On this day in movie history - Criss Cross (1949):

Criss Cross

directed by Robert Siodmak,

written by Daniel Fuchs,

based on the novel by Don Tracy,

was released in the United States on January 19, 1949.
Music by Miklós Rózsa.

Cast:

Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Esy Morales, Tom Pedi, Percy Helton, Alan Napier, Griff Barnett, Meg Randall, Richard Long, Joan Miller, Edna Holland, John Doucette, Marc Krah, James O'Rear, John 'Skins' Miller, Jean Bane, Ralph Brooks, Dolores Castle, Michael Cisney, Corky (the Dog), Tony Curtis, Gene Evans, Sam Finn, Lee Tong Foo, Timmy Hawkins, Geraldine Jordan, George Lynn, Robert Osterloh, Garry Owen, Kenneth Patterson, Jose Portugal, Isabel Randolph, Suzanne Ridgway, Beatrice Roberts, Stephen Roberts, John Roy, Vito Scotti, Ann Staunton, Diane Stewart, Kippee Valez, Charles Wagenheim, Robert Winkler, Bud Wolfe.

Born on this day – Robert Palmer:

Robert Palmer

Singer

Songwriter

Musician

Producer

January 19, 1949 – September 26, 2003

Born on this day – Andy Kaufman:

Andy Kaufman

Actor

Comedian

January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984

On this day in movie history - Side Street (1949):

Side Street

directed by Anthony Mann,

written by Sydney Boehm,

was released in the United States on December 14, 1949.
Music by Lennie Hayton.

Cast:

Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig, Paul Kelly, Jean Hagen, Paul Harvey, Edmon Ryan, Charles McGraw, Edwin Max, Adele Jergens, Harry Bellaver, Whit Bissell, John Gallaudet, Esther Somers, Harry Antrim, Ben Cooper, King Donovan, David Bauer, Anthony Dexter, Herb Vigran.

Born on this day – Pamela Blair:

Pamela Blair

Actress

December 5, 1949 – July 23, 2023

Credits:

21 Grams (2003); 42nd Street: The Musical (2019); All My Children (1985–1992); Angelo (1999); Annie (1982); Another World (1994); Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996); Before and After (1996); Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021); Donahue (1990); Family Feud (1985); Great Performances (1971); Law & Order (1994); Loving (1983–1985); Maneater (2009); Me and Veronica (1992); Mighty Aphrodite (1995); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Ryan's Hope (1980); Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1998); Svengali (1983); The Cosby Mysteries (1994); The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1989); The Last Dance (2000); Tomorrow Morning (2022).

On this day in movie history - Undertow (1949):

Undertow

directed by William Castle,

written by Arthur T. Horman and Lee Loeb,

based on a story by Arthur T. Horman,

was released in the United States on December 3, 1949.
Music by Milton Schwarzwald.

Cast:

Scott Brady, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Peggy Dow, Bruce Bennett, Gregg Martell, Robert Anderson, Dan Ferniel, Rock Hudson, Charles Sherlock, Anne P. Kramer, Robert Easton.

Born on this day – Heather Menzies:

Heather Menzies

Actress

December 3, 1949 – December 24, 2017

Born on this day – Margaret Whitton:

Margaret Whitton

Actress

November 30, 1949 – December 4, 2016

On this day in movie history - Port of New York (1949):

Port of New York

directed by László Benedek,

written by Eugene Ling and Leo Townsend,

based on a story by Arthur A. Ross and Bert Murray,

was released in the United States on November 28, 1949.
Narrated by Chet Huntley.
Music by Sol Kaplan.

Cast:

Scott Brady, Richard Rober, K.T. Stevens, Yul Brynner, Arthur Blake, Lynne Carter, John Kellogg, William Challee, Neville Brand, Barry Brooks, Harry Brown, George M. Carleton, Stephen Chase, Steve Crandall, Sayre Dearing, Ann Doran, Frank Fenton, Fred Graham, Raymond Greenleaf, Chuck Hamilton, Patricia Hawkins, Joe Haworth, Chet Huntley, Stan Johnson, Doyle Manor, Joe Mantell, Jean McBride, Mickey McCardle, James Nolan, Tudor Owen, John Parris, Steve Pendleton, David Perry, Alexander Pope, Gordon Richards, Henry Rowland, Glenn Thompson, Larry Thompson, Harlan Warde.

On this day in movie history - Tension (1949):

Tension

directed by John Berry,

written by Allen Rivkin,

based on a story by John D. Klorer,

was released in the United States on November 25, 1949.
Music by André Previn.

Cast:

Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Gough, Tom D'Andrea, William Conrad, Tito Renaldo, Ray Bennett, Virginia Brissac, Peter Brocco, Bert Davidson, John Gallaudet, Theresa Harris, John Indrisano, George Magrill, Kitty McHugh, Mike Morelli, Stephen Roberts, Carl Sklover, Hayward Soo Hoo, Arthur Tovey, Philip Van Zandt.

Born on this day – Brad Davis:

Brad Davis

Actor

November 6, 1949 – September 8, 1991

Credits:

A Rumor of War (1980); A Small Circle of Friends (1980); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985); American Playwrights Theater: The One-Acts (1989); And the Band Played On (1993); Baretta (1977); BBC2 Playhouse (1981); Blood Ties (1986); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Chariots of Fire (1981); Chiefs (1983); Child of Darkness, Child of Light (1991); Cold Steel (1987); Commitment to Life (2023); Eat My Dust (1976); Film '81 (1981); Hangfire (1991); Heart (1987); How to Survive a Marriage (1974–1975); I'm Healthy, I'm Alive and I'm Free (1977); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1978); McLaren's Riders (1977); Midnight Express (1978); Midnight Express: The Finished Film (2008); Midnight Express: The Producers (2009); Midnight Express: The Production (2008); Our Time (1983); Querelle (1982); Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985); Roots (1977); Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989); Sexes (2005); Sybil (1976); Temporada de Caça (1988); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The 3rd Annual People's Choice Awards (1977); The American Parade (1976); The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988); The Edge (1989); The Greatest Man in the World (1980); The Habitation of Dragons (1992); The Hitchhiker (1987); The Player (1992); The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990); The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy (1988); The Secret Life of John Chapman (1976); The Twilight Zone / Segment: Button, Button (1986); The Wizard of Babylon (1982); The Young Rebels (1970); Unspeakable Acts (1990); Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo (1986); What Really Happened to the Class of '65? (1978); When the Time Comes (1987).

Recommend reading - Detective Story (1949):

Detective Story

A play in three acts

By Sidney Kingsley.

First published 1949.

Published by Legare Street Press.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1022892851

ISBN-13: 978-1022892859

Description:

Sidney Kingsley's classic play, first performed on Broadway in 1949, is a gripping and intense drama that explores the seedy underbelly of crime and punishment in New York City. The play's intricate plot, complex characters, and dark themes make it a timeless classic of American theater.

The scene is the squad room and office in a New York police station. The playwright presents a fascinatingly realistic picture of routine cases brought into a metropolitan police station in the course of a day. Out of the welter of human misery, vice and stupidity there emerges the tragic and moving case of a decent young fellow who has stolen money from his employer. Though a woman who is in love with him comes to his help and the employer is offered everything that has been taken from him, the case has fallen into the hands of McLeod, a hardworking detective whose experience in police work has developed in him a mania for punishing all law breakers, whom he regards as incorrigibles. Nothing will satisfy him but brutal punishment. He is at work at the same time on a case involving an abortionist whose attorney, failing to move him by other means, forces McLeod's wife to confess to her husband that she had herself some years before made use of the services of the abortionist in question. Since McLeod worships his wife and finds in her the only happiness of his existence, his world collapses about him. The climax comes when McLeod gets involved with another prisoner who attempts to escape from the squad room with the aid of a revolver taken from one of the detectives. McLeod is shot and killed. This climax is a fitting end to McLeod's career. To the last, he had been bent upon doing what he considered his duty in seeing that criminals obeyed the letter of the law at no matter what cost."

Born on this day – Tanya Roberts:

Tanya Roberts

Actress

October 15, 1949 – January 4, 2021

Credits:

27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2021); 68th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (1999); A View to a Kill (1985); A View to a Kill: Deleted Scenes with Introductions by John Glen (2006); A View to a Kill: Featurette (1985); A View to a Kill: Film '85 BBC Report (1985); A View to a Kill: The Royal Premiere (1985); Almost Pregnant (1992); Barbershop (2005); Biography (2000); Body Slam (1986); Bond Exhibit (2008); Burke's Law (1994); California Dreaming (1979); Charlie's Angels (1980–1981); Charlie's Angels: TV Tales (2002); Deep Down (1994); Designing Bond: Peter Lamont (2000); E! True Hollywood Story (2002–2006); Entertainment Tonight Presents: Charlie's Angels – Uncovered (1999); Eve (2005); Evening (1983); Eye on L.A. (1985); Famous Homes & Hideaways (2000); Fantasy Island (1982); Favorite Deadly Sins (1995); Fillmore! (2003); Fingers (1978); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1979); Happy Hour (1999); Hearts and Armour (1983); High Tide (1997); Hollywood '84 (1984); Hollywood Squares (2001–2004); Hot Line (1994–1996); Hour Magazine (1981); I Can't Believe I Wore That (2005); Inner Sanctum (1991); Inside 'A View to a Kill' (2000); Inside TV Land (2000); Investigating Tarzan (1997); James Bond 007 at the Movies (1986); James Bond: Licence to Thrill (1987); Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1994); Legal Tender (1991); Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) / Britain's Favourite Detectives (2014); Murder Me, Murder You (1983); Na sowas! (1985); Night Eyes (1990); Off Centre (2002); Pajama Party (2000); Pleasure Cove (1979); Politically Incorrect (2001); Purgatory (1988); Racquet (1979); Sheena (1984); Silk Stalkings (1995); Sins of Desire (1993); TCM Remembers 2021 (2021); That '70s Show (1998–2004); The Alan Thicke Show (1981–1982); The Angry Beavers (1998); The Beastmaster (1982); The Beastmaster Chronicles (2020); The Blues Brothers Animated Series (1997); The Geraldo Rivera Show (1992); The Insider (2013); The John Davidson Show (1981); The Last Victim (1976); The List (2000); The Love Boat (1982); The Martin Short Show (1999); The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (2000); The Merv Griffin Show (1985); The Mike Douglas Show (1980); The Pandora Directive (1996); The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977); The Saga of 'the Beastmaster' (2005); The Test (2001); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1981–1982); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2008); The Yum Yum Girls (1976); Time & Again (2000); Tourist Trap (1979); TV Land Confidential (2007); Twisted Justice (1990); UnConventional (2004); Vega$ (1980); Waikiki (1980); Zuma Beach (1978).

Born on this day – Marie Laforêt:

Marie Laforêt

Actress

Singer

October 5, 1949 – November 2, 2019

Born on this day – Paul D'Amato:

Paul D'Amato

Actor

October 2, 1949 – February 19, 2024

Credits:

The Unusuals (2009); Light and the Sufferer (2007); The Living Wake (2007); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2005); Law & Order (1993–2002); The Opportunists (1999); Men Under Water (1998); Six Ways to Sunday (1997); Destination Anywhere (1997); Crimson Lights (1994); Dangerous Affairs (1993); American Playhouse (1988); Suspect (1987); A Case of Deadly Force (1986); F/X (1986); Murder Ink (1983); Heaven's Gate (1980); Firepower (1979); The Deer Hunter (1978); Heaven Can Wait (1978); The Six Million Dollar Man (1977); The Deadliest Season (1977); Slap Shot (1977); Code R (1977); Magnum Force (1973).

Stage play:

Requiem for a Heavyweight (1996).

On this day in movie history - Trapped (1949):

Trapped

directed by Richard Fleischer,

written by Earl Felton and George Zuckerman,

was released in the United States on October 1, 1949.

Narrated by William Woodson.

Music by Sol Kaplan.

Cast:

Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, James Todd, Russ Conway, Robert Karnes, Douglas Spencer, Lyle Latell.

On this day in movie history - Thieves’ Highway (1949):

Thieves’ Highway

directed by Jules Dassin,

written by A. I. Bezzerides,

based on the novel Thieves’ Market by A. I. Bezzerides,

was released in the United States on September 20, 1949.
Music by Alfred Newman and Cyril J. Mockridge.

Cast:

Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie, Millard Mitchell, Joseph Pevney, Morris Carnovsky, Tamara Shayne, Kasia Orzazewski, Norbert Schiller, Hope Emerson, Walter Baldwin, Robert Bice, Howland Chamberlain, David Clarke, Roy Damron, Jules Dassin, Al Eben, Robert Foulk, Joe Haworth, Percy Helton, Ted Jordan, Frank Kreig, Saul Martell, Edwin Max, John Merton, Ann Morrison, James Nolan, David Opatoshu, Frank Richards, Maurice Samuels, Mario Siletti, Irene Tedrow, George Tyne, Dick Wessel, Harry Wilson.