On this day in movie history - Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956 movie & novel):

Somebody Up There Likes Me

directed by Robert Wise,

written by Ernest Lehman,

based on the autobiography by Rocky Graziano with Rowland Barber,

was released in the United States on July 4, 1956.
Music by Bronislau Kaper.

Cast:

Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Harold J. Stone, Joseph Buloff, Sal Mineo, Ray Stricklyn, Robert Loggia, Steve McQueen, Angela Cartwright, Jack Orrison, Frank Campanella, Dean Jones.

Recommended reading:

Somebody Up There Likes Me

By Rocky Graziano with Rowland Barber.

Filmed as Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), directed by Robert Wise.

Published by Ecco Press.

Published 1954.

ISBN 13: 9780880013932

ISBN 10: 0880013931

ASIN: 0880013931

Paperback.

Description:

The blood-soaked autobiography of a fist-happy hoodlum…

Rocky’s right hand saw him through three stretches in reform school, four man-size prisons, the middle-weight championship of the world, and a career as a television comedian with Martha Raye.

We get a view of what it’s like to be on the lam from truant officers, probation officers, goons, cops, and creeps too stupid to be anything but legitimate. What it’s like to hit first or get hit! – Saturday Review.

Born on this day – Pier Angeli:

Pier Angeli

Actress

Singer

June 19, 1932 – September 10, 1971

Credits:

Addio Alexandra (1969); Battle of the Bulge (1965); Biography (2002); Cinépanorama (1964); Code Name, Red Roses (1968); Domani è un altro giorno (1951); Eröffnung der X. Internationalen Filmfestspiele (1960); Estoril y sus fiestas (1960); Every Bastard a King (1968); Flame and the Flesh (1954); For One Thousand Dollars Per Day (1966); Girl Talk (1968); Grand écran (1964); In the Folds of the Flesh (1970); I've Got a Secret (1956); James Dean: Forever Young (2005); James Dean: The First American Teenager (1975); King of Africa (1968); M.M.M. 83 (1966); Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956); Merry Andrew (1958); Miss Nitouche (1954); Musketeers of the Sea (1962); Octaman (1971); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1958); Port Afrique (1956); Quell'amore particolare (1970); Shadow of Evil (1964); Sodom and Gomorrah (1962); Sombrero (1953); Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956); SOS Pacific (1959); Spy in Your Eye (1965); Teresa (1951); The Angry Silence (1960); The Devil Makes Three (1952); The Ed Sullivan Show (1954); The Filming of the Battle of the Bulge (1965); The Light Touch (1951); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Million Dollar Nickel (1952); The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (1960); The Silver Chalice (1954); The Story of Three Loves / Segment: Equilibrium (1953); The Vic Damone Show (1956); The Vintage (1957); Tomorrow Is Too Late (1950); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1955); Viva América! (1969); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958); What's My Line? (1956); When the Applause Died / Death in Hollywood (1990); White Slave Ship (1961).