Friday, June 12, 2026

On this day in movie history - Moon (2009)

Moon


directed by Duncan Jones,

written by Nathan Parker,

based on a story by Duncan Jones,

was released in the United States on June 12, 2009.

Music by Clint Mansell.

Cast:
Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw, Adrienne Shaw, Kaya Scodelario, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Malcolm Stewart, Robin Chalk, Gavin Rothery, Gary Shaw, Mick Ward.

Ursula K. Le Guin, on books:

 
By and large books are mankind's best invention.
– Ursula K. Le Guin.


Recommended reading: The Diary, by Anne Frank (1948)

The Diary

by Anne Frank.

Published by Turtleback Books.

First published 1948.

ISBN-10: 1417643099

ISBN-13: 9781417643097

Description:

Anne Frank’s extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit. Now, in a new edition enriched by many passages originally withheld by her father, we meet an Anne more real, more human, and more vital than ever. Here she is first and foremost a teenage girl – stubbornly honest, touchingly vulnerable, in love with life. She imparts her deeply secret world of soul-searching and hungering for affection, rebellious clashes with her mother, romance and newly discovered sexuality, and wry, candid observations of her companions. Facing hunger, fear of discovery and death, and the petty frustrations of such confined quarters, Anne writes with adult wisdom and views beyond her years. Her story is that of every teenager, lived out in conditions few teenagers have ever known.

Born on this day – Johanna Spyri:


Johanna Spyri


Writer

June 12, 1827 – July 7, 1901
Credits:

Books:

A Leaf On Vrony's Grave (1871); Arthur and Squirrel; Chel; Children of the Alps; Cornelli; Dora (1924); Erick and Sally; Eveli (1926); Francesca at Hinterwald; Gritli's Children (1924); Heidi (1880); Jo; Jorli (1926); Maxa's Children (1926); Mazli; Moni the Goat Boy and Other Stories (1914); Peppino; Renz and Margritli; Rico and Wiseli; The Children's Carol; The New Year's Carol; The Pet Lamb and Other Swiss Stories (date?); The Rose Child; The Story of Rico; Toni the Little Wood Carver (1920); Uncle Titus in the Country (1926); Veronica (1924); Vinzi (1923); What Sami Sings with the Birds.

Movies and television:

A Gift for Heidi (1958); Bonjour jeunesse (1957); Do Phool (1958); Have You Got Any Castles? (1938); Heidi - Die Legende vom Luchs (2025); Heidi (1920 / 1937 / 1952 / 1953 / 1956 / 1959 / 1965 / 1968 / 1974 / 1978 / 1993 / 1995 / 2001 / 2005 / 2015 / 2024 / 2025); Heidi 4 Paws (2009); Heidi and Peter (1955); Heidi, bienvenida a casa (2017); Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974); Heidi's Song (1982); Hello Kitty and Friends (1993); Hello Kitty no Alps no Shôjo Heidi (1993); Hello Kitty no Alps no Shôjo Heidi II: Klara to no Deai (1994); Max Liebman Spectaculars (1955); Rosen-Resli (1954); S'Waisechind vo Engelberg (1956); Television Theater (1997); The New Adventures of Heidi (1978); World Fairy Tale Series (1995); Wunderland (1983).

Born on this day – James Oliver Curwood:

 

James Oliver Curwood


Writer

Conservationist

June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927

Credits:

Books:

A Gentleman of Courage (1924); Back to God's Country (1920); Baree, Son of Kazan (1917); Commerce on the Great Lakes (1907); Falkner of the Inland Seas (1931); Flower of the North (1912); Glory of Living (1928); God's Country (1921); God's County and the Woman (1915); Great Wilderness Stories (1997); Green Timber (1930); Isobel (1913); Kazan (1914); My Stories That I Like Best (1925); Nomads of the North (1919); Peter God (2005); Son Of A Hero (2004); Son of the Forests (1930); Steele of the Royal Mounted (1911); Swift Lightning (1926); The Alaskan (1922); The Ancient Highway (1925); The Black Hunter (1926); The Country Beyond (1922); The Courage of Captain Plum (1908); The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1918); The Crippled Lady of Peribonka (1929); The Danger Trail (1910); The Fiddling Man (1917); The Flaming Forest (1921); The Gold Hunters (1909); The Golden Snare (1921); The Great Lakes (1909); The Grizzly (1916); The Grizzly King / aka The Bear (1918); The Honor of Her People (1920); The Honor of the Big Snows (1911); The Hunted Woman (1916); The Match (1920); The Mouse (2005); The Plains of Abraham (1928); The River's End (1919); The Strength of Men (1920); The Valley of Silent Men (1920); The Wolf Hunters (1908); The Yellow Back (1920).

Movies and television:

A Captain's Courage (1926); A Fighting Chance (1913); A Flirt's Repentance (1914); A Man, a Girl, and a Lion (1917); A Pound for a Pound (1915); A Study in Tramps (1915); Back to God's Country (1919 / 1927 / 1953); Baree, Son of Kazan (1918 / 1925); Beautiful Belinda (1915); Beauty-Proof (1919); Betty in the Lions' Den (1913); Billy Smoke (1917); Call of the Klondike (1950); Call of the Yukon (1938); Caryl of the Mountains (1914 / 1936); Cats (1915); Clover's Rebellion (1917); Code of the Mounted (1935); Cupid Makes a Bull's Eye (1913); Danger Trail (1917); Dawn on the Great Divide (1942); Diamond Cut Diamond (1913); Duty and the Man (1913); Fangs of the Arctic (1953); Fathers of Men (1916); Fortune's Turn (1913); Four Minutes Late (1914); Galloping Dynamite (1937); Getting a Start in Life (1915); God's Country (1946); God's Country and the Law (1921); God's Country and the Woman (1916 / 1937); Gold Madness (1923); Hearts of Men (1914 / 1928); Her Fighting Chance (1917); His Dominant Passion (1914); His Fight (1914); His Fighting Blood (1915 / 1935); His Lordship Billy Smoke (1913); Husks (1916); I Am the Law (1922); In Defiance of the Law (1914); In the Days of Famine (1915); Isobel or the Trail's End (1920); Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers (1923); Jan of the Big Snows (1922); Kazan (1921 / 1949); Law of the Timber (1941); Looking Forward (1910); Love's Western Flight (1914); Man's Law (1915); Memories That Haunt (1914); My Neighbor's Wife (1925); 'Neath Canadian Skies (1946); Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (1961); Nomads of the North (1920); North of the Border (1946); Northern Frontier (1935); Northern Patrol (1953); Northwest Territory (1951); Northwest Trail (1945); Paid in Advance (1919); Phantom Patrol (1936); Playing with Fire (1914); Polishing Up (1914); Prejudice of Pierre Marie (1911); Prisoners of the Storm (1926); Rags and the Girl (1915); Retribution (1915); River's End (1930 / 1940); Roaring Six Guns (1937); Rough Riding Rhythm (1937); Saturday Roundup (1951); Second Childhood (1914); Skull and Crown (1935); Snow Dog (1950); Soldiers of Chance (1917); Some Liar (1919); Song of the Trail (1936); Steele of the Royal Mounted (1925); Such a Little Pirate (1918); Tales of the Wild (1994–1995); Tangled Lives (1918); Tentacles of the North (1926); The Alaskan (1924); The Ancient Highway (1925); The Awakening (1915); The Battle of Frenchman's Run (1915); The Bear (1988); The Beauty Hunters (1916); The Broken Silence (1922); The Country Beyond (1926 / 1936); The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1920); The Coyote (1915); The Destroyers (1916); The Dream Girl (1914); The Eugenic Girl (1914); The Fatal Note (1914); The Feudists (1913); The Fifth Man (1914); The Fighting Texan (1937); The Fighting Trooper (1934); The Flaming Forest (1926); The Flashlight (1915); The Flower of the North (1921); The Girl from Porcupine (1921); The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit (1918); The Gods Redeem (1915); The Gold Ship (1916); The Golden Snare (1921); The Great Experiment (1915); The Hawk (1935); The Hunted Woman (1916 / 1925); The Jungle Lovers (1915); The Lady Killer (1915); The Last Man (1916); The Lone Trail (1932); The Lost Millionaire (1913); The Magical World of Disney (1964); The Man from Hell's River (1922); The Man Hater (1914 / 1917); The Midnight Call (1914); The Mystery of Dead Man's Isle (1915); The Mystery of the Seven Chests (1914); The Mystery of the Silver Skull (1913); The Northern Trail (1921); The Old Code (1915 / 1928); The Ordeal (1914); The Pirates (1913); The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan (1915); The Queen of Jungle Land (1915); The Red Blood of Courage (1915 / 1935); The Richest Girl in the World (1915); The River's End (1920); The Silver Trail (1937); The Skull and the Crown (1914); The Slaver (1927); The Sole Survivor (1917); The Soul Master (1917); The Speck on the Wall (1914); The Spirit of the Violin (1915); The Story of the Blood Red Rose (1914); The Strange Case of Princess Khan (1915); The Strange Case of Talmai Lind (1915); The Strength of Men (1913); The Test (1914 / 1935); The Tragedy That Lived (1914); The Trail Beyond (1934); The Treasure of Desert Isle (1913); The Valley of Silent Men (1922); The Vengeance of Rannah (1915); The Wandering Horde (1916); The Warmakers (1913); The Wheels of Fate (1913); The White Mouse (1914 / 1921); The Wilderness Mail (1914); The Wolf Hunters (1926 / 1949); The Yellow-Back (1929); The Young Man Who 'Figgered' (1915); Their Wives' Indiscretion (1913); Thor, Lord of the Jungles (1913); Thou Shalt Not Covet (1916); Till Death Us Do Part (1914); Timber Fury (1950); Timber War (1935); Toll of Sin (1917); Trail of the Yukon (1949); Trails End (1935); Trails of the Wild (1935); Two Women (1914 / 1919); Untamed Justice (1929); Unto Those Who Sin (1916); V debryakh, gde reki begut... (1988); Valley of Terror (1937); Vengeance of Rannah (1936); Venus and Adonis (1914); When the Door Opened (1925); When Women Go on the Warpath; or, Why Jonesville Went Dry (1913); Where the North Begins (1947); Whistling Bullets (1937); Why I Am Here (1913); Wild Horse Round-Up (1936); Wildcat Trooper (1936); Wilderness Mail (1935); Ye Vengeful Vagabonds (1914); Yukon Gold (1952); Yukon Manhunt (1951); Yukon Vengeance (1954).

Born on this day – Hedwiga Reicher:

 

Hedwiga Reicher


Actress

June 12, 1884 – September 2, 1971
Credits:

Stage:

Caliban of the Yellow Sands (1916); Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea (1911); June Madness (1912); On the Eve (1909); The Next of Kin (1909); The Stronger (1913); The Thunderbolt (1911); When the Young Vine Blooms (1915).

Movies and Television:

A Lover's Oath (1925); Beyond Victory (1931); Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939); Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940); Dracula's Daughter (1936); Ex-Lady (1933); Flesh (1932); I Married a Doctor (1936); It Could Happen to You (1937); Lucky Star (1929); Mordprozeß Mary Dugan (1931); New Moon (1930); Rendezvous (1935); Sporting Chance (1931); The Dragon Murder Case (1934); The Godless Girl (1928); The House of a Thousand Candles (1936); The King of Kings (1927); The Leopard Lady (1928); True Heaven (1929).


Born on this day – Nina Mae McKinney:


Nina Mae McKinney


Actress

June 12, 1912 – May 3, 1967

Credits:
American Masters (1997); BBC: The Voice of Britain (1935); Biography (1995); Blood Money (1933); Classified X (2007); Copper Canyon (1950); Danger Street (1947); Dark Waters (1944); Gang Smashers (1938); Hallelujah (1929); Hollywood Mavericks (1990); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (2008); Kentucky Minstrels (1934); Manhattan Serenade (1929); Mantan Messes Up (1946); Night Train to Memphis (1946); On Velvet (1938); Passing the Buck (1932); Pie, Pie, Blackbird (1932); Pinky (1949); Reckless (1935); Safe in Hell (1931); Sanders of the River (1935); Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood (1998); Straight to Heaven (1939); Swanee Showboat (1940); That's Black Entertainment (1990); The Birth of Television (1976); The Black Network (1936); The Devil's Daughter (1939); The Lonely Trail (1936); The Nicholas Brothers: We Sing and We Dance (1992); The Power of the Whistler (1945); They Learned About Women (1930); Together Again (1944); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); What Price Jazz (1934).