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NEWS OF THE DAY - Days Are Flying 'Til Christmas (1959)

Film Pick of the Day
Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Newsreel report on the raising of the Christmas tree in New York's Rockefeller Center, and the Hollywood Santa Claus Parade. Grand Marshal Charlton Heston waves to the crowd, followed by Moe, Larry and Curly Joe. The Stooges ride in a car with Los Angeles TV personalities Don Lamond and Barbara Coleman. The parade was held on November 25, 1959.

Don Lamond was Larry Fine's son-in-law, married at that time to Phyllis Fine. He provided opening credits narration for several of the Stooges' feature films, and costarred in THE OUTLAWS IS COMING! (1965) as Rance Roden.

Details

Average Rating:

[ 7.00/10 ]   1 votes
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly Joe
Release Date Tuesday, December 1, 1959
Studio MGM
Production Type Newsreel
Duration 1.5 min.

On This Date in Stooge History - September 8th


Births

Eli Schmuckler
(Actor)
b. 1873

Russia

Lillian Harmer
(Actress)
b. 1883

Philadelphia, PA

Howard Dietz
(Lyrics)
b. 1896

New York, NY

May McAvoy
(Actress)
b. 1899

New York, NY

Jim Hayward
(Actor)
b. 1900

Philadelphia, PA

Bradley Page
(Actor)
b. 1901

Seattle, WA

Kenneth MacDonald
(Actor)
b. 1901

Portland, IN

Charles David Forrest
(Sound)
b. 1902

Concord, IN

William Bradford
(Director of Photography)
b. 1905

Barre, VT

Charlie Carr
(Actor)
b. 1909

Shreveport, LA

Joe Bolton
(Actor)
b. 1910

Flushing, NY

Mary Doran
(Actress)
b. 1910

New York, NY

Monica Bannister
(Actress)
b. 1910

Saskatchewan, Canada

Byron Morrow
(Actor)
b. 1911

Chicago, IL

Patricia Wilder
(Actress)
b. 1913

Macon, GA

Hillary Brooke
(Actress)
b. 1914

Astoria, NY

Ruth Skinner
(Actress)
b. 1917

Wyoming

Hugh Hooker
(Actor)
b. 1919

Texas

Sid Caesar
(Actor)
b. 1922

Yonkers, NY

Tom Tangen
(Actor)
b. 1961

Jackson, TN


Deaths

Benjamin Stoloff
(Director)
d. 1960   (64)

Los Angeles, CA

Harold Breen
(Actor)
d. 1963   (54)

Los Angeles, CA

Almeda Fowler
(Actress)
d. 1964   (75)

Florence, AL

George Gray
(Actor)
d. 1967   (72)

Asheville, NC

Robert R. Stephenson
(Actor)
d. 1970   (69)

Los Angeles, CA

George Travell
(Actor)
d. 1986   (74)

Los Angeles, CA

Ray Nazarro
(Assistant Director)
d. 1986   (83)

Los Angeles, CA

Leonid Kinskey
(Actor)
d. 1998   (95)

Fountain Hills, AZ

Alex Romero
(Actor)
d. 2007   (94)

Woodland Hills, CA

Gerald Wilson
(Orchestrator)
d. 2014   (96)

Los Angeles, CA


Events

HOLLYWOOD ROUND-UP (Shemp Howard) in production

1937-09-01 to 1937-09-16

THE BANK DICK (Shemp Howard) in production

1940-09-02 to 1940-10-12

MOONLIGHT AND CACTUS (Shemp Howard) was released

1944-09-08

WAITING IN THE LURCH (Joe Besser) was released

1949-09-08

The Three Stooges' Columbia shorts make their premiere on television

1958-09-08

LET'S MAKE LOVE (Joe Besser) was released

1960-09-08

Location filming on KOOK'S TOUR in progress

1969-09-08 to 1969-09-26

Joe Besser's 'Babu the Genie' premiered on the CBS cartoon series JEANNIE

1973-09-08

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