Born on this day – Big Bill Broonzy:

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

June 26, 1893 – August 14, 1958

Credits:
 
Albums:
 

1937-1940 Part 2: Chicago 1937, 1938 (2005); 1937-1940 Part 2: Chicago 1938, 1939 (2005); 1937-1940 Part 2: Chicago 1939, 1940 (2005); A Retrospective Big Bill Broonzy (2014); Amazing Performance (2013); Amsterdam Concerts 1953 (2006); Barrelhouse of Blues (2015); Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Big Bill Broonzy (2011); Big Bill Blues (2014); Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam (1962); Big Bill Broonzy Selected Favorites (2006); Big Bill Broonzy Sings (1956); Big Bill Broonzy Sings Country Blues (1957); Big Bill Broonzy Sings Folk Songs (1962); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 13 (1949-1951) (2013); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 4 1935 – 1936 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 5 1935 – 1936 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 6 1937 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 7 1937 – 1938 (2005); Big Bill Broonzy's Pig Meat Blues (2006); Big Bill's Blues (1957); Blues and Gospel No. 3: Big Bill Broonzy (Mono Version) (1962); Blues with Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (1959); C.C.Rider Meets Lonesome Road Blues (2014); Chicago Blues (2013); Classic Box Set: The Bill Broonzy Story (2015); Hey Hey (2012); I Believe I'll Go Back Home (2014); Introducing Big Bill Broonzy (2014); Just a Dream for Big Bill Broonzy (2009); Key to the Highway (2010); Little Bug (2000); On Tour in Britain, 1952 (2002); Recorded In Club Montmartre 1956 Vol. 1 (1993); Recorded In Club Montmartre 1956 Vol. 2 (1993); Rockin' In Chicago 1949-53 (2007); St. Louis Blues (2007); Tell Me Baby (2014); The 1955 London Sessions (1990); The Blues Volume 2 (2008); The Hip Star (2014); The Historic Concert Recordings (2013); The Southern Blues (1996); Trouble In Mind - Previously Unissued Live Concert Recordings (1990); Volume 3: The War And Postwar Years 1940 – 1941 (2007); Volume 3: The War And Postwar Years 1945 – 1949 (2007); What a Wonderful Blues World (2013).

 

Movies and television:
 

All You Need Is Love (1977); Arena (1985); Big Bill Blues (1957); Blues Like Showers of Rain / Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Blues Masters (1999); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Cold Case (2006); Deadwood (2005); Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017); Eric Clapton: One More Car, One More Rider - Live on Tour 2001 (2002); Folk Britannia (2006); Frank's Place (1987); Hitsville: The Making of Motown (2019); Holiday (1957); Home Sweet Home (2013); I Go Back Home: Jimmy Scott (2016); I Love You (1986); Intolerable Cruelty (2003); Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues (2000); Love Hurts (2012); Matlock (1992); Mississippi Grind (2015); Panoptikum (1970); Passage to Mars (2016); Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020); Presley (1987); Six-Five Special (1957); Supernatural (2006); The Beatles Anthology (1995–1996); The Big Something (2011); The Blues (2003); The Buttercup Project (2010); The Roaring 20s: Mick Jagger's Glory Years (2011); The Terminal (2004); Toxic Apocalypse (2016); Traveller (1997); Unplugged (1992).

Born on this day – Jeanne Eagels:

 

Actress

June 26, 1890 – October 3, 1929

Credits:

A Lesson in Bridge (1914); Hollywood (1980); Jealousy (1929); Man, Woman and Sin (1927); The Ace of Hearts (1913); The Bride of the Sea (1913); The Cross Bearer (1918); The Fires of Youth (1917); The House of Fear (1915); The Letter (1929); The Madonna of the Slums (1919); The World and the Woman (1916); Under False Colors (1917).

Born on this day – Branwell Brontë:

Writer

Painter

June 26, 1817 – September 24, 1848

Credits:

An Angrain Battle Song; An Historical Narrative of the War of Agression; An Historical Narrative of the War of Encroachment; Angria and the Angrians; Battell Book; Juvenilia; Letter from a Father on Earth to His Child in Her Grave; Letters from an Englishman; Life of Warner Howard Warner; Lines Spoken by a Lawyer on the Occasion of the Transfer of This Magazine; Mary's Prayer; Ode on the Celebration of the Great African Games; On Caroline; Penmaenmawr; Percy's Musings upon the Battle of Edwardston; Real Life in Verdopolis, volume 1–2; Real Rest; Remember Me; Sir Henry Tunstall; Tales of Angria (1838–1839); The End of All; The Fate of Regina; The Glass Town; The History of the Young Men from Their First Settlement to the Present Time (1829–1831); The Liar Detected; The Pirate A Tale; The Politics of Verdopolis; The Revenge A Tradgedy; The Young Men's Magazine, Number 1 – 3 (1830); Thorp Green.

Jhumpa Lahiri, on writing:

I approach writing stories as a recorder.

I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.
 
- Jhumpa Lahiri.

On this day in movie history - The Thing (1982)

The Thing

directed by John Carpenter,

written by Bill Lancaster,

based on the novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell,

was released in the United States on June 25, 1982.

Music by Ennio Morricone.

Cast:

Kurt Russell, A. Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, Thomas Waites.

On this day in movie history - Blade Runner (1982)

Blade Runner

directed by Ridley Scott,

written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples,

based on the novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick,

was released in the United States on June 25, 1982.

Music by Vangelis.

Cast:

Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James, Joe Turkel, Joanna Cassidy, James Hong, Morgan Paull, Hy Pyke.

On this day in movie history - The Omen (1976)

The Omen

directed by Richard Donner,

written by David Seltzer,

was released in the United States on June 25, 1976.

Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens, Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, Robert Rietty, Tommy Duggan, John Stride, Anthony Nicholls, Holly Palance, Roy Boyd, Freda Dowie, Sheila Raynor, Robert MacLeod, Bruce Boa, Don Fellows, Patrick McAlinney, Dawn Perllman, Nancy Manningham, Miki Iveria, Betty McDowall, Nicholas Campbell, Burnell Tucker, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Guglielmo Spoletini, Ya’ackov Banai, Ann Barrass, Mark Baxter, Harvey Bernhard, Michael Byrne, Victor Harrington, Juba Kennerley, Leo McKern, Noel O’Connell, Bill Reimbold, Adam Rhodes, Massimo Serato, Tina Simmons, Christine Spooner, Damian John Spooner, Guy Standeven.