On this day in movie history - Chasing Danger (1939)

 

Chasing Danger

directed by Ricardo Cortez,

written by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan,

based on the story by Leonardo Bercovici,

was released in the United States on May 5, 1939.

Music by Samuel Kaylin.

 
Cast:

Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Wally Vernon, Henry Wilcoxon, Joan Woodbury, Harold Huber, Jody Gilbert, Pedro de Cordoba, Stanley Fields, Roy D'Arcy, Carol Adams, Richard Alexander, Sam Ash, Eugene Borden, Egon Brecher, Don Brodie, Charles Brokaw, Harry Burns, Gino Corrado, Jean De Briac, Jimmie Dundee, Art Dupuis, Constant Franke, Robert Graves, Jamiel Hasson, Armand Kaliz, Arthur Loft, George Magrill, Francis McDonald, Louis Mercier, Tony Merlo, Leonard Mudie, Ruth Peterson, Arthur Rankin, Georges Renavent, Dick Rich, Jack Stoney, Paul Sutton, Harland Tucker, Michael Visaroff, Harry Worth.

Born on this day – Phillip Borsos:

 

Director

Producer

Writer

May 5, 1953 – February 2, 1995

Credits:

Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990); Cooperage (1976); Do It with Joy (1977); Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995); Highway Heartbreaker (1992); Hollywood North (2003); Inventing Grace, Touching Glory (2003); Nails (1979); One Magic Christmas (1985); Spartree (1978); The Cider House Rules (1999); The Grey Fox (1982); The Mean Season (1985); The Night Before the Morning After (1980); The Shadow (1994); Tootsie (1982); Weird Science (1985); We're Talkin' Serious Money (1992).

Born on this day – Sandy Baron:

 

Actor

Comedian

May 5, 1936 – January 21, 2001

Credits:

An Evening at the Improv (1981); Anatomy of a Seduction (1979); Birdy (1984); Broadway Danny Rose (1984); Cassie & Co. (1982); Celebrity Revue (1976); Crime Story (1986); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Della (1969–1970); Ed Sullivan's Comedy Legends (2022); FBI: The Untold Stories (1991); George Burns Comedy Week (1985); George Jessel's Here Come the Stars (1968); Get the Message (1964); Girls in the Saddle (1969); Gypsy (1966–1967); Hey, Landlord (1966–1967); How's Your Mother-in-Law? (1968); If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969); Ironside (1973); It Takes Two (1970); It's Your Bet (1970–1971); Juke Box Jury (1963); Law & Order (1991); Le petomane: Fin de siècle fartiste (1998); Leprechaun 2 (1994); Life Goes On (1992); Lonely Hearts (1991); Love, American Style / Love and the Guilty Conscience / Love and the Good Samaritan (1970–1971); Mission Kill (1985); Motorama (1991); Naked City (1962); Name Droppers (1969–1970); P.D.Q. (1967); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Police Story (1973); Sammy and Company (1976); Seinfeld (1991–1997); Seinfeld: Inside Look (2006–2007); Sid and Nancy (1986); Starsky and Hutch (1979); Straight Time (1978); Sweet November (1968); Targets (1968); That Regis Philbin Show (1965); That Was the Week That Was (1964); The Barbara McNair Show (1970–1971); The Comedy Shop (1978); The Dating Game (1969); The David Frost Show (1970–1972); The Dean Martin Summer Show (1967); The Ed Sullivan Show (1966); The Game Game (1969–1970); The Grifters (1990); The Hi-Lo Country (1998); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime);  (1966–1970); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1969); The John Gary Show (1967); The Laughmakers (1962); The Match Game (1967); The Merv Griffin Show (1965–1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1975); The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas (1996); The Munsters Today (1990–1991); The Out of Towners (1970); The Pat Boone Show (1966); The Perils of P.K. (1986); The Real Tom Kennedy Show (1970); The Sonny & Cher Nitty Gritty Hour (1970); The Sonny & Cher Nitty Gritty Hour (1970); The Steve Allen Show (1968); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1966–1972); The Woody Woodbury Show (1967–1968); Today (1966); Tracey Takes On... (1996); Twilight Highway (1995); Vamp (1986); Walter & Emily (1992); What's My Line? (1973).

Born on this day – Maria-Pia Casilio:

 

Actress

May 5, 1935 – April 10, 2012

Credits:

Air of Paris (1954); Always Victorious (1958); Amori di mezzo secolo / Loves of half a century: War 1915-18 (1954); An American in Rome (1954); Angels of Darkness (1954); Appassionatamente / Passionately (1954); Arrivederci Firenze / Goodbye Florence (1958); Bread, Love and Dreams (1953); Canzoni di mezzo secolo / Songs of half a century (1952); Cuore matto... matto da legare / Crazy heart... Nutty to tie (1967); Donatella (1956); Due soldi di felicità / A Penny of Happiness (1954); Frisky (1954); Gagliardi e pupe / Pennants and pupae (1958); Giorni d'amore / Days of love (1954); I pappagalli / Parrots (1955); Il canto dell'emigrante / The Song of the Emigrant (1956); Il medico dei pazzi / The Madman's Doctor (1954); Il viale della speranza / The Avenue of Hope (1953); La banda del buco / The Hole Band (1960); La donna di ghiaccio / The Ice Woman (1960); La valigia dei sogni / The suitcase of dreams (1953); Le tournant dangereux (1954); L'ispettore Giusti (1999); Loving you is my destiny (1957); Maria Pia Casilio: Umberto D. (2011); Mogli pericolose / Dangerous Wives (1958); Neapolitan Carousel (1954); Noi uomini duri / We Hard Men (1987); Racconti romani / Roman Tales (1955); Siamo tutti inquilini / We are all tenants (1953); Terminal Station (1953); The Adultress (1953); The Fascist (1961); The Last Judgment (1961); The Mistress of Moonbeam (1961); Three Men and a Leg (1997); Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge / Totò, Peppino and the outlaws (1956); Umberto D. (1952); Vittorio D. (2009); We'll Call Him Andrea (1972).

Born on this day – June Lang:

Actress

May 5, 1917 – May 16, 2005

Credits:

The Felony Squad (1968); 77 Sunset Strip (1962); The Detectives (1961); City Detective (1953); Fireside Theatre (1950–1952); Lighthouse (1947); Three of a Kind (1944); Up in Arms (1944); Flesh and Fantasy (1943); Stage Door Canteen (1943); City of Silent Men (1942); Footlight Serenade (1942); Too Many Women (1942); The Deadly Game (1941); Redhead (1941); Isle of Destiny (1940); Convicted Woman (1940); Inside Information (1939); Captain Fury (1939); For Love or Money (1939); Forged Passport (1939); Zenobia (1939); Meet the Girls (1938); One Wild Night (1938); International Settlement (1938); Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); Wee Willie Winkie (1937); Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937); White Hunter (1936); The Road to Glory (1936); Captain January (1936); Every Saturday Night (1936); The Country Doctor (1936); Bonnie Scotland (1935); George White's 1935 Scandals (1935); Music in the Air (1934); Love Time (1934); She Learned About Sailors (1934); Now I'll Tell (1934); The Man Who Dared (1933); I Loved You Wednesday (1933); Chandu the Magician (1932); She Wanted a Millionaire (1932); The Miracle Woman (1931); Young Sinners (1931).

Born on this day – Alice Faye:

 

Actress

Singer

May 5, 1915 – May 9, 1998

Credits:

20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936); 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934); A Century of Cinema (1994); AFI Life Achievement Award (1978); Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938); Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974); All Star Revue (1953); American Masters (1999); Barricade (1939); Beloved Infidel (1959); Biography (1995–2000); Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies (2000); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998); Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business (1995); Carmen Miranda: That Girl from Rio (2008); CBS Early Morning News (1984); Cinema Circus (1937); E! Mysteries & Scandals (2001); Every Girl Should Have One (1978); Every Night at Eight (1935); Fallen Angel (1945); Four Jills in a Jeep (1944); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); George White's 1935 Scandals (1935); George White's Scandals (1934); Great Performances (1986 / 2003); Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987); Havana (1941); Hello Frisco, Hello (1943); Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults (1999); Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood Cavalcade (1939); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (2009); In Old Chicago (1938); King of Burlesque (1936); Lillian Russell (1940); Little Old New York (1940); Live! On City Line (1987); Looks Familiar (1983); M*A*S*H (1974); Michael Feinstein's American Songbook (2010–2013); Music Is Magic (1935); My Music: Big Band Vocalists (2012); Myra Breckinridge (1970); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Now I'll Tell (1934); On the Avenue (1937); People Are Talking (San Francisco) (1978); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1962); Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion (2002); Poor Little Rich Girl (1936); Reflections on the Silver Screen (1990); Rose of Washington Square (1939); Sally, Irene and Mary (1938); Screen Snapshots 2856: It Was Only Yesterday (1950); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots: Hawaii in Hollywood (1948); Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood (1954); Screen Snapshots: Seeing Hollywood (1940); She Learned About Sailors (1934); Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling (1993); Shirley Temple: Early Years (Volume 1) (1932); Shirley Temple: Early Years (Volume 2) (1932); Sing, Baby, Sing (1936); State Fair (1962); Stowaway (1936); Tail Spin (1939); Take It or Leave It (1944); That Night in Rio (1941); The 28th Annual Tony Awards (1974); The 51st British Academy Film Awards (1999); The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards (1988); The 61st Annual Academy Awards (1989); The 71st Annual Academy Awards (1999); The Bob Monkhouse Show (1983); The Dean Martin Show (1966–1968); The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017); The Gang's All Here (1943); The Great American Broadcast (1941); The Hollywood Gad-About (1934); The Hollywood Palace (1964–1967); The Kraft Music Hall (1968); The Love Boat (1980); The Magic of Lassie (1978); The Mike Douglas Show (1969); The Red Skelton Hour (1963); The Shape of Water (2017); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1962 / 1963); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1971); This Is Your Life (1957–1984); Tin Pan Alley (1940); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Wake Up and Live (1937); Warm Springs (2005); Washington Square (1939); We Still Are! (1985); Week-End in Havana (1941); Wing and a Prayer (1944); Wogan (1988); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Yes Man (2008); You Can't Have Everything (1937); You're a Sweetheart (1937).

Born on this day – Tyrone Power:

 

Actor

May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958

Credits:

A Yank in the RAF (1941); ABC Late Night (1975); Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938); Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); All This and World War II (1976); America at the Movies (1976); American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950); Armchair Theatre (1956); Biography (1995–1999); Blood and Sand (1941); Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies (2000); Brigham Young (1940); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Bud Boetticher: A Documentary (2020); Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005); Café Metropole (1937); Captain from Castile (1947); Casting By (2012); Christmas with the Stars (1953); Ciclo Agatha Christie (2006); Cinépanorama (1957); Compression (2015); Count Three and Pray (1955); Crash Dive (1943); Day-Time Wife (1939); Death in Hollywood (1990); Death Scenes 2 (1992); Diplomatic Courier (1952); Eight Steps to Peace: World Law (1958); Flirtation Walk (1934); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); Gay, Gay Hollywood (1980); Gene Tierney, une star oubliée (2017); Girls' Dormitory (1936); Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982); Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997); Hollywood and the Stars (1963–1964); Hollywood Exclusive (1954); Hollywood Goes to Town (1938); Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990); Hollywood Hobbies (1939); Hollywood Insider (2022); Hollywood My Home Town (1965); Hollywood Remembers (2000); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Hollywood Sex Symbols (1988); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner (2019); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); I'll Never Forget You (1951); In Old Chicago (1938); Inside Daisy Clover (1965); Inside the Dream Factory (1995); I've Got a Secret (1958); Jesse James (1939); Johnny Apollo (1940); King of the Khyber Rifles (1953); Ladies in Love (1936); Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir (2001); Lloyd's of London (1936); Love Is News (1937); Lusitania Illusion (2010); Marie Antoinette (1938); Max Liebman Presents: Promenade (1955); Nightmare Alley (1947); Northern Frontier (1935); Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997); Oops, those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982); Person to Person (1957); Pony Soldier (1952); Prince of Foxes (1949); Rawhide (1951); Rose of Washington Square (1939); School for Wives (1925); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 9 (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 2 (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 (1939); Screen Snapshots Series 23, No. 1: Hollywood in Uniform (1943); Second Fiddle (1939); Second Honeymoon (1937); Seven Days from Now (1957); Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982); Showbiz Goes to War (1982); Show-Business at War (1943); Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000); Six-Five Special (1957); Solomon and Sheba (1959); Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942); Standard Oil New Jersey Presents Its 75th Anniversary Entertainment (1957); Suez (1938); That Wonderful Urge (1948); The 12th Annual Tony Awards (1958); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005); The Black Rose (1950); The Black Swan (1942); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953–1955); The Eddy Duchin Story (1956); The Hollywood Collection: Anthony Quinn an Original (1990); The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002); The Long Gray Line (1955); The Luck of the Irish (1948); The Many Faces of Zorro (2000); The Mark of Zorro (1940); The Mississippi Gambler (1953); The Naked Archaeologist (2008); The Rains Came (1939); The Razor's Edge (1946); The Red, White and Blue Line (1955); The Return of Frank James (1940); The Rising of the Moon (1957); The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997); The Sun Also Rises (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958); The World at War (1973); The World's Most Beautiful Girls (1953); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Thin Ice (1937); This Above All (1942); Three of a Kind (1941); Tom Brown of Culver (1932); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Un jour de bonheur (1939); Uncommon Valor (1955); Untamed (1955); Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase (1965); We, the People (1949); What's My Line? (1955); When the Applause Died (1990); Witness for the Prosecution (1957).

Born on this day – Alice Howell:

Actress

May 5, 1886 – April 12, 1961

Credits:

A Busted Honeymoon (1916); A Coat's Tale (1914); A Convict's Happy Bride (1920); A Nice Pickle (1925); A Wooden Legacy (1920); Alice in Society (1916); Automaniacs (1917); Balloonatics (1917); Bawled Out (1918); Beauty and the Boob (1919); Behind the Front (1919); Black Gold Bricks (1925); Blue Blood and Yellow Backs (1915); Bluffing Bluffers (1924); Bombs and Bangs (1914); Boulevard Profiteers (1921); Butterfly (1924); Caught in a Cabaret (1914); Caught in the Rain (1914); Choo Choo Love (1918); Cinderella Cinders (1920); Cupid and the Scrub Lady (1915); Cupid vs. Art (1918); Cursed by His Beauty (1914); Dad's Dollars and Dirty Doings (1916); Dangerous Pleasure (1924); Distilled Love (1920); Fair and Windy (1924); Fashion News (1930); Father Was a Loafer (1915); Fatty's Finish (1914); Flirtation a la Carte (1916); From Beanery to Billions (1915); Good Night, Nurse (1920); Green Tees (1924); He Loved the Ladies (1914); Hello, Mabel (1914); Her Bareback Career (1917); Her Bargain Day (1920); Her Lucky Day (1920); Her Naughty Eyes (1916); Her Unmarried Life (1918); Her Ups and Downs (1915); Hey, Doctor! (1918); Hoot Toot (1918); Horse Play (1924); How Stars Are Made (1916); In Dutch (1918); In the Claw of the Law (1915); Laughing Gas (1914); Life and Moving Pictures (1915); Lizzie's Lingering Love (1916); Lizzie's Shattered Dreams (1915); Love Is an Awful Thing (1922); Lover's Luck (1914); Lunatics in Politics (1920); Mabel and Fatty's Married Life (1915); Mabel's Busy Day (1914); Mabel's Married Life (1914); Madame Dynamite (1926); Marry When Young (1924); Mind Your Doctor (1924); Neptune's Naughty Daughter (1917); Oh, Baby! (1918); One Wet Night (1924); Papa's Pet (1925); Patching Things Up (1924); Pirates of the Air (1916); Rest in Pieces (1924); Room and Board: A Dollar and a Half (1915); Rough But Romantic (1915); Rubes and Romance (1920); She Did Her Bit (1917); Shipwrecked (1926); Shot in the Excitement (1914); Should Poker Players Marry? (1924); Silk Hose and High Pressure (1915); Sin on the Sabbath (1915); Slapstick Encyclopedia, Vol. 3: Funny Girls (1998); Sleeping Sickness (1925); Society Architect (1927); Society Stuff (1919); Spring of 1964 (1924); Squirrel Time (1920); Stout Hearts But Weak Knees (1914); Tattle-Tale Alice (1916); Tears and Sunshine (1915); Tenting Out (1925); That's the Spirit (1924); The Bankruptcy of Boggs and Schultz (1916); The Birth of the Tramp (2013); The Bishop of Hollywood (1924); The Cabbage Queen (1918); The Cream of Hollywood (1924); The Curse of a Name (1915); The Double's Troubles (1916); The Elite of Hollywood (1923); The Game Hunter (1924); The Great Smash (1916); The Great Toe Mystery (1914); The High Spots on Broadway (1914); The Junior Year (1928); The Knockout (1914); The Lost Cord (1925); The Pride of the Force (1925); The Rounders (1914); The Sheik of Hollywood (1923); Their Last Haul (1915); Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914); Tillie's Terrible Tumbles (1916); Under a Spell (1925); Under New Management (1915); Unhand Me, Villain! (1916); Untamed Ladies (1918); Wandering Daughters (1923); Way Up North (1924); What's the Matter with Father? (1918); Who Chose Your Wife? (1921); Why Be Jealous? (1924); Why Pay Your Rent? (1924); Women's Rights (1924).

Charlotte Bronte, on writing:

 

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite and sleep -- it cannot be helped --
― Charlotte Brontë.