On this day in movie history - Heaven Can Wait (1978)

Heaven Can Wait

directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry,

based on the play by Harry Segall,

was released in the United States on June 28, 1978.

Music by Dave Grusin.

Cast:

Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Jack Warden, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, Buck Henry, Vincent Gardenia, Joseph Maher, Hamilton Camp, Arthur Malet, Stephanie Faracy, Jeannie Linero, Harry D.K. Wong, George J. Manos, Larry Block, Frank Campanella, Bill Sorrells, Dick Enberg, Dolph Sweet, R.G. Armstrong, Ed Peck, John Randolph, Richard O’Brien, Joseph F. Makel, Will Hare, Lee Weaver, Roger Bowen, Keene Curtis, William Larsen, Morgan Farley, William Bogert, Robert E. Leonard, Joel Marston, Earl Montgomery, Robert C. Stevens, Bernie Massa, Peter Tomarken, William Sylvester, Lisa Blake Richards, Charlie Charles, Nick Outin, Jerry Scanlan, Jim Boeke, Marvin Fleming, Deacon Jones, Les Josephson, Jack Snow, Curt Gowdy, Al DeRogatis, Benjie Bancroft, Arline Bletcher, Joe Corolla, Charlie Cowan, Garrett Craig, Paul D’Amato, Robert Fortier, Allan Graf, Bryant Gumbel, Jim Healy, Chick Hearn, Ray Pourchot, Nick Raymond, Elliott Reid, Roberto Rodriguez, Byron Webster.

On this day in movie history - Filmworker (2017)

 

Filmworker

documentary directed by Tony Zierra,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 19, 2017.

Music by David Ben Shannon.

 
Cast:

Leon Vitali, Ryan O'Neal, Brian Capron, Mike Alfreds, Nick Redman, Brian Jamieson, Danny Lloyd, Stanley Kubrick, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Tim Colceri, Julian Senior, Colin Mossman, Warren Lieberfarb, Lisa Leone, Steve Southgate, Phil Rosenthal, Jacob Rosenberg, Max Vitali, Vera Vitali, Masha Vitali, Stellan Skarsgård, Pernilla August, Beverly Wood, Tim Vitali, Maria Hayward, Chris Vitali, Marie Richardson, Treva Etienne, Margaret Adams, Ned Price, Chris Jenkins, Janet Wilson, Adam Baldwin, Marisa Berenson, David Bowie, Scatman Crothers, Tom Cruise, Kirk Douglas, Keir Dullea, Shelley Duvall, Michael Gambon, George Harrison, Arliss Howard, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, James Mason, Paul McCartney, Malcolm McDowell, Jack Nicholson, Slim Pickens, Gordon Ramsay, Peter Sellers, Martin Sheen, Rita Wilson, Shelley Winters.

Born on this day – James Mason:

Actor

May 15, 1909 – July 27, 1984

Credits:

11 Harrowhouse (1974); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954); 5 Fingers (1952); A Bob Hope Comedy Special (1966); A Dangerous Summer (1982); A Dangerous Summer: Rekindled (2006); A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers (2009); A Place of One's Own (1945); A Star Is Born (1954); A Star Is Born: Special Features (2010); A Touch of Larceny (1960); A.D. (1985); A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle (1942); ABC Stage 67 (1966); About Faces (1960); AFI Life Achievement Award (1983); Age of Consent (1969); Age of Consent: Helen Mirren - A Conversation with Cora (2009); Alexandre (1983); Alibi (1942); All Star Revue (1952); Alle origini della mafia (1976); Allons au cinéma (1977); Appointment with Destiny (1971); Apropos Film (1967); Arena (1977–1995); Autobiography of a Princess (1975); Bad Man's River (1971); Bees on the Boat-Deck (1939); Best of British (1987); Bigger Than Life (1956); Biography (1987 / 1995); Blind Man's Bluff (1936); Blood, Sweat and Tears (1971); Bloodline (1979); Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life (2020); Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (1980); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Botany Bay (1952); Cadence 3 (1983); Candlelight in Algeria (1943); Casino Royale: The Royal Premiere (1967); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Catch As Catch Can (1937); Caught (1949); Charade (1954); Charlie Rose (1999); Child's Play (1972); Chris Olsen - The Boy Who Cried (2016); Churchill and the Movie Mogul (2019); Cinéma cinémas (1983); Clapper Board (1979); Cold Sweat (1970); Collector's World (1972); Compression (2023); Cop-Out (1967); Corazón de... (2006); Crepa padrone, crepa tranquillo (1970); Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020); Cross of Iron (1977); Cry Terror! (1958); Cyrano de Bergerac (1938); Death Cell (1941); Dee Time (1969); Della (1969); Dix de der (1975); Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1983); Down Under with Ron and Valerie Taylor (2009); Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984); Dr. Kildare (1965); Duffy (1968); East Side, West Side (1949); Ellis in Freedomland (1952); Escape from Zahrain (1962); Evil Under the Sun (1982); Face to Face (1952); Far into the Night (1943); Film '72 (1972); Film Preview (1966); Filmworker (2017); Fire Over England (1937); Forever, Darling (1956); Frankenstein: The True Story (1973); Gala de l'Unicef (1966); Gala de l'union (1970); General Electric Summer Originals (1956); General Electric Theater (1957); Genghis Khan (1965); George Washington (1984); Georgy Girl (1966); Girl Talk (1968); Good Morning America (1979–1981); Goodyear Theatre (1959); Great Expectations (1974); Great Performances (1988); Group Madness (1983); Gypsy (1967); Halloween Monster Bash (1991); Heaven Can Wait (1978); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hero's Island (1962); History of World Cinema: Part I (2021); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood Rivals (2001–2002); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999); Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love (1977); Home James (1972); Hot Stuff (1976); Hotel Reserve (1944); I Met a Murderer (1939); In Search of Rembrandt (1969); Inside Edition (2015); Inside Out (1975); Island in the Sun (1957); ITV Play of the Week (1966); ITV Sunday Night Drama (1965); Ivanhoe (1982); I've Got a Secret (1956); James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate (1984); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1958); Jesus of Nazareth (1977); John Brown's Raid (1960); John Keats: His Life and Death (1973); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959); Julius Caesar (1953); Kidnap Syndicate (1975); Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971); Kubrick by Kubrick (2020); Kubrick Remembered (2014); La nuit des Césars (1985); Lady Possessed (1952); Late Extra (1935); L'avare (1939); Lena (1964); Les nouveaux rendez-vous (1980); Lolita (1962); Lolita, méprise sur un fantasme (2021); Lord Jim (1965); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1955); Madame Bovary (1949); Man of Evil (1944); Mandingo (1975); Martin Scorsese on 'Age of Consent' (2009); Max & James & Danielle (2015); Mayerling (1968); Murder by Decree (1979); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); NBC White Paper (1983); NET Festival (1970); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Nihon eiga no hyaku nen / Century of Cinema (1995); North by Northwest (1959); North Sea Hijack (1980); Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008); Odd Man Out (1947); Omnibus / Napoleon's Love Letters (1953); One Way Street (1950); Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951); Panic! (1957); Parkinson (1972); Passion & Poetry: Sam's War (2011); Password (1962–1967); People of the Wind (1976); Person to Person (1959); Personality (1967); Playhouse 90 (1957–1960); Prince Valiant (1954); Prison Breaker (1936); Release (1968); Rome in Madrid (1964); Room 237 (2012); Salem's Lot (1979); Schlitz Playhouse (1954–1958); Secret Mission (1942); Sid & Judy (2019); Six Fifty-Five Special (1981); Socrates (1982); Spring and Port Wine (1970); Square Pegs (1939); Stars on Sunday (1970–1979); Stoney Burke (1962); Studio of the Stars: The Elstree Story (1967); Survival (1974); Talking Pictures (2013); Telephone Time (1957); Terror House (1942); The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983); The Agatha Christie Code (2005); The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); The Assisi Underground (1985); The Best of Hollywood (2017); The Blue Max (1966); The Bob Hope Show (1955–1966); The Boys from Brazil (1978); The Celluloid Heroes (1995); The Chevy Show (1955); The Child (1954); The Circle (1939); The David Frost Show (1969); The Deadly Affair (1967); The Decks Ran Red (1958); The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951); The Desert Rats (1953); The Destructors (1974); The Dick Cavett Show (1968); The Directors (2018); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1967); The Ed Sullivan Show (1951–1955); The Fabulous Fox (2004); The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964); The Flower in His Mouth (1975); The Frank Sinatra Show (1952); The Golden Gong (1985); The Golden Years of Alexander Korda (1968); The High Command (1937); The James Mason Show (1953); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1969); The Last of Sheila (1973); The Late Show (1992); The Left Hand of the Law (1975); The Legend of Silent Night (1968); The Linkletter Show (1960); The London Nobody Knows (1968); The Look of the Week (1966–1967); The MacKintosh Man (1973); The Magical World of Disney (1954 / 1976); The Making of '20000 Leagues Under the Sea' (2003); The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' (1982); The Making of 'the Verdict' (1982); The Man Between (1953); The Man in Grey (1943); The Many Faces of... (2013); The Marriage-Go-Round (1961); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1970); The Mike Douglas Show (1967–1969); The Mill on the Floss (1936); The Moon in the Yellow River (1938); The Passage (1979); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1962); The Prisoner of Zenda (1952); The Pumpkin Eater (1964); The Reckless Moment (1949); The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937); The River Nile (1962); The Royal Variety Performance 1979 (1979); The Sea Gull (1968); The Sea in Your Future (1971); The Search for Alexander the Great (1981); The Search for the Nile (1971); The Seventh Veil (1945); The Shooting Party (1984); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967); The Spy in White (1936); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956); The Story of Three Loves / The Jealous Lover (1953); The Tell-Tale Heart (1953); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965–1983); The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960); The Uninhibited (1965); The Upturned Glass (1947); The Verdict (1982); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); The Water Babies (1978); The Wicked Lady (1945); The Wind in the Wires (1972); The World About Us (1968); The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970); Theatre '62 (1962); They Met in the Dark (1943); They Were Sisters (1945); This Is Your Life (1961–1973); Thunder Rock (1942); Tiara Tahiti (1962); Today (1956); Torpedo Bay (1963); Troubled Waters (1936); TV's Funniest Game Show Moments (1984); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Twice Branded (1936); Unknown Chaplin (1983); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1975); Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase (1965); Vienna: The Years Remembered (1968); Voyage of the Damned (1976); Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998); What's My Line? (1951–1966); Yellowbeard (1983); Your Show of Shows / Caesar's Hour (1956); You're Putting Me On (1969).

On this day in movie history - Madame Bovary (1949)

Madame Bovary

directed by Vincente Minnelli and written by Robert Ardrey,

based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert,

was released in the United States on August 25, 1949.

Music by Miklós Rózsa.

Cast:

Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin, Gene Lockhart, Frank Allenby, Gladys Cooper, John Abbott, Harry Morgan, George Zucco, Ellen Corby, Eduard Franz, Henri Letondal, Esther Somers, Frederic Tozere, Paul Cavanagh, Vernon Steele, Dawn Kinney.

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

The Mackintosh Man

directed by John Huston,

written by Walter Hill and William Fairchild,

based on The Freedom Trap by Desmond Bagley,

was released in the United States on July 25, 1973.

Music by Maurice Jarre.

Cast:

Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Michael Hordern, Nigel Patrick, Peter Vaughan, Roland Culver, Percy Herbert, Robert Lang, Leo Genn, Jenny Runacre, John Bindon, Hugh Manning, Wolfe Morris, Noel Purcell, Donald Webster, Keith Bell, Niall MacGinnis, Eddie Byrne, Shane Briant, Michael Poole, Eric Mason, Ronald Clarke, Antony Viccars, Dinny Powell, Douglas Robinson, Jack Cooper, Marc Boyle, Marcelle Castillo, Nosher Powell, Terry Plummer, Joe Cahill, Gerry Alexander, John McDarby, Donal McCann, Joe Lynch, Seamus Healy, Tom Irwin, Pascal Perry, Steve Brennan, Vernon Hayden, Brendon O’Duill.