Video: 'The Return of the Pink Panther' trailer
(Wednesday, May 21, 1975) — The Return of the Pink Panther, the fourth in a series of comedy films featuring an inept French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau, opened today in U.S. theaters.
Directed by Blake Edwards, the film starred Peter Sellers, returning to the role of Inspector Clouseau for the first time since A Shot in the Dark (1964), Catherine Schell, Christopher Plummer and Herbert Lom.
Video: 'Chuck Berry - Maybelline (1955)'
(Saturday, May 21, 1955, afternoon) — Chuck Berry today recorded “Maybellene,” his first single release and his first hit, at Universal Recording Studios in Chicago for Chess Records.
(Saturday, May 21, 1955) — “Dance with Me, Henry” by Georgia Gibbs was the #2 song on today’s Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for one week.
(Monday, May 21, 1945, shortly after noon EWT; during World War II) — Actors Humphrey Bogart, 45, and Lauren Bacall, 20, were married today in the spacious hallway of the twenty-room house of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield on Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio, in a three-minute ceremony.
It was his fourth marriage, her first, and would last until Bogart’s death in 1957.
