Born on this day – Marie Versini:

Marie Versini

Actress

August 10, 1940 – November 22, 2021

Born on this day – Kate O'Mara:

Kate O'Mara

Actress

Writer

August 10, 1939 – March 30, 2014

Born on this day – Dietmar Mössmer:

Dietmar Mössmer

Actor

August 10, 1955 – May 2, 2025

Credits:

99euro-films / Segment: Loreley S. (2001); A Case for Two (2002–2008); Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst! (2022); Alle lieben Willy Wuff (1995); Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999); Aus die Maus (2021–2022); Aus heiterem Himmel (1997); Balko (1995); Bis dass dein Tod uns scheidet (2002); Café Meineid (1991–1997); Coast Guard (2000); Dahoam is Dahoam (2012); Dazlak (1997); Der Bergdoktor (2009); Der Bulle von Tölz (1998–2003); Der Clown (1998); Der Fahnder (1993–2000); Der Fluch (1988); Der Papagei (1992); Der Ruf der Berge (2005); Der Schatz, der vom Himmel fiel (1999); Der Steuermann (1997); Der Superbulle und die Halbstarken (2000); Dich schickt der Himmel (2001); Die 1003. Nacht (1993); Die Bergretter (2013); Die Chaos Queen (1997); Die Fallers - Eine Schwarzwaldfamilie (1995–1996); Die fünfte Jahreszeit (1983); Die Großstadt-Sheriffs (2001); Die Hüttenwirtin (2010); Die Innere Zone (2013); Die Queen von Platte 8 (1992); Die Rosenheim-Cops (2007–2011); Die Stadtindianer (1994); Die Sturzflieger (1995); Die Udo Honig Story (2015); Die Wache (2005); Dogs on Wheels (1993); Drei Herren (1998); Drei Stern Rot (2002); Ein idealer Kandidat (1997); Ein Paradies für Tiere (2005); Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (1990); Ein starkes Team (2001); Elementarteilchen (2006); Endjährig (2020); Es geschah am hellichten Tag (1997); Fast Forward (2011); Faust (1996); Feiertag (2002); Fiesta der Leidenschaft (2004); Flashback (2000); Four Women and a Funeral (2007); Frühling (2023); Für alle Fälle Stefanie (2003); Giacomo Casanova (2004); Hanna Monster, Liebling (1989); Herz mit Löffel (1987); Himmelsheim (1988); Hubert ohne Staller (2011–2017); Ich bin Sophie Scholl (2022); Im Visier der Zielfahnder (2002); In the Name of the Law (1999); Karla Luca – Schutzlos (2010); Kimme und Dresche - Die Actionkomödie (2005); Knallhart daneben (1995); Kommissar Rex (2000); Kommissarin Lucas (2007–2016); Kriminaltango (1995); Lady Cop (1999); Lethal Obsession (1987); Ludwig 1881 (1993); Lutz & Hardy (1994–1995); Manöver (1992); Mautplatz (1994); Medicopter 117 - Jedes Leben zählt (1998–2007); Mein Vater, der Esel und ich (2023); Men in the City 2 (2011); Mine (2009); Mit Herz und Handschellen (2005); Morula (1994); Nichts zu verlieren (2018); Opera Ball (1998); Operation Plutonium (1995); Perfect Weather for Love (2005); Police Call 110 (1994–2012); Prinzenbad (1994); Raffl (1984); Rennlauf (1998); Schmetterlinge der Nacht (1999); Schön war die Zeit (1988); Schwester Eva-Maria greift ein! (1994); SK Kölsch (2000); SOKO Kitzbühel (2001); SOKO München (1989–2011); SOKO Stuttgart (2015); Sophie - Sissis kleine Schwester (2001); Sources of Life (2013); Tarantella (2021); Tatort (1997–2010); Tauerngold (2003); Terra X - Rätsel alter Weltkulturen (2010); The Dark Matter (2014); The Old Fox (1995); Tod am Engelstein (2011); Tod eines Bullen (2007); Todsünde (2008); Und Tschüss (1994); Unsolved (2004); Untersuchung an Mädeln (1999); Vendetta (2000–2019); Vienna Crime Squad (2008); Waldhaus (1987); WaPo Bodensee (2020); Wenn Frauen ausziehen (2017); Wildfeuer (1991); Zapping (1994); Zur Freiheit (1988).

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.

Recommended reading:

Sunset Boulevard

by Billy Wilder.

Published by University of California Press.

Published 1999.

ISBN-10: 0520218558

ISBN-13: 978-0520218550

Description:

Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D. M. Marshman Jr., who later joined the team. Together they created a film both allusive and literate, with Hollywood's worst excesses and neuroses laid out for all to see. After viewing Sunset Boulevard Louis B. Mayer exclaimed: "We should throw this Wilder out of town!" The New York Times, however, gave the movie a rave review, praising "that rare blend of pungent writing, expert acting, masterly direction, and unobtrusively artistic photography." The film was nominated for Best Picture, and Wilder won an Academy Award for Best Story and Best Screenplay.

This facsimile edition of Sunset Boulevard makes it possible to get as much pleasure from reading the highly intelligent screenplay as from seeing the film. Jeffrey Meyers's introduction provides an intriguing array of background details about Wilder, the film's casting and production, and the lives of those connected to what has become a classic.

Sunset Boulevard

by Steven Cohan.

BFI Film Classics.

Published by British Film Institute.

Published 2022.

ISBN-10: 1839024089

ISBN-13: 978-1839024085

Description:

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood. Both its opening, with William Holden as the screenwriter Joe Gillis floating face down in ageing star Norma Desmond's (Gloria Swanson) pool, and lines such as 'I am big, it's the pictures that got small' are some of the most memorable in Classical Hollywood cinema.

Steven Cohan's study of the film draws on original archival research to shed new light on the film's production history, and the contribution to the film's success and meanings of director Wilder, stars Holden and Swanson but also supporting actors Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson (who plays Betty Schaefer), Cecil B. DeMille, and Hedda Hopper, as well as costumier Edith Head, and composer Franz Waxman. Cohan considers the film both as a 'back studio' picture (a movie about Hollywood) and as a film noir, and in the context of McCarthyism, blacklisting and the Hollywood Ten.

Cohan explores how the film was marketed, its reception and afterlife, tracing how the film is at once a product of its own particular historical moment as the movie industry was transitioning out of the studio era, yet one that still speaks powerfully to contemporary audiences, and speculates on the reasons for its enduring appeal

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.

National Book Lovers Day – August 9:

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