Born on this day – Yvonne Mitchell:

Yvonne Mitchell

Actress

Writer

July 7, 1915 – March 24, 1979

Credits:

Books:

But Answer Came There None a Novel (date?); But Wednesday Cried (1974); Cathy Away Mitchell Nw 115 (1967); Colette (1975); Colette a Taste for Life (date?); Fables (date?); Martha on Sunday a Novel (date?).

Movies and television:

1984 - BBC Live TV Productions (1954); 1990 (1978); Afternoon Film Festival (1956); Appointment with Drama (1955); Armchair Theatre (1956); Armchair Theatre (1956–1968); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1952–1957); Cheri (1973); Children of Chance (1949); Conspiracy of Hearts (1960); Crucible of Horror (1971); Demons of the Mind (1972); Double Bill: Pariah and the Stronger (1958); Escapade (1955); Genghis Khan (1965); Interpol Calling (1959); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1966); ITV Playhouse (1969); ITV Television Playhouse (1956); Johnny Nobody (1961); Late Night Line-Up (1968); Let's Imagine (1963); Love on the Dole (1941); Love Story (1965); Nido de viudas (1977); One Pair of Eyes (1970); Out of the Unknown (1966); Rheingold Theatre (1954); Sapphire (1959); Something to Read (1959); Storm Over Jamaica (1958); Suspicion (1972); The Book Programme (1975); The Divided Heart (1954); The Dybbuk (1952); The Great Waltz (1972); The Incredible Sarah (1976); The Infinite Shoeblack (1952); The Jazz Age (1968); The Legend of Robin Hood (1975); The Main Attraction (1962); The Mask (1952); The Queen of Spades (1949); The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960); This Is Show Business (1954); Thursday Theatre (1964); Tiger Bay (1959); Turn the Key Softly (1953); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1957 (1958); Who Said That? (1958); Whose Baby? (1973); Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957); Words and Music (1959); Yield to the Night (1956).

Born on this day – Ruth Ford:

Ruth Ford

Actress

July 7, 1911 – August 12, 2009

Credits:

7254 (1971); Across the Pacific (1942); Act One (1963); Adventure in Iraq (1943); Air Force (1943); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950–1953); Cameo Theatre (1950); Camera Three (1977); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1954); Chloe, Love Is Calling You (1934); Circumstantial Evidence (1945); Divide and Conquer (1942); Dragonwyck (1946); Escape from Crime (1942); Hallmark Hall of Fame (1952); In This Our Life (1942); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954–1961); Lady Gangster (1942); Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014); Marlon Brando Screentest for Rebel Without a Cause (1947); Men of the Sky (1942); Murder in the Big House (1942); Murder on the Waterfront (1943); Musical Comedy Time (1951); Naked City (1962); Orson Welles: What Went Wrong? (1992); Play It As It Lays (1972); Play of the Week (1960); Princess O'Rourke (1943); Requiem for a Nun (1975); Roaring Frontiers (1941); Sanctuary (1961); Secret Enemies (1942); Secrets of the Lone Wolf (1941); Sorry, Wrong Number (1946); Star Stage (1955); Star Tonight (1955); Strange Impersonation (1946); Studio One (1949–1953); Suspense (1950–1951); The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1951); The Arthur Murray Party (1959); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The Defenders (1965); The Devil's Trail (1942); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Eyes of the Amaryllis (1982); The Gorilla Man (1943); The Hidden Hand (1942); The Keys of the Kingdom (1944); The Lady Is Willing (1942); The Man Who Returned to Life (1942); The Tree (1969); Theatre of Romance (1949); Too Much Johnson (1938); Too Scared to Scream (1984); Truck Busters (1943); What's My Line? (1966); Wilson (1944); Woman Who Came Back (1945).

Born on this day – George Cukor:

George Cukor

Director

Producer

July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983

Credits:

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); A Bill of Divorcement (1932); A Double Life (1947); A Life of Her Own (1950); A Star Is Born (1954); A Star Is Born: Special Features (2010); A Woman of Substance: Katharine Hepburn Remembered (2003); A Woman's Face (1941); Adam's Rib (1949); AFI Life Achievement Award (1981); All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); American Masters (2000–2004); Anna Karina, souviens-toi (2017); Arena (2012–2016); Audrey Hepburn, le choix de l'élégance (2017); Bhowani Junction (1956); Biography (1996–2003); Born Yesterday (1950); Ça c'est l'amour (2003); Call Me Kate (2023); Camille (1936); Cinéastes de notre temps (1969); Cinema (1968); Cinéma cinémas (1982); David Copperfield (1935); Delta Kappa Alpha Silver Anniversary Banquet (1963); Den gudomliga: Greta Garbo 50 år (1955); Desire Me (1947); Dinner at Eight (1933); Edward, My Son (1949); Escape (1940); Étoiles et toiles (1983); Eyewitness to History (1962); Fascination: An Unauthorized Tribute to Marilyn Monroe (2011); Film '72 (1973–1981); Film Night (1970); Film Time (1955); Garbo (1969 / 2005); Gaslight (1944); George Cukor at the National Film Theatre (1981); Girls About Town (1931); Gone with the Wind (1939); Great Performances (1987); Grumpy (1930); Heller in Pink Tights (1960); Her Cardboard Lover (1942); Holiday (1938); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Greats (1977–1978); Hollywood maudit (2021); Hollywood Rivals (2001–2002); Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Hot Spell (1958); Hour Magazine (1981); I Met My Love Again (1938); I Think I Do (1997); I'll Be Seeing You (1944); It Should Happen to You (1954); Justine (1969); Katharine Hepburn: All About Me (1993); Keeper of the Flame (1942); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Les Girls (1957); Let's Make Love (1960); Little Women (1933); Love Among the Ruins (1975); Love, Cecil (2017); Love, Marilyn (2012); Lust for Life (1956); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (2001); Marilyn: Something's Got to Give (1990); MGM Parade (1956); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); My Fair Lady (1964); NET Festival (1970); No More Ladies (1935); On Location with Rich and Famous (1981); One Hour with You (1932); Our Betters (1933); Pat and Mike (1952); Reflections on 'Gaslight' (2003); Resistance and Ohm's Law (1943); Rich and Famous (1981); Rockabye (1932); Romeo and Juliet (1936); Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017); Sid & Judy (2019); Sinners in the Sun (1932); Social Security in Action (1958–1968); Something's Got to Give (1962); Song Without End (1960); Starring Katharine Hepburn (1981); Susan and God (1940); Sylvia Scarlett (1935); Talking Film (1978); Talking Pictures (2016); Tarnished Lady (1931); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 22nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1965); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981); The Actress (1953); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938); The Animal Kingdom (1932); The Blue Bird (1976); The British Greats (1980); The Chapman Report (1962); The Corn Is Green (1979); The David Frost Show (1969–1971); The David Susskind Show (1960); The Dick Cavett Show (1972 / 1981); The Fairest Fair Lady (1964); The Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute to George Cukor (1978); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Making of 'My Fair Lady' (1995); The Marrying Kind (1952); The Men Who Made the Movies: George Cukor (1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1972–1976); The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951); The Philadelphia Story (1940); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937); The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland (2021); The River of Romance (1929); The RKO Years (1979); The Royal Family of Broadway (1930); The Stars Salute America's Greatest Movies (1977); The Tonight Show (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1962); The Valley of Decision (1945); The Virtuous Sin (1930); The Women (1939); This Is Your Life (1962); Travels with My Aunt (1972); Two-Faced Woman (1941); W.C. Fields: Straight Up (1986); What Price Hollywood? (1932); Wild Is the Wind (1957); Winged Victory (1944); Zaza (1938).

Born on this day – Gustav Mahler:

Gustav Mahler

Composer

Conductor

July 7, 1860 – May 18, 1911

Credits:

Albums:

Bruckner, A.: Symphony No. 7 (1990); Das Lied von der Erde (1967); Lieder (2005); Mahler – Lieder (2011); Mahler & Wagner: Rückert-Lieder, Wesendonck-Lieder, Prélude & Mort d'Isolde (2007); Mahler : Symphony No.9 / Elatus (1985); Mahler 1 (1990); Mahler Plays Mahler: The Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls (1993); Mahler Songs (2010); Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major / Ives: Central Park in the Dark (2000); Mahler: Symphony no. 10 / Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht (1990); Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Resurrection (1984); Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn / baritone: Thomas Hampson, piano: Geoffrey Parsons (1993); Symphonic Poem in Two Parts "Titan" (2010); Symphonie 7 (1989); Symphonie N° 3 en ré mineur (1967); Symphonie no. 4 (1962); Symphonie No. 5 (1987); Symphonie No. 5 / Wiener Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Pierre Boulez (1997); Symphonie no. 9 (1992); Symphonie No.3 (1989); Symphonies Nos. 8, 10 (1991); Symphony no. 1 (1969); Symphony No. 1 / Blumine (1989); Symphony no. 10 (1980); Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (2011); Symphony no. 2 (2000); Symphony no. 2 “Resurrection” (1966); Symphony no. 3 / Rückert-Lieder (1988); Symphony no. 4 (1982); Symphony no. 4 in G major (1952); Symphony No. 5 (1993); Symphony no. 8 (1987).

Movies and television:

5 to 7 (2014); A Flower (2015); À force de partir, je suis resté chez moi (1990); A Journey to Jerusalem (1968); A Paris Education (2018); A piece (2015); A última visita (2008); A Whole Night (1982); Abbado dirigiert Mahlers Lied von der Erde (2011); Adolf Dietrich, Kunstmaler 1877 – 1957 (1991); All Things Fair (1995); Alla ricerca di Tadzio (1970); Alligator Eyes (1990); All-Star Orchestra (2013); An Afterthought (2016); Annette (2021); Another Wannabe Model (2015); Another Woman (1988); Appuntamento a Liverpool (1988); Around the World in 50 Concerts (2014); Artemis' Knee (2008); Ataraxia (2013); Babylon Berlin (2017); Banda sonora (2008–2011); Beethoven's 9th Symphony (2020); Before Night Falls (2000); Bergman Island (2021); Bernstein on Mahler (1985); Bernstein's Mahler (2005); Between Two Wars (1978); Beware of My Love (1998); Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014); Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014); Boys Like Us (2014); Boys Over Flowers (1996–1997); Bride of the Wind (2001); Bright Lights, Big City (1988); Bumer (2003); Ça se passe en Équateur (1994); Canciones para los niños muertos en Auschwitz (2021); Cheers (1993); Children of Men (2006); Chorty (2017); Clássicos (2015); Coffee and Cigarettes (2003); Colburn Concert Series (2012); Cold Fish (2010); Come diventai Alida Valli (2008); Cosmos (1980); Death in Brunswick (1990); Death in Byron (2005); Death in Venice (1971); Decision to Leave (2022); Demonios en el jardín (1982); Denk ich an Deutschland - Das Wispern im Berg der Dinge (1997); Des Elfenkönigs Schwur (1972); Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: La voix de l'âme (1995); Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music (2007); Dixon of Dock Green (1975); Djink, Forêt d'Ukraine (2009); Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002); Drakengard (2003); Eden (2001); El Norte (1983); Electric Dreams (2017); Elles (2011); Endeavour (2020); Even Iron Breaks (2021); Everywhere & Forever: Mahler's Song of the Earth (2015); Fall of Eagles (1974); Fargo (2015); Felidae (1994); Ficció (2006); Flame & Citron (2008); Four Ways to Say Farewell (1971); Francofonia (2015); Freek de Jonge: De goeroe & de dissident (1990); Gaszcz (1999); Gedichte (2018); Ghetto (2005); Gianandrea Noseda conducts Schubert and Mahler (2020); Giliap (1975); Gloria (2013); Good (2008); Gossip Girl (2021); Grange Hill (1994); Great Composers (1997); Great Performances (2009–2011); Great Performances: Dance in America (1989); Guilty of Romance (2011); Gustav Mahler - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (2005); Gustav Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 8 (1975); Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (1972); Habana - Arte nuevo de hacer ruinas (2006); Hamlet (2000); Hannibal (2014); Hölderlin-Fragmente (2009); How Music Works (2006); Husbands and Wives (1992); I Am Love (2009); I morti rimangono con la bocca aperta (2022); I Really Hate My Job (2007); Ice Soldiers (2013); In a Year with 13 Moons (1978); In Memory of Me (2007); In Search of Perfect Consonance (2016); Inferno / Pakao (1985); Infrarouge (2009); Inside Llewyn Davis (2013); Irreversible (2002); Isoäidin kuolema (1986); Janneke (1990); Joana Mallwitz dirigiert Mahler Konzerthausorchester Berlin (2023); John F. Kennedy Memorial Concert (1963); Karl May (1974); Kázání rybám (1998); Keeping Score (2011); Killing Eve (2020); Kleptomania (1993); La confusion des sentiments (1981); La jungla interior (2013); La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura (2014); La vida en el aire (1998); L'armadio (2004); Last Dance (2002); Laurence Anyways (2012); Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988–1997); Lenore (2021); Les enfants du désordre (1989); Les sentiers Marcel Pagnol. Les chemins d'une vie (2005); Lessons of Darkness (1992); Letters of Service (2004); Libertad provisional (1976); Loose Floating (1988); Lorenzo's Oil (1992); Lotte in Weimar (1975); Love Song (2008); Lucerne Festival (2023); M*A*S*H (1983); Maestro (2023); Mahler Festival Leipzig (2023); Mahler on the Couch (2010); Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 (2021); Mahler: D'un pas mesuré (2010); Mahler's 2nd Symphony (2016); Mahler's Titan: The Romance, Death and Triumph of a Young Musician (2019); Maïa (2000); Májusi zápor (2009); Mana: Beyond Belief (2004); Marie's Story (2014); Más Allá del Jardín (2024); Master of Ceremonies (1996); Met Stars Live in Concert (2020); Mezi svetlem a tmou (1990); Mirror of the Planet (1992); Misfits (2009); Modus Operandi (2014); Moonfall (2022); Mozart in the Jungle (2014–2018); Mrs Lowry & Son (2019); My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999); Mystique (1979); New World Symphony Wallcast Concert 5 (2011); New World Symphony Wallcast Concert 6 (2014); New World Symphony Wallcast Concert 8 (2012); New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (1960 / 1967); Nightcap (2000); Number One (2017); Of Love, Death and Beyond: Exploring Mahler's 'Resurrection' Symphony (2011); Of Time and the City (2008); Offenbacher (2016); Okupas (2000); On Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer (2019); One for the Road (2020); One man's fortune (2017); One Symphony Place: A World Premiere Live from Music City (2006); Opera Lingua (2021); Opus (2020); Orchestra of Exiles (2012); Oriental Elegy (1996); Österreich - Unser Jahrhundert (1999); Painful Desires (1978); Paragraph 175 (2000); Parting Glances (1986); Perception (2012); Perfectly Normal (1990); Permanent Record (1988); Pieta (1998); Plaisir du théâtre (1961); Planeta Singli. Osiem historii (2021); Pompo: The Cinéphile (2021); Preacher (2019); Prestige de la musique (1967); Que mi nombre no se borre de la historia (2006); Rivals (2024); Rubin and Ed (1991); Rules Don't Apply (2016); SASF (1980); Scorchers (1991); Sherlock (2012); Shutter Island (2010); Silence (2012); Simone Young dirige Mahler et Camille Pépin (2023); Sitcom (1998); Six Feet Under (2001); Sleeping Betty (2007); Snow White (2009); Song to Song (2017); Space Ghost Coast to Coast (2003); Splendid Isolation III (2007); Star Trek: Voyager (1998); Steptoe and Son (1974); Stiff Upper Lips (1997); Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator (1989); Suite Dreams (2006); Sunday Pursuit (1990); Süskind (2012); Tampopo (1985); Tár (2022); Telo bez duse (1996); The Artist and the Model (2012); The Book of Mary (1985); The Child Prodigy (2010); The Concert (2009); The Conductor (2018); The Council of Birds (2014); The Drain (2013); The Gambler (1974); The Guardians (1971); The Honeymoon Killers (1970); The Hunt (2020); The Killer Inside Me (2010); The Land of Hope (2012); The League of Gentlemen (2000); The Lively Arts (1978); The Long Day Closes (1992); The Magicians Dreams (2020); The Mahler: Klimt Project, A Gustav Mahler Centennial Celebration (2011); The Marriage (1975); The Mechanical Dancer (2021); The Music Teacher (1988); The Only Girl in the Orchestra (2023); The Pornographer (2001); The Public Eye (1972); The Ren & Stimpy Show (1994); The Return (1980); The Simpsons (2011); The Stone (1992); The Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler (1985); The Tree of Life (2011); The Trip to Italy (2014); The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (1976); The Well (1997); The Windows (1996); Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998); Time, Forward! (1977); Timecode (2000); Tod Browning and Lon Chaney (2000); Tomorrow's Cantabile (2014); Toutes les histoires (1988); Treppenwitz (2012); Triptych (2013); Turn Around (2016); Ultrasonic Nativity (2012); Under the Sand (2000); Undying (2024); Urlicht (2006); Valery Gergiev und die Münchner Philharmoniker - Das Antrittskonzert (2015); Vannin' (2013); Velvet Goldmine (1998); Victoria (2008); Voyage of Time (2016); Voyage of Time: Life's Journey (2016); War and Love (1985); Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000); Waterboys (2001); What Ever Mama Wants (1972); What the Universe Tells Me: Unraveling the Mysteries of Mahler's Third Symphony (2004); Whispering Pages (1994); Wohin ich geh'? - Eine Reise mit Gustav Mahler (2022); Woman in Chains (1968); Year of the Dragon (1985).

Recommended reading - Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze (2000):

Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist’s Maze

by Thomas Allen Nelson.

New and Expanded Edition.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0253213908

ISBN-13: 978-0253213907

Published 2000.

Description:

Stanley Kubrick ranks among the most important American film makers of his generation, but his work is often misunderstood because it is widely diverse in subject matter and seems to lack thematic and tonal consistency. Thomas Nelson’s perceptive and comprehensive study of Kubrick rescues him from the hostility of auteurist critics and discovers the roots of a Kubrickian aesthetic, which Nelson defines as the “aesthetics of contingency.” After analyzing how this aesthetic develops and manifests itself in the early works, Nelson devotes individual chapters to Lolita, Dr. Stangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining. For this expanded edition, Nelson has added chapters on Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut, and, in the wake of the director’s death, reconsidered his body of work as a whole. By placing Kubrick in a historical and theoretical context, this study is a reliable guide into – and out of – Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic maze.

Lauren Oliver, on books:

But ... books are so much more.

Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark corners.

Some of them are balloons bobbing up through the sky: totally self-contained, and unreachable, but beautiful to watch.

And some of them – the best ones – are doors.

– Lauren Oliver.

On this day in movie history - The Story of Film: A New Generation (2021):

The Story of Film: A New Generation

a two-part documentary directed and written by Mark Cousins,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on July 6, 2021.
Narrated by Mark Cousins.