1904: Academy Award-nominated composer Leo Arnaud was born in Lyon, France. Best known for Bugler’s Dream, a trumpeting fanfare used in the United States as the broadcast theme for the Olympic Games, Arnaud served the music arranger for 1941 comedy Blondie Goes Latin, based on Chic Young’s comic strip character.
1945: Universal Pictures released Secret Agent X-9, based on the eponymous comic strip created by Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond. The 13-chapter spy serial featured Lloyd Bridges as Phil Corrigan (a.k.a Secret Agent X-9) and Keye Luke as Chinese agent Ah Fong.
1945: Linda Harrison was born in Berlin, Maryland. Prior to taking on the role of Nova in Planet of the Apes (1968) and Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Harrison became the first actress to portray Wonder Woman when she appeared in the failed, 1967 live-action pilot Who’s Afraid of Diana Prince?
1951: Lynda Carter was born in Phoenix, Arizona. The actress and singer became an instant celebrity as the star of The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1975–77) and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1977–79). She later played Chloe Sullivan’s mother Moira on the television series Smallville.
1968: Kristin Chenowith was born in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. In 1999, she appeared as Lily St. Regis in the television movie Annie, based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray.
1979: Rose Byrne was born in Balmain, Sydney, Australia. She was cast as CIA agent Moira MacTaggert in X-Men: First Class (2011).
1982: Anna Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Before becoming Sookie Stackhouse on the supernatural series True Blood, the Academy Award-winning actress played the mutant superheroine Rogue in X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).
(Image: Lloyd Bridges and Jan Wiley in Secret Agent X-9, Universal Pictures)
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