What better way to celebrate Bacall’s birthday than by watching her warble showtunes while being terrorized by Michael Biehn. Click here for our full review of The Fan (1981).

Birthday Lauren Bacall, The Fan

Is there anything more fun than watching birthday boy Tommy Lee Jones and Faye Dunaway try to out-act one another in the cuckoo thriller The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)?  Nope.

Birthday Eyes of Laura Mars, Tommy Lee Jones

Below is a clip featuring scenes from the 1965 thriller My Blood Runs Cold with Troy Donahue and Heatherton singing the wacky title tune.

Birthday Bulebeard, Joey Heatherton, My Blood Runs Cold, Richard Burton, Troy Donahue

We could never forget the novelist behind the penultimate cult classic Valley of the Dolls (1967).

Birthday Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

Here’s Abby Dalton in Roger Corman’s The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Land of the Great Sea Serpent (1957).

Birthday Abby Dalton, The Saga of the Viking Women

Here are the trailers for Susan Slade (1961) and Scorchy (1976).

Birthday Connie Stevens, Scorchy, Susan Slade

Happy birthday to producer Dino De Laurentiis. His movies played endlessly on HBO in the 80’s and they forever warped my childhood. We love you Dino! Here are two of CCT’s favorite Dino productions, King Kong (1976) and Flash Gordon (1980).

Birthday Dino De Laurentiis, Flash Gordon, King Kong

Birthday Elizabeth Berkley, Showgirls

Here’s Natalie Wood in the rags to riches tale Inside Daisy Clover (1965).

Birthday Inside Daisy Clover, Natalie Wood

James Brolin plays the sheriff of a small desert town that is besieged by a devilish vehicle hell-bent on homicide in The Car (1977). If you haven’t yet seen it, do so immediately! You won’t be disappointed.

Birthday James Brolin, The Car