Daily Archives: August 14, 2011

Eleanor Roosevelt writes about husband’s illness 90 years ago today


(click here to watch the full program, with August 14, 1921 @ 53:59)

(Sunday, August 14, 1921)— Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, writes about her husband’s illness in a letter. Franklin had developed acute symptoms of poliomyelitis four days before while visiting his summer home on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada.

‘A Place in the Sun’ premieres in Los Angeles 60 years ago today

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fm6sa_L5_4
'A Place In The Sun' - Trailer [1951]

(Tuesday, August 14, 1951)A Place in the Sun, a film which tells the story of a working-class young man who is entangled with two women, premiered tonight in Los Angeles. It was directed by George Stevens and stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, and Raymond Burr.