Born on this day – Dagmar Frýbortová:

 

Dagmar Frýbortová

Actress

August 10, 1925 – May 18, 2012

Born on this day – Patricia Huston:

Patricia Huston

Actress

August 10, 1929 – September 25, 1995

Born on this day – Kate O'Mara:

Kate O'Mara

Actress

Writer

August 10, 1939 – March 30, 2014

Born on this day – Marie Versini:

Marie Versini

Actress

August 10, 1940 – November 22, 2021

On this day in movie history - Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Sunset Boulevard

a.k.a. SUNSET BLVD.,

directed by Billy Wilder,

written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman Jr.,

was released in the United States on August 10, 1950.

Music by Franz Waxman.

Cast:

William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Franklyn Farnum, Larry J. Blake, Charles Dayton, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson, H.B. Warner, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston, Fred Aldrich, Joel Allen, Gertrude Astor, Anne Bauchens, Edward Biby, Danny Borzage, Ken Christy, Ruth Clifford, John Cortay, Archie R. Dalzell, Eddie Dew, Peter Drynan, Julia Faye, Al Ferguson, Gerry Ganzer, Rudy Germane, Kenneth Gibson, Joe Gray, Sanford E. Greenwald, Creighton Hale, Chuck Hamilton, James Hawley, Len Hendry, E. Mason Hopper, Stan Johnson, Tiny Jones, Howard Joslin, Arthur Lane, Perc Launders, Alan Marston, William Meader, Gertrude Messinger, Harold Miller, John ‘Skins’ Miller, Lee Miller, Ralph Montgomery, Bert Moorhouse, Jay Morley, Bernice Mosk, Howard Negley, Ottola Nesmith, Eva Novak, Frank O’Connor, Robert Emmett O’Connor, Jack Perrin, Virginia L. Randolph, Bill Sheehan, Sidney Skolsky, Emmett Smith, Roy Thompson, Archie Twitchell, Yvette Vickers, Edward Wahrman, Jack Warden, Henry Wilcoxon.

On this day in movie history - Night Watch (1973)

Night Watch

directed by Brian G. Hutton,

written by Evan Jones and Tony Williamson,

based on the play by Lucille Fletcher,

was released in the United States on August 10, 1973.

Music by John Cameron.

Cast:

Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw, Robert Lang, Tony Britton, Bill Dean, Michael Danvers-Walker, Rosario Serrano, Pauline Jameson, Linda Hayden, Kevin Colson, Laon Maybanke, David Jackson.

On this day in movie history - Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

Battle Beyond the Stars

directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and Roger Corman,

written by John Sayles,

based on a story by John Sayles and Anne Dyer,

was released in the United States on August 10, 1980.

Music by James Horner.

Cast:

Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, John Saxon, George Peppard, Darlanne Fluegel, Sybil Danning, Sam Jaffe, Morgan Woodward, Earl Boen, John Gowans, Steve Davis, Lawrence Steven Meyers, Lara Cody, Lynn Carlin, Jeff Corey, Marta Kristen, Julia Duffy, Eric Morris, Doug Carleson, Ron Ross, Terrence E. McNally, Galen Thompson, Whitney Rydbeck, Dan Vincent,Tom Henschel, Nate Esformes, Richard Davalos, Lanny Broyles, Rob Reece, Ansley Carlin, Daniel Carlin, Dallas Clarke, Brian Coventry, Rick Davidson, James Dunaway, Kerry Frank, Kathy Griffin, S.A. Griffin, Gary D. Robbins, Kimberly Sommer, Dan Thompson.