Tuesday, February 18, 2025

On this day in music history - Runaway, by Del Shannon (1961):

The song Runaway,
by Del Shannon,
was released on February 18, 1961.

On this day in movie history - New York Confidential (1955):


New York Confidential

directed by Russell Rouse,
written by Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse,
based on the novel New York Confidential! by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer,
was released in the United States on February 18, 1955.
Music by Joseph Mullendore.


Cast:

Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Marilyn Maxwell, Anne Bancroft, J. Carrol Naish, Onslow Stevens, Barry Kelley, Mike Mazurki, Celia Lovsky, Herbert Heyes, Steven Geray, William 'Bill' Phillips, Tom Powers, John Doucette.

Born on this day – Laurent Tirard:


Laurent Tirard


Writer

Director

February 18, 1967 – September 5, 2024

Credits:

À consommer froid de preference (2005); Astérix and Obélix: God Save Britannia (2012); Café Picouly (2007); Call My Agent! (2017); Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2007); Cinémas (2009); De source sûre (1999); Demain est un autre jour (2000); Días de cine (2022); Fred et son orchestra (2002–2003); Juste ciel! (2022); La pause (2005); Le plus beau jour de ma vie (2004); Les Chroniques du Mea (2018); Little Nicholas (2009); Maternal Love (2002); Mike (2011); Molière (2007); Mon vrai père (2004); Nicholas on Holiday (2014); Prête-moi ta main (2006); Return of the Hero (2018); Sans laisser de traces (2010); Second Chance (2010); Tête de gondole / Segments: La Pause; À consommer froid de preference (2005); The Speech (2020); The Story of My Life (2004); Ton tour viendra (2002); Up for Love (2016); Vivement dimanche (2014).

Born on this day – John Hughes:


John Hughes

Director

February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009

Born on this day – Ed Wheeler:


Ed Wheeler


Actor

Producer

February 18, 1936 - August 21, 2024

Credits:

3-2-1 Contact (1980); ABC Afterschool Specials (1987); Bleach (1998); Blue Bloods (2010); Broadcast News (1987); Cupid (2009); Daylight (1996); Double Parked (2000); Drop Squad (1994); Ed (2000–2002); From Other Worlds (2004); Godzilla (1998); Head of State (2003); Heaven Is a Playground (1991); Hope & Faith (2004); Keane (2004); Keepers of the Flame (2024); Law & Order (1992–2004); Little Bill (2003); Love Songs (1999); Mickey Blue Eyes (1999); Monsters (1988); New York Undercover (1994); Noël (1992); One Life to Live (2010); Presumed Innocent (1990); Soul Food (2000); The Core of the Apple (1986); The Cry (2007); The Day the Women Got Even (1980); The Good Guy (2009); The Good Heart (2009); The Kill Reflex (1989); Thinner (1996); Third Watch (2000); Uncertainty (2008); Watch Your Mouth (1978); Whoopi (2004).

Born on this day – Mary Ure:


Mary Ure


Actress

February 18, 1933 – April 3, 1975

Credits:

The Exorcism (1975); Love for Love (1974); The Wide World of Mystery (1974); ITV Play of the Week (1956–1974); Success Story (1974); Ironside (1973); A Reflection of Fear (1972); The Ten Commandments (1971); Old Times (1971); The David Frost Show (1971); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971); Where Eagles Dare (1968); On Location: Where Eagles Dare (1968); Mondo Hollywood: Hollywood Laid Bare! (1967); Custer of the West (1967); The Filming of the Battle of the Bulge (1965); The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964); The Respectful Prostitute (1964); The Mind Benders (1963); The Changeling (1961); Sons and Lovers (1960); Duel of Angels (1960); Othello (1959); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959); Look Back in Anger (1959); Omnibus (1958); Jack Hylton's Monday Show (1958); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1956 (1957); Look Back in Anger (1957); Windom's Way (1957); A View from the Bridge (1956); Storm Over the Nile (1955); Hamlet (1955); Time Remembered (1954).

Born on this day – Toni Morrison:


Toni Morrison


Writer

February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019

Credits:

A Mercy (2008); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Beloved (1987); Birth of a Nation'hood (1997); Black Satin (2004); Burn This Book (2009); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Conversations with Toni Morrison (1994); David Bowie (2016); Desdemona (2012); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Go the Way Your Blood Beats (1996); God Help the Child (2014); Goodness and the Literary Imagination (2019); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); Home (2011); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir (1987); J. D. Salinger (2016); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Jane Jacobs (2016); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); Jazz (1992); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Vonnegut (2011); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Lessons of the Masters (2003); Little Cloud and Lady Wind (2010); Lou Reed (2015); Love (2003); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); Memoirs (1999); Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations (2019); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Oliver Sacks (2016); On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (2021); Paradise (1997); Peeny Butter Fudge (2009); Philip K. Dick (2015); Playing in the Dark (1992); Please, Louise (2013); Race (2017); Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power (1992); Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (2014); Recitatif (1983); Remember (2004); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Sincerity and Authenticity (1972); Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994); Song of Solomon (1977); Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (1941); Sula (1973); Tar Baby (1981); The Big Box (1999); The Bluest Eye (1970); The Book of Mean People (2002); The Dancing Mind (1996); The Good Parts (2000); The Measure of Our Lives (2019); The Mirror Or The Glass? (2005); The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993 (1994); The Origin of Others (2016); The Romantic Generation (1995); The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance (1973); The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (2019); The Tortoise or the Hare (2010); The Writer Before the Page: From The Source of Self-Regard (2019); To Die for the People (2009); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2019); What Moves at the Margin (2008); Who's Got Game? Poppy or the Snake? (2004); Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? (2003); Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse? (2003); Who's Got Game? Three Fables (2003); Women of Color Pray (2012); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).