Sunday, June 14, 2026

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):


M Squad

Season 3. Episode 38.
Episode entitled: The Tiger’s Cage.
Released June 14, 1960.
Directed by Don McDougall.
Written by Stuart Jerome and Maxwell Shane.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Alan Reed, Dan Riss, Regina Gleason, Donald Barry, Art Lewis, Joseph Mell, George Eldredge, Lee Miller.

On this day in movie history - The Tell-Tale Heart a.k.a. Bucket of Blood (1934 movie & book):


The Tell-Tale Heart

a.k.a. Bucket of Blood,
directed by Brian Desmond Hurst,
written by David Plunket Greene,
based on the short story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe,
released in the United States on June 14, 1934.
Music by John Reynders, Harry Sheridan.
Cast: Norman Dryden, John Kelt, Yolande Terrell, Thomas Shenton, James Fleck, Colonel Cameron, Tom Shenton, H. Vasher.

Recommended reading:


The Complete Stories and Poems

By Edgar Allan Poe.

First published 1849.
This edition published 1966.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Hardcover.
ISBN 13: 9780385074070
ISBN 10: 0385074077
ASIN: 0385074077

Description:

This single volume brings together all of Poe’s stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.

Born on this day – Taylor Wily:


Taylor Wily


Actor

Sumo wrestler

Mixed martial artist

June 14, 1968 – June 20, 2024

Credits:

Magnum P.I. (2018–2020); Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020); Be Water (2020); UFC 1: Origins (2020); 30 for 30 (2019); Radical (2017); MacGyver (2017); Where I Come From (2014); The Amazing Race (2012); Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008); North Shore (2004); One West Waikiki (1996); Marker (1995); Magnum, P.I. (1982); Gut Instinct (date?); UFC 1: The Beginning (1993).

Born on this day – Odile Versois:


Odile Versois

Actress

June 14, 1930 – June 23, 1980

Born on this day – Gene Barry:


Gene Barry

Actor

Singer

June 14, 1919 – December 9, 2009

Born on this day – Dorothy McGuire:


Dorothy McGuire


Actress

June 14, 1916 – September 13, 2001

Credits:

8th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2002); A Summer Place (1959); A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945); AFI Life Achievement Award (1978–1989); America at the Movies (1976); American Masters (2001); American Playhouse (1988); Amos (1985); Another Part of the Forest (1972); Best Doggone Dog in the West: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Old Yeller' (1997); Between the Darkness and the Dawn (1985); Biography (1997); Callaway Went Thataway (1951); Caroline? (1990); Christmas with Walt Disney (2009); Claudia (1943); Claudia and David (1946); Climax! (1954–1956); Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume Two (1986); Fantasy Island (1983); Flight of the Doves (1971); Fonda on Fonda (1992); Friendly Persuasion (1956); Gentleman's Agreement (1947); Ghost Dancing (1983); Glitter (1985); Highway to Heaven (1986–1988); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Hotel (1985); I Want You (1951); Invitation (1952); Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954); Little Women (1978 / 1979); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Make Haste to Live (1954); MGM Parade (1955); Mister 880 (1950); Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950); Old Yeller (1957); Reward Unlimited (1944); Rich Man, Poor Man (1976); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951); She Waits (1972); St. Elsewhere (1986); Summer Heat (1987); Summer Magic (1963); Susan Slade (1961); Swiss Family Robinson (1960); Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making (2002); TCM Remembers 2001 (2002); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1986); The Art Director (1949); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1956); The Enchanted Cottage (1945); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979); The Last Best Year (1990); The Love Boat (1982–1984); The Magical World of Disney (1957–1980); The Making of 'the Day the Earth Stood Still' (2008); The Notebook (1985); The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2002); The Red Skelton Hour (1964); The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1958); The Runaways (1975); The Spiral Staircase (1946); The Tonight Show (1956); The Young and the Restless (1984); This Earth Is Mine (1959); This Is Your Life (1973); Three Coins in the Fountain (1954); Till the End of Time (1946); Trial (1955); True Fear: The Making of Psycho (2015); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Warner Bros. Celebration of Tradition, June 2, 1990 (1990); What's My Line? (1954); Wide Wide World (1955).

Born on this day – Gisèle Casadesus:


Gisèle Casadesus

Actress

June 14, 1914 – September 24, 2017