Juneteenth – June 19:

Freedom.

 #Freedom #Emancipation #Equality #Inclusion

On reading and ignorance:

 

Reading can seriously damage your ignorance.

- Anonymous.

Recommended reading - A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)

A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)

by Raymond Borde & Etienne Chaumeton.

Translated from French by Paul Hammond.

Published by City Lights Publishers.
Published 2002.

ISBN-10: 087286412X
ISBN-13: 9780872864122
 
Description:

"...the book notes the influence of criminal psychology on film noir and how German Expressionism inspired directors..." – San Francisco Chronicle Book Review.

When it appeared in France in 1955, A Panorama of American Film Noir was the first book ever on the genre: this clairvoyant study of Hollywood film noir is at last available in English translation.

A Panorama of American Film Noir addresses the essential amorality of its subject from a decidedly Surrealist angle, focusing on noir's dreamlike, unwonted, erotic, ambivalent and cruel atmosphere, and setting it in the social context of mid-century America.

Beginning with the first film noir, The Maltese Falcon, and continuing through the post war "glory days," which included such films as Gilda, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage and The Lady from Shanghai, Borde and Chaumeton examine the dark sides of American society, film and literature that made film noir possible, even necessary.

A Panorama of American Film Noir includes a film noir chronology, a voluminous filmography, a comprehensive index and a selection of black-and-white production stills.

"Incredibly, this is the first English translation of the very influential 1955 French book that initially identified, described and assessed the Hollywood movies that we now term film noir . . . a seminal work of cinema description and analysis and therefore an essential purchase for most libraries." – From the Starred Review in Library Journal.

Raymond Borde (1920 - 2004), founder of the Cinémathèque de Toulouse, wrote extensively on film history; among his short films is a study of the artist Pierre Molinier.

Etienne Chaumeton was the film critic of the Toulouse newspaper La Dépêche until his death.

Born on this day – Mildred Natwick:

 

Mildred Natwick

Actress

June 19, 1905 – October 25, 1994

Credits:

3 Godfathers (1948); A Woman's Vengeance (1948); Addie and the King of Hearts (1976); Against All Flags (1952); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1958); Alice (1980); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1953–1954); Arsenic & Old Lace (1962); At Long Last Love (1975); Barefoot in the Park (1967); Becoming Mike Nichols (2016); Bonanza (1969); Cameo Theatre (1950); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1954); Captain Kangaroo (1978); Cheaper by the Dozen (1950); Daisy Miller (1974); Danger (1952–1953); Dangerous Liaisons (1988); Deadly Deception (1987); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002); Family (1976); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); Goodyear Playhouse (1953); Hardcastle and McCormick (1985); Hawaii Five-O (1978–1979); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969); John Ford et Monument Valley (2013); Justice (1954); Kiss Me Goodbye (1982); Kraft Theatre (1947–1957); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950–1952); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1954); Lights Out (1950); Little Women (1979); Love Story (1954); Lux Video Theatre (1953); Magnum, P.I. (1983); Maid in America (1982); Man Against Crime (1949); McMillan & Wife (1975); Medallion Theatre (1953); Money to Burn (1973); Murder, She Wrote (1986); Naked City (1961); Play of the Week (1959); Playhouse 90 (1956); Ponds Theater (1954); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951); She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949); Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1950–1951); Sorry, Wrong Number (1946); Special Collector's Edition (2012); Star Stage (1955); Star Trek: Enterprise (2004); Starlight Theatre (1950); Studio One (1949–1955); Suspense (1949–1954); Tales of Tomorrow (1953); Tammy and the Bachelor (1957); Teenage Rebel (1956); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955); The 26th Annual Tony Awards (1972); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 67th Annual Academy Awards (1995); The Adventures of Alexander Hawkins (1985); The American West of John Ford (1971); The Bob Newhart Show (1977); The Booth / Segment: The 75th (1985); The Boris Karloff Mystery Playhouse (1949); The Clock (1950); The Court Jester (1955); The Doctor (1952–1953); The Easter Promise (1975); he Enchanted Cottage (1945); The Evil Touch (1973); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); The Gulf Playhouse (1953); The House Without a Christmas Tree (1972); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); The Kissing Bandit (1948); The Late George Apley (1947); The Long Voyage Home (1940); The Loretta Young Show (1956); The Love Boat (1980); The Maltese Bippy (1969); The Most Deadly Game (1971); The Quiet Man (1952); The Snoop Sisters (1972–1974); The Thanksgiving Treasure (1973); The Trouble with Harry (1955); The Trouble with Harry Isn't Over (2001); The Web (1953); Trapper John, M.D. (1981); Trilogy / Segment: Miriam (1969); Yolanda and the Thief (1945); You Are There (1954); You Can't Take It with You (1979).

Born on this day – Martin Gabel:

Martin Gabel

Actor

Director

Producer

June 19, 1911 – May 22, 1986

Credits:

5th Annual Celebrity Parade for Cerebral Palsy (1955); ABC's Nightlife (1965); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Cain's Hundred (1961); Chronicle (1963); Contract on Cherry Street (1977); Deadline - U.S.A. (1952); Divorce American Style (1967); Fourteen Hours (1951); General Electric Theater (1962); Get the Message (1964); Goodbye Charlie (1964); Harvey (1972); Have Gun - Will Travel (1960–1961); He Said, She Said (1970); Hollywood Screen Test (1952); Jungle Terror (1949); Lady in Cement (1968); Lights Out (1951); Lord Love a Duck (1966); M (1951); Marnie (1964); Naked City (1962); Omnibus / Segments: Mr. Lincoln / Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge (1952–1955); Password (1962); Pictura (1951); Play of the Week (1960); Playhouse 90 (1959); Profiles in Courage (1965); Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974); Startime (1960); Tarzan (1967); The 15th Annual Tony Awards (1961); The 17th Annual Tony Awards (1963); The American Dreadnought (1968); The Americans (1961); The Comeback Story (1954); The Crimebusters (1962); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Ed Sullivan Show (1954); The First Deadly Sin (1980); The Front Page (1974); The Game Show Show (2023); The James Dean Story (1957); The Lost Moment (1947); The Making of a President: 1964 (1966); The Making of the President 1960 (1963); The Picture of Dorian Gray (1962); The Power and the Glory (1961); The Right Man (1960); The Thief (1952); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958–1961); The Trouble with Marnie (2000); There Was a Crooked Man... (1970); Thriller (1960); Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957); To Tell the Truth (1957–1963); Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait (1961); What's My Line? (1956–1967).

Born on this day – Gena Rowlands:

Gena Rowlands

Actress

June 19, 1930 – August 14, 2024

Credits:

1985 Stuntman Awards (1985); 47th Annual Academy Awards (1975); 77 Sunset Strip (1963); 87th Precinct (1961–1962); A Child Is Waiting (1963); A Constant Forge (2000); A Fuller Life (2013); A Question of Love (1978); A Woman Under the Influence (1974); Academy Originals: What Movies Mean to Me (2015); Adventures in Paradise (1960); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends (1999); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960); All About My Mother (1999); An Early Frost (1985); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Another Woman (1988); Anything for John (1993); Applause (2009); Appointment with Adventure (1955); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1955); Being Mary Tyler Moore (2023); Best Friends for Life (1998); Bette Davis: Größer als das Leben (2017); Bicentennial Minutes (1974); Bienvenue à Cannes (2007); Biography (1996–1998); Biography (2005); Blow up: Le web magazine cinéma d'Arte (2022); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963); Bonanza (1963); Breaking Point (1963); Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003); Broken English (2007); Burke's Law (1964); Campus, le magazine de l'écrit (2004); Cartelera (1998); Casting The Skeleton Key (2005); Ceremonia de inauguración - 56º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2008); Charlie Rose (1997–2004); Charms for the Easy Life (2002); Cinéastes de notre temps (1969); Cinema 3 (1992); Cinéma cinémas / Segment: 'Cassavetes 'Love Stream' plans n° 145, 146, 147' (1983–1985); Circle of Fear (1972); Columbo (1975); Crazy in Love (1992); Dr. Kildare (1964); E! Live from the Red Carpet (2016); Edge of Outside (2006); Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014); Entertainment Tonight (2014–2024); Exploring Voodoo/Hoodoo (2005); Face of a Stranger (1991); Faces (1968 / 2011); Faerie Tale Theatre (1983); Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012); Fräulein Berlin (1984); Garrison's Gorillas (1968); Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film (2018); Gena's Love Spell (2005); General Electric Theater (1958); Gloria (1980); Goodyear Playhouse (1955); Grace & Glorie (1998); Great Performances / Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021); He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001); Heart of the Festival (2002); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hollywood Mavericks (1990); Hope Floats (1998); Hysterical Blindness (2002); I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes - the Man and His Work (1984); Intimate Portrait (2001); Into the Morning: Willa Cather's America (1975); Jerry Visits (1972); John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All (1996); Johnny Staccato (1959); Just Remembering (2021); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963–1965); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955); Laramie (1959); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1976); Light of Day (1987); Ljuset håller mig sällskap (2000); Lonely Are the Brave (1962); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Love Streams (1984); Machine Gun McCain (1969); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1974); Markham (1959); Maury (1995); Medical Center (1971–1973); Minnie and Moskowitz (1971); Monk (2009); Montana (1990); National Memorial Day Concert (2003); NCIS (2010); Nederland C (1985); Nick Quarry (1968); Night on Earth / Segment: Los Angeles (1991); Numb3rs (2006); Olive (2011); Once Around (1991); Opening Night (1977); Over Easy (1978); Parallel Lives (1994); Paris, I Love You / Segment: Quartier Latin (2006); Parts Per Billion (2014); Paulie (1998); Persepolis (2007); Person to Person (1958); Peter Falk versus Columbo (2019); Peyton Place (1967); Playing by Heart (1998); Ponds Theater (1955); Premio Donostia a Ben Gazzara (2005); Rembob'Ina (2024); Return to Cameroun (1993); Riverboat (1959); Robert Montgomery Presents (1955); Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023); Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992); Run for Your Life (1966); Shadows (1958); She's So Lovely (1997); Silent Cries (1993); Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (2014); Something to Talk About (1995); Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006); Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979); Studio One (1955); Stump the Stars (1964); Taking Lives (2004); Target: The Corruptors (1961); Ted & Venus (1991); Tempest (1982); The 11th IFP/West Annual Independent Spirit Awards (1996); The 12th Annual CableACE Awards (1991); The 1998 Annual Muse Awards (1998); The 2001 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (2001); The 32nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1975); The 33rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1976); The 34th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1977); The 35th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1978); The 38th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1981); The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1986); The 39th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1987); The 3rd Annual Family Television Awards (2001); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 43rd Annual Golden Globe Awards 1986 (1986); The 44th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1992); The 46th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1989); The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981); The 65th Annual Academy Awards (1993); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1964); The Betty Ford Story (1987); The Brink's Job (1978); The Color of Love: Jacey's Story (2000); The David Frost Show (1971); The Dick Cavett Show (1968); The Dick Powell Theatre (1963); The Ed Sullivan Show (1956–1957); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The High Cost of Loving (1958); The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (2003); The Islanders (1961); The Linkletter Show (1964); The Lloyd Bridges Show (1963); The Long, Hot Summer (1966); The Making of 'the Mighty' (1999); The Marilyn Denis Show (2011); The Merv Griffin Show (1968); The Mighty (1998); The Mike Douglas Show (1974); The Movie Show (1995); The Movies (2019); The Neon Bible (1995); The Notebook (2004); The Oscars (2016); The Road West (1967); The Skeleton Key (2005); The Skeleton Key: Deleted Scenes (2005); The Spiral Road (1962); The Tab Hunter Show (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1968–1975); The View (2007); The Virginian (1963); The Way of the World (1955); The Weekend (1999); Thursday's Child (1983); Tony Rome (1967); Top Secret (1954); Two-Minute Warning (1976); Unfortunate Circumstances (2017); Unhook the Stars (1996); Up Close with Carrie Keagan (2007); What If God Were the Sun? (2007); Wild Iris (2001); Women on Top: Hollywood and Power (2003); Yellow (2012); Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004).

Born on this day – Marisa Pavan:

Marisa Pavan

Actress

June 19, 1932 – December 6, 2023

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1963); A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); Antoine et Sébastien (1974); Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Breaking Point (1963); Cabaret du soir (1958); Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007); Climax! (1957); Combat! (1963); Court Martial (1965); Cutter's Trail (1970); Diane (1956); Down Three Dark Streets (1954); Drum Beat (1954); Entrez sans frapper (1972); Fireside Theatre (1954); Front Row Center (1955); Good Morning America (1977); Hawaii Five-O (1977); He Said, She Said (1970); Here's Hollywood (1961); Ho scelto l'amore (1953); Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner (2019); ITV Television Playhouse (1956); I've Got a Secret (1956); Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires (1999); John Paul Jones (1959); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1960); La derelitta / Cinéma 16 (1987); La vie des autres (1980); Le puits aux trois vérités (1961); McMillan & Wife (1977); MGM Parade (1956); Midi Trente (1973); Naked City (1961–1963); Person to Person (1959); Playhouse 90 (1959); Pour cent millions (1992); Renseignements généraux (1991); Ryan's Hope (1985); Samedi soir (1971); Seaway (1966); Shangri-La (1960); Solomon and Sheba (1959); Something Special (1967); Stars (1980); Stars 94 (1994); Stelle emigrant (1982); Studio One (1955); Switch (1977); TCM Remembers 2023 (2023); The 17th Golden Globe Awards (1960); The 28th Annual Academy Awards (1956); The Arthur Murray Party (1956–1960); The Diary of Anne Frank (1967); The F.B.I. (1965); The Frank Sinatra Show (1958); The Hollywood Palace (1966); The John Bartholomew Tucker Show (1966); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); The Merv Griffin Show (1966); The Midnight Story (1957); The Rockford Files (1979); The Rose Tattoo (1955); The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977); Today (1966); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); What Price Glory (1952); What's My Line? (1956–1966); Wonder Woman (1977).

Born on this day – Pier Angeli:

 

Pier Angeli

Actress

Singer

June 19, 1932 – September 10, 1971

Credits:

Addio Alexandra (1969); Battle of the Bulge (1965); Biography (2002); Cinépanorama (1964); Code Name, Red Roses (1968); Domani è un altro giorno (1951); Eröffnung der X. Internationalen Filmfestspiele (1960); Estoril y sus fiestas (1960); Every Bastard a King (1968); Flame and the Flesh (1954); For One Thousand Dollars Per Day (1966); Girl Talk (1968); Grand écran (1964); In the Folds of the Flesh (1970); I've Got a Secret (1956); James Dean: Forever Young (2005); James Dean: The First American Teenager (1975); King of Africa (1968); M.M.M. 83 (1966); Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956); Merry Andrew (1958); Miss Nitouche (1954); Musketeers of the Sea (1962); Octaman (1971); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1958); Port Afrique (1956); Quell'amore particolare (1970); Shadow of Evil (1964); Sodom and Gomorrah (1962); Sombrero (1953); Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956); SOS Pacific (1959); Spy in Your Eye (1965); Teresa (1951); The Angry Silence (1960); The Devil Makes Three (1952); The Ed Sullivan Show (1954); The Filming of the Battle of the Bulge (1965); The Light Touch (1951); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Million Dollar Nickel (1952); The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (1960); The Silver Chalice (1954); The Story of Three Loves / Segment: Equilibrium (1953); The Vic Damone Show (1956); The Vintage (1957); Tomorrow Is Too Late (1950); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1955); Viva América! (1969); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958); What's My Line? (1956); When the Applause Died / Death in Hollywood (1990); White Slave Ship (1961).

Born on this day – Marc Rocco:

 

Marc Rocco

Director

June 19, 1962 - May 1, 2009

Credits:

Take (2007); The Jacket (2005); Murder in the First (1995); Teresa's Tattoo (1994); Where the Day Takes You (1992); Dream a Little Dream (1989); Scenes from the Goldmine (1987); Water (1997); Wild Riders (1971).

On this day in movie history - Them! (1954)

Them!

directed by Gordon Douglas,

written by Ted Sherdeman and Russell Hughes,

based on a story by George Worthing Yates,

was released in the United States on June 19, 1954.

Music by Bronislau Kaper.

Cast:

James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens, Sean McClory, Chris Drake, Sandy Descher, Mary Alan Hokanson, Don Shelton, Fess Parker, Olin Howland, Leonard Nimoy, John Beradino, Willis Bouchey, Booth Colman, Richard Deacon, Lawrence Dobkin, Ann Doran, William Schallert, Douglas Spencer, Dub Taylor, Dorothy Green, Harry Wilson, Dick York, Jan Merlin, Walter Coy.

On this day in movie history - The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

The Thomas Crown Affair

directed by Norman Jewison,

written by Alan R. Trustman,

was released in the United States on June 19, 1968.

Music by Michel Legrand.

 

Cast:

Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire, Addison Powell, Astrid Heeren, Gordon Pinsent, Yaphet Kotto, Sidney Armus, Richard Bull, Peg Shirley, Patrick Horgan, Carol Corbett, Tom Rosqui, Michael Shillo, Nora Marlowe, Sam Melville, Ted Gehring, Paul Verdier, Judy Pace, Leonard Caron, Harry Cooper, Victor Creatore, Allen Emerson, Bruce Glover, Ralph Grosh, Nikita Knatz, Charles Lampkin, Todd Martin, Ed T. McDonnell, John Orchard, James Rawley, Patty Regan, Paul Rhone, Jon Shank, Johnny Silver.

On this day in movie history - Dillinger (1973)

Dillinger

directed and written by John Milius,

was released in the United States on June 19, 1973.

Song on opening credits: We’re in the Money, from Golddiggers of 1933.

Music by Barry De Vorzon.

Cast:

Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton, Geoffrey Lewis, John Ryan, Richard Dreyfuss, Steve Kanaly, John Martino, Roy Jenson, Read Morgan, Frank McRae, Ann Ault, David Dorr, Roland Bob Harris, George O. Heath, Tina Gae Johnson, Terry Leonard, Melvin Ray McGee, Phil Segura, Jerry Summers, Catherine Tambini.

On this day in movie history - Public Enemies (2009)

Public Enemies

directed by Michael Mann,

written by Ronan Bennett, Ann Biderman and Michael Mann,

was released in the United States on June 19, 2009.

Based on the book Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34 by Bryan Burrough.

Music by Elliot Goldenthal.

Cast:

Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Lang, Michael Bentt, Stephen Graham, Jason Clarke, David Wenham, Spencer Garrett, Christian Stolte, Giovanni Ribisi, John Ortiz, Domenick Lombardozzi, Bill Camp, Rory Cochrane, Richard Short, Carey Mulligan, John Michael Bolger, Branka Katić, Emilie de Ravin, Shawn Hatosy, Don Frye, Matt Craven, Channing Tatum, Lili Taylor, David Warshofsky, Peter Gerety, Michael Vieau, Casey Siemaszko, Adam Mucci, Leelee Sobieski, James Russo, Chandler Williams, John Hoogenakker.