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In the end he has no place to Hyde.

This Italian promo poster was made for Il dottor Jekyll, which is of course better known as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and features Spencer Tracy in a bravura performance in what is a really good movie. It premiered in Italy today in 1948. You can read our detailed thoughts and see a nice Finnish poster here.

Update: We got an email about this one from GWR:

Big fan of your blog, I read it almost everyday. One quibble with today’s post if you don’t mind a bit of pedantry. That Jekyll and Hyde poster is for an Argentine film called El extraño caso del hombre y la bestia. From 1951, directed by and starring Mario Soffici.

Oops. We committed the dreaded IRE™—internet replication error. Clearly, the poster doesn’t list Tracy as the star, but it was on an auction site with the wrong info. What can we say? We get in a rush sometimes, what with our jobs, and girlfriends, and social lives. We’ll leave our error here anyway as proof that even we’re human. The poster we meant to share is below.

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February 11

1938—BBC Airs First Sci-Fi Program

BBC Television produces the first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of Czech writer Karel Capek’s dark play R.U.R., aka, Rossum’s Universal Robots. The robots in the play are not robots in the modern sense of machines, but rather are biological entities that can be mistaken for humans. Nevertheless, R.U.R. featured the first known usage of the term “robot”.

February 10

1962—Powers Is Traded for Abel

Captured American spy pilot Gary Powers, who had been shot down over the Soviet Union in May 1960 while flying a U-2 high-altitude jet, is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, who had been arrested in New York City in 1957.

February 9

1960—Woodward Gets First Star on Walk of Fame

Actress Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Los Angeles sidewalk at Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street that serves as an outdoor entertainment museum. Woodward was one of 1,558 honorees chosen by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce in 1958, when the proposal to build the sidewalk was approved. Today the sidewalk contains more than 2,800 stars.

February 9

1971—Paige Enters Baseball Hall of Fame

Satchel Paige becomes the first player from America’s Negro Baseball League to be voted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Paige, who was a pitcher, played for numerous Negro League teams, had brief stints in Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Major Leagues, before finally retiring in his mid-fifties.

February 8

1969—Allende Meteorite Falls in Mexico

The Allende Meteorite, the largest object of its type ever found, falls in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The original stone, traveling at more than ten miles per second and leaving a brilliant streak across the sky, is believed to have been approximately the size of an automobile. But by the time it hit the Earth it had broken into hundreds of fragments.