On this day in movie history - Victoria (2015):

Victoria,

directed by Sebastian Schipper,

written by Sebastian Schipper, Olivia Neergaard-Holm and Eike Frederik Schulz,

was released at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany on February 7, 2015.
Music by Nils Frahm.

Cast:
Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, Max Mauff, André Hennicke, Eike Frederik Schulz, Hans-Ulrich Laux, Lena Klenke, Philipp Kubitza, Martin Goeres, Andreas Schmitka, Jan Breustedt, David Micas, Timo Honsa, Bernd Weikert, Adolfo Assor, Ansgar Ballendat, Ambar de la Horra, Luca De Massis, Anne Düe, Daniel Fripan, Frederik Klaus, Nadja Laura Mijthab, Dennis Oestreich.

On this day in movie history - The Train Robbers (1973):

The Train Robbers,

directed and written by Burt Kennedy,

was released in the United States on February 7, 1973.
Music by Dominic Frontiere.

Cast:
John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Christopher George, Bobby Vinton, Jerry Gatlin, Ricardo Montalban, Dennis Falt, Ralph Volkie.

On this day in movie history - Highway Dragnet (1954):

Highway Dragnet,

directed by Nathan Juran,

written by Herb Meadow, Jerome Odlum, Fred Eggers and Tom Hubbard,

based on a story by U.S. Andersen and Roger Corman,

was released in the United States on February 7, 1954.
Music by Edward J. Kay.

Cast:
Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Reed Hadley, Mary Beth Hughes, Iris Adrian, Harry Harvey, Tom Hubbard, Frank Jenks, Murray Alper, Zon Murray, House Peters Jr., Joseph Crehan, Charles Anthony Hughes.

Born on this day – Pete Postlethwaite:

Pete Postlethwaite

Actor

February 7, 1946 – January 2, 2011

Born on this day – Buster Crabbe:

Buster Crabbe

Olympic swimmer

Actor

February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983

Born on this day – Edith Méra:

Edith Méra

Actress

Singer

Cartoonist

February 7, 1905 – February 24, 1935

Credits:

Le comte Obligado (1935); La flambée (1934); Prince de minuit (1934); Poliche (1934); Fedora (1934); Iris perdue et retrouvée (1934); Château de rêve (1933); Simone est comme ça (1933); Le père prématuré (1933); La poule (1933); Grandeur and Decadence (1933); Je te confie ma femme (1933); Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme (1933); Three Musketeers (1932); A Star Disappears (1932); Shout It from the House Tops (1932); Mon amant l'assassin (1932); Miche (1932); Monsieur le maréchal (1931); Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931); Un soir de rafle (1931); L'homme qui assassina (1931); Beauty Cult (1930).

Born on this day – Sinclair Lewis:

Sinclair Lewis

Writer

February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951

First American writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Credits:

30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); Adventures in Autobumming (2017); Ann Vickers (1933); Arrowsmith (1925); Babbitt (1922); Bethel Merriday (1940); Cass Timberlane (1945); Dodsworth (1929); Elmer Gantry (1927); Free Air (1919); From Main Street to Stockholm (1953); Gideon Planish (1943); Go East, Young Man (2005); Harri (2016); Hike and the Aeroplane (1912); If I Were Boss (1997); I'm A Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories (1962); It Can't Happen Here (1935); Jayhawker: A Play in Three Acts (1935); Kingsblood Royal (1947); Let Us Play King (1956); Main Street (1920); Mantrap (1925); Moths in the ARC Light (2014); Our Mr. Wrenn (1914); Selected Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1935); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); Speed (2014); Storm in the West (1963); The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol (2007); The Cat of the Stars (2014); The Ghost Patrol (2014); The God-Seeker (1949); The Innocents (1917); The Job (1917); The Kidnaped Memorial (2014); The Man From Main Street (1953); The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928); The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis (2005); The Prodigal Parents (1938); The Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis, 1904-1949 (2007); The Trail of the Hawk (1915); The Willow Walk (1918); Things (2014); Work Of Art (1934); World So Wide (1951); Young Man Axelbrod (2013).

Born on this day – Charles Dickens:

Charles Dickens

Writer

February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870

Credits:

100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories (1993); 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); A Child's History of England (1854); A Christmas Carol (1843); A House to Let (1858); A House to Let (1858); A House to Let (1858); A Tale of Two Cities (1859); A Terribly Strange Bed (1852); After Dark (1856); Alfred Hitchcock's Fatal Attractions (1983); An Accursed Race (1855); Barnaby Rudge (1841); Bessy's Troubles at Home (1852); Black and White (2015); Bleak House (1853); Bran (2015); Children's Christmas Stories and Poems (1995); Chilling Ghost Stories (2015); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (1996); Company Manners (2018); Cousin Phyllis (1864); David Copperfield (1850); Disappearances (1851); Doctor Marigold (1866); Dombey and Son (1848); Echoes Of Terror (1980); Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve (2015); French Life (1864); George Silverman's Explanation (1868); Ghost Stories (1986); Great Expectations (1861); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror (1993); Hard Times (1854); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023); Hunted Down (2016); John Jago's Ghost (1874); Libbie Marsh's Three Eras (1855); Little Dorrit (1855); Lizzie Leigh (1850); London Stories (2013); Master Humphrey's Clock (1841); Master Humphrey's Clock, Volume 2 (1841); Miss Gwilt (1880); Miss or Mrs.? (1873); Morton Hall (2004); Mr. Harrison's Confessions (1851); Mr. Wray's Cash Box (1852); Mudfog and Other Papers Contributed to Bentley's Miscellany (1880); My French Master (2004); My Lady's Money (1879); No Thoroughfare (1867); No Thoroughfare (1867); Old Curiosity Shop (1841); Our Mutual Friend (1865); Reprinted Pieces (1861); Right at Last (1858); Round the Christmas Fire (2013); Select Short Fiction (1976); Sexton's Hero (1847); Sights A-Foot (1887); Six Weeks at Heppenheim (2004); Sketches by Boz (1836); Tales of Terror: Between Heaven and the Earth (2002); Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (2021); That Glimpse of Truth (2014); The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1838); The Angler's Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange (1855); The Battle of Life (1846); The Black Veil (1836); The Cauldron of Oil (1861); The Chimes (1844); The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens (1866); The Cricket on the Hearth (1845); The Crooked Branch (2004); The Dead Alive (1873); The Doom of the Griffiths (1858); The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023); The Dream Woman (1855); The Greatest Books of All Time #4 (2017); The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 (2019); The Half-Brothers (1859); The Hanged Man's Bride (1857); The Haunted Hotel (1879); The Haunted House (1859); The Haunted House (1859); The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848); The Heart of John Middleton (2004); The Holly Tree Inn (1850); The Last Stage Coachman (1843); The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby (1839); The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror (1992); The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories (1909); The Magic Fishbone (1867); The Manchester Marriage (1858); The Moorland Cottage (1850); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870); The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage (1853); The Occult Fiction Collection (2019); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The Phantom Coach (2014); The Pickwick Papers (1837); The Poor Clare (1856); The Poor Traveller / Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn (1858); The Queen of Hearts (1859); The Scholar's Story (2016); The Shah's English Gardener (1852); The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories (1984); The Squire's Story (1855); The Well of Pen Morfa (2004); The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 2 (2016); The World's Greatest Horror Stories (2004); The Yellow Mask (1887); Three Ghost Stories (1998); Thrillers (1994); To Be Read at Dusk (1852); Victorian Anthologies of Classic Spectral Stories to Chill and Thrill the Senses (2020); Who Killed Zebedee? (1880); Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens (2002); World's Great Mystery Stories (1943); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing New York (1998).

Saul Bellow, on writing:

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

- Saul Bellow.