Born on this day – Evelyn Keyes:

Evelyn Keyes

Actress

November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008

Credits:

15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2009); 20 to 1 (2007); 99 River Street (1953); A Return to Salem's Lot (1987); A Thousand and One Nights (1945); A Tribute to Rudy Wissler (2007); All Star Revue (1950); Amazing Stories (1986); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985); Artist and Models (1937); Before I Hang (1940); Beyond the Sacramento (1940); Biography (2003); Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004); Climax! (1955); Dangerous Blondes (1943); Dangerous to Know (1938); Discovering Treasure: The Story of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2003); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1999); Enchantment (1948); Flight Lieutenant (1942); From a Bird's Eye View (1971); Glorious Technicolor (1998); Going Hollywood: The War Years (1988); Gone with the Wind (1939); Good Morning America (1983); Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941); Hell's Half Acre (1954); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941); Iron Man (1951); It Happened in Paris (1952); ITV Playhouse (1968); John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988); Johnny O'Clock (1947); Ladies in Retirement (1941); Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love (2001); Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist (1987); Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema (1996); Lux Video Theatre (1951); Men with Wings (1938); Missing Links (1964); Mr. Soft Touch (1949); Mrs. Mike (1949); Murder, She Wrote (1985–1993); Nine Girls (1944); One Big Affair (1952); Our World (1987); Paris Honeymoon (1938); Renegades (1946); Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream (1991); Screen Snapshots: Hawaii in Hollywood (1948); Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood (1954); Screen Snapshots: Photoplay Gold Medal Awards (1948); Shoot First (1953); Slightly Honorable (1939); Smuggler's Island (1951); Sons of the Legion (1938); Strange Affair (1944); Sudden Money (1939); The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards (1988); The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009); The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942); The Buccaneer (1938); The DeMille Dynasty (1998); The Desperadoes (1943); The Face Behind the Mask (1941); The Jolson Story (1946); The Killer That Stalked New York (1950); The Lady in Question (1940); The Lady with the Torch (1999); The Love Boat (1983); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Mating of Millie (1948); The Mike Douglas Show (1977); The Prowler (1951); The Seven Year Itch (1955); The Thrill of Brazil (1946); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1977–1991); The Ugliest Girl in Town (1968); The Ultimate Film (2004); There's Something About a Soldier (1943); Top of the World (1955); Union Pacific (1939); Warner Bros. Celebration of Tradition, June 2, 1990 (1990); Wicked Stepmother (1989).

Born on this day – Phyllis Thaxter:

Phyllis Thaxter

Actress

November 20, 1919 – August 14, 2012

Born on this day – John Gardner:

John Gardner

Writer

November 20, 1926 – August 3, 2007

Credits:

Books:

The Liquidator (1964); Understrike (1965); Amber Nine (1966); Madrigal (1967); Hideaway (1968); Founder Member (1969); Traitor's Exit (1970); The Airline Pirates (1973); Air Apparent (1973); The Assassination File (1974); A Killer for a Song (1975); A Complete State of Death (1970); The Corner Men (1976); Bottled Spider (2002); Streets of Town (2003); Angels Dining at the Ritz (2004); Troubled Midnight (2005); No Human Enemy (2007); The Nostradamus Traitor (1979); The Garden of Weapons (1981); The Quiet Dogs (1988); Maestro (1993); Confessor (1995); The Return of Moriarty (1974); The Revenge of Moriarty (1975); Moriarty (2008); The Secret Generations (1985); The Secret Houses (1987); The Secret Families (1989); Colonel Sun (By: Kingsley Amis) (1968); License Renewed (1981); For Special Services (1982); Icebreaker (1983); Role of Honor (1984); Nobody Lives Forever (1986); No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987); Scorpius (1988); Licence to Kill (1989); Win, Lose or Die (1989); Brokenclaw (1990); The Man from Barbarossa (1991); Death Is Forever (1992); Never Send Flowers (1993); SeaFire (1994); GoldenEye (1995); Cold Fall (1996); Zero Minus Ten (1997); Tomorrow Never Dies (1997); The Facts of Death (1998); The World is Not Enough (1999); High Time to Kill (1999); Doubleshot (2000); Never Dream of Dying (2001); The Man With the Red Tattoo (2002); Die Another Day (2002); Devil May Care (2008); Carte Blanche (2011); Solo (2013); Trigger Mortis (2015); Forever and a Day (2018); With a Mind to Kill (2022); The Censor (1972); Every Night's a Bullfight (1973); The Director (1973); To Run a Little Faster (1976); The Werewolf Trace (1977); The Dancing Dodo (1979); Golgotha (1980); The Last Trump (1980); Blood of the Fathers (1992); Day of Absolution (2001); On Becoming a Novelist (1983); On Writers and Writing (1994); The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1999).

Movies and television:

Biography (2006); The Liquidator (1965); The Stone Killer (1973); Wogan (1988).

Born on this day – Helma Sanders-Brahms:

 

Helma Sanders-Brahms

Director

Writer

Producer

November 20, 1940 – May 27, 2014

On this day in movie history - Lady in Cement (1968)

 

Lady in Cement

directed by Gordon Douglas,

written by Marvin H. Albert and Jack Guss,

based on the novel by Marvin H. Albert,

was released in the United States on November 20, 1968.

Music by Hugo Montenegro.

 
Cast:

Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan, Pat Henry, Dan Blocker, Steve Peck, Virginia Wood, Richard Deacon, Frank Raiter, Peter Hock, Alex Stevens, Christine Todd, Mac Robbins, Tommy Uhlar, Rey Baumel, Pauly Dash, Andy Jarrell, Al Algiro, Robert 'Buzz' Henry, Lanita Kent, Joe E. Lewis, Charlene Mathies, Shirley Parker, B.S. Pully, Jilly Rizzo, Chris Robinson, Coz Serrapere, Dick Sterling, Bunny Yeager.

 

On this day in movie history - Bad Lieutenant (1992)

Bad Lieutenant

directed by Abel Ferrara,

written by Zoë Lund and Abel Ferrara,

was released in the United States on November 20, 1992.

Music by Joe Delia.

Cast:

Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Paul Calderón, Eddie Daniels, Bianca Hunter, Zoë Lund, Frankie Thorn, Fernando Véléz, Joseph Micheal Cruz, Paul Hipp, Frank Adonis, Anthony Ruggiero, Victoria Bastel.

On this day in movie history - RKO 281 (1999)

RKO 281

directed by Benjamin Ross,

written by John Logan,

based on the documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane by Richard Ben Cramer and Thomas Lennon,

was released in the United States on November 20, 1999.

Music by John Altman.

Cast:

Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Brenda Blethyn, Roy Scheider, Liam Cunningham, David Suchet, Fiona Shaw, Anastasia Hille, Roger Allam, Simeon Andrews, William Armstrong, Jay Benedict, Ron Berglas, Paul Birchard, Neil Conrich, Michael Cronin, Sarah Franzl, Briony Glassco, Louis Hammond, Aaron Keeling, Joseph Long, Gareth Marks, Olivier Pierre, Roger Rose, Rolf Saxon, Adrian Schiller, Kerry Shale, Cyril Shaps, Tusse Silberg, Toby Whithouse, Tim Woodward, Angus Wright, Melissa Hartzel, Zak Shukor, Bobby Valentino, Lucy Cohu, Anthony Maddalena, Tim Packham.