Born on this day – Alberta Vaughn:

Alberta Vaughn

Actress

June 27, 1904 – April 26, 1992

Credits:

A Friendly Husband (1923); A Kick for Cinderella (1924); A Miss in the Dark (1924); A Snitch in Time (1926); Ain't Love Funny? (1927); Ain't Love Grand? (1925); Alimony Madness (1933); All's Swell That Ends Swell (1926); Amazing Mazie (1925); And Never the Trains Shall Meet (1924); Apartment Wanted (1922); As You Mike It (1929); Backstage (1927); Bee's Knees (1924); Broadway Ladies (1928); Cash and Marry (1930); Collegiate (1926); Crook's Tour (1933); Dance Hall Hostess (1933); Dancers in the Dark (1932); Daring Danger (1932); Don Coo Coo (1925); Down to the Sea in Shoes (1923); Emergency Call (1933); Eventually, But Not Now (1930); Fashion News (1930); Faster Foster (1924); Fire When Ready (1924); Flip Flops (1923); For the Love of Mike (1924); Forbidden Hours (1928); Getting Going (1924); He Who Gets Rapped (1925); Hello, Mars (1922); High, But Not Handsome (1926); In the Knicker Time (1924); It's a Buoy (1926); Jessie's James (1928); Julius Sees Her (1924); King Leary (1924); Land of the Sky Blue Daughters (1930); Little Andy Looney (1926); Lost and Foundered (1930); Love and Learn (1924); Love in High Gear (1932); Love's Labor Found (1929); Madam Sans Gin (1925); Mazie Won't Tell (1925); Mazie's Married (1926); Meet the Quince (1929); Merton of the Goofies (1925); Midnight Morals (1932); Mild But She Satisfies (1928); Miss Me Again (1925); Molly and Me (1929); Money to Burns (1924); Never Say Never (1924); Nip and Tuck (1923); No Brains (1922); Noisy Neighbors (1929); Old Age Handicap (1926); Old Vamps for New (1930); Or What Have You (1925); Picking Peaches (1924); Pike's Pique (1925); Plane Jane (1926); Playing with Fire (1925); Points West (1929); Randy Rides Alone (1934); Roll Your Own (1926); Rough and Ready (1923); Ruth Is Stranger Than Fiction (1928); Sherlock's Home (1924); Shipwrecked Among Animals (1922); Show of Shows (1929); Sic 'Em Brownie (1922); Sinews of Steel (1927); Skylarking (1923); Skyscraper (1928); Smile Please (1924); Smouldering Tires (1926); Sock Me to Sleep (1926); So's Your Old Man (1925); Speed (1931); Speed 'Em Up (1922); Spell of the Circus (1930); Stop Kidding (1921); Tea for Toomey (1925); That Wild Irish Pose (1928); The Adorable Deceiver (1926); The Arabian Fights (1928); The Big Charade (1926); The Captain of His Roll (1929); The Constant Simp (1925); The Covered Flagon (1925); The Dear Slayer (1930); The Drop Kick (1927); The Fast Male (1925); The Going of Cumming (1924); The Great Decide (1925); The Laramie Kid (1935); The Lightning Slider (1926); The Live Wire (1935); The Love Bargain (1931); The Merry Kiddo (1925); The Naughty Forties (1928); The Romantic Age (1927); The Setting Son (1930); The Six Best Fellows (1928); The Sleeping Cutie (1930); The Sleuth (1925); The Square Sex (1924); The Sweet Buy and Buy (1928); The Vanishing Armenian (1925); The Voice of Hollywood No. 8 (1930); The Wages of Synthetic (1928); The Way of a Maid (1925); The White Moth (1924); They Shall Not Pass Out (1929); This Is Your Life (1954); Three Bases East (1925); Three Weeks Off (1922); Twelve Smiles Out (1926); Twins (1925); Uneasy Payments (1927); Up and Wooing (1926); Upper and Lower (1922); Watch Your Pep (1928); Wedding Pumps (1922); Welcome Granger (1925); What Price Gloria? (1925); When Knighthood Was in Tower (1924); When Sally's Irish Rose (1926); Whiskering Chorus (1926); Who's Hooligan? (1924); Wild Horse (1931); William Tells (1924); Women First (1922); Working Girls (1931); You Just Know She Dares 'Em (1928).

Born on this day – Paul Laurence Dunbar:

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Writer

June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906

Credits:

Books:

Candle-lightin' Time (1901); Folks From Dixie (1898); Howdy, Honey, Howdy (1905); In Old Plantation Days (1903); Joggin' Erlong (1906); Li'l' Gal (1904); Lyrics of Love and Laughter (1903); Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896); Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (1905); Lyrics of the Hearthside (1899); Majors and Minors (1896); Oak and Ivy (1892); Poems of Cabin and Field (1899); The Fanatics (date?); The Heart of Happy Hollow: A Collection of Stories (date?); The Love of Landry (date?); The Sport of the Gods (1902); The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories (1900); The Uncalled (1898); When Malindy Sings (1903).

Movies and television:

Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970); Desperately Seeking Grandma Alma (2022); The Scapegoat (1917); The Sport of the Gods (1921).

Recommended reading - The Friends of Eddie Coyle, by George V. Higgins (1970):

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

By George V. Higgins.

Filmed as The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), directed by Peter Yates.

Introduction by Dennis Lehane.

Published by Picador.

Pubished 1970.

ISBN-10: 9780312429690

ISBN-13: 9780312429690

ASIN: 031242969X

Description:

George V. Higgins's seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops on the mean streets of Boston. When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he's looking at three years in the pen – that is, unless he sells out one of his big-fish clients to the DA. But which of the many hoods, gunmen, and executioners whom he calls his friends should he send up the river? Told almost entirely in crackling dialogue by a vivid cast of lowlifes and detectives, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is one of the greatest crime novels ever written.

Anne Rice, on writing:

Obsession led me to write.

It's been that way with every book I've ever written.

I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

- Anne Rice.

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).