On this day in movie history - Love is Colder Than Death (1969):

Love is Colder Than Death

directed and written by Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany on June 26, 1969.

Music by Holger Münzer and Peer Raben.

Cast:

Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Liz Söllner, Gisela Otto, Ursula Strätz, Monika Nüchtern, Hans Hirschmüller, Les Olvides, Peer Raben, Howard Gaines, Peter Moland, Kurt Raab, Peter Berling, Anastassios Karalas, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Yaak Karsunke, Hannes Gromball, Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Irm Hermann, Gottfried Hüngsberg, Franz Maron.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 39.

Episode entitled: The Platter Pirates.

Released June 26, 1959.

Directed by Dan Alexander.

Written by Robert C. Dennis and Jon Kubichan.

Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Gale Robbins, Tommy Farrell, Patricia Huston, Lou Krugman, Baynes Barron, Howard McLeod, Bruce Hayes, Frank Garfield, Robin Raymond.

Born on this day – Eleanor Parker:

Eleanor Parker

Actress

June 26, 1922 – December 9, 2013

Credits:

20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2014); 24th Annual Academy Awards (1952); A Hole in the Head (1959); A Millionaire for Christy (1951); Above and Beyond (1952); Always Together (1947); An American Dream (1966); Atlantic City (1944); Between Two Worlds (1944); Bloopermania (1987); Blow-Ups of 1946 (1947); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963); Bracken's World (1969–1970); Breaking Point (1964); Buick-Electra Playhouse (1960); Busses Roar (1942); Caged (1950); Chain Lightning (1950); Checkmate (1962); Chris Olsen - The Boy Who Cried (2016); Circle of Fear (1972); Convoy (1965); Crime by Night (1944); Dead on the Money (1991); Destination Tokyo (1943); Detective Story (1951); Dinah! (1979); Escape from Fort Bravo (1953); Escape Me Never (1947); Eye of the Cat (1969); Fantasy Island (1977–1983); Finder of Lost Loves (1984); Frank Capra's American Dream (1997); Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1975); Hans Brinker (1969); Hawaii Five-O (1978); Hollywood Canteen (1944); Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner (2019); Home for the Holidays (1972); Home from the Hill (1960); Hotel (1983); How to Steal the World (1968); Interrupted Melody (1955); It's a Great Feeling (1949); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Lizzie (1957); Madame X (1981); Madison Avenue (1961); Many Rivers to Cross (1955); Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971); Men of the Sky (1942); Murder, She Wrote (1986); Never Say Goodbye (1946); Of Human Bondage (1946); Once Upon a Spy (1980); Panic Button (1964); Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991); Presidential Blooper Reel (1981); Pride of the Marines (1945); Return to Peyton Place (1961); Scaramouche (1952); She's Dressed to Kill (1979); Soldiers in White (1942); Sunburn (1979); TCM Remembers 2013 (2013); The 28th Annual Academy Awards (1956); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The Bastard (1978); The Big Shot (1942); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio (1960); The Great American Beauty Contest (1973); The King and Four Queens (1956); The Last Ride (1944); The Love Boat (1979–1982); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1968); The Man with the Golden Arm (1955); The Mysterious Doctor (1943); The Naked Jungle (1954); The Oscar (1966); The Oscars (2014); The Return of Video Yesterbloop (1986); The Seventh Sin (1957); The Sound of Music (1965); The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967); The Very Thought of You (1944); The Voice of the Turtle (1947); The Woman in White (1948); This Is Your Life (1955); Three Secrets (1950); Today (1969); Valentino (1951); Valley of the Kings (1954); Vanished (1971); Vaudeville Days (1942); Vega$ (1980); Warning Shot (1966).

Born on this day – Richard L. Breen:

Richard L. Breen

Writer

Director

June 26, 1918 – February 1, 1967

Born on this day – Peter Lorre:

Peter Lorre

Actor

June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964

Born on this day – St. Louis Jimmy Oden:

St. Louis Jimmy Oden

Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

June 26, 1903 – December 30, 1977

Born on this day – Zena Keefe:

Zena Keefe

Actress

June 26, 1896 – November 16, 1977

Credits:

A Bunch of Violets (1912); A Game of Cards (1913); After Midnight (1921); All Is Fair in Love and War (1911); An Amateur Widow (1919); Another Man's Wife (1924); At the Eleventh Hour (1912); Betty, the Boy and the Bird (1916); Caprice of the Mountains (1916); Captain Jenks' Diplomacy (1912); Cutey Plays Detective (1913); Cutey Tries Reporting (1913); Does Advertising Pay? (1913); Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917); Father and Son (1912); Hearts Ablaze (1915); Her Choice (1912); Her Maternal Right (1916); Heroes of the Mutiny (1911); His Wife's Money (1920); In the Furnace Fire (1912); La vie de Bohème (1916); Life's Yesterdays (1915); Little Miss Happiness (1916); Marooned Hearts (1920); None So Blind (1923); Oh Boy! (1919); Omens and Oracles (1913); One Hour (1917); Out of the Snows (1920); Perils of Our Girl Reporters (1916); Piccadilly Jim (1919); Prejudice (1922); Proxies (1921); Putting Pep in Slowtown (1916); Red Foam (1920); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 17-F (1921); Shame (1917); Sisters All (1913); The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction (1913); The Awakening of Bianca (1912); The Black Sheep (1912); The Broken Silence (1922); The Broken Violin (1923); The Cabin Boy (1911); The Carpenter (1913); The Challenge Accepted (1918); The Cross Roads (1912); The Eavesdropper (1912); The Esterbrook Case (1915); The Gamblers (1912); The Hero of Submarine D-2 (1916); The Hieroglyphic (1912); The Hindoo's Curse (1912); The Island of Surprise (1916); The Jade Necklace (1916); The Long Skirt (1911); The Lure of Love (1924); The Man Under the Bed (1912); The Mate of the 'John M' (1911); The Meeting (1917); The Mills of the Gods (1912); The Pink Pajama Girl (1912); The Rail Rider (1916); The Scarlet Runner (1916); The Spider's Web (1912); The Struggle (1912); The Tigress (1915); The Unforgiven (1915); The Woman God Sent (1920); Three Girls and a Man (1912); Tommy's Sister (1912); Trouping with Ellen (1924); When Love Is Young (1922); Who's Cheating? (1924).