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INFLUENTIAL FILM DIRECTOR IS 65 TODAY!

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John Howard Carpenter is a versatile member of the motion picture industry as a director, screenwriter, producer, editor and composer. He has worked in numerous
film genres, but is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction films
from the 1970s and 1980s such as Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Halloween
(1978), Starman (1984), and The Thing (1982).

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SELLING SPONSORS ON A NEW TV SHOW!

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Screenwriter, novelist, and television producer Rod Serling pitched his new 
science fiction TV series, The Twilight Zone, to prospective advertisers in
the spring of 1959. This was before the pilot episode, “Where Is Everybody?”
was shown to them.

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YVETTE MIMIEUX IS 71 TODAY!

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Yvette Mimieux’s acting career began in coming-of-age films like "Where
the Boys Are" (1960). She also played Weena in the 1960 H.G. Wells film
adaptation "The Time Machine". She retired from acting in 1992 and is
now an anthropologist and a real estate investor.

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MYSTRY SERIES DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1941

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Inner Sanctum Mystery, a popular horror anthology series that
aired from January 7, 1941 to October 5, 1952. It was based on
the mystery novels of Simon and Schuster. A total of 526 episodes
were broadcast. Boris Karloff, who was heard regularly during the
first season, starring in more than 15 episodes and returned often
thereafter.The show moved to CBS in the fall of 1943.

 

 

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Boris Karloff

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VETERAN ACTRESS IS 86 TODAY!

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Barbara Rush 2012 

Barbara Rush played in many notable 50s films, including "When
Worlds Collide" and "It Came From Outer Space". Rush began her 
career on stage and it has always been a part of her professional
life.
 

 

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1953

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1951

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