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Monday, October 6, 2025

On this day in movie history – Pillow Talk (movie & novel):


Pillow Talk

directed by Michael Gordon,
written by Russell Rouse, Maurice Richlin, Stanley Shapiro and Clarence Greene,
was released in the United States on October 6, 1959.
Music by Frank De Vol.


Cast:

Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Karen Norris, Julia Meade, Allen Jenkins, Marcel Dalio, Lee Patrick, Mary McCarty, Alex Gerry, Hayden Rorke, Valerie Allen, Jacqueline Beer, Arlen Stuart.

Recommended reading:


Pillow Talk

By Marvin H. Albert.

Published by Gold Medal.
Published 1959.
ASIN: B000ARHC90
Vintage paperback
Filmed as Pillow Talk (1959), directed by Michael Gordon.

Back cover description:

Good connections.
Doris Day plays the interior decorator who has designs on men.
Rock Hudson and Tony Randall are the men who fall for her, hook, line and sinker.

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

On this day in movie history - Dead End (1937):


Dead End

directed by William Wyler,
written by Lillian Hellman,
based on the play by Sidney Kingsley,
was released in the United States on August 27, 1937.
Music by Alfred Newman.


Cast:

Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins, Marjorie Main, Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, Charles Peck, Minor Watson, James Burke, Ward Bond, Elisabeth Risdon, Esther Dale, George Humbert, Marcelle Corday.

Sunday, August 17, 2025

On this day in movie history - Lady on a Train (1945):


Lady on a Train

directed by Charles David,
written by Edmund Beloin and Robert O’Brien,
based on a story by Leslie Charteris,
was released in the United States on August 17, 1945.
Music by Miklós Rózsa.


Cast:

Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, George Coulouris, Allen Jenkins, Dan Duryea, Edward Everett Horton, Jacqueline deWit, Patricia Morison, Elizabeth Patterson, Maria Palmer, Samuel S. Hinds, William Frawley, Thurston Hall, Kathleen O’Malley, Lash LaRue.