On this day in movie history - The Blob (1958):

The Blob

directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. and Russell S. Doughten Jr.,

written by Theodore Simonson and Kay Linaker,

based on an idea by Irvine H. Millgate,

was released in the United States on September 10, 1958.
Music by Ralph Carmichael.

Cast:

Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Stephen Chase, John Benson, George Karas, Lee Payton, Elbert Smith, Hugh Graham, Vincent Barbi, Audrey Metcalf, Jasper Deeter, Tom Ogden, Elinor Hammer, Pamela Curran, Ralph Roseman, Charlie Overdorff, David Metcalf, Josh Randolph, George Gerbereck, Julie Cousins, Keith Almoney, Eugene Sabel, Robert Fields, James Bonnet, Tony Franke, Molly Ann Bourne, Diane Tabben, Russ Conway, Howard Fishlove, Jack H. Harris, Vincent J. Mastrangelo, Theodore Simonson.

On this day in movie history - Five Star Final (1931):

Five Star Final

directed by Mervyn LeRoy,

written by Byron Morgan, Robert Lord,

based on the play Five Star Final by Louis Weitzenkorn,

released in the United States on September 10, 1931.
Music by Leo F. Forbstein, Vitaphone Orchestra.

Cast:

Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell, George E. Stone, Frances Starr, Ona Munson, Boris Karloff, Aline MacMahon, Oscar Apfel, Purnell Pratt, Robert Elliott, James P. Burtis, Richard Carlyle, Frank Darien, James Donlan, Evelyn Hall, Gladys Lloyd, Arnold Lucy, Franklin Parker, William H. Strauss, David Torrence, Harold Waldridge, Polly Walters, Jack Wise.

Born on this day – David Stratton:

David Stratton

Film historian

Writer

Actor

September 10, 1939 – August 14, 2025

Credits:

Books:

Australia at the Movies: The ultimate guide to modern Australian cinema (2024); I Peed on Fellini: Recollections of a Life in Film (2008); My Favourite Movies: From a century of films and the world's best directors (2021); The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry (1990); The Insiders' Guide to Las Vegas (1997); The Last New Wave (1980).

Movies and television:

7th AACTA Awards (2017); A Woman's Tale (1991); Adam Hills in Gordon St Tonight (2011); Advance Australian Film (2014); At the Movies (2004–2013); Australian Story (1997 / 2020); Celia: David Stratton interviews Ann Turner (1989); Cosi: Interview with screenwriter Louis Nowra (2022); Dance Academy (2013); David Stratton on 'The Last Wave' (2010); David Stratton: A Cinematic Life (2017); David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema (2017); Edmond: Interview with Director Stuart Gordon (2006); FAQ (2017); First Tuesday Book Club (2013); Golden Braid (1990); Green Card: Interview with director Peter Weir and actor Gérard Depardieu (1991); Gulpilil: One Red Blood (2002); In Conversation with Bryan Brown (2012); In Conversation with Ennio Morricone (2012); In the Cannes (2007); Inside Film Awards (2011); Introduction to Genre: An Introduction (2020); Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure (2009); Mad Max: Film Phenomenon (2002); 'Malcolm' at the AFI Awards (1986); Malcolm: Interviews with Cast and Crew (2001); Mel Gibson: God's Lethal Weapon (2004); Movie of the Week (1980–1985); Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary (2019); On Borrowed Time (2011); Palace of Dreams (1984); Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema (2007); Reel to Reel (1993–1994); Return Home: SBS Movie Show (2005); Review with Myles Barlow (2008–2010); Rove Live (2004); Showreel (2013); Smut Hounds (2015); Stone Forever (1999); Sunshine and Shadows: 70 Years of Australian Cinema (1976); The 53rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards (2011); The Bazura Project (2011); The Chaser Decides (2004); The Chaser's War on 2020 (2020); The Chaser's War on Everything (2006–2007); The Faking Game (2006); The Hamster Wheel (2011–2012); The Making of Nothing (1993); The Movie Show (1995–1997); The Telegram Man (2011); The Tracker: Director Rolf De Heer Interviewed by David Stratton (2003); The Tracker: IF Awards 2002 (2003); The Tracker: World Premiere Adelaide Festival of Arts 2002 (2003); Yes We Canberra! (2010).

Born on this day – Spencer Milligan:

Spencer Milligan

Actor

Producer

September 10, 1937 – April 18, 2024

Credits:

Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980); Alice (1979); Barbary Coast (1976); Baretta (1976); CBS Library (1980); City of Angels (1976); Father Murphy (1981); Flying High (1978); Gavilan (1983); General Hospital (1987); Gunsmoke (1975); Hardcastle and McCormick (1983); Just Friends (1979); Kingston: Confidential (1977); Land of the Lost (1974–1975); Logan's Run (1977); McCloud (1977); Police Squad! (1982); Quincy M.E. (1979–1982); Sleeper (1973); Sword of Justice (1978); Terror Among Us (1981); The Bionic Woman (1976–1977); The Dukes of Hazzard (1981); The Keegans (1976); The Last Page of Summer (2020); The Magical World of Disney (1987); The Man from Clover Grove (1974); The New Mike Hammer (1984); The Photographer (1974); The Powers of Matthew Star (1982); The Yellow Rose (1984); Vega$ (1981).

Born on this day – Peter Lovesey:

Peter Lovesey

Writer

September 10, 1936 – April 10, 2025

Credits:

Books:

A Case of Spirits (1975); Abracadaver (1972); Against the Grain (2024); Another One Goes Tonight (2016); Beau Death (2017); Bloodhounds (1996); Bloodhounds / Diamond Dust (2004); Cop to Corpse (2012); Diamond and the Eye (2021); Diamond Dust (2002); Diamond Solitaire (1992); Do Not Exceed The Stated Dose (1998); Down Among the Dead Men (2015); Invitation to a Dynamite Party / aka The Tick of Death (1974); Killing with Confetti (2019); Mad Hatter's Holiday (1973); Peter Diamond: A Mysterious Profile (2024); Showstopper (2022); Skeleton Hill (2009); Stagestruck (2011); The Detective Wore Silk Drawers (1971); The Finisher (2020); The House Sitter (2003); The Last Detective (1991); The Last Detective / Diamond Solitaire (2006); The Secret Hangman (2007); The Stone Wife (2014); The Summons (1995); Swing, Swing Together (1976); The Tooth Tattoo (2013); The Vault (1999); Upon A Dark Night (1997); Waxwork (1978); Wobble to Death (1970).

Movies and television:

Cribb (1980–1981); Dead Gorgeous (2002); Goldengirl (1979); Rosemary & Thyme (2003–2006); Screenplay (1979); Tales of the Unexpected (1982).

Born on this day – Mary Oliver:

Mary Oliver

Writer

September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019

Credits:

Poems:

At Black River; August; Banyan; Beside the Waterfall; Breakage; Death at a Great Distance; Death at Wind River; Every Morning; Fall; Forty Years; The Hermit Crab; Hummingbirds; In Malaysia; The Kingfisher; The Mango; Morning Glories; The Moths; The Owl; Pilot Snake; Rain; The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, But the Attention that Comes First; The Shark; Singapore; The Son; Song for Autumn; Spring; THE STORM; This Morning Again It Was in the Dusty Pines; The Waterfall; What Is It?; White-Eyes.

Books:

A Poetry Handbook; A Thousand Mornings; American Primitive; At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver (audio cd); Blue Horses; Blue Iris: Poems and Essays; Blue Pastures; Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver; Dog Songs; Dream Work; Evidence; Felicity; House of Light; Long Life: Essays and Other Writings; New and Selected Poems [volume one]; New and Selected Poems, volume two; No Voyage, and Other Poems; Our World with photographs by Molly Malone Cook; Owls and Other Fantasies: poems and essays; Provincetown; Red Bird; Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse; Sleeping in the Forest; Swan: Poems and Prose Poems; The Leaf and the Cloud; The Night Traveler; The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems; The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays; Thirst: Poems; Twelve Moons; Upstream: Selected Essays; West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems; What Do We Know; White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems; Why I Wake Early: New Poems; Wild geese: selected poems; Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems.

Born on this day – Bo Goldman:

Bo Goldman

Writer

September 10, 1932 – July 25, 2023