Born on this day – Agnès Varda:

Agnès Varda

Director

Writer

Photographer

Artist

May 30, 1928 – March 29, 2019

Born on this day – Audrey Flack:

Audrey Flack

Visual artist

Painter

Printmaker

Sculptor

Photographer

May 30, 1931 – June 28, 2024

Born on this day – Michael Small:

Michael Small

Composer

May 30, 1939 – November 24, 2003

Born on this day – Michael J. Pollard:

Michael J. Pollard

Actor

May 30, 1939 – November 20, 2019

Born on this day – Meredith MacRae:

Meredith MacRae

Actress

Singer

Talk show host

May 30, 1944 – July 14, 2000

On this day in movie and book history - While the City Sleeps (1956) and The Bloody Spur (1953)

While the City Sleeps

directed by Fritz Lang,

written by Casey Robinson,

based on the novel The Bloody Spur by Charles Einstein,

was released in France on May 30, 1956.

Inspired by the true 1946 case of the Chicago serial killer William Heirens.

Music by Herschel Burke Gilbert.

Cast:

Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Sally Forrest, John Drew Barrymore, James Craig, Ida Lupino, Robert Warwick, Mae Marsh, Ralph Peters, Sandra White, Larry J. Blake, Celia Lovsky, Ed Hinton, Pitt Herbert, Vladimir Sokoloff, David Andrews, Eddie Baker, Ralph Brooks, Leonard Carey, Russell Custer, John Damler, Sayre Dearing, George DeNormand, Joe Devlin, Sam Finn, Mike Lally, Andrew Lupino, Ralph Manza, Mickey Martin, Joey Ray, Cosmo Sardo, Charles Sherlock, Olan Soule, Bert Stevens, Carleton Young.

Recommended reading:

The Bloody Spur

by Charles Einstein.

Filmed as While the City Sleeps (1956), directed by Fritz Lang.
Inspired by the true 1946 case of the Chicago serial killer William Heirens.

Published by Black Curtain Press.
First published 1953.

ISBN-10: 1627551158
ISBN-13: 9781627551151
 
Description:
HELP ME FOR GOD’S SAKE.
Later the doctors would use these words to decipher the riddle of a perverted killer.
Right now, the lipstick scrawl signaled the start of New York's greatest manhunt.

On this day in movie history - The Terror (1963)

The Terror

directed by Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Hale,

Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Dennis Jakob and Jack Nicholson,

written by Leo Gordon, Jack Hill and Roger Corman,

was released in France on May 30, 1963.

Music by Ronald Stein.

Cast:
Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Dorothy Neumann, Jonathan Haze