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

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958)

M Squad
Season 1. Episode 36.

Episode entitled: The System.

Released May 30, 1958.

Directed by David Rich.

Written by Keith Hunter and Bernard C. Schoenfeld.

Music by Stanley Wilson.

 
Cast:

Lee Marvin, Tol Avery, Rose Marie, Ted de Corsia, Paul Newlan, Howard Wendell, Gregg Martell, Dehl Berti, Ann Doran, Paul Maxey, Joe McGuinn, Frank J. Scannell, Bess Flowers, Hans Moebus.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - The Next Generation, Discovery:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1992)
Star Trek: Discovery (2024)
 

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 5. Episode 25.

Episode entitled: The Inner Light.

Released May 30, 1992.

Directed by Peter Lauritson.

Written by Morgan Gendel, Peter Allan Fields, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Margot Rose, Richard Riehle, Scott Jaeck, Jennifer Nash, Patti Yasutake, Daniel Stewart, Michael Braveheart, Tracee Cocco, Amber Connally, Christi Haydon, Joyce Robinson.

Star Trek: Discovery
Season 5. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: Life, Itself.

Released May 30, 2024.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Kyle Jarrow, Michelle Paradise, Brandon Schultz, Lauren Wilkinson, Carlos Cisco, Eric J. Robbins.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Wilson Cruz, Blu del Barrio, Callum Keith Rennie, Tig Notaro, David Ajala, Oded Fehr, David Cronenberg, Annabelle Wallis, Rachael Ancheril, Tara Rosling, Eve Harlow, Somkele Iyamah-Idhalama, Sawandi Wilson, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Orville Cummings, David Benjamin Tomlinson, Christina Dixon, Victoria Sawal, Natalie Liconti, Zahra Bentham, Gregory Ambrose Calderone, Julianne Grossman, Piotr Michael, Patricia Summersett, Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon, Shelley Owens, Elias Toufexis.

On this day in television history - Pushing Daisies (2009)

Pushing Daisies
Season 2. Episode 11.

Episode entitled: Window Dressed to Kill.

Released May 30, 2009.

Directed by Julie Anne Robinson.

Written by Abby Gewanter.

Series created by Bryan Fuller.

Music by Jim Dooley.

Narrated by Jim Dale.

Cast: Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Jim Dale, Kristin Chenoweth, Ellen Greene, Swoosie Kurtz, Field Cate, Richard Benjamin, George Segal, David Arquette, Willie Garson, Diana Scarwid, Wayne Wilderson, Constance Zimmer, Rachel Cannon, Sam Pancake, Sy Richardson, John Cantwell, Diana Costa, Marc Raducci, Ellery Sprayberry, Eve Curtis, Dustyn Lotz, Evan Shafran.

J. K. Rowling, on books and reading:

 

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.

– J. K. Rowling.