Born on this day – Ruth Warrick:

Ruth Warrick

Actress

Singer

June 29, 1916 – January 15, 2005

Born on this day – Bernard Herrmann:

Bernard Herrmann

Composer

June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975

Credits:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 12 Monkeys (1995); 20th Century Greats (2004); 5 Fingers (1952); A Blair Witch Tale (2009); A Christmas Carol (1954); A Dream of Body (1972); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon (2001); A Hatful of Rain (1957); A Single Man (2009); Across the Wide Missouri (1951); Afternoon Delights (1980); Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (2023); All About 'the Birds' (2000); Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015); American Experience (2023); American Horror Story (2011); AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture (2005); Anna and the King of Siam (1946); Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022); Arthur and the Invisibles (2006); At Granny's House (2015); Atop the Fourth Wall (2010–2012); Australia (2008); Back to Room 666 (2008); Backtrack! (1969); Bärbel Schäfer (1995); BBC Proms (2011); Beauty (1981); Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953); Better Nate Than Ever (2022); Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis (2008–2014); Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019); Blodgruppen (2006); Blood Debts (1985); Blue Denim (1959); Blue Heat (1978); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963–1966); Bon Week-End Mr Bennett (1991); Box (2019 / 2020); Bruce Nul: Le Film (2013); Caffeine Madness (2014); Cancel (2024); Cape Fear (1962); Capitalism: A Love Story (2009); Carrie (1976); Castle (2016); Cat People (1942); Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010); Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003); Çilekes (1978); Cimarron Strip (1968); Citizen Kane (1941); Citizen Steve (1987); Citizen Vader (2014); Climax! (1954); Çöl (1983); Collector's Item: The Left Fist of David (1957); Columbo: Murder with Too Many Notes (2001); Companions in Nightmare (1968); Concerto Macabre: The Films of John Brahm (2007); Coneheads (1993); Convoy (1965); Criminal Insanity (2016); Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000); Daddy Day Care (2003); Dancing with the Stars (2011); Dansk films bedste (2022); Das Ei (1993); Daughters of Discipline (1978); De Palma (2015); Death Proof (2007); Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever (2023); Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017); Diary of an 'M' (1976); Diminishing Returns (2018–2020); Diminishing Returns Diminisodes (2021); Dracula Bites the Big Apple (1979); Dream Interpretation (1998); DreamWorks Spooky Stories (2012); Drillbit Taylor (2008); Drive Me Crazy (1999); Dusty (2008); El Extraño Lado de la Contradiccion (2020); Endless Night (1972); Europa (1991); Even the Score (2009); Everything Went Wrong (1994); Fahrenheit 451 (1966); Finding Nemo (2003); For Better or Worse (1959–1960); Forward to the past on Oviaz Street on Groundhog Day (2018); Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2006); Friends (1999); Garden of Evil (1954); General Electric Theater (1955–1956); Gintberg på kanten (2014); God Told Me To (1976); Gort (2021); Grizzly II: Revenge (1983); Gunsmoke (1961); Hangover Square (1945); Hardhat! (1977); Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963); Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957); Her Total Response (1977); History of World Cinema: Part I (2021); Hitchcock (2012); Hitler's Harlot (1973); Hollywood in Vienna (2012); Home Movie (2008); Homecoming (2018); Hong Kong (1960–1961); Horror Movie Adventure Part II: Dead by Dawn (2014); Hotel for Dogs (2009); Iniciace (2022); Ismael's Ghosts (2017); It Lives Again (1978); It Takes Two (1995); It's Alive (1974); It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987); It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2012–2021); Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2006); Jackass: The Movie (2002); Jane Eyre (1943); Jarrett of K Street (1960); Jason and the Argonauts (1963); John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch (2019); Jonathan Creek (1997); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959); Joy (2015); Joy in the Morning (1965); Joy of Humiliation (1977); Jure Godcock's Psiho (2013); Kika (1993); Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2004); Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003); King of the Khyber Rifles (1953); Kingpin (1996); Knight Rider (1984); Koi... Mil Gaya (2003); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Landmark (1956); Le Dernier Cigare (2015); Lives of Bernard Herrmann (2026); Living Famously (2002); Livshunger (2002); Looking for Alfred (2005); Lost in Space (1965–1993); Lukas (1998–1999); Lumière and Company (1995); Marnie (1964); Martin Scorsese: True Confessions (2017); Mary! Mary! (1977); Matthew Bourne's the Red Shoes (2020); Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015); Meat (2017); Men Grip Tighter (1983); MichaelAppleHead's Justice Freedom (2023); Moonlighting (1986–1988); More Than Sisters (1979); Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987); Mork & Mindy (1979); Morning, Noon and Night (1975); Mother (2020); Movie Boy (2005); Murder, She Wrote (1992); Music by John Williams (2024); Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann (1992); My Game of Longing (2013); My Mistress Electra (1982); My Name Is Bruce (2007); Mysterious Island (1961); Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1991); N°0. psicosiS (1992); Nadrazí (2017); News from Taxi Driver (2019); Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014); Night of the Occultist (1973); North by Northwest (1959); Nostalgia Critic (2012); Not Fade Away (2012); Obsessed with Vertigo (1997); Obsession (1976); 'Obsession' Revisited (2001); Obsessions (1969); On Dangerous Ground (1951); Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019); Paint It Black (1989); Palm Harbor Vice (1991); Pandora's Mirror (1981); Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980); Perfect Strangers (1987); Perfect Therapy 3: Dawn of the Bite (2014); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1960); Perry Mason (1957–1962); Playhouse 90 (1957); Portrait of Jennie (1948); Pose (2018); Precious Images (1986); Prince of Players (1955); Prisoner of Pleasure (1981); Psycho (1960 / 1998); Psycho 60 (2020); Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990); Psycho Shampoo (1979); Psycho: The Shower Scene - With and Without Music (2001); Pursuit (1958–1959); Quebranto (2022); Ratched (2020); Rawhide (1965); Re-Animator (1985); 'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic (2001); Remington Steele (1985); Repairment (2020); Reputations (1999); RKO 281 (1999); Rope Unleashed (2001); Sasirtma Beni (1979); Saturday Night Live (1990); Scared Shrekless (2010); Secret Desire (1975); Seinfeld (1998); Show Kafka's Dudes (2021); Shower of Stars (1954–1955); Silence Becomes You (2005); Singles (1992); Sisters (1972); Slave of Pleasure (1978); South by Southeast (2010); Strange Planet (1999); Strictly Come Dancing (2014); Stuart Little 2 (2002); Studio One (1948–1958); Subdue (2016); Suspense (1950); Swipe (2014); Taxi Driver (1976); Taxi Driver-Suvilahti (2016); Telescope (1964); Tender Is the Night (1962); That Lady from Rio (1976); The 14th Annual Academy Awards (1942); The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960); The 50 Year Argument (2014); The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963–1965); The Americans (1961); The Artist (2011); The Audition (2013); The Basil Brush Show (2005); The Battle of Neretva (1969); The Benny Hill Show (1980); The Birds (1963); The Bride Wore Black (1968); The Clinic (2012); The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941); The Disappointments Room (2016); The Egyptian (1954); The Empty Man (2020); The Empty Screen or the Metaphysics of Movies (2017); The Epic of Detective Mandy: Book Four - Spoof of the Living Dead II (1995); The Falcon in Mexico (1944); The Fear (El Miedo) (2006); The Ferals (1995); The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958); The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1992–1995); The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947); The Great Adventure (1963); The Great Outdoors (1988); The House on K-Street (1959); The Jewel of Death (1992); The John Player Lecture with Bernard Herrmann (1972); The Kentuckian (1955); The Key to Reserva (2007); The Law and Jake Wade (1958); The Life of Mentos Man (2016); The Lineup (1954–1960); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); The Majestic (2001); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); The Man in the Silo (2016); The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956); The Man Who Wasn't Here (2017); The Marble Elephant (2013); The Marriage Zone (2022); The Mercury Theatre on the Air (1938); The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever (2018); The Mr. Men Show (2009); The Music of 'Fahrenheit 451' (2003); The Naked and the Dead (1958); The Naked Witch (1961); The Night Digger (1971); The Poster (2009); The Richard Boone Show (1963–1964); The Shape of Water (2017); The Simpsons (1990–2017); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952); The Sopranos (2006); The Substance (2024); The Sugarcube Critic (2014); The Summer of Suzanne (1976); The Terminator: Killer Robot (2021); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2011); The Trap (1959); The Travails of June (1976); The Trouble with Harry (1955); The Trouble with Harry Isn't Over (2001); The Trouble with Marnie (2000); The Twilight Zone (1959–1964); The Ups and Downs of a Handyman (1975); The Viper (2020); The Virginian (1965–1969); The Warden (1963); The Wrong Man (1956); Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1993); Thriller (2017); 'Topaz': An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin (2001); Torn Curtain (1966); 'Torn Curtain' Rising (2000); Trailer Nation (2018–2019); Troldspejlet (1999–2000); Twilight Zone (2013–2016); Twisted Nerve (1968); Uber Driver ROBLOX Films (2022); Untitled (1997); Valencia (2016); Vertigo (1958); Water Power (1977); Wayne's World (1992); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958–1960); Wet Wilderness (1975); What Is Cinema? (2013); What's the Deal with Gavin Phillips? (2024); White Witch Doctor (1953); Who's Doing the Dishes? (2015); Williams Sonoma 2: Basketball Blues (2022); Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot (1957); Willkommen Österreich (2007); Wonderland (2003); Xenogenesis (1978); Yes Man (2008); You Were Never Really Here (2017); Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series (2007).

Born on this day – Joan Davis:

Joan Davis

Actress

June 29, 1907 – May 23, 1961

Credits:

Abbott & Costello: The Art of Chemistry (2021); Angel's Holiday (1937); Around the World (1943); Beautiful But Broke (1944); Biography (1996); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Bunker Bean (1936); Day-Time Wife (1939); For Beauty's Sake (1941); Free, Blonde and 21 (1940); George White's Scandals (1945); Harem Girl (1952); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 6 (1942); He's My Guy (1943); Hold That Co-ed (1938); Hold That Ghost (1941); Hollywood Hobbies (1939); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); I Married Joan (1952–1955); If You Knew Susie (1948); Joan of Arkansas (1958); Josette (1938); Just Around the Corner (1938); Kansas City Kitty (1944); Keep Smiling (1938); Let's Join Joanie (1950); Life Begins in College (1937); Love and Hisses (1937); Love That Brute (1950); Make Mine Laughs (1949); Manhattan Heartbeat (1940); Millions in the Air (1935); My Lucky Star (1938); On the Avenue (1937); Sailor's Lady (1940); Sally, Irene and Mary (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1949); Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 1 (1941); Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952); She Gets Her Man (1945); She Wrote the Book (1946); Show Business (1944); Sing and Be Happy (1937); Sun Valley Serenade (1941); Sweetheart of the Fleet (1942); Tail Spin (1939); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The Bob Hope Show (1956); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1957–1958); The Garry Moore Show (1959); The George Gobel Show (1958); The Great Hospital Mystery (1937); The Groom Wore Spurs (1951); The Holy Terror (1937); The Milton Berle Show (1959); The Sound of Laughter (1963); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1958); The Traveling Saleswoman (1950); Thin Ice (1937); Time Out for Romance (1937); Too Busy to Work (1939); Two Latins from Manhattan (1941); Two Señoritas from Chicago (1943); Wake Up and Live (1937); Way Up Thar (1935); Yokel Boy (1942).

Born on this day – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

Anthony by Saint-Exupéry

Writer

Aviator

June 29, 1900 – July 31, 1944

Wind, Sand And Stars

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1939).

ISBN-10: 0156027496

ISBN-13: 978-0156027496

Description:

“There are certain rare individuals … who by the mere fact of their existence put an edge on life, their ceaseless astonishment before its possibilities awakening our own latent sense of renewal and expectation. No one ever stood out more conspicuously in this respect than the French aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.” The New York Times Book Review.

Translated by Lewis Galantière.

Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académe Francaise, Wind, Sand and Stars is unsurpassed in capturing the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure – through the treacherous passes of the Pyrenees, above the Sahara, along the snowy ramparts of the Andes – combined with the lyrical prose and soaring spirit of a philosopher, make this book one of the most popular works ever written about flying.

While flying for his air squadron, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) disappeared over the Mediterranean a year after writing his most famous book, The Little Prince. He was also the author of Night Flight and Wartime Writings.

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943).

ISBN-10: 0156012197

ISBN-13: 978-0156012195

Description:

A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. “Please,” asks the stranger, “draw me a sheep.” And the pilot realizes that when life’s events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out pencil and paper…. And thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed forever the world for its readers.

Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince, presented here in a stunning new translation with carefully restored artwork.

The definitive edition of a worldwide classic, it will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.

Credits:

Books:

Night Flight (1931); Southern Mail (1929); The Little Prince (1943) The Wisdom of the Sands (1948); Wind, Sand and Stars (1939).

Movies and television:

Has Kis Herceg (2005); Anne-Marie (1936); Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1958); ARTE Report (2018); With André Gide (1951); Beloved (2019); Courrier Sud (1937); From Kleine Prins (1960); Draw Me a Saint-Ex (2018); God Chose Paris (1969); Éjszakai repülés (1963); Ergasterium atomicum (2021); From Him (2014); Great Performance (2004); Hemingway (2021); I riassuntini (2018); I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018); Kinderbücher für Erwachsene (1954) The Night Listens (1967); The Little Prince 4D (2011); The Little Prince at La Géode (1994); The Little Prince, Birth of a Star (2023); Letec nad planétou (1976) The winter of eternity (2022); Lusitania Illusion (2010); Malenkiy prints (1974); Malý princ (2020 / 2021); Memoirs. The Passing of Time: 1920-1960 (1996); Night Flight - a musical (2021); Night Flight (1933); Night Goes Long (2015); O mikros prigipas (1999); O mikros Prigipas (2018); O Principezinho (2014); Ounce... (2004); Tell me about you (2016); Poust (2004); Sen Anlat Karadeniz (2019); Teatr Polskiego Radia (2023); Television Theater (1958); Tell Me About... The Little Prince (2016); The Conquest of the Air (1931); The Little Prince (1954 / 1965 / 1966 / 1974 / 1978) / 1979 / 1984 / 1990 / 1995 / 2003 / 2012 / 2015); The Little Prince / TV Series (1990); The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight (1979); Touched with Fire (2015).

Anne Rice, on writing:

Go where the pleasure is in your writing.

Go where the pain is.

Write the book you would like to read.

Write the book you have been trying to find but have not found.

But write.

And remember, there are no rules for our profession.

Ignore rules.

Ignore what I say here if it doesn't help you.

Do it your own way.

Every writer knows fear and discouragement.

Just write.

The world is crying for new writing.

It is crying for fresh and original voices and new characters and new stories.

If you won't write the classics of tomorrow, well, we will not have any.

- Anne Rice.

On this day in movie history - Heaven Can Wait (1978 movie & play):

Heaven Can Wait

directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry,

based on the play by Harry Segall,

was released in the United States on June 28, 1978.
Music by Dave Grusin.

Cast:

Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Jack Warden, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, Buck Henry, Vincent Gardenia, Joseph Maher, Hamilton Camp, Arthur Malet, Stephanie Faracy, Jeannie Linero, Harry D.K. Wong, George J. Manos, Larry Block, Frank Campanella, Bill Sorrells, Dick Enberg, Dolph Sweet, R.G. Armstrong, Ed Peck, John Randolph, Richard O'Brien, Joseph F. Makel, Will Hare, Lee Weaver, Roger Bowen, Keene Curtis, William Larsen, Morgan Farley, William Bogert, Robert E. Leonard, Joel Marston, Earl Montgomery, Robert C. Stevens, Bernie Massa, Peter Tomarken, William Sylvester, Lisa Blake Richards, Charlie Charles, Nick Outin, Jerry Scanlan, Jim Boeke, Marvin Fleming, Deacon Jones, Les Josephson, Jack Snow, Curt Gowdy, Al DeRogatis, Benjie Bancroft, Arline Bletcher, Joe Corolla, Charlie Cowan, Garrett Craig, Paul D'Amato, Robert Fortier, Allan Graf, Bryant Gumbel, Jim Healy, Chick Hearn, Ray Pourchot, Nick Raymond, Elliott Reid, Roberto Rodriguez, Byron Webster.

Recommended reading:

Heaven Can Wait

Comedy-Fantasy in Three Acts

By Harry Segall.

Filmed as:

Here comes Mr. Jordan (1941), directed by Alexander Hall.

Heaven Can Wait (1978), directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry.

ASIN: B000GVIZMI

Published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published 1941.

Description:

Mr. Jordan is checking passengers who are to depart in an airplane for the Hereafter. The routine is interrupted by the arrival of Joe Pendleton, an attractive prizefighter, who refuses to admit he is dead and induces Jordan to look up the "records," which reveal that Joe is not scheduled to arrive for another 60 years! But, as Joe starts to return to earth to continue his fighting, word reaches Heaven that Max Levene, Joe's manager, thinking he had been killed, had Joe's body cremated, and Joe has no body to return to. Jordan promises to find Joe another body and is informed that the wealthy Jonathan Farnsworth is about to be murdered by his wife. So, Joe suddenly finds himself in the home of the financier, visible as Joe to the audience but apparently as Farnsworth to Mrs. Farnsworth, and the public. The comedy begins when the pompous "Farnsworth" unaccountably goes into training as a fighter. In addition, "Farnsworth" decides to share his wealth and right the wrong "he" did to charming Bette Logan's father. Bette, having despised Farnsworth, finds herself falling in love with him and he with her. Just as Joe (still in Farnsworth's body) is about to get a chance to become a fighter, Jordan reports that Farnsworth does not approve of Joe's treatment of his body (and money) and is raising a fuss to have it back. While deciding on another body for Joe, Jordan receives a flash that K.O. Murdock, the champion, has been mysteriously shot. As K.O. is about to be counted out Jordan transfers Joe's spirit into the body of K.O. in time to have K.O. remain champ. There are still problems to be straightened out when Joe really becomes Murdock and loses memory of his previous existence-includingBette. Fortunately, they meet and fall in love again-and Mr. Jordan is free to head for the Hereafter, his earthly task accomplished."

On this day in movie history - Prime Cut (1972):

Prime Cut

directed by Michael Ritchie,

written by Robert Dillon,

was released in the United States on June 28, 1972.
Music by Lalo Schifrin.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott, Sissy Spacek, Janit Baldwin, William Morey, Clint Ellison, Howard Platt, Les Lannom, Eddie Egan, Therese Reinsch, Bob Wilson, Gordon Signer, Gladys Watson, Wayne Savagne.