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

The Scarf

directed and written by Ewald André Dupont, Arthur St. Claire and Lawrence Taylor,

based on a story by Isadore Goldsmith and E.A. Rolfe,

was released in the United States on April 6, 1951.

Music by Herschel Burke Gilbert.

Cast:

John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, James Barton, Emlyn Williams, Lloyd Gough, Basil Ruysdael, David Bauer, Harry Shannon, Celia Lovsky, David McMahon, Chubby Johnson, Frank Jenks, Emmett Lynn, Dick Wessel, Frank Jaquet, Iris Adrian.

Born on this day – Mercedes McCambridge:

Mercedes McCambridge

Actress

March 16, 1916 – March 2, 2004

Credits:

99 Women (1969); A Farewell to Arms (1957); ABC Stage 67 (1966); About Faces (1960); All the King's Men (1949); Amazing Stories (1987); Angel Baby (1961); Bewitched (1968); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Bonanza (1962–1970); Cagney & Lacey (1988); Charlie's Angels (1978); Cimarron (1960); Climax! (1955); Dr. Kildare (1964); Echoes (1982); Flying High (1978); Front Row Center (1955–1956); Giant (1956); 'Giant' Stars Are Off to Texas (1955); Gunsmoke (1971); Hagen (1980); Here's Hollywood (1961); Illinois Special: I Remember Illinois (1968); Inside Straight (1951); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1958); Johnny Guitar (1954); Killer by Night (1972); Lamp Unto My Feet (1963); Life with Linkletter (1970); Lightning Strikes Twice (1951); Lost in Space (1966); Lux Video Theatre (1950–1952); Lyman H. Howe's High Class Moving Pictures (1983); Magnum, P.I. (1981); Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969); Medical Center (1970); Night Line (1964); One Man's Family (1949); Overland Trail (1960); Panic! (1958); Rawhide (1959–1965); Riverboat (1959); Run Home, Slow (1965); Schlitz Playhouse (1959); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1951); Sixteen (1972); Spectrum (1958); Studio One (1953–1956); Suddenly, Last Summer (1959); Tales of Tomorrow (1953); The 18th Annual Tony Awards (1964); The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The 26th Annual Academy Awards (1954); The 26th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1952); The 26th Annual Tony Awards (1972); The 29th Annual Academy Awards (1957); The 60th Annual Academy Awards (1988); The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998); The Alan Young Show (1951); The Bob Braun Show (1975–1981); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1950); The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979); The Counterfeit Killer (1968); The Dakotas (1963); The David Frost Show (1972); The Defenders (1964); The Doctors (1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1964); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953); The Exorcist (1973); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); The Girls of Huntington House (1973); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1969); The Loretta Young Show (1956); The Mike Douglas Show (1966–1974); The Name of the Game (1971); The Other Side of the Wind (2018); The President's Plane Is Missing (1973); The Red Skelton Hour (1957–1959); The Sacketts (1979); The Scarf (1951); The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963); Thieves (1977); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1974); Touch of Evil (1958); Two for the Money (1972); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Wagon Train (1957); Warner Pathé News Issue # 87 (1955); What's My Line? (1951); Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975); Wire Service (1956–1957).

On this day in movie and book history - Touch of Evil (1958) and Badge of Evil (1956):

Touch of Evil

directed and written by Orson Welles,

based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson,

was released in the United States on January 31, 1958.

Music by Henry Mancini.

Cast:

Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Cook Moore, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Val de Vargas, Mort Mills, Victor Millan, Lalo Rios, Phil Harvey, Joi Lansing, Harry Shannon, Rusty Wescoatt, Wayne Taylor, Ken Miller, Raymond Rodriguez, Arlene McQuade, Dan White, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Marlene Dietrich, Mercedes McCambridge, William Tannen, Joseph Cotton.

Recommended reading - Badge of Evil

Badge of Evil

by Whit Masterson.

Filmed as Touch of Evil (1958), directed by Orson Welles.

Published by Adams Media.

First published 1956.

ASIN: 1440560919

ISBN-10: 9781440560910

ISBN-13: 978-1440560910

Description:

“Orson Welles based his noir masterpiece on this equally fine novel.” – The Washington Post.

Quinlan and McCoy – veteran cops who could smell out a murderer …

A dark, swift-running tale of love and hate and death under the bright California sun.

Assistant District Attorney Mitch Holt suspects the wrong people have been arrested in the murder of Rudy Linneker. But if it wasn't Linneker's daughter and her fiance, who was it? And why do two of the city's most decorated and beloved cops look like they're not shooting straight? If they've planted evidence in this case, what else are they guilty of in the past?