Born this day – George Montgomery:

George Montgomery

Actor

Painter

Director

Producer

Writer

Sculptor

Furniture craftsman

Stuntman

August 27, 1916 – December 12, 2000

Credits:

90 Minutes Live (1978); A Sporting Oasis (1952); About Faces (1960); Accent on Love (1941); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Anthony Perkins, l'homme derrière (2020); Army Girl (1938); Badman's Country (1958); Battle of Rogue River (1954); Battle of the Bulge (1965); Belle Starr's Daughter (1948); Billy the Kid Returns (1938); Black Patch (1957); Bomb at 10:10 (1967); Bomber's Moon (1943); Bonanza (1966); Cadet Girl (1941); Canyon River (1956); Celebrity Bowling (1971–1972); Charter Pilot (1940); Children's Island (1985); China Girl (1942); Cimarron City (1958–1959); Come on, Rangers! (1938); Compression (2015); Coney Island (1943); Cripple Creek (1952); Dakota Lil (1950); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950); Dick Tracy (1937); Dinah! (1977); Django the Honorable Killer (1965); Fort Ti (1953); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); Frontier Pony Express (1939); General Electric Theater (1955–1957); Gold Mine in the Sky (1938); Guerillas in Pink Lace (1964); Gun Belt (1953); Gun Duel in Durango (1957); Hallucination Generation (1966); Hawaiian Eye (1963); Hawk of the Wilderness (1938); Hell of Borneo (1964); Here's Hollywood (1961–1962); Hi-Yo Silver (1940); Hostile Guns (1967); House Party (1953); Huk! (1956); I Spy (1966); I Was a Convict (1939); Images of Indians: How Hollywood Stereotyped the Native American (2003); In Old Caliente (1939); In Old Monterey (1939); Indian Uprising (1952); Jack McCall, Desperado (1953); Jamboree (1954); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956); Jennie (1940); King of the Wild Stallions (1959); Last of the Badmen (1957); Last of the Duanes (1941); Lulu Belle (1948); Man from God's Country (1958); Man of Conquest (1939); Masquerade Party (1955); Masterson of Kansas (1954); NET Playhouse (1972); New Frontier (1939); Orchestra Wives (1942); Outlaws of Sonora (1938); Pals of the Saddle (1938); Password (1962); Pawnee (1957); Person to Person (1955); Place the Face (1954); Ransom (1988); Ride the Tiger (1970); Riders of the Purple Sage (1941); Robbers' Roost (1955); Rough Riders' Round-up (1939); Roxie Hart (1942); S.O.S. Tidal Wave (1939); Saga of Death Valley (1939); Samar (1962); Santa Fe Stampede (1938); Satan's Harvest (1970); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Screen Snapshots, Series 23, No. 1: Hollywood in Uniform (1943); Screen Snapshots, Series 23, No. 10 (1944); Screen Snapshots, Series 27, No. 1: Hollywood Cowboys (1947); Screen Snapshots, Series 32, No. 10: Out West in Hollywood (1953); Screen Snapshots, Series 33, No. 1: Hollywood Stunt Men (1953); Screen Snapshots, Series 33, No. 5: Memories in Uniform (1954); Screen Snapshots, Series 35, No. 6: Hollywood Small Fry (1956); Screen Snapshots, Series 37, No. 2: Salute to Hollywood (1958); Seminole Uprising (1955); Shine on Harvest Moon (1938); SOS Coast Guard (1942); South of the Border (1939); Southward Ho! (1939); Springtime in the Rockies (1937); Stage 7 (1955); Star Dust (1940); Strangers at Sunrise (1969); Street of Sinners (1957); Studio One (1955); Take It or Leave It (1944); Take Two (1963); Talent Scouts (1963); Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942); The 10th Annual Golden Boot Awards (1992); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The 32nd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1958); The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001); The All New Truth or Consequences (1961); The Arizona Kid (1939); The Arthur Murray Party (1957–1958); The Bob Braun Show (1973); The Bob Cummings Show (1959); The Brasher Doubloon (1947); The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939); The Cowboy and the Blonde (1941); The Daredevil (1973); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1957–1961); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Girl from Manhattan (1948); The Gisele MacKenzie Show (1958); The Great Indian Wars 1840-1890 (1991); The Hollywood Deb Stars of 1965 (1965); The Iroquois Trail (1950); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The Juke Box Jury (1958–1959); The Life of Riley (1958); The Lone Gun (1954); The Lone Ranger (1938); The Mike Douglas Show (1963–1973); The Milton Berle Show (1950); The Mysterious Miss X (1939); The Name's the Same (1955); The Night Riders (1939); The Odd Couple (1974); The Old Barn Dance (1938); The Pathfinder (1952); The Proud and Damned (1972); The Purple Vigilantes (1938); The Singing Vagabond (1935); The Six Million Dollar Man (1974); The Steel Claw (1961); The Steve Allen Show (1957–1958); The Sword of Monte Cristo (1951); The Texas Rangers (1951); The Tonight Show (1962); The Toughest Gun in Tombstone (1958); This Is Your Life (1953); Three Little Girls in Blue (1946); Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure (1944); Under Western Stars (1938); Wagon Train (1958); Wall Street Cowboy (1939); Warkill (1968); Watusi (1959); What's My Line? (1959); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (1979); Wild Wind (1985); Wyoming Outlaw (1939); Young People (1940).

On this day in movie history - The Brasher Doubloon (1947 movie & novel):

The Brasher Doubloon

directed by John Brahm,

written by Leonard Praskins and Dorothy Bennett,

based on the novel The High Window by Raymond Chandler,

was released in the United States on February 6, 1947.

Music by David Buttolph.

Cast:

George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Roy Roberts, Fritz Kortner, Florence Bates, Marvin Miller, Reed Hadley.

Recommended reading: 

The High Window

by Raymond Chandler.

Filmed as The Brasher Doubloon (1947), directed by John Brahm.

Published by Penguin.

First published 1942.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0241980658

ISBN-13: 978-0241980651

Description:

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe’s on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband’s collection. That’s the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. That’s also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA puts cops’ noses seriously out of joint. If Marlowe doesn’t wrap this one up fast, he’s going to end up either in jail or in a wooden box in the ground.

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.