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Showing posts with label July 26. Show all posts

Saturday, July 26, 2025

Born on this day – Stanley Kubrick:

 

Stanley Kubrick


Director

Producer

Writer

Photographer

July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999


A timeline and pictorial tribute to the work of Stanley Kubrick:


A timeline and pictorial tribute to the work of Stanley Kubrick.

In celebration of his movies:

Day of the Fight (1951)


Flying Padre (1951)


The Seafarers (1953)


Fear and Desire (1953)


Killer's Kiss (1955)


The Killing (1956)


Paths of Glory (1957)


Spartacus (1960)


Lolita (1962)


Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)


2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)


A Clockwork Orange (1971)


Barry Lyndon (1975)



The Shining
(1980)


Full Metal Jacket (1987)


Eyes Wide Shut (1999)


Video created by Jack Kost.
2022.

Music credit:
Cryptic Sorrow by Kevin MacLeod.


If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

– Stanley Kubrick.


In memory of Stanley Kubrick

Director

Producer

Writer

Photographer

July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999

Jhumpa Lahiri, on writing:

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak.

But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

- Jhumpa Lahiri. 


Born on this day – George Barr McCutcheon:



George Barr McCutcheon


Writer

July 26, 1866 – October 23, 1928


Born on this day – Gracie Allen:

 

Gracie Allen


Vaudevillian

Singer

Actress

Comedian

July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964

Credits:

100% Service (1931); 50 Years of Funny Females (1995); 5th Annual TV Academy Hall of Fame (1989); A Damsel in Distress (1937); American Masters (1997–2017); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); Biography (2002); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Classic Comedy Teams (1986); Classic Stand-Up Comedy of Television (1996); Climax! (1956); College Holiday (1936); College Humor (1933); College Swing (1938); Dumb, Dumber & Dumbest (1995); Fit to Be Tied (1930); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Here Comes Cookie (1935); Hit Celebrity TV Commercials (2004); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood Couples (2000); Hollywood on Parade No. A-2 (1932); Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933); Honolulu (1939); International House (1933); Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special (1970); Lambchops (1929); Larry King Live (2003); Legends of Comedy (1992); Let's Dance (1933); Love in Bloom (1935); Many Happy Returns (1934); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices (2008); Mr. and Mrs. North (1942); Murphy Brown (1989); Oh, My Operation (1931); Olympic Fund Telethon (1952); Once Over, Light (1931); Our World (1987); Patents Pending (1932); Paul Henning & The Hillbillies (2005); Paul Merton's Palladium Story (1994); Pioneers of Primetime (1995); Pioneers of Television (2014); Pulling a Bone (1931); Screen Snapshots Series 33, No. 10: Hollywood Grows Up (1954); Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952); Shower of Stars (1955); Six of a Kind (1934); Stars in the Eye (1952); Startime (1959); Stu's Show (2023); Television (1988); Television: The First Fifty Years (1999); The 8th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1956); The Actor's Society Benefit Gala (1949); The Antique Shop (1931); The Babbling Book (1932); The Big Broadcast (1932); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936); The Bob Cummings Show (1957); The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1957); The Factor (2008); The First Annual Comedy Hall of Fame (1993); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950–1958); The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939); The Great Man: W.C. Fields (2005); The Great Radio Comedians (1972); The Great Standups (1984); The History of Comedy (2017); The Hollywood Palace (1982); The Jack Benny Program (1952–1964); The Jackie Gleason Show (1957); The World Our Stage (1957); This Is Your Life (1955); Two Girls and a Sailor (1944); Walking the Baby (1933); We're Not Dressing (1934); What's My Line? (1954); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); Your Hat (1932).

Born on this day – Evelyn Preer:

 

Evelyn Preer


Actress

Singer

July 26, 1896 – November 17, 1932

Credits:

Birthright (1924); Blonde Venus (1932); Brown Gravy (1929); Deceit (1923); Georgia Rose (1930); Good Sport (1931); Husband's Holiday (1931); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Oft in the Silly Night (1929); The Brute (1920); The Conjure Woman (1926); The Devil's Disciple (1926); The Framing of the Shrew (1929); The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921); The Homesteader (1919); The Lady Fare (1929); The Melancholy Dame (1929); The Spider's Web (1927); The Widow's Bite (1929); Within Our Gates (1920).

Born on this day – Jeanne Helbling:


Jeanne Helbling


Actress

July 26, 1903 – August 6, 1985


Born on this day – Leigh Jason:

 

Leigh Jason


Director

Writer

July 26, 1904 – February 19, 1979


Born on this day – Lorna Gray:


Lorna Gray


Actress

July 26, 1917 – April 30, 2017

Credits:

Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002); Adventure in Sahara (1938); Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945); Along the Oregon Trail (1947); Andy Clyde Gets Spring Chicken (1939); Back to the Woods / Three Sappy People (1939); Beware Spooks! (1939); Biography (1997); Brimstone (1949); Bullets for Rustlers (1940); Cafe Hostess (1940); California Firebrand (1948); Captain America (1944); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009); Coast Guard (1939); Convicted Woman (1940); Dakota (1945); Daughter of Don Q (1946); Deadwood Dick (1940); Drums of the Desert (1940); Exposed (1947); F.B.I. 99 (1966); Fashion Model (1945); Father Steps Out (1941); Federal Operator 99 (1945); Flying G-Men (1939); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (2015); Hideout (1949); Hold 'Em Navy (1937); Home on the Range (1946); Last Frontier Uprising (1947); Lightnin' in the Forest (1948); Love's A-Poppin' (1953); Man from Rainbow Valley (1946); Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976); Missing Daughters (1939); Mooching Through Georgia / Pest from the West (1939); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Nyoka and the Lost Secrets of Hippocrates (1966); O, My Darling Clementine (1943); Oh! Susanna (1951); Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939); Out California Way (1946); Outside These Walls (1939); Perils of Nyoka (1942); Red River Range (1938); Ridin' Down the Canyon (1942); Rock Island Trail (1950); Rockin' Thru the Rockies (1940); Scandal Street (1938); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950); Skinny the Moocher (1939); Smashing the Spy Ring (1938); So Proudly We Hail! (1943); Spoilers of the North (1947); TCM Remembers 2017 (2017); Tell It to a Star (1945); The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939); The Awful Goof (1939); The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938); The Buccaneer (1938); The Gallant Legion (1948); The Girl Who Dared (1944); The Last Bandit (1949); The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939); The Man They Could Not Hang (1939); The Plunderers (1948); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Savage Horde (1950); The Sea Hornet (1951); The Stranger from Texas (1939); The 3 Stooges / Episode: You Nazty Spy! (1940); Those High Grey Walls (1939); Thrill of a Lifetime (1937); Tuxedo Junction (1941); Under Colorado Skies (1947); Up in the Air (1940); Valley of the Zombies (1946); Yellow Fin (1951).

Born on this Day - Jean Shepherd:


Jean Shepherd


Writer

Actor

Humorist

Radio and TV personality

July 26, 1921 – October 16, 1999

Credits:

Books:

A Christmas Story (2003); A Fistful of Fig Newtons (1981); In God We Trust / aka In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash (1966); The America of George Ade (1960); The Ferrari in the Bedroom (1972); The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1978); Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories (1970).

Author of In God We trust: All Others Pay Cash.

Filmed as A Christmas Story in 1983.

Albums:

Jean Shepherd – Into the Unknown With Jazz Music (1955); Jean Shepherd and Other Foibles (1959); Jean Shepherd Reads Poems of Robert Service (1975); “Live” At The Limelight (1965); The Declassified Jean Shepherd (1971); Will Failure Spoil Jean Shepherd? (1960).

Movies and television:

A Christmas Story / Voice-over narration (1983); A Christmas Story 2 (2012); A Christmas Story Christmas (2022); A Christmas Story Live! (2017); A Fine Madness (1966); A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011); America (1971); American Playhouse (1982–1985); Babe Ruth (1998); Chicago White Sox a Visual History (1987); Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas (1997); Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius (1982); Flickers (1980); Jean Shepherd on Route 1... and Other Major Thoroughfares (1984); Late Night with David Letterman (1982); Lenny Bruce: Without Tears (1972); Light Fantastic (1964); My Summer Story (1994); NET Playhouse (1970); New Faces (1954); No Whistles, Bells, or Bedlam (1973); Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait (1987); Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss (1988); Sesame Street (1976–2000); Shadows (1958); Shepherd's Pie (1978); Summer Incident (1960); The David Frost Show (1972); The Dennis Wholey Show (1969); The Driving Scene (1969); The Great American Road Racing Festival (1985); The Joe Franklin Show (1972); The Merv Griffin Show (1966–1969); The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1976 / 1978); The Radio Broadcast Vault (2019); The Tonight Show (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1961–1962); Tiki Tiki (1971); Village Sunday (1960); Visions (1976).


#JeanShepherd #AChristmasStory #YoullShootYourEyeOut #Ralphie #July26

Born on this day – Jason Robards:


Jason Robards


Actor

July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000


Born on this day – Blake Edwards:

 

Blake Edwards


Director

Producer

Writer

Actor

July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010


#PinkPanther #PeterGunn #DaysofWineandRoses #10 #BreakfastatTiffanys #OperationPetticoat

Born on this day – James Best:

 

James Best


Actor

Writer

Director

Acting coach

Artist

Professor

Musician

Animal rights advocate

July 26, 1926 – April 6, 2015


Born on this day – Elliott Erwitt:


Elliott Erwitt


Photographer

Director

Cinematographer

July 26, 1928 – November 29, 2023



Credits:

Books:

100+1 Elliott Erwitt (1997); Between the Sexes (1994); Dog Dogs A collection of black and white photographs of dogs Erwitt was intrigued by throughout his world travels (1998); EE 60/60 (2002); Elliot Erwitt's Scotland (2018); Elliott Erwitt Personal Best (2010); Elliott Erwitt XXL – Special and Collectors Edition (2012); Elliott Erwitt, Sequentially Yours (2011); Elliott Erwitt: The Private Experience / Series: Masters of Contemporary Photography (1974); Elliott Erwitt's Handbook (2002); Elliott Erwitt's Kolor Kempen, Germany: teNeues (2013); Elliott Erwitt's New York (2009); Elliott Erwitt's Rome (2009); Found, Not Lost (2021); Museum Watching (1999); Observations on American Architecture (1972); On the Beach (1991); Personal Exposures (1988); Photographs and Anti-Photographs (1972); Pittsburgh 1950 (20117); Recent Developments (1978); Snaps. London & New York: Phaidon (2001); Son of Bitch, photographs of dogs (1974); The Angel Tree (1993); The Art of Andre S. Solidor aka Elliott Erwitt (2010); To The Dogs (1992); Woof (2005) 

Movies and television:

2nd House (1974); 3 x Magnum (2006); 4 Little Girls (1997); A Sense of Loss (1972); American Masters (2005–2006); Arte Journal (2023); Arthur Penn: The Director (1970); Articulate with Jim Cotter (2019); At Home with Elliott Erwitt (2013); Beautiful Baby, Beautiful (1980); Beauty Knows No Pain (1972); Cinéma cinémas (1989); Copyright by Inge Morath (1992); Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe (2022); Elliott Erwitt: I Bark at Dogs (2011); Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good (2019); Everybody Street (2013); Fearful Symmetry (1998); Get Yer Ya Ya's Out (2009); Gimme Shelter (1970); Great Performances (2002); Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (2003); Incontournables: Les grandes expositions de 2010 (2010); Le cinéma dans l'oeil de Magnum (2017); L'invité (2006); Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016); Paper Lion (1968); The Great Pleasure Hunt: Japan (1986); The Memory of Justice (1976); The Misfits (1961); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013); The Unwed Mother (1964); Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2008); Un jour, un destin (2011); Un voyageur (2013).

Born on this day – Kathryn Hays:


Kathryn Hays


Actress

July 26, 1934 – March 25, 2022

Credits:
ABC Late Night (1975); After Hours: Getting to Know Us (1977); American Playhouse (1989); Arrest and Trial (1964); As the World Turns (1972–2010); Bearcats! (1971); Bonanza (1964); Branded (1965); Breakout (1970); Cade’s County (1972); Circle of Fear (1973); Counterpoint (1967); Dr. Kildare (1963); Guiding Light (1952); Hawaiian Eye (1962); Here Come the Brides (1969); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1963); Ladybug Ladybug (1963); Law & Order (1999); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2007); Mannix (1968); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1969); Mr. Novak (1964); Naked City (1962); Night Gallery (1972); One Life to Live (2010); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971); Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966); Route 66 (1963); Run for Your Life (1966); SoapTalk (2006); Star Trek / episode entitled: The Empath, originally aired December 6 (1968); Surfside 6 (1962); The 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2023); The 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2006); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1971); The Defenders (1964); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The High Chaparral (1968); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1967); The Lieutenant (1963); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965); The Merv Griffin Show (1966); The Road West (1966–1967); The Virginian (1965); This Savage Land (1969); Vacation Playhouse (1967); Wide Country (1963); Yuma (1971).

Born on this day – Brenton Wood:


Brenton Wood


R&B singer

Songwriter

July 26, 1941 – January 3, 2025

Credits:

Albums:
 
18 More of the Best, Vol. 2 (1999); Baby You Got It (1967); Better Believe It (2000); Brenton Wood's 18 Best (1991); Classic By Design (2000); Come Softly (1977); Gimme Little Sign (1967); Lord Hear My Prayer (2009); Oogum Boogum (1967); Out of the Woodwork (1986); Sweet Old School (1995); This Love Is for Real (2001).

Songs:

A Change Is Gonna Come (1969); All That Jazz (1975); Another Saturday Night (1973); Baby You Got It (1967); Bless Your Little Heart (1976); Boogaloosa Louisian' (1970); Come Softly To Me (1977); Gimme Little Sign (1967); Great Big Bundle of Love (1970); Hide-a-Way (1963); I Want Love (1966); It Only Make Me Want It More (1975); It's Just a Game, Love (1968); Let's Get Crazy Together (1978); Lovey Dovey Kinda Lovin' (1968); Number One (1977); Rainin' Love (You Gotta Feel It) (1975); Sad Little Song (1971); Some Got It, Some Don't (1968); Sticky Boom Boom (Too Cold) (1972); Sweet Molly Malone (1966); The Oogum Boogum Song (1967); Whoop It On Me (1969); You're Beautiful People (1973).
 
Movies and television:

20 to 1 (2008); 4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet (1968); Almost Famous (2000); American Bandstand (1967–1977); Aquarius (2015); Big Little Lies (2019); Colors (1988); Criminal Minds (2015); CrissCross (1992); Devil's Due (2014); Dogfight (1991); Don't Worry Darling (2022); Eastbound & Down (2010); England's World Cup Lionesses (2019); Festival di Sanremo (1969); Funny Woman (2022); GLOW (2018); Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991); Hard Eight (1996); Home Again (2017); Infinitely Polar Bear (2014); It's Happening (1968); Joy (2024); Life of Crime (2013); Little Fish (2020); Lorraine (2016); Love, Simon (2018); Lovelace (2013); Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln (2024); Lymelife (2008); Mortal Sins (1989); Mother and Child (2009); Mr. Write (1994); Mrs. America (2020); Murphy Brown (1990); My Crazy Life (1993); On My Block (2019); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016); Pie in the Sky (1995); Playboy After Dark (1969); Poms (2019); Popdown (1969); Reptile (2023); Reversal of Fortune (1990); Scorpion (2016); Seven Girlfriends (1999); Sex Education (2021); Shopgirl (2005); Slayground (1983); Small Time (2014); Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso (2017); The Gray Man (2022); The Groovy Show (1967); The Joey Bishop Show (1967); The Last Days of Disco (1998); The Playroom (2012); The Shack (2017); The Stand (2021); The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989); The Umbrella Academy (2022); The Woody Woodbury Show (1968); This Fool (2022); Tohuwabohu (1998); Top of the Pops (1968); Vibrato (1968); Will & Harper (2024); Your Mother Should Know (2018).

Born on this day – Hannelore Elsner:


Hannelore Elsner


Actress

July 26, 1942 – April 21, 2019


Born on this day – Celeste Yarnall:

 

Celeste Yarnall


Actress

July 26, 1944 – October 7, 2018

Credits:

A New Kind of Love (1963); A Shattered Dream (1990); Ambition (1991); America Loves... Star Trek (2001); Around the World Under the Sea (1966); Beast of Blood (1970); Bewitched (1966); Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969); Bonanza (1968); Born Yesterday (1993); Brewed in Brooklyn (2013); Burke's Law (1963); Captain Nice (1967); Civil Wars (1993); Daughters of Privilege (1991); Drive-in Movie Memories (2001); Driving Me Crazy (1991); Elvis Found Alive (2012); Elvis on Tour (1972); Eve (1968); Fatal Beauty (1987); Femme (2013); Find Your Future Reality (2018); Funny About Love (1990); Gidget (1966); Hogan's Heroes (1968); In Name Only (1969); Insight (1971); It Takes a Thief (1968); It's Your Bet (1971); Knots Landing (1990); Land of the Giants (1968); Live a Little, Love a Little (1968); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Postal Meeter (1973); Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010); Mannix (1969); McMillan & Wife (1972); Melrose Place (1995–1998); Metaltech: Earthsiege (1994); Midnight Kiss (1993); My Three Sons (1962–1963); Ransom for a Dead Man (1971); Scorpio (1973); Shrink Rap (2003); Sisters (1994); Skinwalker: Curse of the Shaman (2005); Star Trek (1967); Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007); That's My Baby (2002); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1962); The Bold Ones: The Protectors (1969); The Cure (2018); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part II: 1962-1969 (2002); The Definitive Elvis: The Television Years (2002); The F.B.I. (1968); The Green Girl (2014); The Hollywood Stars of Tomorrow Awards (1967); The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972); The Last Doorway Show with Miss Misery (2011); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Mechanic (1972); The Nation's Favourite Elvis Song (2013); The Nutty Professor (1963); The Seven Ages of Elvis (2017); The Survivors (1969); The Two Sisters (2007); The Velvet Vampire (1971); The Wild Wild West (1965); Unbelievable!!!!! (2020); Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963); We the People (2018); William Shatner's Get a Life! (2012).

Born on this day – Leon Vitali:

 

Leon Vitali


Actor

Casting director

July 26, 1948 – August 19, 2022

Credits:

Arena: Making 'The Shining' (1980); Barry Lyndon (1975); Comedy Playhouse (1975); Crime of Passion (1973); Crown Court (1972–1973); Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein (2015); Dixon of Dock Green (1975); Edge of Outside (2006); Eyes Wide Shut (1999); Filmworker (2017); Follyfoot (1973); Full Metal Jacket (1987); Hadleigh (1971); Hamlet (1985); Haunted, Horrifying Sounds from Beyond the Grave (2018); I Am What You Imagine (2023); In the Bedroom (2001); Inter Rail (1981); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1973); Justice (1971); Kubrick Remembered (2014); Kubrick's Universe: The Stanley Kubrick Podcast (2018–2022); Little Children (2006); Long Voyage Out of War (1971); Love Story (1973); Mackan (1977); Mafia Junction (1973); Notorious Woman (1974); Please Sir! (1971); Prometheus: The Life of Balzac (1975); Public Eye (1971); Romeo & Juliet (2013); Room 237 (2012); Secrets of 'The Shining': Live from the First Annual Stanley Film Festival (2013); Shooting 'Full Metal Jacket' (1986); Softly Softly: Task Force (1970); Stanley and Us (1999); Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008); TCM Remembers 2022 (2022); Terror of Frankenstein (1977); The Burning Cold (2022); The Fenn Street Gang (1971–1972); The Roads to Freedom (1970); The Shining (1980); Up the Workers (1973–1976); Van der Valk (1973); Z Cars (1971).

On this day in movie history - They Drive by Night (1940)


They Drive by Night


directed by Raoul Walsh,

written by Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay,

based on the novel Long Haul by A. I. Bezzerides,

was released in the United States on July 26, 1940.

Music by Adolph Deutsch.


Cast:
George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale, Roscoe Karns, John Litel, George Tobias, Henry O’Neill, Charles Halton, Paul Hurst, John Ridgely, George Lloyd, Joyce Compton, Charles Wilson, Pedro Regas, Norman Willis, Joe Devlin, William Haade, Vera Lewis, John Hamilton, Eddie Acuff, Howard Hickman, Lillian Yarbo.