On this day in movie history - Fat City (1972):

Fat City

directed by John Huston,

written by Leonard Gardner,

based on the novel by Leonard Gardner,

was released in the United States on July 26, 1972.
Music by Kenneth Hall.

Cast:

Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark, Nicholas Colasanto, Art Aragon, Curtis Cokes, Sixto Rodriguez, Billy Walker, Wayne Mahan, Ruben Navarro, Álvaro López, Carl D. Parker, Bill Riddle, Al Silvani.

On this day in movie history - The Underworld Story (1950):

The Underworld Story

directed by Cy Endfield,

written by Henry Blankfort and Cy Endfield,

based on a story by Craig Rice,

was released in the United States on July 26, 1950.
Music by David Rose.

Cast:

Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva, Michael O’Shea, Mary Anderson, Gar Moore, Melville Cooper, Frieda Inescort, Art Baker, Harry Shannon, Alan Hale Jr., Stephen Dunne, Roland Winters, Sue England, Lewis L. Russell, Frances Chaney, Stanley Blystone, Jack Mower, Edward Van Sloan.

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.

Born on this day – Leon Vitali:

Leon Vitali

Actor

Casting director

July 26, 1948 – August 19, 2022

Credits:

Arena: Making 'The Shining' (1980); Barry Lyndon (1975); Comedy Playhouse (1975); Crime of Passion (1973); Crown Court (1972–1973); Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein (2015); Dixon of Dock Green (1975); Edge of Outside (2006); Eyes Wide Shut (1999); Filmworker (2017); Follyfoot (1973); Full Metal Jacket (1987); Hadleigh (1971); Hamlet (1985); Haunted, Horrifying Sounds from Beyond the Grave (2018); I Am What You Imagine (2023); In the Bedroom (2001); Inter Rail (1981); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1973); Justice (1971); Kubrick Remembered (2014); Kubrick's Universe: The Stanley Kubrick Podcast (2018–2022); Little Children (2006); Long Voyage Out of War (1971); Love Story (1973); Mackan (1977); Mafia Junction (1973); Notorious Woman (1974); Please Sir! (1971); Prometheus: The Life of Balzac (1975); Public Eye (1971); Romeo & Juliet (2013); Room 237 (2012); Secrets of 'The Shining': Live from the First Annual Stanley Film Festival (2013); Shooting 'Full Metal Jacket' (1986); Softly Softly: Task Force (1970); Stanley and Us (1999); Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008); TCM Remembers 2022 (2022); Terror of Frankenstein (1977); The Burning Cold (2022); The Fenn Street Gang (1971–1972); The Roads to Freedom (1970); The Shining (1980); Up the Workers (1973–1976); Van der Valk (1973); Z Cars (1971).

Born on this day – Celeste Yarnall:

Celeste Yarnall

Actress

July 26, 1944 – October 7, 2018

Credits:

A New Kind of Love (1963); A Shattered Dream (1990); Ambition (1991); America Loves... Star Trek (2001); Around the World Under the Sea (1966); Beast of Blood (1970); Bewitched (1966); Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969); Bonanza (1968); Born Yesterday (1993); Brewed in Brooklyn (2013); Burke's Law (1963); Captain Nice (1967); Civil Wars (1993); Daughters of Privilege (1991); Drive-in Movie Memories (2001); Driving Me Crazy (1991); Elvis Found Alive (2012); Elvis on Tour (1972); Eve (1968); Fatal Beauty (1987); Femme (2013); Find Your Future Reality (2018); Funny About Love (1990); Gidget (1966); Hogan's Heroes (1968); In Name Only (1969); Insight (1971); It Takes a Thief (1968); It's Your Bet (1971); Knots Landing (1990); Land of the Giants (1968); Live a Little, Love a Little (1968); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Postal Meeter (1973); Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010); Mannix (1969); McMillan & Wife (1972); Melrose Place (1995–1998); Metaltech: Earthsiege (1994); Midnight Kiss (1993); My Three Sons (1962–1963); Ransom for a Dead Man (1971); Scorpio (1973); Shrink Rap (2003); Sisters (1994); Skinwalker: Curse of the Shaman (2005); Star Trek (1967); Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007); That's My Baby (2002); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1962); The Bold Ones: The Protectors (1969); The Cure (2018); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part II: 1962-1969 (2002); The Definitive Elvis: The Television Years (2002); The F.B.I. (1968); The Green Girl (2014); The Hollywood Stars of Tomorrow Awards (1967); The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972); The Last Doorway Show with Miss Misery (2011); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Mechanic (1972); The Nation's Favourite Elvis Song (2013); The Nutty Professor (1963); The Seven Ages of Elvis (2017); The Survivors (1969); The Two Sisters (2007); The Velvet Vampire (1971); The Wild Wild West (1965); Unbelievable!!!!! (2020); Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963); We the People (2018); William Shatner's Get a Life! (2012).

Born on this day – Hannelore Elsner:

Hannelore Elsner

Actress

July 26, 1942 – April 21, 2019

Born on this day – Brenton Wood:

Brenton Wood

R&B singer

Songwriter

July 26, 1941 – January 3, 2025

Credits:

Albums:

18 More of the Best, Vol. 2 (1999); Baby You Got It (1967); Better Believe It (2000); Brenton Wood's 18 Best (1991); Classic By Design (2000); Come Softly (1977); Gimme Little Sign (1967); Lord Hear My Prayer (2009); Oogum Boogum (1967); Out of the Woodwork (1986); Sweet Old School (1995); This Love Is for Real (2001).

Songs:

A Change Is Gonna Come (1969); All That Jazz (1975); Another Saturday Night (1973); Baby You Got It (1967); Bless Your Little Heart (1976); Boogaloosa Louisian' (1970); Come Softly To Me (1977); Gimme Little Sign (1967); Great Big Bundle of Love (1970); Hide-a-Way (1963); I Want Love (1966); It Only Make Me Want It More (1975); It's Just a Game, Love (1968); Let's Get Crazy Together (1978); Lovey Dovey Kinda Lovin' (1968); Number One (1977); Rainin' Love (You Gotta Feel It) (1975); Sad Little Song (1971); Some Got It, Some Don't (1968); Sticky Boom Boom (Too Cold) (1972); Sweet Molly Malone (1966); The Oogum Boogum Song (1967); Whoop It On Me (1969); You're Beautiful People (1973).

Movies and television:

20 to 1 (2008); 4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet (1968); Almost Famous (2000); American Bandstand (1967–1977); Aquarius (2015); Big Little Lies (2019); Colors (1988); Criminal Minds (2015); CrissCross (1992); Devil's Due (2014); Dogfight (1991); Don't Worry Darling (2022); Eastbound & Down (2010); England's World Cup Lionesses (2019); Festival di Sanremo (1969); Funny Woman (2022); GLOW (2018); Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991); Hard Eight (1996); Home Again (2017); Infinitely Polar Bear (2014); It's Happening (1968); Joy (2024); Life of Crime (2013); Little Fish (2020); Lorraine (2016); Love, Simon (2018); Lovelace (2013); Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln (2024); Lymelife (2008); Mortal Sins (1989); Mother and Child (2009); Mr. Write (1994); Mrs. America (2020); Murphy Brown (1990); My Crazy Life (1993); On My Block (2019); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016); Pie in the Sky (1995); Playboy After Dark (1969); Poms (2019); Popdown (1969); Reptile (2023); Reversal of Fortune (1990); Scorpion (2016); Seven Girlfriends (1999); Sex Education (2021); Shopgirl (2005); Slayground (1983); Small Time (2014); Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso (2017); The Gray Man (2022); The Groovy Show (1967); The Joey Bishop Show (1967); The Last Days of Disco (1998); The Playroom (2012); The Shack (2017); The Stand (2021); The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989); The Umbrella Academy (2022); The Woody Woodbury Show (1968); This Fool (2022); Tohuwabohu (1998); Top of the Pops (1968); Vibrato (1968); Will & Harper (2024); Your Mother Should Know (2018).

Born on this day – Kathryn Hays:

Kathryn Hays

Actress

July 26, 1934 – March 25, 2022

Kathryn Hays in Star Trek (1968).

Credits:

ABC Late Night (1975); After Hours: Getting to Know Us (1977); American Playhouse (1989); Arrest and Trial (1964); As the World Turns (1972–2010); Bearcats! (1971); Bonanza (1964); Branded (1965); Breakout (1970); Cade's County (1972); Circle of Fear (1973); Counterpoint (1967); Dr. Kildare (1963); Guiding Light (1952); Hawaiian Eye (1962); Here Come the Brides (1969); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1963); Ladybug Ladybug (1963); Law & Order (1999); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2007); Mannix (1968); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1969); Mr. Novak (1964); Naked City (1962); Night Gallery (1972); One Life to Live (2010); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971); Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966); Route 66 (1963); Run for Your Life (1966); SoapTalk (2006); Star Trek / episode entitled: The Empath, originally aired December 6 (1968); Surfside 6 (1962); The 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2023); The 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2006); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1971); The Defenders (1964); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The High Chaparral (1968); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1967); The Lieutenant (1963); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965); The Merv Griffin Show (1966); The Road West (1966–1967); The Virginian (1965); This Savage Land (1969); Vacation Playhouse (1967); Wide Country (1963); Yuma (1971).

A timeline and pictorial tribute to the work of Stanley Kubrick:

A timeline and pictorial tribute to the work of Stanley Kubrick

In celebration of his movies:

Day of the Fight (1951)

Flying Padre (1951)

The Seafarers (1953)

Fear and Desire (1953)

Killer's Kiss (1955)

The Killing (1956)

Paths of Glory (1957)

Spartacus (1960)

Lolita (1962)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

The Shining (1980)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Video created by Jack Kost.

2022.

Music credit:

Cryptic Sorrow by Kevin MacLeod.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

– Stanley Kubrick.

In memory of Stanley Kubrick

Director

Producer

Writer

Photographer

July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999