Born on this day – Vera Schmiterlöw:

Vera Schmiterlöw

Actress

July 19, 1904 – September 9, 1987

Credits:

33.333 (1924); Alimony (1930); At Ruedesheim Castle there is a lime tree (1928); Andersson, Pettersson och Lundström (1923); bi-products (1969); Bodakungen (1920); Brother Bernhard (1929); Dame Care (1928); Den italienska halmhatten (1974); The standard-bearer von Sedan (1927); The Black Domino (1929); Die Flucht vor der Liebe (1929); Drottningen av Pellagonien (1927); A Little Girlfriend Needs Every Man (1927); En Kvinnas Morgondag (1931); Ett resande teatersällskap (1972); Håll polisen Utanför (1969); Hon, han och Andersson (1926); Hrích (1929); Her last love adventure (1927); Jahrmarkt des Lebens (1928); Madame Bluebeard (1931); Girls' fates (1928); Minns Ni? (1993); Mordbrännerskan (1926); När millionerna rullar... (1924); His Best Friend (1929); His Strongest Weapon (1928); Släpp fångarne Loss - det är vår! (1975); Styrman Karlssons flammor (1925); Thomas Graals Myndling (1922); Unga hjärtan (1934) Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht (1929); When the mother and daughter... (1928); We hold together firmly and faithfully (1929).

Born on this day – Robert Leslie Bellem:

Robert Leslie Bellem

Writer

July 19, 1902 – April 1, 1968

Credits:

Written work:

30 Seconds (1937); Back Home to Hell (1940); Beyond the Veil (1936); Bitter Reckoning (1937); Blood for the Vampire Dead (1940); Castle Sinister (1935); Cats of Cassandra (1935); Cavern of the Faceless (1936); Command to Kill (1935); Corpse Without a Face (1935); Curse of the Lovely Torso (1940); Dark Eyes of Hell (1938); Dark Splendor (1936); Dead Legs Walk (1935); Dealer in Death (1938); Death Orchids (1935); Death's Bright Halo (1935); Death's Chrysalis (1936); Death's Detour (1937); Death's Detour: The Surgeon of Souls Collection, Volume 1 (2002); Death's Nocturne (1936); Death's Passport (1940); Doom of the Half-Dead (1936); Fangs of the Bat (1935); Fate of the Faulains (1936); Fiend's Feast (1938); Flowers of Desire (1936); Forever Vengeance (1942); From the Sea (1936); Gallows Heritage (1937); Gallows Heritage: The Surgeon of Souls Collection, Volume 2 (2003); Ghost Cavalcade (1938); Ghoul's Trap (1937); Girl of Flame (1940); Graveyard Honeymoon (1936); Hell's Dark Fragrance (1936); Heritage of Madness (1937); Homicide Hunch (1943); I Am a Monster (1937); I Must Have Five Corpses (1936); Introducing the Author - Robert Leslie Bellem (1941); Kill That Headline (1939); Labyrinth of Monsters (1936); Letter / Amazing Stories, June 1934 (1934); Lorelei of Lynnwold Light (1935); Low Bridge (1941); Master of Death (1935); Mesa of Madness (1941); Message from the Grave (1942); Mirror Magic (1938); Mistress of Serpents (1935); Murder from Nowhere (1935); Murder Mine (1947); Murder's Migrants (1943); Pancho Diego, Villain (1936); Pearl of Hell (1941); Portals of Peril (1939); Portrait of Terror (1936); Princess of Dreams (1938); Program for Plunder (1939); Red Thirst (1939); Reunion Beyond (1936); Robots Can't Lie (1941); Room of Dreams (1938); Shadow from Eleusis (1938); Shadows Pass (1936); She Who Was Dead (1936); Six Lives for One (1940); Sonance Sinister (1940); Strange Journey (1938); Surgeon of Souls (1936); Taupoo Dance (1936); Televised Frame / comic strip (1949); The Belled Rat (1935); The Blood Drinkers (1935); The Corpse Screams Twice (1937); The Crimson Crone (1935); The Dark Tower (1937); The Executioner (1935); The Green Death Walks (1936); The Man Who Was Not (1935); The Moon-God Takes (1936); The Short-Wave Superman (1941); The Soul Eater (1938); The Surgeon of Souls and Other Tales of Terror (2009); The Thing in the Shaft (1939); Through Fire (1940); Tryst with Death (1936); Vampire's Castle (1938); Variant: "I Must Have 5 Corpses" (2015); Variant: Blood for Sale (1942); Variant: Cats of Cassandra (1935); Variant: Death Orchids (1935); Variant: Dog of Death (1942); Variant: Eyes of the Cat (1942); Variant: Fork the in Road (1942); Variant: I Must Have Five Corpses (1936); Variant: Miracle Man (1942); Variant: Murder Moon (1942); Variant: Nameless Dread of the Savage Sirens (1949); Variant: Payment in Blood (1942); Variant: The Blood Drinkers (1935); Variant: Will O' the Wisp (1942); Welcome to Hell (1941); When the Dead Awaken (1937); Wooed by a Werewolf (1939); You Are a Murderer (1940).

Movies and television:

77 Sunset Strip (1963–1964); Adventures of Superman (1956–1958); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1953); Assignment: Underwater (1961); Behind Closed Doors (1959); Blackmail (1947); Boston Blackie / Front Page Detective (1951 / 1953); Broken Arrow (1957–1958); Captain Midnight (1955–1956); Chevron Theatre (1953); Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (1990); Death Valley Days (1965); Dick Tracy (1950–1952); Eye Witness (1953); General Electric Summer Originals (1956); Iron Horse (1967); Johnny Midnight (1960); Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959); Man Without a Gun (1957–1959); Perry Mason (1961–1964); Schlitz Playhouse (1953–1954); Steve Donovan, Western Marshal (1956); Superman (1973); Temple Houston (1963); The Californians (1959); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The F.B.I. (1965–1967); The Forsaken Westerns (2017); The Lone Ranger (1956–1957); The Millionaire (1957–1959); The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1957); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Restless Gun (1958); The Texan (1960); The Third Man (1963); The Web (1957); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959).

Walt Whitman, on writing:

The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place.

I always worked that way.

I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…

By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

- Walt Whitman.

On this day in television history - Justified: City Primeval (2023):

Justified: City Primeval

Season 1. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: City Primeval.

Released July 18, 2023.

Directed by Michael Dinner.

Written by Dave Andron, Michael Dinner, Cole Quirk.

Based on City Primeval and Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Mark Isham.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Marin Ireland, Victor Williams, Norbert Leo Butz, Boyd Holbrook, Keith David, Amin Joseph, Ravi V. Patel, Kenn E. Head, Vivian Olyphant, Alexander Pobutsky, Regina Taylor, Ian Bratschie, Rae Gray, Jamar Gilbert, Marc Grapey, Jeanette O’Connor, Scott Anderson, Adam Wesley Brown, Jessie Camacho, Isaiah Gordon, Daniel Vaughn Manasia, Justin Melnick, Daniel E. Pfeiffer, Michael James Thomas, Kevin Lingle, Anthony Louis, Pepper, Giota Trakas, Estavion White.

Justified: City Primeval

Season 1. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: The Oklahoma Woman.

Released July 18, 2023.

Directed by Michael Dinner.

Written by Dave Andron, Michael Dinner, Cole Quirk.

Based on City Primeval and Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Mark Isham.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Marin Ireland, Victor Williams, Norbert Leo Butz, Boyd Holbrook, Paul Calderon, Ravi Patel, Joseph Anthony Byrd, Vivian Olyphant, Taryn Asher Carr, Jaegen Ellison, Jared David Michael Grant, Michael Hargrove, Brandon Hudson, Eddie Martinez, Justin Mobley, Keenan Odenkirk, Jordan Stafford, Anthony Louis, Estavion White.

On this day in movie history - The Banana Splits Movie (2019):

The Banana Splits Movie

directed by Danishka Esterhazy,

written by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas,

based on The Banana Splits by Hanna-Barbera Productions,

was released at the San Diego Comic-Con International in the United States on July 18, 2019.
Music by Patrick Stump.

Cast:

Dani Kind, Steve Lund, Celina Martin, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Sara Canning, Romeo Carere, Maria Nash, Naledi Majola, Richard White, Kiroshan Naidoo, Keeno Lee Hector, Lia Sachs, Lionel Newton, Daniel Fox, Vash Singh, Nicky Rebelo, Liza Scholtz, Jenna Saras, Eric Bauza, Terry Sauls, Brandon Vraagom, Kori Clarke, Buntu Plam, Matthew Jander, Liam Williams, Bethany Jander, Grace Li, Marlene Trimborn-De Kock, Joshua Kalambay, Temoso Mogotsi, Lily Spangenberg.

On this day in movie history - Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006):

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

documentary directed by Gary Leva,

was released in the United States on July 18, 2006.

Cast:

John Alton, Drew Casper, Roger Deakins, John Debney, Edward Dmytryk, James Ellroy, Glenn Erickson, William Goldman, Jane Greer, Haden Guest, Patricia King Hanson, Brian Helgeland, Peter Honess, Rick Jewell, Janusz Kaminski, Eric Lax, Carol Littleton, Michael Madsen, Christopher McQuarrie, Frank Miller, Eddie Muller, Kim Newman, Christopher Nolan, John Ottman, Nicholas Pileggi, Sydney Pollack, André Previn, Graeme Revell, Henry Rollins, Theresa Russell, Paul Schrader, Talia Shire, Newton Thomas Sigel, Alain Silver, Audrey Totter, James Ursini, Gordon Willis, Lili Fini Zanuck.

On this day in movie history - Aliens (1986 movie & novel):

Aliens

directed and written by James Cameron,

based on a story by James Cameron, David Giler and Walter Hill,

was released in the United States on July 18, 1986.
Music by James Horner.

Cast:

Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Jenette Goldstein, Al Matthews, Mark Rolston, Ricco Ross, Colette Hiller, Daniel Kash, Cynthia Dale Scott, Tip Tipping, Trevor Steedman, Paul Maxwell, Valerie Colgan, Alan Polonsky, Alibe Parsons, Blain Fairman, Barbara Coles, Carl Toop, John Lees, William Armstrong, Jay Benedict, Holly De Jong, Jill Goldston, Christopher Henn, Elizabeth Inglis, Mac McDonald, Stuart Milligan, Eddie Powell, Bob Sherman, Chris Webb, Tom Woodruff Jr.

Recommended reading:

Aliens

By Alan Dean Foster.

The Official Movie Novelization.

Published by Titan Books.

First published 1986.

ISBN-10: 178329017X

ISBN-13: 978-1783290178

Description:

In the sequel to the 1979 film Alien, Ellen Ripley is forced to return to planet LV-426, where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature. There they discovered hundreds of eggs, and just one slaughtered everyone but Ripley. This time she's accompanied by a unit of Colonial Marines, but even their firepower may not be enough for them to survive and learn the fate of the colony known as Hadley's Hope.

Ripley is going back ... The sole survivor of the terror that struck her space comrades years ago, she now steels herself to help lead an expedition to the hell she once escaped. For on a planet far from earth, alien beings swarm, hungry for the human face, ready to make the human race their living nesting ground. Here waits the ultimate nightmare of Alien, hundreds of times stronger, more insidious, and practically invincible. Here Ripley must re-enter a world of sudden, unspeakable horror ... one that attacks without warning again and again and again.