On this day in music history - A Journey for Mankind, by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer (2019):

A Journey for Mankind

Album by Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer,

released July 19, 2019.

Track list:

Dawn at the Coast; Trans-Lunar; A Song for Distant Earth; Shadow of the Moon; Blue Pearl in a Black Sky; Tranquility Base Here; Magnificent Solitude; Trans-earth; Night Sky in Wonder.

On this day in movie history - The Frighteners (1996):

The Frighteners

directed by Peter Jackson,

written by Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson,

was released in the United States on July 19, 1996.
Music by Danny Elfman.

Cast:

Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs, Dee Wallace Stone, Jake Busey, Chi McBride, Jim Fyfe, Troy Evans, Julianna McCarthy, R. Lee Ermey, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Angela Bloomfield, Desmond Kelly, Jonathan Blick, Todd Rippon, John Sumner, Michael Robinson, Jim McLarty, Anthony Ray Parker, Paul Yates, Melanie Lynskey, John Leigh, Nicola Cliff, Ken Blackburn, Stuart Devenie, Genevieve Westcott, K.C. Kelly, Leslie Wing, Leslie Klein, Frank Edwards, Alan O’Leary, Danny Lineham, Charlie McClellan, William Pomeroy, George Port, Billy Jackson, Sophie Watkins, Taea Hartwell, Max Grover, George Grover, Tony Hopkins, Lewis Martin, Clay Nelson, Matthew Chamberlain, Vivienne Kaplan, Liz Mullane, Matt Aitken, Grae Burton, Michael Elsworth, Nic Farra, Peter Jackson, Rhys Jordan, Paul Kingdom, Isaac Lucas, Michael Maxwell, Bryce McCawe, Nicolas Pegg, April Phillips, Tracey Savage, Jeff Slaven, Clinton Ulyatt, Fran Walsh.

Born on this day – Charley Scalies:

Charley Scalies

Actor

July 19, 1940 – May 1, 2025

Credits:

12 Monkeys (1995); Cold Case (2008); Condition Red (1995); Diary of a City Priest (2001); Homicide: Life on the Street (1996); Jersey Girl (2004); Job No. 5 (2006); Law & Order (1997); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2006–2008); Liberty Heights (1999); Nicky's Game (2005); The Doghouse (2000); The Sopranos (2004); The Wire (2003); Two Bits (1995).

Born on this day – Allan Blye:

Allan Blye

Writer

Producer

Actor

July 19, 1937 – October 4, 2024

Credits:

60 Minutes / Segment: The Smothers Brothers (1969); A Dream of Body (1972); Andy Williams' Kaleidoscope Company (1968); Bizarre (1979–1986); Breaking the Band (2018); Comic Relief V (1992); E! True Hollywood Story (2003); Elvis: One Night with You (1985); Elvis: The Comeback Special (1968); Festival (1966); Hamburgers (1974); Joey & Dad (1975); Juliette (1963); Li'l Abner (1971); Lola! (1975–1976); Mister Rogers (1963–1967); My First Time (2006); Pat Paulsen for President (1968); Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour (1970); Petula (1968); Playdate (1962); Redd Foxx (1977–1978); Reinventing Elvis: The '68 Comeback (2023); Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (2002); Super Dave (1987–1999); Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire (1992); Super Dave's All Stars (1997–1998); Super Dave's Spike Tacular (2009); Super Dave's Vegas Spectacular (1995); That's My Mama (1974–1975); The 20th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1968); The 21st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1969); The 44th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1992); The Andy Williams Christmas Show (1971); The Andy Williams Christmas Special (1968); The Andy Williams Magic Lantern Show Company (1969); The Andy Williams Show (1969–1971); The Bobby Vinton Show (1975–1977); The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave (2000); The Forest Rangers (1963); The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show (1974); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2019); The Juliette Show (1954–1966); The Ken Berry 'Wow' Show (1972); The Life and Times of Sonny Bono (1999); The Ray Stevens Show (1970); The Redd Foxx Special (1978); The Return of the Smothers Brothers (1970); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967–1993); The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1971–1977); The Sonny Comedy Revue (1974); The Summer Brothers Smothers Show (1968); The Super Bob Einstein Movie (2021); The Super Dave Superbowl of Knowledge (1994); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1970); Theatre 625 (1965); Van Dyke and Company (1975 / 1976); Zoomerang! (1974).

Born on this day – Buster Benton:

Buster Benton

Blues singer

Guitarist

July 19, 1932 – January 20, 1996

Credits:

Albums:

Blues and Trouble (2002); Blues at the Top (1993); Blues Buster (1979); Buster Benton Is the Feeling (1980); First Time in Europe (1983); I Like to Hear My Guitar Sing (1991); Money's the Name of the Game (1989); Spider in My Stew (1978); That's the Reason (1997); Why Me (1988).

Television:

Àngel Casas Show (1985).

Born on this day – Patricia Medina:

Patricia Medina

Actress

July 19, 1919 – April 28, 2012

Credits:

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950); Adventures in Paradise (1959); AFI Life Achievement Award (1975); Aladdin and His Lamp (1952); Assignment: Underwater (1960); Black Saddle (1959); Bonanza (1960); Botany Bay (1952); Branded (1966); Burke's Law (1964); Cain's Hundred (1961); Captain Pirate (1952); Children of Chance (1949); Climax! (1954–1958); Compression (2024); Confidential Report (1955); Coronado 9 (1960–1961); Count Your Blessings (1959); Crook's Tour (1940); Dante (1960); Desperate Search (1952); Dinner at the Ritz (1937); Don't Take It to Heart! (1944); Double or Quits (1938); Drums of Tahiti (1953); Duel on the Mississippi (1955); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1998); Food, Wine & Friends (1980); Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950); Francis (1950); General Electric Theater (1959); Girl Talk (1963); Grindl (1963); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958–1963); High Low Quiz (1957); Hotel de Paree (1960); Hotel Reserve (1944); Il mantello rosso (1955); It's Your Bet (1972); Keene (1969); Kiss the Bride Goodbye (1945); Kraft Mystery Theater (1963); Lady in the Iron Mask (1952); Latitude Zero (1969); Lock Up (1960); Looks Familiar (1978); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014); Manhunt (1960); Mannix (1971); Miami Exposé (1956); Missiles from Hell (1958); Moss Rose (1947); Mr. Satan (1938); My Brother the Angel (1966); Over Easy (1978); Perry Mason (1958); Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954); Pirates of Tripoli (1955); Plunder of the Sun (1953); Rawhide (1959–1961); Rheingold Theatre (1954); Riverboat (1960); Sangaree (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood (1954); Simply Terrific (1938); Siren of Bagdad (1953); Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961); Spitfire (1942); Startime (1960); Stranger at My Door (1956); Stump the Stars (1963); Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers (1956); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The 37th Annual Thalians Ball (1992); The 4th Annual American Cinema Awards (1987); The 9th Annual American Cinema Awards (1992); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Avengers (1942); The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956); The Beginning or the End (1947); The Black Knight (1954); The Bob Braun Show (1975); The Buckskin Lady (1957); The Californians (1958); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1966); The EE British Academy Film Awards (2013); The Fighting O'Flynn (1949); The Ford Television Theatre (1953–1956); The Foxes of Harrow (1947); The Hollywood Collection: Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man (1999); The Jackpot (1950); The Juke Box Jury (1958); The Killing of Sister George (1968); The Lady and the Bandit (1951); The Lee Phillip Show (1971); The Magic Carpet (1951); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965); The Movie Game (1970); The Name of the Game (1970); The Rebel (1960); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Rogues (1964); The Secret Heart (1946); The Third Man (1959); The Three Musketeers (1948); The Timber Tramps (1973); They Met in the Dark (1943); This Is Your Life (1978); This Man Is News (1938); Thriller (1961); Tightrope (1959); To Rome with Love (1970); Uranium Boom (1956); Valentino (1951); Waltz Time (1945); Whispering Smith (1961); Zorro (1959).

Born on this day – Denise Bosc:

Denise Bosc

Actress

Writer

July 19, 1916 – March 9, 2002

Credits:

Attila (1954); Tramp (1938); Daisy Town (1971); Désiré Lafarge (1979); Helen of Troy (1956) Joan of Arc (1973); The Girls' Cage (1949); The Fortress (1959); The Rose of the Sea (1946); Chair 47 (1937); The Majestic Cellars (1945); The daughters of the Rhône (1938); Masters of Mystery (2023); The Mohicans of Paris (1975); The scrambled eggs (1976); History Exceeds Fiction (1961); Hummingbird Mama (1937); Night Doctors (1986); Nans the Shepherd (1976); Saturnin de Marseille (1941); Sign of the Gladiator (1959); The Lovers of Toledo (1953) The World Condemns Them (1953); Theodora, Slave Empress (1954); Trubadúri z pendloviek (1988) One delitto (1984); A Night in Tabarin (1947); Yamilé under the cedars (1939).

Born on this day – Isabel Jewell:

Isabel Jewell

Actress

July 19, 1907 – April 5, 1972

Credits:

A Tale of Two Cities (1935); Advice to the Forlorn (1933); Babies for Sale (1940); Badman's Territory (1946); Beauty for Sale (1933); Belle Starr's Daughter (1948); Bernardine (1957); Big Brown Eyes (1936); Blessed Event (1932); Bombshell (1933); Bondage (1933); Born to Kill (1947); Career Woman (1936); Ceiling Zero (1936); Ciao Manhattan (1972); Climax! (1957); Counsellor at Law (1933); Dancing Feet (1936); Danger! Women at Work (1943); Day of Reckoning (1933); Design for Living (1933); Dr. Christian (1956); Drum Beat (1954); Evelyn Prentice (1934); Fireside Theatre (1952–1953); For Beauty's Sake (1941); Go West Young Man (1936); Gone with the Wind (1939); Gunsmoke (1965); Here Comes the Groom (1934); High Sierra (1940); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Irene (1940); I've Been Around (1935); Judd for the Defense (1967); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Let's Be Ritzy (1934); Little Men (1940); Lock Up (1961); Lost Horizon (1937); Love on Toast (1937); Mad Love (1935); Man in the Attic (1953); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Marked Men (1940); Marked Woman (1937); Matinee Theatre (1956–1957); Michael O'Halloran (1948); Missing Daughters (1939); Mr. & Mrs. North (1952); Northwest Passage (1940); Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! (1940); catterbrain (1940); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 14, No. 1 (1934); Sensation Hunters (1945); Shadow of Doubt (1935); She Had to Choose (1934); Small Town Girl (1936); Steppin' in Society (1945); Sweet Kill (1972); Swing It, Sailor! (1938); The Adventures of Kit Carson (1952); The Aquanauts (1961); The Bishop's Wife (1947); The Casino Murder Case (1935); The Crime of the Century (1933); The Crowd Roars (1938); The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1953); The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936); The Leopard Man (1943); The Making of 'Lost Horizon' (1999); The Man Who Lived Twice (1936); The Merry Monahans (1944); The New Cinema (1968); The Seventh Victim (1943); The Snake Pit (1948); The Story of Molly X (1949); The Unexpected (1952); The Untouchables (1962); The Week End Mystery (1931); The Women in His Life (1933); They Asked for It (1939); 36 Hours to Kill (1936); Times Square Lady (1935); Treasury Men in Action (1955); Unfaithfully Yours (1948); Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936).

Born on this day – Vera Schmiterlöw:

Vera Schmiterlöw

Actress

July 19, 1904 – September 9, 1987

Credits:

33.333 (1924); Alimony (1930); At Ruedesheim Castle there is a lime tree (1928); Andersson, Pettersson och Lundström (1923); bi-products (1969); Bodakungen (1920); Brother Bernhard (1929); Dame Care (1928); Den italienska halmhatten (1974); The standard-bearer von Sedan (1927); The Black Domino (1929); Die Flucht vor der Liebe (1929); Drottningen av Pellagonien (1927); A Little Girlfriend Needs Every Man (1927); En Kvinnas Morgondag (1931); Ett resande teatersällskap (1972); Håll polisen Utanför (1969); Hon, han och Andersson (1926); Hrích (1929); Her last love adventure (1927); Jahrmarkt des Lebens (1928); Madame Bluebeard (1931); Girls' fates (1928); Minns Ni? (1993); Mordbrännerskan (1926); När millionerna rullar... (1924); His Best Friend (1929); His Strongest Weapon (1928); Släpp fångarne Loss - det är vår! (1975); Styrman Karlssons flammor (1925); Thomas Graals Myndling (1922); Unga hjärtan (1934) Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht (1929); When the mother and daughter... (1928); We hold together firmly and faithfully (1929).

Born on this day – Robert Leslie Bellem:

Robert Leslie Bellem

Writer

July 19, 1902 – April 1, 1968

Credits:

Written work:

30 Seconds (1937); Back Home to Hell (1940); Beyond the Veil (1936); Bitter Reckoning (1937); Blood for the Vampire Dead (1940); Castle Sinister (1935); Cats of Cassandra (1935); Cavern of the Faceless (1936); Command to Kill (1935); Corpse Without a Face (1935); Curse of the Lovely Torso (1940); Dark Eyes of Hell (1938); Dark Splendor (1936); Dead Legs Walk (1935); Dealer in Death (1938); Death Orchids (1935); Death's Bright Halo (1935); Death's Chrysalis (1936); Death's Detour (1937); Death's Detour: The Surgeon of Souls Collection, Volume 1 (2002); Death's Nocturne (1936); Death's Passport (1940); Doom of the Half-Dead (1936); Fangs of the Bat (1935); Fate of the Faulains (1936); Fiend's Feast (1938); Flowers of Desire (1936); Forever Vengeance (1942); From the Sea (1936); Gallows Heritage (1937); Gallows Heritage: The Surgeon of Souls Collection, Volume 2 (2003); Ghost Cavalcade (1938); Ghoul's Trap (1937); Girl of Flame (1940); Graveyard Honeymoon (1936); Hell's Dark Fragrance (1936); Heritage of Madness (1937); Homicide Hunch (1943); I Am a Monster (1937); I Must Have Five Corpses (1936); Introducing the Author - Robert Leslie Bellem (1941); Kill That Headline (1939); Labyrinth of Monsters (1936); Letter / Amazing Stories, June 1934 (1934); Lorelei of Lynnwold Light (1935); Low Bridge (1941); Master of Death (1935); Mesa of Madness (1941); Message from the Grave (1942); Mirror Magic (1938); Mistress of Serpents (1935); Murder from Nowhere (1935); Murder Mine (1947); Murder's Migrants (1943); Pancho Diego, Villain (1936); Pearl of Hell (1941); Portals of Peril (1939); Portrait of Terror (1936); Princess of Dreams (1938); Program for Plunder (1939); Red Thirst (1939); Reunion Beyond (1936); Robots Can't Lie (1941); Room of Dreams (1938); Shadow from Eleusis (1938); Shadows Pass (1936); She Who Was Dead (1936); Six Lives for One (1940); Sonance Sinister (1940); Strange Journey (1938); Surgeon of Souls (1936); Taupoo Dance (1936); Televised Frame / comic strip (1949); The Belled Rat (1935); The Blood Drinkers (1935); The Corpse Screams Twice (1937); The Crimson Crone (1935); The Dark Tower (1937); The Executioner (1935); The Green Death Walks (1936); The Man Who Was Not (1935); The Moon-God Takes (1936); The Short-Wave Superman (1941); The Soul Eater (1938); The Surgeon of Souls and Other Tales of Terror (2009); The Thing in the Shaft (1939); Through Fire (1940); Tryst with Death (1936); Vampire's Castle (1938); Variant: "I Must Have 5 Corpses" (2015); Variant: Blood for Sale (1942); Variant: Cats of Cassandra (1935); Variant: Death Orchids (1935); Variant: Dog of Death (1942); Variant: Eyes of the Cat (1942); Variant: Fork the in Road (1942); Variant: I Must Have Five Corpses (1936); Variant: Miracle Man (1942); Variant: Murder Moon (1942); Variant: Nameless Dread of the Savage Sirens (1949); Variant: Payment in Blood (1942); Variant: The Blood Drinkers (1935); Variant: Will O' the Wisp (1942); Welcome to Hell (1941); When the Dead Awaken (1937); Wooed by a Werewolf (1939); You Are a Murderer (1940).

Movies and television:

77 Sunset Strip (1963–1964); Adventures of Superman (1956–1958); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1953); Assignment: Underwater (1961); Behind Closed Doors (1959); Blackmail (1947); Boston Blackie / Front Page Detective (1951 / 1953); Broken Arrow (1957–1958); Captain Midnight (1955–1956); Chevron Theatre (1953); Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (1990); Death Valley Days (1965); Dick Tracy (1950–1952); Eye Witness (1953); General Electric Summer Originals (1956); Iron Horse (1967); Johnny Midnight (1960); Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959); Man Without a Gun (1957–1959); Perry Mason (1961–1964); Schlitz Playhouse (1953–1954); Steve Donovan, Western Marshal (1956); Superman (1973); Temple Houston (1963); The Californians (1959); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The F.B.I. (1965–1967); The Forsaken Westerns (2017); The Lone Ranger (1956–1957); The Millionaire (1957–1959); The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1957); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Restless Gun (1958); The Texan (1960); The Third Man (1963); The Web (1957); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959).

Recommended reading - The Frighteners, by Michael Jahn (1996):

The Frighteners

By Michael Jahn.

Published by Boulevard Book.

Published 1996.

Movie tie-in.

ISBN-10: 0157297187

ISBN-13: 9780157297188

Description:

When a serial killer reaches out from beyond the grave and, in the guise of the Grim Reaper, embarks on a New England killing spree, it is up to a hapless young man with special powers, aided by some friendly earthbound spirits, to stop him.

Walt Whitman, on writing:

The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place.

I always worked that way.

I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…

By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

- Walt Whitman.