Showing posts with label 1958. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1958. Show all posts

Monday, June 23, 2025

On this day in music history - The Blues, by B.B. King (1958):


The Blues

Album by B.B. King,
released June 23, 1958.

Track list:

Why Do Things Happen to Me; Ruby Lee; When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer; Past Day; Boogie Woogie Woman; Early Every Morning; I Want to Get Married; That Ain’t the Way to Do It; Troubles, Troubles, Troubles; Don’t You Want a Man Like Me; You Know I Go For You; What Can I Do.

Friday, June 13, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):


M Squad

Season 1. Episode 38.
Episode entitled: Accusation.
Released June 13, 1958.
Directed by Don Taylor.
Written by Harry W. Junkin.
Music by Stanley Wilson.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Fay Spain, Ken Clark, Paul Newlan, Larry J. Blake, Dan Riss, George Eldredge, Cindy Ames.

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Born on this day – Barry Michael Cooper:


Barry Michael Cooper


Producer

Writer

Director

June 12, 1958 – January 21, 2025

Credits:

Above the Rim (1994); American Gangster (2006–2008); Blood on the Wall$ (2005); Bloomberg Game Changers (2010); Classic Albums (2007); Grand Daddy I.U.: Something New (1990); Guilt... (2019); Inside the Label (2016); It's Good to Be... (2003); NBA 2K16 (2015); New Jack City (1991); Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation (2011); Private Times (1991); She's Gotta Have It (2017–2019); Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music (2005); Sugar Hill (1993); Tevin Campbell: For Your Love (1999).

Friday, June 6, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):


M Squad

Season 1. Episode 37.
Episode entitled: The Woman from Paris.
Released June 6, 1958.
Directed by John Brahm.
Written by Oscar Millard.
Music by Stanley Wilson.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paula Raymond, Philip Ober, Paul Newlan, Jennifer Lea, Gine De Bard, Russ Bender, Paul Maxwell, Dan West.

Friday, May 30, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):


M Squad

Season 1. Episode 36.
Episode entitled: The System.
Released May 30, 1958.
Directed by David Rich.
Written by Keith Hunter and Bernard C. Schoenfeld.
Music by Stanley Wilson.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Tol Avery, Rose Marie, Ted de Corsia, Paul Newlan, Howard Wendell, Gregg Martell, Dehl Berti, Ann Doran, Paul Maxey, Joe McGuinn, Frank J. Scannell, Bess Flowers, Hans Moebus.

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

On this day in movie history - Vertigo (1958):


Vertigo

directed by Alfred Hitchcock,
written by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor,
based on the novel D’entre les morts,
translation: From Among the Dead, by Boileau-Narcejac (Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac),
was released in the United States on May 28, 1958.
Music by Bernard Herrmann.


Cast:

James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Raymond Bailey, Ellen Corby, Konstantin Shayne, Lee Patrick, David Ahdar, Isabel Analla, Jack Ano, Margaret Bacon, John Benson, Danny Borzage, Margaret Brayton, Paul Bryar, Boyd Cabeen, Steve Conte, Jean Corbett, Bruno Della Santina, Roxann Delman, Harry Denny, Molly Dodd, Bess Flowers, Raoul Freeman, Joe Garcio, Joanne Genthon, Kenneth Gibson, Don Giovanni, Roland Gotti, Victor Gotti, Fred Graham, Robert Haines, Buck Harrington, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmie Horan, Art Howard, Catherine Howard, June Jocelyn, Perk Lazelle, John Marlin, Miliza Milo, Lyle Moraine, Forbes Murray, Julian Petruzzi, Ezelle Poule, Kathy Reed, William Remick, Jack Richardson, Jeffrey Sayre, Nina Shipman, Dori Simmons, Ed Stevlingson, Sara Taft.

Friday, May 23, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):


M Squad

Season 1. Episode 35.
Episode entitled: The Case of the Double Face.
Released May 23, 1958.
Directed by Sidney Lanfield.
Written by Seeleg Lester and George Waggner.
Music by Stanley Wilson.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Jim Davis, Kristine Miller, Anthony Eustrel, Paul Newlan, William Flaherty, Douglas Bank, Ralph Sanford, Margaret Irving, Glenn Dixon.

Friday, May 16, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):


M Squad

Season 1. Episode 34.
Episode entitled: The $20 Plates.
Released May 16, 1958.
Directed by Allen H. Miner.
Written by Merwin Gerard.
Music by Stanley Wilson.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Lynette Bernay, Logan Field, Joel Smith, Sara Taft, Paul Newlan, Charles Seel, Theodore Newton, Arthur Kendall, Joseph J. Greene, Jeanne Dante.

Saturday, May 10, 2025

On this day in movie history - Violent Road (1958):


Violent Road

aka Hell's Highway,
directed by Howard W. Koch,
written by Richard H. Landau and Don Martin,
based on the novel Le Salaire de la peur (The Salary of Fear) by Georges Arnaud,
was released in the United States on May 10, 1958.
Music by Leith Stevens.


Cast:

Brian Keith, Dick Foran, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Merry Anders, Sean Garrison, Joanna Barnes, Perry Lopez, Arthur Batanides, Ed Prentiss, Ann Doran, John Dennis, Susan Adams, Robert Alderette, Peter Brown, John Caler, Bud Cokes, Joe Connors, Charmienne Harker, Dennis Holmes, Pat Lawless, Jack Lomas, Asa Maynor, Gil Perkins, Joel Smith, Venetia Stevenson, John Veitch, Robert B. Williams.

On this day in movie history - Thunder Road (1958):


Thunder Road

directed by Arthur Ripley,
written by James Atlee Phillips and Walter Wise,
based on a story by Robert Mitchum,
was released in the United States on May 10, 1958.
Music by Jack Marshall.


Cast:

Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon, Keely Smith, Trevor Bardette, Sandra Knight, James Mitchum, Betsy Holt, Francis Koon, Randy Sparks, Mitchell Ryan, Peter Breck, Peter Hornsby, Jerry Hardin, Robert Porterfield, Charles Elledge, Charles Hendrix, Christopher Mitchum, Jack Perry, Dale Van Sickel.