On this day in movie history - Race Street (1948)

Race Street

directed by Edwin L. Marin,

written by Martin Rackin,

was released in the United States on June 22, 1948.

Based on the story Race Street by Maurice Davis, originally published in Turf and Sport Digest (1945).

Music by Roy Webb.

Cast:

George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Faylen, Harry Morgan, Gale Robbins, Cully Richards, Mack Gray, Russell Hicks, Tom Keene, William Forrest, James Nolan, George Turner, Richard Benedict, Dean White, Freddie Steele.

Born on this day – Harry Morgan:

 

Actor

Director

April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011

Credits:

3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–1997); A Bell for Adano (1945); A Scrap of Paper (1943); About Mrs. Leslie (1954); Adam-12 (1969); AfterMASH (1983–1985); Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); All My Sons (1948); Apache War Smoke (1952); Appointment with Danger (1950); Arena (1953); Backlash (1956); Backstairs at the White House (1979); Belle Le Grand (1951); Bend of the River (1952); Better Late Than Never (1979); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Big Jim McLain (1952); Blacke's Magic (1986); Boots Malone (1952); But I Don't Want to Get Married! (1970); Cat Ballou (1971); Cavalcade of America (1953–1956); Champ for a Day (1953); Charley and the Angel (1973); Cimarron (1960); Confessions of the D.A. Man (1978); Crash Dive (1943); Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946); Crosswalk (1999); Dark City (1950); Dinah Shore in Dinah! (1975); Down to the Sea in Ships (1949); Dr. Kildare (1965); Dragnet (1987); Dragnet 1966 (1969); Dragnet 1967 (1967–1970); Dragonwyck (1946); December Bride (1954–1959); Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You (1971); Ensign O'Toole (1962); Entertainment Tonight / M*A*S*H (1983); Exo-Man (1977); Family Plan (1997); 14 Going on 30 (1988); Frankie and Johnny (1966); From This Day Forward (1946); Gentle Annie (1944); Going My Way (1962); Grace Under Fire (1996); Gunsmoke (1970–1975); Happy Land (1943); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958–1963); Hec Ramsey (1972–1974); Hello Out There (1949); Here's Hollywood (1961); High Noon (1952); Holiday Affair (1949); How the West Was Won (1962); Incident in a Small Town (1994); Inherit the Wind (1960); It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946); It Started with a Kiss (1959); Jack Benny's Second Farewell Special (1974); John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965); Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946); Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid (1978); Kelly's Kingdom (1966); Kentucky Jones (1964–1965); Love & Money (1999); Love, American Style / Love and the Motel (1970); M*A*S*H (1974–1983); 'M*A*S*H': 30th Anniversary Reunion (2002); Madame Bovary (1949); Making 'M*A*S*H' (1981); Maneaters Are Loose! (1978); Matinee Theatre (1958); McLaren's Riders (1977); Memories of M*A*S*H (1991); Moonrise (1948); More Wild Wild West (1980); Murder at the Mardi Gras (1978); Murder, She Wrote (1987); My Six Convicts (1952); Night Gallery / The Late Mr. Peddington (1972); Not as a Stranger (1955); Operation Teahouse (1956); Orchestra Wives (1942); Outside the Wall (1950); Pete and Gladys (1960–1962); Prisoner of War (1954); Race Street (1948); Red Light (1949); Rivkin: Bounty Hunter (1981); Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944); Roots: The Next Generations (1979); Roughnecks (1980); Scandal Sheet (1952); Scandalous John (1971); Scout's Honor (1980); Sidekicks (1974); Snowball Express (1972); Somewhere in the Night (1946); Sparkling Cyanide (1983); Star in the Dust (1956); Star Spangled Salesman (1968); State Fair (1945); Stop, You're Killing Me (1952); Strange Bargain (1949); Strategic Air Command (1955); Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971); Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969); Talking Film (1984); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1957); The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1978); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The 32nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1980); The 33rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1981); The 34th Annual Directors Guild Awards (1982); The 34th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1982); The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1983); The 6th People's Choice Awards (1980); The 8th Annual People's Choice Awards (1982); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964–1965); The Amazing Mr. Malone (1950–1951); The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975); The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979); The Barefoot Executive (1971); The Bastard (1978); The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949); The Big Clock (1948); The Blue Veil (1951); The Bottom of the Bottle (1956); The Cat from Outer Space (1978); The D.A. (1971); The Devil and John Q (1952); The Doctor (1952); The Eve of St. Mark (1944); The Far Country (1954); The Feminist and the Fuzz (1971); The Flight of Dragons (1982); The Flim-Flam Man (1967); The Forty-Niners (1954); The Gangster (1947); The Glenn Miller Story (1954); The Highwayman (1951); The Incident (1990); The Jeff Foxworthy Show (1995); The Jerry Lewis Show (1967–1968); The Last Day (1975); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Love Boat (1978–1985); The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942); The Magnificent Magical Magnet of Santa Mesa (1977); The Merv Griffin Show (1968); The Mountain Road (1960); The Mouse Factory (1972); The Moviemakers (1984); The Omaha Trail (1942); The Ox-Bow Incident (1942); The Partridge Family (1970–1972); The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour (1978); The Richard Boone Show (1963–1964); The Saxon Charm (1948); The Shootist (1976); The Showdown (1950); The Simpsons (1995); The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956); The Twilight Zone (1988); The Untouchables (1962); The Virginian (1963); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965); The Wall to Wall War (1963); The Well (1951); The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979); Thunder Bay (1953); To the Shores of Tripoli (1942); Today (1967); Torch Song (1953); Toughest Man in Arizona (1952); Under Fire (1957); Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers (1956); Viva Max (1969); What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966); What Price Glory (1952); When I Grow Up (1951); Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995); Wing and a Prayer (1944); Yellow Sky (1948); You Can't Take It with You (1979–1988).

On this day in television history - The Untouchables (1959 - 1963)

The Untouchables

based on the book by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley,

was released in the United States on October 15, 1959,

and ran for four seasons until May 21, 1963.

The pilot episode was released on January 22, 1959.

Narrated by Walter Winchell.

Music by Bill Loose, Jack Cookerly and Nelson Riddle.

Cast:

Robert Stack, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, Abel Fernandez, Steve London, Jerry Paris, Chuck Hicks, Anthony George, Keenan Wynn, Eddie Firestone, Robert Osterloh, Frank Wilcox, Robert Bice, Jason Wingreen, Raymond Bailey, Barbara Nichols, Dane Clark, John Gabriel, Barbara Stanwyck, Ed Asner, Virginia Capers, Bruce Gordon, Oscar Beregi, Jr., Lawrence Dobkin, Robert J. Wilke, Warren J. Kemmerling, Bern Hoffman, Nehemiah Persoff, Lloyd Nolan, Robert J. Wilke, Harry Morgan, Gene Roth, Robert Carricart, Joseph Ruskin, Robert Carricart, Carl Milletaire, Grant Richards, Neville Brand, Frank de Kova, John Beradino, Henry Silva, Joe De Santis, George N. Neise, John Kellogg, H. M. Wynant, Wally Cassell, Richard Benedict, Herman Rudin, Les Lampson, Walter Winchell, Paul Picerni, Nicholas Georgiade.

On this day in television history - M*A*S*H (1972 - 1983)

 

M*A*S*H

developed by Larry Gelbart,

based on the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker,

was originally aired in the United States on CBS and ran for eleven seasons,

from September 17, 1972 – February 28, 1983.

Theme music by Johnny Mandel.

Cast:

Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville, Gary Burghoff, Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, David Ogden Stiers, G. W. Bailey, Kellye Nakahara, Jeff Maxwell, Johnny Haymer, Allan Arbus, Edward Winter.

On this day in movie history - The Shootist (1976)

The Shootist

directed by Don Siegel,

written by Miles Hood Swarthout and Scott Hale,

based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout,

was released in the United States on July 21, 1976.

Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast:

John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O’Brian, Bill McKinney, Harry Morgan, John Carradine, Sheree North, Rick Lenz, Scatman Crothers, Gregg Palmer, Alfred Dennis, Dick Winslow, Melody Thomas Scott, Kathleen O’Malley, Jack Berle, Johnny Crawford, Chuck Dawson, George Dunn, Duke Fishman, Christopher George, Jonathan Goldsmith, Leo Gordon, Charles G. Martin, Jim Michael, Ernesto Molinari, Ricky Nelson, James Nolan, Nick Raymond, Henry Slate, Bob Steele, Ralph Volkie, John Zimeas.