Monday, October 6, 2025

Born on this day – Teala Loring:

Teala Loring


Actress

October 6, 1922 – January 28, 2007


Born on this day – Stanley Myers:


Stanley Myers


Composer

October 6, 1930 – November 9, 1993


Born on this day – Richard T. Heffron:


Richard T. Heffron


Director

October 6, 1930 – August 27, 2007


Born on this day – Fay Spain:


Fay Spain


Actress

October 6, 1932 – May 8, 1983


On this day in movie history - Dark City (1950)

Dark City

directed by William Dieterle,

written by John Meredyth Lucas and Larry Marcus,

based on the story No Escape by Larry Marcus,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1950.

Music by Franz Waxman.

 
Cast:
Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger, Don DeFore, Jack Webb, Ed Begley, Harry Morgan, Walter Sande, Mark Keuning, Mike Mazurki.

On this day in movie history - The Breaking Point (1950)


The Breaking Point


directed by Michael Curtiz,

written by Ranald MacDougall,

based on the novel To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1950.

Music by Max Steiner.


Cast:
Ryan, Ralph Dumke, Guy Thomajan, William Campbell, Sherry Jackson, Donna Jo Boyce, Victor Sen Yung.

On this day in movie history – Pillow Talk (movie & novel) (1959)


Pillow Talk


directed by Michael Gordon,

written by Russell Rouse, Maurice Richlin, Stanley Shapiro and Clarence Greene,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1959.

Music by Frank De Vol.


Cast:
Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Karen Norris, Julia Meade, Allen Jenkins, Marcel Dalio, Lee Patrick, Mary McCarty, Alex Gerry, Hayden Rorke, Valerie Allen, Jacqueline Beer, Arlen Stuart.

Pillow Talk

by Marvin H. Albert.

Published by Gold Medal.

Published 1959.

ASIN: B000ARHC90

Vintage paperback

Filmed as Pillow Talk (1959), directed by Michael Gordon.

Back cover description:

Good connections.

Doris Day plays the interior decorator who has designs on men.

Rock Hudson and Tony Randall are the men who fall for her, hook, line and sinker.