Born on this day – Evalyn Knapp:

Evalyn Knapp

Actress

June 17, 1906 – June 12, 1981

Credits:

50 Million Frenchmen (1931); A Man's Game (1934); A Shocking Affair (1931); A Successful Calamity (1932); A Tight Squeeze (1930); Air Hostess (1933); All Stuck Up (1930); An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930); At the Dentist's (1929); Bachelor Mother (1932); Beach Babies (1929); Big City Blues (1932); Big Time Charlie (1929); Bulldog Edition (1936); Chills and Fever (1930); Confidential (1935); Corruption (1933); Dance, Girl, Dance (1933); Dancing Around (1929); Fireman, Save My Child! (1932); Gentlemen of the Evening (1929); Girl in 313 (1940); Hard Boiled Hampton (1929); Haunted; or, Who Killed the Cat? (1929); Hawaiian Buckaroo (1938); High Pressure (1932); His Operation (1929); His Private Secretary (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Hollywood on Parade No. B-7 (1934); How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots' (1931); How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones, No. 2: 'Chip Shots' (1931); Idiot's Delight (1939); In Old Santa Fe (1934); Ladies Crave Excitement (1935); Laughing Irish Eyes (1936); Love, Honor and Oh! Baby (1929); Madame Racketeer (1932); Meat and Romance (1940); Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars (1941); Mother's Cry (1930); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); One Frightened Night (1935); Perils of Pauline (1933); Police Car 17 (1933); Rawhide (1938); River's End (1930); Roar of the Press (1941); Sauce for the Gander (1940); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 5: Art and Artists (1940); Side Show (1931); Sinners' Holiday (1930); Slightly Married (1932); Smart Money (1931); Speed Wings (1934); Sprockets (1991); State Trooper (1933); System (1930); Taxi (1931); Taxi Talks (1930); The Bargain (1931); The Fire-Trap (1935); The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941); The Millionaire (1931); The Night Mayor (1932); The Plumbers Are Coming (1929); The Smooth Guy (1929); The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932); The Vanishing Frontier (1932); This Sporting Age (1932); Three of a Kind (1936); Two Weeks to Live (1943); Wanted by the Police (1938); Wednesday Night at the Ritz (1929).

W. Somerset Maugham, on writing:

There are three rules for writing a novel.

Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

- W. Somerset Maugham.

On this day in movie history - Titan A.E. (2000):

Titan A.E.

directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman,

written by Ben Edlund, John August and Joss Whedon,

based on a story by Hans Bauer and Randall McCormick,

was released in the United States, on June 16, 2000.
Music by Graeme Revell and Tim Simonec.

Cast:

Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Jim Breuer, Ken Hudson Campbell, Janeane Garofalo, Ron Perlman, Bill Pullman, David L. Lander, Nathan Lane, John Leguizamo, Thomas A. Chantler, Tsai Chin, Elaine A. Clark, Roy Conrad, Jim Cummings, Leslie Hedger, Roger Jackson, Alex D. Linz, Tone Loc, Shannon Orrock, Alex Pels, Charles Rocket, Crystal Scales, Christopher Scarabosio, Eric Schniewind, Stephen Stanton, Scott Seymann.

On this day in music history:

Destination Anywhere by Jon Bon Jovi (1997)

Not That Kind by Anastacia (2000)

Destination Anywhere

Album by Jon Bon Jovi,

released June 16, 1997.

Track listing (some versions of this album include two bonus tracks):

Queen of New Orleans; Janie, Don’t Take Your Love to Town; Midnight in Chelsea; Ugly; Staring at Your Window with a Suitcase in My Hand; Every Word Was a Piece of My Heart; It’s Just Me; Destination Anywhere; Learning How to Fall; Naked; Little City; August 7, 4:15; Cold Hard Heart; Cold Hard Heart (Demo); I Talk to Jesus (Demo).

Not That Kind

Album by Anastacia,

released June 16, 2000.

Track list:

Not That Kind; I’m Outta Love; Cowboys & Kisses; Why’d You Lie to Me; Who’s Gonna Stop the Rain; I Ask of You; Don’tcha Wanna; Late Last Night; Made For Lovin’ You; Black Roses; Yo Trippin’; One More Chance; Same Old Story.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 3. Episode 26.

Episode entitled: The Best of Both Worlds.

Released June 16, 1990.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Written by Michael Piller, Ronald D. Moore.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Elizabeth Dennehy, George Murdock, Colm Meaney, Whoopi Goldberg, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Majel Barrett, Nyra Crenshaw, Robert Daniels, Debbie David, Christopher Doyle, Eben Ham, Randy James, Tim McCormack, Keith Rayve, Lynn Salvatori, Adrian Tafoya.

On this day in movie history - Psycho (1960 movie & books):

Psycho

directed by Alfred Hitchcock,

written by Joseph Stefano,

based on the novel by Robert Bloch,

was released in the United States, on June 16, 1960.
Music by Bernard Herrmann.
Inspired by the true 1957 Ed Gein murder case.

Cast:

Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Frank Albertson, Pat Hitchcock, Vaughn Taylor, Lurene Tuttle, John Anderson, Mort Mills, Virginia Gregg, Paul Jasmin, Jeanette Nolan.

Recommended reading:

Psycho

By Robert Bloch.

Filmed as Psycho (1960), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Published by The Overlook Press.

First published 1959.

ISBN-10: 1590203356

ISBN-13: 9781590203354

Description:

"Psycho all came from Robert Bloch's book." – Alfred Hitchcock.

"Icily terrifying!" – The New York Times.

"Robert Bloch is one of the all-time masters." – Peter Straub.

Norman Bates loves his mother. She has been dead for the past 20 years, or so people think. Norman knows better, though.

Ever since leaving the hospital, he has lived with Mother in the old house up on the hill above the Bates Motel. One night, after a beautiful woman checks into the motel, Norman spies on her as she undresses. Norman can’t help but spy on her.

Mother is there, though. She is there to protect Norman from his filthy thoughts. She is there to protect him with her butcher knife.

If you love to be scared, or are a fan of classic movies, then you know the story of Norman Bates, his mother, and the dark and frightening Bates Motel. Alfred Hitchcock’s taut, shocking scare-fest starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh is a classic movie, as scary today as it was in 1960 when it was first released, and this is the 1959 novel upon which the movie is based.

It was here that the legend of the Bates Motel was born.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

Edited by Richard J. Anobile.

The Film Classics Library.

Published by Universe Books.

First Edition.

Published 1974.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0876631898

ISBN-13: 978-0876631898

Description:

The Film Classics Library present the most accurate and complete reconstruction of a film in book over 1,300 frame blow-up photos shown sequentially and coupled with the complete dialogue from the original soundtrack, allow you to recapture this film classic in its entirety – at your leisure.

Born on this day – Verónica Echegui:

Verónica Echegui

Actress

Director

Writer

June 16, 1983 – August 24, 2025

Credits:

&Me (2013); 23 premios Goya (2009); 26 Premios Forqué (2021); 3 Caminos (2021); 36 premios Goya (2022); 50 años de (2009); 51 premis Sant Jordi de cinematografia (2007); 6 Points About Emma (2011); 8 citas (2008); Actrices (2011); Alguna pregunta més? (2012–2021); Apaches (2017); Àrtic (2016); Atención obras (2016–2024); Bigas x Bigas (2016); Book of Love (2022); Buenafuente (2008); Bunny and the Bull (2009); Cartelera (2008); Casting: El camino del éxito (2007); Ceremonia de inauguración - 56º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2008); Cerrojos (2004); Cine de barrio (2023); Cinema 3 (2008–2016); Cites (2024); Ciudad de sombras (2025); Continuarà... (2006–2012); Corazón, corazón (2007); Cuéntame cómo pasó (2014); De par en par (2008); Días de cine (2009–2024); Divendres (2012–2016); El álbum blanco (2005); El club (2006–2007); El hormiguero (2013–2021); El intermedio (2006); El menor de los males (2007); El patio de mi cárcel (2008); Els matins a TV3 (2012); Estepas (2022); Èxit (2008); Family United (2013); Fortitude (2015–2017); Gente (2012); Gente hablando (2018); Half of Oscar (2010); Intimacy (2022); IV Premis Gaudí de l'Acadèmia del Cinema Català (2012); Jo què sé! (2011); Justicia artificial (2024); Kamikaze (2014); Katmandú, un espejo en el cielo (2011); Kiki, Love to Love (2016); La casa de mi padre (2008); La gran familia española: Los procesos (2014); La mandrágora (2005); La mandrágora (2007); La reunión (2017); La tarda (2008); La via làctia (2008); La visita (2017); Le Prochain (2018); Let Yourself Go (2017); Línea 57 (2006); Loops! (2008); Los Felices veinte (2022); Los Goya 26 edición (2012); Los Goya 28 edición (2014); Los pacientes del doctor García (2023); Lost & Found (2022); Love You to Death (2025); Mi vida (2019); Miradas 2 (2005–2012); Mist & the Maiden (2017); More the Merrier (2021); My Heart Goes Boom! (2020); No culpes al karma de lo que te pasa por gilipollas (2016); No disparen al pianista (2008); Noche Hache (2006–2007); Paco y Veva (2004); Paquita Salas (2018 / 2019); Pasapalabra (2013–2021); Penélope, camino a los Oscar (2007); Premios Feroz (2021); Premios Goya 30 edición (2016); Premios Goya 35 edición (2021); Requirements to Be a Normal Person (2015); Resumen - 56º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2008); Sala 33 (2012); Sexo en el plató (2007); Silenci? (2007); Sobradamente directores (2012); Stories Not to Be Told / Segment: París (2022); Tell in Eve's Comet (2020); Tetequiquiero (2010); The Cold Light of Day (2012); The Hunter's Prayer (2017); The Offering (2020); Three Days of Christmas (2019); Tocar el cielo (2007); Tócate (2018); Tótem Loba (2020); Trust (2018); Un difunto, seis mujeres y un taller (2007); Una nueva vida (2003); Unici (2015); Unknown Origins (2020); V premis Barcelona de cinema (2006); Verbo (2011); Versión española (2014–2020); Vert (date?); What Is Love (2019); XIII Premis Gaudí (2021); XVIII Premio Cinematográfico José María Forqué (2013); XXI Premios Anuales de la Academia (2007); Yo no soy esa (2024); Yo soy la Juani (2006); You're Killing Me Susana (2016).