends the evening before he was shot.

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• Warner Bros. planned to change the name of the movie to “The Gent from Frisco” because the novel’s title had already been used for the 1931 film version, but Huston insisted the title remain unchanged. Early in the film, Bogart, in his role as Sam Spade, walks past a poster for the non-existent movie “The Girl from Albany” as an inside joke aimed towards Warner Bros. for the attempt to tamper with the title.

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• On March 7, 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention -- the telephone. Bell's patent filing beat a similar claim by Elisha Gray by only two hours. • On March 6, 1899, the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin registers Aspirin, the brand name for acetylsalicylic acid, on behalf of the German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer & Co. In its primitive form, the active ingredient, salicin, was used for centuries in folk medicine. • On March 2, 1925, the first nationwide highway numbering system is instituted to minimize confusion. Later, interstate highway numbering would be improved by colored signs and the odd-even demarcation that distinguishes between north-south and east-west travel. • On March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover signs a congressional act making "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official national anthem of the United States. Francis Scott Key had composed the lyrics as he witnessed the overnight British bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. • On March 4, 1966, Beatle John Lennon's controversial quote is printed in the London Evening Standard: "We're more popular than Jesus." After a reprint in the U.S., Bible belt radio DJs organized Beatles record burnings and protests, declaring Lennon's remarks blasphemous. Even the Vatican chimed in. Lennon eventually apologized. • On March 5, 1977, the Dial-a-President radio program, featuring President Jimmy Carter, airs for the first time. Carter answered calls from all over the country from his desk in the Oval Office. Approximately 9 million calls flooded the CBS radio studio during the two-hour broadcast. • On March 8, 1986, "Mask," starring Eric Stoltz and Cher, opens. Cher, who had launched a serious acting career with her appearance in Robert Altman's "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" in 1982, received the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in "Mask.". © 2020 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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• Dashiell Hammett was born in Maryland in 1884. He left school to help support his family but always remained an avid reader. A restless soul, he had trouble holding jobs until he went to work for the Pinkerton Detective Agency at the age of 21. This job appealed to him and he was quite good at it. One of his early cases involved finding a stolen Ferris wheel.

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• Hammett left the Pinkerton Agency to become an ambulance driver during World War I. During his service in 1919 he contracted first the flu, then pneumonia, and then tuberculosis. His health was tenuous and he was not expected to live. It was at this time that he turned to writing because he was too weak to do anything else. He wrote anything he could get paid for: advertising copy, poetry, book reviews, short stories. His health slowly improved. However, due to his smoking, drinking, and womanizing, he was never very strong. His career as a writer spanned only a little more than a decade, with his first story appearing in print in 1923 and his final novel being published in 1934. • In his first crack at detective stories, he introduced a detective known only as Continental Op (because he worked for the Continental Detective Agency). In the three dozen stories he starred in – at a penny per word for Hammett - Op was short, fat, middle-aged, ordinary, and utterly believable. It was a far cry from the standard mystery of the day which invariably involved “the gentleman detective, the sinister butler, and the body in the library” according to writer Daniel Stashower in Smithsonian Magazine. Hammett wrote from his own Pinkerton experiences to create a detective that was completely convincing. Hammett’s first novel, “Red Harvest,” published in 1929, starred Continental Op. ...continued

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• In 1929 Hammett invented a new detective, who was lean, tough, and shifty, with a chiseled jaw, a smart mouth, a trench coat, and a Dick Tracy hat. This was Sam Spade, Private Eye – a character who has since been lampooned often. Sam Spade, who “lied, cheated, and double-crossed his way to justice” made his first appearance in the novel “The Maltese Falcon.” Published in 1930, the novel was made into a movie three times over, in 1931, 1936, and 1941, propelling Hammett to the top of the Hollywood pile. It was John Huston’s 1941 version, starring Humphrey Bogart, that became a cult classic. • In 1934 Hammett came up with yet another detective: Nick Charles in “The Thin Man” which was his fifth and final novel. This book was adapted for radio, TV, and screen, starring Myrna Loy and William Powell. It spawned a series of popular films. His writing fees approached a million dollars and it poured out of his pocket as fast as it poured in. • In the mid-1930s, Hammett lost interest in writing, for unknown reasons. He turned to politics, and in the 1950s came under McCarthy’s scrutiny for alleged communistic leanings. He spent six months in jail in 1951 for his refusal to testify at a trial of four accused communists. In prison, he was a hero, as the inmates listened to the Sam Spade stories on the radio. • Dashiell was subsequently blacklisted; his income was attached by the IRS; his books were kept out of libraries by the State Department; and his writings fell out of favor. He spent the rest of his life earning his living by teaching creative writing in New York. He died, penniless, of lung cancer in 1961. • After his death, his stories surged in popularity and are now available in over 150 languages.

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