Born on this day – Hillary Brooke:

Hillary Brooke

Actress

September 8, 1914 – May 25, 1999

Credits:

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952); Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (1994); Africa Screams (1949); Alimony (1949); And the Angels Sing (1944); Beauty on Parade (1950); Bengazi (1955); Big Town (1946–1954); Big Town After Dark (1947); Big Town Scandal (1948); Bodyhold (1949); Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942); Cavalcade of America (1954); Chevron Theatre (1952); Colonel Humphrey Flack (1953–1958); Confidence Girl (1952); Counter-Espionage (1942); Country Fair (1941); Crossroads (1955); Dangerous Assignment (1952); December Bride (1957); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941); Dragon's Gold (1954); Earl Carroll Sketchbook (1946); Editor's Roundtable (1949–1952); Eternally Yours (1939); Father Knows Best (1959); Fireside Theatre (1954–1955); Florian (1940); Four Star Playhouse (1952–1953); General Electric Theater (1959); Gruen Guild Theater (1951); Happy Go Lucky (1943); Heat Wave (1954); Hey, Abbott! (1978); Hollywood Opening Night (1951); Hollywood Theatre Time (1950); House Party (1952); I Cover Big Town (1947); I Love Lucy (1956); Insurance Investigator (1951); Invaders from Mars (1953); Jane Eyre (1943); Lady in the Dark (1944); Lawman (1959); Let's Live Again (1948); Lost Continent (1951); Lucky Losers (1950); Maisie Was a Lady (1941); Married Bachelor (1941); Mexican Manhunt (1953); Michael Shayne (1960); Ministry of Fear (1944); Monsieur Beaucaire (1946); Mr. & Mrs. North (1954); Mr. and Mrs. North (1942); My Little Margie (1952–1955); Never Wave at a WAC (1953); New Faces of 1937 (1937); New Moon (1940); Passport to Danger (1954); Perry Mason (1957); Practically Yours (1944); Private Secretary (1957); Public Defender (1955); Racket Squad (1952–1953); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1959–1960); Road to Utopia (1945); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Screen Snapshots, Series 25, No. 3: Fashions and Rodeo (1945); Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942); Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943); Ship Ahoy (1942); Skipalong Rosenbloom (1951); Sleepytime Gal (1942); Spoilers of the Forest (1957); Standing Room Only (1944); Stars Over Hollywood (1951); Strange Impersonation (1946); Strange Journey (1946); Studio 57 (1956); Stump the Stars (1949–1953); The Abbott and Costello Show (1952–1953); The Admiral Was a Lady (1950); The Adventures of McGraw (1957); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Bob Hope Show (1954–1958); The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952); The Christophers (1954); The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945); The Crystal Ball (1943); The Enchanted Cottage (1945); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The Fuller Brush Man (1948); The Gentleman Misbehaves (1946); The Great Detectives (1999); The Joe Palooka Story (1954); The Lady Wants Mink (1953); The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury (1941); The Lone Rider Rides On (1941); The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956); The Maze (1953); The Mickey Rooney Show (1954–1955); The Millionaire (1955); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953); The Philadelphia Story (1940); The Ray Milland Show (1954); The Star and the Story (1955–1956); The Strange Woman (1946); The Whistler (1955); The Woman in Green (1945); The Year of Living Locked Up (2020); To the Shores of Tripoli (1942); Two Girls on Broadway (1940); Two-Faced Woman (1941); Unfinished Business (1941); Unmasked (1950); Up Goes Maisie (1946); Vendetta (1950); Wake Island (1942); West Point (1956); Willie and the Mouse (1941); Yancy Derringer (1959); Your Play Time (1953).

On this day in movie history - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956):

The Man Who Knew Too Much

directed by Alfred Hitchcock,

written by John Michael Hayes,

based on a story by Charles Bennett and D. B. Wyndham-Lewis,

was released in the United States on May 16, 1956.
Music by Bernard Herrmann.
Song: Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be), performed by Doris Day.

Cast:

Doris Day, James Stewart, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman, Daniel Gélin, Mogens Wieth, Alan Mowbray, Hillary Brooke, Christopher Olsen, Reggie Nalder, Richard Wattis, Noel Willman, Alix Talton, Yves Brainville, Carolyn Jones, London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Herrmann, Covent Garden Chorus, Barbara Howitt, Patrick Aherne, Frank Albertson, Frank Atkinson, Walter Bacon, Frank Baker, John Barrard, Betty Baskcomb, Hyma Beckley, Paul Beradi, Eumenio Blanco, Arline Bletcher, Alexis Bobrinskoy, Lovyss Bradley, Janet Bruce, Naida Buckingham, Clifford Buckton, Barbara Burke, Nora Bush, Peter Camlin, Albert Carrier, Jimmy Charters, Abdelhaq Chraibi, Oliver Cross, Pauline Farr, Harry Fine, Alex Frazer, Wolf Frees, Milton Frome, Leo Gordon, Walter Gotell, Victor Harrington, Sam Harris, George Hilsdon, Alfred Hitchcock, Gladys Holland, Jimmie Horan, George Howe, Allen Jaffe, Philip Johns, Barbara Jones, Harold Kasket, Barry Keegan, Lou Krugman, Anne Kunde, Lloyd Lamble, Anthony Lang, Donald Lawton, Marion Lessing, Carl M. Leviness, Enid Lindsey, Mayne Lynton, Janet Macfarlane, Edward Manouk, Richard Marner, John Marshall, Lewis Martin, Louis Mercier, Lee Miller, Lola Morice, Ralph Neff, Leslie Newport, John O'Malley, Elsa Palmer, Liddell Peddieson, Jean Ransome, Arthur Ridley, Lucile Sewall, Alma Taylor.

On this day in movie history - Big Town After Dark (1947):

Big Town After Dark

directed by William C. Thomas,

written by Whitman Chambers,

based on the radio series Big Town,

was released in the United States on December 12, 1947.
Music by Darrell Calker.

Cast:

Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Ann Gillis, Joe Sawyer, Robert Kent, Charles Arnt, Joseph Allen, Vince Barnett, William Haade, Fred Aldrich, Don Barclay, Benny Bartlett, Gregg Barton, Gladys Blake, Dorothy Christy, Sumner Getchell, John Holland, Richard Keene, Frank Marlowe, Mary Newton, Anne O'Neal, Marin Sais, Arthur Space, Forrest Taylor, Dorothy Vaughan, Guy Wilkerson.