bathed in green light, Rondo Hatton menaces a woman in a bathing suit

BTD - The melancholy horror star Rondo Hatton - House of Horrors

Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne pose with their guns

John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Released this day in 1962 - Italian release poster - Art by Mauro Colizzi

Nabokov is hunting butterflies but he's found a book instead—the book is open and its pages flutter like butterfly wings

BTD - Vladimir Nabokov - Drawing by David Levine

an angry Jack Nicholson in wool cap staring through chain-link fence

Happy birthday to Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975 - Japanese poster

The sisters are a high point, they're loose and fun and having the time of their lives.

I recently watched The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (Irving Cummings, 1939) with Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, and Loretta Young and it's one of most charming experiences I've had in a long time. Innocence personified (and a real vacation from present day terrors).

Divine in a skin-tight leopard skin dress and fright wig

A happy birthday to John Waters - Female Trouble - 1974 - French release poster

wearing a red top and blue shorts, Silvana Mangano takes a proud stance with her hands on her hips, in the background a portrait of Vittorio Gassmann

BTD - Silvana Mangano - Bitter Rice - 1949 - Italian poster

a robotic bald man menaces with a knife, behind him a strange creature with a black mask

Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse - Released on this day in 1933

Elaine May stands on a box next to a movie camera set atop a skyscraper

A very Happy Birthday to Elaine May - Directing A New Leaf in 1971

French poster for Robert Bresson's A MAN ESCAPED (1956)

A colorful caricature of Harold Lloyd dancing on a high rise construction beam

BTD - Harold Lloyd - Safety Last!, 1923 - Swedish poster from 1924

a half man/half cat terrorizes a woman, in the background a gigantic black cat

Too late for Caturday, The Catman of Paris released this day in 1946

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A sepia photo of Diane Keaton with a smaller image of Woody below, in the background a small image of the duo on the beach

Woody Allen's Annie Hall - Released on this day in 1977 - Japanese release poster

a portrait of Harold Lloyd in a geometric pattern, the O’s in his name form his eyeglasses

BTD - Harold Lloyd - Movie Crazy, 1932 Swedish poster

Jayne Mansfield poses on a white scooter

BTD - Jayne Mansfield, Lambretta Advertising Poster, 1962

a woman screams at the center of a nightmarish maelstrom

Hammer Films' NIGHTMARE - Released this day in 1964

stark design of a warrior with his shield full of arrows

a dragon spreads its wings as a warrior rides to slay it

BTD - Aleksandr Ptushko - Director of the epic fantasy Ilya Muromets (Aka The Sword and the Dragon) - 1956 - Polish release poster and American version

a blonde vampire with bats fluttering about her face, a gothic castle in the distance

BTD - Don Sharp - Director of many Hammer horrors including Kiss of the Vampire - 1963 - German release poster

ethereal image of Jayne Mansfield floating against a night sky

BTD - Jayne Mansfield - Playgirl After Dark, 1962 - Italian poster - art by Manfredo Acerbo

Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum at loggerheads, in the background Mitchum assaults Polly Bergen

Cape Fear - Released on this day in 1962 - German poster

Ursula Andress poses in feathery headdress and low cut gown

Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee in She - UK Release this day in 1965 - French poster

Hayley Mills as twin sisters sitting back to back while on the phone to each other—nearby Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara argue

Happy Birthday to Hayley Mills - The Parent Trap - 1961 - Art by Reynold Brown

giant stone samurai stomps through 16th century village

Daiei Studios' village-stomping colossus - Daimajin - Released in Japan this day in 1966

a green-toned Yvonne DeCarlo in harem garb against a red background

Yvonne DeCarlo in Salome, Where She Danced - Released this day in 1945 - Swedish poster

A portrait of William Holden being ogled by women

BTD - William Holden - Time Magazine - 2-26-56 - Cover art for Picnic by Boris Chaliapin

Ustinov ponders his options as Kirk Douglas and Woody Strode battle in the arena

BTD - Peter Ustinov - Art by Reynold Brown - Spartacus promotional art - 1960

the enigmatic spirit creature Tortoro and little friend Mei - it's raining, Mei has an umbrella, Tortoro is soaked but stoic

My Neighbor Tortoro - Released this day in 1988 - Concept art by Hayao MiyazakI

Charlie Chaplin strolls over the world

BTD - Charlie Chaplin - Agence General Cinematographique, 1917 - art by Auguste Leymarie