On this day in movie history - Decoy (1946):

Decoy

directed by Jack Bernhard,

written by Nedrick Young,

based on a story by Stanley Rubin,

was released in the United States on September 14, 1946.
Music by Edward J. Kay.

Cast:

Jean Gillie, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Edward Norris, Sheldon Leonard, Philip Van Zandt, Marjorie Woodworth, Carole Donne, John Shay, Bert Roach, Rosemary Bertrand.

Born on this day – Alfa Anderson:

Alfa Anderson

Singer

Teacher

September 7, 1946 – December 17, 2024

Credits:

Albums:

C'est Chic (1978); Chic (1977); Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits (1979); Music from My Heart (2017); Tongue in Chic (1982).

Songs:

A Warm Summer Night; At Last I Am Free; Bone; Chic Cheer; Chic Mystique; Chicism; Dance, Dance, Dance; Do That Dance; Do You Wanna Party; Everybody Dance; Good Times; Good Times / Rapper's Delight; Hangin'; Happy Man; I Want Your Love; I’ll Be There; I'm Coming Out; Jusagroove; Le Freak; My Feet Keep Dancing; My Forbidden Lover; Real People; São Paulo; Savoir Faire; Sober; Sometimes You Win; Soup for One; Till The World Falls; We Are Family; What About Me; Will You Cry; Would You Be My Baby.

Movies, television and video:

Chic: Dance, Dance, Dance (1978); Chic: Everybody Dance (1978); Chic: I Want Your Love (1979); Chic: Le Freak (1978); Coronation Street (2015–2016); Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker (2013); Unsung (2014).

On this day in movie history - Crack-Up (1946):

Crack-Up

directed by Irving Reis and James Anderson,

written by John Paxton, Ben Bengal and Ray Spencer,

based on the short story Madman's Holiday by Fredric Brown,

was released in the United States on September 6, 1946.
Music by Leigh Harline.

Cast:

Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Ray Collins, Wallace Ford, Dean Harens, Damian O'Flynn, Erskine Sanford, Mary Ware.

Born on this day – Freddie Mercury:

Freddie Mercury

Singer

Songwriter

Instrumentalist

September 5, 1946 – November 24, 1991

Born on this day – Susan Backlinie:

Susan Backlinie

Actress

Stuntwoman

September 1, 1946 – May 11, 2024

Credits:

1941 (1979); 20 to 1 (2010); A Stranger in My Forest (1976); A Stranger in My Forest (1976); American Grindhouse (2010); Catalina C-Lab (1982); Celebrity Chatter and Things that Matter with Elijah (2023); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Day of the Animals (1977); E! True Hollywood Story (2002); Image of the Beast (1981); Inside Edition (2015); Jaws (1975); Jaws: The Inside Story (2010); Jaws: The Restoration (2012); MythBusters (2005); Quark (1978); Robert Shaw: Jaws, Deoch & Deora (2015); Something Was Out There (2006); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The Fall Guy (1982); The Great Muppet Caper (1981); The Grizzly & the Treasure (1975); The Incredible Hulk (1978); The Making of 'Jaws' (1995); The Quest (1976); The Return of the Incredible Hulk (1977); The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of 'Jaws' (2007); The Villain (1979); Two-Minute Warning (1976).

On this day in movie history - The Killers (1946 movie & book):

The Killers

directed by Robert Siodmak,

written by Anthony Veiller, John Huston and Richard Brooks,

based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway,

was released in the United States on August 30, 1946.
Music by Miklós Rózsa.

Cast:

Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene, Vince Barnett, Virginia Christine, Jack Lambert, Charles D. Brown, Donald MacBride, Charles McGraw, William Conrad, Ernie Adams, Audley Anderson, George Anderson, Sam Ash, Frank Baker, Brooks Benedict, John Berkes, Edward Biby, Harry Brown, Phil Brown, Jack Cheatham, James Conaty, Jeff Corey, Gino Corrado, Noel Cravat, Oliver Cross, Rex Dale, Neal Dodd, Mike Donovan, Howard Freeman, Dick Gordon, Robert Haines, Michael Hale, Sam Harris, Harry Hayden, Mark Hellinger, Al Hill, George Hoagland, Jimmie Horan, Geoffrey Ingham, Kenner G. Kemp, Paul Kruger, Ethan Laidlaw, Mike Lally, Perc Launders, Nolan Leary, Vera Lewis, Jack Lomas, Therese Lyon, Frank McLure, Charles Middleton, John Miljan, Howard Negley, Garry Owen, Barbara ‘Red’ Powers, Beatrice Roberts, Wally Rose, William Ruhl, Wallace Scott, John Sheehan, Queenie Smith, Ann Staunton, Jack Tornek, John Trebach, Bill Walker, Milton Wallace, Gabrielle Windsor, Florence Wix.

Recommended reading:

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway.

Published by Scribner.

Published 1998.

ASIN: 0684843323

ISBN-10: 9780684843322

ISBN-13: 978-0684843322

Description:

In this definitive collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s short stories, readers will delight in Hemingway’s most beloved classics such as The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Hills Like White Elephants, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection, totaling in sixty stories. This collection demonstrates Hemingway’s ability to write beautiful prose for each distinct story, with plots that range from experiences of World War II to beautifully touching moments between a father and son. For Hemingway fans, The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.

Born on this day – Mark Snow:

Mark Snow

Composer

Actor

August 26, 1946 – July 4, 2025

Credits:

Movies and television:

20 to 1 (2011); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997); 240-Robert (1979–1981); 31 Days of Horror (2019); 43:45 - The Makings of a Struggle (2016); A Good Sport (1984); A Hobo's Christmas (1987); A Loss of Innocence (1996); A Memory in My Heart (1999); A Place for Annie (1994); A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019); A Stranger in Town (1995); A Taste for Killing (1992); A Touch of Hope (1999); A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story (1992); Aaron's Way (1988); Acceptable Risks (1986); Adventures in Appletown (2008); All Together Now (1991); Alone in the Neon Jungle (1988); America's Got Talent (2014); An American Story (1992); Angel City (1980); Another Woman's Husband (2000); Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again (1990); Battling for Baby (1992); Bereft (2004); Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues (1985); Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus (1978); Birds of Prey (2002–2003); Blood & Orchids (1986); Blue Bloods (2010–2024); Bluegrass (1988); Bones (2010); Born to Be Wild (1995); Born Too Soon (1993); Bridges to Cross (1986); Britain's Got More Talent (2015–2019); Brothers and Sisters (1979); Bull (2000–2001); Cagney & Lacey (1981–1984); California Girls (1985); Captain Sharif (2017); Caroline at Midnight (1994); Casino (1980); Castle (2010); CBS Summer Playhouse (1987); Challenge of a Lifetime (1985); Chicago Hope (1996); Child in the Night (1990); Children of the Dust (1995); Circle of Love (1988); Cloned (1997); Code Name Phoenix (2000); Cold Dog Soup (1990); Conundrum (1996); Cracked Up (1987); Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 (1990); Crazy in Alabama (1999); Crazy Like a Fox (1984–1986); Critical Assembly (2002); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2007); D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear (2003); Dancing with the Stars (2016); Dans les oreilles d'Alain Resnais (2020); Dark Justice (1991–1993); Dark Realm (2000); Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace (1991); Dead Badge (1995); Dead Reckoning (1990); Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (1992); Dirty Pictures (2000); Disaster at Silo 7 (1988); Disturbing Behavior (1998); DJ Dado: X Files (1996); Dolly Dearest (1991); Down, Out & Dangerous (1995); Dying to Dance (2001); Dynasty (1981); End Game: Making 'Millennium' Season Three (2004); Ernest Saves Christmas (1988); Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure (1989); Falcon Crest (1986–1988); Family (1978–1980); Family Guy (2000–2020); Father & Son: Dangerous Relations (1993); Finder of Lost Loves (1984); Fiona (2002); Flatbush (1979); Flush (1982); Follow Your Heart (1990); Following Her Heart (1994); For Love of Olivia (2001); Forgotten Sins (1996); Fresh Off the Boat (2018); Games Mother Never Taught You (1982); Garbage Island (2000); Gemini Man (1976); Ghost Whisperer (2005–2010); Ghosts Can't Do It (1989); Gintberg på kanten (2015); Goodbye, Miss 4th of July (1988); Harsh Realm (1999–2000); Hart to Hart (1979–1984); Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart (1994); Hart to Hart: Harts in High Season (1996); Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart (1995); Hart to Hart: Till Death Do Us Hart (1996); Haunted (2002); Haven (2012); He Said, She Said (1991); Heart of a Child (1994); Helter Skelter (2004); Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter (1992); High Risk (1981); Highway Heartbreaker (1992); Hometown (1985); I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later (1985); I Married a Centerfold (1984); Icy Bois (2018); I'd Rather Be Calm (1982); I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! (2019); Implanted Memories: 25 Years of the X-Files (2018); In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing (1990); In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (1993); In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice (1995); In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas (1991); In the Line of Duty: Street War (1992); In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance (1994); In the Name of the People (2000); Inside 'Harsh Realm' (2004); Inside the X Files (1998); International Airport (1985); Jake Speed (1986); Just Like Her (2011); Kalapuikkokeitto (1998); Kay O'Brien (1986); Kids Like These (1987); Kojak (2005); La Femme Nikita (1997–2001); Ladykillers (1988); Level Up Norge (2018); Life of Riley (2014); Living a Lie (1991); Lottery! (1983–1984); Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills (1986); Malibu (1983); Matt Houston (1983); MenT (2017); Mike & Mike (2014); Millennium (1996–1999); Miracle Landing (1990); Mixed Blessings (1995); Moment of Truth: Caught in the Crossfire (1994); Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy (1994); Monsters of the Week (2015); Mr. Murder (1998); Murder Between Friends (1994); Murder by the Book (1987); Murder Ordained (1987); Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000); News at Eleven (1986); Night Sins (1997); Not My Kid (1985); Nowhere Man (1995–1996); Occupied (2016); Odd Girl Out (2005); Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994); One Police Plaza (1986); One Terrific Guy (1986); One Tree Hill (2003–2005); Opposites Attract (1990); Order in Chaos: Making Millennium - Season One (2004); Over Here, Mr. President (1983); Overboard (1978); Packin' It In (1983); Pals (1987); Paper Dolls (1982); Paradise (2004); Pasadena (2001–2002); Pastor Mike Online (2011–2012); Payback (1997); Pearl Harbor II: Pearlmageddon (2001); Pee-wee's Playhouse (1989–1990); Perversions of Science (1997); Phoenix Forgotten (2017); Phone Calls from the Dead (1996); Pigs vs. Freaks (1982); Playmaker (1994); Precious Victims (1993); Private Fears in Public Places (2006); Project: ALF (1996); Ringer (2011–2012); Rockhopper (1985); Roman Holiday (1987); Royal Match (1985); Rude Tube (2014); Scandal in a Small Town (1988); Scattered Dreams (1993); Season X (2016); Secrets of a Married Man (1984); Secrets of the X Files, Part 2 (1996); Seduced and Betrayed (1995); Settle the Score (1989); Shadows of Desire (1994); She's Too Young (2004); Show Kafka's Dudes (2019); Skateboard (1978); Smallville (2001–2010); Smallville: 100th Episode -the Making of a Milestone (2006); Smoke Jumpers (1996); Sole Survivor (2000); Solve for X: Constructing Season 11 (2018); Something About Amelia (1984); Something Short of Paradise (1979); Song in the Key of X (2020); Soundtrack of Our Lives: A Celebration for the Film & TV Music Community (2020); Special Report: Journey to Mars (1996); Special Unit 2 (2001–2002); Starsky and Hutch (1977–1979); Still Crazy Like a Fox (1987); Strange Calls (2015); Strike Force (1981); Stuck with Each Other (1989); Summer of Fear (1996); Superstar (1999); Sweet Temptation (1996); Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror (2006); Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain (2004); T.J. Hooker (1982–1986); T.V. Kaiser (1996); Tattoo Fixers (2017); Telling Secrets (1993); Texas Justice (1995); The Art Of... When You're Hot, Young, Poor and a Filmmaker! (2010); The Big Sick (2017); The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976); The Cape (1996); The Dancing Cow (2000); The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story (1992); The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998); The Disappearance of Nora (1993); The Disinvited (2024); The Family Tree (1983); The Father Clements Story (1987); The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (1991); The Girl Who Came Between Them (1990); The Guardian (2001–2002); The Hamlet Adventure (2008); The Hunters (2011); The in Crowd (1988); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2016); The Lady from Yesterday (1985); The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story (1992); The Little Kidnappers (1990); The Lone Gunmen (2001); The Lost Capone (1990); The Love Boat (1978–1982); The Magical World of Disney (1986); The Making of 'the X Files: Fight the Future' (1998); The Man with Three Wives (1993); The Marla Hanson Story (1991); The New Mutants (2020); The Next Step Beyond (1978–1979); The Other Mother: A Moment of Truth Movie (1995); The Perfect Mother (1997); The Price of Heaven (1997); The Rape of Doctor Willis (1991); The Return of Ben Casey (1988); The Return of Mod Squad (1979); The Rookies (1975–1976); The San Pedro Beach Bums (1977); The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick (1988); The Secret Life of Uri Geller (2013); The Seventh Stream (2001); The Simpsons (1995–1997); The Six of Us (1982); The Substitute Wife (1994); The Twilight Zone (2002–2003); The Unspoken Truth (1995); The Winter of Our Discontent (1983); The Worst Movies of All Time (2016–2017); The X Files (1998); The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008); The X Files: The Making of 'The Truth' (2004); The X-Files (1993–2018); The X-Files Game (1998); The X-Files: Re-Opened (2015); The X-Files: Season 11 - Conversation on the Fox Lot (2018); The X-Files: Season 11 - The Scully Effect (2018); Those She Left Behind (1989); Today at Wimbledon (2015); Top of the Pops (1996); Total Stranger (1999); Trial by Fire (1995); Turn of the Tide: Making 'Millennium' Season Two (2004); Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (1998); Two Kinds of Love (1983); UFO: The Truth Is Here (2001); Under a Killing Moon (1994); Undercover (2005); Urban Assault (1998); Vega$ (1978–1981); Vietnam War Story (1987–1988); Visions (1976); Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet (1997); Warm Hearts, Cold Feet (1987); What Dreams May Come (1998); When He's Not a Stranger (1989); When the Whistle Blows (1980); White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (1991); White Irish Drinkers (2010); White Like the Moon (2002); Wife, Mother, Murderer (1991); Wild Grass (2009); Witness to the Execution (1994); Wolf Lake (2001); You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012); Zachariah (1971).

On this day in movie history - The Big Sleep (1946 movie & novel):

The Big Sleep

directed by Howard Hawks,

written by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman,

based on the novel by Raymond Chandler,

was released in the United States on August 23, 1946.
Music by Max Steiner.

Cast:

Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Sonia Darrin, Dorothy Malone, Regis Toomey, Peggy Knudsen, Charles Waldron, Charles D. Brown, Bob Steele, Elisha Cook, Jr., Louis Jean Heydt, Trevor Bardette, Tommy Rafferty, Ben Welden, Tom Fadden, Theodore von Eltz.

Recommended reading:

The Big Sleep

By Raymond Chandler.

Published by Penguin.

First published 1939.

ISBN-10: 0241970776

ISBN-13: 978-0241970775

Description:

The Big Sleep is a hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective, Philip Marlowe.

A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.

In 1999, the book was voted 96th of Le Monde's "100 Books of the Century".

On this day in movie history - The Inner Circle (1946):

The Inner Circle

directed by Phil Ford,

written by Leonard St. Clair and Lawrence Taylor,

screenplay by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan,

was released in the United States on August 7, 1946.
Music by Mort Glickman.

Cast:

Adele Mara, Warren Douglas, William Frawley, Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Christine, Ken Niles, Will Wright, Dorothy Adams, Martha Montgomery, Edward Gargan, Fred Graham, Eddie Parker, Robert J. Wilke.

On this day in movie history – Black Angel (1946 movie & novel):

Black Angel

directed by Roy William Neill,

written by Roy Chanslor,

based on the novel The Black Angel by Cornell Woolrich,

released in the United States on August 2, 1946.

Music by Frank Skinner.

Cast: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Constance Dowling, Wallace Ford, Hobart Cavanaugh, Freddie Steele, John Phillips, Ben Bard, Junius Matthews, Marion Martin, Archie Twitchell, Maurice St. Clair, Vilova, Robert Williams. #Noir

Recommended reading:

The Black Angel

By Cornell Woolrich.

Filmed as Black Angel (1946), directed by Roy William Neill.

Published by Pegasus Crime.

First published 1943.

ISBN-10: 1605983551

ISBN-13: 9781605983554

Description:

Nothing beats a tale of fatalistic dread by the supreme master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich, whose novels and short stories define the essence of noir nihilism. – Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review.

Along with Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich practically invented the genre of noir. – Newsday.

Woolrich devised and used instruments of psychological torture―his stories. – Time.

Woolrich was a master of the form. – Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal.

You can palpably feel the agony in Woolrich and his work. – James Ellroy.

A classic is back in print! This hypnotic thriller, by one of the originators of the noir form, exposes its heroine to a waking nightmare.

In this classic crime novel, a panic-stricken young wife races against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress. Writing in first person from the wife’s viewpoint, Woolrich evokes her love and anguish and, finally, desperation as she becomes an avenging angel in her attempt to rescue her husband from execution.