Born on this day – Sydney Greenstreet:

Sydney Greenstreet

Actor

December 27, 1879 – January 18, 1954

Credits:

Malaya (1949); It's a Great Feeling (1949); Flamingo Road (1949); The Velvet Touch (1948); The Woman in White (1948); Ruthless (1948); The Hucksters (1947); That Way with Women (1947); The Verdict (1946); Devotion (1946); Three Strangers (1946); Christmas in Connecticut (1945); Pillow to Post (1945); Conflict (1945); Hollywood Canteen (1944); The Conspirators (1944); The Mask of Dimitrios (1944); Between Two Worlds (1944); Passage to Marseille (1944); Background to Danger (1943); Casablanca (1942); Across the Pacific (1942); They Died with Their Boots On (1941); The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Recommended reading - Film Noir Reader 4: The Crucial Films and Themes (2004):

Film Noir Reader 4: The Crucial Films and Themes

by Alain Silver and James Ursini.

Published by Limelight.
Published 2004.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0879103051
ISBN-13: 978-0879103057

Description:

The earlier Film Noir Readers, which now boast a combined sale of well over 30 000 copies, have all quite deliberately conveyed a sweeping overview of the classic period, demonstrating how broad and inclusive noir movies are. Film Noir Reader 4 moves in a different direction. Its purpose is to identify the key films and motifs of noir and to analyze in depth the prototypical pictures that, while vivid examples of certain cinematic themes, bend and break their molds to find new ways to enthrall and frighten us. Like its predecessors, Film Noir Reader 4 is generously illustrated and features essays by such respected film critics and scholars as Robin Wood, J.P. Telotte, R. Barton Palmer, and Robert Porfirio. All have as their purpose to explain why and how these classic films work; the way screenplay, direction, acting, cinematography, editing and all the other filmmaking crafts blended together to produce work that exemplifies both a particular movement in film history and the innovations that keep the noir style fresh and compelling.

Gloria Steinem, on writing:

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

- Gloria Steinem.

On this day in movie history - The Exorcist (1973):

The Exorcist

directed by William Friedkin,

written by William Peter Blatty,

based on the novel by William Peter Blatty,

was released in the United States on December 26, 1973.
Music by Jack Nitzsche.
Excerpt from Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield.

Cast:

Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Father William O'Malley, Father Thomas Bermingham, Peter Masterson, Robert Symonds, Barton Heyman, Rudolf Schündler, Arthur Storch, Vasiliki Maliaros, Titos Vandis, Dick Callinan, William Peter Blatty, Mercedes McCambridge, Eileen Dietz.

On this day in movie history - Days of Wine and Roses (1962):

Days of Wine and Roses

directed by Blake Edwards,

written by JP Miller,

based on the 1958 teleplay by JP Miller,

was released in the United States on December 26, 1962.
Music by Henry Mancini.

Cast:

Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman, Alan Hewitt, Tom Palmer, Debbie Megowan, Maxine Stuart, Jack Albertson, Leon Alton, Don Anderson, Carl Arnold, Roger Barrett, Russ Bender, Mary Benoit, Mel Blanc, Gail Bonney, Lynn Borden, Dick Crockett, Russell Custer, George DeNormand, Jennifer Edwards, Ella Ethridge, James Gonzalez, Lisa Guiraut, Chuck Hicks, Barbara Hines, Charlene Holt, Tai Yen Horowitz, Jerry Jensen, Kenner G. Kemp, Rita Kenaston, James Lanphier, Ken Lynch, John Bard Manulis, Mathew McCue, Harold Miller, Richard O'Brien, Doye O'Dell, Pat O'Malley, Alan Paige, Peggy Patten, Jack Riley, Tom Rosqui, Myrna Ross, Doc Scortt, Robert 'Buddy' Shaw, Stanley Sober, Olan Soule, Katherine Squire, Florence Stark, Bert Stevens, Lynn Terry, Arthur Tovey, John Truax, Charles Watts, Charles Wood.

Born on this day – Victoria Racimo:

Victoria Racimo

Actress

Writer

Director

Producer

December 26, 1943 – November 29, 2020

Credits:

ABC Weekend Specials (1977); American Playhouse (1986); As the World Turns (1987); Black Sheep Squadron (1977); Brave New World (1980); Cannon (1972); Casi casi (2006); Choke Canyon (1986); Cooperstown (1993); Doc Elliot (1974); Doogie Howser, M.D. (1991); Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1996); Eight Is Enough (1980); Ernest Goes to Camp (1987); Ernest Scared Stupid (1991); Falcon Crest (1983); Fantasy Island (1981); Flamingo Road (1982); Ghost Dancing (1983); Green Eyes (1977); Hawaii Five-O (1977); High Velocity (1976); Ironside (1971); Journey Through Rosebud (1972); Kung Fu (1974); Lincoln (2012); Logan's Run (1978); Lou Grant (1977); Mannix (1973); Mod Squad (1972); Nakia (1974); Nurse (1981); One Day (2015); Prophecy (1979); Red Sky at Morning (1971); Search for the Gods (1975); Serpico (1977); Spenser: For Hire (1986); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1972); The Chisholms (1980); The Day of the Dolphin (1973); The Doctors (1963–1982); The G.I. Executioner (1971); The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970); The Mountain Men (1980); The Mystic Warrior (1984); The Rhinemann Exchange (1977); The Violation of Sarah McDavid (1981); What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968); White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994).

Born on this day – Donald Moffat:

Donald Moffat

Actor

December 26, 1930 – December 20, 2018