1905
Charlotte Armstrong is born in Vulcan, Michigan. She won an Edgar for her 1956 A Dram of Poison. Her 1950 novel Mischief was filmed in 1952 as Don't Bother to Knock, the first starring role for Marilyn Monroe, and Anne Bancroft's film debut. She also wrote The Unsuspected (1945) which was made into a film with Claude Rains in 1947.
1929
Bulldog Drummond, the first Drummond movie, is released. F. Richard Jones directs, Ronald Colman and Joan Bennett star.
1946.
The Postman Always Rings Twice, directed by Tay Garnett and starring John Garfirld and Lana Turner, opens. Despite the censors a good deal of the simmering sexuality of the James M. CAin novel is preserved - due to the performance of the Sweater Girl.
1946
Also in 1946, the inmates of Alcatraz prison revolt. Two platoons of marines armed with machine guns, bazookas and tear gas are necessary before the convicts surrender. Over the course of the two days, two guards and three inmates are killed.
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