On this day in music history - Butterfly, by Natalie Merchant (2017):

Butterfly

Album by Natalie Merchant,
released July 14, 2017.

Track list:

Butterfly; She Devil; Baby Mine; Frozen Charlotte; Ophelia; The Worst Thing; The Man in the Wilderness; My Skin; Vain & Careless; Andalucia.

On this day in movie history - Escape Clause (1996):

Escape Clause

directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith,

written by Danilo Bach,

was released in the United States on July 14, 1996.

Music by Richard Marvin and Ken Thorne.

Cast:

Andrew McCarthy, Paul Sorvino, Connie Britton, Kate McNeil, Stan Egi, Kenneth Welsh, John Evans, Peter Donaldson, Victor A. Young, Sean Dick, Dawn Greenhalgh, Chantel Dick, Lupe Arenas, Tara Rosling, Peter Langley, Claire Rankin, Yanira Contreras, Stephen Bogaert, Roger Honeywell, Ron Hartmann, Bob Clout, Robbie Rox, Gord Mackenzie, Phillip Jarrett, Scott Wickware, John Boylan, Shawn Lawrence, Chuck Shamata, Laura Catalano, Carol Chwaiewsky, Tricia Brioux, Garnet Harding, Djanet Sears, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Linda Goranson, Julie Evans.

On this day in movie history - Midnight Alibi (1934):

Midnight Alibi

directed by Alan Crosland,

written by Warren Duff,

based on the short story The Old Doll’s House by Damon Runyon,

was released in the United States on July 14, 1934.
Music by Heinz Roemheld.

Cast:

Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Helen Chandler, Helen Lowell, Henry O'Neill, Robert Barrat, Robert McWade, Purnell Pratt, Harry Tyler, Paul Hurst, Arthur Aylesworth.

On this day in movie history – The Honor of the Press (1932):

The Honor of the Press

aka The Scoop,

directed by B. Reeves Eason,

written by John T. Neville,

based on a story by J.K. Foster,

was released in the United States on July 14, 1932.

Cast:

Edward J. Nugent, Rita La Roy, Dorothy Gulliver, Wheeler Oakman, Russell Simpson, John Ince, Charles K. French, Reginald Simpson, Franklin Parker, Vivian Fields, Franklyn Farnum.

Born on this day – Lynn Loring:

Lynn Loring

Actress

Producer

July 14, 1944 – December 23, 2023

Credits:

A Man Called Shenandoah (1966); And Baby Makes Three (1966); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951–1958); Black Noon (1971); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1967); Bonanza (1966); Burke's Law (1966); Bus Stop (1961); CBS Repertoire Workshop (1960); Circle of Fear (1972); Daniel Boone (1964); Don't Go to Sleep (1982); Fair Exchange (1962–1963); Finder of Lost Loves (1984); Frontiers of Faith (1955); General Motors 50th Anniversary Show (1957); Glitter (1984–1985); Gunsmoke (1963); Hands of Mystery (1951); Hotel (1983); Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969); Kraft Theatre (1958); Lamp Unto My Feet (1952); Lancer (1968–1970); Making of a Male Model (1983); Matt Houston (1982); Me and the Kid (1993); Mod Squad (1970–1972); Mr. Mom (1983); Mr. Novak (1964); My Three Sons (1968); Omnibus (1955); Perry Mason (1964); Play of the Week (1960); Police Woman (1974); Pressure Point (1962); Proudly I Love (1953); Return to Peyton Place (1973); Robert Montgomery Presents (1953); Scared Silly (1982); Search for Tomorrow (1951–1961); Sizzle (1981); Special for Women: Mother and Daughter (1961); Splendor in the Grass (1961); Starlight Theatre (1951); Studio One (1952–1954); Target: The Corruptors (1962); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Best Little Girl in the World (1981); The Big Valley (1965); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951); The Defenders (1961–1964); The Desperate Miles (1975); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The F.B.I. (1965); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973); The Immortal (1970); The Invaders (1967); The Jean Carroll Show (1953–1954); The Kansas City Massacre (1975); The Man Behind the Badge (1954); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1962); The Return of Mod Squad (1979); The Stranger (1955); The Web (1951); The Wild Wild West (1966); The Young Lawyers (1971); Timeshift (2006); Wagon Train (1962).

Born on this day – Peter Duryea:

Peter Duryea

Actor

July 14, 1939 – March 24, 2013

Credits:

12 O'Clock High (1964–1966); Adam-12 (1969); Bewitched (1965); Birth of a Timeless Legacy (2004); Blood of the Iron Maiden (1970); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965–1966); Catalina Caper (1967); Combat! (1965–1967); Daniel Boone (1965); Dr. Kildare (1965); Dragnet 1967 (1967–1969); Family Affair (1971); For the Love of Spock (2016); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1968); I Spy (1968); Insight (1972–1976); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Leonard Nimoy: Star Trek Memories (1984); Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966); Profiles in Courage (1964); Reflections on Spock (2004); Spacelift: Transporting Trek Into the 21st Century (2011); Star Trek (1966); Taggart (1964); Tempo (1970); The Bounty Killer (1965); The Carpetbaggers (1964); The Defenders (1964); The Donna Reed Show (1963); The Fugitive (1964); The Name of the Game (1969); The Outer Limits (1964); The Virginian (1966).

Born on this day – Polly Bergen:

Polly Bergen

Actress

Singer

Television host

Writer

Entrepreneur

July 14, 1930 – September 20, 2014

Credits:

5th Annual Celebrity Parade for Cerebral Palsy (1955); A Conversation with Polly Bergen (2007); A Guide for the Married Man (1967); A Touch of Class (1973); A Very Serious Person (2006); Across the Rio Grande (1949); Addicted to His Love (1988); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); American Bandstand (1958); Appointment with Adventure (1955); Arena (1953); Arly Hanks (1994); Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party (1957); Arthur Godfrey and His Friends (1956); At War with the Army (1950); Atlantic City Holiday (1956); Baby Talk (1991–1992); Belle Sommers (1962); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Biography (1998 / 2002); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Born Beautiful (1982); Burke's Law (1994); Candles on Bay Street (2006); Cape Fear (1962); Cavalcade of Stars (1952); Celebrity Parade for Cerebral Palsy (1953); Celebrity Sweepstakes (1974–1976); Champion (1949); Coke Time (1954); Commander in Chief (2005–2006); Cry for Me Billy (1972); Cry of the Hunted (1953); Cry-Baby (1990); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Death Cruise (1974); Desperate Housewives (2007–2011); Desperate Housewives Special: Secrets and Lies (2007); Dinah's Place (1971); Doris & Marty (2007); Doris Day's Best Friends (2007); Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995); Dr. Kildare (1963); Dream Girl of '67 (1967); Early Bird (2005); Ellery Queen (1976); Escape from Fort Bravo (1953); Fantasy Island (1984); Fast Company (1953); For Hope (1996); Frankie Laine Time (1955); General Electric Theater (1956); George Jessel's Here Come the Stars (1968); Half a Hero (1953); Hangup (1974); Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue (1977); Here's Hollywood (1961–1962); Hollywood Greats (1999); Hotel (1985); Hour Magazine (1983); How to Pick Up Girls! (1978); In the Blink of an Eye (1996); I've Got a Secret (1954–1960); Jake and the Fatman (1990); Jeanne Wolf with... (1974–1979); Joanne Carson's VIPs (1972); Just Polly and Me (1960); Kisses for My President (1964); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1960); Lady Against the Odds (1992); Leave of Absence (1994); Lightning Field (1991); Li'l Abner in the Dogpatch Today (1978); Live with Kelly and Mark (1990); Lux Playhouse (1958); Making Mr. Right (1987); Max Liebman Presents: The Maurice Chevalier Show (1956); Mother, Mother (1989); Move Over, Darling (1963); Murder on Flight 502 (1975); Murder, She Wrote (1985); Muscular Dystrophy Telethon (1957); My Brother's Wife (1989); My Two Dads (1988); Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (2018); Night Watch (1973); Not for Women Only (1968–1979); Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (1995); One on One with John Tesh (1992); Paradise, Texas (2006); Password (1962–1972); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1955–1962); Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (1993); Person to Person (1960); Personality (1967); Philbin's People (1969); Playhouse 90 (1957); Polly Bergen Musical Special (1971); Robert Mitchum, le mauvais garçon d'Hollywood (2018); Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Selena (1964); She Was Marked for Murder (1988); Songs for Sale (1951–1952); Special Collector's Edition (2014); Star of the Family (1951); Star Stage (1956); Startime (1959–1960); Steel Magnolias (1990); Struck by Lightning (2012); Studio One (1954); Telethon (1977); That's My Boy (1951); The 13th Annual Tony Awards (1959); The 18th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1961); The 19th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1962); The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2015); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The 33rd Annual Academy Awards (1961); The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1983); The 41st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1989); The 55th Annual Tony Awards (2001); The 55th Annual Tony Awards (2001); The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (2015); The Alan Young Show (1950–1951); The All-Star Christmas Show (1958); The Andy Williams Show (1965–1966); The Bell Telephone Hour (1959–1966); The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1992); The Big Record (1957); The Blue Angel (1954); The Bob Braun Show (1967–1977); The Bob Hope Show (1960); The Caretakers (1963); The Chuck Woolery Show (1991); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951); The Danny Thomas Hour (1968); The David Frost Show (1969–1971); The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Double (1982); The Dean Martin Show (1966–1967); The Dick Clark Show (1958); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1958–1961); The Ed Nelson Show (1969); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953–1967); The Elgin Hour (1954–1955); The Game Game (1969–1970); The Garry Moore Show (1960); The George Burns Show (1960); The George Jessel Show (1954); The Haunting of Sarah Hardy (1989); The Hollywood Palace (1966–1968); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1967–1971); The Hollywood Squares (Primetime/Nighttime) (1968); The Jack Benny Program (1960); The Jackie Gleason Show (1957); The Jackie Rae Show (1955); The Jimmy Durante Show (1955); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1969); The Jonathan Winters Show (1956); The Kraft Music Hall (1969); The Larry Solway Show (1976); The Lee Phillip Show (1971); The Linkletter Show (1955); The Love Boat (1977–1982); The Making of 'War & Remembrance' (2004); The Men (1950); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1974); The Mike Douglas Show (1966–1980); The Million Dollar Face (1981); The Milton Berle Show (1958–1959); The New Revue (1954); The Packard Program (1954); The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (1959); The Paul Ryan Show (1977–1992); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954–1955); The Polly Bergen Show (1957–1958); The Princess Grace Foundation Special Gala Tribute to Cary Grant (1988); The Purex Dinah Shore Special (1964); The Red Skelton Hour (1966–1968); The Sig Sakowicz Show (1971); The Skitch Henderson Show (1968); The Sopranos (2004); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Steve Allen Show (1968); The Stooge (1951); The Stork Club (1953–1955); The Surrogate (1995); The Swift Show Wagon with Horace Heidt and the American Way (1955); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1966–1971); The Walter Winchell Show (1960); The Wide World of Mystery (1973); The Winds of War (1983); The Winds of War: Making 'The Winds of War' (2004); Thriller (1973); To Tell the Truth (1956–1991); Touched by an Angel (1998); Turner Classic Movies Remembers 2014 (2014); Twice in a Lifetime (1999); Valentine's Day (1964); Velvet (1984); Wagon Train (1961); War & Remembrance: Behind the Scenes (2004); War and Remembrance (1988–1989); Warpath (1951); Washington Square (1957); What's My Line? (1958–1966); You Don't Say (1967–1968); Your Chevrolet Showroom (1953); Your Hit Parade (1954); Your Show (1954); Yves Montand on Broadway (1961).

Born on this day – Harry Dean Stanton:

Harry Dean Stanton

Actor

Musician

Singer

July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017

Born on this day – John Paxton:

John Paxton

Actor

Producer

July 14, 1920 – November 17, 2011

Credits:

Oz the Great and Powerful (2013); Drag Me to Hell (2009); Spider-Man 3 (2007); Medium (2005); Spider-Man 2 (2004); Boomtown (2003); Spider-Man (2002); Frailty (2001); A Simple Plan (1998); Denial (1998); Traveller (1997); Last Man Standing (1996); Barb Wire (1996); Frank & Jesse (1994); Psycho Cop Returns (1993); Brain Dead (1990); Taking Tiger Mountain (1983).

Born on this day – Ingmar Bergman:

Ingmar Bergman

Director

Producer

Writer

July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007

Born on this day – Doris Nolan:

Doris Nolan

Actress

July 14, 1916 – July 29, 1998

Credits:

Aggie (1956); Armchair Theatre (1959); As Good as Married (1937); BBC Play of the Month (1966); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1951); Bindle (One of Them Days) (1966); Boy Meets Girl (1968); Brideshead Revisited (1981); Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1955); Emergency-Ward 10 (1964); Follies Girl (1943); Holiday (1938); Irene (1940); ITV Play of the Week (1958–1959); ITV Television Playhouse (1956); Juggernaut (1974); Moon Over Burma (1940); One Hour to Live (1939); Our Little Girl (1935); Robin Hood: Quest for the Crown (1995); Saint (1962); Strange Report (1969); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1962); The Man I Marry (1936); The Romantic Englishwoman (1975); The Servant (1963); The Third Man (1959); Top of the Town (1937).

Born on this day – William Hanna:

William Hanna

Animator

Cartoonist

Voice actor

Musician

July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001

Born on this day – Irving Stone:

Irving Stone

Writer

July 14, 1903 – August 26, 1989

Credits:

Books:

Adversary in the House (1947); Clarence Darrow for the Defence (1949); Dear Theo (1958); Depths of Glory (1985); Drawings of Michaelangelo (1960); Earl Warren (1948); From Mud-Flat Cove to Gold to Statehood: California, 1840-1850 (1999); Immortal Wife (1950); Love Is Eternal (1955); Lust for Life (1934); Mary Todd Lincoln, A Final Judgement? (1973); Men to Match My Mountains (1956); Sailor on Horseback (1938); The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961); The Greek Treasure (1975); The Irving Stone Reader (1971); The Origin (1980); The Passionate Journey (1950); The Passions of the Mind (1971); The President's Lady (1952); There Was Light (1970); They Also Ran (1966); Those Who Love (1966).

Movies and television:

Arkansas Judge (1941); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Clarence Darrow (1974); Climax! (1955); Day at Night (1974); General Electric Theater (1955); Gypsy (1966); Im Zweifel für den Angeklagten (1978); Life with Linkletter (1970); Lust for Life (1956); Magnificent Doll (1946); Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1989); The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965); The David Frost Show (1971); The Mike Douglas Show (1971); The President's Lady (1953); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971).

Born on this day – Martha Mansfield:

Martha Mansfield

Actress

July 14, 1899 – November 30, 1923

Credits:

A Man of Stone (1921); A Social Sleuth (1920); Broadway Bill (1918); Civilian Clothes (1920); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920); Fog Bound (1923); Gilded Lies (1921); His Brother's Keeper (1921); Is Money Everything? (1923); Little Red School House (1923); Max Comes Across (1917); Max in a Taxi (1917); Max Wants a Divorce (1917); Mothers of Men (1920); Potash and Perlmutter (1923); Queen of the Moulin Rouge (1922); Should a Husband Forgive? (1919); Society Snobs (1921); Some Mind Reader (1920); The Hand Invisible (1919); The Last Door (1921); The Leavenworth Case (1923); The Passion of Jekyll & Hyde (2019); The Perfect Lover (1919); The Silent Command (1923); The Spoiled Girl (1918); The Warrens of Virginia (1924); The Woman in Chains (1923); The Wonderful Chance (1920); Till We Meet Again (1922); Women Men Love (1921); Youthful Cheaters (1923).

Born on this day – Edythe Elliott:

Edythe Elliott

Actress

July 14, 1886 – April 9, 1978

Credits:

A Sporting Chance (1945); A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945); All That I Have (1951); Bachelor Mother (1939); Belle Le Grand (1951); Beware Spooks! (1939); Blondie for Victory (1942); Blondie in Society (1941); Bullets for Bandits (1942); Casanova in Burlesque (1944); Condemned Women (1938); Cowboy Canteen (1944); Crashing Hollywood (1938); Dancing Co-Ed (1939); Death Valley Days (1953); Dick Tracy (1945); Double Danger (1938); End of the Road (1944); Father Takes a Wife (1941); Fixer Dugan (1939); Flight Lieutenant (1942); Four Star Playhouse (1956); Freddie Steps Out (1946); Gangway for Tomorrow (1943); Ginger (1946); Girls of the Big House (1945); Gone with the Wind (1939); Harmon of Michigan (1941); Her Husband's Affairs (1947); High School Hero (1946); Hit Parade of 1951 (1950); Homesteaders of Paradise Valley (1947); House by the River (1950); I Married a Doctor (1936); Junior Army (1942); Kill the Umpire (1950); Let's Go Steady (1945); Life with Blondie (1945); Lucky Jordan (1942); Messenger of Peace (1947); Moron Than Off (1946); Nobody's Children (1940); One Mysterious Night (1944); Personality Kid (1946); Racket Squad (1953); Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1952); Redhead from Manhattan (1943); Rose of Cimarron (1952); Santa Fe Uprising (1946); Scotland Yard Investigator (1945); Show Them No Mercy! (1935); Simon Peter, Fisherman (1948); Stand by All Networks (1942); Stars on Parade (1944); Stella Dallas (1937); Stories of the Century (1955); That Brennan Girl (1946); The Bishop's Wife (1947); The Fabulous Texan (1947); The Girl on the Front Page (1936); The Great Mike (1944); The Iron Claw (1941); The Killer That Stalked New York (1950); The Lady from Shanghai (1947); The Madonna's Secret (1946); The Man Who Returned to Life (1942); The Medico of Painted Springs (1941); The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945); The Power of God (1942); The Power of the Whistler (1945); The Richest Man in Town (1941); The Rookie Cop (1939); The Seventh Victim (1943); The Son of Rusty (1947); The Song of Bernadette (1943); The Stork Pays Off (1941); The Undercover Woman (1946); Vacation Days (1947); Valley of Hunted Men (1942); Web of Danger (1947).

Recommended reading - Damon Runyon Omnibus (2019):

Damon Runyon Omnibus

Includes the short story The Old Doll’s House.

Filmed as Midnight Alibi (1934), directed by Alan Crosland.

Published by Must Have Books.

Published 2019.

ISBN-10: 1773236245

ISBN-13: 9781773236247

Description:

A collection of stories by Damon Runyon made about Broadway in New York City. This is a trilogy comprising three books: More than Somewhat, Furthermore, and Take it Easy.

Mary Roberts Rinehart, on writing:

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world

and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart.