Samuel Johnson, on writing:

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author.

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

- Samuel Johnson.

Jules Renard, on books and reading:

When I think of all the books still left for me to read,
I am certain of further happiness.
– Jules Renard.
 

Recommended reading - The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

 

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

by Susan Orlean.
 
Filmed as Adaptation (2002), directed by Spike Jonze.
 
First published 1998.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 044900371X
ISBN-13: 978-0449003718
 
Description:
 

A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower – the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii – a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean – and the reader – will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion.

 

In this new edition, coming fifteen years after its initial publication and twenty years after she first met the “orchid thief,” Orlean revisits this unforgettable world, and the route by which it was brought to the screen in the film Adaptation, in a new retrospective essay.

 

Praise for The Orchid Thief:
 
“Stylishly written, whimsical yet sophisticated, quirkily detailed and full of empathy . . . The Orchid Thief shows [Orlean’s] gifts in full bloom.” – The New York Times Book Review.
 
“Fascinating . . . an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.” – Los Angeles Times.
 
“Orlean’s snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose . . . is fast becoming one of our national treasures.” – The Washington Post Book World.
 
“Orlean’s gifts [are] her ear for the self-skewing dialogue, her eye for the incongruous, convincing detail, and her Didion-like deftness in description.” – Boston Sunday Globe.
 
“A swashbuckling piece of reporting that celebrates some virtues that made America great.” – The Wall Street Journal.

Born on this day – Sam Newfield:

Sam Newfield

Director

Writer

Producer

December 6, 1899 – November 10, 1964

Credits:

The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk (1964); Gigantis, the Fire Monster (1959); Flaming Frontier (1958); Wolf Dog (1958); The Pathfinder and the Mohican (1957); Along the Mohawk Trail (1957); The Adventures of Tugboat Annie (1957); Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957); Frontier Gambler (1956); The Three Outlaws (1956); The Wild Dakotas (1956); Last of the Desperados (1955); Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion (1955); Thunder Over Sangoland (1955); Ramar of the Jungle (1953–1954); The Gambler and the Lady (1952); Scotland Yard Inspector (1952); Outlaw Women (1952); Sky High (1951); Leave It to the Marines (1951); Lost Continent (1951); Skipalong Rosenbloom (1951); Mask of the Dragon (1951); Fingerprints Don't Lie (1951); Three Desperate Men (1951); Hi-Jacked (1950); Motor Patrol (1950); Western Pacific Agent (1950); Radar Secret Service (1950); Wild Weed (1949); State Department: File 649 (1949); The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948); Miraculous Journey (1948); Lady at Midnight (1948); The Counterfeiters (1948); Money Madness (1948); The Sea Hound (1947); Adventure Island (1947); Jungle Flight (1947); Three on a Ticket (1947); Mantan Messes Up (1946); House-Rent Party (1946); Fight That Ghost (1946); Lady Chaser (1946); Gas House Kids (1946); Outlaws of the Plains (1946); Overland Riders (1946); Queen of Burlesque (1946); Prairie Badmen (1946); Blonde for a Day (1946); Ghost of Hidden Valley (1946); Larceny in Her Heart (1946); Terrors on Horseback (1946); Gentlemen with Guns (1946); Murder Is My Business (1946); The Flying Serpent (1946); Lightning Raiders (1946); Prairie Rustlers (1945); Fighting Bill Carson (1945); White Pongo (1945); Border Badmen (1945); Apology for Murder (1945); Stagecoach Outlaws (1945); Gangster's Den (1945); The Lady Confesses (1945); Shadows of Death (1945); The Kid Sister (1945); His Brother's Ghost (1945); Oath of Vengeance (1944); I Accuse My Parents (1944); Wild Horse Phantom (1944); Swing Hostess (1944); Rustlers' Hideout (1945); Fuzzy Settles Down (1944); The Drifter (1944); The Contender (1944); Valley of Vengeance (1944); The Monster Maker (1944); Thundering Gun Slingers (1944); Frontier Outlaws (1944); Nabonga (1944); Harvest Melody (1943); Devil Riders (1943); Raiders of Red Gap (1943); Tiger Fangs (1943); Blazing Frontier (1943); The Renegade (1943); Danger! Women at Work (1943); Cattle Stampede (1943); Wolves of the Range (1943); Western Cyclone (1943); The Black Raven (1943); Death Rides the Plains (1943); Fugitive of the Plains (1943); Wild Horse Rustlers (1943); Dead Men Walk (1943); The Kid Rides Again (1943); Outlaws of Boulder Pass (1942); Queen of Broadway (1942); The Mysterious Rider (1942); Overland Stagecoach (1942); Along the Sundown Trail (1942); Border Roundup (1942); Prairie Pals (1942); Sheriff of Sage Valley (1942); Law and Order (1942); Jungle Siren (1942); Tumbleweed Trail (1942); Texas Justice (1942); The Mad Monster (1942); Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns (1942); Rolling Down the Great Divide (1942); The Lone Rider in Cheyenne (1942); Billy the Kid Trapped (1942); Raiders of the West (1942); The Lone Rider and the Bandit (1942); Texas Man Hunt (1942); Billy the Kid's Round-Up (1941); The Lone Rider Fights Back (1941); Billy the Kid Wanted (1941); The Lone Rider Ambushed (1941); The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury (1941); The Texas Marshal (1941); Billy the Kid in Santa Fe (1941); The Lone Rider in Ghost Town (1941); Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals (1941); The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio (1941); Outlaws of the Rio Grande (1941); Billy the Kid's Range War (1941); The Lone Rider Rides On (1941); Billy the Kid's Gun Justice (1940); Riders of Black Mountain (1940); Marked Men (1940); Billy the Kid in Texas (1940); Arizona Gang Busters (1940); Gun Code (1940); Billy the Kid Outlawed (1940); Hold That Woman! (1940); Am I Guilty? (1940); Frontier Crusader (1940); I Take This Oath (1940); Secrets of a Model (1940); The Sagebrush Family Trails West (1940); Texas Renegades (1940); Death Rides the Range (1939); The Invisible Killer (1939); Fighting Mad (1939); Trigger Fingers (1939); Flaming Lead (1939); Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939); The Fighting Renegade (1939); Straight Shooter (1939); Outlaws' Paradise (1939); Texas Wildcats (1939); Code of the Cactus (1939); Six-Gun Rhythm (1939); Trigger Pals (1939); The Terror of Tiny Town (1938); Six-Gun Trail (1938); Lightning Carson Rides Again (1938); Frontier Scout (1938); Durango Valley Raiders (1938); Desert Patrol (1938); Phantom Ranger (1938); Gunsmoke Trail (1938); The Feud Maker (1938); Code of the Rangers (1938); Songs and Bullets (1938); Knight of the Plains (1938); Thunder in the Desert (1938); The Rangers' Round-Up (1938); Paroled - To Die (1938); Harlem on the Prairie (1937); Colorado Kid (1937); The Fighting Deputy (1937); Moonlight on the Range (1937); Arizona Gunfighter (1937); Ridin' the Lone Trail (1937); Boothill Brigade (1937); Doomed at Sundown (1937); A Lawman Is Born (1937); Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin (1937); Guns in the Dark (1937); Bar-Z Bad Men (1937); Melody of the Plains (1937); Trail of Vengeance (1937); Lightnin' Crandall (1937); The Gambling Terror (1937); Stormy Trails (1936); Roarin' Lead (1936); The Traitor (1936); Ghost Patrol (1936); The Lion's Den (1936); Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936); Aces and Eights (1936); Thoroughbred (1936); Crashing Through Danger (1936); Lightnin' Bill Carson (1936); Federal Agent (1936); Burning Gold (1936); Border Caballero (1936); Roarin' Guns (1936); Bulldog Courage (1935); You Can Be Had (1935); Timber War (1935); Racing Luck (1935); Trails of the Wild (1935); Branded a Coward (1935); Code of the Mounted (1935); Northern Frontier (1935); Undercover Men (1934); Beggar's Holiday (1934); Marrying Widows (1934); Under Secret Orders (1933); Big Time or Bust (1933); The Important Witness (1933); Reform Girl (1933); Sweet Patootie (1932); Wedding Belles (1931); She's a He (1930); Fellow Students (1930); Peek-A-Boo (1930); The Beauty Parade (1930); Sid's Long Count (1930); Her Bashful Beau (1930); All Wet (1930); French Leave (1930); Too Many Women (1929); Night Owls (1929); Stop Barking (1929); Buster's Spooks (1929); Buster's Choice (1929); Outdoor Sports (1929); Chaperons (1929); Delivering the Goods (1929); Magic (1929); This Way Please (1929); Tige's Girl Friend (1929); She's a Pippin (1929); Take Your Pick (1929); Have Patience (1929); Hold Your Horses (1929); Out at Home (1929); Watch the Birdie (1928); The Newlyweds' Visit (1928); Teacher's Pest (1928); Buster Trims Up (1928); Halfback Buster (1928); Busting Buster (1928); Good Scout Buster (1928); Buster Minds the Baby (1928); Sailor George (1928); She's My Girl (1928); Big Game George (1928); George's School Daze (1928); George Meets George (1928); When George Hops (1928); Watch, George! (1928); Man of Letters (1928); George's False Alarm (1928); High Flyin' George (1928); On Deck (1927); The Disordered Orderly (1927); Rushing Business (1927); On Furlough (1927); What an Excuse (1927); My Mistake (1927); Jane's Sleuth (1927); A Gym Dandy (1927); Auntie's Ante (1927); All Wet (1927); Ask Dad (1927); What's Your Hurry? (1927); Jane's Predicament (1926); Jane's Engagement Party (1926); Please Excuse Me (1926); Which Is Which? (1926).

Born on this day – Agnes Moorehead:

Agnes Moorehead

Actress

December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974

Credits:

About Faces (1960); Adventures in Paradise (1960); Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951); AFI Life Achievement Award (1978); Alcoa Theatre (1959); Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966); All That Heaven Allows (1955); America at the Movies (1976); Bachelor in Paradise (1961); Backstory (2001); Barefoot in the Park (1970); Betty White's Pet Set - Behind the Scenes (2021); Bewitched (1964–1972); Bewitched (2005); Bewitched 60th: Anniversary Special (2024); Biography (1999); Burke's Law (1963–1965); Caged (1950); Camera Three (1962–1963); Captain Blackjack (1950); Century of Cinema (1995); Channing (1964); Charlotte's Web (1973); Chevrolet's Bewitching Bonanza (1964); Citizen Kane (1941); Citizen Kane Trailer (1940); Climax! / Segment: Child of the Wind (1956–1957); Custer (1967); Dark Passage (1947); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Dear Dead Delilah (1972); Della (1969); Dragon Seed (1944); Fan des années 70 (2012); Fourteen Hours (1951); Frankenstein: The True Story (1973); Freedom Spectacular (1964); General Electric Theater (1959); George Jessel Show (1959); George Jessel's Here Come the Stars (1968–1969); Girl Talk (1963–1967); Government Girl (1943); Gypsy (1966–1968); Harrigan and Son (1960); Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945); Here's Hollywood (1960); Hollywood maudit (2021); Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000); Hollywood Talent Scouts (1966); How the West Was Won (1962); Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte: Wizard Work (1964); Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964); It Was a Very Good Year (1971); I've Got a Secret (1956); Jane Eyre (1943); Jeanne Eagels (1957); Jessica (1962); Joanne Carson's VIPs (1972); Johnny Belinda (1948); Journey Into Fear (1943); Keep Your Powder Dry (1945); ing of Kings (1961); La imagen de tu vida (2006); Lancer (1969); Life with Linkletter (1970); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Particular Girl (1971); Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014); Magnificent Obsession (1954); Main Street to Broadway (1953); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1972); Marriage: Year One (1971); Matinee Theatre (1956); Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956); Mondo Hollywood: Hollywood Laid Bare! (1967); Mr. Blackwell Presents (1966); Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007); Mrs. Parkington (1944); My Sister Eileen (1960); Night Gallery / Segments: Witches' Feast; Certain Shadows on the Wall (1970–1971); Night of Terror (1972); Night of the Quarter Moon (1959); Not One Shall Die (1957); Operation Raintree (1957); Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945); Pardners (1956); Password (1962–1967); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967–1968); Pioneers of Television (2011); Playhouse 90 (1958); Pollyanna (1960); Raintree County (1957); Rawhide (1960); Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love / Segment: The Forunate Painter (1974); Rolling Man (1972); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1971); Say Hey, Willie Mays! (2022); Scandal at Scourie (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Screen Snapshots: Salute to Hollywood (1958); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958–1960); Show Boat (1951); Since You Went Away (1944); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949); Startime (1960); Station West (1948); Studio 57 (1956); Suddenly Single (1971); Summer Holiday (1948); Suspicion (1958); Talking Pictures (1968); Tempest (1958); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); That's Life (1969); The 22nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1965); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008); The Ballad of Andy Crocker (1969); The Bat (1959); The Best in Mystery (1954); The Big Street (1942); The Blazing Forest (1952); The Blue Veil (1951); The Bob Braun Show (1972); The Celebrity Game (1965); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The City of Gods (1968); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955); The Comedy Spot (1962); The ComicWeb: Old Time Radio Programs (2014); The Conqueror (1956); The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout (2023); The Dating Game (1970); The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1973); The Don Rickles Show (1968); The DuPont Show of the Month (1958); The Ed Sullivan Show (1960); The Great Sinner (1949); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Hollywood Palace (1966); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1966–1968); The Jerry Lester Show (1963); The Joey Bishop Show (1967); The John Gary Show (1967); The Jonathan Winters Show (1968); The Jonathan Winters Specials (1965); The Left Hand of God (1955); The Linkletter Show (1970); The Lone Ranger (1966–1968); The Lost Moment (1947); The Magic Pear Tree (1968); The Magical World of Disney (1963 / 1971); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); The Merv Griffin Show (1967); The Mike Douglas Show (1967–1972); The Millionaire (1960); The Naked Archaeologist (2008–2010); The Opposite Sex (1956); The Pet Set (1971); The Rebel (1959); The Red Skelton Hour (1969); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956); The Rifleman (1960); The Seventh Cross (1944); The Shari Lewis Show (1960); The Singing Nun (1966); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967); The Story of Mankind (1957); The Story of Three Loves / Segment: The Jealous Lover (1953); The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove (1971); The Stratton Story (1949); The Swan (1956); The Tonight Show (1956); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1970); The True Story of Jesse James (1957); The Twilight Zone (1961); The Virginian (1970); The Wild Wild West (1967); The Woman in White (1948); The Woody Woodbury Show (1967); The Youngest Profession (1943); Those Redheads from Seattle (1953); Tomorrow, the World! (1944); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Twenty Plus Two (1961); Untamed (1955); Wagon Train (1957); Welcome to the Basement (2016); What's the Matter with Helen? (1971); Who's Minding the Store? (1963); Without Honor (1949); You Don't Say (1964).

Born on this day – Kathryn McGuire:

Kathryn McGuire

Actress

Dancer

December 6, 1903 – October 10, 1978

Credits:

A Lady's Tailor (1919); A String of Diamonds (1926); Bucking the Line (1921); Bungalow Troubles (1921); By Golly! (1920); Children of the Ritz (1929); Compression (2017); Cutie (1928); Dabbling in Art (1921); Dashing Thru (1926); Down on the Farm (1920); Dragnet (1959); Drama Deluxe (1927); Easy Going Gordon (1925); Failure (1925); Fashion News (1930); Fresh from the City (1920); Gee Whiz (1920); Giddap! (1925); Great Scott! (1920); Hard Knocks and Love Taps (1921); He Did His Best (1929); Helpful Hogan (1923); Her Husky Hero (1927); His Last False Step (1919); Home Talent (1921); Howdy Duke (1927); It's a Boy (1920); Lilac Time (1928); Love a la Mode (1930); Love's Outcast (1921); Made in the Kitchen (1921); Married Life (1920); Midnight Faces (1926); Molly O' (1921); Movie Fans (1920); Movieland (1926); Mystery Pilot (1926); Naughty Boy (1927); Naughty But Nice (1927); On a Summer Day (1921); Phantom Justice (1924); Pioneer's Gold (1924); Playing with Fire (1921); Salome vs. Shenandoah (1919); She Sighed by the Seaside (1921); Sherlock Jr. (1924); Somebody's Mother (1926); Stacked Cards (1926); Sweetheart Days (1921); Synthetic Sin (1929); Tearing Through (1925); The Big Diamond Robbery (1929); The Border Wildcat (1929); The Crossroads of New York (1922); The Draw-Back (1927); The Flame of Life (1923); The Gingham Girl (1920); The Girl in the Pullman (1927); The Gold Hunters (1925); The Long, Long Trail (1929); The Lost Zeppelin (1929); The Love Pirate (1923); The Navigator (1924); The Printer's Devil (1923); The Quack Doctor (1920); The Shriek of Araby (1923); The Silent Call (1921); The Thin Man (1958); The Thrill Hunter (1926); The Unhappy Finish (1921); The WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1922 (1922); The Woman of Bronze (1923); There It Is (1918) (1928); Trying to Get Along (1919); Two-Fisted Jones (1925); Uncle Tom Without a Cabin (1919); Up in Alf's Place (1919); Wedding Bells Out of Tune (1921); Wedding Yells (1927); Weird (2022); Who's Afraid? (1927); Wild and Wicked (1923); With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail (1926); With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo (1926).

Born on this day – Elissa Landi:

Elissa Landi

Actress

December 6, 1904 – October 21, 1948

Born on this day – William P. McGivern:

William P. McGivern

Writer

December 6, 1918 – November 18, 1982

Credits:

But Death Runs Faster / The Whispering Corpse (1948); Heaven Ran Last (1949); Very Cold for May (1950); Shield for Murder (1951); Blondes Die Young (1952); The Crooked Frame (1952); The Big Heat (1953); Margin of Terror (1953); Rogue Cop (1954); The Darkest Hour / Waterfront Cop (1955); The Seven File / Chicago-7 (1956); Night Extra (1957); Odds Against Tomorrow (1957); Mention My Name in Mombasa (1958); Savage Streets (1959); Seven Lies South (1960); The Road to the Snail (1961); A Pride of Place (1962); A Choice of Assassins (1963); The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1966); Lie Down, I Want to Talk to You (1967); Caprifoil (1972); Reprisal (1973); Night of the Juggler (1975); Soldiers of '44 (1979); The Seeing (1980); Summit (1982); War Games (1984); A Matter of Honor (1984); Killer On the Turnpike (1961); The Science Fiction Collection 3 (2018); Convoy to Atlantis (1941); Send Along a Wreath (2019); The Judas Valley (2008); Police Special (1962); We, the Machine / Planet of Dread (2012); Black Cat Weekly #83 (2023).

Born on this day – Piero Piccioni:

Piero Piccioni

Composer

December 6, 1921 – July 23, 2004

Born on this day – Tommy Dix:

Tommy Dix

Actor

Singer

December 6, 1923 – January 15, 2025

Credits:

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944); Best Foot Forward (1943); School House (1949); We, the People (1948).

Born on this day – Susanna Foster:

Susanna Foster

Actress

December 6, 1924 – January 17, 2009

Credits:

Bowery to Broadway (1944); Detour (1992); Follow the Boys (1944); Frisco Sal (1945); Glamour Boy (1941); Phantom of the Opera (1943); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); That Night with You (1945); The Best of Hollywood (1999); The Climax (1944); The Great Victor Herbert (1939); The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked (2000); There's Magic in Music (1941); This Is the Life (1944); Top Man (1943); Universal Newsreel (1945).

Born on this day – Sergio Corbucci:

Sergio Corbucci

Director

Writer

Producer

December 6, 1926 – December 1, 1990

Born on this day – Jan Haag:

Jan Haag

Filmmaker

Artist

Writer

December 6, 1933 – April 29, 2024

Credits:

Founded the Directing Workshop for Women at the American Film Institute (AFI) in 1974.

Artist known for needlepoint canvases and poetry.

Written work:

A Wedding in Mahabaleshwar, included in Travelers' Tales India (2009); Ascesis (2014); Birds Migrate at Night; Companion Spirit (2006); Haag, Jan (2014). Indra's Net II (2002); No Palms; The 1996 Poems (2011); The 2011 Poems (2011); The Devayani Poems; The Jaipur Sequence; There You Are, included in Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It (2016).

 

Movie:
 
Sudden Slaughter - Knochenwald 3 (2008).

Born on this day – Wende Wagner:

Wende Wagner

Actor

December 6, 1941 – February 26, 1997

Credits:

A Covenant with Death (1967); Blondie (1969); Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On (1999); Bruce Lee: The Way of the Warrior (2022); Destination Inner Space (1966); Flipper (1965); Fury of the Dragon (1976); Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969); It Takes a Thief (1968); Lassie (1968); Mannix (1967); Out of Sight (1966); Perry Mason (1965); Rio Conchos (1964); Rosemary's Baby (1968); September Storm (1960); The Aquanauts (1960–1961); The Bait (1973); The Green Hornet (1966–1974); The Life of Bruce Lee (1994); The Rookies (1973); What's My Line? (1960).

Born on this day – Lisa Spoonauer:

Lisa Spoonauer

Actress

December 6, 1972 – May 20, 2017

Credits:

Clerks (2001); Bartender (1997); Clerks (1994).

On this day in movie history - Whipsaw (1935)

Whipsaw

directed by Sam Wood,

written by Howard Emmett Rogers,

was released in the United States on December 6, 1935.

Based on the story The Whipsaw by James Edward Grant, published in Liberty magazine (1934).

Music by William Axt.

Cast:

Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Harvey Stephens, William Harrigan, Clay Clement, Robert Gleckler, Robert Warwick, Georges Renavent, Paul Stanton, Wade Boteler, Don Rowan, John Qualen, Irene Franklin, Lillian Leighton, J. Anthony Hughes, William Ingersoll, Charles Irwin.

On this day in movie history - Show Them No Mercy! (1935)

 

Show Them No Mercy!

directed by George Marshall,

written by Henry Lehrman and Kubec Glasmon,

based on the story by Kubec Glasmon,

was released in the United States on December 6, 1935.

Music by David Buttolph and Joseph Schober.

Cast:

Rochelle Hudson, Cesar Romero, Bruce Cabot, Edward Norris, Edward Brophy, Warren Hymer, Herbert Rawlinson, Robert Gleckler, Charles C. Wilson, William B. Davidson, Frank Conroy, Edythe Elliott, Orrin Burke, Lynn Bari, William 'Billy' Benedict, Stanley Blystone, Jimmy Butler, Georgie Cooper, Ray Dawe, Lester Dorr, Bud Geary, Grace Goodall, Otto Hoffman, Harry Hollingsworth, Boothe Howard, Edward Keane, Stanley King, Brady Kline, Edward LeSaint, Wilfred Lucas, Paul McVey, Philip Morris, Gregg O'Brien, Charles Schaeffer, Lee Shumway, Phil Tead, Larry Wheat.

On this day in movie history - Charter Pilot (1940)

Charter Pilot

directed by Eugene Forde,

written by Stanley Rauh and Lester Ziffren,

based on the story by J. Robert Bren and Norman Houston,

was released in the United States on December 6, 1940.

Music by Emil Newman, Cyril J. Mockridge and Alfred Newman.

Cast:

Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Arleen Whelan, George Montgomery, Hobart Cavanaugh, Henry Victor, Etta McDaniel, Andrew Tombes, Charles C. Wilson, Chick Chandler, James Blaine, George Chandler, Andre Cuyas, William B. Davidson, Mary Field, Sherry Hall, Ethan Laidlaw, Hank Mann, Chris-Pin Martin, Bert Moorhouse, Francisco Moreno, Steve O'Brien, Jack Pennick, Cyril Ring, Henry Roquemore, Hector V. Sarno, Robert Spindola.

On this day in movie history - The Wicker Man (1973)

The Wicker Man

directed by Robin Hardy,

written by Anthony Shaffer,

based on the novel Ritual by David Pinner,

was released in the United Kingdom on December 6, 1973.

Music by Paul Giovanni.

Cast:

Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, Lindsay Kemp, Russell Waters, Aubrey Morris, Irene Sunters, Walter Carr, Ian Campbell, Leslie Blackater, Roy Boyd, Peter Brewis, Barbara Rafferty, Juliet Cadzow, Ross Campbell, Penny Cluer, Michael John Cole, Kevin Collins, Gerry Cowper, Ian Cutler, Donald Eccles, Myra Forsyth, John Hallam, Alison Hughes, Charles Kearney, Fiona Kennedy, John McGregor, Jimmy MacKenzie, Lesley Mackie, Jennifer Martin, Bernard Murray, Helen Norman, Lorraine Peters, Tony Roper, John Sharp, Elizabeth Sinclair, Andrew Tompkins, Ian Wilson, Richard Wren, John Young, S. Newton Anderson, Pauline Chamberlain, Mabel Etherington, Paul Giovanni, Robin Hardy, Tina Hart, Aileen Lewis, George Oliver, Ian Selby, Fred Wood.

On this day in movie history - Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

directed by Robert Wise,

written by Harold Livingston,

based on a story by Alan Dean Foster,

was released in the United States on December 6, 1979.

Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins, Majel Barrett, Grace Lee Whitney, David Gautreaux, Mark Lenard.