Rebecca Stead, on writing:

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another –
it's a lot of writing and then rewriting,
restructuring the story,
changing the way things come together.
- Rebecca Stead.
 

On this day in movie and book history - Deliver Us from Evil and Beware the Night (2014)

Deliver Us from Evil

directed by Scott Derrickson,

written by Scott Derrickson and Paul Harris Boardman,

based on the book Beware the Night by Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool,

was released in the United States on June 24, 2014.

Music by Christopher Young.

Cast:

Eric Bana, Edgar Ramírez, Olivia Munn, Chris Coy, Dorian Missick, Sean Harris, Joel McHale, Mike Houston, Lulu Wilson, Olivia Horton, Scott Johnsen, Daniel Sauli, Antoinette LaVecchia, Aidan Gemme, Jenna Gavigan, Skylar Toddings, Sebastian La Cause, Steve Hamm, Sean Nelson, Mari-Ange Ramirez, Ben Horner, Tijuana Ricks, John Cariani, Robert Keiley, Blair Sams, Mark David Watson, Ben Livingston, Kevin Nagle, Oliver Wadsworth, Lolita Foster, Carmen Ortiz-Girdauskas, Victor Pagan, Carol Stanzione, Adam Kobylarz, Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle, John Auer, Joseph Basile, Sean Bennett, Lyndsey Bloise, José Báez, Ivan Cardona, John Cenatiempo, Mikhael DeVille, Dennis Jay Funny, Raiden Integra, Joseph Anthony Jerez, Umar Khan, Amra Mallassi, Valentina Rendón.

Recommended reading:

Beware the Night

by Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool.

Filmed as Deliver Us from Evil (2014), directed by Scott Derrickson.

Published by St. Martin's Griffin.
Published 2001.

ISBN-10: 1250059496
ISBN-13: 9781250059499

Description:

DEMONIC POSSESSION. EXORCISM. HAUNTED HOUSES. SATANIC RITUALS.
For most people this is the stuff of nightmares, horror movies, folklore, and superstition. For New York City police sergeant Ralph Sarchie, it's as real -- and dangerous -- as midnight patrol...

HELL IS HIS BEAT

A sixteen-year NYPD veteran, Ralph Sarchie works out of the 46th Precinct in New York's South Bronx. But it is his other job that he calls "the Work": investigating cases of demonic possession and assisting in the exorcisms of humanity's most ancient -- and most dangerous -- foes. Now he discloses for the first time his investigations into incredible true crimes and inhuman evil that were never explained, solved, or understood except by Sarchie and his partner. Schooled in the rituals of exorcism, and an eyewitness to the reality of demonic possession, Ralph Sarchie has documented a riveting chronicle of the inexplicable that gives a new shape to the shadows in the dark.

In Beware the Night, he takes readers into the very hierarchy of a hell on earth to expose the grisly rituals of a Palo Mayombe priest; a young girl whose innocence is violated by an incubus; a home invaded by the malevolent spirit of a supposedly murdered nineteenth-century bride; the dark side of a couple who were literally, the neighbors from hell; and more. Ralph Sarchie's NYPD revelations are a powerful and disturbing documented link between the true-crime realities of life and the blood-chilling ice-grip of a supernatural terror.

Born on this day – Ambrose Bierce:

Ambrose Bierce

Writer

Satirist

Civil War veteran

June 24, 1842 – circa. 1914 Exact date of death

Credits:

Written work:

A Cynic Looks at Life (1927); A Deoderizer of Dead Dogs (1998); A Horseman in the Sky (1889); A Horseman in the Sky (1983); A Horseman in the Sky: A Watcher by the Dead: The Man and the Snake (1920); A Letter and a Likeness (1930?); A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce (2003); A Psychological Shipwreck (1879); A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography (1998); A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky (1907); A Tough Tussle (1888); A Vision of Doom: Poems by Ambrose Bierce (1980); Ambrose Bierce: “My Dear Rearden”: a Letter (1997); Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale (2013); Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs (2011); Ambrose Bierce’s Civil War (1956); An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1886); An Invocation (1928); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories (1926); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories (1995); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Selected Works (1991); An Unfinished Race (1888); Battle Sketches (1930); Battlefields and Ghosts (1931); Beyond the Wall (1907); Black Beetles in Amber (1892); Can Such Things Be? (1893); Civil War Stories (1994); Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 1: 1867–1869 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 10: 1878–1880 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 11: 1881 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 12: 1882 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 13: 1883 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 14: 1833–1884 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 15: 1884–1885 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 16: 1885 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 17: 1886 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 2: 1869–1870 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 3: 1870–1871 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 4: 1871–1872 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 5: 1872–1873 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 6: 1873–1874 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 7: 1874–1875 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 8: 1875–1876 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 9: 1877–1878 (2023); Containing Four Ambrose Bierce Letters (1921); Extraordinary Opinions on Commonplace Subjects (1927); Fantastic Debunking Fables (1926); Fantastic Fables (1899); For the Ahkoond (1980); Ghost and Horror Stories (1964); How Blind Is He (1896); Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War: Bits of Autobiography (1927); John Bartine’s Watch (1893); Killed at Resaca (1887); Map of the Black Hills Region, Showing the Gold Mining District and the Seat of the Indian War (1877); Moxon’s Master (1899); My Dear Mac: Three Letters (2006); My Favorite Murder (1916); My Favorite Murder and Other Stories (1927); Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California (1873); One of the Missing (1888); One of the Missing: Tales of the War Between the States (1991); One of Twins (1888); One Summer Night; Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce (2002); Poems of Ambrose Bierce (1995); Selections from Prattle (1936); Shadows of Blue and Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce (2002); Shapes of Clay (1903); Skepticism and Dissent: Selected Journalism from 1898 to 1901 (1980); Tales of Ghouls and Ghosts (1927); Tales of Haunted Houses (1927); Tales of Soldiers and Civilians / aka In the Midst of Life (1891); Ten Tales (1925); The Ambrose Bierce Satanic Reader (1968); The Boarded Window (1891); The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce (2000); The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce / Volume I: Ashes of the Beacon / Volume II: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians / Volume III: Can Such Things Be? / Volume IV: Shapes of Clay / Volume V: Black Beetles in Amber / Volume VI: The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter; Fantastic Fables / Volume VII: The Devil’s Dictionary / Volume VIII: Negligible Tales; On with the Dance; Epigrams / Volume IX: Tangential Views / Volume X: The Opinionator / Volume XI: Antepenultimata / Volume XII: In Motley (1909–1912); The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce (1946); The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce (1970); The Cynic’s Word Book (1906); The Damned Thing (1893); The Dance of Death (1877); The Death of Halpin Frayser (1891); The Devil’s Advocate: An Ambrose Bierce Reader (1987); The Eyes of the Panther (1897); The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires (2000); The Fiend’s Delight (1873); The Horseman in the Sky and Other Stories (1926); The Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922); The Lion and the Lamb (1939); The Man and the Snake (1890); The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (1890); The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter (1892); The Moonlit Road (1907); The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories (1998); The Realm of the Unreal (1890); The Sardonic Humor of Ambrose Bierce (1963); The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch (1891); The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays (1909); The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce: A Comprehensive Edition (3 vols.);  (2006); The Spook House (1889); The Stories and Fables of Ambrose Bierce (1977); Twenty-one Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922); Write It Right (1909).

Movies and television:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories (2006); Ambrose Bierce’s a Watcher by the Dead (2014); America’s 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); Amerikai anzix (1975); An Arrest (1997); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (2005); Ancient Aliens (2011–2015); Au coeur de la vie (1963); Babybird: Unloveable (2010); Bagoly-folyó (2006); Boarded Window (1971 / 2024); Camera Three (1959); Chickamauga (1962); Cineficción Radio / Stories: Haïta the Shepherd; The Damned Thing; An Inhabitant of Carcosa (2020–2024); Cuvar mrtvaca (1978); Danger (1951–1955); Dead Meat Podcast / Stories: A Tough Tussle; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; The Boarded Window (2020); Droga w swietle ksiezyca (1973); El pozu (2004); 11 O’Clock: a Sense of Imminent Calamity (2023); Ficciones (1972–1974); Forgotten Sci-Fi (2020); Halucinacije (1975); Huile de chien (2005); Hundeöl (1988); La corsa (2002); L’armoire (1969); Lexicon (2023); L’oiseau moqueur (1962); Masters of Horror (2006); Middle Toe of the Right Foot (2011); Most (2024); My Name Is Boffer Bings (2012); New Chilling Tales: The Anthology (2019); Nightmare Classics (1989); O Monge e a Filha do Carrasco (1996); Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961); One of the Missing (1969 / 1979); Owl Creek Bridge (2007); Owl Street (2014); Parker Adderson, Philosopher (1974 / 2016); Pedro (2009); Prokletinja (1975); Racconti neri / Stories: An Arrest; One of the Missing (2006); Relatos Clásicos de Misterio y Terror (2022); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2022–2024); The Bridge (1929); The Damned Thing (2014 / 2021); The Damned Thing is of Such a Color! (2020); The Eyes of the Panther (2007 / 2019); The Fantasmagori (2017); The Fear (2001); The Inconsolable Widow (2007); The Kiss: A Tale of Two Lovers (1977); The Life and Various Deaths of Ambrose Bierce (2016); The Man and the Snake (1972); The Moonlit Road (2008); The Return (1973); The Short Story (1979); The Twilight Zone (1964); The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas (2009); The UnXplained (2021); The Watcher by the Dead (2021); Vampirismus / Stories: The Moonlit Road; A Watcher by the Dead (1980–1981); Whispers of Carcosa (date?); Your Favorite Story (1953–1954).

Born on this day – Martha Sleeper:

 

Martha Sleeper

Actress

June 24, 1910 – March 25, 1983

Credits:

A Punch in the Nose (1926); A Tailor Made Man (1931); A Ten-Minute Egg (1924); All Wet (1924); Along Came Auntie (1926); Are Husbands Human? (1925); Are Husbands Necessary? (1925); Baby Clothes (1926); Bad Boy (1925); Better Movies (1925); Big Red Riding Hood (1925); Bombshell (1933); Broken Dreams (1933); Bromo and Juliet (1926); Budding Youth (1924); Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931); Crazy Like a Fox (1926); Danger Street (1928); Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961); Don Key (Son of Burro) (1926); Every Man for Himself (1924); Fighting Fathers (1927); Flaming Fathers (1927); Fluttering Hearts (1927); Four Days Wonder (1936); Girls Demand Excitement (1931); Great God Gold (1935); Happy Days (1924); Hold Everything (1925); Hollywood Party (1934); Huddle (1932); Innocent Husbands (1925); Jewish Prudence (1927); Laughing Ladies (1925); Long Fliv the King (1926); Love 'em and Feed 'em (1927); Low Bridge (1924); Madam Satan (1930); Madame Mystery (1926); Merry Widower (1926); Midnight Mary (1933); Mum's the Word (1926); Never Too Old (1926); Our Blushing Brides (1930); Outdoor Pajamas (1924); Pass the Gravy (1928); Penthouse (1933); Plain and Fancy Girls (1925); Please, Teacher! (1924); Rasputin and the Empress (1932); Rhythm on the Range (1936); Sailing Along (1925); Say It with Babies (1926); Seeing Nellie Home (1924); Sex and the College Girl (1964); Sherlock Sleuth (1925); Should Husbands Pay? (1926); Should Landlords Live? (1924); Should Sailors Marry? (1925); Should Tall Men Marry? (1928); Skinner's Big Idea (1928); Spitfire (1934); Sure-Mike! (1925); Sweet Daddy (1924); Tame Men and Wild Women (1925); Taxi 13 (1928); Ten Cents a Dance (1931); The Air Legion (1929); The Bells of St. Mary's (1945); The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927); The Little Yellow House (1928); The Mailman (1923); The Racing Kid (1924); The Rat's Knuckles (1925); The Republic Pictures Story (1991); The Royal Razz (1924); The Scoundrel (1935); The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933); The Voice of the Storm (1929); The Way of All Pants (1927); There Goes the Bride (1925); Thundering Fleas (1926); Tomorrow's Youth (1934); Too Many Mammas (1924); Trailing Trouble (1924); Two Sinners (1935); Ukulele Sheiks (1926); War Nurse (1930); West of the Pecos (1934); What's the World Coming To (1926); Wild Papa (1925); Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (1926); Yale vs. Harvard (1927).

Born on this day – Yves Jean Bonnefoy:

Yves Jean Bonnefoy

Writer

Poet

Art historian

June 24, 1923 – July 1, 2016

Credits:

Books:

Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work (1993); Beginning and End of the Snow (2012); In the Shadow's Light (1991); Mythologies (1991); On the Motion and Immobility of Douve (1968); Poems: 1959-1975 (1985); Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011 (2011); Shakespeare and the French Poet (2004); The Anchor's Long Chain (2015); The Curved Planks (2007); The Digamma (2014); The Lure and the Truth of Painting: Selected Essays on Art (1995); The Present Hour (2013); Together Still (2017).

Movies and television:

Feu! Chatterton - Avant qu'il n'y ait le monde (Live acoustique) (2021); Hamlet, Prince de Danemark (1960); Le Louvre imaginaire (1993); Le roi Lear (1965); Les Nuits de France Culture (1994); Qu'est-ce que la poésie? (2018); Un siècle d'écrivains (1995).

Born on this day – Claude Chabrol:

Claude Chabrol

Director

June 24, 1930 – September 12, 2010

Born on this day – Paul L. Smith:

Paul L. Smith

Actor

June 24, 1936 – April 25, 2012

Credits:

Alcohol: The Choice (1974); Alle hatten sich abgewandt (1970); All-Star Family Feud Special (1982); Barney Miller (1979); Caged Fury (1990); Carambola (1974); Carambola's Philosophy: In the Right Pocket (1975); CHiPs (1978); Conspiracy of Terror (1975); Convoy Buddies (1975); Crazy Camera (1989); Crimewave (1985); Crossing the Line (1990); D.R.E.A.M. Team (1999); Death Chase (1988); Deleted 'Dune' (2006); Desert Kickboxer (1992); Diamond Pedlars (1976); Disaster on the Coastliner (1979); Dune (1984); Emergency! (1974); Eric Falk: Sunshine-Judo Auf Ibiza (2014); Exodus (1960); Eye of the Widow (1991); Fishke Goes to War (1971); Going in Style (1979); Gor (1987); Haunted Honeymoon (1986); Have Gun - Will Travel (1963); Hawaii Five-O (1979); Homicide (1965); I'm Healthy, I'm Alive and I'm Free (1977); Jungle Warriors (1984); Madron (1970); Masada (1981); Maverick (1994); Midnight Express (1978); Midnight Express: The Finished Film (2008); Midnight Express: The Production (2008); Moses the Lawgiver (1974); Nahtche and the General (1972); Operation Shtreimel (1984); Outlaw Force (1987); Paul Smith: The Reddest Herring (2008); Pieces (1982); Popeye (1980); Red Sonja (1985); Red Sonja Vs. Kalidor: The Making of a Misunderstanding (2010); Return of the Tiger (1977); Sadat (1983); Sonny Boy (1989); Special Collector's Edition (2014); Tel Aviv Call Girls (1972); Ten Little Indians (1989); Terminal Entry (1987); Texas Godfather (1985); The Bull Buster (1973); The Frisco Kid (1979); The Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus (1973); The Hired Gun (1989); The In-Laws (1979); The Protector (1985); The Salamander (1981); The Toni Tennille Show (1980); 21 Hours at Munich (1976); War of 20 Years (1970); We Are No Angels (1975); When I Am King (1982); Wonder Woman (1979); You're Famous (1989).

Born on this day – Julian Holloway:

 

Julian Holloway

Actor

June 24, 1944 – February 18, 2025

Credits:

A Christmas Carol (2009); A Hard Day's Night (1964); A Horseman Riding By (1978); A Lustful Lady (1977); A Perfect Carry On (1998); A Season of Giants (1990); Angels (1978); Baby Talk (1992); BBC Play of the Month (1974–1983); BBC Show of the Week (1967); BBC2 Play of the Week (1978); Bedtime Stories (1974); Before the Fringe (1967); Beverly Hills, 90210 (1992); Black and Blue (1973); Bowler (1973); Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974); Captain Zed and the Zee Zone (1991–1992); Carry on at Your Convenience (1971); Carry on Camping (1969); Carry on Christmas (1973); Carry on Doctor (1967); Carry on England (1976); Carry on Follow That Camel (1967); Carry on Forever (2015); Carry on Henry VIII (1971); Carry on Laughing (1981); Carry on Laughing's Christmas Classics (1983); Carry on Loving (1970); Carry on Up the Khyber (1968); Casualty (1993); Catflap (2007); Centre Play (1975); City '68 (1968); Comedy Playhouse (1967–1974); Conjugal Rights (1973); Crown Court (1978); Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future (2002); Dead of Night (1972); Dentist on the Job (1961); Doctor Who (1989); Dragon Age: Origins (2009); Elizabeth R (1971); Ellis Island (1984); Fair Exchange (1962); Father of the Pride (2004–2005); First Night (1964); Five to One (1963); Gideon C.I.D. (1964); Give us a Break (1983); Grass Roots (1992); Greatest Ever Comedy Movies (2006); Hallelujah! (1983); Harriet's Back in Town (1973); Having a Wild Weekend (1965); Helen: A Woman of Today (1973); Hostile Witness (1969); How Am I Doing? (1977); If Tomorrow Comes (1986); I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967); It'll Be OK on the Day (1975); ITV Play of the Week (1967); James Bond Jr. (1991); Jubilee (1977); Keep It in the Family (1980); King of the River (1966); Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (2012); Loophole (1981); Managing Problem People. Behavioral Skills for Leaders (1988); Marked Personal (1973); Medal of Honor: European Assault (2005); Meetings Bloody Meetings (1993); Meetings, Bloody Meetings (1976); Menace (1970); Minder (1982); Misfits (1981); My Uncle Silas (2001–2003); Nancy Astor (1982); Naughty Girls (1975); NBC Experiment in Television (1970); North West Confidential (1970); Nothing But the Best (1964); On Location (2000); Onimusha Blade Warriors (2004); Ooh La La! (1973); Our Man at St. Mark's (1963); Our Man Higgins (1962–1963); Pardon the Expression (1966); Parkin's Patch (1970); Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007); Play for Today (1970–1976); Plays for Pleasure (1981); Porridge (1979); Public Eye (1975); Rebecca (1979); Regular Show (2011–2017); Remember WENN (1996–1997); Ricky and Ravi (Are in Between Jobs) (2011); Rough Cut (1980); Rumpole of the Bailey (1991); Ryan's Daughter (1970); Sammy's Super T-Shirt (1978); Scream and Scream Again (1970); Secrets & Scandals of Carry On (2023); Seven Faces of Woman (1977); Sprout (1974); Star Games (1978–1979); Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2010–2020); Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011); Summer of Rockets (2019); Take Three Girls (1971); Tall Tales & Legends (1986); Telford's Change (1979); Ten from the Twenties (1975); That's Carry On! (1977); That's Show Business (1967); The Avengers (1961); The Bill (1987); The Brute (1977); The Chairman's Wife (1971); The Chief (1990); The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1963); The Edwardians (1973); The Endless Game (1989); The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980); The Hostages (1975); The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night (1972); The Informer (1967); The Jokers (1967); The Knack... and How to Get It (1965); The Last Shot You Hear (1969); The Legend of Prince Valiant (1991–1992); The Liver Birds (1969); The Making of 'My Fair Lady' (1995); The Man from Haven (1972); The New Avengers (1976); The Pleasure Girls (1965); The Professionals (1978); The Punch Review (1975–1977); The Rum Diary (2011); The Saint (1964); The Scarlet and the Black (1983); The Sea Can Kill (1978); The Shadow of the Tower (1972); The Spy's Wife (1972); The Stud (1974); The Sweeney (1975); The Unforgettable Joan Sims (2002); The Valiant Varneys (1964); The Vet (1995); The World of Wooster (1967); This Is Your Life (1970); Toot & Puddle: I'll Be Home for Christmas (2006); Torch Song (1993); TV/Film Podcast UK (2021); Ukridge (1968); Uncle Creepy Returns (2009); W. Somerset Maugham (1970); Warship (1974); What a Carry On (1984–1986); Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973–1974); What's a Carry On? (1998); Where's Waldo? (1991); Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose (2003); Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1975); Young Winston (1972); Z Cars (1975).

Born on this day – Tim McGovern:

Tim McGovern

Visual Effects

June 24, 1955 – March 30, 2024

Credits:

A Sound of Thunder (2005); Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018); As Good as It Gets (1997); CFIC: Brilliance (1985); Dunkirk (2017); Equilibrium (2002); Feardotcom (2002); First Man (2018); Hideaway (1995); Imagining 'Total Recall' (2001); Jungle Cruise (2021); Last Action Hero (1993); Lift (2024); Look Who's Talking Now (1993); Men in Black: International (2019); Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015); Models & Skeletons: The Special Effects of Total Recall (2010); Money Train (1995); Movie Magic (1995–1996); Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015); Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023); Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014); So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993); Stigmata (1999); Supernova (2000); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The Ghost and the Darkness (1996); The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016); The Making of Brilliance (1985); The Shaft (2001); The Story of Computer Graphics (1999); TIM MCGOVERN (Oscar Winner, VFX specialist) IFFI 49 (2019); Total Recall (1990); Trapped (2002); Triple Frontier (2019); Tron (1982); Virtuosity (1995).

Born on this day – Danielle Spencer:

 

Danielle Spencer

Actress

Veterinarian

June 24, 1965 – August 11, 2025

Credits:

All-Star Family Feud Special (1979); As Good as It Gets (1997); Child Stars: Then and Now (2003); Christmas at Walt Disney World (1978); Days of Our Lives (2001); Everyday (1978); History of the Sitcom (2021); Life After (2011–2012); NBC Special Treat (1978); Peter Rabbit and the Crucifix (2001); Soul Train (1987); That Second Thing on ABC (1978); The 100 Greatest TV Quotes & Catchphrases (2006); The 2nd Annual Black Achievement Awards (1980); The 4th Annual TV Land Awards (2006); The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (1977); The Mike Douglas Show (1978); The Mo'Nique Show (2011); The Wendy Williams Show (2011); TV Land Confidential (2007); Unsung Hollywood (2014); Vibe (1997); What's Happening Now! (1985–1988); What's Happening!! (1976–1979).

Born on this day – Adrienne Shelly:

Adrienne Shelly

Actress

Director

Writer

June 24, 1966 – November 1, 2006

Credits:

Adrienne (2021); Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1991); Dead Dog (2001); Disc-Functional (2011); Downtown Film Fest (2006); Early Edition (1997); Factotum (2005); Four Tales of Two Cities / Urban Legend (1996); Grind (1997); Hexed (1993); Hexed: Featurette (1993); Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me (1992); Homicide: Life on the Street (1994); I'll Take You There (1999); Kalamazoo (1994); Law & Order (2000); Like Plastic (2013); Lois Lives a Little (1997); Lonely in America (1990); Opera No. 1 (1994); Oz (1998); Pretty (2011); Revolution #9 (2001); Searching for Debra Winger (2002); Serious Moonlight (2009); Sleep with Me (1994); Sleeping with Strangers (1994); Spin (2011); Sudden Manhattan (1996); Teresa's Tattoo (1994); The Atlantis Conspiracy (2001); The Regulars (1997); The Road Killers (1994); The Shadows of Bob and Zelda (2000); The Unbelievable Truth (1989); The Vibrator (2007); Tiger: His Fall & Rise (2004); Trust (1990); Urban Legend (1994); Waitress (2007); Waitress: The Musical (2023); Who the Hell Is Brian D'Arcy? (2008); Why Am I in a Box? (2010); Wrestling with Alligators (1998).

On this day in movie history – The Maze (1953 movie & novel):

The Maze

directed by William Cameron Menzies,

written by Daniel B. Ullman,

based on the novel The Maze by Maurice Sandoz,

released in the United States on June 24, 1953.

Music by Marlin Skiles.

Cast: Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Katherine Emery, Michael Pate, John Dodsworth, Hillary Brooke, Stanley Fraser, Lilian Bond, Owen McGiveney, Robin Hughes, Jack Chefe, Clyde Cook, Bess Flowers, Kenner G. Kemp, Harold Miller, Bert Stevens.

Recommended reading:

The Maze

by Maurice Sandoz.

Illustrated by Salvador Dali.

ASIN: B0007E8F6K

Published by Doubleday Doran.

First published 1945.

Description:

The maze at Craven was built of yew trees in the eighteenth century, when such things were popular in Scotland. There were few people who could find their way through it, and when Mrs. Murray attempted the passage, she got a little closer to understanding the mysterious doings on the McTeam estate.

Sir Gerald’s hospitality was excellent as far as it went, but gusts had to be in their rooms at a certain hour and couldn’t leave them again until the next morning. Through the still, dark halls strange sounds echoed, oddly shaped spots of moisture appeared on the carpets, curious torchlight processions passed by outside the locked windows. Most of the guests left early; few ever returned. Through it all, some unknown power could be felt at work, directing the destinies of the Scotch family and their estates.

This macabre tale is interpreted by the fantastic drawings of the famous surrealist artist, Salvador Dali, which have enhanced the spirit of the tale as effectively as the clear and simple style of Mr. Sandoz. The two artists have collaborated to produce a masterpiece of the supernatural which should please the most discriminating collector.

On this day in movie history - The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

The Masque of the Red Death

directed by Roger Corman,

written by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell,

was released in the United States on June 24, 1964.

Based on The Masque of the Red Death and Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe,

and Torture by Hope by Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam.

Music by David Lee.

Cast:

Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Robert Brown, Julian Burton, David Davies, Skip Martin, Gaye Brown, Verina Greenlaw, Doreen Dawn, Brian Hewlett, Sarah Brackett.

On this day in movie history - The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)

The Sons of Katie Elder

directed by Henry Hathaway,

written by William H. Wright, Allan Weiss and Harry Essex,

based on a story by Talbot Jennings,

was released in the United States on June 24, 1965.

Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast:

John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson Jr., Earl Holliman, Jeremy Slate, James Gregory, Paul Fix, George Kennedy, Dennis Hopper, Sheldon Allman, John Litel, John Doucette, James Westerfield, Rhys Williams, John Qualen, Rodolfo Acosta, Strother Martin, Percy Helton, Karl Swenson.