On this day in movie history - Earthbound (1940):

Earthbound

directed by Irving Pichel,

written by Samuel G. Engel and John Howard Lawson,

based on the story by Basil King,

was released in the United States on June 6, 1940.

Music by Alfred Newman.

Cast:

Warner Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Lynn Bari, Charley Grapewin, Henry Wilcoxon, Elizabeth Patterson, Russell Hicks, Christian Rub, Ian Wolfe, Lester Sharpe, Reginald Sheffield, Pedro de Cordoba, Eugene Borden, Marcelle Corday, Jean Del Val, William Edmunds, Diane Fisher, Arno Frey, Jean Houghton, Bobby Larson, Myra Marsh, Eric Mayne, Mira McKinney, Clark Morgan, Alberto Morin, Ruth Robinson, Gloria Roy, Florence Shirley, Pierre Watkin, Lloyd Whitlock.

Born on this day – Andrea Leeds:

Andrea Leeds

Actress

August 14, 1913 – May 21, 1984

Credits:

Anna Karenina (1935); Asegure a su mujer (1935); Bachelor of Arts (1934); Come and Get It (1936); Dante's Inferno (1935); Earthbound (1940); Elinor Norton (1934); Forgotten Faces (1936); It Could Happen to You (1937); Letter of Introduction (1938); Life Hesitates at 40 (1935); Magnificent Obsession (1935); Meet the Baron (1933); Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941); My Man Godfrey (1936); Song of the Trail (1936); Stage Door (1937); Sutter's Gold (1936); Swanee River (1939); The Bohemian Girl (1936); The Count Takes the Count (1936); The Goldwyn Follies (1938); The Laurel and Hardy Show (1986); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Moon's Our Home (1936); The Real Glory (1939); They Shall Have Music (1939); Youth Takes a Fling (1938).