Born on this day – Mary Livingstone:

 

Actress

Comedienne

June 25, 1905 – June 30, 1983

Credits:

50 Years of Funny Females (1995); AFI Life Achievement Award (1975); Biography (1996); Bright Moments (1928); Buck Benny Rides Again (1940); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Here's Lucy (1970); Hollywood Goes to Town (1938); It's in the Bag! (1945); Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special (1970); Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny (1995); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Mr. Broadway (1933); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 (1938); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Pair of Jacks (1953); Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952); Screen Snapshots: Photoplay Gold Medal Awards (1948); Show-Business at War (1943); Shower of Stars (1958); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1957); The Great Radio Comedians (1972); The Jack Benny Program (1950–1963); The Merv Griffin Show (1967); The Mouse That Jack Built (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1978); This Way Please (1937); Three of a Kind (1941).

Born on this day – Georgia Hale:

Actress

June 25, 1900 – June 17, 1985

Credits:

A Trick of Hearts (1928); A Woman Against the World (1928); Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush (2003); Fashion News (1930); For Sale (1924); Gypsy of the North (1928); Hills of Peril (1927); His Marriage Wow (1925); Hollywood Party (1937); Josef von Sternberg Interview (1968); Lost Forever (2011); Man of the Forest (1926); No More Women (1924); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); The Floating College (1928); The Gold Rush (1925); The Great Gatsby (1926); The Last Moment (1928); The Lightning Warrior (1931); The Rainmaker (1926); The Rawhide Kid (1928); The Salvation Hunters (1925); The Taxi Driver (1921); The Wheel of Destiny (1927); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Unknown Chaplin (1983).

Recommended reading - Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner, by Paul M. Sammon (2017)

 

Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

by Paul M. Sammon (2017).

 

Revised & Updated Edition.

ISBN-10: 0062699466

ISBN-13: 978-0062699466

 

Description from back cover:

The ultimate guide to Ridley Scott’s transformative sci-fi classic Blade Runner.

Ridley Scott’s 2007 “Final Cut” confirmed the international film cognoscenti’s judgment: Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick’s brilliant and troubling science fiction masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is among the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential science fiction films ever made. Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition offers a deeper understanding of this cinematic phenomenon that is storytelling and visual filmmaking at its best.

In this intensive, intimate, and anything-but-glamorous behind-the-scenes account, film insider and cinephile Paul M. Sammon explores how Ridley Scott purposefully used his creative genius to transform the work of science fiction’s most uncompromising author into a critical sensation and cult classic that would reinvent the genre. Sammon reveals how the making of the original Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry at the time it was made. This revised and expanded edition of Future Noir includes:

An overview of Blade Runner’s impact on moviemaking and its acknowledged significance in popular culture since the book’s original 1996 publication.

An exploration of the history of Blade Runner: The Final Cut and its theatrical release in 2007.

A look at its long-awaited sequel, Blade Runner 2049.

The longest interview Harrison Ford has ever granted about Blade Runner.

Exclusive new interviews with Rutger Hauer and Sean Young.

A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and art, illustrated with production photos and stills, Future Noir provides an eye-opening and enduring look at modern moviemaking, the business of Hollywood, and one of the greatest films of all time.

Shannon Hale, on writing:

 

Being a writer is a good, good thing.
- Shannon Hale.

On this day in music history - Cloudwalker & the Ascent, by Zero Ohms (2022)

Cloudwalker & the Ascent,

by Zero Ohms,

was released on June 24, 2022.

On this day in movie history - Deliver Us from Evil (2014)

Deliver Us from Evil

directed by Scott Derrickson,

written by Scott Derrickson and Paul Harris Boardman,

based on the book Beware the Night by Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool,

was released in the United States on June 24, 2014.

Music by Christopher Young.

Cast:

Eric Bana, Edgar Ramírez, Olivia Munn, Chris Coy, Dorian Missick, Sean Harris, Joel McHale, Mike Houston, Lulu Wilson, Olivia Horton, Scott Johnsen, Daniel Sauli, Antoinette LaVecchia, Aidan Gemme, Jenna Gavigan, Skylar Toddings, Sebastian La Cause, Steve Hamm, Sean Nelson, Mari-Ange Ramirez, Ben Horner, Tijuana Ricks, John Cariani, Robert Keiley, Blair Sams, Mark David Watson, Ben Livingston, Kevin Nagle, Oliver Wadsworth, Lolita Foster, Carmen Ortiz-Girdauskas, Victor Pagan, Carol Stanzione, Adam Kobylarz, Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle, John Auer, Joseph Basile, Sean Bennett, Lyndsey Bloise, José Báez, Ivan Cardona, John Cenatiempo, Mikhael DeVille, Dennis Jay Funny, Raiden Integra, Joseph Anthony Jerez, Umar Khan, Amra Mallassi, Valentina Rendón.

On this day in movie history - Wyatt Earp (1994)

Wyatt Earp

directed by Lawrence Kasdan,

written by Dan Gordon and Lawrence Kasdan,

was released in the United States on June 24, 1994.

Music by James Newton Howard.

Cast:

Kevin Costner, Ian Bohen, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, David Andrews, Linden Ashby, Jim Caviezel, John Doe, Jeff Fahey, Joanna Going, Mark Harmon, Michael Madsen, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Pullman, Isabella Rossellini, Tom Sizemore, JoBeth Williams, Mare Winningham, James Gammon, Karen Grassle, Rex Linn, Gabriel Folse, Mackenzie Astin, Randle Mell, Adam Baldwin, Annabeth Gish, Lewis Smith, Betty Buckley, Alison Elliott, Téa Leoni, Martin Kove.