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); Alimente (1930); Am Ruedesheimer Schloss steht eine Linde (1928); Andersson, Pettersson och Lundström (1923); Biprodukten (1969); Bodakungen (1920); Bruder Bernhard (1929); Dame Care (1928); Den italienska halmhatten (1974); Der Fahnenträger von Sedan (1927); Der schwarze Domino (1929); Die Flucht vor der Liebe (1929); Drottningen av Pellagonien (1927); Eine kleine Freundin braucht jeder Mann (1927); En kvinnas morgondag (1931); Ett resande teatersällskap (1972); Håll polisen utanför (1969); Hon, han och Andersson (1926); Hrích (1929); Ihr letztes Liebesabenteuer (1927); Jahrmarkt des Lebens (1928); Madame Bluebeard (1931); Mädchenschicksale (1928); Minns Ni? (1993); Mordbrännerskan (1926); När millionerna rullar... (1924); Sein bester Freund (1929); Seine stärkste Waffe (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); Wenn die Mutter und die Tochter... (1928); Wir halten fest und treu zusammen (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).

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.

On this day in movie history - The Banana Splits Movie (2019):

The Banana Splits Movie,

directed by Danishka Esterhazy,

written by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas,

based on The Banana Splits by Hanna-Barbera Productions,

was released at the San Diego Comic-Con International in the United States on July 18, 2019.
Music by Patrick Stump.

Cast:
Dani Kind, Steve Lund, Celina Martin, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Sara Canning, Romeo Carere, Maria Nash, Naledi Majola, Richard White, Kiroshan Naidoo, Keeno Lee Hector, Lia Sachs, Lionel Newton, Daniel Fox, Vash Singh, Nicky Rebelo, Liza Scholtz, Jenna Saras, Eric Bauza, Terry Sauls, Brandon Vraagom, Kori Clarke, Buntu Plam, Matthew Jander, Liam Williams, Bethany Jander, Grace Li, Marlene Trimborn-De Kock, Joshua Kalambay, Temoso Mogotsi, Lily Spangenberg.

On this day in movie history - Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006):

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light,

documentary directed by Gary Leva,

was released in the United States on July 18, 2006.

Cast:

John Alton, Drew Casper, Roger Deakins, John Debney, Edward Dmytryk, James Ellroy, Glenn Erickson, William Goldman, Jane Greer, Haden Guest, Patricia King Hanson, Brian Helgeland, Peter Honess, Rick Jewell, Janusz Kaminski, Eric Lax, Carol Littleton, Michael Madsen, Christopher McQuarrie, Frank Miller, Eddie Muller, Kim Newman, Christopher Nolan, John Ottman, Nicholas Pileggi, Sydney Pollack, André Previn, Graeme Revell, Henry Rollins, Theresa Russell, Paul Schrader, Talia Shire, Newton Thomas Sigel, Alain Silver, Audrey Totter, James Ursini, Gordon Willis, Lili Fini Zanuck.

On this day in movie history - Aliens (1986):

Aliens,

directed and written by James Cameron,

based on a story by James Cameron, David Giler and Walter Hill,

was released in the United States on July 18, 1986.
Music by James Horner.

Cast:
Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Jenette Goldstein, Al Matthews, Mark Rolston, Ricco Ross, Colette Hiller, Daniel Kash, Cynthia Dale Scott, Tip Tipping, Trevor Steedman, Paul Maxwell, Valerie Colgan, Alan Polonsky, Alibe Parsons, Blain Fairman, Barbara Coles, Carl Toop, John Lees, William Armstrong, Jay Benedict, Holly De Jong, Jill Goldston, Christopher Henn, Elizabeth Inglis, Mac McDonald, Stuart Milligan, Eddie Powell, Bob Sherman, Chris Webb, Tom Woodruff Jr.