On this day in movie history - Dark City (1950):

Dark City

directed by William Dieterle,

written by John Meredyth Lucas and Larry Marcus,

based on the story No Escape by Larry Marcus,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1950.
Music by Franz Waxman.

Cast:

Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger, Don DeFore, Jack Webb, Ed Begley, Harry Morgan, Walter Sande, Mark Keuning, Mike Mazurki.

Born on this day – Fay Spain:

Fay Spain

Actress

October 6, 1932 – May 8, 1983

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1959); A Man Called Shenandoah (1966); Adventures in Paradise (1959); Al Capone (1959); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Bat Masterson (1959); Ben Casey (1962); Big Town (1955); Black Gold (1962); Bonanza (1959); Cain's Hundred (1962); Caribe (1975); Channing (1964); Cheyenne (1956); Choque de Sentimentos (1965); Conflict (1956); Cordillera (1964); Daniel Boone (1964); Death Valley Days (1966); Dr. Kildare (1962); Dragnet (1956); Dragstrip Girl (1957); Flight to Fury (1964); George Jessel Show (1959); God's Little Acre (1958); Going My Way (1963); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1968); Gunslinger (1961); Gunsmoke (1957); Have Gun - Will Travel (1957); Hawaiian Eye (1960); Hercules and the Captive Women (1961); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hogan's Heroes (1968–1969); I Spy (1966); Iron Horse (1967); Ironside (1974); Johnny Guitar (1959); Laramie (1960); M Squad (1958); Mannix (1967–1972); Markham (1960); Matinee Theatre (1956); Maverick (1957); Medical Center (1971); Michael Shayne (1960); Mike Hammer (1958); Moment of Fear (1960); My Friend Tony (1969); Naked City (1960); Night Gallery (1972); Perry Mason (1958); Playhouse 90 (1956); Police Woman (1974–1975); Pursuit (1958); Rawhide (1959); Riverboat (1960); Route 66 (1960); Schlitz Playhouse (1959); Stoney Burke (1963); Sugarfoot (1957); Tales of Wells Fargo (1962); Teenage Doll (1957); The Abductors (1957); The Alaskans (1960); The Beat Generation (1959); The Box Brothers (1957); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Court of Last Resort (1958); The Crooked Circle (1957); The Deputy (1960); The Detectives (1960); The Fugitive (1965); The Gentle Rain (1966); The Godfather Part II (1974); The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992); The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977); The Great Space Adventure (1963); The Greatest Show on Earth (1963); The Man and the City (1971); The Millionaire (1958); The Naked Zoo (1970); The NBC Comedy Hour (1956); The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960); The Rat Patrol (1966); The Restless Gun (1958); The Texan (1958); The Third Commandment (1959); The Todd Killings (1971); The Untouchables (1961); The Web (1957); Thunder Island (1963); Tombstone Territory (1958); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959); Warner Brothers Presents (1956); Welcome to Hard Times (1967); Whirlybirds (1958); Wire Service (1957); You Bet Your Life (1956).

Born on this day – Richard T. Heffron:

Richard T. Heffron

Director

October 6, 1930 – August 27, 2007

Born on this day – Stanley Myers:

Stanley Myers

Composer

October 6, 1930 – November 9, 1993

Born on this day – Teala Loring:

Teala Loring

Actress

October 6, 1922 – January 28, 2007

Credits:

Allotment Wives (1945); Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942); Black Market Babies (1945); Bluebeard (1944); Bombs Over Burma (1942); Bowery Bombshell (1946); Bring on the Girls (1945); Dark Alibi (1946); Delinquent Daughters (1944); Double Indemnity (1944); Fall Guy (1947); Gas House Kids (1946); Halfway to Heaven (1944); Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947); Henry Aldrich's Little Secret (1944); Here We Go Again (1942); Holiday Inn (1942); I Love a Soldier (1944); My Favorite Blonde (1942); Partners in Time (1946); Return of the Ape Man (1944); Riding the California Trail (1947); Standing Room Only (1944); Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944); The Affairs of Susan (1945); The Arizona Cowboy (1950); The Fleet's In (1942); The Powers Girl (1943); The Singing Cowboys Ride Again (1979); The Trouble with Women (1947); Wife Wanted (1946); You Hit the Spot (1945); Young and Willing (1943).

Born on this day – Micheline Bourday:

Micheline Bourday

Actress

October 6, 1921 – November 26, 1988

Credits:

Aéroport (1983); American Dreamer (1984); Cinéma 16 (1977); Croque la vie (1981); Dis bonjour à la dame!.. (1977); Jean-Christophe (1978); La 7ème cible (1984); L'affaire Caillaux (1985); Le pays bleu (1977); Les cinq dernières minutes (1967); Les coqs de minuit (1973); Les jeunes filles (1978); Les parents ne sont pas simples cette année (1984); Mes meilleurs copains (1989); My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (1989); On peut le dire sans se fâcher (1978); Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954); The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials (1979); The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982); The Man Without a Face (1975); The Miser (1980); The Party (1980); Tranches de vie (1985); Un petit paradis (1981); Violette (1978).

Born on this day – Jacqueline Pagnol:

Jacqueline Pagnol

Actress

October 6, 1920 – August 22, 2016

Credits:

Adhémar ou le jouet de la fatalité (1951); Adieu Léonard (1943); Carnaval (1953); C'est encore mieux l'après-midi (1987); Champs-Elysées (1987); Étoiles au soleil (1953); Jean de Florette (1986); La belle meunière (1948); La maison des sept jeunes filles (1942); La nuit des César (1981); La terreur des dames (1956); Le grand échiquier (1981); Les ailes blanches (1943); Les Nuits de France Culture (2021); Les sentiers Marcel Pagnol. Les chemins d'une vie (2005); Les trésors de Marcel Pagnol (2019); Manon of the Spring (1952); Naïs (1945); Night Shift (1944); Pagnol et compagnie (2005); Reflets de Cannes (1955); The Prize (1950); Topaze (1951); Vedettes en liberté (1949).