On this day in movie history - Midnight Lace (1960):

Midnight Lace

directed by David Miller,

written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts,

based on the play Matilda Shouted Fire by Janet Green,

was released in the United States on October 13, 1960.
Music by Frank Skinner.

Cast:

Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall, Herbert Marshall, Natasha Parry, Hermione Baddeley, John Williams, Richard Ney, Anthony Dawson, Rhys Williams, Richard Lupino, Hayden Rorke, Doris Lloyd, Gage Clarke, Elspeth March, Peter Adams, Rex Evans.

On this day in movie history - Spartacus (1960):

Spartacus

directed by Stanley Kubrick,

written by Dalton Trumbo,

based on the novel by Howard Fast,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1960.
Music by Alex North.

Cast:

Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, John Gavin, John Dall, Nina Foch, John Ireland, Herbert Lom, Charles McGraw, Joanna Barnes, Harold J. Stone, Woody Strode, Peter Brocco, Paul Lambert, Robert J. Wilke, Nicholas Dennis, John Hoyt, Frederic Worlock, Gil Perkins, Cliff Lyons.

On this day in movie history - Psycho (1960 movie & books):

Psycho

directed by Alfred Hitchcock,

written by Joseph Stefano,

based on the novel by Robert Bloch,

was released in the United States, on June 16, 1960.
Music by Bernard Herrmann.
Inspired by the true 1957 Ed Gein murder case.

Cast:

Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Frank Albertson, Pat Hitchcock, Vaughn Taylor, Lurene Tuttle, John Anderson, Mort Mills, Virginia Gregg, Paul Jasmin, Jeanette Nolan.

Recommended reading:

Psycho

By Robert Bloch.

Filmed as Psycho (1960), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Published by The Overlook Press.

First published 1959.

ISBN-10: 1590203356

ISBN-13: 9781590203354

Description:

"Psycho all came from Robert Bloch's book." – Alfred Hitchcock.

"Icily terrifying!" – The New York Times.

"Robert Bloch is one of the all-time masters." – Peter Straub.

Norman Bates loves his mother. She has been dead for the past 20 years, or so people think. Norman knows better, though.

Ever since leaving the hospital, he has lived with Mother in the old house up on the hill above the Bates Motel. One night, after a beautiful woman checks into the motel, Norman spies on her as she undresses. Norman can’t help but spy on her.

Mother is there, though. She is there to protect Norman from his filthy thoughts. She is there to protect him with her butcher knife.

If you love to be scared, or are a fan of classic movies, then you know the story of Norman Bates, his mother, and the dark and frightening Bates Motel. Alfred Hitchcock’s taut, shocking scare-fest starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh is a classic movie, as scary today as it was in 1960 when it was first released, and this is the 1959 novel upon which the movie is based.

It was here that the legend of the Bates Motel was born.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

Edited by Richard J. Anobile.

The Film Classics Library.

Published by Universe Books.

First Edition.

Published 1974.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0876631898

ISBN-13: 978-0876631898

Description:

The Film Classics Library present the most accurate and complete reconstruction of a film in book over 1,300 frame blow-up photos shown sequentially and coupled with the complete dialogue from the original soundtrack, allow you to recapture this film classic in its entirety – at your leisure.

Born on this day – John Gavin:

John Gavin

Actor

April 8, 1931 – February 9, 2018

John Gavin (left), Vera Miles (right), in Psycho (1960).

Credits:

A Bob Hope Comedy Special (1966); A Breath of Scandal (1960); A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958); Alcoa Premiere (1962); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Back Street (1961); Behind the High Wall (1956); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (1998); Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation (2001); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007); Compression (2023); Convoy (1965); Cutter's Trail (1970); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Destry (1964); Disclosure (2020); Doctors' Private Lives (1979); Dream Girl of '67 (1967); Entertainment Tonight (2018); Everybody's Talking (1967); Fantasy Island (1978–1981); Flying High (1978); Four Girls in Town (1957); Hart to Hart (1980); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hour Magazine (1986); Imitation of Life (1959); Insight (1960); It's Your Bet (1972–1973); Jennifer (1978); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1974); Keep It in the Family (1973); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); La casa de las sombras (1976); Mannix (1973); Maurice Woodruff Predicts (1969); Medical Center (1976); Midnight Lace (1960); Nefertiti y Aquenatos (1973); Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997); OSS 117 Murder for Sale (1968); Password (1965–1975); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Pedro Páramo (1967); Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2015); Psycho (1960); Psycho Path (1998); Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970); Quantez (1957); Raw Edge (1956); Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger (2010); Romanoff and Juliet (1961); Snap Judgment (1967); Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980); Spartacus (1960); Tammy Tell Me True (1961); TCM Remembers 2018 (2018); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The 16th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1959); The 17th Golden Globe Awards (1960); The 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 56th Annual Academy Awards (1984); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963–1965); The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema (2001); The City of Gods (1968); The Doris Day Show (1971); The Horror Show (1979); The Irv Kupcinet Show (1969); The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975); The Love Boat (1977); The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969); The Making of 'Far from Heaven' (2002); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1971); The New Adventures of Heidi (1978); The Pat Boone Show (1967); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965); The Virginian (1964); The Wide World of Mystery (1974); This Is Your Life (1973); Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967); To Tell the Truth (1973); Today (1985); True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015); You Don't Say (1965); Your First Impression (1964).