Born on this day – Brian Gibson:

Brian Gibson

Director

September 22, 1944 – January 4, 2004

Recommended reading - A Man Called Spade (1944):

A Man Called Spade

By Dashiell Hammett.

Published by Dell.
First Edition.
Paperback.
First published 1944.
ASIN: B000JWUE5A

Description:

Collection of short stories by this master writer of the Sam Spade detective series. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Dell Mapback #90. Sam Spade is featured in five short stories. The original hard-boiled American detective is featured in this vintage mapback edition.

Recommended reading - The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories (1944):

The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories (1944).

By Dashiell Hammett.

Published by Must Have Books.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1773237772

ISBN-13: 978-1773237770

Description:

Sam Spade is the tall, tough, smart private detective made famous by Dashiell Hammett in his superb detective novel, The Maltese Falcon. His appearance in the three short stories which make up The Adventures of Sam Spade is good news for his admirers and even better news for those who have yet to meet him. As Sam says, “There ought to be a law making criminals give themselves up…” but since there isn’t one is better qualified than he to take the place of that law. He’s not a fictional detective, not given to elaborate analysis of the crime nor to elaborate restaging of it in front of all the suspects in the hope that one will break down; he’s an honest-to-God detective, astute and industrious enough to find out everything possible and then figure the angles from what he knows.

In addition to the three Adventures of Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett has included here four brilliant short stories, each one terse, masculine, and eminently readable, yet one different in theme and handling. The Assistant Murderer tells of a complicated case neatly solved by Alexander Rush, the detective who is so ugly that people just naturally think he is crooked. Night Shade is a vivid sketch with an O. Henry Ending. The Judge Laughed Last is a story so funny that you’ll be laughing even when the judge is through. And His Brother’s Keeper is a fine prize fight tale told by a tough, dumb, honest and likable fighter.

Contents: Too Many Have Lived; They Can Only Hang You Once; A Man Called Spade; The Assistant Murderer; Night Shade; The Judge Laughed Last; His Brother's Keeper.

Born on this day – Barbara Trentham:

Barbara Trentham

Actress

Director

Model

Painter

August 27, 1944 – August 2, 2013

Credits:

Head for Business (1982); Barnaby Jones (1980); A Man Called Sloane (1979); Deathmoon (1978); Star Maidens (1976); Sky Riders (1976); Rollerball (1975); The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972).

Born on this day – Helena Rojo:

Helena Rojo

Actress

August 18, 1944 – February 3, 2024

Born on this day – Nicoletta Machiavelli:

Nicoletta Machiavelli

Actress

August 1, 1944 – November 15, 2015

Credits:

A History of Dollars (2008); A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die (1967); A Pocketful of Chestnuts (1970); An Indian Named Joe (2009); Anyone Can Play (1967); Bawdy Tales (1973); Beyond Good and Evil (1977); Candy (1968); Carnal Circuit (1969); Dirty Weekend (1973); Especial pop (1969); Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s (2012); Evil Pleasure (1975); Garter Colt (1968); I nostri mariti / Segment: Il Marito di Roberta (1966); It Takes a Thief (1969); Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966); La coppia (1973); La fuite en avant (1980); L'amante dell'Orsa Maggiore (1971); L'année sainte (1976); L'autunno del generale (1982); L'homme au cerveau greffé (1972); Lungo il fiume e sull'acqua (1973); Matchless (1967); Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck (1973); Navajo Joe (1966); Necropolis (1970); No Room to Die (1969); No Way Out (1973); Odia il prossimo tuo (1968); Policeman (1971); Review (1969); Scarabea - wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch? (1969); Someone Is Bleeding (1974); Temptation (1969); That Most Important Thing: Love (1975); The Hills Run Red (1966); The Ravine (1969); Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969); Thrilling / Segment: L'autostrada del sole (1965); Tough Cop (1976); Una questione d'onore (1966).

On this day in movie history - Seven Doors to Death (1944):

Seven Doors to Death,

aka Vanishing Corpses,

directed and written by Elmer Clifton,

based on a story by Helen Kiely,

was released in the United States on July 27, 1944.
Music by Lee Zahler.

Cast:
Chick Chandler, June Clyde, George Meeker, Michael Raffetto, Gregory Gaye, Edgar Dearing, Rebel Randall, Milton Wallace, Casey MacGregor, Gene Roth.

Born on this day – Quentin Dean:

Quentin Dean

Actress

July 27, 1944 – May 7, 2003

Credits:

Lancer (1969); The High Chaparral (1969); The F.B.I. (1969); Mod Squad (1969); The Virginian (1968); The Young Runaways (1968); Stay Away, Joe (1968); The Big Valley (1967); Will Penny (1967); Judd for the Defense (1967); In the Heat of the Night (1967).

Born on this day – Celeste Yarnall:

Celeste Yarnall

Actress

July 26, 1944 – October 7, 2018

Credits:

A New Kind of Love (1963); A Shattered Dream (1990); Ambition (1991); America Loves... Star Trek (2001); Around the World Under the Sea (1966); Beast of Blood (1970); Bewitched (1966); Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969); Bonanza (1968); Born Yesterday (1993); Brewed in Brooklyn (2013); Burke's Law (1963); Captain Nice (1967); Civil Wars (1993); Daughters of Privilege (1991); Drive-in Movie Memories (2001); Driving Me Crazy (1991); Elvis Found Alive (2012); Elvis on Tour (1972); Eve (1968); Fatal Beauty (1987); Femme (2013); Find Your Future Reality (2018); Funny About Love (1990); Gidget (1966); Hogan's Heroes (1968); In Name Only (1969); Insight (1971); It Takes a Thief (1968); It's Your Bet (1971); Knots Landing (1990); Land of the Giants (1968); Live a Little, Love a Little (1968); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Postal Meeter (1973); Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010); Mannix (1969); McMillan & Wife (1972); Melrose Place (1995–1998); Metaltech: Earthsiege (1994); Midnight Kiss (1993); My Three Sons (1962–1963); Ransom for a Dead Man (1971); Scorpio (1973); Shrink Rap (2003); Sisters (1994); Skinwalker: Curse of the Shaman (2005); Star Trek (1967); Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007); That's My Baby (2002); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1962); The Bold Ones: The Protectors (1969); The Cure (2018); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part II: 1962-1969 (2002); The Definitive Elvis: The Television Years (2002); The F.B.I. (1968); The Green Girl (2014); The Hollywood Stars of Tomorrow Awards (1967); The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972); The Last Doorway Show with Miss Misery (2011); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Mechanic (1972); The Nation's Favourite Elvis Song (2013); The Nutty Professor (1963); The Seven Ages of Elvis (2017); The Survivors (1969); The Two Sisters (2007); The Velvet Vampire (1971); The Wild Wild West (1965); Unbelievable!!!!! (2020); Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963); We the People (2018); William Shatner's Get a Life! (2012).

Born on this day – Lynn Loring:

Lynn Loring

Actress

Producer

July 14, 1944 – December 23, 2023

Credits:

A Man Called Shenandoah (1966); And Baby Makes Three (1966); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951–1958); Black Noon (1971); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1967); Bonanza (1966); Burke's Law (1966); Bus Stop (1961); CBS Repertoire Workshop (1960); Circle of Fear (1972); Daniel Boone (1964); Don't Go to Sleep (1982); Fair Exchange (1962–1963); Finder of Lost Loves (1984); Frontiers of Faith (1955); General Motors 50th Anniversary Show (1957); Glitter (1984–1985); Gunsmoke (1963); Hands of Mystery (1951); Hotel (1983); Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969); Kraft Theatre (1958); Lamp Unto My Feet (1952); Lancer (1968–1970); Making of a Male Model (1983); Matt Houston (1982); Me and the Kid (1993); Mod Squad (1970–1972); Mr. Mom (1983); Mr. Novak (1964); My Three Sons (1968); Omnibus (1955); Perry Mason (1964); Play of the Week (1960); Police Woman (1974); Pressure Point (1962); Proudly I Love (1953); Return to Peyton Place (1973); Robert Montgomery Presents (1953); Scared Silly (1982); Search for Tomorrow (1951–1961); Sizzle (1981); Special for Women: Mother and Daughter (1961); Splendor in the Grass (1961); Starlight Theatre (1951); Studio One (1952–1954); Target: The Corruptors (1962); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Best Little Girl in the World (1981); The Big Valley (1965); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951); The Defenders (1961–1964); The Desperate Miles (1975); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The F.B.I. (1965); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973); The Immortal (1970); The Invaders (1967); The Jean Carroll Show (1953–1954); The Kansas City Massacre (1975); The Man Behind the Badge (1954); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1962); The Return of Mod Squad (1979); The Stranger (1955); The Web (1951); The Wild Wild West (1966); The Young Lawyers (1971); Timeshift (2006); Wagon Train (1962).

On this day in movie history - Double Indemnity (1944):

Double Indemnity

directed by Billy Wilder,

written by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler,

based on the novel by James M. Cain,

was released in the United States on July 3, 1944.
Music by Miklós Rózsa.

Cast:

Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, Fortunio Bonanova, John Philliber, Raymond Chandler, Bess Flowers, Betty Farrington, Teala Loring, Sam McDaniel, Miriam Nelson, Douglas Spencer.

On this day in movie history - The Mask of Dimitrios (1944):

The Mask of Dimitrios,

directed by Jean Negulesco,

written by Frank Gruber,

based on the novel A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler,

was released in the United States on July 1, 1944.

Music by Adolph Deutsch.

Cast:
Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Steven Geray, Florence Bates, Eduardo Ciannelli, Kurt Katch, Marjorie Hoshelle, Georges Metaxa, John Abbott, Monte Blue, David Hoffman.

Born on this day – Paul Koslo:

Paul Koslo

Actor

June 27, 1944 – January 9, 2019

Born on this day – Tony Scott:

Tony Scott

Director

Producer

Actor

Writer

June 21, 1944 – August 19, 2012

Born on this day – Cheryl Holdridge:

Cheryl Holdridge

Actress

June 20, 1944 – January 6, 2009

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1963); A Summer Place (1959); Annette (1958); Archie (1964); Bachelor Father (1959–1961); Bewitched (1964); Biography (2006); Bringing Up Buddy (1961); Carousel (1956); Dennis the Menace (1962); Dr. Kildare (1964); Hawaiian Eye (1963); Insight (1964); King of Diamonds (1962); Leave It to Beaver (1959–1963); Life with Archie (1962); Mr. Novak (1964); My Three Sons (1960–1964); Ripcord (1963); Take Me to Your Leader (1964); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1961–1962); The Bob Hope Show (1961); The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964); The Donna Reed Show (1962); The Eleventh Hour (1963–1964); The Eve Arden Show (1958); The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000); The Magical World of Disney (1957–1980); The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1962); The Mickey Mouse Club (1956–1958); The New Leave It to Beaver (1985–1987); The Rifleman (1962); Wagon Train (1964); Westinghouse Playhouse (1961); Westinghouse Preview Theatre (1961); Working with Walt (2006).

Born on this day – Brigid Bazlen:

Brigid Bazlen

Actress

June 9, 1944 – May 25, 1989

Credits:

Days of Our Lives (1972); Bright Promise (1969); How the West Was Won (1962); King of Kings (1961); The Honeymoon Machine (1961); Too Young to Go Steady (1959); The Blue Fairy (1958); Hawkins Falls: A Television Novel (1951–1955).

Remembering D-Day - June 6, 1944:

In honor of all who served.

We will never forget.

#DDay #DDay1944 #DDayJune61944 #June61944 #RememberTheFallen #Honor #Military #Bravery #Courage #Heroes #Valor #Remembrance #Tribute #Respect #Heroes #FreedomIsNotFree #InMemory #ToAllWhoServe

Born on this day – Meredith MacRae:

Meredith MacRae

Actress

Singer

Talk show host

May 30, 1944 – July 14, 2000

Born on this day – Sondra Locke:

Sondra Locke

Actress

Director

Writer

May 28, 1944 – November 3, 2018

Credits:

Book:

The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey (1997).

Music:

I Seek The Night / Don't Say You Don't Love Me No More (1978); Too Loose (1980).

Movies and television:

A Reflection of Fear (1972); Allen Ludden's Gallery (1969); All-Star Party for Clint Eastwood (1986); All-Star Party for Joan Collins (1987); Amazing Stories (1985); Any Which Way You Can (1980); Barnaby Jones (1975); Biography (2003); Bronco Billy (1980); Cannon (1973–1975); CBS This Morning (1990); Clapper Board (1980); Clean and Narrow (2000); Clint Eastwood, la dernière légende (2022); Clint Eastwood: Director (1982); Cover Me Babe (1970); Death Game (1977); Death in Small Doses (1995); Dinah! (1978); Eastwood in Action (1976); Entertainment Tonight (2018); Every Which Way But Loose (1978); Friendships, Secrets and Lies (1979); Gondola (1974); Good Morning America (1980); Hollywood Couples (2000); Impulse (1990); Joe Forrester (1976); Knock Knock (2015); Kung Fu (1974); Les grands reportages (2013); Les nouveaux rendez-vous (1980); Night Gallery / A Feast of Blood (1972); Planet of the Apes (1974); Ratboy (1986); Ray Meets Helen (2017); Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story (1982); Sudden Impact (1983); Tales of the Unexpected (1984); Tattletales (1975); TCM Remembers 2018 (2018); The 11th Annual People's Choice Awards (1985); The 41st Annual Academy Awards (1969); The 6th Annual American Cinema Awards (1989); The 7th Annual People's Choice Awards (1981); The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1973); The American Movie Awards (1980); The Bob Braun Show (1968); The F.B.I. (1972); The Gauntlet (1977); The Gauntlet: Behind the Scenes (1977); The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968); The Joan Rivers Show (1990); The Joey Bishop Show (1969); The Merv Griffin Show (1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1978); The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976); The Prophet's Game (2000); The Second Coming of Suzanne (1974); The Shadow of Chikara (1977); Tom Jones Now! (1984); Trading Favors (1997); Willard (1971).

On this day in movie history: Gaslight (1944):

Gaslight,

directed by George Cukor,

written by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch and John L. Balderston,

based on the play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton,

was released in the United States on May 4, 1944.
Music by Bronislau Kaper.

Cast:
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton, May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest, Emil Rameau, Edmund Breon, Halliwell Hobbes, Tom Stevenson, Heather Thatcher, Lawrence Grossmith, Jakob Gimpel, Harry Adams, Lassie Lou Ahern, John Ardizoni, Frank Baker, Wilson Benge, Arnold Bennett, Florence Benson, Arthur Blake, Lillian Bronson, Alec Craig, Antonio D'Amore, Wynne Davis, Frank Eldredge, Maude Fealy, Al Ferguson, Helen Flint, Gibson Gowland, Gary Gray, Roger Gray, Bobbie Hale, Joy Harington, Tom Hughes, Jack Kirk, Pat Malone, Al Masiello, Charles McNaughton, Terry Moore, Clive Morgan, Georgie Nokes, Joseph North, Tarquin Olivier, Elsie Prescott, Joseph Romantini, Syd Saylor, Arthur Stone, Alix Terry, Morgan Wallace, Eric Wilton, Eustace Wyatt, Katherine Yorke, Phyllis Yuse, Guy Zanette.