On this day in television history - Hill Street Blues (January 15, 1981 - May 12, 1987)

Hill Street Blues

created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll,

was released in the United States on January 15, 1981,

and ran for seven seasons until May 12, 1987.

Theme music by Mike Post.

Cast:

Daniel J. Travanti, Veronica Hamel, Michael Conrad, Bruce Weitz, Joe Spano, Michael Warren, Charles Haid, James B. Sikking, Betty Thomas, Kiel Martin, Taurean Blacque, René Enriquez, Ed Marinaro, Barbara Bosson, Robert Prosky, Ken Olin, Mimi Kuzyk, Dennis Franz, Robert Clohessy, Megan Gallagher, Jon Cypher, Robert Hirschfeld, Barbara Babcock, Trinidad Silva, Jeffrey Tambor, Dennis Dugan, George Wyner, Lisa Sutton, Jennifer Tilly, Del Zamora, Judith Hansen, Peter Jurasik, Panchito Gomez, Larry D. Mann, Lee Weaver, Deborah Richter, Pat Corley, David Caruso, Bobby Ellerbee, Alfre Woodard, Terry Alexander, Jonathan Banks, Michael Biehn, David Caruso, Don Cheadle, Vance Colvig, Bryan Cranston, James Cromwell, Hector Elizondo, Martin Ferrero, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Frakes, Robin Gammell, Andy Garcia, Paul Gleason, Crispin Glover, Danny Glover, Cuba Gooding Jr., Linda Hamilton, Penny Johnson Jerald, Anne-Marie Johnson, Jane Kaczmarek, Stanley Kamel, Terry Kiser, Yaphet Kotto, Michael Lerner, Whitman Mayo, Barney Martin, Paul McCrane, James McDaniel, Frances McDormand, Chuck Mitchell, Chris Noth, Edward James Olmos, Chazz Palminteri, Joe Pantoliano, Felton Perry, Joaquin Phoenix, CCH Pounder, Daphne Reid, James Remar, Michael Richards, Ron Rifkin, Tim Robbins, Mimi Rogers, Leo Rossi, Saul Rubinek, Joe Santos, Dwight Schultz, Helen Shaver, Ally Sheedy, Brent Spiner, Dolph Sweet, Joe E. Tata, Lawrence Tierney, Jennifer Tilly, Meg Tilly, James Tolkan, George Wallace, Tracey Walter, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Forest Whitaker.

On this day in movie history - Carl Laemmle:

 

Carl Laemmle

documentary directed and written by James L. Freedman,

was released at the Miami Jewish Film Festival in the United States on January 15, 2019.

Narrated by James L. Freedman.

Music by David Carbonara.

Cast:

Antonia Carlotta, Ahilan Arulanantham, Bob Balaban, Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks, Colin Clive, Buffalo Bill Cody, Melvyn Douglas, George Eastman, Thomas A. Edison, Bramwell Fletcher, John Ford, James L. Freedman, Willie Garson, Will H. Hays, Marvin Hier, Cordell Hull, Boris Karloff, Paul Kohner, Richard Koszarski, Rosemary Laemmle Hilb, Carla Laemmle, Florence Lawrence, Breckenridge Long, Bela Lugosi, Werner Maas, Leonard Maltin, Ron Meyer, Ludwig Muhlfelder, Max Obernauer, Jeff Pirtle, Joseph Roos, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anthony Slide, Irving Thalberg, Ernest Thesiger, Lupita Tovar Kohner, Woodrow Wilson, William Wyler, Carl Laemmle Jr., Carl Laemmle.

On this day in movie history - The Book of Eli (2010)

The Book of Eli

directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes,

written by Gary Whitta,

was released in the United States on January 15, 2010.

Music by Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne.

Cast:

Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Evan Jones, Joe Pingue, Frances de la Tour, Michael Gambon, Tom Waits, Chris Browning, Richard Cetrone, Lateef Crowder, Keith Splinter Davis, Don Thai Theerathada, Thom Khoury Williams, Lora Martinez-Cunningham, Scott Wilder, Heidi Pascoe, Jennifer Caputo, Eddie Perez, Spencer Sano, Karin Silvestri, Mike Gunther, John Koyama, Mike McCarty, Scott Michael Morgan, Sala Baker, Arron Shiver, Justin Tade, Mike Seal, Richard A. Smith, Paul Crawford, Ed Duran, David Wald, Jermaine Washington, Kofi Elam, Clay Donahue Fontenot, Al Goto, Brad Martin, Tim Rigby, Luis Bordonada, Robert Powell, Angelique Midthunder, Todd Schneider, Darrin Prescott, Laurence Chavez, Brian Neal Lucero, David Midthunder, Steve Blacksmith, Joe Cabezuela, Vivi Devereaux, Christopher Fodge, David J. Goldfarb, Jo King, Josiah D. Lee, Gregory Leiker, Malcolm McDowell, Levi Nolasco, Francisco Peramos, Frank Powers, David T. Quan, Jason Rice, Daniel Teller, Mario Telles.

On this day in movie history - Moonstruck (1988)

Moonstruck

directed by Norman Jewison,

written by John Patrick Shanley,

was released in the United States on January 15, 1988.

Music by Dick Hyman.

Cast:

Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia, Danny Aiello, Julie Bovasso, Louis Guss, John Mahoney, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Anita Gillette, Leonardo Cimino, Paula Trueman, Nada Despotovich, Joe Grifasi, Gina DeAngeles, Robin Bartlett, Helen Hanft, David S. Howard, Robert Weil.

On this day in movie history - Dead Reckoning (1947)

Dead Reckoning

directed by John Cromwell,

written by Steve Fisher and Oliver H.P. Garrett,

based on a story by Gerald Drayson Adams, Sidney Biddell and Allen Rivkin,

was released in the United States on January 15, 1947.

Music by Marlin Skiles.

Cast:

Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane, William Prince, Marvin Miller, Wallace Ford, James Bell, George Chandler, William Forrest, Ruby Dandridge.

Born on this day – Stephen Dwoskin:

Director

Cinematographer

Editor

Writer

Producer

January 15, 1939 – June 28, 2012

Born on this day – Jacqueline Pierreux:

Actress

January 15, 1923 – March 10, 2005

Born on this day – Lloyd Bridges:

 

Actor

January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998

Born on this day – Marcello Pagliero:

Actor

Writer

Director

January 15, 1907 – December 9, 1980

Born on this day – William Beaudine:

Actor

Director

January 15, 1892 – March 18, 1970

Credits:

20,000 Legs Under the Sea (1917); 3D Jamboree (1956); A Bad Little Good Man (1917); A Boob for Luck (1917); A Broadway Butterfly (1925); A Butler Bust-Up (1918); A Close Call (1912);  Crooked Mix-Up (1916); A Day's Outing (1912); A Delivery Package (1913); A Desert Dilemma (1917); A Disappointed Mama (1912); A Full Dress Fizzle (1918); A Game Gambler (1918); A Hollywood Theme Song (1930); A Home Spun Hero (1920); A Horse on Bill (1913); A Husband in Haste (1920); A Janitor's Vendetta (1916); A Jungle Cruise (1917); A Limited Divorce (1912); A Mixed Affair (1912); A Molar Mix-Up (1916); A Rainy Day (1913); A Riddle in Rascals (1916); A Rustic Romeo (1919); A Sanitarium Scandal (1917); A Seaside Siren (1920); A Self-Made Failure (1924); A Shadowed Shadow (1916); A Summer Tragedy (1910); A Tale of a Turk (1916); A Tell-Tale Shirt (1918); A Wonderful Life (1950); Adventure in Dairyland (1956); Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1953); Again... Pioneers (1950); All Jazzed Up (1920); Almost a King (1915); Almost a Wild Man (1913); An 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' Troupe (1913); Angels' Alley (1948); Apartment 23 (1919); Are Honeymoons Happy? (1920); Are Wives Unreasonable? (1918); Art Aches (1917); Artful Artists (1916); At Bachelor's Roost (1916); Back from the Front (1920); Barred from the Bar (1917); Beans and Bullets (1916); Behind the Map (1917); Behind the Mask (1946); Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952); Below the Deadline (1946); Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966); Black Market Babies (1945); Blonde Comet (1941); Blonde Dynamite (1950); Blonde Ransom (1945); Blue Grass of Kentucky (1950); Blues Busters (1950); Bombs and Business (1916); Born to the Saddle (1953); Bowery Battalion (1951); Bowery Buckaroos (1947); Bowery Champs (1944); Boy of Mine (1923); Boys Will Be Boys (1935); Brides for Two (1919); Broadway Big Shot (1942); Broken Arrow (1957–1958); Canning the Cannibal King (1917); Catch My Smoke (1922); Circus Boy (1957); City Story (1954); Clancy Street Boys (1943); Come Out Fighting (1945); Corky and White Shadow (1956); Cornered (1924); Counting Out the Count (1916); County Fair (1950); Crazy Knights (1944); Crazy Over Horses (1951); Criswell Predicts (1953); Cuban Fireball (1951); Dan Cupid: M.D. (1918); Dandy Dick (1935); Daring Youth (1924); Daughters of Pleasure (1924); Dead Easy (1921); Design for Dreaming (1956); Desperate Cargo (1941); Detective Kitty O'Day (1944); Diana of the Farm (1915); Do Your Duty (1928); Don't Gamble with Strangers (1946); Double Trouble (1941); Dream Stuff (1933); Duke of the Navy (1942); Each According to His Faith (1955); Easy Payments (1919); Eat-a-Bite-a-Pie (1920); Eddie, Get the Mop (1918); Educated Evans (1936); Emergency Landing (1941); Fair But False (1920); Falling for Fanny (1921); Fashion and Fury (1916); Fashion Model (1945); Father's Son (1931); Feather Your Nest (1937); Federal Fugitives (1941); Feudin' Fools (1952); Fit to Fight (1920); Flapjacks (1918); Flight of the Cougar (1967); Flying Wild (1941); Follow the Leader (1944); Fools of Fate (1909); For Every Child (1953); For Sweet Charity (1916); Foreign Agent (1942); Forgotten Women (1931); Forgotten Women (1949); Four Shall Die (1940); Fresh from the Farm (1921); Frisco Sally Levy (1927); From Altar to Halter (1916); Fugitives (1929); Further Adventures of Spin and Marty (1956); Fury of the Dragon (1976); Gallant Lady (1942); Gas House Kids Go West (1947); Get Off My Foot (1935); Ghost Chasers (1951); Ghosts on the Loose (1943); Girl on the Spot (1946); Give and Take (1928); Gone, But Where? (1917); Guardian Angels (1916); Ham Agrees with Sherman (1916); Ham and Preparedness (1916); Ham and the Hermit's Daughter (1916); Ham Takes a Chance (1916); Ham the Diver (1916); Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947); Hard to Get (1929); Havana Rose (1951); Hawaiian Nuts (1917); He Had 'em Buffaloed (1917); He Who Hesitates (1919); Heart to Heart (1928); Hearts and Diamonds (1920); Helen's Marriage (1912); Her Bodyguard (1933); Her Fatal Millions (1923); Here Come the Marines (1952); Here Comes Kelly (1943); Hero Pro Tem (1921); Heroes of the Street (1922); Hey, Rube! (1921); High Society (1955); His Coming Out Party (1917); His Fatal Beauty (1917); Hold That Line (1952); Hold That Lion! (1926); Home Brew (1919); Home, James (1928); Hot Rhythm (1944); How Baxter Butted In (1925); Hubby Behave (1921); I Love Charles Albert (1918); In Love with a Fireman (1916); In the Money (1958); Incident (1948); Isn't It Warm? (1918); It Takes a Crook (1920); It's in the Bag (1936); Jags and Jealousy (1916); Jail Busters (1955); Jalopy (1953); Jenks Becomes a Desperate Character (1913); Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966); Jet Job (1952); Jinx Money (1948); Kidnapped (1948); Kids and Kidlets (1920); Killer at Large (1947); Kissing Kate (1913); Lashed by Love (1916); Lassie (1960–1968); Lassie's Great Adventure (1963); Leather Stocking (1909); Leave It to the Irish (1944); Left in the Soup (1917); Let's Go Navy! (1951); Little Annie Rooney (1925); Love in Suspense (1917); Love Me, Love My Biscuits (1917); Lovers' Lane (1924); Lucky Ghost (1942); Lucky Losers (1950); Make Me a Star (1932); Marry Me (1920); Marrying Molly (1919); Maybe Moonshine (1916); Men in Her Life (1931); Men of San Quentin (1942); Millionaires by Mistake (1916); Mines and Matrimony (1917); Minnie the Tiger (1915); Misbehaving Husbands (1940); Misbehaving Ladies (1931); Mixed Wives (1919); Mom and Dad (1945); Movie Mad (1921); Movie-Town (1931); Mr. Briggs Closes the House (1918); Mr. Celebrity (1941); Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1935); Mr. Grouch at the Seashore (1912); Mr. Hex (1946); Mr. Miller Muddles Through (1918); Mr. Miller's Economies (1918); Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943); Mr. Spriggs Buys a Dog (1913); Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1941); Mud (1918); Mule Mates (1917); Murder Without Tears (1953); Musical Madness (1916); My Swedie (1925); Naked City (1958); News Hounds (1947); Ninety Days or Life (1921); No Holds Barred (1952); Officer, Call a Cop (1917); Oh Buddy! (1921); Oh, What a Boob! (1913); Oh, What a Night! (1944); Oh, You Kid (1920); O-My the Tent Mover (1917); One Damp Day (1917); One Exciting Week (1946); One Round O'Brien (1912); One Thrilling Night (1942); One Yard to Go (1931); Out Again, in Again (1917); Out for the Dough (1917); Papa by Proxy (1920); Papa's Baby (1913); Pardon My Glove (1922); Paris Playboys (1954); Pass the Apples, Eve (1920); Passing the Grip (1917); Penrod and Sam (1923); Penrod and Sam (1931); Petticoats and Pants (1920); Phantom Killer (1942); Philo Vance Returns (1947); Pride of the Blue Grass (1954); Priscilla's April Fool Joke (1911); Professor Creeps (1942); Punch the Clock (1922); Pure and Simple (1921); Racket Squad (1951–1953); Red Hicks Defies the World (1913); Rescue 8 (1958–1959); Road to Paradise (1930); Roar of the Crowd (1953); Rocky (1948); Rodeo (1952); Romeo of the Coal Wagon (1916); Rosie's Rancho (1917); Said O'Reilly to McNab (1937); Save Me, Sadie (1920); Scrappily Married (1916); Sea Sirens (1919); Second Chance (1950); Secret Servants (1917); See You Tonight (1933); Seven Bald Pates (1920); Shadow of Suspicion (1944); She Done Him Right (1940); Short and Snappy (1921); Short and Sweet (1921); Shuffle the Queens (1920); Slippery Slim Repents (1913); Smugglers' Cove (1948); Snoop Hounds (1916); So You Won't Talk (1935); Sparrows (1926); Spook Busters (1946); Spotlight Scandals (1943); Step Forward (1922); Stern Papa (1912); Stop, Look and Listen (1919); Strictly Modern (1922); Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1946); Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945); Take Back Your Wife (1917); Take It from Me (1937); Tea for Two (1920); Ten Who Dared (1960); That's My Baby (1926); The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1958–1959); The Adventures of Spin and Marty (1955); The Ape Man (1943); The Bandits of Macaroni Mountain (1915); The Baron (1912); The Battling Bellboy (1917); The Beginning (1955); The Big Idea (1934); The Boss of the Family (1917); The Canadian (1926); The Captivating Captive (1920); The Careless Cop (1917); The Caretaker's Dilemma (1915); The Chased Bride (1922); The Chinese Ring (1947); The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris (1928); The College Vamp (1931); The Congregation (1952); The Country Kid (1923); The Crime of the Century (1933); The Cross Eyed Submarine (1917); The Daylight Burglar (1913); The Diver's Last Kiss (1918); The Engagement Ring (1912); The Eveless Eden Club (1916); The Face of Marble (1946); The Feathered Serpent (1948); The Fountain of Trouble (1917); The Girl from Woolworth's (1929); The Golden Eye (1948); The Great Junction Hotel (1931); The Green Hornet (1966–1974); The Hidden Heart (1954); The Hoodoo's Busy Day (1915); The Inspector's Double (1916); The Irresistible Lover (1927); The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939); The Lady Who Dared (1930); The Last Alarm (1940); The Last Scent (1917); The Lawton Story (1949); The Leak (1917); The Life of Riley (1927); The Living Ghost (1942); The Mad Parade (1931); The Magical World of Disney (1955–1968); The Man Behind the Badge (1954); The Man with a Package (1917); The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show (1968); The Mickey Mouse Club (1955); The Miracle Kid (1941); The Missing Mummy (1916); The Miti Ranch (1917); The Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943); The Narrow Street (1925); The Old Fashioned Way (1934); The Old Gray Mare (1913); The Panther's Claw (1942); The Pie Eyed Piper (1918); The Poor Fish (1918); The Printer's Devil (1923); The Rise and Fall of McDoo (1913); The Rose Bowl Story (1952); The Secret of the Gift (1959); The Shadow Returns (1946); The Shanghai Chest (1948); The Social Highwayman (1926); The Suffragette Minstrels (1913); The Tale of a Coat (1916); The Tenderfoot's Money (1913); The Trailing Tailor (1916); The Tramp Chef (1916); Their Dark Secret (1916); Their First Arrest (1916); Their First Kidnapping Case (1912); Their Idols (1912); Their Little Wife (1920); Their Taking Ways (1916); There Were Hoboes Three (1913); Those Hicksville Boys (1912); Those Who Dance (1930); Three Wise Girls (1931); Through Dumb Luck (1912); To Save Her Soul (1909); Too Many Sweethearts (1919); Too Many Winners (1947); Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939); Torchy Gets Her Man (1938); Toto Interferes (1916); Tough Assignment (1949); Tragedy of the Dress Suit (1912); Trail of the Yukon (1949); Trapping the Bachelor (1916); Treasury Men in Action (1954–1955); Trick Golf (1934); Tuna Clipper (1949); TV Reader's Digest (1955); Twin Husbands (1921); Two Hearts in Harmony (1935); Two Weeks Off (1929); Uneasy Money (1917); Up in Smoke (1957); Up Jumped the Devil (1941); Voodoo Man (1944); Wandering Husbands (1924); Wanta Make a Dollar? (1917); Watch Your Step (1922); Watch Your Step, Mother (1920); Wedding Rings (1929); Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956); What a Man! (1944); What the ---? (1917); What'll We Do with Uncle? (1917); When Damon Fell for Pythias (1917); When Hubby Forgot (1916); Where There's a Will (1936); While the Count Goes Bathing (1913); Who Done It? (1917); Who Kissed Me? (1921); Whose Baby? (1917); Why Be Jealous? (1920); Why He Gave Up (1911); Why They Left Home (1917); Why Wild Men Go Wild (1920); Wild Wallops (1927); Windbag the Sailor (1936); Winning a Widow (1916); With a Kodak (1912); Wives and Worries (1918); Won by a Fowl (1917); Wurra-Wurra (1916); Yukon Gold (1952); Yukon Vengeance (1954); Zulu Love (1921).

Toni Morrison, on writing:

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self,

to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar,

is the test of their power.

- Toni Morrison.