On this day in movie history - The Racket (1951)

The Racket

directed by John Cromwell,

written by William Wister Haines and W.R. Burnett,

based on the play by Bartlett Cormack,

was released in the United States on October 25, 1951.

Music by Paul Sawtell.

Cast:

Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, William Talman, Ray Collins, Joyce MacKenzie, Robert Hutton, Virginia Huston, William Conrad, Walter Sande, Les Tremayne, Don Porter, Walter Baldwin, Brett King, Richard Karlan, Tito Vuolo, Milburn Stone.

Born on this day – Lizabeth Scott:

Lizabeth Scott

Actress

Singer

September 29, 1921 – January 31, 2015

Credits:

22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2016); Adventures in Paradise (1960); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Bad for Each Other (1953); Burke's Law (1963); Century of Cinema (1995); Dark City (1950); Dead Reckoning (1946); Desert Fury (1947); Easy Living (1949); Empire State Building Murders (2008); Family Theatre (1949); Hit So Hard (2011); Home Stories (1990); I Walk Alone (1947); ITV Television Playhouse (1956); I've Got a Secret (1952); Loving You (1957); Lux Video Theatre (1952–1953); Mansfield 66/67 (2017); Paid in Full (1950); Pitfall (1948); Presley (1987); Pulp (1972); Red Mountain (1951); Scared Stiff (1953); Silver Lode (1954); Stolen Face (1952); Studio 57 (1955); Stump the Stars (1963); TCM Remembers 2015 (2015); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The Big Record (1958); The Celebrity Game (1964); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952); The Company She Keeps (1951); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part I: 1956-1961 (2002); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The Hollywood Collection: Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man (1999); The Juke Box Jury (1958–1959); The Mike Douglas Show (1971); The Movie Game (1970); The Oscars (2016); The Racket (1951); The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997); The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946); The Third Man (1965); The Weapon (1956); The World of Hammer (1994); Too Late for Tears (1949); Two of a Kind (1951); Variety Girl (1947); You Came Along (1945); You Don't Say (1963).

On this day in movie history - Too Late for Tears (1949)

Too Late for Tears

directed by Byron Haskin,

written by Roy Huggins,

inspired by the April 1947 serial in the Saturday Evening Post,

and the July 1947 novel by Roy Huggins,

was released in the United States on August 13, 1949.

Music by R. Dale Butts.

Cast:

Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller, Barry Kelley, Billy Halop, Denver Pyle, Smoki Whitfield.

On this day in movie history - Dead Reckoning (1947)

Dead Reckoning

directed by John Cromwell,

written by Steve Fisher and Oliver H.P. Garrett,

based on a story by Gerald Drayson Adams, Sidney Biddell and Allen Rivkin,

was released in the United States on January 15, 1947.

Music by Marlin Skiles.

Cast:

Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane, William Prince, Marvin Miller, Wallace Ford, James Bell, George Chandler, William Forrest, Ruby Dandridge.