Remembering D-Day - June 6, 1944:

D-Day - June 6, 1944

All gave some, some gave all.

**

In honor of all who served.

We will never forget.

and when he gets to Heaven,

to Saint Peter he will tell:

"Just another soldier reporting, Sir.

I've served my time in Hell."

Beverly Cleary, on books:

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary.

Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise?

The dictionary knows.

The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

- Beverly Cleary.

Recommended reading - D-Day: June 6, 1944. The Battle for the Normandy Beaches (1994)

 

D-Day: June 6, 1944. The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

by Stephen E. Ambrose.

Originally published in 1994.
 
ISBN-10: 1471158268
ISBN-13: 978-1471158261
 
Description from back cover:
 

D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination — what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy” — that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged.

 

Drawing on more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion had to be abandoned, and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own initiative when they realized that nothing was as they were told it would be.

 

The action begins at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops jumped into France. It ends at midnight June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal twenty-four hours, it moves from the level of Supreme Commander to that of a French child, from General Omar Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Field Marshal Montgomery to a German sergeant. Ambrose’s D-Day is the finest account of one of our history’s most important days.

 

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Born on this day – Doris Merrick:

 

Doris Merrick

Actress

June 6, 1919 – November 30, 2019

Credits:

Interrupted Melody (1955); The Neanderthal Man (1953); The Adventures of Kit Carson (1952); Death Valley Days (1952); Big Town (1952); Untamed Women (1952); The Cisco Kid (1951–1952); Boston Blackie (1951); The Fighting Stallion (1950); The Counterfeiters (1948); The Pilgrim Lady (1946); Child of Divorce (1946); Hit the Hay (1945); This Love of Ours (1945); Sensation Hunters (1945); In the Meantime, Darling (1944); The Big Noise (1944); Ladies of Washington (1944); Heaven Can Wait (1943); Time to Kill (1942); That Other Woman (1942); Girl Trouble (1942); Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).

Born on this day – Joan Marshall:

 

Joan Marshall

Actress

Producer

June 6, 1931 – June 28, 1992

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1960–1962); A Star Is Born (1976); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Alcoa Theatre (1957); Bat Masterson (1958); Biography (1999–2003); Bold Venture (1959); Bonanza (1967); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Bronco (1960–1961); Dante (1960–1961); Dr. Kildare (1966); Follow the Sun (1962); Gunsmoke (1962); Gypsy (1967); Hal (2018); Harbor Command (1958); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Hawaiian Eye (1960–1963); Hennesey (1960); Here's Hollywood (1962); Highway Patrol (1958); Homicidal (1961); I Spy (1967); Kiss 'N' Tell: Romance in the 23rd Century (2004); Laredo (1966); Lawman (1960); Live Fast, Die Young (1958); Looking for Love (1964); M Squad (1960); Maverick (1958–1961); Men Into Space (1960); Michael Shayne (1961); Mike Hammer (1958); Paris Is Gay Again (1944); Petticoat Junction (1964); Shampoo (1975); Star Trek (1967); Sunday Night Live (1984); Surfside 6 (1960–1962); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); Tammy and the Doctor (1963); Target (1958); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The Chicago Kid (1945); The Detectives (1961); The F.B.I. (1965); The Great Sex War (1969); The Greatest Show You Never Saw (1996); The Happiest Millionaire (1967); The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968); The Jack Benny Program (1963–1964); The Landlord (1970); The Magical World of Disney (1971); The Millionaire (1958); The Munsters (1964); The Road West (1967); The Roaring 20's (1961); The Rough Riders (1958); The Twilight Zone (1962); Tombstone Territory (1958).

Born on this day – Billie Whitelaw:

Billie Whitelaw

Actress

June 6, 1932 – December 21, 2014

Credits:

A Dinner of Herbs (2000); A Matter of Conscience (1962); A Murder of Quality (1991); A Tale of Two Cities (1980); An Audience with Bob Monkhouse (1994); An Audience with Mel Brooks (1983); An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982); Anna Christie (1963); Arena (1976 / 1995); Armchair Mystery Theatre (1960); Armchair Theatre (1956–1971); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1953–1959); BBC2 Playhouse (1981); Big City (1956); Bobbikins (1959); Born to Run (1997); Breakout (1959); ...but the clouds... (1977); Call My Bluff (1967–1969); Camille (1984); Carve Her Name with Pride (1958); Charlie Bubbles (1968); Companions in Crime (1954); Confidential Report (1955); Deadly Advice (1994); Dixon of Dock Green (1955); Don't Say a Word (1963); Dope Sheet (1998); Duel of Hearts (1991); Eagle in a Cage (1972); Emergency-Ward 10 (1959); Espionage (1963); Eustace and Hilda (1977); Film '81 (1981); Firm Friends (1992–1994); First Night (1963); Flight of the Dove (1957); Freddie as F.R.O.7. (1992); Frenzy (1972); Ghost Trio (1977); Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958); Golden Gala (1978); Gumshoe (1971); Hell Is a City (1960); Hell's Kitchen (2004); Hindle Wakes (1957); Hot Fuzz (2007); Huckleberry Finn (1952); I Like Money (1961); I Promised to Pay (1961); Imaginary Friends (1987); In Search of Maitland (1953); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1960); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1970); ITV Television Playhouse (1959–1961); Jackanory (1969); Jamaica Inn (1983); Jane Eyre (1996); Joyriders (1988); Judge John Deed (2002); Knock on Any Door (1966); Kraft Mystery Theater (1961); Late Show London (1966); Leo the Last (1970); Leopard in the Snow (1978); Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955); Little Red Monkey (1953); Lorna Doone (1990); Love Story (1966); Make Mine Mink (1960); Masterchef (1997); Maurice (1987); Merlin (1998); Miracle in Soho (1957); Morrissey: Everyday Is Like Sunday (1988); Murder Elite (1985); My Pal Bob (1957); Napoleon and Love (1974); Night of One Hundred Stars (1980); Night Watch (1973); No Love for Johnnie (1961); Not a Word (1970); Not I (1973); NOTFILM (2015); Oresteia (1979); Othello (1955); Patrol Car (1955); Performance (1993); Poet Game (1971); Private Schulz (1981); Quills (2000); Rheingold Theatre (1954); Rockaby (1982); Room in the House (1955); Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence (1984); Screen Two (1989–1994); Shadey (1985); Shooting the Past (1999); Simply Red: Never Never Love (1996); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1967); Slayground (1983); Small Hotel (1957); Space: 1999 (1976); Special Collector's Edition (2015); Start the Revolution Without Me (1970); Stryker of the Yard (1961); Sunday Story (1964–1965); Supernatural (1977); Tales from Soho (1956); Tangiers (1982); Television (1985); Television Playwright (1958); Television Scrabble (1984); Ten from the Twenties (1975); Terminus (1955); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2015); The Adding Machine (1969); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1957); The Ball Is Round (1994); The British Academy Award (1973); The British Academy Awards (1979); The Canterbury Tales (1998–2000); The Chain (1984); The Cloning of Joanna May (1992); The Comedy Man (1964); The Crimean War (1997); The Curse of 'The Omen' (2005); The Dark Crystal (1982); The Devil's Agent (1962); The Dressmaker (1988); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1966); The Fake (1953); The Fifteen Streets (1989); The Flesh and the Fiends (1960); The Krays (1990); The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000); The Lively Arts (1977 / 1978); The Lost Son (1999); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960); The Omen (1976); The Pattern of Marriage (1953); The Respectful Prostitute (1964); The Secret Garden (1952 / 1987); The Sextet (1972); The Slackering Field (1955); The Sleeping Tiger (1954); The Story of 'Frenzy' (2001); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968); The Water Babies (1978); The World Our Stage (1957); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1966); This Is Your Life (1999); Three Plays by Samuel Beckett: Rockaby, Footfalls and Eh Joe. (1988); Time Out for Peggy (1958–1959); Twisted Nerve (1968); Val Parnell's Spectacular (1959); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1960 (1961); Wessex Tales (1973); Whodunnit? (1974); Wicked Women (1970); Without Love (1956); Without the Prince (1952); Wogan (1985–1989); You're a Long Time Dead (1958).

Born on this day – Erica Hagen:

Erica Hagen

Actress

June 6, 1946 – September 15, 2018

Credits:

The Rockford Files (1979); CHiPs (1978); Quincy M.E. (1978); Operation Petticoat (1978); Kojak (1977); Wonder Woman (1976); Holmes and Yoyo (1976); Silent Movie (1976); Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976); Baretta (1976); Ellery Queen (1976); Switch (1976); Petrocelli (1974–1975); Let's Do It Again (1975); S.W.A.T. (1975); Get Christie Love! (1975); Mannix (1975); Adam-12 (1975); McCloud (1975); Land of the Lost (1974); Police Woman (1974); Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974); The Bob Newhart Show (1974); Trapped (1973); Love, American Style (1972–1973); Coffee, Tea or Me? (1973); The Last American Hero (1973); Soylent Green (1973); The F.B.I. (1973); Barnaby Jones (1973); Banacek (1972); Together (1971).

Born on this day – Chantal Akerman:

Chantal Akerman

Director

Writer

Actress

June 6, 1950 – October 5, 2015

Credits:

40 x 15 (2008); 5% de risque (1980); A Couch in New York (1996); À l’Est avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton (2009); A Whole Night (1982); Addictions (2016); Almayer’s Folly (2011); American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989); Antenne 2 Midi (1986); Autour de Jeanne Dielman (1975); Autour d’hier aujourd’hui et demain (on déménage) (2004); Beau geste (2024); Birth of a Nation (1983); Chantal Akerman (2013); Chantal Akerman, From Here (2010); Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera (2023); Ciné regards (1978); CinéKino (2017); Cinéma cinémas (1985); Cinéma, de notre temps (1996); Ciném’Arte (2002); Clap (1976); Compression (2024); Dai nostri inviati: La Rai racconta la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1980-1989 (2013); Delphine and Carole (2019); Des mots de minuit (2000); Días de cine (2015); Down There (2006); Entretien avec ma mère (2007); Family Business: Chantal Akerman Speaks About Film (1984); Farpões, baldios (2017); Fifty Fifty (1998); From the East (1993); From the Other Side (2002); Golden Eighties (1986); Guest (2010); Hanging Out Yonkers (1973); Histoire bruyante de la jeunesse (2020); Hôtel des Acacias (1982); Hotel Monterey (1973); I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (2015); I, You, He, She (1974); J’ai faim, j’ai froid (1984); Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975); Jeune cinéma (2023); L.A. Tea Time (2019); La chambre (1972); La paresse (1986); Le 15/8 (1975); Le cercle de minuit (1997); Le jour où... (1997); Le Marteau (1986); Le masque et la plume (1976); Leg, Arm, Head (2016); L’enfant aimé ou je joue à être une femme mariée (1971); Les effrontées: Le cinéma au féminin (2022); Les ministères de l’art (1989); Les Nuits de France Culture (2019); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1976–1978); Les trois dernières sonates de Franz Schubert (1989); Lest We Forget (1991); Letters Home (1986); L’Exposition Philippe Garrel au MMCA de Séoul (Carnet Filmé: 19 décembre 2015 - 22 décembre 2015) (2016); Limonada, limonada (2020); Mallet-Stevens (1986); Mieux partagés que nous ne sommes (2006); Milou and the Venusians (2008); Monologues (1993); Morceaux de Cannes (2021); Movie Night Extravaganza (2023); New York, New York bis (1984); News from Chantal Akerman (2020); News from Home (1976); Night and Day (1991); No Home Movie (2015); On Tour with Pina Bausch (1983); Only Solomon Lee (2013); Paris Seen By... 20 Years After (1984); Parlons Cinema (1977); Picture of Europe (1990); Porto (2016); Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles / Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... (1994); ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974) (1974); Saute ma ville (1971); Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986); She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985); Shredder (2011); Sodankylä Forever (2010); South (1999); State of the World (2007); TCM Remembers 2015 / Music Video (2015); Télévision de chambre (1984); Tell Me (1980); The Camera: Je or La Camera: I (1977); The Captive (2000); The Eighties (1983); The Lost Days (1999); The Meetings of Anna (1978); The New Cinema (1984); The New Garden (2012); The Oscars / In Memoriam (2016); To Live Forever (2015); Tom in America (2014); Tomorrow We Move (2004); Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher (1989); Venezia: Biennale cinema - Cerimonia per l’assegnazione dei Leoni d’oro 1986 (1986); Voyages (1999); What Is Cinema? (2013); With Sonia Wieder-Atherton (2003); Women from Antwerp in November (2008).

Born on this day – Gary Graham:

Gary Graham

Actor

Writer

Director

Producer

June 6, 1950 – January 22, 2024

Credits:

A Captain's Log (2021); Alien Nation (1989–1990); Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995); Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994); Alien Nation: Millennium (1996); Alien Nation: The Enemy Within (1996); Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997); All the Right Moves (1983); Ally McBeal (1999); Alongside Night (2014); Amish Grace (2010); Angel Flight Down (1996); Aspiring Hollywood (2011); Cardio World (2012); Champion (2017); CHiPs (1981); Crash and Burn (2023); Crazy Like a Fox (1985); Crossing Jordan (2005); Crusade (1999); David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978); Dead End City (2008); Demon Protocol (2018); Diagnosis Murder (1998); Dillinger in Paradise (1999); Divas of Novella (2008); Dragnet (2003); Dreams Awake (2011); Dust of War (2013); Eight Is Enough (1977); EverCracked! The Phenomenon of EverQuest (2009); Fire on the Mountain (1981); From the Mouths of Babes (2014–2016); Grace Under Fire (1993); Hardcore (1979); Hollywood Beat (1985); Hunter (1985); In the Best Interest of the Children (1992); InAlienable (2007); Interfleet Broadcasting (2020); Interviews (2008); JAG (1997–2002); Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (2022); Knots Landing (1981); Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story (1995); Life Happens (2010); Lolipop Gang (2024); Lost on Paradise Island (1975); M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994–1995); Man Trouble (1992); Manhattan, AZ (2000); Mistaken Identity (2008); Money on the Side (1982); Moonlighting (1985); Nash Bridges (2001); Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993); Nip / Tuck (2009); No Place to Hide (1981); Pacific Blue (1996); Paper People (2013); Planted (2023); Plugged (2007); Police Woman (1977); Prelude to Axanar (2014); Promised Land (1998); Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010); Remington Steele (1984); Renegade (1995); Renegades (2017); Robot Jox (1989); Running Woman (1998); Scruples (1980); Seven Days (2000); Sheena (2002); Shooting Gallery (2012); Shuttlepod Show (2022); Siren (2006); Sisters and Other Strangers (1997); Slavery and the Making of America (2005); Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1998); Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005); Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007); Star Trek: Renegades (2015–2017); Star Trek: Voyager (1995); Starsky and Hutch (1977); Steel (1997); T.J. Hooker (1982); The Agency (2002); The Arrogant (1988); The Assassin's Apprentice: Silbadores of the Canary Islands (2023); The Atlanta Child Murders (1985); The Commish (1993); The Crusader (2009); The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987); The Dukes of Hazzard (1982); The Extendables (2014); The Flag: Documentary (2015); The Hollywood Knights (1980); The Incredible Hulk (1979); The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979); The Jace Hall Show (2008–2012); The Last Warrior (1989); The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979); The Presence (1992); The Quest (1976); The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996); The Spy Within (1995); Thou Shalt Not Kill (1982); To Die Quietly (1997); Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth (1993); Unbelievable!!!!! (2016); Under Surveillance (2015); Universal Dead (2010); Vegas Cinefest (2011); Walker, Texas Ranger (2000); Wisdom from the Apocalypse (2023); Work Related (2015).

On this day in movie history - Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie (2013)

 

Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie

documentary directed and written by April Wright,

was released in the United States on June 6, 2013.

Music by Dave Glover, Kate Houle and Rob Houle. 

Cast:

Charles Bruss, Riley Cooke, Roger Corman, Dennis Cozzalio, Bob Deutsch, Matt Dillon, Barry Floyd, Barb Frankhouser, Bill Frankhouser, Paul Geissinger, Patricia King Hanson, Richard M. Hollingshead III, David Hudzik, Jennifer Sherer Janisch, Sam Kirkland, Jim Kopp, Megan Kopp, Mark Lovato, Robbie Mack, Wes Neal, Teri Oldknow, Karen Sternheimer, Ed Szurek, Tony Troidl, D. Edward Vogel.

On this day in movie history - Earthbound (1940)

 

Earthbound

directed by Irving Pichel,

written by Samuel G. Engel and John Howard Lawson,

based on the story by Basil King,

was released in the United States on June 6, 1940.

Music by Alfred Newman.

 

Cast:

Warner Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Lynn Bari, Charley Grapewin, Henry Wilcoxon, Elizabeth Patterson, Russell Hicks, Christian Rub, Ian Wolfe, Lester Sharpe, Reginald Sheffield, Pedro de Cordoba, Eugene Borden, Marcelle Corday, Jean Del Val, William Edmunds, Diane Fisher, Arno Frey, Jean Houghton, Bobby Larson, Myra Marsh, Eric Mayne, Mira McKinney, Clark Morgan, Alberto Morin, Ruth Robinson, Gloria Roy, Florence Shirley, Pierre Watkin, Lloyd Whitlock.

On this day in movie history - Jaws: The Inside Story (2010)

Jaws: The Inside Story

documentary directed and written by Rob Goldberg,

released in the United States on June 6, 2010.

Music by Richard Fiocca.

Cast:

Richard Dreyfuss, Steven Spielberg, David Fear, Sid Sheinberg, Alison Bailes, John Milius, Calvin Joe Acord/Cal Acord, James-Michael Roddy, Robert Shaw, Murray Hamilton, Richard D. Zanuck, Wendy Benchley, David Brown, Helen Gurley Brown, William S. Gilmore, Joe Alves, Edith Blake, Carl Gottlieb, Jeffrey Kramer, Lorraine Gary, Susan Backlinie, Roy Arbogast, Kevin Pike, Richard O. Helmer/Richie Helmer, Michael Chapman, Bill Butler, Jonathan Filley, Jeffrey Voorhees, Lee Fierro, Roy Scheider, Harlan Twible, Mike Kuryla, John Williams, Mike New. 

On this day in movie history - Back to the Drive-in (2022)

Back to the Drive-in

documentary directed and written by April Wright

was released in the United States on June 6, 2022.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958)

M Squad
Season 1. Episode 37.

Episode entitled: The Woman from Paris.

Released June 6, 1958.

Directed by John Brahm.

Written by Oscar Millard.

Music by Stanley Wilson.

 
Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paula Raymond, Philip Ober, Paul Newlan, Jennifer Lea, Gine De Bard, Russ Bender, Paul Maxwell, Dan West.

On this day in music history - The album Bad Animals, by Heart (1987)

Bad Animals

by Heart

was released on June 6, 1987.

Track list:

Who Will You Run To; Alone; There’s The Girl; I Want You So Bad; Wait For An Answer; Bad Animals; You Ain’t So Tough; Strangers Of The Heart; Easy Target; RSVP.