Monday, May 16, 2011

Mysterious Days: 16 May

1937
Thomas Gifford, author of The Wind Chill Factor, a thriller in the "resurrected Nazi" genre, is born in Dubuque, Iowa. Some of his later novels are The Glendower Legacy (1978) and The Assassini (1990).

1956
Alfred Hitchcock's second version of The Man Who Knew Too Much, starring James Stewart and Doris Day, is released. This film garners for Hitchcock one of the few Oscars awarded to his works - for Doris Day's rendition of "Que Sera, Sera."

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