This Week In Cigar History: May 5-9
Remembered for his curt response that dismissed the significance of his stogie ways - “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar” - Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was born this week on May 6, 1856.
posted: Monday May 5th - 10:11am
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This Week In Cigar History : April 28-May 4
Released this week on May 1, 1941, devoted cigar smoker Orson Welle’s directorial debut, Citizen Kane, revolutionized American audiences and filmmakers with its haunting tale of publishing tycoon Charles Forster Kane’s lonely death (“Rosebud”) and life- using groundbreaking shooting techniques, a discontinuous narrative script, and complex montage film sequences.
posted: Monday April 28th - 5:38pm
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This Week In Cigar History: April 21-27
With his signature arched eyebrow, cigar-chomping actor Jack Nicholson has wowed movie fans for decades. No doubt, the three-time Oscar winner will puff away on a favorite Romeo y Julietas, Cohiba robustos or Montecristos to celebrate his 71st birthday this week, on April 22.
posted: Monday April 21st - 5:34pm
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This Week In Cigar History: April 14-20
Endearingly kicking up his heels into hearts across the world, the cigar chomping, refined Tramp, Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., was born this week on April 16, 1889.
posted: Monday April 14th - 6:31am
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This Week In Cigar History April 7-13
Anointed Queen Consort, then Regent, the tobacco loving power behind the French throne that belonged to three (!) sons, Catherine de’ Medici was born this week on April 13th, 1519.
posted: Monday April 7th - 5:31pm
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This Week In Cigar History March 31-April 6
Strutting on stage to her 1983 hit “Holiday” with a pair of panties and cigar in hand, Madonna soon had viewers applauding (or horrified) and censors busy, editing out her sassy swagger on the March 31st 1994 edition of The Late Show With David Letterman, which marked her first appearance on American television that year.
posted: Monday March 31st - 5:30pm
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This Week In Cigar History March 24-30
Living life by his catchphrase, “I’m just telling it like it is” sports casting legend and Macanudo lover Howard William Cosell (Cohen) was born this week on March 25th, 1918.
posted: Monday March 24th - 5:29pm
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This Week In Cigar History Mar 17-23
Cigar smoker Bruce Willis, a 1980’s wisecracking television detective turned modern day, buff action hero was born this week on March 19th, 1955.
posted: Monday March 17th - 5:24pm
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This Week In Cigar History: March 10-16
Admired for his self-deprecatory wit and remark — “What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar” — former Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall was born this week, March 14, 1854.
posted: Monday March 10th - 4:01pm
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This Week In Cigar History: March 3-9
The innovative French opera Carmen, dramatizing the life of a beautiful gypsy cigar roller, premiered at the Opéra Comique of Paris this week on March 3, 1875.
posted: Monday March 3rd - 7:33am
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This Week In Cigar History: Feb 25th-Mar 2nd
Seemingly always surrounded by beautiful babes - with cigar in hand - and lots of celebrity friends, America’s iconic entertainer, Herbert John “Jackie” Gleason was born this week on February 26th, 1916.
posted: Monday February 25th - 6:00am
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This Week In Cigar History: Feb 18-24
Acknowledged by golf great Jack Nicklaus as “…possibly the best in the world,” the exquisite and challenging Pebble Beach Golf Links, a premier destination for cart driving cigar lovers, opened this week on February 22, 1919.
posted: Monday February 18th - 6:00am
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This Week In Cigar History: February 11th-17th
Founded by Julius Caesar Newman, a twenty year-old Hungarian immigrant cigar maker (in a barn behind the Ohio family home in 1895), the J.C. Newman Cigar Company rapidly expanded from its humble beginnings to employ over 700 workers by 1916.
posted: Monday February 11th - 6:00am
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This Week In Cigar History: February 4th-10th
posted: Monday February 4th - 6:00am
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This Week in Cigar History: January 28th-February 3rd
Known for his wicked wit as well as his bulbous nose and portly stature, W.C. Fields actually began his successful entertainment career as “The Eccentric Juggler” on the vaudeville circuit.
posted: Monday January 28th - 6:00am
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This Week in Cigar History: January 21-27
posted: Monday January 21st - 6:00am
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This Week In Cigar History: January 14–20
Born this week on January 20, 1896, the native New Yorker George Burns smoked up to 10 cigars a day during his 100-year lifespan.
posted: Monday January 14th - 6:00am
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This Week In Cigar History: January 7-13
Short, squat, and forever embedded in the public’s mind as the prototype of a cigar-chomping gangster, Edward Goldenberg Robinson’s mug was splattered across American movie screens this week on January 9th, 1931…in his career defining role in Little Caesar.
posted: Monday January 7th - 6:00am
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This Week In Cigar History: Dec 31–January 6
Admired as one of the few great Italian cigar connoisseurs, film director and Havanas lover, Sergio Leone was born in Rome on January 3, 1929.
posted: Monday December 31st - 6:00am
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This Week In Cigar History: Dec 24-30
Regarded as one of England's most beloved writers, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature and devoted cigar smoker, was born on December 30th, 1865.
posted: Monday December 24th - 6:00am
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This Week In Cigar History: December 17–23
posted: Monday December 17th - 6:00am
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This Week In Cigar History: December 10–16
posted: Monday December 10th - 6:00am
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This Week In Cigar History December 3–9
One of the great 20th century American entertainers and devoted cigar smoker, Sammy Davis Jr., was born this week on December 8th 1925.
posted: Monday December 3rd - 10:33am
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This Week In Cigar History November 26–December 2
Born on November 30, 1835, celebrated American satirical novelist Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka Mark Twain) was a devoted cigar smoker. He claimed to immoderately smoke 100 cigars per month by the age of eight.
posted: Monday November 26th - 10:31am
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This Week In Cigar History November 19–25
Moses F. Gale received the first U.S. Patent (#121,049) for a cigar lighter on November 21, 1871.
posted: Monday November 19th - 6:00pm
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