Polly Holiday

 Polly Holliday was born on July 2nd, 1937 in Jasper, Alabama.  

Polly Holliday

Alice (1976-1980)

Flo (1980-1981)

Private Benjamin (1982-1983)

Gremlins (1984)

The Kinetoscope

 On April 14th, 1894, the first kinetoscope parlor opened in New York City. 

The Kinetoscope

This was the first commercial motion picture house in history. 

There were 10 machines and for 50 cents you could view them all. 

A Kinetoscope Parlor

Christopher George

 Christopher George was born on February 25th, 1931 in Royal Oak, Michigan. 

Christopher George (1931-1983)

Married to Lynda Day George 
from 1970 to his death in 1983

Day of the Animals (1977)
with Ruth Roman and Lynda

Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead

Lynda and Christopher in his
final film role Mortuary in 1983

The Fog (1980)

 On February 8th, 1980, The Fog was released nationwide after a limited released at the beginning of the month. 

Directed by Halloween franchise creator John Carpenter and co-written by Debra Hill and edited by Tommy Lee Wallace.

The Fog (1980)

John Carpenter, Debra Hill and Rob Bottin on set
with Bottin and Tommy Lee Wallace
appearing as apparitions

Tom Atkins and Jamie Lee Curtis

Adrienne Barbeau

Janet Leigh and Nancy Loomis

Jessica Walter

 Jessica Walter was born on January 31st, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York. Her career spanned over 50 years of stage, film and TV. 

Jessica Walter (1941-2021)

Play Misty For Me (1971)
with Clint Eastwood
in his directorial debut 

Home For the Holidays (1972)
with Sally Field

PCU (1994)

Arrested Development (2003-2006 / 2013-2019)

Archer (2009-2021)

The Blair Witch Project

 On January 25th, 1999 The Blair Witch Project premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. 

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

 On December 29th, 1939, The Hunchback of Notre Dame was released in US theaters. 

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

This is one of many film adaptations of Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel but likely one of the most definitive. 

Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel

Starring Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Thomas Mitchell. Directed by William Dieterle and adapted by Sonya Levien and Bruno Frank. 

Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara 

Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek was born on December 25th, 1949 in Quitman, Texas. 

Sissy Spacek

She originally aspired to be a recording artist and in 1968, at age 18, recorded a diss track to John Lennon under the name Rainbo. The single didn’t perform well and she was dropped by her label. 

She went on to prove herself later as a talented singer by doing all of her own singing as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter.

Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)

After being dropped by her label Sissy enrolled in theater school in New York City and began hanging out with the Warhol crowd. Her first acting role was as an extra in Warhol’s Women In Revolt (1971) with Candy Darling and Holly Woodlawn.

Prime Cut (1972)

Terrence Malick’s Badlands (1973)
with Martin Sheen and John Carter

Carrie (1976)
with Nancy Allen, P.J. Soles, Priscilla Pointer,
Amy Irving and Edie McClurg

The voice of the brain in
The Man With Two Brains (1983)

Rip Torn and Sissy Spacek are cousins 

Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told

 On December 24th, 1967 Spider Baby aka Cannibal Orgy aka the Maddest Story Ever Told aka the Liver Eater aka Attack of the Liver Eaters premiered in Corpus Christi, Texas. 

Spider Baby aka…

Written and directed by Jack Hill and starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Carol Ohmart, Beverly Washburn, Jill Banner and Sid Haig.  

Beverly Washburn, Sid Haig, Jill Banner 
and Lon Chaney, Jr.

Carol Ohmart

Sid Haig and Beverly Washburn would work with Jack Hill again in 1969 in Pit Stop. 

Pit Stop (1969)

Agnes Moorehead

 Agnes Moorehead was born on December 6th, 1900. 

Agnes Moorehead (1900-1974)

She is best known for her role as Endora on the television show, Bewitched in 1964. 

Bewitched (1964-72)

With Elizabeth Montgomery 

In 1965 she stated in a TV Guide interview that many of the scripts for the show were hack and the writing was often below standards.

 I mean she was in Citizen Kane for Christ sake.

Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941)

The Bat (1959) 
with Vincent Price and Darla Hood

Terrence Malick

 Terrence Malick was born on November 30th, 1943. 

Terrence Malick

The reclusive director’s award winning credits span almost 50 years.

Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen in Badlands (1973)
with John Carter

Adrien Brody in The Thin Red Line (1998)

Sean Penn in The Tree of Life (2011)

August Diehl and Valerie Pachner in A Hidden Life (2019)

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Badlands