On this day in movie history - New York Confidential (1955):

New York Confidential

directed by Russell Rouse,

written by Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse,

based on the novel New York Confidential! by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer,

was released in the United States on February 18, 1955.
Music by Joseph Mullendore.

Cast:

Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Marilyn Maxwell, Anne Bancroft, J. Carrol Naish, Onslow Stevens, Barry Kelley, Mike Mazurki, Celia Lovsky, Herbert Heyes, Steven Geray, William 'Bill' Phillips, Tom Powers, John Doucette.

Born on this day – John Hughes:

John Hughes

Director

February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009

Born on this day – Mary Ure:

Mary Ure

Actress

February 18, 1933 – April 3, 1975

Credits:

The Exorcism (1975); Love for Love (1974); The Wide World of Mystery (1974); ITV Play of the Week (1956–1974); Success Story (1974); Ironside (1973); A Reflection of Fear (1972); The Ten Commandments (1971); Old Times (1971); The David Frost Show (1971); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971); Where Eagles Dare (1968); On Location: Where Eagles Dare (1968); Mondo Hollywood: Hollywood Laid Bare! (1967); Custer of the West (1967); The Filming of the Battle of the Bulge (1965); The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964); The Respectful Prostitute (1964); The Mind Benders (1963); The Changeling (1961); Sons and Lovers (1960); Duel of Angels (1960); Othello (1959); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959); Look Back in Anger (1959); Omnibus (1958); Jack Hylton's Monday Show (1958); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1956 (1957); Look Back in Anger (1957); Windom's Way (1957); A View from the Bridge (1956); Storm Over the Nile (1955); Hamlet (1955); Time Remembered (1954).

Born on this day – Toni Morrison:

Toni Morrison

Writer

February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019

Credits:

A Mercy (2008); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Beloved (1987); Birth of a Nation'hood (1997); Black Satin (2004); Burn This Book (2009); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Conversations with Toni Morrison (1994); David Bowie (2016); Desdemona (2012); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Go the Way Your Blood Beats (1996); God Help the Child (2014); Goodness and the Literary Imagination (2019); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); Home (2011); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir (1987); J. D. Salinger (2016); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Jane Jacobs (2016); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); Jazz (1992); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Vonnegut (2011); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Lessons of the Masters (2003); Little Cloud and Lady Wind (2010); Lou Reed (2015); Love (2003); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); Memoirs (1999); Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations (2019); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Oliver Sacks (2016); On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (2021); Paradise (1997); Peeny Butter Fudge (2009); Philip K. Dick (2015); Playing in the Dark (1992); Please, Louise (2013); Race (2017); Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power (1992); Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (2014); Recitatif (1983); Remember (2004); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Sincerity and Authenticity (1972); Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994); Song of Solomon (1977); Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (1941); Sula (1973); Tar Baby (1981); The Big Box (1999); The Bluest Eye (1970); The Book of Mean People (2002); The Dancing Mind (1996); The Good Parts (2000); The Measure of Our Lives (2019); The Mirror Or The Glass? (2005); The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993 (1994); The Origin of Others (2016); The Romantic Generation (1995); The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance (1973); The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (2019); The Tortoise or the Hare (2010); The Writer Before the Page: From The Source of Self-Regard (2019); To Die for the People (2009); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2019); What Moves at the Margin (2008); Who's Got Game? Poppy or the Snake? (2004); Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? (2003); Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse? (2003); Who's Got Game? Three Fables (2003); Women of Color Pray (2012); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Born on this day – George Kennedy:

George Kennedy

Actor

February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016

Born on this day – Jack Palance:

Jack Palance

Actor

February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006

Credits:

Back When We Were Grownups (2004); Living with the Dead (2002); Prancer Returns (2001); Night Visions / Bitter Harvest (2001); Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End (1999); Treasure Island (1999); The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo (1998); Ebenezer (1998); I'll Be Home for Christmas (1997); Buffalo Girls (1995); The Swan Princess (1994); City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994); Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics / Where the Dead Are (1994); Cops and Robbersons (1994); Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993); Eli's Lesson (1992); Keep the Change (1992); Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan (1991); City Slickers (1991); Solar Crisis (1990); Tango & Cash (1989); Batman (1989); Gor II (1988); Young Guns (1988); Bagdad Cafe (1987); Gor (1987); Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1982); Alone in the Dark (1982); Tales of the Haunted (1981); Hawk the Slayer (1980); Without Warning (1980); The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story (1980); The Ivory Ape (1980); The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang (1979); Cocaine Cowboys (1979); Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979); The Shape of Things to Come (1979); Angels' Brigade (1979); Portrait of a Hitman (1979); The One Man Jury (1978); Welcome to Blood City (1977); God's Gun (1976); Blood and Bullets (1976); Rulers of the City (1976); Safari Express (1976); Black Cobra (1976); Bronk (1975–1976); Squadra antiscippo (1976); The Sensuous Nurse (1975); Africa Express (1975); The Four Deuces (1975); The Great Adventure (1975); The Hatfields and the McCoys (1975); The Godchild (1974); Craze (1974); Dracula (1974); Oklahoma Crude (1973); Brothers Blue (1973); Sting of the West (1972); Chato's Land (1972); It Can Be Done Amigo (1972); The Horsemen (1971); Compañeros (1970); Monte Walsh (1970); NET Playhouse (1970); The McMasters (1970); Battle of the Commandos (1969); Che! (1969); Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969); A Bullet for Rommel (1969); The Desperados (1969); The Mercenary (1968); They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968); Madigan's Millions (1968); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968); Kill a Dragon (1967); Torture Garden / The Man Who Collected Poe (1967); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966); The Professionals (1966); Run for Your Life (1966); Convoy (1965); Once a Thief (1965); Paparazzi (1964); The Greatest Show on Earth (1963–1964); Bande-annonce de 'Le mépris' (1963); Contempt (1963); Night Train to Milan (1962); Warriors Five (1962); Barabbas (1961); The Last Judgment (1961); The Mongols (1961); Sword of the Conqueror (1961); The Barbarians (1960); The Battle of Austerlitz (1960); Beyond All Limits (1959); Ten Seconds to Hell (1959); The Man Inside (1958); Playhouse 90 (1956–1957); House of Numbers (1957); The Lonely Man (1957); Zane Grey Theatre (1956); Attack (1956); I Died a Thousand Times (1955); Kiss of Fire (1955); The Big Knife (1955); Sign of the Pagan (1954); The Silver Chalice (1954); Man in the Attic (1953); Suspense (1953); The Motorola Television Hour (1953); Flight to Tangier (1953); Arrowhead (1953); Second Chance (1953); Shane (1953); The Web (1953); Danger (1953); The Gulf Playhouse (1952); Studio One (1951–1952); Sudden Fear (1952); Curtain Call (1952); Halls of Montezuma (1951); Panic in the Streets (1950); Lights Out (1950); Hands of Mystery (1949).

F. Sionil Jose, on writing:

You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation.

As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window.

- F. Sionil Jose.