Starring William Holden, Judy Holliday, and Broderick Crawford. Directed by George Cukor. An uncouth, loud-mouth tycoon descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, an ex-showgirl. He hires a newspaperman to soften her rough edges and make her more presentable in capital society.
Starring Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan. Directed by Howard Hawks. A French officer is assigned to work with a female American lieutenant. They fall in love and marry but when her army unit gets recalled back to the USA, the only way they can stay together is by invoking a law allowing the spouse of American army personnel to enter the country, under the War Bride's Act.
Starring Fred MacMurray, Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood, Betty Lynn, Jim Backus, Thelma Ritter, and Rudy Vallee. Directed by John M. Stahl. A college football coach has more than enough problems on the job without his teenage daughter complicating his life at home. Convinced she's unattractive to the opposite sex she resigns herself to a loveless existence. When a fictional article she pens about a teenage bubble dancer appears in a confessions magazine, the boys come calling. The young author dates a high school football star from across town who chooses to attend her father's college to be near his new-found sweetheart. Papa's gridiron and domestic problems are solved.
Starring William Powell, Ann Blyth, Fred Clark, and Irene Hervey. Directed by Irving Pichel. A middle-aged man goes on vacation with his wife to a Caribbean resort. While there, he hears singing coming from a distant key and takes his boat to do a little fishing. To his surprise, he reels in a beautiful mermaid. He takes her home and, although she cannot speak, he falls in love with her.
Actor John Mahoney turns 71 today, June 20, 2011. Born in Blackpool, England, in 1940, he came to the United States as a young man sponsored by his older sister, a war bride living in rural Illinois. He studied at Quincy University before joining the United States Army to speed up the citizenship process and to become a U.S. citizen; he received citizenship in 1959. He lived in Macomb and taught English at Western Illinois University in the early 1970s before settling in Forest Park, Illinois and later in Oak Park. He made his film debut in 1980 at age 40.
Canadian singer Anne Murray turns 66 today, June 20, 2011. Born in Springhill, Nova Scotia, in 1945, she is a singer in pop, country, and adult contemporary styles whose albums have sold over 54 million copies.
Freddie and the Dreamers was an English band who had a number of hit records between May 1963 and November 1965. Their stage act was based around the comic antics of the 5-foot-3-inch-tall Freddie Garrity who would bounce around the stage with arms and legs flying. The band members were Freddie Garrity, Roy Crewdson, Derek Quinn, Peter Birrell, and Bernie Dwyer. Freddie Garrity died from heart disease in Bangor, North Wales, in 2006; Bernie Dwyer died from lung cancer in 2002.
Starring Justin Long and Gina Phillips. Directed by Victor Salva. A brother and sister driving home for spring break encounter a flesh-eating creature in the isolated countryside on the last day of its ritualistic eating spree.
Starring Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro, Timothy Hutton, Len Cariou, and Charles S. Dutton. Directed by David Koepp. A newly divorced writer finds himself stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger who claims the writer stole his best story idea.
Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga, Isabelle Fuhrman, and CCH Pounder. Directed by Jaume Collett-Serra. A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be.
Starring Diane Lane, Leelee Sobieski, Stellan Skarsgard, Bruce Dern, Kathy Baker, Michael O'Keefe, and Chris Noth. Directed by Daniel Sackheim. After the sudden death of their parents in a car accident, two teens are sent to live with old friends of their parents in their posh Malibu house. But they soon learn that their new foster parents are not all they seem to be.
Starring Christina Ricci. Directed by Wes Craven. A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill their attacker if they hope to change their fate to avoid becoming werewolves too.
Starring Alison Lohman, Justin Long, and David Paymer. Directed by Sam Raimi. When a loan officer is forced to evict an elderly woman from her home she finds herself the recipient of a powerful curse that turns her life upside down and consigns her to hell itself in three days time.
Starring Barry Watson and Emily Deschanel. Directed by Stephen Kay. A young man traumatized by memories of terrible events he experienced in his childhood bedroom, years later reluctantly returns home to face his fears of a monstrous entity that could be real or merely a figment of his imagination.
Starring Paul Walker, Steve Zahn, and Leelee Sobieski. Directed by John Dahl. Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, and Peter Sarsgaard. Directed by Iain Softley. A young woman gets a job as a caretaker living in a plantation home in Louisiana. She soon discovers the scary attic in the house, with all sorts of hoodoo recipes, spells, and books. She starts to investigate and question the owner of the house about the secrets. She soon learns that if she believes in what she discovers, it will all become real!
Actress Gena Rowlands turns 81 today, June 19, 2011.
