Royalty of big screen and small

October 23, 1925 -- Johnny Carson (pictured as Carnac the Magnificent) was born.

"Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand." -- Anonymous.

October 22 -- Actress Joan Fontaine was born in 1917. She won the Oscar (for Suspicion) on her birthday in 1941.

"Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than to receive an Oscar." -- (Director) Luis Bunuel.

We'd like to see more blood, though

The first Academy Awards presentation to be shown on TV was on this day in 1953.

"We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident." -- Vincent Canby.

Did you ever see his masterpiece, The Bitter Taste of Sour Grapes?

Today marks the anniversary of the first televised Academy Awards ceremony, in 1944.

"Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar." -- Luis Bunuel.