On this day in movie history - Before Dawn (1933):

Before Dawn

directed by Irving Pichel,

written by Garrett Fort,

was released in the United States on August 4, 1933.
Based on Death Watch by Edgar Wallace,

originally published in the Chicago Daily Tribune (1932).
Music by Max Steiner.

Cast:

Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland, Dudley Digges, Gertrude Hoffman, Oscar Apfel, Frank Reicher, Jane Darwell, Stanley Blystone, Ed Brady, Tom Brower, Pat O'Malley, Ted Oliver, Irving Pichel, Max Wagner.

Born on this day – Dom DeLuise:

Dom DeLuise

Actor

Comedian

August 1, 1933 – May 4, 2009

On this day in movie history - Midnight Club (1933):

Midnight Club

directed by Alexander Hall and George Somnes,

written by Leslie Charteris and Seton I. Miller,

based on the 1931 short story Gangster's Glory by E. Phillips Oppenheim,

was released in the United States on July 29, 1933.
Music by W. Franke Harling and Howard Jackson.

Cast:

Clive Brook, George Raft, Helen Vinson, Alison Skipworth, Sir Guy Standing, Alan Mowbray, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Forrester Harvey, Ethel Griffies, Teru Shimada, Charles Coleman, Billy Bevan, Jean De Briac, Leo White, Rita Carlyle, Dennis O'Keefe.

Born on this day – Ken Swofford:

Ken Swofford

Actor

July 25, 1933 – November 1, 2018

Born on this day – John Gardner:

John Gardner

Writer

July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982

Credits:

Books:

Come on Back (1981); Dragon, Dragon (1975); Dragon, Dragon and Other Tales (1975); Freddy's Book (1980); Grendel (1971); Gudgekin the Thistle Girl (1976); Gudgekin the Thistle Girl and Other Tales (1976); He Clinc'd the Colossal Door (1971); In the Suicide Mountains (1977); Jason and Medeia (1973); John Napper Sailing Through the Universe (1974); Julius Caesar and the Werewolf (1984); King Gregor and the Fool (1974); Mickelsson's Ghosts (1982); Muriel (1974); Nimram (1981); Pastoral Care (1974); Queen Louisa (1972); Redemption (1981); So they announced (1972); So We Decided (1972); Stillness (1981); The Art of Living (1981); The Art of Living and Other Stories (1981); The Gnome and the Dragons (1977); The Griffin and the Wise Old Philosopher (1976); The Joy of the Just (1981); The King of the Hummingbirds (1977); The King of the Hummingbirds and Other Tales (1977); The King's Indian (1974); The King's Indian: A Tale (1974); The Last Piece of Light (1975); The Library Horror (1981); The Miller's Mule (1975); The Music Lover (1981); The Pear Tree (1977); The Ravages of Spring (1973); The Sea Gulls (1976); The Shape-Shifters of Shorm (1976); The Tailor and the Giant (1975); The Temptation of St. Ivo (1974); The Warden (1974); The Witch's Wish (1977); Trumpeter (1981); Vlemk the Box-Painter (1979); Vlemk the Box-Painter (1981).

Movies and television:

Biography (2006); The Liquidator (1965); The Stone Killer (1973); Wogan (1988).

Born on this day – Cormac McCarthy:

Cormac McCarthy

Writer

July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023

Credits:

Books:

All the Pretty Horses (1992); Blood Meridian (1985); Child of God (1973); Cities of the Plain (1998); No Country for Old Men (2005); Outer Dark (1968); Stella Maris (2022); Suttree (1979); The Counselor (2013); The Crossing (1994); The Gardener's Son (1996); The Orchard Keeper (1965); The Passenger (2022); The Road (2006); The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (2024); The Stonemason (1994); The Sunset Limited (2006); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Movies and television:

All the Pretty Horses (2000); Child of God (2013); Cormac McCarthy's Veer (2022); Hollywood Insider (2021); Looking for Cormac (1995); Los 10 magníficos (2008); No Country for Old Men (2007); Outer Dark (2009); Red West (2023); Sunday Today with Willie Geist (2023); TCM Remembers 2023 (2023); The Counselor (2013); The Oprah Winfrey Show (2007); The Road (2009); The Sunset Limited (2011); The Tommy Tiernan Show (2023); The Unbelievers (2013); Truth of the Situation: Making 'the Counselor' (2014); Visions (1977).

Born on this day – Syd Mead:

Syd Mead

Artist

Animator

Special effects

July 18, 1933 – December 30, 2019

Credits:

14th Annual VES Awards (2016); 2010: The Odyssey Continues (1984); 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984); 2019: A Future Imagined (2008); 47th Annie Awards (2020); Aliens (1986); Beyond the Marquee (2014); Blade Runner (1982); Blade Runner 2049 (2017); Blade Runner: Convention Reel (1982); BMW: Activate the Future (2011); Closer Than We Think (2017); Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007); Designed for Dreaming (2010); Designing the World of Blade Runner 2049 (2018); Elysium (2013); Elysium: Engineering Utopia - Creating a Society in the Sky (2013); Film Genre (2002); Johnny Mnemonic (1995); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993); L'antre du Mea (2015); Maelstrom (1992); Mission to Mars (2000); Mission: Impossible III (2006); Nonfiction W (2012); On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000); Phenomenon Blade Runner (2021); Playboy Video Magazine, Vol. 11 (1987); Prop Culture (2020); Sentient Machines: Robotic Behavior (2004); Short Circuit (1986); Software (2000); Solar Crisis (1990); Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979); Strange Days (1995); Superior Firepower: The Making of 'Aliens' (2003); The Art of Illusion (1990); The Fire Next Time (1993); The Making of 'Tron' (2002); The Movies That Made Us (2021); The Real History of Science Fiction (2014); The Spirit of '76 (1990); The Timekeeper (1992); The Tron Phenomenon (2011); Timecop (1994); Tomorrowland (2015); Tron (1982); Turn A Gundam (1999–2000); UFO Cover-Up?: Live! (1988); Visions from the Edge: The Art of Science Fiction (2005); Visual Futurist: The Art & Life of Syd Mead (2006); Wing Commander: Prophecy (1997); Yamato 2520 (1994–1996).

Born on this day – Mimi Hines:

Mimi Hines

Actress

Singer

Comedian

July 17, 1933 – October 21, 2024

Credits:

Albums:

Mimi Hines Sings (1966); Mimi Hines is a Happening (1966).

Movies and television:

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003); Canada After Dark (1978); Celebrity Bowling (1971–1972); Dean Martin Presents: The Bobby Darin Amusement Co. (1972); Des O'Connor Tonight (1980); Fake-Out (1982); Frasier (1999); He Said, She Said (1970); It's Your Bet (1971–1972); I've Got a Secret (1966); Jack Paar Tonite (1973); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1975); Kaye Ballard - The Show Goes On (2019); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Wig (1971); On Parade (1964); Operation: Entertainment (1969); Password (1967); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Personality (1969); Play Your Hunch (1960); Saturday Night in Apple Valley (1965); Snap Judgment (1967); Summer Playhouse (1964); The 20th Annual Tony Awards (1966); The Bob Braun Show (1977–1982); The Bobby Darin Show (1973); The Carson Podcast (2019); The David Frost Show (1971); The Dean Martin Show (1965); The Ed Sullivan Show (1959–1966); The Game Game (1970); The Garry Moore Show (1963); The Hollywood Palace (1964); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1971); The Jimmy Dean Show (1963–1965); The Joe Franklin Show (1978); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1969); The Merv Griffin Show (1965–1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1962–1972); The Rosie O'Donnell Show (2002); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958–1963); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1964–1972); The Ugily Family (1980); The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow' (1968); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1963); Vaudeville (1976); You Don't Say (1963–1969).

Born on this day – Theresa Amayo:

Theresa Amayo

Actress

July 13, 1933 – January 24, 2022

Credits:

A Dona da Banca (2024); A Grande Mentira (1969); A Rainha Louca (1967); A Última Valsa (1969); A Viagem de Volta (1990); Capital Sin (1975–1976); Carmem (1987–1988); Doidas e Santas (2016); E Nós Aonde Vamos? (1970); Eu Sou o Tal (1959); Fuzileiro do Amor (1956); Gina (1978); Her Own Destiny (2004); Memorial de Maria Moura (1994); Meu Dia Chegará (1951); Na Corda Bamba (1958); O Barbeiro Que Se Vira (1958); O Camelô da Rua Larga (1958); O Diamante (1956); O Espantalho (1977); O Portador (1991); O Rei dos Ciganos (1966–1967); Os Homens São de Marte... E é pra Lá que Eu Vou (2017); Passo dos Ventos (1968); Paulo Coelho's Best Story (2014); Pé na Cova (2013); Perdidos de Amor (1953); Romeu e Julieta (1980); S.O.S.: Women to the Sea (2014); Sai de Baixo: O Filme (2019); Sangue e Areia (1967–1968); Santa de Um Louco (1953); Sorria, Você Está Sendo Filmado (2014); The Brazilians: The Women (2012); The Cariocas (2010); Trágica Mentira (1959); Tudo ou Nada (1986); Você Decide (1992–2000).

Born on this day – Donald E. Westlake:

Donald E. Westlake

Writer

July 12, 1933 – December 31, 2008

Credits:

Books:

The Phil Crawford novel series: Backstage Love (1959); What Girls Will Do (1962). The Parker novel series, writing as Richard Stark: The Hunter (aka Point Blank / Payback) (1962); The Steel Hit (aka The Man With The Getaway Face) (1963); The Outfit (1963); The Mourner (1963); The Score (aka Killtown) (1963); The Jugger (1965); The Seventh (aka The Split) (1966); The Handle (aka Run Lethal) (1966); The Rare Coin Score (1967); The Green Eagle Score (1967); The Black Ice Score (1968); The Sour Lemon Score (1969); Slayground (1971); Deadly Edge (1971); Plunder Squad (1972); Butcher's Moon (1974); Comeback (1997); Backflash (1998); Flashfire (aka Parker) (2000); Firebreak (2001); Breakout (2002); Nobody Runs Forever (2004); Ask The Parrot (2006); Dirty Money (2008). The Mitch Tobin novel series: Kinds Of Love, Kinds Of Death (1966); Murder Among Children (1967); Wax Apple (1970); A Jade In Aries (1970); Don't Lie To Me (1972). The Alan Grofield novel series, writing as Richard Stark: The Damsel (1967); The Dame (1969); The Blackbird (1969); Lemons Never Lie (1971). The Dortmunder novel series: The Hot Rock (1970); Bank Shot (1972); Jimmy The Kid (1974); Nobody's Perfect (1977); Why Me? (1983); Good Behavior (1985); Drowned Hopes (1990); Don't Ask (1993); What's The Worst That Could Happen? (1996); Bad News (2001); The Road To Ruin (2004); Watch Your Back! (2005); What's So Funny? (2007); Get Real (2009). The Sam Holt novel series: One Of Us Is Wrong (1986); I Know A Trick Worth Two Of That (1986); What I Tell You Three Times Is False (1987); The Fourth Dimension Is Death (1989). The Sara & Jack novel series: Trust Me On This (1988); Baby, Would I Lie? (1994). Stand alone Novels: Sally (1959); Man Hungry (1959); All My Lovers (1959); SO WILLING (1960); All about Annette (1960); Virgin's Summer (1960); The Wife Next Door (1960); The Mercenaries (aka The Cutie) (1960); Passion's Playthings (1961); Call Me Sinner (1961); Campus Doll (1961); Brother and Sister (1961); Killing Time (1961); Young and Innocent (1961); 361 (1962); Strange affair (1962); Killy (1963); Campus Lovers (1963); Pity Him Afterwards (1964); The Fugitive Pigeon (1965); The Busy Body (1966); Spy in the Ointment (1966); God Save the Mark (1967); Anarchaos (1967); Philip (1967); Who stole Sassi Manoon? (1968); Up Your Banners (1969); Somebody Owes Me Money (1969); Adios Scheherazade (1970); Comfort Station (1970); Ex Officio (1970); I Gave at the Office (1971); Cops and Robbers (1972); Gangway! (collaborated with Brian Garfield) (1973); Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner (1974); Brothers Keepers (1975); Two Much (1975); Dancing Aztecs (1976); Castle in the Air (1980); Kahawa (1981); A Likely Story (1984); High Adventure (1985); Humans (1992); Smoke (1995); The Ax (1997); The Hook (2000); The Scared Stiff (2001); Put a Lid on It (2002); Money for Nothing (2003); Memory (2010); The Comedy is Finished (2012); Forever and a Death (2017); Call Me a Cab (2022); Too Many Crooks (1989); Curious Facts Preceding My Execution (1968); Enough (1977); Transylvania Station (collaborated with Abby Westlake and Gahan Wilson) (1987); Tomorrow's Crimes (1989); A Good Story and Other Stories (1999); Meteor Strike (2012); Double Feature (2020); The Getaway Car (2014); Terror's Echo: Novellas from Transgressions (2005); Transgressions (2006); Transgressions, Vol. 2 (2006); Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... (1974); Tales to Send Chills Down Your Spine (1979); Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils (1983); Fifty Best Mysteries (1993); The Plot Thickens (1997); The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years (2001); Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics (2005); Price of Desire (2005).

Movies and television:

24th Street (2009); 87th Precinct (1962); A Slight Case of Murder (1999); Baby, I Got Your Money (2012); Come ti rapisco il pupo (1977); Cops and Robbers (1973); Fallen Angels (1995); Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1987 / 1991); Hot Stuff (1979); Jimmy the Kid (1982 / 1998); Journey to the Unknown (1968); Le cercle du cinéma (1998); Le commissaire mène l'enquête (1963); Les Chroniques du Mea (2023); Made in U.S.A (1966); Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane (1998); Mise à sac (1967); Mordslust (1995); Muy personal (1988); Myster Mocky présente (2007); Nulle part ailleurs (1999); Numéros de Série (1995); Ordo (2004); Parker (2013); Payback (1999); Payback: Straight Up (2006); Paybacks Are a Bitch (2007); Play Dirty (2024); Point Blank (1967); Ripley Under Ground (2005); Slayground (1983); Stepfather 3 (1992); Stepfather II: Make Room for Daddy (1989); Supertrain (1979); The Ax (2005); The Bank Shot (1974); The Busy Body (1967); The Getaway Face (1963); The Gods Must Be Daring (1997); The Grifters (1990); The Hook (2004); The Hot Rock (1972); The Hunter: A Conversation with Author Donald E. Westlake (2007); The Media Show (1990); The Outfit (1973); The Split (1968); The Stepfather (1987 / 2009); The Twin (1984); Two Much (1995); What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001); Why Me? (1990).

On this day in movie history - Private Detective 62 (1933):

Private Detective 62

directed by Michael Curtiz,

written by Rian James,

based on a story by Raoul Whitfield,

was released in the United States on July 6, 1933.
Music by Bernhard Kaun.

Cast:

William Powell, Margaret Lindsay, Ruth Donnelly, Gordon Westcott, Arthur Hohl, Natalie Moorhead, James Bell, Hobart Cavanaugh, Irving Bacon, Joan Barclay, Arthur Byron, Heinie Conklin, Eddie Dunn, Bill Elliott, Theresa Harris, Ann Hovey, Charles Lane, Eddie Phillips, Georges Renavent, Rolfe Sedan, Harry Seymour, Joan Standing, Sheila Terry, Ellinor Vanderveer, Renee Whitney, Charles C. Wilson, Pat Wing, Toby Wing.

Born on this day – Lea Massari:

Lea Massari

Actress

Singer

June 30, 1933 – June 23, 2025

Credits:

A Difficult Life (1961); A Dog Called... Vengeance (1977); Allonsanfan (1974); ...And Hope to Die (1972); Anna Karenina (1974); Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere (1977); Auferstehung (1958); Bloody Murder (1974); Capitan Fracassa (1958); Céleste (1970); Chi dice donna dice donna (1976); Chico: Artista Brasileiro (2015); Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979); Claude Sautet, le calme et la dissonance (2021); Compression (2023); Conquered City (1962); Devil's Ransom (1971); Escape to Nowhere (1973); Faces of Love (1977); Forbidden (1955); From a Roman Balcony (1960); Grand Amphi (1971); Holiday (Incantesimo) (1967); I fratelli Karamazov (1969); I promessi sposi (1967); I sogni muoiono all'alba (1961); I sogni nel cassetto (1957); I Want Him Dead (1968); Il giardino delle delizie (1967); Il gioco dei 9 (1988); Indian Summer (1972); La 7ème cible (1984); La coda del diavolo (1964); La femme en bleu (1973); La flambeuse (1981); La linea del fiume (1976); La vie de château (1985); La vigna di uve nere (1984); L'Avventura (1960); Le dernier des cinq (1973); Le divorcement (1979); Le Serpent de Gibraltar (1963); Les échos du cinéma (1961); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1977–1978); L'insoumis (1964); Llanto por un bandido (1964); Made in Italy (1965); Maurizio Costanzo Show (1994); Meetings with Anna (1978); Midi Trente (1972–1974); Midi-Première (1975); Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit (2017); Morte di un bandito (1961); Murmur of the Heart (1971); Neverlake (2013); Nos italiennes, de Magnani à Muti (2022); Paolo e Francesca (1971); Paris Pick-Up (1962); Personnel et confidentiel (2007); Quaderno proibito (1980); Qualcuno bussa alla porta (1971); Quelli che... il calcio (1994); Rafael Alberti en Roma... y en España (1977); Return to Lisca Bianca Island (1983); Sale rêveur (1978); Sarah (1983); Segreti segreti (1985); Story of a Love Story (1973); The Camp Followers (1965); The Colossus of Rhodes (1961); The Four Days of Naples (1962); The Night Caller (1975); The Probability Factor (1976); The Son (1973); The Things of Life (1970); Una donna a Venezia (1986); Una donna spezzata (1988); Viaggio d'amore (1990); Violette & François (1977); Volver a vivir (1968); Zur Nacht (1971).

Born on this day – Danny Aiello:

Danny Aiello

Actor

June 20, 1933 – December 12, 2019

Born on this day – Gene Wilder:

Gene Wilder

Actor

Comedian

Writer

Director

June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016

Born on this day – Zelda Rubinstein:

Zelda Rubinstein

Actress

Human rights activist

May 28, 1933 – January 27, 2010

Born on this day – Sarah Marshall:

Sarah Marshall

Actress

May 25, 1933 – January 18, 2014

Credits:

12 O'Clock High (1965); 77 Sunset Strip (1964); A Rage to Live (1965); Adventures in Paradise (1962); Adventures of the Sea Hawk (1958); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960–1962); American Masters (1995); Applause (1973); Appointment with Adventure (1955); Bad Blood (2012); BBC Play of the Month (1972); Breaking Point (1963); Bristlelip (1982); Ça se discute (2006); Cheers (1989); Dangerous Minds (1995); Daniel Boone (1965–1968); Dave (1993); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Embassy (1972); F Troop (1966); French Silk (1994); Get Smart (1966); Hart to Hart (1983); Hong Kong (1960); I Spy (1966); Ironside (1967); Kentucky Jones (1964); King Richard II (1954); Kraft Theatre (1954); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955–1961); Look Up and Live (1957); Lord Love a Duck (1966); Medical Center (1972); Miss Winslow and Son (1979); My Favorite Martian (1966); Omnibus (1969); Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1973); People Like Us (1990); Perry Mason (1962); Peter Loves Mary (1960); Play for Today (1971); Producers' Showcase (1955); Remington Steele (1984); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951–1954); Scruples (1980); Sexton Blake (1969); Small Wonder (1987); Star Trek (1967); Startime (1960); Stoney Burke (1963); Strange Report (1969); Studio One (1957); Target: The Corruptors (1961); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Aquanauts (1960); The Bunker (1981); The Doctors and the Nurses (1963); The Donna Reed Show (1966); The DuPont Show of the Week (1964); The F.B.I. (1966–1968); The Fugitive (1965); The Jeffersons (1981); The Letter (1982); The Long, Hot Summer (1958); The Outsider (1968); The People vs. Jean Harris (1981); The Rogues (1964); The Sound and the Fidelity (1962); The Tab Hunter Show (1960); The Twilight Zone (1962); The Wild Wild West (1967); Three's Company (1981); Thriller (1961); True Story (1957); Wild and Wonderful (1964).

Born on this day – Jean Vautrin:

Jean Vautrin

Writer

Director

May 17, 1933 – June 16, 2015

Credits:

Books:

À bulletins rouges (1973); Adieu la vie, adieu l’amour (2004); Baby-boom, Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle 1986 (1986); Billy-Ze-Kick (1974); Bloody-Mary (1979); Boro s’en va-t-en guerre (2000); Canicule (1982); Cher Boro (2005); Courage chacun (1992); Dix-huit tentatives pour devenir un saint (1989); Groom (1981); L’homme qui assassinait sa vie (2001); La Dame de Berlin (1987); La Dame de Jérusalem (2009); La Femme au gant rouge (2004); La Fête à Boro (2007); La grande zigouille (2009); La Vie Ripolin (1987); Le Cri du people (1998); Le Journal de Louise B. (2002); Le Mensonge - Chronique des années de crise (1978); Le Roi des ordures (1997); Le Temps des cerises (1990); Les années Faribole (2012); Les Noces de Guernica (1994); Mademoiselle Chat (1996); Maîtresse Kristal et autres bris de guerre (2009); Mister Love (1977); Patchwork, Prix des Deux Magots 1984 (1983); Si on s’aimait? (2005); Symphonie Grabuge (1994); Typhon gasoline (1977); Un grand pas vers le bon Dieu (1989); Un monsieur bien mis (1987).

Movies and television:

Actua-Tilt (1960); Apostrophes (1979–1989); Banlieue Sud-Est (1977–1978); Barbarous Street (1984); Berlin Lady (1991); Billy Ze Kick (1985); Bleu comme l’enfer (1986); Campus, le magazine de l’écrit (2001–2002); Caractères (1991); C’est encore mieux l’après-midi (1986); Charles Bronson, Hollywood’s Lone Wolf (2020); Charlie Dingo (1987); Ciel mon mardi! (1992); Cinéphiles de notre temps (2012); Cop or Hood (1979); Coucou c’est nous! (1994); Decameron ‘69 (1969); Dog Day (1984); Dossier Souvenirs (1971); Dream On (1992); Droit d’auteurs (1996); Ex Libris (1992–1996); Farewell, Friend (1968); Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre (1974); Grandeur et décadence d’un petit commerce de cinéma (1986); Histoires insolites (1979); India: Matri Bhumi (1959); Intrigues (1985); Jamais sans mon livre (1994); ean-Sans-Terre (1980); Jeff (1969); La cinémathèque française (1962); La forteresse assiégée (2006); La pêche miraculeuse (1976); La quille (1961); Le cercle de minuit (1994); Le chemin de la mauvaise route (1963); Le coup de grâce (1965); Le divan (1994); Le grand escogriffe (1976); Le Guignolo (1980); Le Marginal (1983); L’entourloupe (1980); Les après-midi de Monsieur Forestier (1988); Les grands détectives (1974–1975); Les insulaires (1979); Les peupliers de la Prétentaine (1975); Les quarante ans des cahiers du cinema (1991); L’oeuf (1972); Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes (2002); Miss (1979); Nulle part ailleurs (1999); Ombre et lumière (2002); Paris Belongs to Us (1961); Pif le chien (1965); Plaisir du théâtre (1958); Popsy Pop (1971); Pour le cinéma (1969); Teenage Rebellion (1967); The Grilling (1981); The Last Men (2023); The Longest Day (1962); The Sunday of Life (1967); Tout le monde en parle (2002); Twist parade (1962); Under Suspicion (2000); Urgence (1985); Vivement dimanche (2003); Voyage en Boscavie (1958); Watch Your Lip! (2011).

Born on this day – Joan Swift:

Joan Swift

Actress

May 11, 1933 – June 26, 2016

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1963–1964); A Majority of One (1961); Adam-12 (1968); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Bewitched (1969); Brainstorm (1965); Death Valley Days (1957); Flower Drum Song (1961); Have Gun - Will Travel (1963); Here's Lucy (1968); I Spy (1965–1966); Insight (1966); Ironside (1969–1970); Laramie (1963); Lock Up (1961); Lucy Gets Lucky (1975); Mr. and Mrs. (1964); One More Train to Rob (1971); Penelope (1966); Pete 'n' Tillie (1972); Run for Your Life (1967); Slaughterhouse-Five (1972); Star Trek (1967); Temple Houston (1963); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Andromeda Strain (1971); The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1971); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969); The Carol Channing Show (1966); The Deadly Trackers (1973); The F.B.I. (1967); The Family Jewels (1965); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1957); The Jack Benny Program (1964–1965); The Joey Bishop Show (1962); The Lively Ones (1962); The Lucy Show (1966–1968); The Munsters (1966); The Patsy (1964); The Red Skelton Hour (1965); Tom, Dick and Mary (1964).

Born on this day – Barbara Taylor Bradford:

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Writer

May 10, 1933 – November 24, 2024

Credits:

Books:

A Man of Honor (2021); A Secret Affair (1996); A Sudden Change of Heart (1998); A Woman of Substance (1979); Act of Will (1986); Angel (1993); Being Elizabeth (2008); Breaking the Rules (2009); Cavendon Hall (2014); Damaged (2018); Dangerous to Know (1995); Decor Idea Casual (1984); Easy Steps To Successful Decorating (1971); Emma's Secret (2003); Everything to Gain (1994); Fashions That Please Him (1970); Heirs of Ravenscar (2007); Her Own Rules (1996); Hidden (2013); Hold the Dream (1985); How to Solve Your Decorating Problems (1976); In the Lion’s Den (2019); Just Rewards (2005); Letter from a Stranger (2011); Living Romantically Every Day (2001); Love in Another Town (1995); Luxury Designs for Apartment Living (1981); Making Space Grow (1979); Master of His Fate (2018); Playing The Game (2010); Power of a Woman (1997); Remember (1991); Secrets from the Past (2012); Secrets of Cavendon (2017); The Cavendon Luck (2016); The Cavendon Women (2015); The Ravenscar Dynasty (2006); The Triumph of Katie Byrne (2001); The Women in His Life (1990); The Wonder of It All (2023); Three Weeks in Paris (2002); To Be the Best (1988); Treacherous (2014); Unexpected Blessings (2005); Voice of the Heart (1983); Where You Belong (2000); Who Are You? (2016).

Movies and television:

A Secret Affair (1999); A Woman of Substance (1985); Act of Will (1989); Bookmark (2013); Breakfast (2006); Breakfast with Frost (2003); Countdown (1988–1999); Everything to Gain (1996); Good Morning America (1994); Good Morning Britain (2017–2019); HARDtalk (2009); Her Own Rules (1998); Hold the Dream (1987); Hour Magazine (1983); Intimate Portrait (1999); Loose Women (2008–2015); Lorraine (2018); Love in Another Town (1997); Moving Image Salutes Goldie Hawn (1997); Moving Image Salutes Steven Spielberg (1994); One on One with John Tesh (1992); Reader, I Married Him (2006); Remember (1993); Richard & Judy (2003); Secrets from the Workhouse (2013); The Bob Braun Show (1984); The Book Show (2007); The Chuck Woolery Show (1991); The One Show (2011); The Sharon Osbourne Show (2006); The Storyteller (1999); This Is Your Life (1990–2002); To Be the Best (1991); Voice of the Heart (1989); Wogan (1986–1990).

Born on this day – Patricia Bosworth:

Patricia Bosworth

Actress

Writer

Producer

April 24, 1933 – April 2, 2020

Credits:

A Letter to Elia (2010); A Summer's Day (2000); American Masters (2003–2006); Autopsy: The Last Hours of (2020); Biography (1998–2005); Brothers, Sisters, Sons, & Daughters: The Film (2014); Concerning Miss Marlowe (1954); Contender: Mastering the Method (2001); Deadline (1959); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998–1999); E! True Hollywood Story (1998); Four Boys and a Gun (1957); Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006); Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959); Kraft Theatre (1956–1958); Love, Marilyn (2012); Making Montgomery Clift (2018); Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire (2014); Method or Madness? (2025); Montgomery Clift (1983); Montgomery Clift: His Place in the Sun (1989); Naked City (1960–1961); New York Confidential (1959); Robert Montgomery Presents (1955); The Edge of Night (1956–1984); The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996); The Nun's Story (1959); The Orson Bean Show (2025); The Patty Duke Show (1963); The Wild One (2022); Theater Talk (2018); Young Dr. Malone (1958–1959).