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Thursday, May 30, 2024

On this day in movie history - The Terror (1963):

The Terror,

directed by Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Hale,

Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Dennis Jakob and Jack Nicholson,

written by Leo Gordon, Jack Hill and Roger Corman,

was released in France on May 30, 1963.
Music by Ronald Stein.

Cast:
Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Dorothy Neumann, Jonathan Haze.

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.

Born on this day – Meredith MacRae:

Meredith MacRae

Actress

Singer

Talk show host

May 30, 1944 – July 14, 2000

Born on this day – Michael J. Pollard:

Michael J. Pollard

Actor

May 30, 1939 – November 20, 2019

Born on this day – Michael Small:

Michael Small

Composer

May 30, 1939 – November 24, 2003

Born on this day – Agnès Varda:

Agnès Varda

Director

Writer

Photographer

Artist

May 30, 1928 – March 29, 2019

Born on this day – Hal Clement:

Hal Clement

Writer

Painter

May 30, 1922 – October 29, 2003

Credits:

Books:

Analog: Writers' Choice Volume II (1984); Astounding Science Fiction, May 1958 (1958); Attitude (1943); Best of Science Fiction: No. 10 (1964); Close to Critical (1964); Cycle of Fire (1957); Decade: The 1940's (1975); Fossil (1993); Half Life (1999); Heavy Planet (2001); Hot Planet (2016); Iceworld (1951); Intuit (1987); Left of Africa (1976); Mission of Gravity (1954); Murder at the Galactic Writers' Society (1995); Music of Many Spheres (2000); Natives of Space (1965); Nebula Awards 34 (2000) (2000); Needle (1949); Noise (2003); Ocean On Top (1967); Phases in Chaos (1991); Planet for Plunder (2012); Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium (1975); SF Authors' Choice 2 (1970); Small Changes (1969); Star Light (1971); Stellar #2 (1976); Stellar #2 (1976); Stellar #3 (1977); Stellar #4 (1978); Stellar #5 (1980); Stellar #6 (1980); Stellar #7 (1981); Stellar Short Novels (1976); Still River (1987); The Ascent of Wonder (1994); The Best of Hal Clement (1979); The Diplomacy Guild (1990); The Eighth Galaxy Reader (1965); The Green World (2010); The Hard SF Renaissance (2003); The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding (1973); The Nitrogen Fix (1980); The Ranger Boys in Space (1956); The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV (1976); Through the Eye of a Needle (1978); Trio for Slide Rule and Typewriter (1999); Unnatural Diplomacy (1992); Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton (2000).

Movies and television:

50th Anniversary Brunch Noreascon Three Videotape (1989); Amok (1985); Prisoners of Gravity (1992); Sci-Fi Buzz (1992).

Born on this day – Louise Campbell:

Louise Campbell

Actress

May 30, 1911 – November 5, 1997

Credits:

Anne of Windy Poplars (1940); Bowery Boy (1940); Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937); Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938); Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937); Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939); Bush Pilot (1947); Devil Ship (1947); Emergency Squad (1940); Men with Wings (1938); NBC Television Theatre (1946); Night Club Scandal (1937); Scandal Street (1938); The Buccaneer (1938); The Star Maker (1939); Wild Money (1937).

Born on this day – Gloria Shea:

Gloria Shea

Actress

May 30, 1910 – February 8, 1995

Credits:

23 -- Skidoo (1930); A Demon for Trouble (1934); A Private Engagement (1930); A Successful Failure (1934); Absent Minded Abner (1932); Alias the Professor (1933); Big City Blues (1932); Big Time or Bust (1933); Black Gold (1936); Bolero (1934); Booklovers (1929); Dance, Girl, Dance (1933); Dancing Around (1929); Dangerous Intrigue (1936); Glorifying the American Girl (1929); Great God Gold (1935); His Vacation (1932); I Like It That Way (1934); Laddie (1935); Life Begins (1932); Men of Action (1935); Money Means Nothing (1934); One-Way Ticket (1935); Smoking Guns (1934); Strange People (1933); The Dude Bandit (1933); The Eleventh Commandment (1933); The Fiddlin' Buckaroo (1933); The Gob (1930); The Heart Breaker (1930); The Last Days of Pompeii (1935); The Love Kiss (1930); The Night Mayor (1932); The Oil Raider (1934); The Phantom of the Air (1933); The Varsity Show (1930); They Call It Sin (1932); Tomorrow's Youth (1934); Umpa (1933); We're Rich Again (1934); Women Won't Tell (1932).

Born on this day – Howard Hawks:

Howard Hawks

Director

Producer

Writer

May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977

Credits:

1925 Studio Tour (1925); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); 47th Annual Academy Awards (1975); A Girl in Every Port (1928); A Little Princess (1917); A Song Is Born (1948); Adventure (1925); Air Force (1943); American Masters (2001–2008); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Ball of Fire (1941); Barbary Coast (1935); Big John (2006); Biography (1993–2001); Bob Hampton of Placer (1921); Bringing Up Baby (1938); Cary Grant and Howard Hawks (2003); Ceiling Zero (1936); Cinema (1967); Code of the West (1925); Come and Get It (1936); Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo' (2007); Corvette K-225 (1943); Dark Hearts: The Secret Of Haunting Melissa (2014); Dinty (1920); El Dorado (1966); Empty Hands (1924); Fazil (1928); Femme Fatales (2012); Fig Leaves (1926); Filmmakers in Action (2005); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Go and Get It (1920); Hatari! (1962); Hawks on Hawks (2017); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3 (1942); His Girl Friday (1940); Hollywood Greats (1977); Hollywood Insider (2021); Honesty - The Best Policy (1926); Howard Hawks on the Front Page and His Girl Friday (2017); Howard Hawks: A Hell of a Good Life (1978); Howard Hawks: American Artist (1997); Howard Hawks: Reporter's Notebook (2000); I Was a Male War Bride (1949); In Again, Out Again (1917); Indianapolis Speedway (1939); Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast (1977); La foule hurle (1932); Land of the Pharaohs (1955); Lauren Bacall, ombre et lumière (2017); Le Cinéma selon Luc Moullet (Carnet Filmé: 29 janvier 1979) (1979); Lord Jim (1925); Man's Favorite Sport? (1964); Metropolis Refound (2010); Monkey Business (1952); Neues aus der Welt des Films (1971); North of 36 (1924); O. Henry's Full House (1952); One Handshake Away: Peter Bogdanovich and the Icons of Cinema (2024); Only Angels Have Wings (1939); Open All Night (1924); Paid to Love (1927); Penrod (1922); Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo (1970); Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008); Quicksands (1923); Red Line 7000 (1965); Red River (1948); Rio Bravo (1959); Rio Lobo (1970); Scarface (1932); Scarface (1983); Sergeant York (1941); Talking Pictures (2016); Targets (1968); Test Pilot (1938); The Air Circus (1928); The Big Sky (1952); The Big Sleep (1946); The Cradle Snatchers (1927); The Criminal Code (1930); The Crowd Roars (1932); The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1924); The Dawn Patrol (1930); The Dawn Patrol (1938); The Devil's Cargo (1925); The Dreamers (2003); The Dressmaker from Paris (1925); The Great Professional: Howard Hawks (1967); The Heritage of the Desert (1924); The Light of Western Stars (1925); The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973); The Outlaw (1943); The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933); The Road to Glory (1926); The Road to Yesterday (1925); The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011); The Thing from Another World (1951); Tiger Love (1924); Tiger Shark (1932); To Have and Have Not (1944); Today We Live (1933); Trent's Last Case (1929); Twentieth Century (1934); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Underworld (1927); Viva Villa! (1934); Welcome to the Basement (2020).