Friday, November 10, 2023

On this day in movie history - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017):


Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,
directed and written by Martin McDonagh,
was released in the United States on November 10, 2017.
Music by Carter Burwell.


Cast:
Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Željko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, Samara Weaving, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, Kerry Condon, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Kathryn Newton, Brendan Sexton III, Amanda Warren, Malaya Drew, Christopher Berry, Jerry Winsett, Sandy Martin, Nick Searcy.

On this day in music history - The Circle, by Bon Jovi (2009):

The album The Circle,
by Bon Jovi,
was released on November 10, 2009.

On this day in movie history - La Balance (1982):


La Balance,
English translation: The Informer,
released in the United States as: The Nark,
directed by Bob Swaim,
written by Mathieu Fabiani and Bob Swaim,
was released in France on November 10, 1982.
Music by Roland Bocquet.


Cast:
Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry, Maurice Ronet, Bernard Freyd, Christophe Malavoy, Jean-Paul Comart, Albert Dray, Florent Pagny, Tchéky Karyo, Raouf Ben Yaghlane, Galia Salimo, Sam Karmann, Robert Atlan, Luc-Antoine Diquéro, Jean-Daniel Laval, Geoffrey Carey, Michel Amphoux, Gérard Baume, Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Claude Villers, Mostefa Zerguine, Patrick Guillaumes, Catherine Le Dall, Guy Dhers, François Berléand, Sidney Boccara, Marc Ballif, Christian Gaubert, David Overbey, Lorella De Gennaro, Audrey Lazzini.

On this day in movie history - Lenny (1974):


Lenny,
directed by Bob Fosse,
written by Julian Barry,
based on the play by Julian Barry,
was released in the United States on November 10, 1974.
Music by Ralph Burns.


Cast:
Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck, Frankie Man, Rashel Novikoff, Gary Morton, Guy Rennie, Michele Yonge, Kathryn Witt, Monroe Myers, John DiSanti, Mickey Gatlin, Martin Begley, Mark Harris, Richard Friedman, Lee Sandman, Jack Nagle, Phil Philbin, Bruce McLaughlin, Ted Sorel, Clarence Thomas, Mike Murphy, Susan Malnik, George DeWitt, Judy LaScala, Don Newsome, Allison Goldstein, Winston Lee, Bridghid Glass, Joe Mencel, Richard O'Barry, Beth Challis, Robert Parsons, Cecil Seay, Bob Collins.

On this day in music history - Nights in White Satin, by The Moody Blues (1967):

The song Nights in White Satin,
by The Moody Blues,
was released on November 10, 1967.

Born on this day – Debra Hill:


Debra Hill

Writer

Producer

Director

November 10, 1950 – March 7, 2005

Born on this day – Jack Ketchum:


Jack Ketchum

Writer

November 10, 1946 – January 24, 2018

Credits:

Off Season (1980); Offspring (1991); The Woman (2010); Laramie Plains (1974); Border Dawn (1976); Hide and Seek (1980); Dead or alive (1982); The Guns of Amarillo (1982); Winchester pass (1982); Cover (1987); She Wakes (1989); The Girl Next Door (1989); Trail to Nowhere (1991); Joyride (1994); Stranglehold (1995); Only Child (1995); Red (1996); Ladies' Night (1997); Station Two (2001); The Lost (2001); Old Flames (2008); The Secret Life of Souls (2016); The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard (1998); Right to Life (1998); Broken on the Wheel of Sex (1999); Peaceable Kingdom (2003); Closing Time and Other Stories (2007); Triptych (2012); Night Terrors III (2014); What They Wrote (2015); The Box (1994); Gone (2000); The Haunt (2001); The Crossings (2003); Weed Species (2006); Book of Souls (2008); I'm Not Sam (2012); Notes from the Cat House (2013); Gorilla In My Room (2019); Turning Japanese (2013); Writers On Writing (2015); Triage (1990); Deadly After Dark (1994); Vampire Detectives (1995); Fear the Fever (1996); Skull Full of Spurs (2000); October Dreams (2000); Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Tales from a Darker State (2003); Fear Of The Unknown (2005); Masques V (2006); Mondo Zombie (2006); The Best of Cemetery Dance II (2008); In Laymon's Terms (2008); Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead (2009); The World Is Dead (2009); A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre (2011); Slices of Flesh (2012); Horror for Good (2012); Psychos (2012); Chiral Mad (2012); Fear the Abyss (2012); Mister October, Volume II (2013); Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road (2013); Chiral Mad 2 (2013); Turn Down the Lights (2013); Piercing the Darkness (2014); Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (2014); Horror 101: The Way Forward (2014); Cemetery Dance: Issue 71 (2014); Suspended In Dusk (2014); Insidious Assassins (2015); Chiral Mad 3 (2016); Beast: Revelations - A Dark Ethology - Volume 2 (2016); Cemetery Riots (2016); Seas & Oceans (2017); Dark Places, Evil Faces (2017); Red Room Issue 1 (2017); Zippered Flesh 3 (2017); VS: X: US vs UK Extreme Horror (2017); Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations (2018); A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State (2019); Freedom of Screech (2019); Dark Screams: Volume Three (2021).

Born on this day – Terence Davies:


Terence Davies

Writer

Director

November 10, 1945 – October 7, 2023

Born on this day – Rosita Torosh:


Rosita Torosh

Actress

November 10, 1945 – December 10, 1995

Born on this day – Roy Scheider:


Roy Scheider

Actor

Boxer

November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008

Born on this day – Norma Crane:


Norma Crane

Actress

November 10, 1928 — September 28, 1973

Born on this day – Ennio Morricone:


Ennio Morricone

Composer

Orchestrator

Conductor

Musician

November 10, 1928 – July 6, 2020

Born on this day – Rossella Falk:


Rossella Falk

Actress

November 10, 1926 – May 5, 2013

Born on this day – Richard Burton:


Richard Burton

Actor

November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984

Born on this day – Claude Rains:


Claude Rains

Actor

November 10, 1889 – May 30, 1967

Credits:

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963–1965); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); The Reporter (1964); Dr. Kildare (1964); Twilight of Honor (1963); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962–1963); Rawhide (1963); Lawrence of Arabia (1962); Sam Benedict (1962); Wagon Train (1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1962); Battle of the Worlds (1961); Mel-O-Toons (1960); Naked City (1960); Shangri-La (1960); The Lost World (1960); Once Upon a Christmas Time (1959); This Earth Is Mine (1959); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1959); The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957); On Borrowed Time (1957); Eye on New York (1956); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); Lisbon (1956); The Alcoa Hour (1956); Kraft Theatre (1956); Omnibus (segment entitled: The Confidential Clerk) (1954); Robert Montgomery Presents (1954); Omnibus (segment entitled: The Bentons at Home) (1953); Medallion Theatre (1953); The Paris Express (1952); Sealed Cargo (1951); The Ed Sullivan Show (1951); Where Danger Lives (1950); The White Tower (1950); Song of Surrender (1949); Rope of Sand (1949); The Passionate Friends (1949); The Unsuspected (1947); Deception (1946); Angel on My Shoulder (1946); Notorious (1946); Caesar and Cleopatra (1945); This Love of Ours (1945); Strange Holiday (1945); Mr. Skeffington (1944); Passage to Marseille (1944); Phantom of the Opera (1943); Forever and a Day (1943); Casablanca (1942); Now, Voyager (1942); Moontide (1942); Kings Row (1942); Breakdowns of 1942 (1942); The Wolf Man (1941); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941); Four Mothers (1941); Lady with Red Hair (1940); The Sea Hawk (1940); Saturday's Children (1940); The Invisible Man Returns (1940); Four Wives (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Daughters Courageous (1939); Sons of Liberty (1939); Juarez (1939); They Made Me a Criminal (1939); Four Daughters (1938); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938); Gold Is Where You Find It (1938); White Banners (1938); Breakdowns of 1937 (1937); They Won't Forget (1937); The Prince and the Pauper (1937); Stolen Holiday (1937); Hearts Divided (1936); Anthony Adverse (1936); Scrooge (1935); The Last Outpost (1935); The Clairvoyant (1935); Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935); The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934); Crime Without Passion (1934); The Invisible Man (1933); Build Thy House (1920).

C. S. Lewis, on experience and inspiration:


Experience: that most brutal of teachers.
But you learn, my God do you learn.

- C. S. Lewis.