03-10-14 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1947: Ronald Reagan becomes President of the Screen Actors Guild after President George Montgomery and V.P. Franchot Tone resign to become independent producers. In the violent gangster-ridden atmosphere of Hollywood unions in those days Reagan took to wearing a .32 Smith & Wesson in a shoulder holster under his coat. 1954: In a letter to studio heads, director Elias Kazan worried that young actor James Dean was “too odd” and unpredictable to star in his movie “Rebel Without a Cause”. 1954: First day of shooting on Stage 3 of the Giant Squid battle on Walt Disney’s production of ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’. The director was Richard Fleischer, the son of Disney’s onetime competitor Max Fleischer.
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