Born on this day – Jeff Chandler:

Jeff Chandler

Actor

Producer

Singer

December 15, 1918 – June 17, 1961

Credits:

Merrill's Marauders (1962); Return to Peyton Place (1961); A Story of David: The Hunted (1960); The Plunderers (1960); The Jayhawkers! (1959); Ten Seconds to Hell (1959); Thunder in the Sun (1959); A Stranger in My Arms (1959); Raw Wind in Eden (1958); The Lady Takes a Flyer (1958); Man in the Shadow (1957); Jeanne Eagels (1957); The Tattered Dress (1957); Drango (1957); Pillars of the Sky (1956); Away All Boats (1956); The Toy Tiger (1956); The Spoilers (1955); The Nat 'King' Cole Musical Story (1955); Female on the Beach (1955); Foxfire (1955); Sign of the Pagan (1954); Yankee Pasha (1954); Taza, Son of Cochise (1954); War Arrow (1953); East of Sumatra (1953); The Great Sioux Uprising (1953); Girls in the Night (1953); Because of You (1952); Yankee Buccaneer (1952); Son of Ali Baba (1952); Red Ball Express (1952); The Battle at Apache Pass (1952); Meet Danny Wilson (1952); Flame of Araby (1951); Iron Man (1951); Smuggler's Island (1951); Double Crossbones (1951); Bird of Paradise (1951); Two Flags West (1950); The Desert Hawk (1950); Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950); Broken Arrow (1950); Deported (1950); Abandoned (1949); Sword in the Desert (1949); Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949); Roses Are Red (1947); The Invisible Wall (1947); Johnny O'Clock (1947); Thrill of a Romance (1945).

Born on this day – Edna O'Brien:

Edna O'Brien

Writer

December 15, 1930 – July 27, 2024

Credits:
 
Books:
 

A Christmas Treat (1982); A Fanatic Heart (1984); A Pagan Place (1970); A Scandalous Woman (1972); An Edna O'Brien Reader (1994); August Is a Wicked Month (1965); Byron In Love (2009); Casualties of Peace (1966); Collector's Choice (1978); Country Girl (2012); Down by the River (1996); Far from the Land (1989); Girl (2019); Girls in Their Married Bliss (1963); Haunted (2010); House of Splendid Isolation (1994); In the Forest (2002); Irish Revel (1998); James and Nora (1981); James Joyce (1999); Johnny I Hardly Knew You / aka I Hardly Knew You (1977); Joyce's Women (2022); Lantern Slides (1990); Mother Ireland (1976); Mrs. Reinhardt (1996); Mrs. Reinhardt and Other Stories / aka A Rose in the Heart (1978); Night (1972); On the Bone (1989); Paradise (2019); Poolside (2007); Returning (1982); Saints and Sinners (2011); Shovel Kings (2009); Some Irish Loving (1979); Tales for the Telling (1986); The Country Girls (1960); The Dazzle (1981); The High Road (1988); The Light of Evening (2006); The Little Red Chairs (2015); The Lonely Girl (1962); The Love Object (1968); The Love Object: A Story (2020); The Rescue (1983); Time and Tide (1992); Triptych (2005); Triptych and Iphigenia (2005); Vanishing Ireland (1990); Virginia (1985); Wild Decembers (1999); Zee and Co. (1971).

 

Movies and television:
 

28' (2013); À mi-mots (2003); Aquarius (1972–1976); Armchair Theatre (1965); BBC2 Playhouse (1981); Festival (1965); Girl with Green Eyes (1964); Half Hour Story (1967–1968); Harty (1986); Hemingway (2021); Hyggekrogen (1969); Imagine (2014–2019); In Bed with Ulysses (2012); ITV Television Playhouse (1963); James Joyce: A Shout in the Street (2017); Kulturplatz (2020); Les Carnets de route de François Busnel (2014); Love / Segment: Julia (1982); Love Story (1964–1965); Omnibus (2002); Pebble Mill at One (1982); Personal Choice (1970); Question Time (1979 / 2019); Read All About It (1974–1976); Review (1970); Sie hätten im Sommer kommen sollen (1972); Sunday AM (2012); That's All Right (1989); The Book Show (2009–2013); The Country Girls (1983); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1967); The Hard Way (1980); The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986); The Russell Harty Show (1981); The South Bank Show (1978); Then and Now (1973); Three Into Two Won't Go (1969); Thursday Play Date (1975); Time Lost and Time Remembered (1966); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2020); Tonite Let's All Make Love in London / Segment: Dollygirls (1967); When I Get to Heaven (1988); Wild Decembers (2009); Wogan (1985–1990); X, Y & Zee (1972).

Born on this day – Yvonne Monlaur:

Yvonne Monlaur

Actress

December 15, 1939 – April 18, 2017

Born on this day – Barbara Valentin:

Barbara Valentin

Actress

December 15, 1940 – February 22, 2002

On this day in movie history - Gone with the Wind (1939)

 

Gone with the Wind

directed by Victor Fleming, George Cukor and Sam Wood,

written by Sidney Howard, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, Jo Swerling and John Van Druten,

based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell,

was released in the United States on December 15, 1939.

Music by Max Steiner.

 
Gone with the Wind was the first movie screened on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) when the channel was launched on April 14, 1994.
 
Cast:

Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, George Reeves, Fred Crane, Hattie McDaniel, Oscar Polk, Butterfly McQueen, Ward Bond, Victor Jory, Everett Brown, Howard Hickman, Alicia Rhett, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Rand Brooks, Carroll Nye, Laura Hope Crews, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Harry Davenport, Leona Roberts, Jane Darwell, Ona Munson, Paul Hurst, Isabel Jewell, Cammie King Conlon, Eric Linden, J.M. Kerrigan, Jackie Moran, Cliff Edwards, Lillian Kemble-Cooper, Yakima Canutt, Marcella Martin, Louis Jean Heydt, Mickey Kuhn, Olin Howland, Irving Bacon, Robert Elliott, William Bakewell, Mary Anderson, John Albright, Eric Alden, John Arledge, Roscoe Ates, Trevor Bardette, Dorothy Barrett, Janet Barrett, Lennie Bluett, John Breen, Ralph Brooks, Morgan Brown, Daisy Bufford, Ann Bupp, James Bush, Ruth Byers, Gary Carlson, Horace B. Carpenter, Louise Carter, Shirley Chambers, Eddy Chandler, Silver Chief, Wallis Clark, Richard Clucas, Frank Coghlan Jr., Billy Cook, Jim Corey, Gino Corrado, Martina Cortina, Luke Cosgrave, Kernan Cripps, Patrick Curtis, Russell Custer, Yola d'Avril, Ned Davenport, Marvin Davis, Dolores Dean, Dawn Dodd, Lester Dorr, Phyllis Douglas, Joan Drake, F. Driver, Edythe Elliott, Susan Falligant, Richard Farnsworth, Frank Faylen, Geraldine Fissette, Charline Flanders, Bess Flowers, Greg Giese, Kelly Griffin, George Hackathorne, Chuck Hamilton, Evelyn Harding, Lucille Harding, Inez Hatchett, Jean Heker, Ricky Holt, Shep Houghton, George Huggins, Peaches Jackson, Claire James, Jerry James, Si Jenks, Harvey Karels, Tommy Kelly, Emmett King, W. Kirby, Al Kunde, Paula Lane, Carl M. Leviness, Timothy J. Lonergan, John Long, Robert Locke Lorraine, Barbara Lynn, Margaret Mann, Caren Marsh, William McClain, Leona McDowell, Dock McGill, Peggy McIntyre, George Meeker, Charles Middleton, Lola Milliorn, Hans Moebus, Alberto Morin, Adrian Morris, Lee Murray, H. Nellman, David Newell, Jeanette Noeson, Artie Ortego, Dorothy Ann Pailliot, Naomi Pharr, Lee Phelps, Spencer Quinn, Jolane Reynolds, Marjorie Reynolds, Suzanne Ridgway, Louisa Robert, Azarene Rogers, Scott Seaton, Tom Seidel, Terry Shero, William Stack, William Stelling, Harry Strang, Dirk Wayne Summers, Stephanie Toler, Emerson Treacy, Phillip Trent, Julia Ann Tuck, Tom Tyler, Dale Van Sickel, E. Alyn Warren, Blue Washington, Rita Waterhouse, John Joseph Waterman Jr., Dan White, Sarah Whitley, Ernest Whitman, Guy Wilkerson, Zack Williams, Phyllis Woodward, John Wray.

On this day in movie history - Young Frankenstein (1974)

 

Young Frankenstein

directed by Mel Brooks,

written by Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks,

inspired by the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley,

was released in the United States on December 15, 1974.

Music by John Morris.

“Puttin’ on the Riiiiitz!”

- Peter Boyle, as The Monster.

Cast:

Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, Liam Dunn, Danny Goldman, Oscar Beregi Jr., Arthur Malet, Richard A. Roth, Monte Landis, Rusty Blitz, Anne Beesley, Gene Hackman, John Madison, John Dennis, Rick Norman, Rolfe Sedan, Terence Pushman, Randolph Dobbs, Norbert Schiller, Pat O'Hara, Michael Fox, Lidia Kristen, Ian Abercrombie, Leon Askin, Benjie Bancroft, Mel Brooks, Ken Clayton, Jack Clinton, Robert Cole, Lou Cutell, Alphonso DuBois, Peter Eastman, Sig Frohlich, Michael J. Grayson, Peter Halton, Bob Harks, Lars Hensen, George Holmes, Kathryn Janssen, Michael Jeffers, Dale Johnson, Berry Kroeger, Ethelreda Leopold, Bob Liddle, John Marlin, Jeff Maxwell, John Hugh McKnight, Ernesto Molinari, Monty O'Grady, Tony Regan, Leoda Richards, Clark Ross, Paul Russell, Maida Severn, Norman Stevans, Don Terwilliger, Arthur Tovey, Clement von Franckenstein, Max Wagner.

On this day in movie history - Heat (1995)

Heat

directed and written by Michael Mann,

was released in the United States on December 15, 1995.

Previous filmed by Michael Mann as the TV movie L.A. Takedown (1986).

Music by Elliot Goldenthal.

Cast:

Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, Dennis Haysbert, William Fichtner, Natalie Portman, Tom Noonan, Kevin Gage, Hank Azaria, Susan Traylor, Kim Staunton, Danny Trejo, Henry Rollins, Jerry Trimble, Tone Loc, Ricky Harris, Ray Buktenica, Jeremy Piven, Xander Berkeley, Martin Ferrero, Hazelle Goodman, Paul Herman, Cindy Katz, Dan Martin, Rick Avery, Bill McIntosh, Thomas Rosales Jr., Patricia Healy, Yvonne Zima, Farrah Forke.