Saturday, December 14, 2024

Born on this day – Lee Remick:


Lee Remick


Actress

Singer

December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991


Credits:
Dark Holiday (1989); Around the World in 80 Days (1989); Bridge to Silence (1989); Jesse (1988); Screen Two (1985); Emma's War (1987); Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder (1987); American Playhouse (1985–1987); Of Pure Blood (1986); Great Performances (1986); Toughlove (1985); Faerie Tale Theatre (1985); Rearview Mirror (1984); Mistral's Daughter (1984); A Good Sport (1984); I Do! I Do! (1983); The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983); The Letter (1982); Tribute (1980); The Competition (1980); The Women's Room (1980); Ike: The War Years (1980); Haywire (1980); The Europeans (1979); Ike: The War Years (1979); Torn Between Two Lovers (1979); Wheels (1978); The Medusa Touch (1978); Breaking Up (1978); Telefon (1977); BBC Play of the Month (1972–1977); The Omen (1976); Hennessy (1975); A Girl Named Sooner (1975); Hustling (1975); Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974); QB VII (1974); A Delicate Balance (1973); The Blue Knight (1973); Of Men and Women (1973); And No One Could Save Her (1973); The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972); Touch Me Not (1972); Sometimes a Great Notion (aka Never Give an Inch) (1971); A Severed Head (1971); Loot (1970); Hard Contract (1969); The Detective (1968); No Way to Treat a Lady (1968); Damn Yankees! (1967); The Hallelujah Trail (1965); The Satan Bug (1965); Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965); The Wheeler Dealers (1963); The Running Man (1963); Days of Wine and Roses (1962); Experiment in Terror (1962); Theatre '62 (1962); The Farmer's Daughter (1962); Sanctuary (1961); Wild River (1960); The Tempest (1960); Anatomy of a Murder (1959); These Thousand Hills (1959); The Long, Hot Summer (1958); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1957–1958); Kraft Theatre (1953–1957); A Face in the Crowd (1957); Robert Montgomery Presents (1954–1956); Studio One (1954–1956); Modern Romances (1954–1956); Mama (1949); Ponds Theater (1953); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950).


Born on this day – Barbara Leigh-Hunt:

 

Barbara Leigh-Hunt


Actress

December 14, 1935 – September 16, 2024


Credits:
A Merry War (1997); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959); A Perfect Hero (1991); All for Love (1983); An Evening with... (1968); Anna Lee: Headcase (1993); As Time Goes By (1995); BBC Play of the Month (1979); BBC2 Playhouse (1979–1980); Bertie and Elizabeth (2002); Billy Elliot (2000); Bird's-Eye View (1969–1971); Call Oxbridge 2000 (1962); Callan (1969); Charlie Chalk (1988–1989); E! True Hollywood Story (1999); Emergency-Ward 10 (1962); Frenzy (1972); Full House (1972); George Eliot: A Scandalous Life (2002); Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972); Inheritance (1967); Inspector Morse (1990); ITV Play of the Week (1966); ITV Playhouse (1967–1980); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1970); ITV Sunday Night Drama (1971); Justice (1973); Kavanagh QC (1999–2001); Longitude (2000); Love's Labour's Lost (1965); Macbeth (1970); Midsomer Murders (2002); Mrs. Mouse, Are You Within? (1971); My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022); No Hiding Place (1965); Oh Heavenly Dog (1980); Paper Mask (1990); Play for Today (1973–1979); Playing Shakespeare (1982); Pride and Prejudice (1995); Pride and Prejudice Revisited (2005); Pride and Prejudice: Lasting Impressions (2006); 'Pride and Prejudice': The Making of... (1999); Public Eye (1965); Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1990); Ryan International (1970); Screen Two (1995); Screenplay (1986); Seeing and Believing (1971–1975); Six Days of Justice (1973); Special Branch (1969); Sunburn (1999); Sunday Premiere (1988); Suspicion (1971); The Afternoon Play (1984); The Bestest BBC Children's Video Ever! (1996); The Brontës of Haworth (1973); The Echo (1998); The Inside Man (1969); The Martins (2001); The Nelson Affair (1973); The Old Crowd / One Fine Day (1979); The Plague Dogs (1982); The Recording Angells (1956); The Saturday Play: Separate Tables (2002); The Search for the Nile (1971); The Siegfried Idyll (1969); Theatre 625 (1966); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1971); Thriller (1974); Vanity Fair (2004); Villains (1972); Wagner (1983); Who Killed Lamb? (1974); Wives and Daughters (1999).


Born on this day – Alessandra Panaro:

Alessandra Panaro


Actress

December 14, 1939 – May 1, 2019




Born on this day – Jane Birkin:


Jane Birkin


Singer

Actress

December 14, 1946 – July 16, 2023



On this day in movie history - Side Street (1949)


Side Street


directed by Anthony Mann,

written by Sydney Boehm,

was released in the United States on December 14, 1949.

Music by Lennie Hayton.

 
Cast:
Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig, Paul Kelly, Jean Hagen, Paul Harvey, Edmon Ryan, Charles McGraw, Edwin Max, Adele Jergens, Harry Bellaver, Whit Bissell, John Gallaudet, Esther Somers, Harry Antrim, Ben Cooper, King Donovan, David Bauer, Anthony Dexter, Herb Vigran.


On this day in movie history - The Seven-Ups (1973)


The Seven-Ups


directed by Philip D'Antoni,

written by Albert Ruben and Alexander Jacobs,

based on a story by Sonny Grosso,

was released in the United States on December 14, 1973.

Music by Don Ellis.


Cast:
Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Larry Haines, Richard Lynch, Bill Hickman, Jerry Leon, Victor Arnold, Ken Kercheval, Lou Polan, Matt Russo, Joe Spinell, Robert Burr.


On this day in movie history - The Hurricane (1999)

The Hurricane

directed by Norman Jewison,

written by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon,

was released in the United States on December 14, 1999.


Based on the books:

The Sixteenth Round by Rubin “Hurricane” Carter

and

Lazarus and the Hurricane by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton.

Music by Jeremy Sweet and Christopher Young.


Cast:
Denzel Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber, John Hannah, Dan Hedaya, Debbi Morgan, Clancy Brown, David Paymer, Harris Yulin, Rod Steiger, Badja Djola, Al Waxman, David Lansbury, Garland Whitt, Chuck Cooper, Brenda Denmark, Marcia Bennett, Beatrice Winde, Mitchell Taylor Jr., Bill Raymond, Merwin Goldsmith, John A. MacKay, Donnique Privott, Moynan King, Gary DeWitt Marshall, John Christopher Jones, Gwendolyn McCann, Richard M. Davidson, George T. Odom, Tonye Patano, Fulvio Cecere, Phillip Jarrett, Rodney ‘Bear’ Jackson, Judi Embden, Terry Claybon, Ben Hernandez Bray, Mike Justus, Kenneth McGregor, Frank Proctor, Peter Wylie, David Wm Gray, Joe Matheson, Bill Lake, Robin Ward, Harry Davis, Pippa Pearthree, Jean Daigle, Rob Evans, Scott Gibson, Ann Holloway, Bruce McFee, Conrad Bergschneider, Satori Shakoor, Zoran Radusinovic, Stephen Lee Wright, Michael Bodnar, Carson Manning, Debrah Ellen Waller, Richard Litt, Adam Large, Peter Graham, George Masswohl, Lawrence Sacco, David Frisch, Ralph Brown, Dyron Holmes, Ryan Williams, Bruce Vavrina, Brenda Braxton, Christopher Riordan, Guy Ale, Muhammad Ali, Ellen Burstyn, Kevin Carrigan, Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, Bob Dylan, Joe Frazier, Vinson German, Matt Graver, Michael Harkins, David Headon, Robert Mauzell, Alex Oliveira, Craig Snoyer, David Sparrow, Michael Stevens.