1907
Daphne du Maurier is born in London. She is the author of Jamaica Inn, made into a movie by Hitchcock in 1939, Rebecca (made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940), and The Birds, made into a movie by Hitchcock in 1963.
1941
Alan Ladd stars as the psycho assassin Philip Raven in the film version of Graham Greene's This Gun For Hire, released on this day. (It also starred Robert Preston and Veronica Lake)
1948
The Iron Curtain, directed by William A. Wellman, starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, is released. "Hollywood fired its first shot in the cold war yesterday, and they're ready to fight it out to the last sneer...A highly inflammatory film" commented Bosley Crowther in the New York Times.
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