On this day in movie history - Dust Be My Destiny (1939):

Dust Be My Destiny

directed by Lewis Seiler,

written by Robert Rossen and Seton I. Miller,

based on the novel by Jerome Odlum,

was released in the United States on September 16, 1939.
Music by Max Steiner.

Cast:

John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Charley Grapewin, Henry Armetta, Stanley Ridges, John Litel, Moroni Olsen, Victor Kilian, Frank Jaquet, Ferike Boros, Marc Lawrence, Arthur Aylesworth, William B. Davidson, George Irving, Gertrude Astor, Ward Bond.

Born on this day – Richard Kiel:

Richard Kiel

Actor

September 13, 1939 – September 10, 2014

Born on this day – David Stratton:

David Stratton

Film historian

Writer

Actor

September 10, 1939 – August 14, 2025

Credits:

Books:

Australia at the Movies: The ultimate guide to modern Australian cinema (2024); I Peed on Fellini: Recollections of a Life in Film (2008); My Favourite Movies: From a century of films and the world's best directors (2021); The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry (1990); The Insiders' Guide to Las Vegas (1997); The Last New Wave (1980).

Movies and television:

7th AACTA Awards (2017); A Woman's Tale (1991); Adam Hills in Gordon St Tonight (2011); Advance Australian Film (2014); At the Movies (2004–2013); Australian Story (1997 / 2020); Celia: David Stratton interviews Ann Turner (1989); Cosi: Interview with screenwriter Louis Nowra (2022); Dance Academy (2013); David Stratton on 'The Last Wave' (2010); David Stratton: A Cinematic Life (2017); David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema (2017); Edmond: Interview with Director Stuart Gordon (2006); FAQ (2017); First Tuesday Book Club (2013); Golden Braid (1990); Green Card: Interview with director Peter Weir and actor Gérard Depardieu (1991); Gulpilil: One Red Blood (2002); In Conversation with Bryan Brown (2012); In Conversation with Ennio Morricone (2012); In the Cannes (2007); Inside Film Awards (2011); Introduction to Genre: An Introduction (2020); Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure (2009); Mad Max: Film Phenomenon (2002); 'Malcolm' at the AFI Awards (1986); Malcolm: Interviews with Cast and Crew (2001); Mel Gibson: God's Lethal Weapon (2004); Movie of the Week (1980–1985); Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary (2019); On Borrowed Time (2011); Palace of Dreams (1984); Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema (2007); Reel to Reel (1993–1994); Return Home: SBS Movie Show (2005); Review with Myles Barlow (2008–2010); Rove Live (2004); Showreel (2013); Smut Hounds (2015); Stone Forever (1999); Sunshine and Shadows: 70 Years of Australian Cinema (1976); The 53rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards (2011); The Bazura Project (2011); The Chaser Decides (2004); The Chaser's War on 2020 (2020); The Chaser's War on Everything (2006–2007); The Faking Game (2006); The Hamster Wheel (2011–2012); The Making of Nothing (1993); The Movie Show (1995–1997); The Telegram Man (2011); The Tracker: Director Rolf De Heer Interviewed by David Stratton (2003); The Tracker: IF Awards 2002 (2003); The Tracker: World Premiere Adelaide Festival of Arts 2002 (2003); Yes We Canberra! (2010).

Born on this day – Marshall Brickman:

Marshall Brickman

Writer

Director

Producer

August 25, 1939 – November 29, 2024

Credits:

50 Films to See Before You Die (2006); A Decade Under the Influence (2003); American Masters (2011); Ann in Blue (1974); Annie Hall (1977); Candid Camera (1960); Conversations for our Daughters (2021); Film Genre (2002); For the Boys (1991); Funny (1988); Hootenanny (1963); Intersection (1994); Jersey Boys (2014); Jersey Boys Live! (2022); Julie: My Favorite Things (1975); Late Night with David Letterman (1983); Lovesick (1983); Manhattan (1979); Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993); Off Campus (1977); Out to Sea (1997); Rock Family Trees (1998); Simon (1980); Sister Mary Explains It All (2001); Sleeper (1973); Sounds from a Town I Love (2001); Super Size Me (2004); That's Adequate (1989); The 24th Annual Guild Hall Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards (2009); The 47th Annual Writers Guild Awards (1995); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 60th Annual Tony Awards (2006); The Carson Podcast (2014–2018); The Cemetery Club (1993); The Dick Cavett Show (1971–1978); The Johnny Carson Special (1969); The Kraft Music Hall (1967); The Manhattan Project (1986); The Merv Griffin Show (1965); The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence (1975); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1970); We Interrupt This Week (1978).

Born on this day – Valerie Harper:

Valerie Harper

Actress

August 22, 1939 – August 30, 2019

Born on this day – Edward Paskey:

Edward Paskey

Actor

August 20, 1939 – August 17, 2021

Credits:

Ben Casey (1965); Bring Back... Star Trek (2009); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1966); How William Shatner Changed the World (2005); Mission: Impossible (1966); Star Trek (1966–1968); Star Trek Phase II (2004); Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996); The Dick Van Dyke Show (1966); To Be Takei (2014).

Born on this day – Anthony Valentine:

Anthony Valentine

Actor

August 17, 1939 – December 2, 2015

Credits:

A for Andromeda (1961); Adolf Eichmann - Begegnungen mit einem Mörder / documentary (2002); Adventure in the Hopfields (1954); After the War (1989); Age of Treason (1993); Aggie (1957); Airline (1982); Aladdin (1951); Alien Attack (1976); American Cuisine (1998); An Age of Kings (1960); Armchair Cinema (1975); Armchair Theatre (1966); Asian Connection: Midnight Orchid (1995); BBC Play of the Month (1982–1983); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1958); Bergerac (1983); Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (1955–1957); Biography (1995); Body & Soul (1993); Boon (1989); Born for Trouble (1955); Budgie (1971); Butterflies & Diamonds (2015); Call My Bluff (1974–1981); Callan (1967–1972); Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1953); Casualty (2009); Chuggington (2008–2010); Chuggington: Badge Quest (2011); Codename (1970); Colditz (1974); Coronation Street (2009–2010); Coronation Street at Christmas (2019); Covington Cross (1992); Dark Arts: Inside 'To the Devil a Daughter' (2018); Department S (1969); Diana: A Tribute to the People's Princess (1998); Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1969); Emergency-Ward 10 (1967); Emil and the Detectives (1952); Escape to Athena (1979); Escape to Athena: Cast and Crew Interviews (1978); A Father's Revenge (1988);Fun at St Fanny's (1955); Hammer House of Horror (1980); Hannay (1989); Heartbeat (2006); Inside the Tower (2015); Intrigue (1966); It's About Time (1979); ITV Play of the Week (1958); Jefferson in Paris (1995); Johnnie's Night Out (1954); Judge John Deed (2002); Justice (1971–1974); Killer Contract (1984); Lime Street (1985); Love Story (1966); Lovejoy (1986–1991); Masada (1981); Mencius Was a Bad Boy (1951); Minder (1979–1983); Monkey Business (1993); Moon and Son (1992); Murder Is Easy (1982); My Uncle Rollo (1954); New Tricks (2005); Night of One Hundred Stars (1980); No Way Back (1949); Noel's Telly Years (1997); Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (2006); Pathfinders (1972); Performance (1970); Poirot (2006); Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2015); Pulaski: The TV Detective (1987); Put Out More Flags (1970); Raffles (1975); Raffles (1975–1977); Rex Milligan (1956); Rheingold Theatre (1953); Riders (1993); Riviera Police (1965); Robin Hood (1984–1985); Saturday Playhouse (1961); Scobie in September (1969); Softly Softly (1969); Space: 1999 (1975); Spy Trap (1973); Stars on Sunday (1974); Stay Lucky (1991); Stranger in the House (1953); Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring (1961); Sunset Song (1971); Take Three Girls (1969); Tales of the Unexpected (1980–1982); The Attorney-General (1961); The Avengers (1967–1968); The Bill (1998); The Brain Machine (1955); The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991); The Children of the New Forest (1955); The Commander: Abduction (2008); The Commander: Blackdog (2005); The Commander: Blacklight (2006); The Commander: Virus (2005); The Cornet Player (1959); The Damned (1962); The Dancing Years (1976); The Detectives (1994–1997); The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988); The Donati Conspiracy (1973); The Expert (1969); The Fear (1988); The Fifth Corner (1992); The Flesh and the Fiends (1960); The Girl on the Pier (1953); The House of Angelo (1997); The House of Eliott (1991); The Knock (1994–1996); The Last Detective (2007); The Last Man Out (1962); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1961); The Monster Club / Segment: Vampire Story (1981); The Plague Dogs (1982); The Scarf (1959); The Secret Way (1954); The True Mistery of the Passion (1960); The Way to Dusty Death (1995); The Wharf Road Mob (1957); The World About Us (1980–1982); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1967); This Is Your Life (1978–1995); This Man Craig (1967); Thriller (1975); To the Devil a Daughter (1976); To the Devil... The Death of Hammer (2002); Tower of Evil (1972); Two Men Went to War (2002); Van der Valk (1992); Vice Versa (1953); Waking the Dead (2001); West 11 (1963); When TV Goes to War (2011); Whodunnit? (1974); Z Cars (1972).

Born on this day – Luther Allison:

Luther Allison

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

August 17, 1939 – August 12, 1997

Credits:

Albums:

Bad News Is Coming (1972); Blue Streak (1995); Hand Me Down My Moonshine (1994); Here I Come (1985); I Owe It All To You (2024); Learn From The Past (2022); Let's Have A Natural Ball (1985); Let's Try It Again (1992); Life Is a Bitch (1984); Live '89: Let's Try It Again (2006); Live At Montreux 1986 (2006); Live in Chicago (1999); Live in Montreux 1976-1994 (2006); Live in Paris (1979); Love Me Mama (1969); Love Me Papa (1977); Luther Allison Live in Paris 1979 (2005); Luther's Blues (1974); Montreux 1976 (Live) (2017); More From Berlin (1990); My Time Ain't Long (2023); Night Life (1976); Pay It Forward (2002); Power Wire Blues (1979); Reckless (1997); Rich Man (1995); Serious (1987); Songs From The Road (2009); Soul Fixin' Man (1994); South Side Safari (1979); Standing at the Crossroad (1977); Sweet Home Chicago (2006); The Alligator Records Years (2013); The Motown Years 1972-1976 (1996); Time (1989); Underground (2007); When The Sun Goes Down (2024); Where Have You Been? Live In Montreux 1976-1994 (1996).

Movies and television:

Chorus (1978–1980); Cooley High (1975); Die Harald Schmidt Show (1996); Karussell (1985–1987); Lieder & Leute (1982); Little Fires Everywhere (2020); Lord Thing (1970); Mad Money (2008); Magnum P.I. (2020); Musical express (1979); Nobody (2021); Taratata (1997); The Big Easy (1997); The Breed (2006); The Good Life (2014).

Born on this day – Kate O'Mara:

Kate O'Mara

Actress

Writer

August 10, 1939 – March 30, 2014

Born on this day – Bob Clark:

Bob Clark

Director

Writer

Producer

Actor

August 5, 1939 – April 4, 2007

Born on this day – Wes Craven:

Wes Craven

Director

Writer

Producer

Actor

Editor

August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015

Born on this day – Peter Bogdanovich:

Peter Bogdanovich

Director

Writer

Actor

Producer

Critic

Film historian

July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022

Credits:

Books:

A Moment with Miss Gish; A Year and a Day Engagement Calendar 1992: A Desk Diary Adapted From the Works of Robert Graves; All I Wanna Do is Direct: My First Picture Shows 1965–1971; Fritz Lang in America; John Ford; Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week; Pieces of Time: Peter Bogdanovich on the Movies; The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock; The Cinema of Howard Hawks; The Cinema of Orson Welles; The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten 1960–1980; This is Orson Welles; Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors; Who the Hell's in It: Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors.

Movies and television:

100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story (2011); 20 Most Horrifying Hollywood Murders (2006); 20/20 (2019); 3D: A Brief History (2004); 54 (1998); 78/52 (2017); 8 Simple Rules (2004); A Constant Forge (2000); A Decade Under the Influence (2003); A Film of Firsts: Peter Bogdanovitch on Red River (2014); A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making (2018); Abandoned (2010); Above Suspicion (2019); AFI Life Achievement Award (1973–1975); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition (2007); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories (2002); Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster (2008); All About 'the Birds' (2000); Allen Ludden's Gallery (1969); America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (2010); America This Morning (1988); American Experience (1996–2013); American Masters (1990–2011); Anatomy of a Scene (2001–2004); Apropos Film (1973); Are You Here (2013); Arena (1982); Argentina, 1985 (2022); Asking for the Moon (2003); Astaire and Rogers: Partners in Rhythm (2006); At Long Last Love (1975); Backstory (2000–2001); Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow! (1996); Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018); Be Water / 30 for 30 (2023); Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock (2004); Behind Closed Doors (2018); Bella Mafia (1997); Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right (1996); Between Us (2016); Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film (2000); Biography (1987–2005); Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006); Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017); Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021); Bret Easton Ellis Podcast (2016); Broken English (2007); Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005); Budd Boetticher: An American Original (2005); By Bogdanovich (2011); Camera Three (1971–1976); Carl Laemmle (2019); Casting By (2012); CBS Mornings (1988); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2022); Century of Cinema (1995); Charlie Rose (1997–2006); Cinema (1975); Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave (1992); CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion (2012); Claire Makes It Big (1998); Cold Turkey (2013); Coming Soon (1999); Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo' (2007); Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011); Culture Shock (2000); Cybill (1995); Daisy Miller (1974); Daisy Miller: An Introduction by Peter Bogdanovich (2003); Dedication (2007); Dinah! (1975); Dinner for Five (2003); Directed by John Ford (1971); Dirty Sexy Money (2007); Documentary Now! (2016); Dogtown (1997); Don't Let Me Go (2013); Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story (1985); Dreaming the Quiet Man (2010); Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali (2008); Durant's Never Closes (2016); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1999–2001); E! True Hollywood Story (2000–2006); Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003); Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen (2004); Edge of Outside (2006); F for Fake (1973); Fade (2011); Fallen Angels (1995); Festival in Cannes (2001); Film '72 (1972); Film Genre (2002); Five Easy Pieces: BBStory (2010); Fragments of Paradise (2022); Get Shorty (2017–2019); Getting the Moon (2003); Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast (2016); Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood (2009); Godard Made in USA (2010); Great Performances (1987–1988); Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing Spellbound (2008); Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'the Wrong Man' (2004); HARDtalk Extra (2005); HDVD Extra (2004); Highball (1997); Hitchcock and Dial M (2004); Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright' (2004); Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015); Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius (1999); Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at 'I Confess' (2004); Hollywood Beat (1997); Hollywood Gangster (2008); Hollywood Greats (1999); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood Legenden (2004); Hollywood Mavericks (1990); Hollywood Scandals (2011); Hollywood's Master Storytellers: Paper Moon (2016); How Far Would You Go for Love? (2010); How I Met Your Mother (2010); Howard Hawks on the Front Page and His Girl Friday (2017); Howard Hawks: American Artist (1997); Humboldt County (2008); Hustle (2004); I Am Burt Reynolds (2020); I Love New York (2002); Il était une fois... (2009); Il falso bugiardo (2008); Illegally Yours (1988); Independent Lens (2009); Infamous (2006); Insights (2021); Intimate Portrait (1999–2000); It Chapter Two (2019); It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures (2001); It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (1994); Jackie Brown (1997); Jamais sur vos écrans (2016); Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II (1993); Jean Renoir: Part Two - Hollywood and Beyond (1993); Jenseits von Hollywood - Das Kino des Otto Preminger (2006); Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten (2006); Joanne Carson's VIPs (1973); John Cassavetes: A Discussion (2000); John Ford Goes to War (2002); John Wayne Standing Tall (1989); Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast (1977); Josef von Sternberg, the Man Who Made Dietrich (1994); Karloff and Me (2006); Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003); Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004); King of Cool (2021); Kraft Theatre (1958); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2005–2007); L'homme qui a vu l'homme qui a vu l'ours (1990); Lick the Star (1998); Liebe in Hollywood (1995); Lions Love (... and Lies) (1969); Los Angeles Overnight (2018); Love Hollywood Style (2004); Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition (2016); Magacine (1999); Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014); Marilyn Monroe - Ich möchte geliebt werden (2010); Mask (1985); 'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich (2004); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Moonlighting (1987); Moving Pictures (1990); Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths (2004); Mr. Jealousy (1997); My First Time (2006); My Left Hand Man (2011); Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998); Never Say Goodbye AIDS Benefit by Yoko Ono (1995); New York at the Movies (2002); Nickelodeon (1976); Nightwalkers (2021); No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (2008); Noises Off... (1992); Northern Exposure (1993); One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film (2014); One Handshake Away: Peter Bogdanovich and the Icons of Cinema (2024); One Lucky Moon (2024); Opening Night (1977); Orson Welles en el país de Don Quijote (2000); Orson Welles: What Went Wrong? (1992); Our Friend River (2006); Out of Order (2003); Out of the Blue and into the Black (1987); Palmer (2021); Paper Moon (1973); Passion and Romance: The Wings of the Dove (1999); Pearly Gates (2015); Personal History: Foreign Hitchcock (2004); Peter Bogdanovich in conversation with Jesse Hawthorne Ficks (2017); Phantom Halo (2014); Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas (1991); Picture Windows (1994); Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the Movies (1987); Pollywood (2020); Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2014); Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991); Produced and Directed by Otto Preminger: An Appreciation by Peter Bogdanovich (2018); Prowler (1995); Pure Cinema: Birth of the Hitchcock Style (2007); Queen of the Lot (2010); Rated X (2000); 'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic (2001); Reborn (2018); Reinventando Hollywood (2008); Reputations (1999); Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women (1997); Revisiting Mr. Jealousy (2021); Rizzoli & Isles (2011); Roger Corman, le pape du pop cinéma (2021); Saint Jack (1979); Saturday Night at the Movies (1974–2013); Scene Stealers (2004); Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001); Screwball Comedies... Remember Them? (1972); Searching for Orson (2006); Secret Identity (2011); She's Funny That Way (2014); Shootout (2005–2006); Sightings (1995); Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals (2005); Siskel & Ebert (2000); Six LA Love Stories (2016); Skeeter Hammond: Handles, Hops and the Fourth Dimension (2003); Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020); Smiling Through the Apocalypse (2013); Srbi u Holivudu (2012); Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption (2006); Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten (2013); Starlight (2014); Still Cher (2002); Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic (2004); Sunday AM (2007); Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso (2019); Talking Pictures (1979 / 1988); Talking Sopranos (2021); Tangiers by Friday (2024); Targets (1968); 'Targets': An Introduction by Peter Bogdanovich (2003); TCM Remembers 2022 (2022); TCM Remembers Peter Bogdanovich (2022); TCM: Twenty Classic Moments (2014); Tesla Nation (2018); Texas Monthly Talks (2004); Texasville (1990); That Was Orson Welles (2016); The 11th IFP/West Annual Independent Spirit Awards (1996); The 16th Annual Satellite Awards (2011); The 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2022); The 31st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1974); The 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972); The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007); The 51st State (1972); The Carson Podcast (2017); The Cat's Meow (2001); The Century / Segment: Picture This (1999); The City Girl (1984); The Clive James Interview (1991); The Cole Porter Project (2024); The Complete Citizen Kane (1991); The Creatress (2019); The David Frost Show (1972); The Definition of Insanity (2004); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The Doorman (2007); The Dukes (2007); The Essentials (2001); The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017); The Fifth Patient (2007); The Good Wife (2014); The Great Buster (2018); The Great Professional: Howard Hawks (1967); The Independent (2000); The Informer: Out of the Fog (2006); The Irv Kupcinet Show (1975); The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich (2000); The Last of the Old Masters: Peter Bogdanovich on Allan Dwan (2009); The Last Picture Show (1971); The Last Picture Show Re-Release Promo (1971); The Last Picture Show: A Look Back (1999); The Look of Frances Ha (2013); The Look of the Film (2006); The Lost Print (2022); The Making of Highball (date?); The Making of 'Rebecca' (2008); The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird (2006); The Merv Griffin Show (1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1971–1973); The Moviemakers (1984); The Movies (2019); The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004); The Next Picture Show (2003); The Old Man: Peter Bogdanovich Remembers John Ford (2016); The Oprah Winfrey Show (2004); The Oscars (2022); The Other Side of the Wind (2018); The Price of Heaven (1997); The Prime Gig (2000); The Private Life of a Masterpiece (2004); The Rabbit Will Die (2024); The Racket (1928); The Roy Leonard Show (1972); The Seventh Art (2012); The Shoe Store (1999); The Simpsons (2007); The Sopranos (2000–2007); The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger' (2008); The Squid and the Whale (2005); The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011); The Story of 'Frenzy' (2001); The Tell-Tale Heart (2016); The Thing Called Love (1993); The Thing Called Love: A Look Back (2006); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1972–1975); The Trip (1967); The Trouble with Marnie (2000); The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh (2014); The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious' (2008); The Watch (2011); The Wild Angels (1966); The Wild One (2022); The Wonderful World of Disney (1999); The Working Man (2011); They All Laughed (1981); They All Laughed 25 Years Later: Director to Director - A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich and Wes Anderson (2006); They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018); This Is Orson Welles (2015); This Morning (2004); Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time, Parts 1-3 (2020); 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris (2006); To Sir, with Love II (1996); Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream (2007); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1974); Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today (2010); Twelve (2008); U.S.A. Today: The Television Series (1988); Un jour, une histoire (2011); Unexplained Mysteries / Segment: The Curse of a Hollywood Icon (2003); Vittorio D. (2009); Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968); Wanderlust (2006); Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998); We Blew It (2017); What Is Cinema? (2013); What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018); What's Up, Doc? (1972); While We're Young (2014); Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1995); Willie and Me (2023); With Orson Welles: Stories of A Life in Film (1990); Working with Orson Welles (1993); WTF with Marc Maron (2015); y usted... de qué se ríe? / and you... what are you laughing at? (2000).

Born on this day – Frank Q. Dobbs:

Frank Q. Dobbs

Writer

Director

Producer

Cinematographer

July 29, 1939 – February 15, 2006

Born on this day – Charles Cyphers:

Charles Cyphers

Actor

July 28, 1939 – August 4, 2024

Credits:

21 Jump Street (1988); A Force of One (1979); Aaron's Way (1988); Airwolf (1984); Alice (1978); Any Day Now (1999); Assault on Precinct 13 (1976); Barnaby Jones (1973–1977); Benson (1982); Big Bad Mama II (1987); Borderline (1980); Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998); California Dreams (1994); Cannon (1972–1973); Celebrity Chatter and Things that Matter with Elijah (2023); Charlie's Angels (1977); China Beach (1988); Coming Home (1978); Cool Breeze (1972); Cousin Skeeter (2001); Critical Mass (2001); Dallas (1987); Dead Calling (2006); Deadly Games (1995); Death Wish II (1982); Deatherman (2012); Dog and Cat (1977); Dragnet (1989); Elvis (1979); ER (1995); Escape from New York (1981); FBI: The Untold Stories (1993); Freddy's Nightmares (1989); Friendly Fire (1979); Gibbsville (1976); Gleaming the Cube (1989); Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006); Gray Lady Down (1978); Grizzly II: Revenge (1983); Halloween (1978); Halloween II (1981); Halloween Kills (2021); Halloween: 25 Years of Terror (2006); 'Halloween': A Cut Above the Rest (2003); Halloween: The Inside Story (2010); Halloween: The Shape of Horror (2006); Hardball (1994); Hart to Hart (1981); Hill Street Blues (1985–1987); Honkytonk Man (1982); Hunter's Blood (1986); Hyperion Bay (1998); JAG (1995); Jake and the Fatman (1989); Little House: Look Back to Yesterday (1983); Loaded Weapon 1 (1993); Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993); Lou Grant (1979); MacArthur (1977); Mach 2 (2000); Major League (1989); Mancuso, FBI (1989); Matlock (1986); Memorial Day (1983); Methodic (2007); Murder in the First (1995); Murder One (1996); Murder, She Wrote (1991); Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher (1996–1998); Night Court (1988); Our House (1987); Our Town (1977); Pensacola: Wings of Gold (1998); Phyllis (1976); Renegade (1993); Rituals (1984–1995); Roc (1991–1992); Roots (1977); Santa Barbara (1987); SeaQuest 2032 (1994); Seinfeld (1995); Simon & Simon (1987); Sliders (1995); Someone's Watching Me! (1978); Starsky and Hutch (1976–1979); The Betty White Show (1977–1978); The Bionic Woman (1976); The Dukes of Hazzard (1979–1984); The Executioner's Song (1982); The F.B.I. (1973); The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974); The Fog (1980); The George Carlin Show (1994); The George Wendt Show (1995); The Manhunter (1974); The Missiles of October (1974); The Night She Came Home!! (2013); The Onion Field (1979); The Outsiders (1990); The Quest (1982); The Secrets of Isis (1975); The Six Million Dollar Man (1976); The Slams (1973); The Tony Randall Show (1977); The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977); Truck Turner (1974); Vigilante Force (1976); Wonder Woman (1977).

Born on this day – Peter Duryea:

Peter Duryea

Actor

July 14, 1939 – March 24, 2013

Credits:

12 O'Clock High (1964–1966); Adam-12 (1969); Bewitched (1965); Birth of a Timeless Legacy (2004); Blood of the Iron Maiden (1970); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965–1966); Catalina Caper (1967); Combat! (1965–1967); Daniel Boone (1965); Dr. Kildare (1965); Dragnet 1967 (1967–1969); Family Affair (1971); For the Love of Spock (2016); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1968); I Spy (1968); Insight (1972–1976); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Leonard Nimoy: Star Trek Memories (1984); Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966); Profiles in Courage (1964); Reflections on Spock (2004); Spacelift: Transporting Trek Into the 21st Century (2011); Star Trek (1966); Taggart (1964); Tempo (1970); The Bounty Killer (1965); The Carpetbaggers (1964); The Defenders (1964); The Donna Reed Show (1963); The Fugitive (1964); The Name of the Game (1969); The Outer Limits (1964); The Virginian (1966).

On this day in movie history - News Is Made at Night (1939):

News Is Made at Night

directed by Alfred L. Werker,

written by John Francis Larkin,

was released in the United States on July 12, 1939.
Music by Samuel Kaylin.

Behind the scenes photograph:

Cast:

Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Russell Gleason, George Barbier, Eddie Collins, Minor Watson, Charles Halton, Paul Harvey, Richard Lane, Charles Lane, Betty Compson, Paul Fix, Paul Guilfoyle, Ernie Alexander, Irving Bacon, Eugene Borden, Wade Boteler, Harold Goodwin, George Guhl, J. Anthony Hughes, William Irving, Robert Emmett Keane, Alberto Morin, James C. Morton, David Newell, Jack Norton, George O'Hara, Imboden Parrish, Arthur Rankin, Jack Richardson, Harry Strang, Billy Wayne.

Born on this day – Karen Black:

Karen Black

Actress

Singer

Writer

July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013

Recommended reading - A Coffin for Dimitrios, by Eric Ambler (1939):

A Coffin for Dimitrios

By Eric Ambler.

Filmed as The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), directed by Jean Negulesco.

Published by Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.

Published 1939.

ISBN-10: 0375726713

ISBN-13: 9780375726712

Description:

"Our greatest thriller writer." – Graham Greene.

"Anyone who hasn't read Ambler is in for a real treat." – The Washington Post Book World.

A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery writer Charles Latimer into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers throughout the Balkans in the years between the world wars. Hoping that the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, will inspire a plot for his next novel, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery.

Born on this day – Dalene Young:

Dalene Young

Writer

Producer

Actress

June 29, 1939 – May 9, 2025

Credits:

A Message from Holly (1992); Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977); All About Manos (2017); Baby Luv (2000); Cab to Canada (1998); Can You Hear the Laughter? The Story of Freddie Prinze (1979); Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. (1977); Cross Creek (1983); Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976); Deadman's Curve (1978); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998); Evidence of Blood (1998); Going Home (2000); Grimm (2012); HeartBeat (1985); I Love You Perfect (1989); Is There Life Out There? (1994); It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963); Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted (1992); Journey of the Heart (1997); Juke Box Racket (1960); Little Darlings (1980 / 1982); Living a Lie (1991); Locked in Silence (1999); Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980); Miss Lettie and Me (2002); Pale Horse Pale Rider (1980); Panic in Echo Park (1977); Pig (2021); Silk Hope (1999); Sonny Boy (1989); Teen Lust (1978); The Baby-Sitters Club (1995); The Cat Killers (2000); The Last Dance (2000); The People Across the Lake (1988); The Plutonium Incident (1980); The Yarn Princess (1994); Why Me? (1984); Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983).

Recommended reading - Wind, Sand And Stars, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1939):

Wind, Sand And Stars

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1939).

ISBN-10: 0156027496

ISBN-13: 978-0156027496

Description:

“There are certain rare individuals … who by the mere fact of their existence put an edge on life, their ceaseless astonishment before its possibilities awakening our own latent sense of renewal and expectation. No one ever stood out more conspicuously in this respect than the French aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.” The New York Times Book Review.

Translated by Lewis Galantière.

Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académe Francaise, Wind, Sand and Stars is unsurpassed in capturing the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure – through the treacherous passes of the Pyrenees, above the Sahara, along the snowy ramparts of the Andes – combined with the lyrical prose and soaring spirit of a philosopher, make this book one of the most popular works ever written about flying.

While flying for his air squadron, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) disappeared over the Mediterranean a year after writing his most famous book, The Little Prince. He was also the author of Night Flight and Wartime Writings.