Born on this day – Ida Lupino:

Ida Lupino

Actress

Singer

Director

Writer

Producer

February 4, 1918 – August 3, 1995

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1959); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960–1961); Alias Smith and Jones (1972); Anything Goes (1936); Artist and Models (1937); Barnaby Jones (1974); Batman (1968); Beware, My Lovely (1952); Bewitched (1965); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Bonanza (1959); Bracken's World (1970); Breaking Point (1963); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Charlie's Angels (1977); Climax! (1956); Columbo (1972–1974); Come On, Marines! (1934); Daniel Boone (1967); Dante (1960); Deadhead Miles (1972); Death Valley Days (1960); Deep Valley (1947); Devotion (1946); Dr. Kildare (1964); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); Ellery Queen (1975); Escape Me Never (1947); Family Affair (1969–1970); Female Artillery (1973); Fight for Your Lady (1937); Forever and a Day (1943); Four Star Playhouse (1953–1956); General Electric Theater (1960–1962); Gilligan's Island (1964–1966); Hard, Fast and Beautiful! (1951); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959–1961); Her First Affaire (1932); High Finance (1933); High Sierra (1940); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Honey West (1965); Hong Kong (1960); Hotel de Paree (1959–1960); I Lived with You (1933); I Love a Mystery (1973); In Our Time (1944); Insight (1971); It Takes a Thief (1968); Jennifer (1953); Judd for the Defense (1968); Junior Bonner (1972); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963–1964); Ladies in Retirement (1941); Let's Get Married (1937); Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942); Lust for Gold (1949); Lux Playhouse (1959); Medical Center (1972); Mod Squad (1969); Money for Speed (1933); Moontide (1942); Mr. Adams and Eve (1957–1958); Mr. Novak (1963–1965); My Boys Are Good Boys (1979); Nanny and the Professor (1971); Never Fear (1950); Not Wanted (1949); On Dangerous Ground (1951); On the Loose (1951); One Rainy Afternoon (1936); Out of the Fog (1941); Outrage (1950); Paris in Spring (1935); Peter Ibbetson (1935); Pillow to Post (1945); Police Woman (1975); Prince of Arcadia (1933); Private Hell 36 (1954); Ready for Love (1934); Road House (1948); Sam Benedict (1962–1963); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Sea Devils (1937); Search for Beauty (1934); Smart Girl (1935); Strange Intruder (1956); Switch (1975); Tate (1960); Teenage Idol (1958); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943); The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939); The Big Knife (1955); The Bigamist (1953); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1973); The Devil's Rain (1975); The Donna Reed Show (1959); The Food of the Gods (1976); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Fugitive (1963–1964); The Gay Desperado (1936); The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968); The Ghost Camera (1933); The Green Peacock (1958); The Hard Way (1943); The Hitch-Hiker (1953); The Investigators (1961); The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1956); The Lady and the Mob (1939); The Letters (1973); The Light That Failed (1939); The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939); The Love Race (1931); The Man I Love (1946); The Manhunter (1974); The Name of the Game (1969); The Outcasts (1969); The Rifleman (1961); The Rogues (1964–1965); The Sea Wolf (1941); The Strangers in 7A (1972); The Streets of San Francisco (1974); The Trouble with Angels (1966); The Twilight Zone (1959–1964); The Untouchables (1962–1963); The Virginian (1963–1965); The Wild Wild West (1966); They Drive by Night (1940); Thriller (1961–1962); Virginian (1966); While the City Sleeps (1956); Woman in Hiding (1950); Women in Chains (1972); Women's Prison (1955); Yours for the Asking (1936); Zane Grey Theatre (1956).

On this day in movie history - High Sierra (1941):

High Sierra

directed by Raoul Walsh,

written by John Huston and W. R. Burnett,

based on the novel by W. R. Burnett,

was released in the United States on January 23, 1941.
Music by Adolph Deutsch.

Cast:

Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Jerome Cowan, Minna Gombell, Barton MacLane, Elisabeth Risdon, Cornel Wilde, Donald MacBride, Paul Harvey, Isabel Jewell, Willie Best, Spencer Charters, George Meeker, Robert Strange, John Eldredge, Sam Hayes, Zero the Dog, Eddie Acuff.

On this day in movie history - On Dangerous Ground (1951):

On Dangerous Ground

directed by Nicholas Ray and Ida Lupino,

written by A. I. Bezzerides and Nicholas Ray,

based on the novel Mad with Much Heart by Gerald Butler,

was released in the United States on December 12, 1951.
Music by Bernard Herrmann.

Cast:

Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper, Anthony Ross, Ed Begley, Ian Wolfe, Sumner Williams, Gus Schilling, Frank Ferguson, Cleo Moore, Olive Carey.

On this day in movie history - Private Hell 36 (1953):

Private Hell 36,

aka Baby Face Killers,

directed by Don Siegel,

written by Collier Young and Ida Lupino,

was released in the United States on September 3, 1953.
Music by Leith Stevens.

Cast:
Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Dean Jagger, Dorothy Malone, James Anderson, William Boyett, Chester Conklin, Richard Deacon, George Dockstader, King Donovan, Bridget Duff, Dabbs Greer, Jerry Hausner, Jimmy Hawkins, Tom Monroe, Chris O'Brien, Kenneth Patterson, Sammy Shack.

On this day in movie history - Beware, My Lovely (1952):

Beware, My Lovely

directed by Harry Horner,

written by Mel Dinelli,

based on the play The Man by Mel Dinelli,

was released in the United States on August 29, 1952.
Music by Leith Stevens.

Cast:

Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes, Barbara Whiting, James Willmas, O. Z. Whitehead.

On this day in movie history - They Drive by Night (1940):

They Drive by Night,

directed by Raoul Walsh,

written by Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay,

based on the novel Long Haul by A. I. Bezzerides,

was released in the United States on July 26, 1940.

Music by Adolph Deutsch.

Cast:
George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale, Roscoe Karns, John Litel, George Tobias, Henry O'Neill, Charles Halton, Paul Hurst, John Ridgely, George Lloyd, Joyce Compton, Charles Wilson, Pedro Regas, Norman Willis, Joe Devlin, William Haade, Vera Lewis, John Hamilton, Eddie Acuff, Howard Hickman, Lillian Yarbo.

On this day in movie history - While the City Sleeps (1956):

While the City Sleeps,

directed by Fritz Lang,

written by Casey Robinson,

based on the novel The Bloody Spur by Charles Einstein,

was released in France on May 30, 1956.
Inspired by the true 1946 case the Chicago serial killer William Heirens.
Music by Herschel Burke Gilbert.

Cast:
Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Sally Forrest, John Drew Barrymore, James Craig, Ida Lupino, Robert Warwick, Mae Marsh, Ralph Peters, Sandra White, Larry J. Blake, Celia Lovsky, Ed Hinton, Pitt Herbert, Vladimir Sokoloff, David Andrews, Eddie Baker, Ralph Brooks, Leonard Carey, Russell Custer, John Damler, Sayre Dearing, George DeNormand, Joe Devlin, Sam Finn, Mike Lally, Andrew Lupino, Ralph Manza, Mickey Martin, Joey Ray, Cosmo Sardo, Charles Sherlock, Olan Soule, Bert Stevens, Carleton Young.