On this day in movie history - Yield to the Night (1956 movie & novel):

Yield to the Night

a.k.a. Blonde Sinner,

directed by J. Lee Thompson,

written by John Cresswell, Joan Henry,

based on the novel Yield to the Night by Joan Henry,

released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 4, 1956.

Music by Ray Martin.

Cast: Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Marie Ney, Geoffrey Keen, Liam Redmond, Olga Lindo, Joan Miller, Marjorie Rhodes, Molly Urquhart, Mary Mackenzie, Harry Locke, Michael Ripper, Joyce Blair, Charles Clay, Athene Seyler, Peggy Livesey, Mona Washbourne, Alec Finter, Marianne Stone, Mercia Shaw, Charles Lloyd Pack, Dandy Nichols, John Charlesworth, Frank Hawkins, Shirley Anne Field, Fred Machon, Charles Rayford, Pat Ryan.

Recommended reading:

Yield to the Night

By Joan Henry.

Published by Doubleday.

Published 1954.

ISBN-10: 0856175862

ISBN-13: 9780856175862

Born on this day – Yvonne Mitchell:

Yvonne Mitchell

Actress

Writer

July 7, 1915 – March 24, 1979

Credits:

Books:

But Answer Came There None a Novel (date?); But Wednesday Cried (1974); Cathy Away Mitchell Nw 115 (1967); Colette (1975); Colette a Taste for Life (date?); Fables (date?); Martha on Sunday a Novel (date?).

Movies and television:

1984 - BBC Live TV Productions (1954); 1990 (1978); Afternoon Film Festival (1956); Appointment with Drama (1955); Armchair Theatre (1956); Armchair Theatre (1956–1968); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1952–1957); Cheri (1973); Children of Chance (1949); Conspiracy of Hearts (1960); Crucible of Horror (1971); Demons of the Mind (1972); Double Bill: Pariah and the Stronger (1958); Escapade (1955); Genghis Khan (1965); Interpol Calling (1959); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1966); ITV Playhouse (1969); ITV Television Playhouse (1956); Johnny Nobody (1961); Late Night Line-Up (1968); Let's Imagine (1963); Love on the Dole (1941); Love Story (1965); Nido de viudas (1977); One Pair of Eyes (1970); Out of the Unknown (1966); Rheingold Theatre (1954); Sapphire (1959); Something to Read (1959); Storm Over Jamaica (1958); Suspicion (1972); The Book Programme (1975); The Divided Heart (1954); The Dybbuk (1952); The Great Waltz (1972); The Incredible Sarah (1976); The Infinite Shoeblack (1952); The Jazz Age (1968); The Legend of Robin Hood (1975); The Main Attraction (1962); The Mask (1952); The Queen of Spades (1949); The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960); This Is Show Business (1954); Thursday Theatre (1964); Tiger Bay (1959); Turn the Key Softly (1953); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1957 (1958); Who Said That? (1958); Whose Baby? (1973); Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957); Words and Music (1959); Yield to the Night (1956).