Your Saturday trivia includes flappers and Charles Manson.
August 9, 1930: Betty Boop debuted in the cartoon Dizzy Dishes by Max Fleischer. This flapper caricature was the first animated sex symbol and is based off of the singer Helen Kane.
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August 9, 1969: Actress and wife of director Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, was murdered by the Charles Manson cult at her home in Bel Air, California. Tate was eight-and-a-half months pregnant when she was murdered along with four others. Her last film, 12+1, was released posthumously and co-starred Orson Welles.
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Stay tuned next Saturday for more film trivia.
