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Good News in History, December 25

Source: Good News Network

45 years ago today, ‘The Sting’, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, premiered. The caper film set in 1936 depicts a complicated plot by two professional grifters to con a mob boss. The movie was hugely successful, nominated for ten Oscars and winning seven, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director, which went to George Roy Hill, who previously directed Newman and Redford in ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’. The film is noted for its use of ragtime, particularly the melody ‘The Entertainer’ and others by Scott Joplin, adapted by Marvin Hamlisch for a chart-topping soundtrack.

WATCH the trailer… (1973)

Inspired by real-life cons perpetrated by two brothers, the title phrase refers to the moment when a con artist takes the money, but no one realizes they have been cheated.

MORE Good News on this Date:

  • Clara Barton, the Civil War volunteer nurse who founded the American Red Cross, was born (1821)
  • US President Andrew Johnson granted unconditional pardon to Civil War Confederate soldiers who met certain conditions (1868)
  • John Philip Sousa wrote his now-famous marching band tune Stars & Stripes Forever (1896)
  • Humphrey Bogart, who starred in films like Casablanca (“Here’s looking at you, kid”), was born in New York City (1899)

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