Born on this day – Noel Francis:

Noel Francis

Actress

August 31, 1906 – October 30, 1959

Credits:

Bachelor Apartment (1931); Blonde Crazy (1931); Blood Money (1933); Bureau of Missing Persons (1933); Fifteen Wives (1934); Flames (1932); Frisco Jenny (1932); Good Dame (1934); Guilty as Hell (1932); Havana Widows (1933); Her Hired Husband (1930); Her Resale Value (1933); Hold Me Tight (1933); Husband's Holiday (1931); I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932); Imitation of Life (1934); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Left Handed Law (1937); Madison Square Garden (1932); Man About Town (1932); Manhattan Tower (1932); Mutiny Ahead (1935); My Pal, the King (1932); New Movietone Follies of 1930 (1930); Night Court (1932); Only Yesterday (1933); Reform Girl (1933); Resurrection (1931); Rough Romance (1930); Screen Snapshots (1932); Smart Money (1931); Smart Woman (1931); So Big! (1932); Son of a Sailor (1933); Stone of Silver Creek (1935); Stone of Silver Creek (1935); Strictly Dynamite (1934); Sudden Bill Dorn (1937); The Easiest Way (1931); The Expert (1932); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); The Important Witness (1933); The Line-Up (1934); The Loudspeaker (1934); The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934); The Mouthpiece (1932); The White Cockatoo (1935); The White Parade (1934); Turkey for Two (1929); Under-Cover Man (1932); Up the River (1930); What's Your Racket? (1934). 

Born on this day – Richard Basehart:

 

Richard Basehart

Actor

August 31, 1914 – September 17, 1984

Born on this day – David Lowell Rich:

 

David Lowell Rich

Director

Producer

August 31, 1920 – October 21, 2001

Born on this day – G. D. Spradlin:

 

G. D. Spradlin

Actor

Attorney

Businessman

August 31, 1920 – July 24, 2011

Born on this day – James Coburn:

James Coburn

Actor

August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002

Credits:

100 Years of the Hollywood Western (1994); 5th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (1999); 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2003); A Distant Battle: Memories of Operation Market Garden (2004); A Fast Drive in the Country - The Heydays of Le Mans (1976); A High Wind in Jamaica (1965); A Life in Ten Pictures (2021); A Man Called Jones: The Real Virgil Hilts (2002); A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972); Acapulco (1961); Action on the Beach (1964); Affliction (1997); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958–1959); All-Star Birthday Party at Annapolis (1982); American Cinema (1995); American Gun (2002); American Masters (1989); Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge (1995); Arli$$ (2002); Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero (1999); A Christmas Reunion (1994); Bat Masterson (1959–1960); Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right (1996); Biography (1994); Bite the Bullet (1975); Black Saddle (1959); Blackjack (1997); Blood and Steel: Making 'Enter the Dragon' (2004); Bonanza (1959–1962); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Bracken's World (1970); Bronco (1959–1960); Bruce Lee, the Legend (1984); Bruce Lee, the Legend Continues (2001); Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000); Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist (1999); Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On (1999); Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend (1973); Bruce Lee: The Man, the Myth (1976); Bruce Lee: The Way of the Warrior (2022); Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do (1995); Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do (1995); Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005); C.E.O. (1995); Cain's Hundred (1962); Call from Space (1989); Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia (2007); Candy (1968); Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990–1992); Charade (1963); Charlie Rose (1999); Checkmate (1962); Cheyenne (1961); Cinema (1967); Circle of Iron (1978); Clive James' Postcard from... (1989); Combat! (1963); Convoy (1978); Cowboys of the Saturday Matinee (1984); Craps (1997); Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992); Cross of Iron (1977); Dale's All Stars (2000); Darkroom (1981–1982); De Caunes/Garcia - Le meilleur de Nulle Part Ailleurs 2... suite et fin! (2005); Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966); Deadfall (1993); Death of a Soldier (1986); Death Valley Days (1960); Des O'Connor Tonight (1991); Digital Dreams (1983); Draw! (1984); Duck, You Sucker! (1971); Duffy (1968); E! True Hollywood Story (1998); Enter the Clones of Bruce (2023); Eraser (1996); Escape (1980); Face of a Fugitive (1959); Faerie Tale Theatre (1984); Famous Families (1999); Film Genre (2002); Firepower (1979); Football America (1996); Frontier Justice (1961); Gala Paramount Pictures Celebrates 90th Anniversary with 90 Stars for 90 Years (2002); General Electric Theater (1958); Go West, Young Man! (2003); Golden Globes 50th Anniversary Celebration (1994); Goldengirl (1979); Good Morning America (1977–1980); Gottschalk Late Night (1994); Gran premio internazionale della TV (2000); Great Performances (2000); Greyhounds (1994); Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' (2000); Gypsy (1968); Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987); Hard Contract (1969); Hard Times / aka The Streetfighter (1975); Harry in Your Pocket (1973); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959–1960); HBO First Look (1994); Headshop (1971–1972); Hell Is for Heroes (1962); Hey Folks, It's Intermission Time (1993); High Risk (1981); Hollywood Beat (2001); Hollywood Greats (1984–2001); Hollywood Mavericks (1990); Hollywood Profile (2001); Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999); Hollywood Stuntmakers (1991); Hollywood's Diamond Jubilee (1978); Horizon (1970); How the West Was Lost (2008); Hudson Hawk (1991); Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time (1992); I Am Bruce Lee (2012); I Am Steve McQueen (2014); I Love Muppets (2002); Il falso bugiardo (2008); In Like Flint (1967); Intimate Portrait (2001); Intrepid (2000); Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1981); John Wayne: On Board with the Duke (1997); Johnny Ringo (1959); Keys to Tulsa (1997); King of Diamonds (1962); Kings of the Sun (1963); Klondike (1960–1961); Laramie (1959–1961); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1994–1999); Late Show with David Letterman (1999); Lawman (1960); Le cercle de minuit (1993); Les Chroniques du Mea (2019); Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner (2020); Looker (1981); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Loving Couples (1980); M Squad (1959); Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away (1986); Magacine (1999); Major Dundee (1965); Malibu (1983); Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (2001); Martin's Day (1985); Mastergate (1992); Maverick (1994); Men Into Space (1960); Midway (1976); Missing Pieces (2000); Monsters, Inc. (2001); Monsters, Inc. Scream Team (2001); Moving Pictures (1992); Mr. Murder (1998); Mr. Patman (1980); Muppets 201: Rarities from the Henson Vault (2009); Murder, She Wrote (1992); My Riviera (1990); Naked City (1962); Noah's Ark (1999); Of Muppets and Men: The Making of 'The Muppet Show' (1981); Okavango: Africa's Savage Oasis (1996); Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone (2000); One on One with John Tesh (1992); Our Man Flint (1966); Outlaws (1961); Parkinson (1973); Passion & Poetry - Peckinpah's last western (2024); Passion & Poetry - The Dundee Odyssey (2019); Passion & Poetry: Major Dundee (2005); Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah Anecdotes (2017); Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War (2011); Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie (2013); Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1967); Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973); Payback (1999); Payback: Interview with Mel Gibson, Maria Bello, Lucy Liu and James Coburn (1999); Payback: Straight Up (2006); Paybacks Are a Bitch (2023); Perry Mason (1961–1962); Peter Gunn (1960); Philbin's People (1969); Picket Fences (1995); Profiler (1997); Proximity (2001); Rawhide (1962); Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995); Ray Alexander: A Taste for Justice (1994); Return to 'the Great Escape' (1993); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1960); Ride Lonesome (1959); RIP 2002 (2002); Ripcord (1962); Route 66 (1964); Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron (1993); Sam Peckinpah: Portrait (2006); Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004); Saturday Night Live (1982); Scene by Scene (2000); Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen (1996); Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999); Silverfox (1991); Sins of the Father (1985); Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993); Skeletons (1997); Sky Riders (1976); Slots with Video Poker (1997); Snow Dogs (2002); Special Collector's Edition (2011); Speed Fever (1978); Stagecoach West (1961); State Trooper (1959); Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1989); Stoney Burke (1963); Stories from My Childhood (1998); Studio One (1957); Sugarfoot (1960); Super Bloopers and Practical Jokes (1984); Superstunt (1977); Superstunt II (1979); Suspicion (1958); Tales of Wells Fargo (1958–1962); Tate (1960); Texas Rangers (2001); The 13th Annual CableACE Awards (1992); The 14th Annual CableACE Awards (1993); The 14th Annual IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (1999); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The 2nd Annual People's Choice Awards (1976); The 38th Annual Academy Awards (1966); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 4th Annual American Cinema Awards (1987); The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1993); The 51st Annual Academy Awards (1979); The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1999); The 71st Annual Academy Awards (1999); The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000); The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003); The Americanization of Emily (1964); The Aquanauts (1961); The Avenging Angel (1995); The Baltimore Bullet (1980); The BBC and the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Tribute to Richard Attenborough (1999); The Best of Hollywood (2017–2018); The Brothers Brannagan (1961); The Californians (1959); The Carey Treatment (1972); The Cherokee Kid (1996); The Coolest Guy Movie Ever: Return to the Scene of The Great Escape (2018); The Curse of the Dragon (1993); The Dain Curse (1978); The David Frost Show (1971–1972); The Defenders (1964); The Deputy (1960); The Detectives (1961); The Dick Cavett Show (1969); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962); The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson (1996); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959); The Ed Sullivan Show (1965–1967); The Edge and Beyond (1988–1990); The Eighth Annual Diversity Awards (2000); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Fall Guy (1981); The Fifth Corner (1992); The Godfather and the Mob (2006); The Good Doctor (2000); The Great Escape (1963); The Greatest Show on Earth (1963); The Hit List (1993); The Honkers (1972); The Infinite Voyage (1987–1991); The Internecine Project (1974); The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002); The Last Hard Men (1976); The Last of Sheila (1973); The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1959); The Life of Bruce Lee (1994); The Linkletter Show (1967); The Lion's Roar (1985); The Living Edens (1998–1999); The Loved One (1965); The Magical World of Disney (1958–1959); The Magnificent Seven (1960); The Making of 'Midway' (2001); The Man from Elysian Fields (2001); The Man from Galveston (1963); The McCartney Years (2007); The Merv Griffin Show (1968–1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1967–1980); The Millionaire (1959); The Mists of Avalon (2001); The Muppet Movie (1979); The Muppet Show (1980); The Muppets Go Hollywood (1979); The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (1986); The Murder Men (1962); The New Bike (2009); The Nutty Professor (1996); The Path of the Dragon (2012); The Player (1992); The President's Analyst (1967); The Restless Gun (1958–1959); The Rifleman (1958–1961); The Rockford Files (1977); The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1999–2002); The Rough Riders (1959); The Second Civil War (1997); The Set Up (1995); The Tall Man (1961); The Texan (1960); The Toni Tennille Show (1980); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1966–1980); The Twilight Zone (1963); The Unbeatable Bruce Lee (2001); The Untouchables (1961); The Wild West (1993); The Wildest West Show of the Stars (1986); The Wolf Men (1969); The Yellow Bird (2001); This Is Your Life (1989); Tombstone Territory (1959); Trackdown (1959); Train to Heaven (1989); True Facts (1992); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Vengeance Unlimited (1999); Wagon Train (1958); Walking After Midnight (1988); Walter and Henry (2001); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959–1960); Warner Bros. Celebration of Tradition (1990); Waterhole #3 (1967); What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966); What's My Line? (1956); What's the Bet? (1994); Whirlybirds (1959); White Rock (1977); Wichita Town (1959–1960); Wogan (1989); World's Scariest Ghosts: Caught on Tape (2000); Young Guns II (1990); Zane Grey Theatre (1959–1960).

On this day in movie history - Terror in the Aisles (1984)

Terror in the Aisles

documentary directed by Andrew J. Kuehn,

written by Margery Doppelt,

was released in the United States on August 31, 1984.

Hosted by Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen.

Music by John Beal.

Clips shown from the following movies:

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); Alien (1979); Alligator (1980); Alone in the Dark (1982); An American Werewolf in London (1981); Bride of Frankenstein (1935); Bug (1975); Carrie (1976); Cat People (1982); Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954); Creepshow (1982); Dawn of the Dead (1978); Dracula (1979); Dressed to Kill (1980); Eyes of Laura Mars (1978); Firestarter (1984); Frenzy (1972); Friday the 13th (1980); Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981); Friday the 13th Part III (1982); Frogs (1972); Grizzly (1976); Halloween (1978); Halloween II (1981); Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982); Hold That Ghost (1941); Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978); Jaws (1975); Jaws 2 (1978); King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962); Klute (1971); Konga (1961); Marathon Man (1976); Midnight Express (1978); Ms .45 (1981); Night of the Living Dead (1968); Nighthawks (1981); Nightwing (1979); Phantom of the Paradise (1974); Piranha (1978); Play Misty for Me (1971); Poltergeist (1982); Prophecy (1979); Psycho (1960); Rosemary's Baby (1968); Saturday the 14th (1981); Scanners (1981); Scared Stiff (1953); Sisters (1972); Strangers on a Train (1951); Suspiria (1977); Tarantula! (1955); The Birds (1963); The Brood (1979); The Car (1977); The Deadly Mantis (1957); The Exorcist (1973); The Fly (1958); The Fog (1980); The Food of the Gods (1976); The Funhouse (1981); The Fury (1978); The Ghost Breakers (1940); The Howling (1981); The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957); The Legacy (1978); The Omen (1976); The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981); The Seduction (1982); The Shining (1980); The Silent Partner (1978); The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974); The Thing (1982); The Thing with Two Heads (1972); The Wolf Man (1941); This Island Earth (1955); To Catch a Thief (1955); Vice Squad (1982); Videodrome (1983); Wait Until Dark (1967); What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962); When a Stranger Calls (1979).

Cast:

Bud Abbott, Brooke Adams, Julia Adams, Ana Alicia, Alan Arkin, Susan Backlinie, Belinda Balaski, Martin Balsam, Adrienne Barbeau, Ralph Bellamy, Elizabeth Berridge, Sidney Blackmer, Nina Blackwood, Linda Blair, Wilford Brimley, Richard Brooker, Marilyn Burns, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Caine, Veronica Cartwright, John Cassavetes, Lon Chaney Jr., Lou Costello, Charles Cioffi, Joan Crawford, Richard Crenna, Jamie Lee Curtis, Keith David, Bette Davis, Brad Davis, Joan Davis, Angie Dickinson, Faye Dunaway, Griffin Dunne, Shelley Duvall, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Fairchild, Mia Farrow, William Finley, Jane Fonda, John Gavin, Jeff Goldblum, Elliott Gould, Gerrit Graham, Cary Grant, Rosey Grier, Charles Hallahan, Gunnar Hansen, Jessica Harper, Debbie Harry, Rutger Hauer, Wings Hauser, David Hedison, Tippi Hedren, Dustin Hoffman, Ian  Holm,Season Hubley, Michael Ironside, Amy Irving, Carol Kane, Boris Karloff, Grace Kelly, Persis Khambatta, Margot Kidder, Dana Kimmell, Adrienne King, Yaphet Kotto, Elsa Lanchester, Stephen Lack, Martin Landau, Frank Langella, Piper Laurie, Janet Leigh, Jerry Lewis, Danny Lloyd, Lynn Lowry, Bela Lugosi, Zoe Tamerlis Lund, Herbert Marshall, Dean Martin, Kevin McCarthy, Leo McKern, Teri McMinn, Vera Miles, Jason Miller, Tawny Moyer, David Naughton, Kate Nelligan, Jack Nicholson, Laurence Olivier, Heather O'Rourke, Patricia Owens, Betsy Palmer, Gregory Peck, Anthony Perkins, Christopher Plummer, Vincent Price, Lee Remick, Kurt Russell, Roy Scheider, P. J. Soles, Sissy Spacek, Sylvester Stallone, Harry Dean Stanton, Amy Steel, Andrew Stevens, Catherine Mary Stewart, Donald Sutherland, Gary Swanson, Max von Sydow, Jessica Tandy, Rod Taylor, Robert Walker, Dee Wallace, Jessica Walter, Sigourney Weaver, Jack Weston, Billie Whitelaw, Billy Dee Williams, James Woods.

On this day in movie history - Nine Queens (2000)

 

Nine Queens

directed and written by Fabián Bielinsky,

released in Argentina on August 31, 2000.

Music by César Lerner.

 
Cast:

Gastón Pauls, Ricardo Darín, Graciela Tenenbaum, María Mercedes Villagra, Gabo/Gabriel Correa, Pochi Ducasse, Luis Armesto, Ernesto Arias, Amancay Espíndola, Isaac Fajm, Jorge Noya, Leticia Brédice, Oscar Nuñez, Ignasi Abadal, Carlos Lanari, Roberto Rey, Tomás Fonzi, Celia Juárez, Alejandro Awada, Antonio Ugo, Leo Dyzen, Elsa Berenguer, Carlos Falcone, Ricardo Díaz Mourelle, Ulises Celestino, Norberto Arcusín, Gabriel Molinelli, Emanuel Mercado, Claudio Rissi, Roly Serrano.