Born on this day – Diane Delano:

Diane Delano

Actress

January 29, 1957 – December 13, 2024

Credits:

100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd (1999–2000); 100 Things to Do Before High School (2014–2016); 2 Broke Girls (2015); 3rd Rock from the Sun (1999); A Mighty Wind (2003); A Painted House (2003); Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (1995–1997); According to Jim (2008); Acting Sheriff (1991); Addams Family Reunion (1998); AJ and the Queen (2020); American Dad! (2007–2008); American Dragon: Jake Long (2005); Anderson's Cross (2010); Bakersfield P.D. (1993); Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2009); Ben 10: Alien Force (2008); Ben 10: Omniverse (2013–2014); Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (2011); Choose Connor (2007); Coach (1994); Cold Case (2007); Cop Rock (1990); Cow and Chicken (1998); Crafty (2010); Days of Our Lives (1994–2009); Dead Rising 3 (2013); Death to the Supermodels (2005); Desperate Housewives (2006); DeVanity (2012); Dharma & Greg (1999); Don't Get Off the Bus (2016); Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989); ER (1997–2002); Everwood (2006); Falcon Crest (1989); Final Heist (2024); Fred: The Show (2012); From the Mouths of Babes (2014); Fumbling Thru the Pieces (2011–2013); General Hospital (2016); Good Girls (2019); Good Luck Charlie (2010); Goode Behavior (1997); Growing Pains (1988); Heart Like a Wheel (1983); Hearts Afire (1993); Highway 395 (2000); Hunter (1988); Infinity Train (2020); Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003); Joan of Arcadia (2004); Jury Duty: The Comedy (1990); Just the Ten of Us (1989); K.C. Undercover (2015–2018); L.A. Law (1987); Lego DC Super-Villains (2018); Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (2022); Major Dad (1989); Married... with Children (1992); Matlock (1989); Me Time (2022); Meego (1997); Midnight Clear (2006); Mike & Molly (2013); Miracle Mile (1988); Misery Loves Company (1995); Mission Odyssey (2002–2003); Mom (2016); Monk (2005); NCIS (2007); New Looney Tunes (2017); Niko and the Sword of Light (2018); Northern Exposure (1991–1995); Northern Exposure (1995); One on One (2002); One on One with Jasper Cole (2019); Out of These Rooms (2002); Paradise: A Town of Sinners and Saints (2024); PEN15 (2019); Perfect Strangers (1989); Pig Sty (1995); Platypus Man (1995); Popular (1999–2001); Pretty the Series (2014–2015); Providence (2000); Quantum Leap (1991); Rachel Gunn, R.N. (1992); Rage 2 (2019); Ratboy (1986); Rattled (1996); Relish (2019); Renegade (1996); Road to Dreamland (2024); Robbery Homicide Division (2002); Rocket Power (2000); Rugrats (1997–2002); Saturday Mash-Up (2022); Saved by the Bell: The New Class (1999); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1987); Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo (2009); Shake It Up (2013); Silk Hope (1999); Six Feet Under (2004); Sleepwalkers (1992); St. Elsewhere (1983); St. Sass (2002); Stark: Mirror Image (1986); Step by Step (1994–1996); Superman: The Animated Series (1998–2000); Surf School (2006); Teen Titans (2006); The Angry Beavers (2001); The Bridge (2013); The Brothers Garcia (2002); The Division (2002); The Eddie Files (1998); The Ellen Show (2001); The Ladykillers (2004); The Michael Richards Show (2000); The Middle (2012); The New Addams Family (1998); The River Wild (1994); The Single Guy (1997); The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries (1999); The Theory of the Leisure Class (2001); The Thin Pink Line (1998); The Upshaws (2021–2022); The War at Home (2007); The Wicker Man (2006); The Zeta Project (2002); Thirtysomething (1989); 'Til Death (2008); Two and a Half Men (2006); Unhappily Ever After (1995); We Bare Bears (2016); Who's the Boss? (1990); Wild Card (1992); Wizards of Waverly Place (2011); Young Justice (2012–2019); Zoey 101 (2005–2006).

On this day in movie history - Nightfall (1956):

Nightfall

directed by Jacques Tourneur,

written by Stirling Silliphant,

based on the novel by David Goodis,

was released in the United States on January 23, 1957.
Music by George Duning.

Cast:

Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft, Jocelyn Brando, James Gregory, Frank Albertson, Rudy Bond, Arline Anderson, Monty Ash, María Belmar, Orlando Beltran, Art Bucaro, Robert Cherry, George Cisar, Lillian Culver, Bess Flowers, Joan Fotre, Pat Jones, Lillian Kassan, Betty Koch, Jane Lynn, Eddie McLean, Gene Roth, Walter Smith, Annabelle Thiele, Maya Van Horn, Winifred Waring.

On this day in movie history - Four Boys and a Gun (1957):

Four Boys and a Gun

directed by William Berke,

written by Leo Townsend and Philip Yordan,

based on the novel by Willard Wiener,

was released in the United States on January 11, 1957.
Music by Marie Montague and Everett Sutherland.

Cast:

Frank Sutton, Tarry Green, James Franciscus, William Hinnant, Otto Hulett, Robert Dryden, J. Pat O'Malley, Diana Herbert, Patricia Sloan, Nancy Devlin, Patricia Bosworth, David Burns, Anne Seymour, Frank Gero, Ned Glass, Karl Swenson, Lisa Osten, Sid Raymond, George McIver, Frank Campanella, Joseph Campanella, Crahan Denton, Frank Marth, Diana Sands.

On this day in movie history - Crime of Passion (1957):

Crime of Passion

directed by Gerd Oswald,

written by Jo Eisinger,

was released in the United States on January 9, 1957.
Music by Paul Dunlap.

Cast:

Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Virginia Grey, Royal Dano, Robert Griffin, Dennis Cross, Jay Adler, Stuart Whitman, Malcolm Atterbury, Robert Quarry, Gail Bonney, Joe Conley.

On this day in movie history - Paths of Glory (1957):

Paths of Glory

directed by Stanley Kubrick,

written by Stanley Kubrick,

Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson,

based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb,

was released in the United States on December 25, 1957.
Music by Gerald Fried.

Cast:

Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson, Joe Turkel, Christiane Kubrick, Jerry Hausner, Peter Capell, Emile Meyer, Bert Freed, Kem Dibbs, Timothy Carey, Fred Bell, John Stein, Harold Benedict, Leon Briggs, Paul Bös, Herbert Ellis, Wally Friedrichs, Halder Hanson, James B. Harris, Rolf Kralovitz, Ira Moore, Marshall Rainer, Roger Vagnoid.

Born on this day – Michael Clarke Duncan:

Michael Clarke Duncan

Actor

December 10, 1957 – September 3, 2012

Recommended reading - The Executioners by John D. MacDonald (1957):

The Executioners

By John D. MacDonald.

Filmed as:

Cape Fear (1962), directed by J. Lee Thompson,

Cape Fear (1991), directed by Martin Scorsese.

Mass Market Paperback.

First published 1957.

Published by Magnum Books.

ISBN 13: 9780417043708

ISBN 10: 0417043708

ASIN: 0417043708

Description:

For 14 years Max Cady had sworn vengeance against the man who convicted him, becoming fired by an insane obsession for revenge. Released from his years of hard Labour he made his plans for Sam Bowden's slow death.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1957 - 1960):

M Squad

was released in the United States on September 20, 1957,

and ran for three seasons until June 21, 1960.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newman, Roscoe Ates, Joanna Barnes, Charles Bronson, Mike Connors, Russ Conway, Walter Coy, Whitney Blake, Paul Burke, James Coburn, Francis De Sales, Angie Dickinson, Joe Flynn, Alan Hale, Jr., Ron Hayes, Werner Klemperer, Robert Knapp, Tom Laughlin, Ruta Lee, DeForest Kelley, Nan Leslie, Dayton Lummis, Tyler McVey, Walter Maslow, Carole Mathews, Joyce Meadows, Sid Melton, John Mitchum, Ed Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, J. Pat O'Malley, Michael Pataki, Burt Reynolds, Don Rickles, Janice Rule, Barbara Stuart, Mary Treen, H. M. Wynant.

On this day in movie history - Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957):

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue,

directed by Arnold Laven,

written by Lawrence Roman,

was released in the United States on September 1, 1957.
Music by Herschel Burke Gilbert.

Cast:
Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea, Julie Adams, Walter Matthau, Charles McGraw, Sam Levene, Mickey Shaughnessy, Harry Bellaver, Nick Dennis, Joe Downing, Ned Wever, Billy M. Greene, John McNamara, Amzie Strickland, Mickey Hargitay.