Born on this day – Cindy Williams:

Cindy Williams

Actress

Producer

August 22, 1947 – January 25, 2023

Credits:

10th Annual TV Land Awards (2012); 1998 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards (1998); 50 Years of Funny Females (1995); 78th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (2009); 7th Heaven (2002); 8 Simple Rules (2003); A Dream of Christmas (2016); A Life of Laughter: Remembering John Ritter (2003); ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration (2003); ABC's Silver Anniversary Celebration (1978); Access Hollywood (2023); All-Star Salute to Mother's Day (1981); America 2-Night (1978); American Graffiti (1973); An Evening at the Improv (1988); Andy's Funhouse (1979); Are We There Yet? (2012); Barefoot in the Park (1970); Beltline to Broadway / Podcast Series (2022); Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick (2015); Beware! The Blob (1972); Big Man on Campus (1989); Bingo (1991); Biography (1999–2005); Bloopers Galore (1989); Blushing Bloopers (1990); Canaan Land (2020); Cannon (1974); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2023); Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes (1977); Celebrity Ghost Stories (2012); CHiPs (1979–1980); Circus of the Stars #2 (1977); Classic Bloopers (1990); Cos (1976); Crimes of Passion: Escape from Terror - The Teresa Stamper Story (1995); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Angie Dickinson (1977); Delphine and Carole (2019); Dinah and Her New Best Friends (1976); Dinah! (1976); Disco Fever: 'Saturday Night Fever' Premiere Party (1977); Donny and Marie (1976–1978); Drive (2007); Drive, He Said (1971); Earth Angel (1991); Empire of Dreams: The Story of the 'Star Wars' Trilogy (2004); Entertainment Tonight (1998–2023); Entertainment Tonight Presents: Laverne and Shirley Together Again (2002); Entertainment Tonight Presents: TV's Greatest Scandals (2000); Father of the Bride (1991); Father of the Bride Part II (1995); For Goodness Sake (1993); For Your Love (2000–2002); From Dollars to Donuts: An Undressing of the First Nudie Musical (2002); Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. (1970); Gene Kelly: An American in Pasadena (1978); General Electric's All-Star Anniversary (1978); Getting By (1993–1994); Getting Together (1971); Girlfriends (2004–2005); Girls Across the Lake (1997); Good Morning America (2012 / 2023); Great Women of Television Comedy (2003); Happy Birthday, Bugs!: 50 Looney Years (1990); Happy Birthday, Las Vegas (1977); Happy Days (1975–1979); Happy Days Reunion Special (1992); Happy Days: 30th Anniversary Reunion (2005); Hawaii Five-O (1974); History of the Sitcom (2021); Hollywood Bloopers Uncensored (1990); Hollywood Squares (1999); Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers (1985); Home & Family (2015); Hope & Gloria (1996); Inside Edition (2015); Insight (1975); Intimate Portrait (2001–2003); Joanna (1985); Just Like Family (1989); Kathie Lee Gifford's Celebration of Motherhood (1993); Laugh? I Thought I'd Die! (1999); Laugh-In (1977–1978); Laverne & Shirley (1976–1982); Laverne & Shirley in the Army (1981–1982); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2004); Less Than Perfect (2002); Life's Most Embarrassing Moments (1983); Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1994); Lost Heart (2020); Love (2015); Love, American Style / Segments: Love and the Time Machine; Love and the Face Bow (1973); Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1976); Magic with the Stars (1982); Magico David (1992); Meet Wally Sparks (1997); Menu for Murder (1990); More American Graffiti (1979); Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour (1982); Morning Joe (2023–2024); Mr. Ricco (1975); Music Box (2021); My World and Welcome to It (1970); Nanny and the Professor (1971); NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (2023); Night Stand (1995); Normal Life (1990); Omnibus (1980); One on One with John Tesh (1992); Oops! The World's Funniest Outtakes 3 (1996); Pac Preview Party (1982); Parenting & Beyond (1995); Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen (1990); Pet Star (2003); Peter at the End (2012); Petrocelli (1976); Police Story (1975); Richard Rossi Live (1991); Room 222 (1969–1971); Rude Awakening (1989); Ruminations (2018); Sam & Cat (2013); Sami (2023); Saturday Night Live (1977); Save the Dog! (1988); ShirleyMania (2002); Shorty McShorts' Shorts (2007); Show Biz Bloopers (1991); Sitcom: The Adventures of Garry Marshall (1979); Sois belle et tais-toi! (1981); Son of the Beach (2001); Star Wars Screen Test - Cindy Williams (1977); Stealing Roses (2012); Steel Magnolias (1990); Still Waiting in the Wings (2018); Strawberry Summer (2012); Strip Mall (2000–2001); Suddenly, Love (1978); Surge of Power: Big City Chronicles (2019); TCM Remembers 2023 (2023); The 19th Annual Publicists Guild of America Awards (1982); The 24th Annual TV Week Logie Awards (1982); The 28th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1976); The 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2023); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The 34th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1977); The 35th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1978); The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1980); The 3rd Annual People's Choice Awards (1977); The 5th Annual TV Land Awards (2007); The 6th Annual American Cinema Awards (1989); The 6th Annual American Comedy Awards (1992); The 6th Annual TV Land Awards (2008); The Andy Kaufman Show (1983); The Biggest Fan (2005); The Billy Crystal Comedy Hour (1982); The Brothers Garcia (2001–2002); The Cindy Williams Comedy Special (1994); The Conversation (1974); The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981); The Factor (2008); The First Nudie Musical (1976); The Funny Side (1971); The Happiest Man Alive (2010); The Happy Days of Garry Marshall (2020); The Hollywood Moment at Home Edition (2020); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2013); The Joy of Natural Childbirth (1985); The Killing Kind (1973); The Laverne & Shirley Reunion (1995); The Legend of William Tell (2006); The Magic of ABC (1977); The Magic of David Copperfield (1978); The Magic of David Copperfield III: Levitating Ferrari (1980); The Magic School Bus (1995); The Magical World of Disney (1986); The Making of 'American Graffiti' (1998); The Matthew Aaron Show Podcast (2011); The Merv Griffin Show (1974); The Migrants (1974); The Mike Douglas Show (1976–1980); The Odd Couple (2016); The Pack Podcast (2020); The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights (1999); The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1999); The Rosie Show (2012); The Seventies (2015); The Stepford Husbands (1996); The Talk (2015); The Test (2001); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1974–1979); The Weekend in Vegas (2016); Then Again with Herbie J Pilato (2019); Today (2004–2023); Touched by an Angel (1996); Travels with My Aunt (1972); Tricks of the Trade (1988); TV Land Awards: A Celebration of Classic TV (2003); TVography: Laverne & Shirley (2001); TV's Greatest Sidekicks (2004); UFOria (1984); Unexplained Mysteries / Segment: The Craft of Healing (2004); VH-1 Behind the Movie (2002); VH-1 Where Are They Now? (2002); Walt Disney World 4th of July Spectacular (1988); Weakest Link (2001); Whatever Happened To? (2008); When Dreams Come True (1985); Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2001 / 2018).

On this day in movie history - Kiss of Death (1947):

Kiss of Death

directed by Henry Hathaway,

written by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer,

based on a story by Eleazar Lipsky,

was released in the United States on August 13, 1947.
Music by David Buttolph.

Cast:

Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Taylor Holmes, Howard Smith, Karl Malden, Robert Adler, Rollin Bauer, Harry Bellaver, Dennis Bohan, Nina Borget, Susan Cabot, Alexander Campbell, Harry Carter, Dort Clark, Eva Condon, Harry Cooke, Harold Crane, Frank DeKova, James Doody, Mildred Dunnock, Arthur Foran Jr., David Fresco, Harold Gary, Don Giovanni, Marilee Grassini, James Charles Heard, Eda Heinemann, Lou Herbert, Herbert Holcombe, Arthur Holland, Harry Kadison, Robert Karnes, Ronald King, Arthur Kramer, John Kullers, Harry Landers, Perc Launders, Franklyn Lenthall, Paul Lilly, Pat Malone, Iris Mann, John Marley, Gregg Martell, Charles McClelland, Norman McKay, Richard Midgley, Carl Milletaire, Millard Mitchell, Mary Morrison, Consuela O'Connor, Gloria O'Connor, William O'Leary, Wendell K. Phillips, Yvonne Rob, Stephen Roberts, Anthony Ross, Mel Ruick, Jack Rutherford, Lee Sanford, Bernard Sell, George Shelton, Irene Shirley, J. Scott Smart, A. George Smith, John Stearns, Richard Taber, Victor Thorley, Lawrence Tiernan, Tito Vuolo, Milton Wallace, Jesse White, Bill Zuckert.

Recommended reading - In a Lonely Place (1947):

In a Lonely Place

By Dorothy B. Hughes.

Published by NYRB Classics.

Published 1947.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1681371472

ISBN-13: 978-1681371474

Description:

“In a Lonely Place blasted my mind open to new ways of reading.” – Sarah Weinman, Los Angeles Review of Books.

Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele.  To his mind nothing has come close to matching “that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky.” He prowls the foggy city night – bus stops and stretches of darkened beaches and movie houses just emptying out – seeking solitary young women. His funds are running out and his frustrations are growing. Where is the good life he was promised? Why does he always get a raw deal? Then he hooks up with his old Air Corps buddy Brub, now working for the LAPD, who just happens to be on the trail of the strangler who’s been terrorizing the women of the city for months...

Written with controlled elegance, Dorothy B. Hughes’s tense novel is at once an early indictment of a truly toxic masculinity and a twisty page-turner with a surprisingly feminist resolution. A classic of golden age noir, In a Lonely Place also inspired Nicholas Ray’s 1950 film of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart.

“Crime was never Hughes’s interest, evil was, and to be evil, for her, is to be intolerant of others... With her poetic powers of description, she makes that evil a sickness in the mind and a landscape to be surveyed.” – Christine Smallwood, The New Yorker’s Page-Turner Blog.

“A tour de force laying open the mind and motives of a killer with extraordinary empathy. The structure is flawless, and the scenes of postwar LA have an immediacy that puts Chandler to shame. No wonder Hughes is the master we keep turning to.” – Sara Paretsky.

Born on this day – Stuart Gordon:

Stuart Gordon

Director

Writer

August 11, 1947 – March 24, 2020

Born on this day – Dick Pope:

Dick Pope

Cinematographer

August 3, 1947 – October 21, 2024

Credits:

13 Conversations About One Thing (2001); A Bigger Splash (1973); A Flock of Seagulls in A Flock of Seagulls: I Ran (So Far Away) (1982); A Promise of Bed (1969); A Running Jump (2012); A Sense of History (1992); AC/DC: Live at Donington (1992); AC/DC: No Bull (1996); Africa (1984); Alan Bush: A Life (1983); Alison Moyet: Invisible (Version 1) (1984); All or Nothing (2002); An Awfully Big Adventure (1995); Angelica (2015); Angels & Atom Bombs: The Making of the Reflecting Skin (2015); Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008); Another Year (2010); Behind the Wheel of Happy-Go-Lucky (2009); Bernie (2011); Blue Suede Shoes (1980); Bringing Balanchine Back (2006); Career Girls (1997); Coming Up Roses (1986); Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style (1983); Creating a Classic: The Making of 'Nicholas Nickleby' (2003); Cuban Fury (2014); Cutting Edge (1993); Dark City (1990); Disappearing World (1974); Erasure: Chorus (1991); Erasure: Ship of Fools (1988); Fallen Hero (1978); Fine Young Cannibals: Suspicious Minds (1985); Fool's Gold: The Story of the Brink's-Mat Robbery (1993); Forever Green (1989); Forty Minutes (1985); Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender (1987); Freddie Mercury: Time (1986); Friday Night Shirt (2005); Fun Boy Three: The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum (1981); Great Performances (1998); Happy-Go-Lucky (2008); Happy-Go-Lucky: B-Roll (2008); Hard Truths (2024); Honeydripper (2007); Imagine (2014); Inseminoid (1981); Intercom (2008); INXS: Live Baby Live (1991); Iron Maiden: Women in Uniform (1980); It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010); Just for Today (1980); Kylie Minogue: Never Too Late (1989); Kylie Minogue: Wouldn't Change a Thing (1989); La danse (2009); Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001); Legend (2015); Life Is Sweet (1990); Lisa Stansfield: What Did I Do to You? (1990); Loving Feeling (1968); Mad in the Making: Little Scenes and Outtakes Around a Mad Video (1991); Madness: It Must Be Love (1981); Madness: Sweetest Girl (1986); Man of the Year (2006); Me and Orson Welles (2008); Motherless Brooklyn (2019); Mountain Dew Kickstart Super Bowl Commercial: Puppymonkeybaby (2016); Mountains of the Moon (1990); Movin' On (1993); Mr. Turner (2014); Mr. Turner: The Many Colours of Mr. Turner (2014); Naked (1993); Never Mind (1995); Nicholas Nickleby (2002); Nineteen Eighty-Four / aka 1984 (1984); Nothing Personal (1995); Peter Gabriel's Secret World (1994); Peterloo (2018); Phantoms (1998); Pleasure (1994); Porterhouse Blue (1987); Punk and Its Aftershocks (1980); Queen: Champions of the World (1995); Queen: I Want to Break Free (1984); Queen: I'm Going Slightly Mad (1991); Queen: No-One But You (Only the Good Die Young) (1998); Queen: These Are the Days of Our Lives (1991); Rick Astley: Cry for Help (1991); Rick Astley: Hold Me in Your Arms (1989); Rude Boy (1980); Screen Two (1996); Secrets & Lies (1996); Side by Side (2012); Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Love Missile F1-11 (1986); Six Days in Romandie (1983); Soft Cell: Sex Dwarf (Version 1) (1982); Soweto (1991); Supernova (2020); Supertramp: Live in Paris '79 (2012); Swept from the Sea (1997); TCM Remembers 2024 (2024); Team Deakins (2020); The Air Up There (1994); The Blackheath Poisonings (1992); The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019); The Christians (1977); The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005); The Cure in Orange (1987); The Debt Collector (1999); The Fruit Machine (1988); The Girl in the Picture (1985); The Great Kandinsky (1995); The Illusionist (2006); The London Weekend Show (1977 / 1978); The Mike Leigh Method (2011); The Oscars (2015); The Outfit (2022); The Planets (1985); The Pros (2015); The Reflecting Skin (1990); The Secret Garden (1993); The Shattered Dream: Employment in the Eighties (1981); The South Bank Show (1985); The Specials: Ghost Town (1981); The Swappers (1970); The Unlucky Australians (1973); The Way of the Gun (2000); The Women's Olamal: The Organization of a Maasai Fertility Ceremony (1984); The X Files (1998); Thin Ice (2011); Tina Turner: Private Dancer (1985); Topsy-Turvy (1999); Toyah: I Want to Be Free (1981); Urgh! A Music War (1981); Vera Drake (2004); Vera Drake: Cast and Crew Documentary (2005); Walking Away (2007); What's Good for the Goose (1969); Whoops Apocalypse (1982); Willie and the Poor Boys (1985); Women in Rock (1980); World in Action (1975–1978); Worlds Apart (1982); Yes, Honestly (1976); Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction: Prime Mover (1988).

Born on this day – Alexandra Hay:

Alexandra Hay

Actress

July 24, 1947 – October 11, 1993

Credits:

Another Time, Another Place (1989); Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied (1978); The One Man Jury (1978); That Girl from Boston (1975); Police Story (1975); The Streets of San Francisco (1974); How Come Nobody's on Our Side? (1974); The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974); The Manhunter (1974); Kojak (1974); How to Seduce a Woman (1974); Thriller (1973); The Screaming Woman (1972); The Virginia Graham Show (1972); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); 1,000 Convicts and a Woman (1971); The Love Machine (1971); Dan August (1970); Love, American Style / Love and Mr. Nice Guy (1970); The Joan Rivers Show (1970); The Steve Allen Show (1969); The Greatest Mother of Them All (1969); Mission: Impossible (1969); CBS Playhouse (1969); Model Shop (1969); The Dating Game (1969); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969); The 25th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1968); Skidoo (1968); How Sweet It Is! (1968); Star Spangled Salesman (1968); The Ambushers (1967); Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967); The Monkees (1967); The Joey Bishop Show (1967).

Born on this day – Robert Lieberman:

Robert Lieberman

Director

July 16, 1947 – July 1, 2023

Born on this day – Richard Lewis:

Richard Lewis

Actor

Writer

Comedian

June 29, 1947 – February 27, 2024

Credits:

100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time (2004); 1989 MTV Video Music Awards (1989); 1990 MTV Video Music Awards (1990); 25 Things You Didn't Know About Curb Your Enthusiasm (2010); 5th Annual Prism Awards (2001); 7th Heaven (2002–2004); A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman (1995); A Weekend in the Country (1996); AFI Life Achievement Award (2013); Alan King: Inside the Comedy Mind (1990); Alias (2003); All About Anything But Love (2007); American Bandstand's 40th Anniversary Special (1992); American Masters (1996–2013); An All-Star Toast to the Improv (1988); An American Saturday Night (1991); An Evening at the Improv (1981); Anything But Love (1989–1992); BelzerVizion (2007); Biography (1995–2012); Blunt Talk (2015); BoJack Horseman (2018); Bucky and the Squirrels (2015); CBS Summer Playhouse (1987); Celebrity Profile (1998); Charlie Rose (2015); Christmas Magic (2019); Code Black (2016); Comedy Club Superstars (1996); Comic Relief '87 (1987); Comic Relief III (1989); Comic Relief IV (1990); Comic Relief V (1992); Comic Relief VII (1995); Confessions of an Action Star (2005); Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000–2024); Curb: The Discussion (2010); Daddy Dearest (1993); Dennis Miller Live (1995); Diary of a Young Comic (1979); Dinner for Five (2003–2004); Dom Irrera Live (2013); Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (1997); Drunks (1995); E! True Hollywood Story (2002–2005); Emily @ the Edge of Chaos (2021); Everybody Hates Chris (2006); Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man (2012); Free to Laugh: A Comedy and Music Special for Amnesty International (1992); Funny or Die Presents... (2010); Game Day (1999); Gangsta Waitress (2014); George Burns' 95th Birthday Party (1991); George Lopez (2005); Get Serious (1995); Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast (2017); Golden Globe Awards (1992); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1997); Harry (1987); HBO Comedy Hour (1987); Hercules (1999); Heroes of Jewish Comedy (2003); History of Curb Your Enthusiasm: Even Further (2006); History of Curb Your Enthusiasm: So Far (2006); Hollywood Squares (2000–2002); House Calls (1981); House of a Lifetime: Richard Lewis (2014); Howard Stern in Howard Stern (1994–2001); Howard Stern on Demand (2006–2008); Hugo Pool (1997); Inside Comedy (2014); A.J.'s Time Travelers (1995); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2017); John & Leeza from Hollywood (1993); Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm (1999); Las Vegas (2005); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1995–2008); Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993); Late Night with David Letterman: 6th Anniversary Special (1988); Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2012); Late Night with Seth Meyers (2015); Late Show with David Letterman (1993–2008); Later with Bob Costas (1989); Laughing Out Loud: America's Funniest Comedians (2001); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2008); Leaving Las Vegas (1995); Lewis on Film: The Oscar Edition (2011); Limp Bizkit: Break Stuff (2000); Live with Kelly and Mark (1992–1999); Looking for Lenny (2011); Mad TV (2000); Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (2009); Mantle (2005); Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis (2011); Mike & Mike (2015); Misery Loves Comedy (2015); Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007); Mtv Spring Break '86 (1986); Never Not Funny (2006); Once Upon a Crime... (1992); PlanetE! Entertainment Network (2017); Politically Incorrect (1997); Pound Puppies (2011); Presidio Med (2002); Richard Lewis & Keven Nealons Top 10 Picks (1997); Richard Lewis: I'm Doomed (1990); Richard Lewis: I'm Doomed (1990); Richard Lewis: The Magical Misery Tour (1996); Riptide (1986); Robert Klein Still Can't Stop His Leg (2016); Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993); Rock Concert (1975–1976); Rude Awakening (1997–1998); Sandy Wexler (2017); Showbiz Today (1994); Snickers Commercial (2014); Sunset Strip (2012); Tales from the Crypt (1994); Tattinger's (1988); TCM Guest Programmer (2009); Temporary Insanity (1985); That's Adequate (1989); The 10th Annual National CableACE Awards (1989); The 12th Annual CableACE Awards (1991); The 13th Annual CableACE Awards (1992); The 14th Annual Young Comedians Special (1991); The 416th (1979); The 41st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1989); The 42nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1990); The 43rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1991); The 44th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1992); The 6th Annual Young Comedians (1981); The Alan Hamel Show (1978); The A-List (1992); The Aristocrats (2005); The Beat with Ari Melber (2017); The Best Damn Sports Show Period (2004); The Cleaner (2009); The Comedians' Comedian (2005); The Comedy Store (2020); The Daily Buzz (2005); The Daily Show (1996–2015); The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story (1992); The Dead Zone (2004); The Dick Cavett Show (1990); The Drug Years (2006); The Elevator (1996); The First Annual Comedy Hall of Fame (1993); The Great Buster (2018); The Green Room with Paul Provenza (2011); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1978); The Howard Stern Interview (1993); The Howard Stern Radio Show (2001); The Howard Stern Show (1992); The I'm Exhausted Concert (1988); The Improv: 50 Years Behind the Brick Wall (2013); The Larry Sanders Show (1993); The Last Party (1993); The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2008–2011); The Maze (1997); The Merv Griffin Show (1977); The Mike Douglas Show (1975); The Morning Program (1987); The New Hollywood Squares (1986–1987); The One, the Only... Groucho (1991); The Richard Lewis 'I'm in Pain' Concert (1985); The Roseanne Show (1998); The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996); The Simpsons (2006); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1974–1992); The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1993–2001); The View (2005–2013); The World of Jewish Humor (1990); The World's Greatest Comedy Characters (2007); The Wrong Guys (1988); 'Til Death (2009–2010); Today (1979); Tribeca (1993); Two and a Half Men (2004); Unite for Japan (2011); V.I.P. (1999); Vamps (2012); Wagons East (1994); WGN Morning News (2017–2018); What About... with Danny Nucci & Jason M. Burns (2023); When Stand-Up Comics Ruled the World (2004); WTF with Marc Maron (2011–2015).

Books:

The Other Great Depression (2000); Reflections From Hell: Richard Lewis' Guide on How Not to Live (2015).

Born on this day – Mark Withers:

Mark Withers

Actor

June 25, 1947 – November 22, 2024

Credits:

A Final Gift (2012); Alex: The Life of a Child (1986); Basic Training (1985); Best of the West (1981); Bolden (2019); California Fever (1979); Castle (2013); Citizen X (2002); Criminal Minds (2011); Dallas (1987); Days of Our Lives (1986–1987); Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981); Divorce Court (1986); Drop Dead Diva (2013); Dynasty (1981); Dynasty Reunion: Catfights & Caviar (2006); Frasier (2001); Hart to Hart (1982); Her Life as a Man (1984); Hill Street Blues (1986); Hollywood and Beyond with Steven Brittingham (2018); Hotel (1986); How the West Was Won (1978); Hunter (1986); In Development (2013); It's Your Move (1985); Kaz (1978–1979); L.A. Law (1987); Magnum, P.I. (1982); Matlock (1989); McNamara's Band (1977); Reckless (2014); Remington Steele (1985); Ruby & Martin (2012); Santa Barbara (1985); Sense8 (2017–2018); She Spies (2003); Something About Amelia (1984); Southern Man (1998); Stranger Things (2016); The Creatress (2019); The Dukes of Hazzard (1982); The Greatest American Hero (1981); The Hugga Bunch (1985); The King of Queens (2002); The New Gidget (1987); The Phoenix Incident (2015); The Ultimate Life (2013); The Wizard (1987); Trapper John, M.D. (1979–1981); Trauma Center (1983); True Blood (2013); Turn Around Jake (2014); Wild and Wooly (1978); Wonder Woman (1978); Work from Home (2014).

Born on this day – Octavia E. Butler:

Octavia E. Butler

Writer

June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006

Credits:

Books:

A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2000); A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay (2024); Adulthood Rites (1988); After the Rain (2021); Black Panther: Long Live the King (2018); Bloodchild (1984); Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995); Chrysalis 4 (1979); Clay's Ark (1984); Comic Arts Against Erasure (2022); Crucified Dreams (2011); Dawn (1987); Fledgling (2005); Imago (1989); Invaders! (1993); Kindred (1979 / 2017); Marvel-Verse: Shuri (2022); Mind of My Mind (1977); Nebula Awards 35 (2001); Parable of the Sower (1993 / 2020); Parable of the Talents (1998); Patternmaster (1976); Shuri, Vol. 2 (2019); Shuri: Wakanda Forever (2020); Sisters of the Revolution (2015); Survivor (1978); The Hole (2008); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (1985); Unexpected Stories (2014); Wakanda Forever (2018); Wild Seed (1980).

Movies and television:

Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon (1993); Charlie Rose (2000); Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004); Closer to Truth (2000); Kindred (2022); Masters of Fantasy (1998); Science Future Science Fiction (2002); See It Loud: The History of Black Television (2023); Self-Potrait (2022); The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows (1999); The Last Angel of History (1996); The Space Race (2023).

Born on this day – Albert Innaurato:

Albert Innaurato

Writer

Director

June 2, 1947 – September 24, 2017

Credits:

Gemini (1982); Great Performances (1978); Happy Birthday, Gemini (1980); SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (1997); The 72nd Annual Tony Awards (2018); he Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1989–1990); Trying Times (1989); Verna: USO Girl (1978).

Born on this day – Chris Moore:

Chris Moore

Illustrator

June 1, 1947 – February 7, 2025

Credits:

Books:

Dream Makers (1988); Journeyman: The Art of Chris Moore (2000); Parallel Lines (1980).

On this day in movie history - Framed (1947):

Framed

directed by Richard Wallace,

written by Ben Maddow,

based on a story by John Patrick,

was released in the United States on May 25, 1947.
Music by Marlin Skiles.

Cast:

Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Karen Morley, Jim Bannon, Stanley Andrews, Walter Baldwin, Jack Baxley, Eugene Borden, Al Bridge, Paul E. Burns, Charles Cane, David Fresco, Nacho Galindo, Martin Garralaga, Fred Graff, Robert Kellard, Philip Kieffer, Kenneth MacDonald, Cy Malis, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Gene Roth, Mabel Smaney, Art Smith, Harry Strang, William Stubbs, Sid Tomack, Michael Towne, Lillian Wells, Cecil Weston, Crane Whitley, Mel Wixon, Barbara Wooddell.

Recommended reading - In a Lonely Place, by Dorothy B. Hughes (1947):

In a Lonely Place

By Dorothy B. Hughes.

Filmed as In a Lonely Place (1950), directed by Nicholas Ray.

Published by NYRB Classics.

First published 1947.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1681371472

ISBN-13: 978-1681371474

Description:

Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching “that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky.” He prowls the foggy city night – bus stops and stretches of darkened beaches and movie houses just emptying out – seeking solitary young women. His funds are running out and his frustrations are growing. Where is the good life he was promised? Why does he always get a raw deal? Then he hooks up with his old Air Corps buddy Brub, now working for the LAPD, who just happens to be on the trail of the strangler who’s been terrorizing the women of the city for months...

Written with controlled elegance, Dorothy B. Hughes’s tense novel is at once an early indictment of a truly toxic masculinity and a twisty page-turner with a surprisingly feminist resolution. A classic of golden age noir, In a Lonely Place also inspired Nicholas Ray’s 1950 film of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart.

Born on this day – Anne Wiazemsky:

Anne Wiazemsky

Actress

Writer

May 14, 1947 – October 5, 2017

Credits:

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On this day in movie history - Born to Kill (1947):

Born to Kill

aka Lady of Deceit and Deadlier Than the Male,

directed by Robert Wise,

written by Eve Greene and Richard Macaulay,

based on the novel Deadlier Than the Male by James Gunn,

was released in the United States on May 3, 1947.
Music by Paul Sawtell.

Cast:

Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak, Phillip Terry, Audrey Long, Elisha Cook Jr., Isabel Jewell, Esther Howard, Kathryn Card, Tony Barrett, Grandon Rhodes, Demetrius Alexis, Symona Boniface, Ruth Brennan, George Bruggeman, James Carlisle, Ellen Corby, Sayre Dearing, Joe Dixon, Neal Dodd, Jean Fenwick, George Ford, Lee Frederick, Ben Frommer, Harry Harvey, Martha Hyer, Perc Launders, Sam Lufkin, Wilbur Mack, Beatrice Maude, Russell Meeker, Al Murphy, Tommy Noonan, Netta Packer, Jason Robards Sr., Romeo (the dog), Paul Russell, Scott Seaton, Sammy Shack, Stanley Stone, Phil Warren, Napoleon Whiting.