Born on this day – Ben Johnson:

Ben Johnson

Actor

Stuntman

Rodeo cowboy

June 13, 1918 – April 8, 1996

Born on this day – Kristine Miller:

Kristine Miller

Actress

June 13, 1925 – 2015 Exact date of death unknown

Credits:

Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951); Big Town (1953); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1952–1953); Cavalcade of America (1956); China Smith (1953); Club Havana (1945); Crossroads (1955); Dangerous Assignment (1952); Desert Fury (1947); Domino Kid (1957); Father Knows Best (1959); Fireside Theatre (1952–1953); Flight Nurse (1953); Four Star Playhouse (1955); From Here to Eternity (1953); Geraldine (1953); Gruen Guild Theater (1951); Hell's Outpost (1954); High Lonesome (1950); I Walk Alone (1947); Jungle Patrol (1948); Kraft Theatre (1951); Lux Video Theatre (1953); M Squad (1958); My Little Margie (1953); Paid in Full (1950); Ramar of the Jungle (1954); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957); Secret of Outlaw Flats (1953); Shadow on the Wall (1950); Soldiers of Fortune (1955); Sorry, Wrong Number (1948); Stage 7 (1955); Stars Over Hollywood (1951); Stories of the Century (1954–1955); Suspense (1946); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); The Donna Reed Show (1959–1961); The Heart Is a Rebel (1958); The Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill (1950); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Millionaire (1957); The Persuader (1957); The Restless Gun (1958); The Star and the Story (1955); The Steel Fist (1952); The Texan (1959–1960); The Trouble with Women (1947); Thunder Over Arizona (1956); Too Late for Tears (1949); Tropical Heat Wave (1952); Variety (1951); Wagon Train (1958); Young Daniel Boone (1950); Your Show Time (1949).

Born on this day – Ángela Álvarez:

 

Ángela Álvarez

Singer

Composer

Actress

June 13, 1927 – December 6, 2024

Credits:

In 2022, she was the oldest recipient of the Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

Songs:
 

Amor; Añoranzas; Ansias Locas; Camino Sin Rumbo; El Regreso; El Sol; En Mi Jardín; María; Mi Gran Amor; Pedacito De Cielo; Que Linda Es; Quiéreme Mucho; Romper El Yugo; Sé Que Te Vas; Seguirei; Un Canto a Mi Cuba; Un Nuevo Amanecer.

 

Movies and television:
 
Father of the Bride (2022); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2022); Miss Angela (2021); Today (2021).

On this day in movie history - The Get-Away (1941)

The Get-Away

directed by Edward Buzzell and Richard Rosson,

written by Wells Root and W.R. Burnett,

based on a story by J. Walter Ruben and Wells Root,

was released in the United States on June 13, 1941.

Music by Daniele Amfitheatrof, Earl K. Brent, Joseph Nussbaum, Leonid Raab.

Cast:

Robert Sterling, Charles Winninger, Donna Reed, Henry O'Neill, Dan Dailey Jr., Don Douglas, Ernest Whitman, Grant Withers, Chester Gan, Charles Wagenheim, Guy Kingsford, Matty Fain, Fred Aldrich, Barbara Bedford, Clara Blandick, Veda Ann Borg, Wade Boteler, Ed Brady, George M. Carleton, Eddy Chandler, Naomi Childers, Dean Collins, Sayre Dearing, Eddie Dunn, Eddie Fetherston, Dink Freeman, John George, Jack Gordon, Roy Gordon, George Guhl, Frank Hagney, Harry Hayden, Edward Hearn, George Hoagland, Robert Homans, Jack King, Richard Kipling, William Lally, George J. Lewis, Jack Luden, Pierce Lyden, George Magrill, Mickey Martin, Jim Mason, May McAvoy, Mathew McCue, Jewel McGowan, Pat McKee, Art Miles, Philip Morris, Frank O'Connor, Patrick O'Moore, Anne O'Neal, Bob Perry, Lee Phelps, James Pierce, Edwin Rochelle, Dick Rush, Robert Ryan, Charles Sherlock, Ray Spiker, Henry Sylvester, William Tannen, John Wald, Joe Yule.

On this day in movie history - The Big Shot (1942)

The Big Shot

directed by Lewis Seiler,

written by Bertram Millhauser, Abem Finkel, and Daniel Fuchs,

was released in the United States on June 13, 1942.

Music by Adolph Deutsch.

Cast:

Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis, Susan Peters, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson, Chick Chandler, Joe Downing, Howard Da Silva, Murray Alper, Roland Drew, John Ridgely, Joe King, John Hamilton, Virginia Brissac, William Edmunds, Virginia Sale, Ken Christy, Wallace Scott, Leah Baird, Morgan Brown, Eddy Chandler, Cliff Clark, Clancy Cooper, Ralph Dunn, Thornton Edwards, Carl Faulkner, James Flavin, Gus Glassmire, Sol Gorss, William Gould, Creighton Hale, Henry Hall, Herbert Heywood, Dorothy Kelly, Donald Kerr, Wilbur Mack, Frank Mayo, Jack Mower, Wendell Niles, Frank O’Connor, Eleanor Parker, Don Phillips, Lee Prather, Jeffrey Sayre, Charles Sherlock, Walter Soderling, Harry Strang, Brick Sullivan, Ray Teal, Don Turner, Dale Van Sickel, Tom Wilson, Joan Winfield, Bill Wolfe, Victor Zimmerman.

On this day in movie history - Jason and the Argonauts (1963 movie & poem):

 

Jason and the Argonauts

directed by Don Chaffey,

written by Jan Read, Beverley Cross,

based on the poem The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes / Apollonius Rhodius,

released in the United States on June 13, 1963.

Music by Bernard Herrmann.

Cast: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn, Douglas Wilmer, Jack Gwillim, Honor Blackman, John Cairney, Patrick Troughton, Andrew Faulds, Nigel Green, Ennio Antonelli, Harold Bradley, John Crawford, Aldo Cristiani, Bill Gudgeon, Eva Haddon, Ferdinando Poggi, Doug Robinson, Davina Taylor, Tim Turner.

Recommended reading:

Jason and the Argonauts

a.k.a. Jason and the Golden Fleece: (The Argonautica)

by Apollonius of Rhodes / Apollonius Rhodius.

Translated by E. V. Rieu.

Filmed as Jason and the Argonauts (1963), directed by Don Chaffey.

Published by Penguin Books.

This edition published 1996.

ISBN-10: 014600163X
ISBN-13: 978-0146001635

Description:

This underrated epic poem is a description of the voyage of Greek hero Jason and the Argonauts to Colchis, modern day Georgia, in search of the Golden Fleece. Written in the third century BCE, The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes is the only surviving Hellenistic epic.

On this day in movie history - Boxcar Bertha (1972 movie & book):

Boxcar Bertha

directed by Martin Scorsese

written by Joyce H. Corrington and John William Corrington,

based on the book Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha by Ben Reitman,

 released in the United States on June 13, 1972.

Music by Gib Guilbeau and Thad Maxwell.

Cast: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie Casey, John Carradine, Victor Argo, David Osterhout, Grahame Pratt, ‘Chicken’ Holleman, Harry Northup, Ann Morell, Marianne Dole, Joe Reynolds, Jerry Cortez, Louie Elias, Michael Fitzgerald, Gerald Raines, Gayne Rescher, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Scorsese. #Noir

Recommended reading:

Sister of the Road:
The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha

by Ben Reitman.

Filmed as Boxcar Bertha (1972), directed by Martin Scorsese.

Published by AK Press.
First published 1937.

ISBN-10: 1902593030
ISBN-13: 9781902593036

Description:

Born in the shadows of a railroad yard, of a wandering mother who took her lovers where she found them and a father who was scarcely conscious of her arrival in the world, Bertha Thompson took to the road as soon as the restless impulses of adolescence stirred in her. She was more interested in wanders than those who settled down in homes, more interested in criminals than law-abiding citizens. She wanted to see how they lived, live as they did, know what they were like. As a result of her restlessness and curiosity, she became, in fifteen years of wandering, a hobo, treveling from one end of the country to the other in box-cars, decking passenger trains, and hitchhiking; member of a gang of shoplifters, traveling as the mistress of one of the men; a prostitute working in a Chicago brothel; the mother of a child of an unknown father; and a research worker for a New York social service bureau. Sister of the Road is Bertha s own story of those fifteen years and the record of her conclusions about them. Gifted with a naturally keen intelligence, fearless of consequences to herself, willing and eager to do and be everything which other members of her group did and were, her story is a mine of little-known information and a succession of moving human stories about that vast and growing army of homeless, jobless, wandering women who live by begging, stealing, cheating, prostituting themselves, and occasionally working at legitimate jobs.