Born on this day – Stuart Heisler:

Director

Editor

December 5, 1896 – August 21, 1979

Born on this day – Fritz Lang:

Director

Writer

Producer

December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976

Credits:

American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950); Bande-annonce de 'Le mépris' (1963); Bettler GmbH (1919); Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956); Clash by Night (1952); Cloak and Dagger (1946); Confirm or Deny (1941); Contempt (1963); Der Herr der Liebe (1919); Destiny (1921); Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse (2018); Die Frau mit den Orchideen (1919); Die Frauen des Josias Graffenreuth (1918); Die Herrin der Welt 8. Teil - Die Rache der Maud Fergusson (1920); Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub (1917); Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924); Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924); Die Peitsche (1916); Die Rache ist mein (1919); Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922); Four Around the Woman (1921); Fury (1936); Grande Teatro Tupi (1951); Hangmen Also Die! (1943); Harakiri (1919); Hilde Warren und der Tod (1917); House by the River (1950); Human Desire (1954); Journey to the Lost City (1960); Liliom (1934); Lilith and Ly (1919); M (1931); M (1951); M. le maudit (1982); Man Hunt (1941); Metropolis (1927); Metropolis (2001); Metropolis Retrofit (2023); Ministry of Fear (1944); Moonfleet (1955); Moontide (1942); Mysteries of India, Part II: Above All Law (1921); Paparazzi (1964); Pest in Florenz (1919); Rancho Notorious (1952); Scarlet Street (1945); Secret Beyond the Door... (1947); Spies (1928); The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960); The Big Heat (1953); The Black Vampire (1953); The Blue Gardenia (1953); The Dance of Death (1919); The Halfbreed (1919); The Indian Tomb (1959); The Return of Frank James (1940); The Spiders - Episode 1: The Golden Sea (1919); The Spiders - Episode 2: The Diamond Ship (1920); The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933); The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959); The Wandering Image (1920); The Woman in the Window (1944); Western Union (1941); While the City Sleeps (1956); Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern (1919); Woman in the Moon (1929); You and Me (1938); You Only Live Once (1937).

Fran Lebowitz, on reading:

Think before you speak.

Read before you think.

- Fran Lebowitz.

On this day in movie history - Armored (2009)

Armored

directed by Nimród Antal,

written by James V. Simpson,

was released in the United States on December 4, 2009.

Music by John Murphy.

Cast:

Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne, Amaury Nolasco, Fred Ward, Milo Ventimiglia, Skeet Ulrich, Columbus Short, Andre Jamal Kinney, Andrew Fiscella, Nick Jameson, Glenn Taranto, Lorna Raver, Garry Guerrier, Robert Harvey, Shawn Devorse, Gerry Carbajal, Mike Cochrane, Rebeca Cristian, Paul Grace, Elizabeth Rivera, Richie Varga.

Born on this day – Andréa Parisy:

Actress

December 4, 1935 – April 27, 2014

Born on this day – Deanna Durbin:

Actress

Singer

December 4, 1921 – April 17, 2013

Born on this day – Cornell Woolrich:

Writer

December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968

Credits:

Cover Charge (1926); Children of the Ritz (1927); Times Square (1929); A Young Man's Heart (1930); The Time of Her Life (1931);  Manhattan Love Song (1932); The Bride Wore Black (aka Beware the Lady) (1940); The Black Curtain (1941); The Black Alibi (1942); Phantom Lady (1942); The Black Angel (1943); The Black Path of Fear (1944); Deadline at Dawn (1944); Night has a Thousand Eyes (1945); Waltz into Darkness (1947); I Married a Dead Man (1948); Rendezvous in Black (1948); Fright (1950); Savage Bride (1950); Marihuana (1951); Strangler's Serenade (1951); You'll Never See Me Again (1951); Hotel Room (1958); Death is my Dancing Partner (1959); The Doom Stone (1960); Into the Night (1987); Nightmare (1956); Violence (1958); Beyond the Night (1959); The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich (1965); The Dark Side of Love (1965); Nightwebs (1971); Angels of Darkness (1978); The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich (1981); Four by Cornell Woolrich (1983); Rear Window (1984); Vampire's Honeymoon (1985); Blind Date With Death (1985); Darkness at Dawn (1985); Night and Fear (2003); Tonight Somewhere in New York (2005); Love and Night (2011); Death in the Air (2020); Senor Flatfoot (2020); All at Once, No Alice (2020); The Drugstore Cowboy (2020); Hot Water (2020); Dilemma of the Dead Lady (2020); The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus (1998); Four Novellas of Fear (2010); Speak to Me of Death (1935); The Screaming Laugh (1938); Through a Dead Man's Eye (1939); Somebody's Clothes-Somebody's Life (1958).