On this day in movie history - The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996)

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

documentary directed by Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein,

written by Thomas Lennon and Richard Ben Cramer,

was released in the United States on January 29, 1996.

Episode from season 8 of the PBS documentary series American Experience.

Narrated by Richard Ben Cramer.

Music by Brian Keane.

 
Cast:

William Alland, Thomas Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, Jimmy Breslin, Richard Ben Cramer, Marion Davies, Leonard de Paur, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Richard France, William Randolph Hearst, William Herz, Sam Leve, Norman Lloyd, Nancy Loe, Frank Mankiewicz, David McCullough, David Nasaw, Louetta Santucci, John Tebbel, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Vern Whaley, Gloria Widelock, Robert Wise, Jack Carter, Charles Chaplin, Gary Cooper, Cecil B. DeMille, Maurice Ellis, Joan Fontaine, Myrna Loy, Louis B. Mayer, Louella Parsons, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Rosalind Russell, David O. Selznick, Norma Shearer.

On this day in movie history - Matinee (1993)

Matinee

directed by Joe Dante,

written by Charles S. Haas,

based on a story by Jerico Stone and Charles S. Haas,

was released in the United States on January 29, 1993.

Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Lisa Jakub, Kellie Martin, Jesse Lee Soffer, Lucinda Jenney, James Villemaire, Robert Picardo, Jesse White, Dick Miller, John Sayles, David Clennon, Lucy Butler, Georgie Cranford, Nick Bronson, Cory Barlog, George Carson, Joe Gonzalez, Belinda Balaski, Charles S. Haas, Mark McCracken, Archie Hahn, Naomi Watts, Chris Stacy, Allison McKay, Glenda Chism, Aaron Stormer, Lana Bucciarelli, Richard Rossomme, D. Christian Gottshall, Bernard Blanding, Dennis Neal, Luke Halpin, Eulan Middlebrooks, Elizabeth Dimon, Shane Obedzinski, Summer-Healy Chapin, James Scott Hess, Shawn Edward Watkins, Danny Hanemann, Jesse Zeigler, Andy Isaacs, Joe Candelora, Steve Zurk, Mary Moriarty, John Paul Lehman, Jacob Witkin, Tracy Roberts, Marc Macaulay, Timothy Bass, Jeff Breslauer, Molly Conole, Peggy O'Neal, Colette Piceau, Steve DuMouchel, Kurt Smildsin, Michael T. Kelly, Ike Pappas, Brett Rice, Chris M. Allport, Robert Cornthwaite, Joey Fatone, Caroline Macey, Kevin McCarthy, Sherrie Provence, William Schallert, Elijah Vorrasi.

Born on this day – Elio Petri:

 

Director

Writer

January 29, 1929 – November 10, 1982

Born on this day – Dorothy Malone:

 

Actress

January 29, 1924 – January 19, 2018

Born on this day – John Forsythe:

 

Actor

Producer

Narrator

Drama teacher

Philanthropist

January 29, 1918 – April 1, 2010

Born on this day – Victor Mature:

Actor

January 29, 1913 – August 4, 1999

Born on this day – Archie Mayo:

Director

Writer

Actor

January 29, 1891 – December 4, 1968

Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Archie Mayo on the set of It's Love I'm After (1937).

 

Credits:

The Beast of Budapest (1958); Angel on My Shoulder (1946); A Night in Casablanca (1946); Sweet and Low-Down (1944); Crash Dive (1943); Orchestra Wives (1942); Moontide (1942); Confirm or Deny (1941); Charley's Aunt (1941); The Great American Broadcast (1941); Four Sons (1940); The House Across the Bay (1940); They Shall Have Music (1939); Youth Takes a Fling (1938); The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938); It's Love I'm After (1937); Call It a Day (1937); Black Legion (1937); Give Me Your Heart (1936); I Married a Doctor (1936); The Petrified Forest (1936); The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935); Go Into Your Dance (1935); Bordertown (1935); Desirable (1934); The Man with Two Faces (1934); Gambling Lady (1934); Convention City (1933); Ever in My Heart (1933); The Mayor of Hell (1933); The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); Night After Night (1932); Two Against the World (1932); Street of Women (1932); The Expert (1932); Under Eighteen (1931); Bought! (1931); Svengali (1931); Illicit (1931); The Doorway to Hell (1930); Oh, Sailor Behave! (1930); Courage (1930); Vengeance (1930); Wide Open (1930); The Sacred Flame (1929); The Sap (1929); Is Everybody Happy? (1929); Sonny Boy (1929); My Man (1928); On Trial (1928); State Street Sadie (1928); Retribution (1928); The Movie Man (1928); The Crimson City (1928); Beware of Married Men (1927); The College Widow (1927); Slightly Used (1927); Dearie (1927); Quarantined Rivals (1927); Johnny Get Your Hair Cut (1927); Unknown Treasures (1926); Christine of the Big Tops (1926); Money Talks (1926); Weak, But Willing (1926); Off His Beat (1925); Oh, Bridget! (1925); Tender Feet (1925); Why Hesitate? (1925); A Rarin' Romeo (1925); Good Spirits (1925); Reno or Bust (1924); High Gear (1924); Short Change (1924); Tootsie Wootsie (1924); Dandy Lions (1924); Spring Fever (1923); A Man of Position (1923); Round Figures (1923); High Kickers (1923); Speed Bugs (1923); Don't Get Fresh (1923); The Imperfect Lover (1923); All Over Twist (1923); F.O.B. (1923); No Luck (1923); The Educator (1922); The Speeder (1922); Poor Boy (1922); Rolling Stones (1922); The Vagrant (1921); Robinson Crusoe Ltd. (1921); It's Your Move (1921); Beaches and Peaches (1918); The Kid Snatchers (1917); Double Dukes (1917); A Nurse of an Aching Heart (1917); A Limburger Cyclone (1917).

Born on this day – W. C. Fields:

Actor

Comedian

Juggler

Writer

January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946

Credits:

The Fatal Glass of Fields (2008); 2nd House (1974); Sensations of 1945 (1944); Song of the Open Road (1944); Follow the Boys (1944); Tales of Manhattan (1942); Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941); The Bank Dick (1940); My Little Chickadee (1940); You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939); The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938); A Day at the Races (1937); Poppy (1936); Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935); Mississippi (1935); David Copperfield (1935); It's a Gift (1934); Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934); The Old Fashioned Way (1934); You're Telling Me! (1934); Six of a Kind (1934); Alice in Wonderland (1933); Tillie and Gus (1933); The Golf Specialist (1930); Too Many Highballs (1933); The Singing Boxer (1933); International House (1933); The Pharmacist (1933); The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933); The Dentist (1932); If I Had a Million (1932); Million Dollar Legs (1932); Her Majesty, Love (1931); The Golf Specialist (1930); The Family Ford (1930); Fools for Luck (1928); Tillie's Punctured Romance (1928); Two Flaming Youths (1927); Running Wild (1927); The Potters (1927); So's Your Old Man (1926); It's the Old Army Game (1926); That Royle Girl (1925); Sally of the Sawdust (1925); Janice Meredith (1924); His Lordship's Dilemma (1915); Pool Sharks (1915).

Mary Oliver, on writing:

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line.

I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down.

I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.

- Mary Oliver.